Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[paolo]

Anyone out for a pint tonight? I can sense a thirst coming on in a few hours.

 

[el-ahrairah]

A few hours? I'm going for a drink on me way home, the thirst is chronic.

 

[paolo]

A few hours? I'm going for a drink on me way home, the thirst is chronic.

I got up a bit, err, late - Body clock wise, it's currently lunchtime for me

 

[colacubes]

The Phoenix cafe is having a rather handsome picture added to it's shutters

 

[Orang Utan]

those chairs:

what were they thinking?

 

[Crispy]

Hang on, they're bolted down and not just hanging around waiting to be used somewhere?!?

 

[tarannau]

You didn't realise that? They've been cemented stupidly, artfully, into the floor for a few weeks now, just waiting for a public who want to sit at weird angles from each other and in specified numbered groups. Daft.

 

[Orang Utan]

well i suppose they wouldn't stay there very long if they were loose

 

[Crispy]

haven't really been in brixton centre much, only glanced in passing and though "oh, they'll be doing something with those chairs then"

 

[tarannau]

I do feel a little sorry for the 'outcast drongo' chair roughly facing Effra Road. It's one chair with its back turned to a duo or trio of others, looking away towards the road as if embarrassed and lonely.

 

[story]

@ tarannau

I do wonder why so many of them are facing onto the traffic. Why would we want to face the traffic when we can sit and watch the children play charmingly on the lawn, and couples canoodle under the trees?

 

[Orang Utan]

I do feel a little sorry for the 'outcast drongo' chair roughly facing Effra Road. It's one chair with its back turned to a duo or trio of others, looking away towards the road as if embarrassed and lonely.

that'll be my chair then

 

[Jonti]

It's hilarious: a huge amount of money has been spent to make the new Square uncomfortable and inhospitable.

The War on Drugs demands easy access and good sightlines for patrolling cops. And the war on the poor and homeless demands there should be no benches, or any kind of surface on which a homeless person could catch some kip.

Perhaps, despite this lunacy, the Windswept Square will be a success. Here's hoping!

 

[tarannau]

that'll be my chair then

I think it had a plaque marked AJ Something...

 

[quimcunx]

They should have made loveseat benches then people could sit with friends and chat or maintain some sense of privacy.

And people like to sit at the edges looking in not randomly in the middle being looked at.

 

[Orang Utan]

plus there's nowhere to do smack. it's a fucking shambles.

 

[Orang Utan]

maybe that's what the lonely chair's for actually...

 

[Jonti]

What's wrong with McD's?

 

[story]

I think we should all take to the square a whole lot of lawn chairs and leave them there to be used at will by anyone, anywhere.

In my fantasy version of the world, the chairs are never nicked or vandalised, just moved from place to place and used and shared by people having conversations and enjoying watching the world go by (and the children playing on the daisy-strewn lawn), and the whole thing becomes a kind of standing running (sitting) joke.

Incidentally, why could there not have been some chess tables or similar, like they have in Washington Square Park?

 

[Orang Utan]

What's wrong with McD's?

some of us have ethics

 

[story]

What's wrong with McD's?

Quite a lot, really. I'm sure there are plenty of threads discussing this issue elsewhere, Jonti.

 

[Orang Utan]

I think we should all take to the square a whole lot of lawn chairs and leave them there to be used at will by anyone, anywhere.

In my fantasy version of the world, the chairs are never nicked or vandalised, just moved from place to place and used and shared by people having conversations and enjoying watching the world go by (and the children playing on the daisy-strewn lawn), and the whole thing becomes a kind of standing running (sitting) joke.

Incidentally, why could there not have been some chess tables or similar, like they have in Washington Square Park?

chessboards are an excellent idea - they have those in leeds

 

[Jonti]

Quite a lot, really. I'm sure there are plenty of threads discussing this issue elsewhere, Jonti.

Yep, you're right.

The drugs forum is full of threads complaining about the blue tinge to the lighting in the McD's toilets*.

What can it all mean?

* It is unwise to believe everything you read on the internet

 

[story]

I guess people would use them for checkers and dominoes and then where would we be? Interacting with your fellow man is not healthy, you know.

 

[Orang Utan]

i'm not sure how you'd use a chessboard for dominoes, but why not let people play whatever they want as long as it doesn't harm others?
i propose a giant jenga.

 

[Jonti]

Look, if people sit down to play chess, or draughts or (shudder) dominoes, then they might pass little packets of killer skunk to each other.

Citizens must be prepared to make these small sacrifices, if the war against the drug-using scum is to be won!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

chessboards are an excellent idea - they have those in leeds

There always used to be chess players in the covered market in the early 80s.....

 

[Orang Utan]

i propose a giant jenga.

actually, that might harm others, if you give it more than a split second's fleeting thought

 

[teuchter]

A slightly drunken Monday morning high street

Spoiler: large image

 

[ajdown]

I do feel a little sorry for the 'outcast drongo' chair roughly facing Effra Road. It's one chair with its back turned to a duo or trio of others, looking away towards the road as if embarrassed and lonely.

Why shouldn't my council tax be used in something that benefits me, at last?