leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Further to my moans about our disastrous play streets experiment last month, pleased to report that we tried again on Saturday - with proper signs and hi-viz - and it worked perfectly. Big turn-out, no aggro.
Brixton news, rumour and general chat - February 2014
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I hate the aesthetics. Never mind brutalism - all we're getting around here is sexed-up 1950s/60s London over-spill stuff. Might as well move back to Suffolk!
passivejoe
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When's the next one?
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Possibly this Saturday, depending on demand. We can do it at 3pm every week. I'll be in one of these natty numbers:
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
It shouldn't get nicked if you lock it up properly with two decent locks. There are plenty of railings and cycle stands right outside the pub, in view of drinkers and smokers. I've used them plenty of times with no problems.Random question: Anyone know what the Effra Tavern is like with bikes? Supposed to be watching the footie there tonight, but not too comfortable about leaving it outside (not insured)... I usually take my bike through into a pub's back yard or beer garden, but I know landlords can be a bit funny about it (Pat at the Albert used to make me carry it - which I've done as a matter of course ever since... Being told off by Pat had a lasting effect).
What did you do in the end?
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
Dunno but me and memespring were asking ourselves the same question the other day.
editor
hiraethified
I've posted up about this building before. It's been empty for decades. I was told that the owner is waiting on the much-discussed redevelopment around that area.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Under my piss-or-get-off-the-pot laws, the owner would be charged punitive, back-dated levies for leaving the building idle
It's commercial squatting and anti community.
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hiraethified
Good job Chuka 'Obama' Umunna is on hand to fight for the rights of property owners to keep their commercial proprieties empty for as long as it suits their financial ends.
Truly a man of the people.
TruXta
tired
HARRISON!Good job Chuka 'Obama' Umunna is on hand to fight for the rights of property owners to keep their commercial proprieties empty for as long as it suits their financial ends.
Truly a man of the people.
Peanut Monkey
Flea-Bit of CHL.
Anyone interested in a free wooden king-size bed frame and/or a newly-new single mattress?
I've got to clear them out by tonight and could deliver them within the Brixton/Streatham/local area this evening. Send me a direct message if interested.
(this doesn't break any rules does it Ed?)
I've got to clear them out by tonight and could deliver them within the Brixton/Streatham/local area this evening. Send me a direct message if interested.
(this doesn't break any rules does it Ed?)
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Start a thread here:http://www.urban75.net/forums/forums/recycle-your-stuff.65/
Sainsbury's opposite Mothercare cashed up early tonight, (can't say i blame them), forcing me to make a staff member use the self service checkout for me. Oh the irony. Made some pertinent points about capitalism and the Luddites which were applauded by the staff. Security chap on duty tonight is a lovely guy likes a bit of banter, ribbed him about his hands in his pockets when i was kicking up a fuss. "I know you Dexter and i know the Arsenal have lost."
"Oh , you're good, no you are real good and that can count around here but they won't pay you any extra."
I lost on points but i still got beers.
"Oh , you're good, no you are real good and that can count around here but they won't pay you any extra."
I lost on points but i still got beers.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Incredibly, an article in Which? this month claims customers like self-service tills, prefer them even
Brixton has a history of fighting back but that is what it is, a history.
Brixton is being assimilated into a system that demonised it. A system of largely white middle class values stolen from the working class, an imperial dominance where everything is commodified according to capitalist cognitions.
Half of the block i live in is falling apart, half of it is privately owned. This is a house of cards.
I was verbally abused today because i objected to dog shit on a first floor balcony, the same dog has shit on the stairs and in the lobby for the past year by an owner that is working class. Another working class dog owner in the block violently assaulted me last year because she thought her "baby" had a right to shit anywhere. I was told to "get a fucking job". It gets worse, so much worse but this is not the right place. My working class neighbours won't raise a voice, too frightened, too beaten, too busy, too craven. They heard it. They have been stopped individually and been subjected to poisonous gossip, the braver ones have recounted it to me.
The middle class residents do silence so much better, they come and go unseen; apart from us in their fancy clothes. Always polite when they make an effort. Being duplicitous always takes an effort, it takes an effort to decipher it. For the most part they don't speak up, they don't really speak at all. They don't even notice the dog shit even when they walk in it. They never complain to the local authority, it's not in their nature. That smacks of communism. Let them fight amongst themselves.
I despise the middle class but when i look at the class i belong to, i despair. I've been shunned by neighbours i have known for almost thirty years, others that were friends as well as neighbours no longer knock at my door. They seem to forget i was the one who had a machete spliced at my front door, i was the one that went to court three times, won three times (commended on the first one for the evidence i gave but told to leave the court for my own safety) when Lambeth Council would not acknowledge their duty of care when they lost control of the block to crack dealers. They never said sorry but some of my neighbours did belatedly but that was ten years ago.
Even with the advent of social media things are no better, we can talk about things in better ways but it is still a nasty world.
When Thatcher said there is no such thing as society she was wrong and thirty years later she is still wrong but maybe it was a statement of intent.
Working class people don't know who the enemy is any longer, neither does Brixton. It's all in the change.
Brixton is being assimilated into a system that demonised it. A system of largely white middle class values stolen from the working class, an imperial dominance where everything is commodified according to capitalist cognitions.
Half of the block i live in is falling apart, half of it is privately owned. This is a house of cards.
I was verbally abused today because i objected to dog shit on a first floor balcony, the same dog has shit on the stairs and in the lobby for the past year by an owner that is working class. Another working class dog owner in the block violently assaulted me last year because she thought her "baby" had a right to shit anywhere. I was told to "get a fucking job". It gets worse, so much worse but this is not the right place. My working class neighbours won't raise a voice, too frightened, too beaten, too busy, too craven. They heard it. They have been stopped individually and been subjected to poisonous gossip, the braver ones have recounted it to me.
The middle class residents do silence so much better, they come and go unseen; apart from us in their fancy clothes. Always polite when they make an effort. Being duplicitous always takes an effort, it takes an effort to decipher it. For the most part they don't speak up, they don't really speak at all. They don't even notice the dog shit even when they walk in it. They never complain to the local authority, it's not in their nature. That smacks of communism. Let them fight amongst themselves.
I despise the middle class but when i look at the class i belong to, i despair. I've been shunned by neighbours i have known for almost thirty years, others that were friends as well as neighbours no longer knock at my door. They seem to forget i was the one who had a machete spliced at my front door, i was the one that went to court three times, won three times (commended on the first one for the evidence i gave but told to leave the court for my own safety) when Lambeth Council would not acknowledge their duty of care when they lost control of the block to crack dealers. They never said sorry but some of my neighbours did belatedly but that was ten years ago.
Even with the advent of social media things are no better, we can talk about things in better ways but it is still a nasty world.
When Thatcher said there is no such thing as society she was wrong and thirty years later she is still wrong but maybe it was a statement of intent.
Working class people don't know who the enemy is any longer, neither does Brixton. It's all in the change.
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The football took my mind off things this evening but i don't feel safe in my own home, i have not felt that since the crack dealers tried to smash their way through my front door.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
I'm very sorry to hear that. I'm not sure what class has to do with letting your dog shit on the balcony though. That's just obnoxious.
TruXta
tired
Sorry to hear that. Didn't mean to make light of your situation.
It's ok, i know the difference between banter, at least i hope i do, it's more difficult to convey in text than face to face. I needed to rant after a bad day. I'm in my cups as you know but you are out of yours
Our society is riddled by class and we are all the poorer for it, hench my analysis (rant) in post #620.
Of course i'm fucking drunk but my posts are relevant.
But you didn't because you don't do likes. You don't like anything even if you agree with it. I understand this as your posting posture. Your non football posts are generally speaking reasonable good even though i don't agree with some of them. This thread is about Brixton, not Penge or Tulse Hill. Then you have the Loughborough Junction brigade demanding to be assimilated into this village but insisting on autonomy when really it is a shit hole.
Then you have posh places like Boreista or whatever it is called where i can't even walk through the door because the unwritten word is you are too fucking poor. Even if you have just cashed your Giro we can't have you in our store. I knew that when i was a little boy, the way they dismissed my mother; i didn't fully understand it until i was older but i learnt the hurt.
Maybe Chomsky is correct about competitive sport being a distraction from the real wars, the real horrors of our society.
The battle of Brixton wasn't even fought it was a silent take over by those with capital.
Bed now for me and the horrors of drink in the morning. There is no community i can see or feel other than this Board. I feel saddened by that. I'm cut adrift but still floating and i thank you all for that.
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