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Brixton news, rumour and general chat - July 2014

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Monkeygrinder's Organ said:
They're nothing to the ones in Australia. Higher stakes and a lot of places go all night. Lots of pubs have a separate room full of them, and the sports clubs have huge halls of them. Lots of people have big problems with them.
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My father in laws local is a pub, restaurant, bookies and room full of pokies all rolled in to one. It's proper odd when you first go to them.
 
editor said:
Less bars, better libraries: Evelyn Grace Academy students give their opinions to Future Brixton
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Fewer bars surely?

Other local news - Sound it Out are putting on music making workshops for 13-19 year olds in the summer holidays in Myatts Fields Park and Somerleyton Road.

From their website "Sound it Out is a brand new project challenging local young people to write and perform their own original music all in just one week. Bringing together local musicians, volunteers and young people, participants will jam, experiment and perform original music together between 11th-16th August."

Sounds good -more information at http://sounditout.org/sound-it-out-...king-for-young-people-in-brixton-this-summer/
 
Transport for London have released plans for the roads near Oval tube station and the changes to Kennington Park Road heading North towards Elephant look particularly good for cyclists on what can be a tricky junction:

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Full plans and consultation details at https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/betterjunctions/oval
 
se5 said:
Fewer bars surely?
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Technically yes, so I will change the title, although it's a rule that is fading from common usage.
Current usage
The comparative less is used with both count and uncount nouns in most informal discourse environments and in most dialects of English, and in these environments, the word fewer is hardly used at all. Many supermarket checkout line signs, for instance, will read "10 items or less"; others, however, will use fewer in an attempt to conform to the prescription. A British supermarket chain replaced its "10 items or less" notices at checkouts with "up to 10 items" to avoid the issue. It has also been noted that it is less common to favour "At fewest ten items" over "At least ten items" – a potential inconsistency in the "rule", and a study of online usage seems to suggest that the distinction may, in fact, be semantic rather than grammatical. Likewise, it would be very unusual to hear the unidiomatic "I have seen that film at fewest ten times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less
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se5 said:
Transport for London have released plans for the roads near Oval tube station and the changes to Kennington Park Road heading North towards Elephant look particularly good for cyclists on what can be a tricky junction:

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Full plans and consultation details at https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/betterjunctions/oval
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This looks a lot better layout for cyclists. At present to go straight ahead to Elephant and Castle the cycle lane is in the middle of the road and is dangerous to get into imo. Having dedicated cycle lanes on this junction will make it much safer.
 
I just renewed my BIR parking permit. On line. Easily. Without a hitch.
Oh for the days of queueing for ages in the tiny, unventilated shopfront in Stockwell Road; getting to the front and discovering I was missing a credit card bill; or a current insurance certificate; going home and then queueing again; enjoying the arguments between the offhand staff and those aggrieved at having to pay a fine for parking where they shouldn't; and so on. It's just not the same.
 
^^^ terrible sign of gentrification IMHO. If you never suffered in Olive Morris Hse then yr not tru brixton.

The road layout above does indeed look loads better for those going north / or on to Elephant & Castle - but is there any info about what they are going to do about what is the really dangerous bit IMHO, which is the crossing over from top of Brixton Rd, past the church? and even more so in the southerly direction (I think I've seen video of several near collisions there between bikes and lorries all squeezing on to A23 southbound INTO Brixton , just on urban75 ... and have witnessed a fair few IRL as well.)
 
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Manter said:
What's interesting is that if you talk to someone who does it, they don't recognise their own behaviour as batshit. They can tell you (usually at some length) about their knowledge of how the cylinders are put together in each make of machine and so how long it will take before the machine pays out. They have algorithms to help them keep count of where the cycle is as what to nudge, spin etc to manipulate the machine to some magic point when it'll pay out (thus desperate avoidance of breaks- if they go to the loo and some other punter has a quick go, it throws out their magic sequencing and they'll have to start again. its fascinating (and depressing)- they see themselves on the whole as following some sort of scientific method and tend to throw around words like 'probability'. They look down on the regular punter who is just having a bit of a flutter on the horses or a football match or whatever, even though that behaviour seems to me much less compulsive- the race is over, you're done, you go home.
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True but the new machines don't have cylinders; all digital and more features so it's almost a badge of honour to know the machine's rules and its apparent soft touches.
Must admit if I see a Deal or No Deal machine I'm usually tempted to take a punt as Ive had decent success in taking money from Noel Edmonds.
 
trabuquera said:
^^^ terrible sign of gentrification IMHO. If you never suffered in Olive Morris Hse then yr not tru brixton.

The road layout above does indeed look loads better for those going north / or on to Elephant & Castle - but is there any info about what they are going to do about what is the really dangerous bit IMHO, which is the crossing over from top of Brixton Rd, past the church? and even more so in the southerly direction (I think I've seen video of several near collisions there between bikes and lorries all squeezing on to A23 southbound INTO Brixton , just on urban75 ... and have witnessed a fair few IRL as well.)
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Southbound looks good too:

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  • Separate traffic light phases for straight-ahead cyclists and left-turning traffic would remove the need for these cyclists to move across the bus lane and merge with fast-moving traffic to continue southbound on CS7
  • Straight-ahead cyclists would be on a green signal at the same time as straight-ahead traffic, while left-turning traffic is held at a red signal
  • Straight-ahead cyclists would then be held at a red signal while traffic is turning left onto Brixton Road
  • Cyclists turning left onto Brixton Road would bypass the traffic signals
  • The existing short length of southbound bus lane would be removed, and the entry to Brixton Road would be reduced to one lane to create space for the revised junction layout and signals
 
se5 said:
Transport for London have released plans for the roads near Oval tube station and the changes to Kennington Park Road heading North towards Elephant look particularly good for cyclists on what can be a tricky junction:

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Full plans and consultation details at https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/betterjunctions/oval
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I hang a left here so it doesn't affect me, but I see lots of nervous cyclists causing havoc when trying to get into the middle lane when going straight on
 
Not a Vet said:
Ladies loos in the prince regent being renovated
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Went to have a shufty at this tonight, all expectant, only to find one of the cubicles full of a ladder and paint. They hadn't even chosen one of the permanently non-functioning lavs to use as a cupboard. :facepalm:
 
leanderman said:
I might start cycling if this kind of stuff starts happening
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Apart from that junction that way to central London is good. There is bus lane up to Oval along Brixton road and then bus lane through Kennington.

Its also worth checking out the quiet back roads. I use them to avoid Vauxhall. They are signposted as cycle routes. But they are not always that well known. They also take one around bits of London that u would not normally see.

It is even possible to get from Kennington to Brixton road without using the junctions that are planned to be altered. But a bit hard to explain here.

These free TFL cycle maps show the routes.
 
Ms T said:
Someone at work used to write to supermarkets to complain. I think one of them did change their signs as a result! :cool:
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In Tulse Hill station there are metal signs on the way to the platform with a diagram of the stations.

Back in 2008, when I wasn't working and had no kids, I noticed that they had the DLR sign instead of Wimbledon tramlink.

I wrote a long and rambling letter of complaint which, to me, was very funny, detailing a catastrophic journey to City Airport.

They wrote back and sent me £20 worth of Southern Rail vouchers.

Next time I was in I noticed the sign gone and on the way to London Bridge I noticed signs all along the route had been taken down too.
 
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