Dame Joan Collins is not happy with today's London - e-bikes, scooters and graffiti !

Alexis has become a crabby old lady complaining about the kids today. She needs to go back to Colbyco.

Joan is right. Civility is gone.

She’s right.

[quote]Alexis has become a crabby old lady complaining about the kids today.

She sounds sensible.

You sound dumb.

Okay, boomer.

She's the perfect Datalounger - rich, mean and old.

How very clever and original, R5!

Gee R5 ...how did you come up with that one!

This is the first and almost certainly the last time that I'll agree with Joan on anything, but on e-scooters, I agree.

Their use has exploded in my city over the past couple of years. Conceptually, I support the concept as an alternative means of public transport that gets people out of their cars.

But practically, nobody thought of the impact of thousands of these things just abandoned after use all over the CBD - and this is kind of personal but they are all lime and bright red which are my two most hated colours. Throw in riders treating the footpath like a road and that they are silent so that you never know when one is hurtling from behind. And on weekend nights especially being used by drunk or worse people giving their mates a lift because it's such a laugh.

The plus side for a small segment of the locals in my neighbourhood is that it has really made working conditions for dealers much easier - they can zoom from pick-up to drop-off all night - profits must be way up so I guess that that's good for the economy.

I don't want to see them go away but I do want some sort of enquiry into making their use safer for everyone and less ugly in the environment. We are getting fatalities each week - that has to stop.

R9 are you a fellow Sydneysider?

I shuttle between Sydney and Brissie and the problem is equally bad in both cities R10.

The tires are FLAT.

Methinks her mind is failing and she’s actually misremembering being struck by one of those huge-front-wheeled bicycles from the turn of the 20th century, when she really was 47.

“Dozens of Lime Bikes Dumped in Lily Pond”

Joan may be an old cunt but on this, she's right.

And I am generally pro-transit, pro-bikes, etc. But scooters in particular need more regulation.

Let's not forget fabulous lesbian actress Lisa Banes was killed a few years back because some fucking dumb asshole was riding a scooter at high speeds on a sidewalk and knocked her to the ground.

Dumb fucks will get off their scooters and just leave them in the middle of the sidewalk. One fell on me once and I was knocked over - and while I am not quite in Fat Whore territory I am no petite flower either.

If only they could bring back the Hansom cab drivers and horse-drawn carriages of her youth.

How many of you naysayers live in a city infested with Lime bikes?

Ain’t that bitch dead yet !

Joan needs to shut up. Dirty old skank.

This ancient bitch belongs in a nursing home, not out on the streets with e-bikes.

R20 is actually 94 year old but looks 32.

Graffiti? Where has she been for the last 60 years?

Memory is a funny thing, but I guess she doesn't remember the graffiti of ancient Roman times in Londinium.

I kind of get where she's coming from about e-scooters and bikes, but the public transit benefit outweighs the downside of having to deal with yutzes with no spatial awareness who leave them lying around. Guess what? It's a city - there are A LOT of yutzes with no spatial awareness, and if she's not paying attention enough not to possibly trip over them, she is one of them.

Walking pup on a leash. Silent, clueless, E-Biker (using sidewalk as an express lane) came within inches of hitting my dog

R9/ R11 its exactly the same in Auckland. They are a fucking pain in the ass for cyclists as well as pedestrians. She's right, they are a problem, far more downside than upside. I'd be happy to see them gone. The privately owned ones are fine, its the rentals that cause practically all the issues, and the fatalities - yeah we have had a few of those too

People at that age, especially old bitter cunts like herself spend all day thinking about their death. The world as "suddenly" changed and everything even stepping outside the door is dangerous. "The world is going to hell in a hand basket" in their minds. Of course every generation who reaches that age thinks that.

They invaded my city back during the pandemic. We have the bright orange bikes and scooters and they really are a nuisance. I believe they were really intended for the college population in my city (we have 4 colleges within a couple of miles of each other) but now just about all Zoomers have taken over for food deliveries, etc. They leave them everywhere - all over sidewalks, at the end of people's driveways (and they're impossible to move physically once they're lying at the end of your driveway), scattered through parking lots. Many riders have crossed city boundary lines and they are now in areas where they can't be tracked. It's really gotten out of hand.

Go suck your hero Donald Trump's cock, you old hag.

I think I hate her more in real life than her role on Dynasty.

R27 people here throw them into the sea, or off cliffs. Try it sometime, its extremely satisfying! Good workout too. And the more rental scooters that are destroyed the less profit the rental companies make, its a good way of wrecking their business model.

They’re everywhere here and teenagers use them unsafely, often trying to do wheelies next to or in front of moving cars.

R30 In the beginning, there were gangs from the 'hoods who were throwing these into the river in our city. Then the company pulled the original fleet of bikes and scooters and replaced them with these things which are pretty much impossible to move unless you 'rent' one. They're awful.

She’s right.

She’s a Trumper. True story. So I’d she’s complaining that civility is gone, perhaps she shouldn’t be supportive if deliberately cruel cunts.

But, she’s also the same woman who caljed Charlotte Rae a cow and then, in the very next breath, said it’s de classe to criticize another performer.

She talks outta both sides of her mouth. And she always has. Joan, as much as we love her bitchy mystique, is actually a festering cunt.

[quote]Collins, 92, said the capital was being “destroyed by the insidious antics” of its mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan,

Islamophobic Trumper Joan.

Remember back, not too long ago, when London was an artistic epicenter? Fashion, music, cinema. Those days are long over.

Remember "Cool Britannia"?

E-bikes/scooters are horrid in Brooklyn. They’ve already whipped by, dangerously close, by the time you know they are there.

THE SPECTATOR is the "organ" of choice for Brit fogies--both young and old.

I question whether Joan is spending any amount of time at all walking around London, let alone long enough to be almost run over. I suppose a rider could have zipped between her and the limo door.

I do actually agree with her about unskilled and rude yahoos on bikes and scooters endangering the public, but I don't agree with her racism, Trump support, or even her relevance to be writing wn op-ed for the paper.

People seem to forget how fast they're going on those damned scooters. Not the time to be unaware of your surroundings.

I did get a bit of schadenfreude one time when one guy on a scooter that had almost mowed me over proceeded to crash into a pole.

Just last week I saw Dame Joan in a pink tracksuit jogging through Berkeley Square and she nearly got knocked over by a scooter, fortunately she had the presence of mind to hop over a gate just in the nick of time!

I’m not happy with the look of the bed headboard she offered. Covered in chintzy floral fabric it was and featuring two massive, greasy hair stains!

Dame Joan of Belgravia, England's finest rose.

I don’t think it makes her Islamophobic to criticize Khan.

Some people listen for dog whistles from the wrong people.

[quote]Joan is right. Civility is gone.

And she’s a perfect example. MAGA freak.

[quote]I don’t think it makes her Islamophobic to criticize Khan.

Everyone should be Islamaphobic. It’s a cancer and completely at odds with Western culture.

To be fair R42, Joan did admit that she used the headboard as seat cushion for a while...

[quote]But, she’s also the same woman who caljed Charlotte Rae a cow and then, in the very next breath, said it’s de classe to criticize another performer.

Tell the whole story.

Charlotte called Joan a bitch at the premiere of Linda and Joan's show and the interviewer replayed the comment for Joan, who was rightfully annoyed, as she had never met Rae.

Why Charlotte even went to the show was a mystery, as she clearly didn't like Joan.

[quote] Why Charlotte even went to the show was a mystery, as she clearly didn't like Joan.

No mystery. It was a clearly a great opportunity for her to go on record calling Joan a bitch.

Say what you want, but Joan is the gold standard as to how to age gracefully in Hollywood as a celebrity. Minimal plastic surgery (if any) and a top notch makeup regime.

Flawless.

R50, she looks ridiculous.

Didn't the Charlotte Rae conflict have something to do with Joan banging Cloris Leachman's husband half a century ago?

Also, Joan got into a public bitchfest with Maggie Smith's gorgeous son Toby Stephens.