Rochdale street life

Ha ha....yer couldn't make it up!

....SAD!

Hinch wrote:   Interesting piece of street theatre today in Yorkshire Street. Apologies in advance for use of expletives.

A young couple with a toddler in a pushchair were having a flaming row outside B&M Bargains.   As the altercation became ever more heated, the female rounded on the male and screamed in her broadest Rochdale tones, "Listen Darren, how the f*** do you expect me to push the buggy and eat my f****** chips at the same time?"
Is this truly the language of Shakespeare? 
Highly entertaining.   A living episode of 'Shameless' right here on our own streets!

Come off it Hinch, at least she was eating chips not one of Greggs saus F****** rolls.  The one that gets me is when the recipient of the prose is on the other end of the phone and the ******** speaker is on a bus, I kid you not.

Hinch wrote:

Maybe one of the uses for part of the Town Hall could be to have a Scrote Behaviour Modification Unit in the old cellars?  A few judiciously placed electrodes, some cattle prods, a bit of water-boarding etc could soon witness an improvement, along with a bit of toe-nail pulling and some of the other methods formerly used by the Inquisition.

And by every other countries Security Establishments ever since. 

Petrus and Sanctuary Trust dispute council data suggesting there were only 28 homeless people in the Rochdale borough


‘Council data, subsequently used in a government report published in December, suggests there were only 28 homeless people in the Rochdale borough in April last year. Two Rochdale homelessness charities have described the figure as ‘ ridiculous  ’ ‘
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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/petrus-sanctuary-trust-dispute-council-6669387

28 people? Really? If that's the case why does RMBC currently have a staff of 30 in its Homelessness team?


It'd be interesting to see the rationale and methodologies that brought about that number.

Edit: From the MEN report -
"A spokesperson for Rochdale council, which provided the figure for the Department of Communities and Local Government report, said: “The information shows on April 1 2013 there were 28 households on the waiting list to whom we had established a statutory duty to rehouse." (emphasis is mine)

Seems that the data was being used either wrongly or out of context.

Building upon recently developed mathematical foundations in accountancy and economics, Local government has developed an entirely new method of counting?

cyfrifia wrote:Building upon recently developed mathematical foundations in accountancy and economics, Local government has developed an entirely new method of counting?

Would that be;

One for me, one for you

Two for me, one for you

Three for me, one for you

etc..........

Could it be that the homeless and disadvantaged of Rochdale are being lured away to the reportedly excellent 'Red Door' in Bury?
http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/10983900.Axed_Bury_homeless_service_returns_thanks_to_new_benefactors/

cyfrifia wrote:   Could it be that the homeless and disadvantaged of Rochdale are being lured away to the reportedly excellent 'Red Door' in Bury?
http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/10983900.Axed_Bury_homeless_service_returns_thanks_to_new_benefactors/        

Cyfri: and that could be seen as an injudicious hypothesis resulting from an Internet search.

If you really want to know about homelessness here in Rochdale and the figures involved, a good starting point could be the Rochdale-based charity Petrus and the Sanctuary Trust.

As mature organisations, they undertake some number tracking and have already responded in the press about RMBC's reported number of 'homelessness' in last year's Government account .  

  Should someone need advice on homelessness from RMBC in person, their Homelessness and prevention department  is currently advertised as open every weekday afternoon 1pm-4pm at Number One Riverside - where one is asked to report to the reception desk at the front of the building.     Yer ...

Heywood street life

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/part-church-street-officially-renamed-6698385

A sign of the times.

Anything within reach is a target for 'cretins'.   Perhaps a little 'forethought' and a less vulnerable site for the sign may have been prudent. It could have been simply vandalism or, more to the point, a political statement. We have amongst us many who don't have our values or culture and will strive to cause dissent in any way they can. We haven't yet begun to suffer for our perceived sins - but we will.  

"Coun Alan McCarthy, the council’s lead member for the armed forces, said: “On behalf of the council and the people of Heywood, we condemn this despicable act of mindless vandalism to the street name signs honouring Lance Corporal Stephen Shaw MC. “This shows complete disrespect to not just him but all the fallen soldiers from Rochdale borough and the rest of the UK. “We will endeavour to repair or replace the signs as soon as possible."

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/herywood-military-hero-street-signs-6707549

War memorials have come under attack, which is upsetting. It seems they need to be more defensible, but that is difficult to arrange for public spaces.

I strongly suspect that this was not 'ordinary' vandalism' but was driven by those with deeper and more sinister motives. At the end of the day, these are just bits of cheap alloy. Should be easy enough to replace or resite.

It was a bit inevitable I suppose, but has much to do with the times we live in.

Am surprised that shops selling Action Man toys haven't been targeted. Pathetic.

All across England, perhaps more so than in Scotland and Wales, there has been a lot of damage to war memorials, starting with years of neglect, then removal of anything metal in the scrap metal theft that swept the country, plus theft of stone. All this and more targeted attacks. Also more damage to cemeteries and gravestones. It tells of a rather disturbed nation, in many ways unprepared to defend itself. Complicated reasons behind it all perhaps. Difficult to know what to make of it, but it seems to be some expression of problematic attitudes, a general sense of instability.

Or, a bunch of lowlifes nicking everything and anything with no respect.  That as and when caught, get a laughable sentence

That's a quick and perhaps accurate way of summing it up, Chill. Maybe it's more complex. Going back, it was common to see old gravestones broken up and used as hardcore. Then neglect of memorials, as though society wanted to forget.

http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/9541539.Gravestone_mystery_is_solved/

More recently, teenagers breaking gravestones, and it turning out to  be the gravestones of their families. Lorries from Europe filling up with scrap metal, including bronze plaques from war memorials. Metal statues on war memorials replaced with resin copies, British memorials abroad destroyed with hammers. So it goes on, more recently attacks on anything representing the military.

There are some odd attitudes going on really, for so much to be destroyed. Seems more than mindless vandalism, although yes, that's part of the picture.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/article6565570.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/Flag%2Bwaver%3A%2BGilmour%2Bat%2Bthe%2BCenotaph.jpg