Brixton news, rumours and general chat - December 2012

[Winot]

I've been canvassed already!

Us too, but only by UKIP.

Mrs Winot started on them, but they ran away.

 

[ajdown]

I've had Labour round several times leaving leaflets and saying they really want to talk to me, so far I've ignored it as I have no intention of voting for them anyway. I've had some crap from the Green Party through the door too, which I did the right thing with and recycled it. Some minor leftie socialist something or another party left me a leaflet too but I can ignore them. Otherwise it's been thankfully quiet so far with election rubbish.

It's a pity that election stuff seems to be exempt from "don't put any junk mail through my letterbox" signs.

 

[TruXta]

I've had Labour round several times leaving leaflets and saying they really want to talk to me, so far I've ignored it as I have no intention of voting for them anyway. I've had some crap from the Green Party through the door too, which I did the right thing with and recycled it. Some minor leftie socialist something or another party left me a leaflet too but I can ignore them. Otherwise it's been thankfully quiet so far with election rubbish.

It's a pity that election stuff seems to be exempt from "don't put any junk mail through my letterbox" signs.

You're not gonna vote for that Tory cunt are you? Got one of his leaflets through the door, thinly veiled dog-whistle politics all over.

 

[Manter]

I've had Labour round several times leaving leaflets and saying they really want to talk to me, so far I've ignored it as I have no intention of voting for them anyway. I've had some crap from the Green Party through the door too, which I did the right thing with and recycled it. Some minor leftie socialist something or another party left me a leaflet too but I can ignore them. Otherwise it's been thankfully quiet so far with election rubbish.

It's a pity that election stuff seems to be exempt from "don't put any junk mail through my letterbox" signs.

noone has ever paid any attention to my no junk mail sign. Political gumpf would be a nice change from the evangelical stuff I get lots of

 

[ajdown]

You're not gonna vote for that Tory cunt are you? Got one of his leaflets through the door, thinly veiled dog-whistle politics all over.

To be perfectly honest none of the parties have said or done anything to attract my vote. Not seen a Conservative leaflet as yet.

I'd vote Monster Raving Loony if only we had a candidate... who knows, maybe there will.

 

[simonSW2]

Just spoke to the builders working on the old Footlocker. There's going to be an O2 phone shop there, next to the 3 store they just put in the other half of Footlocker, which is next to the Carphone warehouse, which is next to Vodaphone.

Diverse uniformity.

 

[tarannau]

On the plus side it doesn't quite match the horror of the 'Street of Estate Agents' in Fulham.

 

[Badgers]

UKIP Brixton Hill (@UKIPbrixtonHill) tweeted at 10:23pm - 17 Dec 12:

VOTE UKIP - VOTE ELIZABETH JONES in #BrixtonHill

(https://twitter.com/UKIPbrixtonHill/status/280800344882167808)

http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...ho-called-compulsory-abortion-disabled-people

 

[editor]

Starbucks sneakily extending their branding...

More: http://www.urban75.org/blog/tax-shirking-starbucks-extend-their-branding-onto-brixton-flower-stall/

 

[simonSW2]

Here's a picture of Elizabeth Jones, UKIP council candidate for Brixton Hill, cradling a framed photo of her idol:

How Sweet....

And..

"UKIP London Assembly candidate Elizabeth Jones stood up to question a speech Ken Livingstone made last month at a North London mosque, and his opinion of the prophet Muhammad."
http://www.outmag.co.uk/site/index....t-mayoral-debate&catid=19:main-news&Itemid=39

How Charming....

 

[shifting gears]

Starbucks sneakily extending their branding...

More: http://www.urban75.org/blog/tax-shirking-starbucks-extend-their-branding-onto-brixton-flower-stall/

Absolute motherfuckers. If anyone posting on this thread hasn't boycotted Starbucks then can I just say 'fuck you', as it's the least you could do. The most you could do, burning it down, I wouldn't want to encourage.
Naturally.

 

[Ms T]

Just spoke to the builders working on the old Footlocker. There's going to be an O2 phone shop there, next to the 3 store they just put in the other half of Footlocker, which is next to the Carphone warehouse, which is next to Vodaphone.

Diverse uniformity.

 

[leanderman]

Vile coffee, vile company

 

[Orang Utan]

Absolute motherfuckers. If anyone posting on this thread hasn't boycotted Starbucks then can I just say 'fuck you', as it's the least you could do. The most you could do, burning it down, I wouldn't want to encourage.
Naturally.

What about ordering a coffee, getting it, seeming to purposefully join the paying queue, then leaving without paying?

 

[colacubes]

What about ordering a coffee, getting it, seeming to purposefully join the paying queue, then leaving without paying?

I think you usually pay before you get the coffee in Starbucks and similar.

 

[Orang Utan]

you'd think so, wouldn't you? That would make sense.

 

[RaverDrew]

I had a starbucks coffee for the first time in my life this weekend, it was very very disappointing.

I still drank it though, after it had been mixed with a third of a big bottle of Smirnoff.

 

[colacubes]

I had a starbucks coffee for the first time in my life this weekend, it was very very disappointing.

I still drank it though, after it had been mixed with a third of a big bottle of Smirnoff.

WTF

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I hope that the flowerstall have got a good deal out of them for that advert tarp. They lost their caff (bloody brilliant caff too, a family favourite) when the whole tube refurb happened and they were told they could return which was reneged on.

 

[RaverDrew]

WTF

I hold @r0bb0 fully responsible

 

[Manter]

I've just seen badlands Romeo for the first time in weeks! I thought dad-in-a-dress had murdered him....

 

[colacubes]

I hold @r0bb0 fully responsible

It's just as well their coffee has no caffeine in it otherwise I would have feared for you and Brixton

 

[TruXta]

I had a starbucks coffee for the first time in my life this weekend, it was very very disappointing.

I still drank it though, after it had been mixed with a third of a big bottle of Smirnoff.

Good lad, you'd like mid-Norway. This is how you make a karsk, the drink of choice for the real man: get a mug and put a brown coin in it. add booze liberally. now add coffe until you can clearly see the coin again. enjoy.

 

[RaverDrew]

That certainly sounds like my kind of breakfast

 

[Orang Utan]

It's just as well their coffee has no caffeine in it otherwise I would have feared for you and Brixton

What? Is Starbucks all decaf?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I hope that the flowerstall have got a good deal out of them for that advert tarp. They lost their caff (bloody brilliant caff too, a family favourite) when the whole tube refurb happened and they were told they could return which was reneged on.

The cafe in Station Arcade? Was that theirs?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Yes. At one time it was the only place in Brixton where you could get a decent cup of coffee.

 

[r0bb0]

That certainly sounds like my kind of breakfast

if it was sold in one of those swanky cafes in brixton village we could have headed that aways

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yes. At one time it was the only place in Brixton where you could get a decent cup of coffee.

I remember going in there. I remember the formica tables. I think they were orange. They may have been yellow. They may have been neither colour

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

My newish neighbours have some pretty bad taste in music and can't really sing despite the likelihood large amounts of alcohol, I hope the other neighbours don't have a kids or need to get up early for work