Post by Dave on Jun 18, 2010 21:23:34 GMT
I missed the start of one of the articles on the J.Vine show today (well I do have to get out the van and do some work sometimes) but was able to work out what it was all about and so much of what was said was so very true and really showed just how much things have changed since I was a young boy growing up in Newton Abbot.
What it was really all about was the fact that these days’ people don’t often know who even lives in their street, yes they will know who lives next door and maybe a few other people in the street but that will be it.
It may be you know the man across the road as Marys dad as your son or daughter goes to school with Mary and that’s all you might know and there is a company called The Big Lunch that arranges street parties etc to try and get all those living in any give street the opportunity to get to know each other.
You can check out the next date below
www.thebiglunch.com/
If I remember correctly the last big street party held in the UK was 1977 and I don’t think it can be denied that street parties do bring the people living in the street much closer together.
When I was a kid in Newton Abbot I knew everyone who lived in the whole of Oakland Road where I lived and so many more in other roads on the estate and I bet I went inside at sometime more than half of them.
So what happened and what changed to get too how things are today? I really don’t know the answer and would be interested if anyone could come up with the reasons, but there was something else said that I also thought was so true in many cases.
It was said that as you get older your social contact with other people narrows, I mean just think about it for a second or two, your young have kids who go to school, you take then and collect them and meet other parents, then they grow up and leave school and all that contact with the other parents ends.
It would also be the case when you give up work and retire; all those people you mixed and talked to at work no longer are a part of your life. When it was said on the radio I thought about Merse, I’m sure since due to his health his own social contact with others has been reduced and while I’m not suggesting he goes and sorts out a street party where he lives, I do think it would be great and so beneficial for all streets to have parties that would in my view help to bond and strengthen local communities.
It’s very obvious that a close, friendly community has so many good things going for it and so many members on the TFF have said many times they feel being a member on here they are part of a good community and they also feel like we are one big family.
I do feel I’m still failing to really explain properly my ideals for the TFF and as a result some feel there could be a danger that debate could be killed and even thick old Dave knows that would be disastrous for the TFF and not something I would ever want to happen, in fact quite the opposite, I’m looking to try and find ways to increase good healthy debate.
Merse said yesterday
If you take out the controversial poster, the obtuse contributor, the ones prepared to make a point that irritates those unable to move out of their comfort zone without getting all defensive and parochial you neuter that forum to the point of insipidness.
I fully agree as all good debating platforms need all of the above and they are not the things I have been talking about on here lately that I wish would change. I do not need to list them we all know what they are, without them we really would be such a better community and as a result an even better forum.
I have gone on about this far too much this week and will now shut up about it as I want to write about the England game.
Seems I have won this week and I will just put up the links to a few posts I made as they have photos on them
www.torquayfansforum.com/index.cgi?board=daysout&action=display&thread=5478
www.torquayfansforum.com/index.cgi?board=daysout&action=display&thread=5489
What it was really all about was the fact that these days’ people don’t often know who even lives in their street, yes they will know who lives next door and maybe a few other people in the street but that will be it.
It may be you know the man across the road as Marys dad as your son or daughter goes to school with Mary and that’s all you might know and there is a company called The Big Lunch that arranges street parties etc to try and get all those living in any give street the opportunity to get to know each other.
You can check out the next date below
www.thebiglunch.com/
If I remember correctly the last big street party held in the UK was 1977 and I don’t think it can be denied that street parties do bring the people living in the street much closer together.
When I was a kid in Newton Abbot I knew everyone who lived in the whole of Oakland Road where I lived and so many more in other roads on the estate and I bet I went inside at sometime more than half of them.
So what happened and what changed to get too how things are today? I really don’t know the answer and would be interested if anyone could come up with the reasons, but there was something else said that I also thought was so true in many cases.
It was said that as you get older your social contact with other people narrows, I mean just think about it for a second or two, your young have kids who go to school, you take then and collect them and meet other parents, then they grow up and leave school and all that contact with the other parents ends.
It would also be the case when you give up work and retire; all those people you mixed and talked to at work no longer are a part of your life. When it was said on the radio I thought about Merse, I’m sure since due to his health his own social contact with others has been reduced and while I’m not suggesting he goes and sorts out a street party where he lives, I do think it would be great and so beneficial for all streets to have parties that would in my view help to bond and strengthen local communities.
It’s very obvious that a close, friendly community has so many good things going for it and so many members on the TFF have said many times they feel being a member on here they are part of a good community and they also feel like we are one big family.
I do feel I’m still failing to really explain properly my ideals for the TFF and as a result some feel there could be a danger that debate could be killed and even thick old Dave knows that would be disastrous for the TFF and not something I would ever want to happen, in fact quite the opposite, I’m looking to try and find ways to increase good healthy debate.
Merse said yesterday
If you take out the controversial poster, the obtuse contributor, the ones prepared to make a point that irritates those unable to move out of their comfort zone without getting all defensive and parochial you neuter that forum to the point of insipidness.
I fully agree as all good debating platforms need all of the above and they are not the things I have been talking about on here lately that I wish would change. I do not need to list them we all know what they are, without them we really would be such a better community and as a result an even better forum.
I have gone on about this far too much this week and will now shut up about it as I want to write about the England game.
Seems I have won this week and I will just put up the links to a few posts I made as they have photos on them
www.torquayfansforum.com/index.cgi?board=daysout&action=display&thread=5478
www.torquayfansforum.com/index.cgi?board=daysout&action=display&thread=5489