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Brixton news, rumour and general chat - January 2015

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cuppa tee said:
.........anyone know what inspired them to use Brixton in the name...........
their florid beer blurb gives no clues
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Pretty sure I read some time back that it was named in reference to their planned opening on CHL, and then decided to keep the name.
 
"people of colour" James brown did not sing "Say it loud i am a person of colour" If you are going to post a sarcastic, ironic post please include the appropriate smiley.
thank you
skf
 
skf said:
"people of colour" James brown did not sing "Say it loud i am a person of colour" If you are going to post a sarcastic, ironic post please include the appropriate smiley.
thank you
skf
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Cannot beleive there is a person my age alive who has not heard the phrase. There are other threads for your educational needs.
 
I have heard the phrase but 40 years ago! that was when the word "black" was considered an insult. No need for agression:confused:
skf
 
teuchter said:
What's tedious is enduring repetitive lectures about what we already know from someone who criticises £70 food tours and people with large kitchens whilst simultaneously posting on other threads about their £400 camera. And before the "disruptive personal dig" algorithm kicks in, perhaps you'd like to review the content of post no. 657.
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His camera is a professional tool, from which he derives a living. Using it as a comparator for spending £70 of disposal income on a gastro-tour is at best disingenuous, at worst a display of a degree of ignorance that would make a village idiot blush.
 
passivejoe said:
And yet your article is little more than a personal attack... designed to provoke a reaction. Otherwise why mention the kitchen? Its not in the least bit relevant to her guided tour.
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I think the background of the people doing the tour is an important to the story, and the immense kitchen is described at the very top of her business web page. It was the first thing I came across when I looked her up. She clearly thinks it's an important detail to mention, and I think it is a relevant detail to include in the article. You are free to disagree, of course.
 
Manter said:
If I may interrupt the fight, the Thameslink is buggered today. Am I my third train trying to get from blackfriars to tulse hill and have just got to Loughborough Junction. It may have been easier to walk....

Reason is variously flooding, signalling problems, knock on effects from issues earlier and a train breakdown. Lots of cancellations, everything else running 30 minutes late min. Avoid....
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And all that on top of the fact that Govia couldn't organise a circle jerk in a male boarding school, and still don't have enough drivers to cover all their obligation 100%.
 
skf said:
Colour ! do you mean black? is this political correctness gone mad?
skf;)
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Nah, more that it's been the fad for a few years in the States for black people to be referred to as "people of colour" because it's supposedly less objectifying.
 
I think it was Enoch Powell who coined the phrase "coloured people" Poptyping if you know any black people ask them if they like to be called "people of colour" maybe you will get educated:rolleyes:
skf
 
skf said:
I think it was Enoch Powell who coined the phrase "coloured people" Poptyping if you know any black people ask them if they like to be called "people of colour" maybe you will get educated:rolleyes:
skf
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Not 'coloured people', 'people of colour'. FFS, there's a difference.
 
skf said:
I think it was Enoch Powell who coined the phrase "coloured people" Poptyping if you know any black people ask them if they like to be called "people of colour" maybe you will get educated:rolleyes:
skf
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Original term came from the US, as in "the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" (NAACP) way back in the '20s or '30s.
 
stethoscope said:
Not 'coloured people', 'people of colour'. FFS, there's a difference.
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PoC has a "worthy"/politically-correct air, mostly because it was appropriated from US academe for use by our intsersectionalist friends. It's only been in common usage here for a decade at most.
"Coloured people",however - as far back as I can recall (so the '60s), was always taken as denigration by my non-white mates. They (whether they were from the African continent or "the West Indies", from "the subcontinent" or "the far east") all described themselves as "black".
 
cuppa tee said:
.........anyone know what inspired them to use Brixton in the name...........
their florid beer blurb gives no clues
"The bastard lovechild of the industrial revolution; etc etc"
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friendofdorothy said:
Q1 is it drinkable?
Q2 Will I need a loan to get drunk on it?
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Ratebeer quote this description:

"A recipe we originally devised to celebrate opening BrewDog Brixton in the city that gave birth to the Porter style. Unfortunately the deal for the site fell through at the last minute, but we still wanted to make the beer. Brixton Porter is a delightfully decadent yet eminently drinkable dark beer.
Malts – Extra pale, Dark crystal, Roast barley, black
Hops – Victoria’s Secret, Bramling Cross, Challenger"

They rate the bottled version at 89/100 which is pretty good.

I was wondering whether to sample it myself - maybe in my case best done on at a quiet time. After the "Tale of Two Cities" meeting on Monday evening sounds a likely bet.

I'm sure if it is a guest beer in the Albert you're talking £4.80 or even more per pint.
 
James Brown along with many other Black people reclaimed the word in the late 60s. So are we to follow the americans in our use of language?, i haven.t seen or heard the expression "people of colour" used for 40 years in this country, except middle class, social work wankers.
I was born in herne hill in 1950, went to william penn school and all my mates prefer to be called black, i will tell them they are wrong ok?
skf:mad:
 
skf said:
James Brown along with many other Black people reclaimed the word in the late 60s. So are we to follow the americans in our use of language?, i haven.t seen or heard the expression "people of colour" used for 40 years in this country, except middle class, social work wankers.
I was born in herne hill in 1950, went to william penn school and all my mates prefer to be called black, i will tell them they are wrong ok?
skf:mad:
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You seem to be struggling with the English language.
 
Where did I say it was wrong for people to self identify as black? That's right I didn't. So why are you telling me it's wrong to describe myself as a PoC. Why are you trying to police the way PoC describe themselves.

Go away.
 
you didn't, you are allowing others to choose what expressions you use, in this case americans, think for yourself!!!
skf
 
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