Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[miss minnie]

Classic accident at Clapham Picturehouse for Ed Wood... flick had just started when a nifty special effect like 'burning a hole in the film' appeared. Except that the film was burning for real.

Pre-digital days, nothing they could do, the film was ruined and we all got a free ticket.

 

[matt m]

Bit of drama on my lovely street (Bellefields Rd) last Saturday afternoon.

Woman walked up to the fairly swanky car parked outside the drug dealers opposite, and smashed in the four windows before trying to dent the bonnet. Took her quite a while actually. Meanwhile, her daughter, rather anxiously waiting in their own car, was trying to get her to stop. She cut her hand while doing so.

The drug dealer didn't seem to be all that concerned. Not sure he owns a car - he makes his calls on bicycle.

 

[Janh]

^
Sounds like the beginning of an episode of The Wire.

 

[teuchter]

What did she use to smash the windows?

 

[quimcunx]

The other thing was that I'd booked seats near the front instead of near the back as intended. Due to the seating plan on the website being upside down.

Everything looks to be in order. The seats facing the screen, as they should be.

 

[matt m]

What did she use to smash the windows?

Some stick or other. Bit of pipe or something. Found on the street, I think.

 

[Biddlybee]

Cycled up Effra Road last night... lovely new smooth road round by St. Matthews

... but near the junctions of Kellet Road and Mervan Road there were double orange lines. I've seen double red and double yellow, but what are double orange lines?

 

[matt m]

Only Northern Irish Protestants are allowed to park on them.

 

[Biddlybee]

I bet they will have changed colour by tonight, then no-one will believe me!

 

[trabuquera]

new Lambeth Lib/Lab coalition coded message?

or maybe more like new shades of Lambeth ambiguity in law enforcement. "we'll apply double-yellow rules only if we like the look of you, but full-on red-route penalties if our staff just feel like giving you stick?"

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Janet Jackson is going to be in Brixton tonight.

Who will be dashing down to see her?

I won't

 

[Biddlybee]

new Lambeth Lib/Lab coalition coded message?

or maybe more like new shades of Lambeth ambiguity in law enforcement. "we'll apply double-yellow rules only if we like the look of you, but full-on red-route penalties if our staff just feel like giving you stick?"

If they're not there this afternoon I'm getting my eyes tested!

 

[twistedAM]

Only Northern Irish Protestants are allowed to park on them.

Sweet. But we have to share with the Dutch.

Or maybe they're there for Blackpool fans visiting London this weekend.

 

[quimcunx]

putting up barriers outside ritzy now. not for chris rock then?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

putting up barriers outside ritzy now. not for chris rock then?

Maybe he's attending with Janet Jackson

 

[ajdown]

Hopefully the Janet Jackson hype won't have built up to get in the way of my getting home tonight.

Chris Rock is Monday, so people would be really early for that...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Hopefully the Janet Jackson hype won't have built up to get in the way of my getting home tonight.

Chris Rock is Monday, so people would be really early for that...

you could always walk. It's lovely weather out there, although a bit too hot. Still, saw some schoolkids wearing hoodies with their hoods up, on top of school blazers. Obviously not hot enough for some people.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

"Christine's Meat Gallery" has just opened in the old Coach & Horses (latterly Living Bleargh). It just sounds dodgy on every level.....

 

[Planty]

So, according to tonight's The Standard, the street bike scheme is due to start in a couple of months. Sounds good to me Anyone heard whether there's a dock planned for Brixton? Maybe they're all more central...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I've seen some being made in Pimlico.

 

[teuchter]

So, according to tonight's The Standard, the street bike scheme is due to start in a couple of months. Sounds good to me Anyone heard whether there's a dock planned for Brixton? Maybe they're all more central...

I think it's mostly just Z1 to start with.

 

[netbob]

So, according to tonight's The Standard, the street bike scheme is due to start in a couple of months. Sounds good to me Anyone heard whether there's a dock planned for Brixton? Maybe they're all more central...

It only goes as far as Oval: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/12445.aspx

 

[Ms T]

Apparently Brixton Village/Granville arcade is having a "Studio 54" night next Thursday. There'll be a clothes swap as well.

I was down there last night and a young bloke who literally looked like he'd taken a wrong turn in Putney and ended up in Brixton by mistake asked me where to get a corkscrew to open a bottle of wine. Honestly, he was terribly well spoken and wearing a pink shirt and chinos and loafers, with a sweater artfully knotted round his shoulders.

 

[Planty]

It only goes as far as Oval: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/12445.aspx

Thanks for that! Hope it extends to Brixton in the second wave.

I'm assuming the boundary zones (on the map) just refer to where there are docking stations. Unless something terrible happens automatically if you breach the line. Or maybe some sort of cattle grid type thing like with supermarket trollies.

 

[gabi]

janet jackson would seem to have made her arrival. mentalness down there.

i wonder what her highness will make of the ritzy? pretty stiff bar prices. and cinema 1 has shitty seats. what they gonna do with her?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

janet jackson would seem to have made her arrival. mentalness down there.

i wonder what her highness will make of the ritzy? pretty stiff bar prices. and cinema 1 has shitty seats. what they gonna do with her?

Stick her in screen 1 and see if she lands on her nose?

 

[gabi]

i do like the juxtaposition from where im sittin.. a few dealers, some sunburnt lads messin around tryin to drunkenly figure out the cash machine, a few bored workers waitin for their bus... and behind a white screen a red carpet and janet jackson and is it jill scott? in fine gowns posin their asses off for the camera... brixton.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

i do like the juxtaposition from where im sittin.. a few dealers, some sunburnt lads messin around tryin to drunkenly figure out the cash machine, a few bored workers waitin for their bus... and behind a white screen a red carpet and janet jackson and is it jill scott? in fine gowns posin their asses off for the camera... brixton.

what next, Starbucks?

 

[gabi]

Stick her in screen 1 and see if she lands on her nose?

sorry ms jackson..

sorry. everyone.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

sorry ms jackson..

sorry. everyone.

What if she did though? She'd probably sue The Ritzy, they'd go bust, and Brixton would be heartbroken