shifting gears
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Tedious boring cunt.
Brixton news, rumour and general chat - August 2014
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shifting gears
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Yep, it's still working fine 
editor
hiraethified
Thanks for reminding me how pleasant the boards have been without your negative, sneering and generally pointless comments.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
editor
hiraethified
I live in a council estate in one of London's most deprived wards. How many families do you think can afford to pay £8 for a single burger or go for flutes of champers in Champagne and Fromage?
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Alright, keep your pants on. I wouldn't have thought £8 for a meal was expensive even if you live on a council estate in one of the most deprived wards in London. The reason being you'd be hard pressed to find something cheaper wouldn't you - in a restaurant at least
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hiraethified
A burger isn't what I'd call a meal. It's a snack, and Honest Foods isn't exactly what most people would describe as a restaurant either.
If you want to compare it anything, compare it to a takeaway with seating, and there is a lot of cheaper places like that to be found in Brixton.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
If there are a lot of cheaper places - what's the problem exactly?
ETA - their burger is plenty for a meal.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
I would describe it as a restaurant and a burger and chips is what I'd call a meal. £8, therefore, is cheap for a meal in a restaurant.
shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
Seems obvious to me that if businesses are setting up, they are going to aim for the most profitable section of customers.
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hiraethified
I don't often sit outside in the cold on a bench when I go to a restaurant, and the £8 doesn't include chips, drinks or any kind of service. Looks like you're easy to please.
I also mentioned Champagne and Fromage when you asked about expensive outlets in the village. I can't think why you chose to ignore that one.
snowy_again
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We've not had a good bun fight for a while.
What a hypocrite! Editor I find you to be the one who makes consistent negative and sneery remarks – your hostility towards young middle class professionals permeates pretty much everything you write!
snowy_again
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And an Honest burger comes with chips for free. And seating is available inside too.
editor
hiraethified
I've got better things to do now really. I've said my bit and the usual suspects have responded in the usual manner. Yawn.
snowy_again
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It was a pun, love.
editor
hiraethified
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hiraethified
editor
hiraethified
That's OK deary.
snowy_again
Slush
Not lately - I've not been in for a while but had a good gelato on Saturday and bought some records off Claudia whilst buying some cheap washing up liquid and some bin bags.
And isn't there some sort of queue app anyway?
(ps. my deja vu-ometer is having a moment - is it the timetabled Brixton Village conversation date for the month?)
And isn't there some sort of queue app anyway?
(ps. my deja vu-ometer is having a moment - is it the timetabled Brixton Village conversation date for the month?)
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hiraethified
Just to give a little reminder of how the other half live: when I was at the first residents' group meeting for the block opposite I was enthusiastically banging on about how a website would really help communications - but then it was pointed out to me that most of the people in the room weren't even connected to the web, and I was the only one with a smartphone.
So I'm guessing a queue app wouldn't be much benefit for some of the local residents anyway.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
You don't need a smartphone. Just a mobile.It does not even need any credit on it.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Because I've never been there so don't know whether it's cheap or not. As I've been to Honest, I used that as the baseline for what you consider expensive - I assumed as you lumped them together in the same sentence they were of comparable price. Apologies
boohoo
No.
The food in the village is a lot cheaper and better quality than going for a meal in Crystal Palace and many of the surround areas of Brixton.
If Brixton village wasn't full of food places and boutiques, what's the alternative? Because if you have no money to spend, then it doesn't matter what the shops are.
If Brixton village wasn't full of food places and boutiques, what's the alternative? Because if you have no money to spend, then it doesn't matter what the shops are.
editor
hiraethified
I didn't say it was "expensive". I said it was priced out of the reach for some locals, something I know to be true because they've told me.
I don't know anyone from my estate who has ever been to Champagne & Fromage.
snowy_again
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Um, I have a brick nokia that doesn't even have a colour screen, so I'm hardly surfing the wave of early adoption.
I found that speaking to the staff politely meant that they'd tend to say 'come back in 20 minutes and I'll get you a table inside'.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
I know people who can't afford to go out for a pint in a pub - they'll have a can at home instead. What's your point?
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
Loved Brixton Village when I visited recently, well a few months ago, eat at a Mexican there - Jiscos or something? £7 or for a huge taco and a drink. I reckon good quality food can't be made available by independent restaurants for cheaper if they want to stay in business.
editor
hiraethified
Oh, if you're just going to strip all context from the discussion, I'll just leave it then.
T & P
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C&F is but one establishment in the Village, Editor- it is hardly fair to accuse the entire market of being out of reach for many locals because of one business within.
First you complain that food it is expensive. When it is pointed out to you that £8 is pretty good value for a meal, you suggest it is just a burger with no chips. When it is pointed out that it does in fact come with chips and it is by all means a meal, you move on and complain about the queues. When someone mentions that Honest Burgers has an app to tackle that issue, you then say that a lot of the poorer locals don't have an internet connection. When someone else points out that all is needed is a smartphone, you abandon Honest Burgers as a target altogether and name-drop C&F. I mean, really?
It is very clear to everyone who reads this forum that you don't like the Village. That is absolutely fine. But it is nonsensical to use the argument that many locals are priced out of it as an attempt to criticise and discredit the place. If they are, then they must also priced out of all of Brixton. There are plenty of businesses in the Village that offer reasonably priced meals, and more to the point, in line with, if not fucking cheaper than, the overwhelming majority of restaurants and eateries outside the Village.
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