Nottin Hill Carnival

[Don Rogers Shop]

Went on monday and it was quality.

Was good to hook up with my bredbins n shit

[Saxondale]

And in a different view I was working there on Sunday and it was shit.  Full of hyperactive teenagers shouting and blowing fucking whistles.  God I've never waned to shove a whistle down someones throat so much.

On the other hand I may just be a grumpy old tosser.

[Ironside]

330 arrests and and riot at Ladbroke Grove.
Apparantley the Police claim it was a "trouble free" event this year!

[Batch]

Was Levi there selling his Reggae Reggae sauce, or now he has fame and fortune is Roots turning his back on his roots?

[Jamiesfuturewife]

I had booked a steel band for an event yesterday and they cancelled due to exaustion from the carnival!!! 

[Reg Smeeton]

I had booked a steel band for an event yesterday and they cancelled due to exaustion from the carnival!!! 

 Steel bands are ace....what were you going to do with it?

[Gazza's Fat Mate]

If everytime england played at wembley there was a roit, mass arrests, people being caught with tasers, guns, nun chucks etc etc then the event would be banned but becuase of the pc brigade and everyone being to scared to say anything in case of being called a nazi this event is allowed to go on.

I have been once and will never go again gangs of balck yobs roaming around trying to kill each other is not my idea of fun! Fuck me 200 of them even mobbed up away from the carnival with the intention of causing trouble ("steaming" I think they call it). If that happened at football everyone would have been charged with something been put in jail for a million years but nooooooooo (say it jamica accent) "it's carnival"

[Jamiesfuturewife]

Steel bands are ace....what were you going to do with it?

They were playing at a summer BBQ one of our clients was holding - all got cancelled - me and James offered to rock up and bash some drum lids but they werent having any of it

[Reg Smeeton]

They were playing at a summer BBQ one of our clients was holding - all got cancelled - me and James offered to rock up and bash some drum lids but they werent having any of it

 You could do a turn at the TEF "summer" BBQ that Gazzza is organising.

[BrightonRed]

If everytime england played at wembley there was a roit, mass arrests, people being caught with tasers, guns, nun chucks etc etc then the event would be banned but becuase of the pc brigade and everyone being to scared to say anything in case of being called a nazi this event is allowed to go on.

I have been once and will never go again gangs of balck yobs roaming around trying to kill each other is not my idea of fun! Fuck me 200 of them even mobbed up away from the carnival with the intention of causing trouble ("steaming" I think they call it). If that happened at football everyone would have been charged with something been put in jail for a million years but nooooooooo (say it jamica accent) "it's carnival"

I think it's a bit difficult to try and compare the average wembley football match with the Notting Hill Carnival. Maybe compare it to a similar event (but one with a much smaller contingent of ethnic minorites) such as Glastonbury where there were 152 arrests this year (183 in 2007) for an attendance of 146,000 compared with Notting Hill where attendances are estimated at 750,000 - 1,000,000 but with only 330 arrests. Add to that the fact that policing is viewed as tolerant at glastonbury compared with Notting Hill which is decidedly pro-active.

I've been to Notting Hill for the past 3 years and have found it to be nothing other than good fun and a very impressive celebration of our multi-culturalism.

[Dazzza]

(say it jamica accent) "it's carnival"

I don't get it.  I get the (say it jamica accent) "beer can" = bacon but I can't fathom that one.

[Jamiesfuturewife]

but Reg its nearly winter now

[Ironside]

I think it's a bit difficult to try and compare the average wembley football match with the Notting Hill Carnival. Maybe compare it to a similar event (but one with a much smaller contingent of ethnic minorites) such as Glastonbury where there were 152 arrests this year (183 in 2007) for an attendance of 146,000 compared with Notting Hill where attendances are estimated at 750,000 - 1,000,000 but with only 330 arrests. Add to that the fact that policing is viewed as tolerant at glastonbury compared with Notting Hill which is decidedly pro-active.

I've been to Notting Hill for the past 3 years and have found it to be nothing other than good fun and a very impressive celebration of our multi-culturalism.

330 Arrests at the Carnival.
180 detained at Oval on their way to the carnival (all tooled up I might add)
AND a fucking riot.

Yes, a great example of multicultural enrichment....

[Don Rogers Shop]

Those 180 are included in the 330.

[Ironside]

Those 180 are included in the 330.

No they're not. They only arrested a dozen of those detained according to the press up here (drugs & weapons offences).