Brixton news, rumour and general chat - June 2015

[cuppa tee]

June, gentle June, of whom the crooners croon,
Sweet month of silk, of salmon, and the swoon;
June, what a chance you had—to be your best,
The fighting friend of Freedom in the West!

Today is the 30th anniversary of this criminal action......

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

 

[colacubes]

Good point. I shall repost my unusual commuter post in the correct thread

 

[ی صحبت می کنند]

That makes me sick. Why did they have to kill it?

So unfair.

 

[T & P]

It's not dead. It's sleeping

 

[Crispy]

It's not dead. It's sleeping

I don't see any restraints. I hope they got the tranquiliser dose right, or there will be carnage.

 

[thatguyhex]

I don't see any restraints. I hope they got the tranquiliser dose right, or there will be carnage.

 

[Tricky Skills]

Has anyone got an email contact for Brixton Green please? The website form isn't work. Requests via social media are not being answered.

Thanks.

 

[leanderman]

Has anyone got an email contact for Brixton Green please? The website form isn't work. Requests via social media are not being answered.

Thanks.

I have Brad's email address. Would that help?

 

[Tricky Skills]

I have Brad's email address. Would that help?

Yes please - feel free to send over as a PM if it is his Brixton Green address, rather than a personal one.

Thanks.

 

[Fingers]

I don't see any restraints. I hope they got the tranquiliser dose right, or there will be carnage.

It was on it's way to an autopsy so I think there is a fairly good chance it was in fact fairly dead and not just taking a kip

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...ife-size-dinosaur-5801593?ICID=FB_mirror_main

Apparently rotting T-rexes smell a bit like badger shit. You learn something new every day.

 

[T & P]

They took it on a full tour of London as well, judging by that article.

 

[editor]

They took it on a full tour of London as well, judging by that article.

So clever marketing then.

 

[superfly101]

The google street map photo car was heading up Brixton Hill @ just before noon today so... all change and Brixton will look all sunny n shiny.

Also went to Jones the Butchers at the bottom of Brockwell Park/Duwlich Road.

Wow just wow it's cheaper than Tesco or any farmers market stall but with a quality higher than Moans, Doves or the Ginger pig.

 

[friendofdorothy]

The google street map photo car was heading up Brixton Hill @ just before noon today so... all change and Brixton will look all sunny n shiny.

Also went to Jones the Butchers at the bottom of Brockwell Park/Duwlich Road.

Wow just wow it's cheaper than Tesco or any farmers market stall but with a quality higher than Moans, Doves or the Ginger pig.

sssh! don't tell everyone!

 

[T & P]

The google street map photo car was heading up Brixton Hill @ just before noon today so... all change and Brixton will look all sunny n shiny.

Perhaps not the right thread or forum to muse on this, but since you mention it...

I won't even try to calculate how many miles all the streets and roads in Britain might amount to... 100,000 at least? A massive effort by Google to re-photograph it all every 2-3 years. I hope their cars are zero-emissions.

 

[se5]

Perhaps not the right thread or forum to muse on this, but since you mention it...

I won't even try to calculate how many miles all the streets and roads in Britain might amount to... 100,000 at least? A massive effort by Google to re-photograph it all every 2-3 years. I hope their cars are zero-emissions.

Doing a little google I see its more like 245,000 miles. I think they did the Brixton/ Camberwell area in June 2014 but maybe there have been so many changes in the area that they are back once again a year later

 

[Ms T]

The google street map photo car was heading up Brixton Hill @ just before noon today so... all change and Brixton will look all sunny n shiny.

Also went to Jones the Butchers at the bottom of Brockwell Park/Duwlich Road.

Wow just wow it's cheaper than Tesco or any farmers market stall but with a quality higher than Moans, Doves or the Ginger pig.

I like Jones but I wouldn't say the quality is above any of the butchers you mention. Definitely cheaper though.

 

[T & P]

Doing a little google I see its more like 245,000 miles. I think they did the Brixton/ Camberwell area in June 2014 but maybe there have been so many changes in the area that they are back once again a year later

Bloody hell. Even more of a Herculean effort than I thought. After the initial wave of publicity when Street View first came to light, I fail to see the commercial advantage of updating such a massive database so often. Especially considering they have no rivals.

 

[editor]

Lumme, it's mighty windy out there.

 

[editor]

Bloody hell. Even more of a Herculean effort than I thought. After the initial wave of publicity when Street View first came to light, I fail to see the commercial advantage of updating such a massive database so often. Especially considering they have no rivals.

Er, they do have rivals. Bing and Apple for starters. And who wants to look at out of date maps/street views?

You'd be the first to complain if you found the service inaccurate and or outdated. I find Street View to be really handy.

 

[T & P]

Do Apple and Bing offer street view modes? First I hear of it...

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Queue for tube this morning was worst I've seen. Right up to KFC

Works finishing in July they say.

 

[leanderman]

Josephine Avenue residents use graffiti to tell trailer fly-tippers to clear out. The other trailer is daubed 'CU*T'.

 

[editor]

Do Apple and Bing offer street view modes? First I hear of it...

Amazingly, the tech world doesn't sit back and say, "Oh well, Google have already done the immensely popular Street View so we won't bother making our own".

Apple are already rumoured to be working on their own version. Microsoft already have a version up and running.

 

[Manter]

Amazingly, the tech world doesn't sit back and say, "Oh well, Google have already done the immensely popular Street View so we won't bother making our own".

Apple are already rumoured to be working on their own version. Microsoft already have a version up and running.

Even those articles say out of date, low resolution and patchy, (and one doesn't exist yet)- and in your post you say that's exactly what a person wouldn't want

 

[editor]

Even those articles say out of date, low resolution and patchy, (and one doesn't exist yet)- and in your post you say that's exactly what a person wouldn't want

The tech world can change overnight and market leaders toppled when new, superior products emerge. So companies have to keep improving their product to stay ahead of current and as yet unannounced competitors. You understand that, right?

 

[Rushy]

And in Brixton news...

 

[Rushy]

I received a leaflet through the letterbox about the new education centre on Brixton Hill. I've lost it. Anyone else have details?

ETA This may be it:
http://www.lambethcollege.ac.uk/finding-us/brixton-centre/

 

[cuppa tee]

And in Brixton news...

"and general chat"

 

[Rushy]

"and general chat"

I welcome your progressively liberal catch all anything goes interpretation. I wonder if we can get confirmation that nothing is ever off topic in these monthly threads?