Brixton news, rumour and general chat - October 2016
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For the record I don't give a shit about beard counts but I do care what's happening to my town and what is driving a lot of the negative changes is trendy new expensive bars, so I can't see any problem in discussing them here.
Sorry - if I knew a mechanic or someone in a garage I'd ask...I think most people here would.
Maybe start a thread on it instead of using one that is designed for idle chitter chatter. I think the title alone would elicit a different response.
"Sanctimonious ballsacks" should have been left in your edited post mind
Gramsci
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Did you read my previous post?
Here is it for you again:
I can moan about the next cocktail bar and I can also help refugees.
I have done voluntary work for CalAid in the past.
But I don't make a big thing about it.
If anyone is point scoring on this thread its you. No one was having a go at you personally. In the last few pages you have abused a whole section of people who post here regularly. If a poster was ridiculing your original post here I could understand you having a go back. But no one did that. In fact posters came back with some suggestions. All you did was still have a go at them. Its just nasty and abusive.
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Gramsci
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Thanks for clarifying.
I did hear rumours that the Council are in long term thinking of selling off some of the adventure playground sites. But LJ is the only one they have come out and made it clear that is there plan.
Gramsci
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Interesting read. Its always surprising how Capitalism works. The company may be loaded up with debt but the owners are likely to be able to walk away from it as still wealthy men if it all goes wrong.
Despite the economic crisis there is still a lot of really wealthy people out there who need a "Butlins for Toffs". The little people might be struggling but not the really wealthy. I can see the rationale behind the business model. Soho houses across the world so the elite can swan around the world knowing they have a select club to stay in. With a line of bars and restaurants to widen the portfolio out.
Though not clever of him to kick out the bankers from the club in New York for not being "creative" enough.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Personally I would be quite happy if Soho House went bust. But I'm sure they will find it easy to refinance this 9.5% bonds at 2.5% or whatever.
That is how capitalism works. So the question of whether Soho House is bust depends on their actual revenue IMHO, not their legacy debt.
DON'T GO THERE!
The irony is that most of the people that are members are not rich. They tend to get junior memberships via their 'cool creative' employer who pays them pennies. Then when the membership price increases at age 30 they are socially/emotionally tied in to the fact that their mates think they're cool for having a membership so they keep it. I almost got one then realised that I didn't want to spend a load of money each month on a membership that I would feel obliged to use and thus spend more money at their bar and restaurants (which serve poor food). That said, I have no problem with them opening restaurants and bars that don't require membership. I'm glad for the competition.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
One of my favourite Lib Dem ex-councillors was Tweeting about Soho House opening a much-needed coffee bar in Bath (sarcastically I should clarify).
In view of this and the above comment from Gramsci and djdando I googled their site but could only come up with this amazing establishment. I wonder if Pratt-face Rees_Mogg is a member? Soho House | Babington House
In view of this and the above comment from Gramsci and djdando I googled their site but could only come up with this amazing establishment. I wonder if Pratt-face Rees_Mogg is a member? Soho House | Babington House
Peanut Monkey
Flea-Bit of CHL.
I left Brixton six months ago but I'm assuming that these two are still going strong (hopefully)...
I used to get my car done by Carl, who runs Exec Motors. They're at Arch 243 Cambria Road, right by the railway bridge. 020 7737 4779. He often had young lads working for him, so maybe he takes people on as work experience.
I also knew Rob who runs Brixton Motorbikes quite well, so could be worth going in there if bikes is his thing. They're in the railway arches on Coldharbour Lane, just by the junction with Barrington Rd. He's a good guy and like Carl seemed to have a few people in there who were learning their trade. If you do pop in tell him Jon who lived on CHL says hello.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
That's where we go to have our car serviced. The chap there is a one-man band (used to run it with his father or father-in-law). He's very nice so probably worth asking.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Thank God for trade marks!
PS is Jacob Rees-Mogg the sort of person one would meet in the Somerset Soho House (i.e. Babington House) do you think? I see "every house" membership costs £1,600. Jacob might think that a bit cheap with his background.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
My last YEAR's audited income was just over £5,000.
Do you think they would welcome me in?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The rumours are based on what the council tried to do with the One O'Clock clubs a couple of years ago, where they forced some to close and/or amalgamate with other clubs. This was done in order to save money, and indeed to use the vacant sites to generate money. While those adventure playground sites that are in parks can't, AFAIK, be sold, because they have a separate use to the rest of the park space, they are at risk of being turned into "pay-for-admittance" enterprises like Battersea Park's adventure playground, or to a change of use within the same category. As for the adventure playgrounds on non-park land/"waste" land, I suspect that they'll eventually be fucked. I've already heard consistent rumours over the last 3 years about the Tulse Hill adventure playground being run down, and that a certain estate agent that isn't Savills, but is even more hated, has been making enquiries as to how much the council might want for the land - it's enough to put a small "exclusive" block of 24-36 flats on.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Suits need to be reclaimed. Only suits think that all it takes not to be a suit is not to wear a suit.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
At one time anybody could easily get suited in Brixton Burton's.
Now it's just mobile phones.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I should think the residents at Connaught Mansions will be highly delighted. Recapturing their Edwardian glory and all that.
cuppa tee
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Suits banned at Soho House ?.........this just shows how wanky and pretentious their branding is, one of the dons of Soho, some would say an icon, and a creative in the truest sense, is Mr Mark Powell the tailor and he is rarely if ever seen around the manor without a nice whistle.................
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
There was some wanky bar in Soho in the '90s ('Riki Tik') that fancied itself as a bit of a 'boho' joint, and they banned suits, too. Which infamously led to them refusing entrance to Quentin Tarantino.
The thing about suits is they can be this.
Or this.
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Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
Ya. They have a "casual dress code"
I believe it was brought in after the shoreditch branch opened to keep the city boys out. Open for correction on the reason but the whistle is definitely banned.
bimble
floofy
The man 2nd from the right - what is going on with that pocket ?There was some wanky bar in Soho in the '90s ('Riki Tik') that fancied itself as a bit of a 'boho' joint, and they banned suits, too. Which infamously led to them refusing entrance to Quentin Tarantino.
The thing about suits is they can be this.
Or this.
Those aren't really suits they're zoots. But more of this sort of thing is definitely needed.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
The man 2nd from the right - what is going on with that pocket ?
Just to let you know, Minton's was the legendary jazz club in New York of the '40s and '50s. I used to be a bit of a jazz nerd, but I can't give you more detail on the pic. The guy on the left smoking is, I think, the pianist Thelonius Monk. Sorry I can't help you with Pocket Man.
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
The chap 2nd from the left was clearly the inspiration for Simon Cowell's high trousered look!The man 2nd from the right - what is going on with that pocket ?
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
Comparing someone connected with Minton's to Simon destroyer-of-all-things-good Cowell might be a dangerous game if the purist jazz community are around. Don't be a square, daddy-o!
cuppa tee
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that was the gaff run by the bloke who later had the half moon in herne hill at the time of the flood iirc
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