Friday 14 May 2010

‘Tight-Knit Communities’ Have Changed A Bit…

The term usually conjures up idyllic little villages where everyone knows everyone else, where the postman looks out for uncollected post by his elderly customers, and the vicar pops round with tea and sympathy for any bereaved.

In short, a bit like ‘Midsomer Murders’ without the murders. A community always ready to come together to support one another in tragedy. Such as an untimely death:
A tight-knit community has paid tribute to a neighbour who died in a car crash.

Tearful residents told how a hush fell over part of Beaver Tower, Eastwood, the day they discovered Christian Fairclough had been killed on the A127.
Well, it’s always terribly sad when a young man dies in a totally unforeseen accide…

Ah:
An inquest, last week, revealed Mr Fairclough, 36, was two-and-a-half times over the legal drink drive limit.

He had also taken cocaine before his Mitsubsihi Evo veered off the London-bound carriage- way, near Laindon.
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13 comments:

  1. Mr Grumpy14 May 2010 at 14:09

    Well spotted.

    The liberal way with those tight-knit communities: first trash the real thing as being full of Neanderthal bigots and thank-goodness-we've-moved-on-from-the nineteen-fifties. Then reassure ourselves that we haven't lost anything by pretending that randomly thrown-together collections of strangers are the real thing only with all the additional benefits of diversity.

    "Oh yes, we’ve come on a lot. The history of civilisation is a spiral, not a flat circle, and we’re a notch higher now.", as Libby Purves put it in the Times the other day.

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  2. Brian, follower of Deornoth14 May 2010 at 15:00

    Perhaps it was 'the closely knit' smackhead community expressing their sorrow?

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  3. Chuckles14 May 2010 at 15:14

    Definitely tight then, not sure about the knitting.

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  4. Pat14 May 2010 at 19:16

    Tight-knit in the sense that they don't trust outsiders- it appears they have good reason not to.

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  5. Greencoat14 May 2010 at 20:56

    The worst of it is that this waste of oxygen could have killed innocent people.

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  6. English Viking14 May 2010 at 21:53

    Greencoat,

    He did, his mates were in the car with him and one of them died at the scene.

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  7. KenS15 May 2010 at 06:44

    his mates were in the car

    They may not be what Greencoat meant by innocent people .....

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  8. JuliaM15 May 2010 at 06:59

    @Mr Grumpy: I'm not sure they even know what they are doing when they write this stuff - I think they just reach for the Big Book of Journalistic Cliches...

    @Chuckles: LOL!

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  9. JuliaM15 May 2010 at 07:00

    @KenS: Indeed. They certainly wouldn't fit my description of 'innocent people'!

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  10. Anonymous15 May 2010 at 07:27

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278524/Middle-Englands-stand-The-defiant-villagers-set-barricades-invading-gipsies.html

    This is a tight knit community but who helps these people?

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  11. Furor Teutonicus15 May 2010 at 09:07

    NOTHING upsets the smackhead "community" more than loosing a dealer.

    As they were ALL sooo "concerned", you DO have to wonder....

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  12. Furor Teutonicus15 May 2010 at 09:07

    Answers on a post card please.

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  13. Chuckles15 May 2010 at 10:10

    He was Titus Andronicus then?

    Beaver Tower. Now there's a name to get entendres doubling.

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