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Brixton news, rumour and general chat - July 2014

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oryx said:
I dislike the term 'left behind' as it somehow apportions blame to those whose neighbourhoods have been affected by house price rises, buy-to-let, the reduction in the use of section 106 (planning gain) and properties being left empty because they are seen as investments rather than homes.

While initiatives like 'community centres, a visiting health bus and community events' are admirable they are a bit of a sticking-plaster solution and there need to be more radical, political solutions to reduce inequality such as ending right-to-buy, capping private rents, ensuring security of tenure etc.
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Cabbie who dropped me home tonight has five east end homes, bought at such low prices that he keeps one empty for occasional use.
 
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leanderman said:
Cabbie who dropped me home tonight has a five east end homes, bought at such low prices that he keeps one empty for occasional use.
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Disgusting. Lots of stuff in the news today about local authorities (mainly Tory, who'd have guessed it?) not wanting to exercise their powers against people/companies who leave homes empty.
 
Some Muslim preacher outside JD Sport today with a poster stating 'America will soon burn in fire' (or something similar)
 
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Some Muslim preacher outside JD Sport today with a poster stating 'America will soon burn in fire' (or something similar)
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Not Muslim, far from it - more like the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ or some such. I say that because he had a variant of this poster:

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(Poster of Tribes of Israel Black Hebrews by User:Streetphotographernyctlv on Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.)
 
I saw there was another poster, but was transfixed by the anti American one as I skipped by. He certainly wasn't dressed like any sect of Christianity I've ever seen!! Fair enough but my main point was the religious bigotry
 
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I saw there was another poster, but was transfixed by the anti American one as I skipped by. He certainly wasn't dressed like any sect of Christianity I've ever seen!! Fair enough but my main point was the religious bigotry
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Yeah, I get a nasty vibe off those guys, for sure.
 
For the last three days there have been crickets chirping somewhere behind our flat. Crickets! I've never heard them in London in all my life.

Then, last night at about 3:30AM, there was a bearded, shirtless man playing the banjo on Coldharbour Lane for no obvious reason.

Is this global warming in action???
 
They call it RunLock. The practice of leaving marked police vehicles empty outside Brixton Police station with the engine running.
It was just explained to me why they do this by a fresh as a daisy copper who had just completed a long shift as he was getting into his private vehicle parked outside the Canterbury Arms, of course he never paid for his parking he just had his Metropolitain police petrol card thing clearly displayed on the dashboard. Who else gets free parking outside their outside their place of work?

You don't live in Brixton, how can you police it?
Lived in London all my life.
Where?
Orpington.

I'm paying for your petrol and struggling with the rent.
Do you want me to explain about RunLock or not?

The reason we have RunLock is that it allows officers in the station to find the vehicle parked directly outside the station and identify the location of the incident. That's great i said but when i get home my mobile phone knows to connect to my wifi automatically. That's great he parrotted me but i wish we had that technology, you can make a complaint if you want. No irony.

You have the best trade union, no excuse me you have the only trade union in the country, (interrupted) what! the Federation?
You spent thirty years smashing every trade union and then you had the audacity to bite your political paymasters, you pulled their tail too hard and they turned around and bit you.

My dad was a miner and i don't agree with some of that.
I thought you were going to say My old man's a dustman, at least he laughed.

I don't have time for this i have to go.
Fair enough and thank you i said.
 
thatguyhex said:
For the last three days there have been crickets chirping somewhere behind our flat. Crickets! I've never heard them in London in all my life.

Then, last night at about 3:30AM, there was a bearded, shirtless man playing the banjo on Coldharbour Lane for no obvious reason.

Is this global warming in action???
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I don't know, but I saw a bearded shirtless man with a banjo fast asleep on one of the seats in Windrush Square about midday so something was in action :D
 
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I'm council estate, working class if you want to be polite, i don't give a shit about your manners, you won't invite me to your dinner parties.
Can we put Dexter on a chain?

I have had to apologise to a Tory on anther thread about some fake breach of confidentiality, the presure i was under was unfair.
I did not say anything that was not common knowledge.

I will not prositiute my political beliefs for the sake of friendship.
 
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Working class solidarity?
Not one of you gives a shit if i have any money on Monday.

I took the effort to write an article about you, not one of you knows who i am, not one of you gives a damm.
 
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Well, i woke up this morning and there is no money in the machine. You have insufficient funds to continue living.
It's been a long road to recovery, fifteen years from being sectioned to sanctioned.
When they hang you on hold they make you listen to Vivadli, no irony.

I'm stronger than i have ever been but they have just switched off my life support; i'm not sure i can survive that.
I have every reason to be angry but i'm going to stay very calm.
I need to be very calm.
 
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Dexter Deadwood said:
Well, i woke up this morning and there is no money in the macine. You have insufficient funds to continue living.
It's been a long road to recovery, fifteen years from being sectioned to sanctioned.
When they hang you on hold they make you listen to Vivadli, no irony.

I'm stronger than i have ever been but they have just switched off my life support; i'm not sure i can survive that.
I have every reason to be angry but i'm going to stay very calm.
I need to be very calm.
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Hang on in their fella. Don't let the bastards grind you down!
 
SpamMisery said:
The Melanesian Islanders of the Vanuatu Islands witnessed in the 1940s, often right in front of their dwellings, the largest war ever fought by technologically advanced nations. First, the Japanese and later the Allies.

The vast amounts of military equipment and supplies that both airdropped to troops on these islands meant drastic changes to the lifestyle of the islanders, many of whom had never seen outsiders before. Manufactured clothing, medicine, canned food, tents, weapons and other goods arrived in vast quantities for the soldiers, who often shared some of it with the islanders who were their guides and hosts.

With the end of the war, the military abandoned the airbases and stopped dropping cargo. In response, charismatic individuals developed cults among remote Melanesian populations that promised to bestow on their followers deliveries of food, arms, Jeeps, etc. The cult leaders explained that the cargo would be gifts from their own ancestors, or other sources, as had occurred with the outsider armies. In attempts to get cargo to fall by parachute or land in planes or ships again, islanders imitated the same practices they had seen the soldiers use. Cult behaviors usually involved mimicking the day-to-day activities and dress styles of US soldiers, such as performing parade ground drills with wooden or salvaged rifles. The islanders carved headphones from wood and wore them while sitting in fabricated control towers. They waved the landing signals while standing on the runways. They lit signal fires and torches to light up runways and lighthouses.

In a form of sympathetic magic, many built life-size replicas of aeroplanes out of straw and cut new military-style landing strips out of the jungle, hoping to attract more aeroplanes. The cult members thought that the foreigners had some special connection to the deities and ancestors of the natives, who were the only beings powerful enough to produce such riches.

Cargo cults are typically created by individual leaders and it is not at all clear if these leaders were sincere, or were simply running scams on gullible populations. The leaders typically held cult rituals well away from established towns and colonial authorities, thus making reliable information about these practices very difficult to acquire.

Perhaps the most unusual of these 'cargo cults' is called the Prince Philip Movement of the Kastom people. They worship the Duke as a God. In 2007 the Duke sent them a signed photo. It's not known what they thought about that.

Ok, no more
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Hi. This is a thread for Brixton news, not a place for you to post up unrelated slabs of cut and paste from wikipedia. Stop now please.
 
I do apologise. Down with the Ritzy et al

But did you know that Scooby Doo is short for Scoobert Doo
 
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Although, I can see the point of the picket line breakers because....

The Archbishop of Manila from 1976 to 2005 was called Cardinal Sin

Sorry editor I'm going to bed
 
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editor said:
Some on topic news we can discuss:
Brixton Topcats Summer Camp starts at The Rec this Wednesday
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Did you read David Walsh's article on basketball funding in The Sunday Times about the lack of funding for basketball in the UK on 13/07? It was excellent and about how mainly fairly elitist sport that can win the UK an Olympic medal are well funded whereas a sport like basketball that city kids actually play gets nothing or almost nothing?

I mention it here because he speaks about Brixton and Jimmy Rogers and he said something like: "Few people in sport are heroic but Jimmy Rogers is a hero"

Can't find a free link.
 
Mr Retro said:
Did you read David Walsh's article on basketball funding in The Sunday Times about the lack of funding for basketball in the UK on 13/07? It was excellent and about how mainly fairly elitist sport that can win the UK an Olympic medal are well funded whereas a sport like basketball that city kids actually play gets nothing or almost nothing?

I mention it here because he speaks about Brixton and Jimmy Rogers and he said something like: "Few people in sport are heroic but Jimmy Rogers is a hero"

Can't find a free link.
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I had always considered it a ridiculous sport - until I saw it at the Olympics.
 
Does anyone know where in brixton or herne hill I can get an ID 1 form witnessed?. It has to be a solicitor, barrister, conveyancer or notary public official.
 
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