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Death Cafe Brixton

About Death Cafe
At a Death Café people gather to drink tea, eat cake and discuss death. The aim is to increase awareness of death with the aim of helping people make the most of their (finite) lives.
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A death cafe featured in a relatively recent episode of Casualty the sat night soap.Once an idea features in a tv soap it's dead as a doornail.
 
editor said:
FFS. That's all we need. Money grabbing fake punks.
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not to start a fight but there are far worse than Brewdog moving into Brixton ... the Punk appropriation aside ... what i understand is it's still run by the founders, no multinational/private equity ownership (yet) and vocal public opposition to them (ABInBev, Portman Group, Diageo) ... and brewed in Scotland :thumbs:
but i could be wrong and they might be a joint venture between donald trump, ISIS and michael gove. in which case, i will be happily be moved into a correctly stood position (and have my sentence construction, grammar and verb conjugation put right too)
 
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Harbourite said:
not to start a fight but there are far worse than Brewdog moving into Brixton ... the Punk appropriation aside ... what i understand is it's still run by the founders, no multinational/private equity ownership (yet) and vocal public opposition to them (ABInBev, Portman Group, Diageo) ... and brewed in Scotland :thumbs:
but i could be wrong and they might be a joint venture between donald trump, ISIS and michael gove. in which case, i will be happily be moved into a correctly stood position (and have my sentence construction, grammar and verb conjugation put right too)
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17 page thread here FYI:

BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff
 
Harbourite said:
not to start a fight but there are far worse than Brewdog moving into Brixton ... the Punk appropriation aside ... what i understand is it's still run by the founders, no multinational/private equity ownership (yet) and vocal public opposition to them (ABInBev, Portman Group, Diageo) ... and brewed in Scotland :thumbs:
but i could be wrong and they might be a joint venture between donald trump, ISIS and michael gove. in which case, i will be happily be moved into a correctly stood position (and have my sentence construction, grammar and verb conjugation put right too)
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Nah, fuck them. Bunch of cunts.
 
Harbourite said:
in a word, "cunts".
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Easy to take potshots from the sidelines eh?

You might not like their tone of voice but at least they have conviction, they built something from scratch and they have been successful in creating something that reduces reliance on the big multinationals churning out tasteless shite. And they offer a choice.

If all this makes them cunts then I'm sure they'd be just fine with that.
 
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discobastard said:
Easy to take potshots from the sidelines eh?

You might not like their tone of voice but at least they have conviction, they built something from scratch and they have been successful in creating something that reduces reliance on the big multinationals churning out tasteless shite. And they offer a choice.

If all this makes them cunts then I'm sure they'd be just fine with that.
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i was with you until i found out one of the founders is married to a woman who's made millions out of flogging colouring-in books for adults

on that basis, they're witches! burn them!
 
discobastard said:
Easy to take potshots from the sidelines eh?

You might not like their tone of voice but at least they have conviction, they built something from scratch and they have been successful in creating something that reduces reliance on the big multinationals churning out tasteless shite. And they offer a choice.

If all this makes them cunts then I'm sure they'd be just fine with that.
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It's their entrepreneurial wholesale plundering of the language and ethics of punk to harvest their own personal fortune that rankles with me. And their vile sexism.

Not sure why 'conviction' is a thing to be applauded in of itself. Thatcher had plenty of that. Should we be respectful to her now?
 
Eds. I dont really get this.

Its been ten years since I lived in Brixton. My Mrs used to DJ at the Brixtonian back in the day, and we had amazing times there.

I still feel an affinity to the place, even though I have moved out, had two kids and now struggle to make shit happen on a day to day basis.

Part of me is envious of these new brands moving into Brixton, but at least they are trying. Sure, they might well be from moneyed families etc, but who else is going to inject something into the place? Its not you and its certainly not the chap from the Brixton Hotel (whos name escapes me) who ended up being done for massive drugs farms etc despite being a pillar of the community - hidden in plain site. And - its not me, or 99% of the posters on the Brixton Board. For whatever reason.

Bottom line is that things move on, and they only move on if there is a market for it. Some will succeed and some will fail, thats how it works.

But for you to always vent about the old times - man, you dont need to do that. It shows you as stubborn and out of touch. And as the founder of this site that is surely something that you shouldnt be seen as. Surely you should be seen as the reasonable voice of change, someone that people look up to as opposed to the reactionary "Ra Ra RAAAA" of the place.

Just saying, please dont take it personally. x
 
Harbourite said:
i was with you until i found out one of the founders is married to a woman who's made millions out of flogging colouring-in books for adults

on that basis, they're witches! burn them!
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I've been given three of these useless things.
I love using kids colouring in books though : )
 
AverageJoe said:
Eds. I dont really get this.

Its been ten years since I lived in Brixton. My Mrs used to DJ at the Brixtonian back in the day, and we had amazing times there.

I still feel an affinity to the place, even though I have moved out, had two kids and now struggle to make shit happen on a day to day basis.

Part of me is envious of these new brands moving into Brixton, but at least they are trying. Sure, they might well be from moneyed families etc, but who else is going to inject something into the place? Its not you and its certainly not the chap from the Brixton Hotel (whos name escapes me) who ended up being done for massive drugs farms etc despite being a pillar of the community - hidden in plain site. And - its not me, or 99% of the posters on the Brixton Board. For whatever reason.

Bottom line is that things move on, and they only move on if there is a market for it. Some will succeed and some will fail, thats how it works.

But for you to always vent about the old times - man, you dont need to do that. It shows you as stubborn and out of touch. And as the founder of this site that is surely something that you shouldnt be seen as. Surely you should be seen as the reasonable voice of change, someone that people look up to as opposed to the reactionary "Ra Ra RAAAA" of the place.

Just saying, please dont take it personally. x
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Have you been here lately? Sure the venting might be monotonous sometimes, aren't we all, but I'm glad that someone somewhere is saying something.
 
AverageJoe said:
Eds. I dont really get this.

Its been ten years since I lived in Brixton. My Mrs used to DJ at the Brixtonian back in the day, and we had amazing times there.

I still feel an affinity to the place, even though I have moved out, had two kids and now struggle to make shit happen on a day to day basis.

Part of me is envious of these new brands moving into Brixton, but at least they are trying. Sure, they might well be from moneyed families etc, but who else is going to inject something into the place? Its not you and its certainly not the chap from the Brixton Hotel (whos name escapes me) who ended up being done for massive drugs farms etc despite being a pillar of the community - hidden in plain site. And - its not me, or 99% of the posters on the Brixton Board. For whatever reason.

Bottom line is that things move on, and they only move on if there is a market for it. Some will succeed and some will fail, thats how it works.

But for you to always vent about the old times - man, you dont need to do that. It shows you as stubborn and out of touch. And as the founder of this site that is surely something that you shouldnt be seen as. Surely you should be seen as the reasonable voice of change, someone that people look up to as opposed to the reactionary "Ra Ra RAAAA" of the place.

Just saying, please dont take it personally. x
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Since when has contribution boiled down to opening a bar or a restaurant? There were plenty of people making Brixton brilliant before and there are plenty of people making it brilliant now - even some of the posters on here.
 
AverageJoe said:
Bottom line is that things move on, and they only move on if there is a market for it. Some will succeed and some will fail, thats how it works.

But for you to always vent about the old times - man, you dont need to do that. It shows you as stubborn and out of touch. And as the founder of this site that is surely something that you shouldnt be seen as. Surely you should be seen as the reasonable voice of change, someone that people look up to as opposed to the reactionary "Ra Ra RAAAA" of the place.

Just saying, please dont take it personally. x
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What are you talking about here? My dislike of Brewdog? That's got nothing to do with Brixton. I dislike them wherever they are. There's plenty of businesses around Brixton I'm positive about but I see no reason why I should uncritically celebrate dull chain after chain moving in with the same tired themes. Does not doing so make me"stubborn and out of touch"?
 
MissL said:
Since when has contribution boiled down to opening a bar or a restaurant? There were plenty of people making Brixton brilliant before and there are plenty of people making it brilliant now - even some of the posters on here.
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Indeed, and most of the interesting stuff isn't coming from the faux-Caribbean themed chain bars and city-backed entrepreneurial ventures.
 
in sheer desperation Mrs Panda and I went into Dirty Burger (Monday night and our kitchen is out of action), bereft of customers with 2 surly staff who had zero interest in serving us, we both felt distinctly unwelcome and after a couple of minutes looking at their hard to see menu due to their lighting set up, we left never to darken their door again. Really don't understand how this business model stands up apart from as a tax right-off,The sooner places like this go back to Soho and take their oh so fucking hip staff with them, it was bad enough when staff were actors on their way to something better but this new breed come across as so fucking entitled
 
organicpanda said:
in sheer desperation Mrs Panda and I went into Dirty Burger (Monday night and our kitchen is out of action), bereft of customers with 2 surly staff who had zero interest in serving us, we both felt distinctly unwelcome and after a couple of minutes looking at their hard to see menu due to their lighting set up, we left never to darken their door again. Really don't understand how this business model stands up apart from as a tax right-off,The sooner places like this go back to Soho and take their oh so fucking hip staff with them, it was bad enough when staff were actors on their way to something better but this new breed come across as so fucking entitled
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I've never seen the place with more than 2 people in it. Ever. It has to be the biggest flop in Brixton. I'm not excusing their rudeness, but I guess the staff must be bored into oblivion.
 
editor said:
I've never seen the place with more than 2 people in it. Ever. It has to be the biggest flop in Brixton. I'm not excusing their rudeness, but I guess the staff must be bored into oblivion.
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they probably were, but in my opinion the chance to engage with customers seemed secondary to their oh so fucking important conversation that was spoiled by people daring to want what they are supposed to be paid to do
 
Brixton Buzz's food review of 2016:

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Brixton Food Review 2016: the best restaurants and cafes – and the biggest flop
 
And there's a new wood oven pizza place opening up on Brixton Hill, where 'High Spirits' shop used to be. According to my neighbour, when he popped his head in, it looks 'well proper'
 
does anyone know anything about the new Sushi bar thing on Atlantic road (opposite Ichiban Sushi) they had one of those conveyor belt things installed just before christmas so must be opening soon
 
Also, does anyone know anything about Kaboola Kitchen next to the new post office on Ferndale Rd?
 
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