Brixton news, rumour and general chat - May 2014

[choochi]

Champagne and Fromage has Gil Scott Heron's 'the revolution will not be televised' blasting out of its speakers. Wrong on so many levels.

 

[editor]

They're still cutting someone out of the car which looks like it hit the wall at the Euro Centre

 

[leanderman]

They're still cutting someone out of the car which looks like it hit the wall at the Euro Centre

Car in collision with a stolen motorcyle, whose rider ran off and was caught

 

[trabuquera]

Champagne and Fromage has Gil Scott Heron's 'the revolution will not be televised' blasting out of its speakers. Wrong on so many levels.

I take your point. BUT ... the number of (very heavily) televised revolutions which have in fact taken place since 2007 tell us that Scott Heron wasn't right about everything, even though his heart (and revolutionary spirit) were in the right place.

 

[Greebo]

<snip>any pair of trainers is expensive nowadays. I just bought a pair of snazzy bright green Adidas Duramo 6 because i needed them for my active lifestyle and they were reduced in price to £35. Brixton is bad for footwear had to go to Croydon.

Two words: Silver Shadow

 

[cuppa tee]

Two words: Silver Shadow

 

[Greebo]

PM imminent.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Two words: Silver Shadow

I prefer more colour, i need it snazzy.

 

[editor]

Car in collision with a stolen motorcyle, whose rider ran off and was caught

Really? It looked a nasty crash for the driver. Where was it reported?

 

[Greebo]

I prefer more colour, i need it snazzy.

One pair of trainers, one sachet of kool aid powder (a bastard for staining), done.

 

[Greebo]

Really? It looked a nasty crash for the driver. Where was it reported?

It happened on Effra road, just before the Hootahob junction with Tulse Hill and Water Lane. The bus I was on took a short detour to get past it.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Really? It looked a nasty crash for the driver. Where was it reported?

http://www.london24.com/news/crash_closes_effra_road_in_brixton_1_3610498

 

[leanderman]

Really? It looked a nasty crash for the driver. Where was it reported?

Copper told me.

And someone tweeted me that police were chasing three suspect motorcycles

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Completely missed this; May 7, 2014

(Picture: Twitter/@BrixtonBonbon)

http://www.london24.com/news/transport/lorry_stuck_under_brixton_bridge_blocks_traffic_1_3589929

 

[twistedAM]

I take your point. BUT ... the number of (very heavily) televised revolutions which have in fact taken place since 2007 tell us that Scott Heron wasn't right about everything, even though his heart (and revolutionary spirit) were in the right place.

He was right. Those were US-aided rebellions against dictators.

 

[han]

According to the Guardian, his father was a working class engineer. He grew up near where I did in Sheffield. He wasn't a toff.

Eh? He grew up in Stratford upon Avon and went to my primary school (a state school, btw). He's certainly not working class.
http://www.stratford-herald.com/4377-bridgetown-school-old-boy-goes-global.html

 

[shifting gears]

Champagne and Fromage has Gil Scott Heron's 'the revolution will not be televised' blasting out of its speakers. Wrong on so many levels.

Ugh. He'd be turning in his fucking grave

 

[Rushy]

Rushy allow me to clarify, my point about fell running was in reply to your assertation that
whereas in actual fact it is practised in the Dales and the Lake District which are not exactly the industrial heartland the community aspect came from the popularity of physical contests at agriculural shows.... of course both agricultural and industrial activities are physically tiring so people who had the choice would probably not choose to go for a little jog after work, in fact i think to compare tanking up an almost vertical rocky hillside with trotting round the local park plugged into a n ipod with a sunshade on and a isotonic drink in hand is plain ludicrous.......

Gladly it appears that we have found common ground and agree that running is a sport enjoyed by the working classes (in at least parts of the north). Phew.

I think maybe your description of London runners has come from a chance encounter with leanderman in Brockwell Park. Either that or you have a naughty naughty habit of forcing everything into polar stereotypes.

 

[leanderman]

Gladly it appears that we have found common ground and agree that running is a sport enjoyed by the working classes (in at least parts of the north). Phew.

I think maybe your description of London runners has come from a chance encounter with leanderman in Brockwell Park. Either that or you have a naughty naughty habit of forcing everything into polar stereotypes.

Oh dear - am I such a stereotype?

 

[Rushy]

Oh dear - am I such a stereotype?

Which bit of park jogging, sunshade wearing, ipod listening, isotonic drink sipping type do you object to?

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Taken in 2007, what a difference.

 

[Rushy]

Roof Dog beer launch at The Windmill. Great idea!

http://www.brixtonblog.com/roof-dog-beer-launch-the-windmill-brixton/22640

 

[editor]

'Tis a splendid sunset tonight.

 

[happyshopper]

View attachment 54298Taken in 2007, what a difference.

I miss Kennedy's steak pies. Followed by one of their apricot pies.

 

[buscador]

I miss Kennedy's steak pies. Followed by one of their apricot pies.

I liked their sausages. But they hardly ever had any actual food in that shop. Perhaps that was why the staff were so miserable.

 

[Greebo]

I liked their sausages. But they hardly ever had any actual food in that shop. Perhaps that was why the staff were so miserable.

They did, you just had to get there before people raided the shop during their lunch break. BTW the staff were cheerful enough when I was in there.

 

[peterkro]

I miss Kennedy's steak pies. Followed by one of their apricot pies.

I'm a vege but loved Kennedy's Apricot pies (I never looked too closely at what the ingredients of the pastry was).
They used to be all over SW London,in fact if I remember rightly The Lounge on Atlantic road was a Kennedys,it was Brixton Wholefoods for sometime as well.

 

[buscador]

They did, you just had to get there before people raided the shop during their lunch break. BTW the staff were cheerful enough when I was in there.

That explains it then. I can't imagine it was much fun for them standing around all afternoon in a virtually empty shop. I rather got the impression that the company was really only interested in their wholesale business. The Camberwell branch didn't last a year after Herne Hill closed IIRC.

 

[cuppa tee]

Gladly it appears that we have found common ground and agree that running is a sport enjoyed by the working classes (in at least parts of the north).

we were speaking of the industrial working classes as well you know, if you ever need a new username then can I suggest Chubby Checker if its not already taken

I think maybe your description of London runners has come from a chance encounter with leanderman in Brockwell Park. Either that or you have a naughty naughty habit of forcing everything into polar stereotypes.

my encounters with the jogging fraternity tend to be north of the town centre and we do get incursions from kennington and the more salubrious bits of stockwell which may explain my POV, fwiw it's worth a good friend of mine took up running a few years back after getting an entry to the London marathon, his times have been good enough to get repeat invites, he is a former welder in a railway carriage works and last year ran as escort to the millwall mascot, one thing that deffo boils his piss to refer to his training as "jogging" there is definite distinction between his Alf Tupper styling and the fashion victims one clocks around the embankment battersea park and increasingly in this manor....

 

[leanderman]

deffo boils his piss to refer to his training as "jogging" there is definite distinction between his Alf Tupper styling and the fashion victims one clocks around the embankment battersea park and increasingly in this manor....

I was rocking the Alf Tupper look today in a Man Utd top and Arsenal shorts covered in Reggae Reggae sauce.