Brixton news, rumour and general chat - Sept 2015

[editor]

At least you can afford to go out 5 nights a week.

My nights out are incredibly cheap. Sometimes I don't spend anything at all.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Nanker Phelge and editor chilli powder might keep the tree rats off some of your stuff, but you'll need to reapply it, so buy in bulk.

DONE

 

[leanderman]

My nights out are incredibly cheap. Sometimes I don't spend anything at all.

Maybe that it why they are closing!

 

[Maharani]

DONE

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Looks like a ganja plant to me .

 

[editor]

Maybe that it why they are closing!

Yes, When I elect not to drink my usual nightly tally of 25 pints and 10 chasers, it must hurt the bar, badly.

Me, at the Queens on Tuesday.

 

[Rushy]

I find it rather reassuring that it's still possible to go out any night of the week in Brixton without spending much. Perhaps a guide of some sort would be a good idea?

 

[cuppa tee]

Here's how gentrification and the other shit changes are seeing off a typical Brixton night out for me:

Kaff: closed
Albert: open
Canterbury: closed
Queen's Head: closed
414: closing

2015 is a shit year for Brixton. Unless you're rich.

On a positive note I have found a top unlisted pub close to Brixton but I am keeping schtum about it's whereabouts for now

 

[Maharani]

I find it rather reassuring that it's still possible to go out any night of the week in Brixton without spending much. Perhaps a guide of some sort would be a good idea?

A guide for who?

 

[cuppa tee]

A guide for who?

arriviste hipsters seeking the fabled vibrancy

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Looks like a ganja plant to me .

I wouldn't know of such things.

 

[Maharani]

Fuck em. We don't need more trendies desending on our turf. Tell em Brixton is a shithole and send em back to Shoreditch from whence they came.

 

[cuppa tee]

spending much.

these things are relative........

 

[Rushy]

A guide for who?

People who feel that they can't afford to go out in Brixton. Duh!

 

[Maharani]

People who feel that they can't afford to go out in Brixton. Duh!

Duh to you too.

 

[SpamMisery]

Squire & partners related?

Looks like this now

 

[T & P]

arriviste hipsters seeking the fabled vibrancy

I thought the one thing hipsters had loads of was plenty of money; therefore a guide to how to spend a free/cheap night out in Brixton would be quite pointless and unappealing to them.

 

[cuppa tee]

Looks like this now

it's part of this
BDT
and is mentioned here........
All eyes on Brixton: one of London's fastest-changing districts and a hotspot for new homes

 

[cuppa tee]

I thought the one thing hipsters had loads of was plenty of money; therefore a guide to how to spend a free/cheap night out in Brixton would be quite pointless and unappealing to them.

i think hipsters are not necessarily minted but the yuppies who follow in their wake are.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

i think hipsters are not necessarily minted but the yuppies who follow in their wake are.

No, they're not minted, they're funded by the bank of mum and dad during their 'vanity project' years until they grow a backbone, then use all that knowledge from their nerd years to gain the all important career position that gives them loads of cash to keep the whole horrid hipster wheel spinning endlessly.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

...and somewhere in that cycle they move back to the suburbs

 

[Greebo]

Looks like a ganja plant to me .

Acer (Maple). Probably Japanese maple at that.

Bloody townee - every leaf with five or so fingers looks like the herb to you. I bet you get confused about horse chestnut leaves and tomato plants too.

 

[Mr Retro]

My nights out are incredibly cheap. Sometimes I don't spend anything at all.

That's such a no-no to the Irishman. First lesson you learn "don't go in a pub unless you have the entrance fee".

 

[editor]

That's such a no-no to the Irishman. First lesson you learn "don't go in a pub unless you have the entrance fee".

I've no idea who 'The Irishman' is, but I'm pretty sure he/they would gladly accept free drinks when graciously offered, especially if he/they was on the lower end of the earning scale and perhaps doing other work in kind.

 

[editor]

I heard that Tiny Hair in Atlantic Road has gone with the bailiffs called in today. A&C's opening hours are also very erratic now so the end is nigh there too.

 

[Mr Retro]

I've no idea who 'The Irishman' is, but I'm pretty sure he/they would gladly accept free drinks when graciously offered, especially if he/they was on the lower end of the earning scale and perhaps doing other work in kind.

Any Irishman ever born, who was educated in the way of the pub wouldn't go in one unless he was going to buy a drink. In this case that's 'The Irishman' . I'm being (trying to be) light hearted.

 

[Maharani]

Acer (Maple). Probably Japanese maple at that.

Bloody townee - every leaf with five or so fingers looks like the herb to you. I bet you get confused about horse chestnut leaves and tomato plants too.

I'm actually a country girl at heart. I have 4 acers so know a fair bit about them! I'm a keen gardener I'll have you know.

 

[Maharani]

I heard that Tiny Hair in Atlantic Road has gone with the bailiffs called in today. A&C's opening hours are also very erratic now so the end is nigh there too.

Always a bad sign if they can't manage opening consistently.

 

[Tricky Skills]

Anyone see this?

I thought they were supposed to be polar opposites?

Looks like it is a move to try and stop de-selection. Croydon North CLP endorsed Corbyn. The Progress MP for Croydon North / Lambeth South would have been one of the first up in front of the de-selection wall if he had carried on with his right wing agenda from the back benches.

Quite a clever move.

 

[Greebo]

I'm actually a country girl at heart. I have 4 acers so know a fair bit about them! I'm a keen gardener I'll have you know.

Then you'll know that not all acers have the Canadian flag type of maple leaf shape. Google image search for acer leaf
acer leaf - Google Search
Google image search for hemp leaf
hemp leaf - Google Search

 

[Tricky Skills]

Plus there's a decent piece from Inside Croydon on the Progress MP's sudden new found left wing radicalism.