Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[netbob]

Sainsbury's just got those serve yourself payment machines installed.

 

[Orang Utan]

Sainsbury's just got those serve yourself payment machines installed.

Which Sainsbury's? The one in Clapham?

 

[teuchter]

Sainsbury's just got those serve yourself payment machines installed.

"Please place item on the bagging area."
(place item on bagging area)
"Please remove item from the bagging area."
(remove item from bagging area)
"Please place item on the bagging area."
(place item on bagging area)
"Please remove item from the bagging area."
(remove item from bagging area)
"Please place item on the bagging area."
(place item on bagging area)
"Please remove item from the bagging area."
(remove item from bagging area)

repeat ad infinitum until a checkout person comes over and presses some buttons.

That's how it works at the Green Park branch, anyway.

 

[netbob]

Which Sainsbury's? The one in Clapham?

no, the brixton one, clapaham's /miles/ away

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

"Please place item on the bagging area."
(place item on bagging area)
"Please remove item from the bagging area."
(remove item from bagging area)
"Please place item on the bagging area."
(place item on bagging area)
"Please remove item from the bagging area."
(remove item from bagging area)
"Please place item on the bagging area."
(place item on bagging area)
"Please remove item from the bagging area."
(remove item from bagging area)

repeat ad infinitum until a checkout person comes over and presses some buttons.

That's how it works at the Green Park branch, anyway.

They have a self-service Boots near where I work now

 

[Orang Utan]

no, the brixton one, clapaham's /miles/ away

the one next to the station?

 

[netbob]

the one next to the station?

(I don't get out much, I've not been further than coldhabour lane since friday)

 

[Orang Utan]

(I don't get out much, I've not been further than coldhabour lane since friday)

I can't imagine how that would work in that tiny branch - I bet loads of thieving will happen

 

[netbob]

yeah, I feel sorry for the staff who'll have to police it.

 

[pboi]

anonye know any nights in Brix this wknd that plays hip hop / rnb type stuff. nowhere up its own arse...just good music and beerage. Plan B is a poss...but its usually house music on Sat

 

[Brixton Hatter]

urban75 just mentioned on newsnight (bbc2)

interview with a woman and her son in battersea about the new "digital revolution". she logs on saying "urban75, that's one of my favourites"

 

[quimcunx]

Ooh, wonder who it was...

 

[teuchter]

anonye know any nights in Brix this wknd that plays hip hop / rnb type stuff. nowhere up its own arse...just good music and beerage. Plan B is a poss...but its usually house music on Sat

Plan b often claims to play hip hop on a friday night but it usually degenerates into crappy rnb nonsense. Maybe that's what you're after though.

 

[snowy_again]

Some sort of fire on Leeson Road last night - all taped off, police and fire brigade in attendance, fortuantely no one hurt according to the extremely young cycling policeman I spoke to.

Oh and an urbanite in the bloody hairdressers on Railton Road as I walked past it, after failing to get an appointment. Grr.

 

[twistedAM]

Cafe on the Hill is still closed as M is on hoilday in Thailand. I can't afford Negril everyday. Is there any decent place on Tulse Hill/BWL?

 

[ovaltina]

Some sort of fire on Leeson Road last night

There was a big house fire at the Brixton end of Mayall Road yesterday afternoon. Went past this morning - the roof has gone, and the owners were trying to rescue what was left of their possessions.

 

[shakespearegirl]

There was a p4 bus on fire this morning on Coldharbour Lane... The firemen had put it out by the time I walked past

 

[Not a Vet]

Forthcoming bus changes affecting Brixton routes:

35 - new contract awarded, 19 new "Enviro 400"s to operate

N35 - as above with new buses

345 - as above but with 25 new buses.

All changes scheduled to start from May 2nd

 

[teuchter]

Forthcoming bus changes affecting Brixton routes:

35 - new contract awarded, 19 new "Enviro 400"s to operate

N35 - as above with new buses

345 - as above but with 25 new buses.

All changes scheduled to start from May 2nd

Does that mean a more frequent service, or just new buses to replace the existing?

 

[Bob]

There was a p4 bus on fire this morning on Coldharbour Lane... The firemen had put it out by the time I walked past

Is there a crazed arsonist on the loose?

 

[snackhead]

Has anyone tried Barney's Cafe by Loughborough Junction? I go past it on the bus. It seems to be open in the evening as well.

Looks refreshingly unchanged

 

[Orang Utan]

Sainsbury's just got those serve yourself payment machines installed.

Just walked past it and there are no machines

 

[Blagsta]

Just walked past it and there are no machines

There are, I was in there last night.

 

[Orang Utan]

There are, I was in there last night.

They're not obvious from the door. Where are they?

 

[ajdown]

There's a Christian rap group from "The Potters House" (presumably a local church) by the railway bridges 'doing their stuff' and drawing quite a crowd.

Or at least they were about 10 minutes ago when I jumped on a bus to leave there.

 

[shakespearegirl]

Has anyone tried Barney's Cafe by Loughborough Junction? I go past it on the bus. It seems to be open in the evening as well.

Looks refreshingly unchanged

I went there for breakfast this morning.

They seem to expanded the range a bit and the new Portugese owners seem friendly and nice, interior a bit updated but seems pretty much the same..

 

[quimcunx]

*waves at shakespearegirl*

 

[twistedAM]

There's a Christian rap group from "The Potters House" (presumably a local church) by the railway bridges 'doing their stuff' and drawing quite a crowd.

Or at least they were about 10 minutes ago when I jumped on a bus to leave there.

ah c-rap

 

[snackhead]

I went there for breakfast this morning.

They seem to expanded the range a bit and the new Portugese owners seem friendly and nice, interior a bit updated but seems pretty much the same..

Thanks shakespearegirl, I'll give it a go

 

[colacubes]

"Please place item on the bagging area."
(place item on bagging area)
"Please remove item from the bagging area."
(remove item from bagging area)
"Please place item on the bagging area."
(place item on bagging area)
"Please remove item from the bagging area."
(remove item from bagging area)
"Please place item on the bagging area."
(place item on bagging area)
"Please remove item from the bagging area."
(remove item from bagging area)

repeat ad infinitum until a checkout person comes over and presses some

buttons.

That's how it works at the Green Park branch, anyway.

We used them this evening and this is v accurate