Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[teuchter]

They told me it was just going to be a fire escape for the offices, they might have got it wrong though.

They must be pretty grim offices ... I can't imagine they'd get much natural light there.

 

[Crispy]

This is from August last year, I think:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvT9SNa-o...14/s1600-h/2008-08-06+Brixton+Underground.jpg

 

[teuchter]

This is from August last year, I think:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvT9SNa-o...14/s1600-h/2008-08-06+Brixton+Underground.jpg

In that it looks like the "offices" are all for LU use.

 

[colacubes]

This is from August last year, I think:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dvT9SNa-o...14/s1600-h/2008-08-06+Brixton+Underground.jpg

They told us that the reason is because of the new tube trains they will need much more space for people/wires/equipment. Hence the retail unit just off Electric Lane that's on that diagram will be an office and as it will all be LU offices along the arcade it won't be opened up.

Which is a shame.

 

[twistedAM]

Anyone know if Cafe on the Hill is open?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Try ringing them Twisted

020 8671 6012

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Anyone noticed that Brixton High Road now has little grey bins that double up as ashtrays?

Noticed them this morning.

 

[teuchter]

Anyone noticed that Brixton High Road now has little grey bins that double up as ashtrays?

Noticed them this morning.

I noticed it ages ago.

ie. before you.

Like the cream tiles in the tube. You just aren't as on the ball as I am.




I think one of them is a recycling-type bin as well.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I noticed it ages ago.

ie. before you.

Like the cream tiles in the tube. You just aren't as on the ball as I am.




I think one of them is a recycling-type bin as well.

The cream tiles in the tube were there last week.

Yes, one of those ugly grey bins has "bottles/cans" on it.

I don't notice them as I'm normally in too much of a rush to go look at bins

 

[twistedAM]

Try ringing them Twisted

020 8671 6012

facepalm moment

 

[Planty]

Car passed MOT Very happy. Thanks for all you help.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

facepalm moment

Did it work, were they open?

 

[twistedAM]

Did it work, were they open?

No. there was a powercut on Blenheim Gardens this afternoon so I stayed put wasting electricity and cooking a steak and kidney pie.
Thing is I have the number on a stciky on my desktop as I call them for advance orders now and again.

 

[twistedAM]

Cunts on Brixton High Street with umbrellas
Go home and poke your own eyes out you hopeless bastards.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Cunts on Brixton High Street with umbrellas
Go home and poke your own eyes out you hopeless bastards.

Just got back from hospital and idiots walking three abreast with umbrellas leaving no space for normal people to walk past, not to mention the twats sheltering UNDERNEATH bus stops with umbrellas

 

[Pip]

Just got back from hospital and idiots walking three abreast with umbrellas leaving no space for normal people to walk past, not to mention the twats sheltering UNDERNEATH bus stops with umbrellas

I knooowwww
WTF is wrong with them?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I knooowwww
WTF is wrong with them?

greedy bastards, that's what. Not satisfied with keeping themselves dry, they have to hog the space under bus stops that umbrella-less people could be using. They deserve it more as they don't go poking people in the eye with their weapons of eye destruction

 

[editor]

Brixton Woolies is now a cheapo 'designer' outlet and those humanoid-replacing 'auto-checkouts' in Sainsburys are absolutely shit.

(*Not that I use Sainsburys much, but the whole thin is really bad thought out and was pissing off all the people using it)

 

[teuchter]

Brixton Woolies is now a cheapo 'designer' outlet

There's a rug emporium at the back and a mysterious screened-off area in the middle.

 

[tarannau]

I went in that reopened Woolies/discount store yesterday. Weird assortment of stuff, with a fantastically large array of the world's most horrible rugs and cushions. And a lot of remote control helicopters for some reason.

I'll admit to an awe-inspired snigger at two of the most wonderfully awful rugs I've ever seen. Think artificial tiger and lion hides, but as if drawn by a small child with crayons and no sense of proportion. More like an cartoon tiger, squashed flat by a cement roller and boasting a shocked 'up the arse' face. Yours for a bargain tenner

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Brixton Woolies is now a cheapo 'designer' outlet and those humanoid-replacing 'auto-checkouts' in Sainsburys are absolutely shit.

(*Not that I use Sainsburys much, but the whole thin is really bad thought out and was pissing off all the people using it)

Saw Woolies when I went past this evening and thought WTF

I had absolutely no problem using the self-service check-out at Sainsbury's on Friday

 

[quimcunx]

My flatmate went in the other day and mentioned that there appeared not to be anything with a designer label on it. So just another of those cheap 'general rubbish' shops we have plenty of already thanks.

People who walk in threes and can't move to let others pass are rude with or without umbrellas.

 

[trabuquera]

Another satisfied user of Sainsbury's self-service checkouts here. Clearly I've missed my vocation. Get me in Tesco's blipping away and even their Saturday queues would melt away.

must ... buy ... horrible ... tiger ... rug ... now.....

 

[slcr]

I went in that reopened Woolies/discount store yesterday. Weird assortment of stuff, with a fantastically large array of the world's most horrible rugs and cushions. And a lot of remote control helicopters for some reason.

I'll admit to an awe-inspired snigger at two of the most wonderfully awful rugs I've ever seen. Think artificial tiger and lion hides, but as if drawn by a small child with crayons and no sense of proportion. More like an cartoon tiger, squashed flat by a cement roller and boasting a shocked 'up the arse' face. Yours for a bargain tenner

Don't dismiss it outright - there are some decent rugs for a decent price (about 1/3 of the typical high street price), amongst the fake tiger hides. If anyone is looking for a rug.

 

[clandestino]

Brixton Woolies is now a cheapo 'designer' outlet

So like a Primark or TkMaxx? What's the store called?

 

[clandestino]

If anyone is looking for a rug.

Rug tourists?

 

[Pip]

Homewares eh?
Might have to pay my old pal Brikky a little visit.

 

[editor]

Saw Woolies when I went past this evening and thought WTF

I had absolutely no problem using the self-service check-out at Sainsbury's on Friday

Were you buying alcoholic drinks? Did you have any heavy items?

It's a nasty cost cutting measure of no benefit to customers.

 

[twistedAM]

Rug tourists?

That carpet place on Brixton Hill (Allied?) had these big banners outside last year proclaiming "Rug Festival"

 

[Orang Utan]

Brixton Woolies is now a cheapo 'designer' outlet and those humanoid-replacing 'auto-checkouts' in Sainsburys are absolutely shit.

(*Not that I use Sainsburys much, but the whole thin is really bad thought out and was pissing off all the people using it)

They have to employ one person to marshall them and they certainly don't save time as the queues are as long as ever. I was asked to use one yesterday and I told them I'd rather deal with a human. Felt like a right fuddy duddy.