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rhyme with boris 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 12:25 GMT

noris?

doris?

horace?

Boris' name 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 12:35 GMT

Happy

Boris "I'm just a Doris" Johnson.

Centralized Safety 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 12:38 GMT

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It's nice to see that there is zero crime in downtown London. From Temple to the Tower and Beech to Upper Thames I know that I can travel with impunity: fearing neither violent or unpleasant things will happen to me.

God save the Queen and the Met for they provide the peace loving citizens of the Empire with a haven of safety amid the 'High, Above Average, and Average' levels of crime in the surrounding wards.

What to do 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 12:42 GMT

Pirate

Decisions decisions. Do you either burgle a recently robbed street who probably have shiny new gadgets from their insurers, or do you target an area that hasn't been done for a while, and rely on their complacency.

This is a mad idea!!

rhymes with boris 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 12:49 GMT

Alert

i kinda like him so can't be too rude, but...

Horrace (sounds like a horse)

Norris (ie auntie)

not so much a rhyme but catchy:

bongo boris

bonkers/bananas boris (that's the last one, back to nice boris)

Well as he is London Mayor ... 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 12:51 GMT

Go

Use rhyming slang - so Mayor "Chuck" Johnson.

Could lead to all sorts of weird images and obvious hilarity ...

Oh and re: the cop site. Also nice if they had an overlay of "Solved crimes" - but that might prove a little embarrassing,

cool, crime's down in my area! 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 12:59 GMT

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i wonder if this will have a bearing on house prices?!

er, i.e. go down even faster?!

thumbs up for that!

cheers,

bill

stuff and nonsense: http://www.eupeople.net/forum

I'm average 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:00 GMT

12 in May 2 in June, sandwiched between two high areas about 50 yards away on either side.

That makes me feel really safe.

Boris rhyme 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:01 GMT

Joke

Bore Us? No, he doesn't manage that...

Corus? No, they make steel pipes and the like.

Whore us [out]? No, that's Brown...

Chuck Norris? 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:07 GMT

Duff on crime, duff on the causes of crime?

Hows about... 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:14 GMT

"Bonkers" Boris Johnson.

or "Barmy"

or "Buffoon"

they don't rhyme but they are fairly accurate monikers.

Doesnt rhyme as such but... 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:15 GMT

how about Boris ' bloody stupid ' Johnson

Apologies in advance 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:17 GMT

And apologies to Billy Joel.

I don't care what consequence it brings

I have strained my brain for lesser things

I think I've gone mad, I've hurt my head bad,

But Boris Johnson is the hardest rhyme.

What's really new? 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:24 GMT

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The Met have had a crime figures website for a while, in fact it's linked as 'Detailed Crime Figures' off the new one. What's new - the whizzy Google maps stuff and the coloured areas for the hard of thinking, plus it goes down to subward rather than ward level. What's missing - quite a lot of types of crime (anything except burglary, robbery and vehicle crime) and per-month comparisons so you can see trends instead of being mislead by statistical spikes from one year to the next (June 2007 had twice as many murders as June 2008, but that doesn't mean the murder rate has halved).

A cursory glance shows that crime is reducing, on the whole, nearly everywhere, but that the 'high' category covers a huge range of possible values. The boundaries are entirely arbitrary, in fact, and some explanation of how they're set would be nice.

The main problem with it is comparing dissimilar areas using the crude measure of crimes per x people - the West End is a crime hotspot on this, presumably because it's got a lot of robbery crimes committed against people who are visiting, rather than locals (pickpocketing, in other words). This skews the figure a bit, because the resident population is relatively low. It indicates a crime problem, but not one that local residents need worry about overly or one that should affect house prices (which are astronomical there anyway).

Also, it's mid-August now, and neither site has figures for July up yet...

more rhymes 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:30 GMT

Happy

Forest

Florist

Chorist

It's a shame it doesn't quite stretch to "embarrassed".

I guess "Forrest Johnson" has a certain something to it, though, a little feather of downy blonde hair blowing past a park bench... "Life is like a.. err.. well... hmmm... life... yes... what was I talking about again? Ah yes! Life... it could be considered shallowly analagous to a.. erm... yes... a box of chocolates. Hand-made belgian ones, obviously- none of that cheap cadburys tat for me!"

Surely 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:32 GMT

Coat

Isn't it just "Mayor Bo-Jo the clown"? Or am I missing the point?

What about (at a stretch) 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:38 GMT

Paris Hilton

Tori(e)s "blond haired tosser" Boris.

Must something about blondes and intellegence genes

ooooooh 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:43 GMT

Joke

i got one!!!

boris (dances the morris) johnson

florist kind of works too though the idea of boris morris dancing is frightenly easy to picture.

Doing maps properly 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 13:53 GMT

Coat

Point data (crimes)? Aggregated and classified by completely arbitary boundaries (wards)? Have they ever heard of the modifiable area unit problem (MAUP)?

Given the right boundaries to map by i bet i can make almost any crime cluster in London vanish faster than you can say Home Office Statistics.

Mine's the one with the "Basics of Geographic Information Systems and Cartography" guide in the pocket.

The only thing that jumped out at me was... 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 14:48 GMT

Paris Hilton

Clitoris... or Chorus, vaguely.

Boris 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 15:13 GMT

Should be styled with his full title:

His Excellency Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Pasha, Sultan of London.

Genus Boris 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 15:33 GMT

The name could depend on the Boris-ific context:

- Botches Boris

- Botched-it Boris

- Hubris Boris

- Catharsis Boris

- Paralysis Boris

- Biostasis Boris

- Vulgaris Boris

- Abinus Rhinoceros Boris

- Bulbus Posteriorosis Boris

hmmm names for Doris, sorry Boris 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 15:45 GMT

Paris Hilton

Office?

Dufus?

Wrinkley?

Orifice?

Morris Dancer Johnson?

Paris?

RE: Centralized Safety 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 15:47 GMT

"It's nice to see that there is zero crime in downtown London. From Temple to the Tower and Beech to Upper Thames I know that I can travel with impunity: fearing neither violent or unpleasant things will happen to me."

That's because The City of London (i.e. this area) isn't covered by the Met, but instead the City of London police - so the Met doesn't have the figures.

So what is meant by vehicle crime? 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 16:20 GMT

Is it TWOCing, causing death by dangerous driving, drink driving etc or is it speed, sorry safety camera offences?

If you appear to be living in a high crime area and don't think you are then take a look around, how many safety cameras are in your area?

Rhymnoceros 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 17:49 GMT

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Boris the Loris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loris

actually, he does look a bit like one....

Why rhyme anything? 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 18:04 GMT

The Tory party call Boris BoJo because his initials are rude.

Boris 'the novice' Johnson? 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 19:07 GMT

Paris Hilton

Does that work?, I always got the impression he was a novice when he talked. Just seemed to be clueless. Of course he could be brilliant - I've never met him, but I just kind of got that "I'm a politician because i'm totally incompetent at anything else and wouldn't survive 10 minutes in industry" vibe. Or well he's not been Mayor long, so still fits.

Paris, because... oh i dunno.

For all those cynics out there 

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 20:02 GMT

Alert

Take the survey

not a rhyme but 

Posted Saturday 16th August 2008 07:38 GMT

surely Bendy Boris a a ring to it?

not a rhyme either 

Posted Saturday 16th August 2008 10:12 GMT

Alert

but what about "Karloff" 'cause his policies certainly scare the shit out of me.

Surely it's... 

Posted Saturday 16th August 2008 19:49 GMT

... Bollix Johnson? (Try Benny Hill pretending to be Japanese.)

-A.

Nickname 

Posted Saturday 16th August 2008 21:07 GMT

I prefer The "Night" Mayor.

I wonder 

Posted Sunday 17th August 2008 09:53 GMT

how many plods are sitting in offices to gather and compile the data for this rather than being out on the beat?

@ Mycho 

Posted Sunday 17th August 2008 13:11 GMT

"The Tory party call Boris BoJo because his initials are rude."

And what's wrong with Blow Job the Clown?

At least it's more discrete than David 'Walks about with his helmet in his hand' Cameron...

Boris ... 

Posted Sunday 17th August 2008 17:07 GMT

Jobs Halo

as in

"Hey, hey Blonde BJ

How many bendy buses did you get rid of today?"

or not as the case may be

(EJ Thribb is 17)

Estate agents worried? 

Posted Sunday 17th August 2008 22:39 GMT

They hadn't heard of upmystreet or a bunch of similar sites that give a load of information about any chosen area in the UK on topics like crime, school results, council tax, political representation and so on.

Surely it's obvious... 

Posted Sunday 17th August 2008 23:50 GMT

Happy

Why all this obsessing over rhyme? What's the problem with 'evil tory cunt'?

thanks

Boris rhyme 

Posted Monday 18th August 2008 11:32 GMT

Coat

Boris 'The Blade' Johnson. As in the character in 'Snatch'. Hang on a minute.....that won't go down well.

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