Brixton news, rumours and general chat - March 2013

[editor]

Can anyone remember the five black guys that used to dress up as mediaeval leather-clad heavy metal fans and stand outside KFC pumping out an endless torrent of homophobic and race hate? They were something special.

 

[TruXta]

Can anyone remember the five black guys that used to dress up as mediaeval leather-clad heavy metal fans and stand outside KFC pumping out an endless torrent of homophobic and race hate? They were something special.

It was just the ketamine, man.

 

[Badgers]

Lot of blue flashing lights down and around Loughborough Rd

 

[editor]

It was just the ketamine, man.

I wish that made sense.

 

[TruXta]

I wish that made sense.

Me too. I don't remember heavy metal-ite black supremacists, I do remember lots of black supremacists in general along that stretch.

 

[kittyP]

Its the gyus with the board saying that Jesus was a black man, which could be technically correct (if he were to have existed), as in he almost definitely did not have blue eyes and blond hair like in the paintings but he was unlikely to be Nigerian looking like in their pictures.

 

[TruXta]

Its the gyus with the board saying that Jesus was a black man, which could be technically correct (if he were to have existed), as in he almost definitely did not have blue eyes and blond hair like in the paintings but he was unlikely to be Nigerian looking like in their pictures.

I've come across them yea. Been tempted a couple times to get stuck into a discussion, but I've chickened out.

 

[editor]

Me too. I don't remember heavy metal-ite black supremacists, I do remember lots of black supremacists in general along that stretch.

They were quite notorious. They had their own little stage and everything. Let me search the boards for some background.

 

[TruXta]

They were quite notorious. They had their own little stage and everything. Let me search the boards for some background.

I think I last saw them at Oxford Circus a couple months ago. Poor bastards.

 

[editor]

See? I didn't make them up!

I was thinking about those guys only yesterday, reminded by the thread about Brixton evangelist Philip Howard. They were a weird bunch; iirc, they had a little wooden platform they'd stand on and they wore leather tunics and brass bracelets and looked like extras from Xena (only Xena hadn't happened yet).

 

[el-ahrairah]

I suspect I'd go insane there.

you're barely sane here

 

[quimcunx]

There was a cash van and a police car parked up outside Natwest with tape around them both and a bin in the street to provide a forth pillar for the tape to go round about 2.30 today. I didn't see any police around though. Maybe they were in the car having a sit down.

 

[TruXta]

See? I didn't make them up!

I wish I'd seen that

 

[colacubes]

There's loads of individual evangelists with a homophobic tinge in the centre of Brixton. There was one about 5 years ago who used to preach in the centre of the market on a Saturday who was a eurosceptic homophobe. My neighbour at the time who was a gay bloke who worked for the European Parliament used to find him particularly funny

 

[Badgers]

Will Self on Costa Coffee

This is why the Costa branch described at the capital of this column seemed so delusory to me in its ornament; sited on Brixton High Street, it’s easily the spivviest one I’ve ever supped in. And what’s that about? Brixton is undergoing a phase of retail gentrification, with trestle tables piled high with ackee and pigs’ feet ceding ground to young lifestyle peddlers with asymmetric haircuts. You don’t need to be paranoid to see the invasion of this body-snatching coffee shop as the advance guard of a surgical strike on the area’s authentic personality – a lukewarmotomy, if you will. I make no apology for this execrable pun – after all, that’s the Costa of living nowadays.

 

[quimcunx]

I'm in one of his books, you know. sort of.

 

[Frumious B.]

That's rude. You must be a pervert or a cannibal.

 

[snowy_again]

There's loads of individual evangelists with a homophobic tinge in the centre of Brixton. There was one about 5 years ago who used to preach in the centre of the market on a Saturday who was a eurosceptic homophobe. My neighbour at the time who was a gay bloke who worked for the European Parliament used to find him particularly funny

The bloke with the Keep the Pound badges and shopping trolley?

 

[colacubes]

The bloke with the Keep the Pound badges and shopping trolley?

That's the one I think. Haven't seen him for at least 5 years.

 

[Lazy Llama]

See? I didn't make them up!

I remember them as well.
I seem to remember they had medieval-style shoulder-covering hood things, and jerry curl-type hairstyles.

 

[quimcunx]

That's rude. You must be a pervert or a cannibal.

I was the victim of a pervert.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

All they were missing was the studded codpiece a la Cameo

 

[EastEnder]

I was the victim of a pervert.

Which urbanite? Name & shame, please.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Strange goings on in a flat nearby. Full window but empty looking, with a girl walking back and forth, and a guy outside on the roof. Lots of strange lights.

Filming something maybe

 

[Frumious B.]

Pics or GTFO.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Pics or GTFO.

Can't really get any clear ones as funny angle, leaning out of window and freezing cold. She's not naked either This is the best I could manage

 

[Frumious B.]

Call the police and say you suspect a cannabis farm.

 

[TruXta]

White slavery?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

White slavery?

There's disco lights on the floor flashing away

 

[snowy_again]

@niplsa He's either not alive anymore or has moved away. Was a friend of the Norman twins on Dulwich Road, and I think a regular of that pub on East Street.