Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Banner
Just seen the banner and my opinion is that its pretty damn crap.
Why?
You still see much of the shoddy paintwork on the bridge.
The banner is all wrinkled.
The overall design is so crap.
I could go on but I'll give everyone else chance instead.
Oh well.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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I wonder what Ken thinks.
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I wonder how much it will cost the council to remove the grafitti?
Yes Alan I will ask someone at the council to find out ! :)
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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Building a better community implies there was a community in the first place that needed to be bettered, rather than betted on. Better than what, exactly? Better than where or when or who? Better than Bermondsey circa 1890? or a Brazilian favella 2011?
If the banner is being graffitied, then may as well let the bridge get daubed and eventually people will tire of it and it will be worth a fortune as urban art and will be auctioned at sothebys like Banksys work and there will be no bridge to worry about. But the train might have a problem then..
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Better than what, exactly?
Precisely.
Better Haringey or better communities are PR slogans, but dumbed down PR. They're no better than any other unqualified superlatives. IMO, the puerile slogans "My Haringey" and "Better Haringey" are aimed at the same target audience as Haringey People magazine: i.e. those with a reading age of about 10. But I suspect that many 10 year olds would find these things an insult to their intelligence.
This is the reason why the inclusion of the childish "Building Better Communities" is more akin to an insult to the community.
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Permalink Reply by Abi on
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Indeed so. Plus it always reminds me of that rather dismissive "that's better" that some people give on seeing a friend's new haircut.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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A reading age of ten should mean fluent. They might be a bit lacking in vocabulary, but a ten-year old is surely able to deconstruct words sufficiently well to read anything?
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might be a good idea to build a community in the first place. forget the bridge. Sack the PR consultants (dumbed down or other) and get rid of puerile cliches. I don't want to be treated like I have very few brain cells. Let's start afresh and get real.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Ruth.. there's no 'like' button for comments.. but I just would have clicked it, if I could have..
My take on it from afar is.. the Council... let alone Government, just don't trust you silly old voters/general public to make 'the right decisions' ..
And you've come up with a great slogan for slogan for the bridge.
Harringay - Let's start afresh and get real.
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Cheers for the support there. Yep- not a bad slogan really off the top of my head.... Let's see what happens next to the iconic Harringay bridge.
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A FURTHER inference from the municipal slogan, is that it is Haringey Council which is building better communities.
Communities, in so far they are consciously "built" at all, are built by individuals in those communities, by families and factors like proximity to jobs, trade, raw materials, rivers, and coasts. Less by local council policies and still less by banners.
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Rumour has it metro bet is offering the the best odds on when it will be cleaned off?
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The banners are still covered in Flem. I thought the whole point about the banners was that they were easy to clean? Perhaps it's just not cost effective to clean them. which begs the question .........
I wonder if the some of the profit from the ads goes into cleaning them?
Anyway 14 days gone and still covered in Flem.
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