ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
To be fair to SpamMisery, the increased demand isn't so much an artefact of closures, as of eBay and Amazon Marketplace - something like an extra 10-12 million packets per year over 2005, and rising.
Brixton news, rumour and general chat - Sept 2015
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To be fair to SpamMisery, the increased demand isn't so much an artefact of closures, as of eBay and Amazon Marketplace - something like an extra 10-12 million packets per year over 2005, and rising.
Manter
Lunch Mob
We must have just missed each otherI know, but it's very hard to support that branch when the opening hours are so very random at times. The last few months, I've ended up going to Tulse Hill instead if it was shut and I couldn't spare the time to wait for it to open. When it's open, it's great.
It was open when I went around noon today (I've long since given up going there first thing as it's often meant waiting around and fuming if it opens late) and the thinner older bloke was in there - haven't seen him in there for several months...
We really must stop not meeting like this - people will talk.We must have just missed each other
I think its likely that Haart have done a deal with the organisers of the Myatts South summer festival (probably Lambeth Living) to promote the event/ themselves - if its like other events I know of the organisers get something like £15-20 for each branded board that is put up, how quickly the board will be taken down by Haart after the event is a different matter...
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
You should see the "Let & Managed by Petermans" signs all over Herne Hill and Denmark Hill. Fucking eyesore. They stay up for years.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
OvalhouseDB
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It drives me POTTY! If it opened when it should (advertised hours) I could use the post office regularly as it is on my way to work. As it is I just can't use a post office during the week. So I get presents sent direct from online suppliers to the recipient (usually by courier), send Moonpig e mail cards etc - all of which loses custom and business for the post office and Royal Mail. I was sympathetic to the original family crisis (I believe there was a bereavement at some stage too?) but when so many post offices are being closed amidst much dismay from workers and customers alike I am finding a year's worth of not being open til gone 10am pretty damn bad!
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Regularly do that, but the latest clear-up left me with a £250 bill for alleged damage to a front wall holding a redundant sign.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
...as long as they are not sponsoring your street party?
Same as - particularly on the Tuesdays when my Oyster's run out of credit, and I can't top it up until I've been to a post office - it's an extra hour out of an already busy day to wait around, give up waiting and walk to the next nearest.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Not while sponsoring obviously! Occupiers give consent
The law says boards must be removed within 14 days of a contract being signed.
I can't imagine this ever happens.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Boots in Brixton no longer sells soluble paracetamol. Soluble paracetamol with caffeine or paracetamol with Codeine, Soluble Asprin (didn't know you could still get that) but not just cheap soluble paracetamol. Weird.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Solpadeine?
Solpadeine Headache, a combination of paracetamol and caffeine
Solpadeine Plus, a compound analgesic containing paracetamol and codeine (Co-codamol), with caffeine
Solpadeine Max, a compound analgesic containing paracetamol and codeine (Co-codamol), with a higher codeine content than Solpadeine Plus
Solpadeine Migraine, a compound analgesic containing ibuprofen and codeine
Try Superdrug or your nearest small chemist? Sometimes they can order something in if it's not on the shelves.
Edited to add: I tell whoever's selling the painkiller to me that I sometimes take it for pain which has woken me up, so caffeine would be a Really Bad Idea.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I love Max.
discobastard
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It's a real shame that happened, because it looks like it was advertising a really nice community event this weekend - I hope it doesn't mean that fewer people get to enjoy it as a result.
Vassall View: everything about Vassall Ward in Lambeth: Myatt's Field South Festival in September
Although I think I have solved the riddle of why it was attached to that council sign - it'e because it's an event that is jointly organised by the council and Haart.
If only somebody had been close by that could have popped it back up.
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hiraethified
So you think it's OK for estate agents to nail up their adverts wherever they like, just so long as they happen to include a mention of a nearby event?
Estate agents have a long history of sticking up their ugly and sometimes dangerous advertising boards where they shouldn't. Fuck them.
discobastard
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I don't think anything of the sort, I'm just saying what I said above. Don't try and twist my words.
I think it's a shame the wind blew the sign what appears to be quite some distance over to the bins, as fewer people will see information about the community Summer Festival featuring face painting for kids and a free bicycle workshop.
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hiraethified
All people would see from the road/pavement is an advert for Haart, what with that being by far the biggest text on the sign.
I hope all their shitty adverts get blown into bins.
PS There's no mention of "face painting for kids and a free bicycle workshop" on that sign by virtue of most of the space being taken up by the words Haart and all their contact details.
discobastard
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Oh I don't think that's an issue - it happens at most of those kind of events, people would assume that kind of thing - if they'd seen it.
And whatever the size of the lettering, I suspect more people would attend the Summer Festival as a result than go and buy/sell a house.
So.. just a shame that fewer people might get to attend a community event as a result. Like I said.
Bloody wind! **shakes fist**
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
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hiraethified
Nope. It won't make any difference at all because it was too far away from the road, but what is far more likely to make a difference is doing something practical like starting a thread here about the event.
But you'd rather spend your energies arguing the toss here and trying to score points than actually do anything positive like that, eh?
Sigh.
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