Brixton news, rumour and general chat - May 2014

[boohoo]

How many cocktail bars are need? If I want local cocktails, I go to cafe cairo on Landor Road.

 

[SarfLondoner]

What a steaming heap of untreated sewage!

One factual point: the police "once dubbed" the covered market a "24 hour drug supermarket", did they? Would that be the covered market that, until very recently, was closed at night? Research fail.

It is poorly written and looks like the research was taken from online snippets, I like the bit"Home to rasta's and vegetarians"

 

[isvicthere?]

It is poorly written and looks like the research was taken from online snippets, I like the bit"Home to rasta's and vegetarians"

The "writer" is German, according to this:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/katrin_bennhold/index.html

Maybe she just wants Lebensraum for hipsters in Brixton.

(Cheap shot, but I couldn't resist).

 

[SarfLondoner]

What a steaming heap of untreated sewage!

One factual point: the police "once dubbed" the covered market a "24 hour drug supermarket", did they? Would that be the covered market that, until very recently, was closed at night? Research fail.

They forgot to mention that the indoor market and bars are now full of coked up people.

 

[teuchter]

The "writer" is German, according to this:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/katrin_bennhold/index.html

Maybe she just wants Lebensraum for hipsters in Brixton.

(Cheap shot, but I couldn't resist).

I'd say straight up offensive rather than "cheap shot".

 

[isvicthere?]

I'd say straight up offensive rather than "cheap shot".

Jolly good.

ETA: is this you "trolling" the Brixton forum again?

 

[Black Halo]

She said that robberies and burglaries in the area are rising

The police disagree, residential burglary is down for the year ending March 2014 compared to the year ending March 2013 both for Lambeth and the Met as a whole. OK to be fair 70 less in a total around 2,500 is just a statistical blip but it's also not a rise.

Jaysus the Met's crime statistics go all the way down to sub-wards, you can start with Lambeth and get down to basically your street!

 

[boohoo]

Jolly good.

i think I'd agree with the offensive too. It's alright to make digs at Germans?

 

[isvicthere?]

i think I'd agree with the offensive too. It's alright to make digs at Germans?

What, like the well-known football chant "Two World Wars and one World Cup"? No, no-one would ever do that!

 

[boohoo]

What, like the well-known football chant "Two World Wars and one World Cup"? No, no-one would ever do that!

Doesn't mean its right though?

 

[teuchter]

Jolly good.

ETA: is this you "trolling" the Brixton forum again?

No, it's me saying it's unfunny, unpleasant and offensive.

 

[classicdish]

One factual point: the police "once dubbed" the covered market a "24 hour drug supermarket", did they? Would that be the covered market that, until very recently, was closed at night? Research fail.

The actual quote is probably this one:

"The centre of Brixton is a 24-hour crack supermarket." here: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/jun/23/drugsandalcohol.drugs

 

[isvicthere?]

The actual quote is probably this one:

"The centre of Brixton is a 24-hour crack supermarket." here: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/jun/23/drugsandalcohol.drugs

So, not Brixton Market Row ("Brixton Village") then?

 

[isvicthere?]

Boohoo and Teuchter, Germany's unfortunate recent history has been a rich seam of crap comedy for decades (among other places on these boards). Apologies if your sensitivities can't accommodate this: ich bitte wirklich um Verzeihung.

 

[boohoo]

Boohoo and Teuchter, Germany's unfortunate recent history has been a rich seam of crap comedy for decades (among other places on these boards). Apologies if your sensitivities can't accommodate this: ich bitte wirklich um Verzeihung.

It has. Should it be continued? Are the Germans fair game?

 

[teuchter]

As boohoo says, precedent isn't a justification (and neither is what football crowds decide to be ok) but also - mocking nazis is one thing, but joking that a german journalist is motivated by a desire to displace inferior races is something else.

It's more than just tiresome if you're a german in the uk and the first thing that pops into people's heads when you introduce yourself is "nazis lol" especially if they feel the need to vocalise it.

 

[sparkybird]

The police disagree, residential burglary is down for the year ending March 2014 compared to the year ending March 2013 both for Lambeth and the Met as a whole. OK to be fair 70 less in a total around 2,500 is just a statistical blip but it's also not a rise.

Jaysus the Met's crime statistics go all the way down to sub-wards, you can start with Lambeth and get down to basically your street!

Interesting link Black Halo - thanks

What's odd is that antisocial behaviour (which is by far the most visible crime to me) and the second highest stat in my ward does not appear on the individual sub-wards at all? Maybe they only collect the data for the whole ward???? Or does it not count?
I see a lot of open drug dealing early doors - I really need to report it more

 

[isvicthere?]

Boohoo and Teuchter: ihr versteht kein Deutsch? Schade! Ich war schön höflich.

 

[isvicthere?]

As boohoo says, precedent isn't a justification (and neither is what football crowds decide to be ok) but also - mocking nazis is one thing, but joking that a german journalist is motivated by a desire to displace inferior races is something else.

It's more than just tiresome if you're a german in the uk and the first thing that pops into people's heads when you introduce yourself is "nazis lol" especially if they feel the need to vocalise it.

See above.

 

[isvicthere?]

It has. Should it be continued? Are the Germans fair game?

Ditto.

 

[Belushi]

It's more than just tiresome if you're a german in the uk and the first thing that pops into people's heads when you introduce yourself is "nazis lol" especially if they feel the need to vocalise it.

It's also cringeworthy, 70 years on and Brits still doing jokes about the war.

 

[leanderman]

How many cocktail bars are need? If I want local cocktails, I go to cafe cairo on Landor Road.

Will close if not needed.

 

[editor]

Will close if not needed.

Doesn't really work that way though, does it?

 

[boohoo]

Will close if not needed.

But the more Brixton becomes a destination spot, the more these places will pop up and be used and not disappear - look at Clapham high road.

 

[isvicthere?]

But the more Brixton becomes a destination spot, the more these places will pop up and be used and not disappear - look at Clapham high road.

Clapham High Road? Not sure where that is.

 

[boohoo]

Clapham High Road? Not sure where that is.

street, road - you know what I mean...

 

[isvicthere?]

It's also cringeworthy, 70 years on and Brits still doing jokes about the war.

Dur hast wirklich keine Ahnung, Bub.

 

[leanderman]

But the more Brixton becomes a destination spot, the more these places will pop up and be used and not disappear - look at Clapham high road.

This is not to be desired

 

[leanderman]

Doesn't really work that way though, does it?

generally it does. although need is not a word i usually apply to cocktails

 

[teuchter]

Boohoo and Teuchter: ihr versteht kein Deutsch? Schade! Ich war schön höflich.

Ich habe ganz gut verstanden.

But your bid for forgiveness followed an implication that our sensitivities were overly delicate.