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      CommentAuthorobi1da
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2009
     
    Hi All,

    I am an architecture student doing a project on the use of the area around Libertys department store on Gt Marlborough street as a congregation point by dispatch riders. are you one of these riders? As part of the project I would really like to find out about why you stop there and what you get up to when you are there. My brief to is to try and enhance your experience of the sit in some way so is there anything that could be done to make it a better place for you?
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2009
     
    Could you provide free dental care?Some of these guys live on soup and smoothies due to lack of teeth.
    Also,any good at lancing boils?Most riders are sitting on cushions whilst on the steps and are desperate for attention in that area.What would really help these "depstach riders" enormously would be decent jobs and about a kilo of high grade weed.Please help in any way you can as Xmas is coming up.
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2009
     
    @overdrive You are wasted on the road. You should have a column in G2.

    May I also suggest a couple of caravans (movie shoot stylie) with free canteens and plasma tv's and x-boxes and tumble dryers and experience enhancing acid and pole dancers (1 male for Simone) and gags for a select few. You know who they are. Lovely! Just let us know who is forking out for this and I'll send them a X-mas card and maybe there is a free LCEF cap in it for them if Dazzler is in a good mood. Looking forward to an exciting working relationship and a smashing project.
    Regards
    Pornomike
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      CommentAuthorzero cc
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2009
     
    I think we're about due a compilation of ' what happens when you post well meant requests for information from couriers about their lifestyle on Moving Target' - or maybe a snappier title.... Bill, get on it!
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      CommentAuthorobi1da
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2009
     
    Ha ha you guys are jokers, at least you've kept your sense of humour if not your teeth!

    Actually any useful suggestions would be much appreciated - you never know something may get built one day...
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      CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2009
     
    I'm also in need of the same information if anyone can help?
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    hey, I work for ITN, doco-division, and I would love to make a film about the courier scene. THe film will be shot in black and white with lots of edgy, sort of state of the art camera angles. The piece will be set to a kick arse drum and bass soundtrack(94 - 95 era when it was truly at its best), any courier birds are welcome, teeth not essential, unlanced boils are a bonus, Swedes need not apply unless you are blonde, tall etc etc
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    The.Pike has often been sighted on the "Steps of Doom".
    Perhaps this explains the lack of teeth.
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      CommentAuthorlisa
    • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2009
     
    @33 "would love to make a film about the courier scene. THe film will be shot in black and white with lots of edgy, sort of state of the art camera angles. The piece will be set to a kick arse drum and bass soundtrack(94 - 95 era when it was truly at its best), any courier birds are welcome..."
    this was already used against one of us *wanna-make-a-project-about-couriers*, can't actually remember who, as we are SO many.... :)
    @obi1da
    this space is tricky unless you get to know somebody first. go and sit at the steps and you'll see. also, go to the foundry on a friday eve and simply have some fun. honestly, it did work very well in my case, i've got a project that gave me a degree, and some new friends, what more could you ask for?
    and if you want an example of what NOT to do when engaging on a project with couriers, and the general attitude on the matter, look at this thread http://www.movingtargetzine.com/forum/discussion/1585/1/bike-messengers-wanted-to-star-in-documentary/

    enjoy!
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeNov 23rd 2009
     
    Yeah ,we're a great bunch of guys.
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      CommentAuthorzero cc
    • CommentTimeNov 23rd 2009
     
    @lisa: thanx - I enjoyed reading through that thread again. It has something compelling, dontcha think?
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    @Lisa, yeah I know, thats probably not the first time Ive written that.

    well done on the degree and making freinds. Two things I know nothing about.
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      CommentAuthorlisa
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2009
     
    @zero.
    compelling,mhmhmh....at that point totally. i still think there are some good arguments in there somehow,and i remember i was checking it every other hour in those days. right now not sure why it sounds slightly vain.... vain like cocky, not vain like empty. but i said slightly, just slightly!! :)
    @33.cheers and cheer up, no?
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    alright. I'll try to smile.
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    There have been several people, including a couple of professional film/documentary firms, in London researching "Alternative Lifestyle" films in the last couple of years. (As Bill will confirm. Creative were allegedly not keen on having film crews in the control room. Can't say I blame them.)
    A few years back I switched on the TV early one morning to see the un-nerving sight of Ricardo cycling towards a camera at the end of what appeared to be a film on London couriers.
    When I was at On Yer Bike, a film crew followed Bren Divall around for a day. Proper set-up: car with plenty of equipment and a cameraman hanging out of the side window with a bloody great camera. I never saw the film. I don't recall speaking to anyone who did. There must be people on here who still see Bren regularly.
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    I remember a small attempt at filming on the RB city circuit some years back. Did Rodney and Sam veto it because riding up and down Bishopsgate didnt look like real work and filming Byron was impossible as he was always in two or three places at once?


    @cbasie, Proper set up: car with cameraman hanging out of window...what, so they could film the courier for 3 seconds before he filters into a line of traffic.
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      CommentAuthorBren
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2010
     
    Count Basie - you have a good memory. The film was made by students (from Brighton Poly I think). The film was made as their final year project, not for television, so it's probaby never been on TV. They did give me a video tape of it though.
    BTW I don't think anyone on this forum will see me regularly as I now live in Amsteram.
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2010 edited
     
    Count B i thought you were Richard {maybe watched it on video}.Your not the tosser in the kilt in that tweedy Mc thingy?Well ov i would love 2 toss with Ted ,and Scott Walis could give us a hand
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2010 edited
     
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    I sit on the steps to look cool with my ten thousand dollar smile - people often think I have a tooth missing at the front until they look closer and realise I'm just really ugly.

    I heard Thrasher slept there after an agreeable night in the company of several cans of beer.

    Look closely at the wall, people slag each other off there. I had to get up earl, toolbag in hand (whats new smirk) to chisel out an embarrasing anecdote involving a big company controller, a tube of vasoline, and myself alledgedly wearing a Courier Systems company thong. Ho hum heady days.

    The little hut along the road reminds me of the school tuck shop. Stare at the attendant too long and he starts looking like he wants to kill you slowly. The female attendants pretty hot sometimes, depends what shes wearing. Maybe tits just look great.

    Theres often a thoughtfully placed Metro for me to plonk my ass on many a cold morning.

    If the passing girls could check me out more (sorry about the gap love) that'd be cool

    And everything Porno Mike said earlier goes for me too.

    @Overdrive - dude, please, this is a family forum. We'll have no more talk of boil lancing ok? (I've PM'd you on where to buy such a lance btw, as my crotch area has some questionable sections possibly needing medical assistance. Maybe Porno's alledged 'pole dancer' can come and dance on my pole and stamp out the embarrasment)

    @33 check YouTube for a video of The Pike at Work, the ultimate courier doco.

    @you stop wanking in our webcam its making me wanna hump the laptop

    @ @ @ @ @ @
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    Ha ha ha!
    FFS, Curly!! Thinking Richard was Basie!
    Serious question for Bill on the TV Docu side:
    I assume ex-Top Gear presenter Steve Berry did get in touch with Creative about doing a programme early last year. I pointed him in your direction. (No need to thank me!) Was it simply a case of Lisa not wanting cameras in the control room or was there more to it than that?
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    Errr. Don't remember that.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2010
     
    You don't remember this morning!Senile old fart.
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2010 edited
     
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    @ overdrive

    Look who's talking - decrepit old goat.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeNov 25th 2010
     
    :winkkiss:
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeNov 25th 2010
     
    you two should have a wheel chair race to sort this one out
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    Pall Mall Sprint! Before it becomes two way. . .
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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2010
     
    It isn't becoming two way.
    That wouldn't work.
    Not even TfL are so stupid as to allow vehicles to turn right from Marlborough Gate onto Pall Mall. The central island - the installation of which has caused traffic chaos for the past few months - is just to separate park-bound traffic from St. James's Street traffic...
    ... at least I fucking well hope it is!
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    “Re-introducing two way streets from Piccadilly Circus along Piccadilly, St James’s Street and Pall Mall”

    seems like the Neo-Blairites @ City of West don’t agree with you.

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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2010
     
    Scary.
    I don't see how that'll work as they plan. It seems to take the average 4-wheeled vehicle 10mins+ to get from the junction of St. James's Street and Albemarle Street to the Circus as things stand, whereas 5mins was about standard before the "improvements".
    But they still can't let eastbound traffic turn onto Pall Mall from the park.... can they?
    Please say they can't.
    They don't know what the fuck they're doing.
    (See rant on other thread.)
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      CommentAuthorBuffalo Bill
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2010 edited
     
    I think the idea is to make it more friendly to pedestrians, not cut journey times for motorists.

    What a bunch of bleeding heart liberals, eh? Who are these communists? Didn't Blair and all his tree-hugging friends get voted out at last election? etc etc
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    Fastest and longest skid round the bend at the bottom of St Jame's into Pall Mall wins, then.

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