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supercity

Back, and readjusting
I've just been looking around online to see what is going to happen to the half of Bon Marché that most recently served as a pub, when I came across this, dating from a time when people thought it might be a Waitrose (thanks to The Ed, I now know it's a TK Maxx).

Surely anything is better than a Waitrose nonsensically opening in an area largely resided in by council tenants and people poor enough to think Iceland is fantastic
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This is on a blog, located here.

Am I getting over-sensitive in my middle age, or is this condescending and offensive to just about everyone who chooses to live here?
 
A particularly perceptive barman from the Prince Albert has just said to me "What the fuck is she doing down here? She can fuck off back to Primrose Hill."
 
Alderley Edge School for Girls maybe? That's on the Wilmslow Road. Either way I do not care for her snobbish tone.
 
She's got a good name for anagrams....
amorphous ire
Hi! A moor! Super!
Shoo! I'm up rear.
O! Pious harmer
I'm pus or a hero
I'm a poser hour
I'm posh or urea
Up, or I'm a horse
Semi-ho uproar
Shoo, prim urea
 
supercity said:
Am I getting over-sensitive in my middle age, or is this condescending and offensive to just about everyone who chooses to live here?
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No. This reminds me of some supercilious cnut doing a restaurant review a few years ago - can't remember where. They were dismayed by the fact that it overlooked a council estate. :eek::eek:

I actually wish I'd written into complain but I didn't.

The description of the Albert made me laugh, though -

dense journo said:
The atmosphere was friendly, but pretty rowdy – it was clear these people had been drinking for a very long time by quarter past nine on a Friday. The clientele was incredibly varied,
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That's the Albert I knew & loved!:D
 
standardlondon article said:
The clientele was incredibly varied, which made a nice change from the Rest Is Noise’s art student-dominated crowd, but in truth this was the sort of place you’d go to when you can’t afford anywhere better.
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Going to the Prince Albert is on my list of things-to-do-before-I-die, sort of a pilgrimage :oops:

After reading the review, I definitely want to go. It sounds like my kind of place.
 
A rowdy pub with an incredibly varied and friendly crowd is definitely where I like to be on a Friday night - especially if it repels the likes of this woman.
 
editor said:
Bloody typical for SW2.
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We've got enough of them up here already. You deserve your share.

Here's what she says about HDIF at The Canterbury, but I'm guessing people have already seen this. She seems to have a thing about Iceland

The Canterbury Arms, behind the police station in Brixton, is rather different. We pay £6 to get into the back room of an old man’s pub. The walls are yellowish, half the lights are on, and there are rainbow-coloured ‘DISCO FEVER’ posters on the walls. The place has the vibe of a village hall, and brings back bad memories of those eighteenth birthday parties that are unexpectedly attended by the host’s entire family. It’s almost strange there isn’t an Iceland finger food buffet.
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http://standardlondonevening.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/how-does-it-feel-to-be-loved-canterbury-arms-4-march-2011/
 
I think her name should be mentioned here just in case she ever googles her name or in case anyone knows her so she can come on here and see how we all love her so much

SOPHIE ARMOUR. PLEASE MOVE FROM BRIXTON. A MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY WOULD BE PREFERABLE
 
That piece about the Canterbury is priceless! I haven't even been there and it still cracked me up.

aforementioned dense thing said:
At times not having an encyclopaedic knowledge of underground 60s music.....
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I wouldn't say she had an entry level knowledge of anything vaguely underground, and I am a middle-aged person who never even goes clubbing any more.
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
Here's what she says about HDIF at The Canterbury, but I'm guessing people have already seen this. She seems to have a thing about Iceland
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Ah. So the Canterbury crowd simply aren't young and trendy enough for Madam.
The clientele tonight seem never to have looked beyond the 60s. Most of them are about 32, and dress like toned-down versions of Austin Powers characters – quite different from the young and trendy crowd that turn up at The Phoenix.

By about half one the crowd is coupling off, and numbers are already beginning to dwindle – meaning we, as under-25s, are starting to stand out like children at a wedding. The retro hits are now few and far between, and our enthusiasm is waning.

In future, we’ll make the effort to mission into central London, where the lights are low and it’s ok to be young.
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:facepalm:
 
oryx said:
That piece about the Canterbury is priceless! I haven't even been there and it still cracked me up.



I wouldn't say she had an entry level knowledge of anything vaguely underground, and I am a middle-aged person who never even goes clubbing any more.
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It's a proper old-school boozer which is what we want more of, not trendy yuppy bars. Not that I've been there for years

The clientele tonight seem never to have looked beyond the 60s. Most of them are about 32, and dress like toned-down versions of Austin Powers characters – quite different from the young and trendy crowd that turn up at The Phoenix.
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eta: Ed's just quoted the same thing
 
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