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    A warehouse-based business next door to here had to move a few months back and now the Hassidic property owners have temporarily turned it into a Passover shop, presumably off the radar so no tax and because-bulk-sales, no VAT to account for, so much cheapness, etc, etc. The usual penny-pinching peripherally-illegal bullshit.

    Inevitably, this has meant that the road outside has been absolute fucking chaos for about a week now, with tens of Toyota Previas or old boxy Volvos blocking the road in various states of apparent abandonment as the owners obliviously and autistically struggle to make sense of the reality outside of their safe environs (we're about a kilometre from the main Hassidic area here — it must be like an alien world to them, poor confused things).

    Now, ordinarily this would irritate the shit out of me, witnessing a clusterfuck of socially-inept arrogant-ignorant self-entitled morons blocking a public street because they're too self-involved, rude and badly-mannered to decently interact with greater goy society, but this time there's a silver lining —

    See, ordinarily the road outside is the one stretch of road in this part of London that is comparatively straight, camera and Polis-free, and is hence used as a small speedway for varying types of small-penised, over compensating fuckwits who crave nothing more than 6½ seconds putting their foot down in whatever rinky dink vehicle (often Audis) they've ascribed their personality to. This means that usually there's the roar of some bike or car every few minutes, lots of screeches and clouds of oil and fuel particulate matter to enjoy. I'm genuinely amazed no one has been killed. In fact, I'm genuinely amazed someone's not killed every month or so. It makes sitting out the front not particularly enjoyable, anyway.

    Oh, also — the road is a throughway for a lot of goods and trade vehicles, including fuck-off huge aggregate lorries, clearing earth from a large, on-going infrastructure job around the corner. These are invariably driven by the O'Doherty clan, who seems to be a mafia of red-faced ginger-mopped over-muscled bubble-head Irish boors quick to grievance and the threat of violence (I know, I had an argument with one of the elders a couple of months back after he threatened to kick a local shop's dog for no apparent reason).

    So.

    I now find myself going to sit outside every half hour or so, just to witness the carnage.

    It's fucking great.

    I mean, the constant sounds of irate horns going off is a little trying, but the spectacle — so very worth it. The various shades of anger, rage, befuddlement and sheer, undiluted ignorance — a delight.

    The scene is like one of those old naval battle paintings.

    Passover starts in six days — I'm curious to see just how bad it gets out there.

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    • lol. take comfort wherever you find it...Fax_Benson
    • it's shit like this that inflames me about LDN, but it's shit like this that makes me wonder whether I could ever leave this godforsaken hell hole.detritus
    • If they do this again next year, I'm setting up a time lapse camera and setting it to benny hill music.detritus
    • Paints a vivid picture. Thanks for taking the time to write this.calculator
    • please do share next year's spectacle.brandonp
    • you can most certainly leave LDN shithole and you'll be so very glad you did.fruitsalad
    • I know. I know.
      Right now, it's not my choice.
      Laterally, I wonder —
      If so, would that be my life, over?      detritus
    • I mean, LDN is shit, but then so is life.detritus
    • I would've never made it in LA.detritus
    • https://hague6185.fi…detritus
    • You just live in a shitty district polish immigrant.
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    • I do?detritus
    • Erm , London is not a shit hole thank you very much.see_thru
    • But a hell hole?detritus
    • Those that don't think London isn't a shit-hole haven't stepped out of shoreditch, or tried to raise a kid here on an average salary.fruitsalad
    • I miss Stoke Newimgton. Just the other side of the river lea you don't get this exotic mix of clusterfuck.LukeO
    • Pix or it didnt happen.Mattjanz3n
    • @fruitsalad - talking shit again.fadein11
    • having cycled down that street i can confirm everything detritus says, except there was no jewish presence when i passed thru.hans_glib
    • ..but you do know how fun cycling through Stamford Hill's nether regions is, don't you?detritus
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