Brixton news, rumour and general chat - June 2014

[SarfLondoner]

If that was now you could have made a bit of pocket money by selling your bands to aspirational Maxi scooter pilots..........

Nah,In hindsight as a young pioneer i should have invented a clamp and pay and display parking bays for posh scooters.

 

[editor]

Scooters to 1890s horse drawn buses in a handful of posts. Top stuff!

The least flashmobby thing to flashmob is coming to Brixton tomorrow:
Healthwatch Lambeth ‘flash mob’ heading for Windrush Square on 26th June

 

[cuppa tee]

The kids who go down my road all have rubber bands on their scooters. They come from high trees or tulse hill estates as well as the million pound houses. I think rubber bands is just a kid thing, not a class thing.

thank you, but the guy i mentioned back in post 969 admitted to us that he had bought his kid bags of multicoloured bands because he didnt want them to lag behind so there is a class element

 

[Manter]

thank you, but the guy i mentioned back in post 969 admitted to us that he had bought his kid bags of multicoloured bands because he didnt want them to lag behind so there is a class element

Or a crass consumerist element.

 

[Onket]

LOL. Great stuff, urban.

 

[Crispy]

LOL. Great stuff, urban.

I can't believe I posted the price of kids scooters, TWICE.

 

[Manter]

I can't believe I posted the price of kids scooters, TWICE.

I saw a guy going into Goldman's on a scooter this morning. I mentioned something about it in the office (on the lines of ha ha) and was told it's a thing. Stunt scooters for adults- £200 and up.

 

[Rushy]

I can't believe I posted the price of kids scooters, TWICE.

And still failed to prove that scooters are not exclusive.

 

[Boudicca]

I saw a guy going into Goldman's on a scooter this morning. I mentioned something about it in the office (on the lines of ha ha) and was told it's a thing. Stunt scooters for adults- £200 and up.

Come on, it's quite tempting where we live. Cruise all the way down the hill into Brixton, tuck the scooter under your arm and get the bus back.

 

[el-ahrairah]

The kids who go down my road all have rubber bands on their scooters. They come from high trees or tulse hill estates as well as the million pound houses. I think rubber bands is just a kid thing, not a class thing.

this happens everywhere i think. i've seen it in lincolnshire too.

 

[Winot]

this happens everywhere i think. i've seen it in lincolnshire too.

Definitely not a middle class thing then.

 

[el-ahrairah]

nope, it's a kid thing as far as i can tell.

 

[clandestino]

http://www.tesco.com/direct/evo-move-n-groove-scooter-bluered/213-1941.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=213-1941&sc_cmp=pcp_GSF_Outdoor Sports_213-1941kpid=213-1941&sc_cmp=ppc_g__&gclid=CIrA06HelL8CFfMgtAodKUAAEQ

Haha! They're nowhere near as sturdy as the micro ones. You can get cheap scooters, but the most common ones - and therefore the one your child wants obviously - is £100 a throw.

 

[Crispy]

Haha! They're nowhere near as sturdy as the micro ones. You can get cheap scooters, but the most common ones - and therefore the one your child wants obviously - is £100 a throw.

All the kids I see round here have the cheap plastic Tesco ones

(WHY? WHY?!?!)

 

[clandestino]

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1391622.htm#pdpFullProductInformation
£13.99
Max weight 50kg

About the price of two packets of ciggies.

Yes, but they don't have a fixed handlebar so harder for some kids to ride - and impossible if you're scootering while holding hands with a parent on the way to school. We picked up one of those from a charity shop and it didn't last long.

 

[clandestino]

All the kids I see round here have the cheap plastic Tesco ones

(WHY? WHY?!?!)

Different age range? They're fine for littler kids - in fact we had one to start with that was similar - but once they get to school age the kids have outgrown them.

 

[Onket]

Littler?

 

[clandestino]

Littler?

Yep. And it's not even an Americanism.

 

[teuchter]

Recommendations for good dry cleaners in central Brixton?

I've never taken anything to a dry cleaners before

 

[Onket]

Yep. And it's not even an Americanism.

Just a wrongism?

 

[Onket]

Recommendations for good dry cleaners in central Brixton?

I've never taken anything to a dry cleaners before

I use the one on Acre Lane a couple of doors up from McDonalds. No problems or issues to report.

 

[clandestino]

Just a wrongism?

It's in the dictionary, so no.

 

[clandestino]

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/littler

 

[Onket]

It's in the dictionary, so no.

Jesus wept.

 

[clandestino]

 

[Onket]

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/littler

Example Sentences Including 'littler'
A throwback to the handsome heroes of my youth, those football stars who'd passed me by for prettier, littler girls.
Friday, Nancy Jealousy
And when the littler kids clear out, the teenagers slip in for a bit of illicit love beneath the stars.
Bringle, Mary Death of an Unknown Man
Bradman stood 5 ft 7 inches in his socks; Tendulkar is littler still.
India Today (1998)
Francie dished up for me, and a littler mound for Betty who prattled all during dinner, telling Dan and Francie how well I'd done.
Gash, Jonathan The Tartan Ringers
His early work showed littler flair or talent, and it was only by stubbornly developing new, unconven-tional styles that he came into bloom.
Times, Sunday Times (2002)
They ceased their hullabaloo, and the littler of the two, catching sight of the thing in the shadows, began to shriek.
Clive Barker EVERVILLE (2001)
We've been digging deep but this time I think we'll dig a littler deeper and pull one out.
Misc (1995)

Those examples say it all, tbf.

 

[Manter]

This is making my brain hurt.

There are different types of scooters. Some are more expensive than others. Some are better and longer lasting than others.

So surely, as Crispy stated, scooters are pan class? Just like so many other consumer products available at varying price points and with differing qualities and characteristics. Like shoes, and saucepans, and pillows, and pens, and clocks, and cheese.

Or are these all exclusive too

 

[Badgers]

I fancy a 49cc petrol scooter for nipping from A to B
http://www.petrolscooter.co.uk/petrolscooter-powerped-blue-49cc.html

 

[uk benzo]

I've seen local kids wearing 60 pound trainers... A lot more expensive than my kid's scooter.

 

[Winot]

This is making my brain hurt.

There are different types of scooters. Some are more expensive than others. Some are better and longer lasting than others.

So surely, as Crispy stated, scooters are pan class? Just like so many other consumer products available at varying price points and with differing qualities and characteristics. Like shoes, and saucepans, and pillows, and pens, and clocks, and cheese.

Or are these all exclusive too

I think the point is that they are not cheap because some are expensive. Or something. A bit like chips (as in "cheap as").