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Horrible looking car crash, just outside Tile Magic. Red car and black car must have collided head on. Red car's roof was 50 ft away by the nearest bus stop. All cordoned off but must have been horrific at the time. Wasn't there when I walked past at 11.30pm, was there at 2am.
 
ianw said:
Horrible looking car crash, just outside Tile Magic. Red car and black car must have collided head on. Red car's roof was 50 ft away by the nearest bus stop. All cordoned off but must have been horrific at the time. Wasn't there when I walked past at 11.30pm, was there at 2am.
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Well the traffic seems to be flowing ok now.

Hope everyone involved is ok
 
It looked like they crashed head on or front corner to front corner. Don't know what they were doing to manage that. They were taking off the roof when I went past.
 
When I went to the shop earlier I found a discarded thong on the pavement.

Someone had a good valentine's day.
 
Brixton Tube Station's suddenly changed with their customer services/security/cctv monitoring little glass box now on the opposite side of the station opposite the ticket office.
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
Reallly, where will people go now, Streatham, SW9?
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They will have to travel to Glasgow three times a week to prove that they're still unemployed or risk having their benefits cut off and their children sold to Chinese factories.

If you're disabled you have to go every day to prove that you're still disabled.
 
Postcodes SE24 9**, SW2 1**, SW2 2**, SW2 5** and SW2 9** will fall under central Brixton Jobcentre on Brixton Road.

Fine for me, as it's a lot nearer anyway.
 
Really bad smell of gas (leak) by the southbound bus stop opposite Sainsburys at the top of Brixton Hill. It has been reported.
 
Is that O'Tahlo? I think they've been selling beer and wine for a while anyway (they certainly have it on display) so probably a good idea to get a licence if they haven't already got one.
 
You know that feeling of satisfaction you get from doing a job really well? That feeling of pride at your achievement?


That's precisely not the feeling I get when I look at the complete balls up I just made of redoing the seal around my bath.:mad:
 
Missez said:
You know that feeling of satisfaction you get from doing a job really well? That feeling of pride at your achievement?


That's precisely not the feeling I get when I look at the complete balls up I just made of redoing the seal around my bath.:mad:
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LB Lambeth seems to have Zero Emission* G Whizz cars for some traffic enforcement roles - saw one in the street behind the Academy, with the BIGGEST man squeezed in behind the wheel that I've ever seen. His knees were almost at the same height as the steering wheel. He looked very unhappy. :D

* blah blah blah was printed in big letters all over it.
 
Apparently the empty units next to the chemist, by the Telegraph, at the top of Brixton Hill, is going to be filled very shortly - the work is almost complete, according to the guy in the chemist.

We're getting a pound shop.

Brilliant. Just what Brixton needs.
 
teuchter said:
Oh yeah ... it's becoming the O2 something, isn't it.

Can someone tell me why it's called an "Academy" in the first place?
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I'm pretty sure that back when Simon Parkes bought the venue there would have been trademark issues with using the original cinema name of Astoria because of the rival venue in Charing Cross Road.

I've got one of those infuriating half-formed memories that the name refers to an iconic recording "Live at the Academy" - which I think refers to a jazz concert at the Philadelphia rather than the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

No doubt I am now going to be shat upon from a great height by someone with much better knowledge of obscure musical references. :oops: :D
 
The original akedemos was Plato's stadium where he 'performed' his philosophy IIRC, so I guess you could say an academy was a place where one experienced a performance AND learned. Although I'm not sure what you could learn from an Alien Ant Farm performance at Brixton Academy.
 
lang rabbie said:
I'm pretty sure that back when Simon Parkes bought the venue there would have been trademark issues with using the original cinema name of Astoria because of the rival venue in Charing Cross Road.

I've got one of those infuriating half-formed memories that the name refers to an iconic recording "Live at the Academy" - which I think refers to a jazz concert at the Philadelphia rather than the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

No doubt I am now going to be shat upon from a great height by someone with much better knowledge of obscure musical references. :oops: :D
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They seemed to use the "Academy" (Carling Academy) as a kind of brand across other venues too. I never quite understood why.
 
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