Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Why is Crouch End high street so much cleaner than Green Lanes?
I recently noted that people queue for buses in Crouch End but not Green Lanes and wondered why.
On my most recent excursion I noticed how markedly cleaner Crouch End is on a Saturday morning compared to Green Lanes and again wondered why?
Both are very busy on a Saturday morning (Crouch End arguably more so). Both have lots of cafes and restaurants. Both have bus stops.
But Green Lanes is littered with rubbish.
Why is it so?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan
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The gist of this conversation is "are some people more likely to litter than others and if so, why?". I referred to the two sides of the argument as being about the blank slate. Nobody batted an eyelid when Japan was introduced to the conversation.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton
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John, let me suggest that you may have narrowed down "this conversation" within a corset of your own thinking.
You and I haven't viewed one anther's eyelids for I don't know how many years.
Most of the people named in this thread I've never met. Most have chosen not to post a photo of their face - batted or unbatted eyelids. Many choose to hide their family names. Or perhaps invent a name.
I ask you to have the grace at least to make some allowance for Liz Ixer's two years working in Japan.Please try for size the notion that there is no simple single gist of this conversation. Partly because there's no actual conversation disclosed by this procession of comments.
What's the point of tossing in a sentence from Tolkien's pointless hundreds - or was it thousands - of pages. Did Zena ever tell you the true and utterly ridiculous comic story of watching Tolkien receiving an honorary degree in a babble of Latin? Before a small select balcony audience who may have understood not a word.
What has Tolkien to do with dumped waste? That if you find copies of Lord of the Rings dumped on Green Lanes it belongs in a recycling bin.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Mahoney
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John is correct. That's what the thread is about.
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