Don't know, I've only bought incense off him once (it was a bit strong for indoor use) and exchanged a few words with him over the years, we're not on first name/nickname terms. Nice enough bloke though. AFAIK real Rasta, not the plastic variety.
Brixton news, rumours and general chat - October 2012
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Manter
Lunch Mob
I thought* he sold weed. Never asked, mind, but the smell of incense to cover the smell of weed is a defining university memory
*ok, assumed
Islamic tracts, if I remember rightly.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Maybe he just has some skunk in his pocket. People who smoke it don't realise how strong it smells to people who don't happen to have it on them. You can tell straightaway when someone walks past you on the bus that they've been smoking it or are carrying. They seem to be oblivious the whole bus knows (or they don't care)
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
Nah
Incense and leaflet based propaganda. There was a guy years back who used to sell "cook books" as a cover for that. My other half actually asked to buy a cook book off him once and he was confused as fuck. He sold it to us mind and it has some great Caribbean recipes in it
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Yes, I thought I'd steer clear ofmentioning that in case I got accused of being an Islamophobe
*shrug* being non Christian and having a hunch about which mosque (one of the stricter ones) they're from...Yes, I thought I'd steer clear ofmentioning that in case I got accused of being an Islamophobe
FWIW I'd have just as much of a problem with Hare Krishnas, evangelical Christians or Christian fundamentalists leafletting like that. At best, they're taking up space in a busy area.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
I've never heard him doing that, but he's certainly one of the 'fire & brimstone, all evil will rain down on you' etc sort of preacher. He used to be a bouncer in the Hobgoblin about 8-10 years ago and was actually a really quiet and unassuming guy.
@ your lino cut!
Rushy
basically a scrotum
He's involved with Whippersnappers - kids acrobatics.
http://whippersnappers.org/outreach-and-fundays/performers-and-workshops/acrobatics/
Rushy
basically a scrotum
I'll take a pic!I've never heard him doing that, but he's certainly one of the 'fire & brimstone, all evil will rain down on you' etc sort of preacher. He used to be a bouncer in the Hobgoblin about 8-10 years ago and was actually a really quiet and unassuming guy.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
*shrug* being non Christian and having a hunch about which mosque (one of the stricter ones) they're from...
Same as, and not forgetting any with loudspeakers
Back in the days when I used to go to work on the other side of the river I made a point of coming home through Brixton rather than the marginally closer Clapham North, for the sheer joy of coming up those stairs back into the lunatic reality of Brixton from the po-faced suitiverse where I had been mortgaging my soul to the man for the week. Incense, socks, and surely the widest choice of dogmas (including different shades of Christian, Islamic, Rasta and Socialist) on the planet.
And, of course, weed and academy tickets.
And, of course, weed and academy tickets.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I find hearing the sirens the most comforting thing on exiting the tube after being abroad and hearing none
You must be talking about Professor Malik.
sleaterkinney
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They're still good, I often use themOh, Pizza Hotline! I thought you meant Pizza Ring
Pizza Hotline is the one in Herne Hill yeah? On the corner of Dulwich Road/entrance to Brockwell Park near the rail bridge? If so, yeah we used to use them when we lived in Railton Road but that years ago now, no idea if it's still the same people. They used to be good though.
I'm sure there are a few others who've paid to have similar cards printed. Not that I'd touch any of them with a bargepole.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Like ascending into a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
When I try to explain the allure of Brixton - at least to people who know their PA systems - I tell them about stumbling across a Funktion One rig playing out on Coldharbour Lane. No special occasion, no carnival or festival. It was just *sunny*.
And that's not some lost "it was better in the old days" decade either. That was, IIRC, last year.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
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Onket
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Would be more than happy for you to attempt to back this up with evidence, somehow.
More than one poster calling you Eeyore?
Onket
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Yes, she is very good. She still won't type in the destination address for the prof of postage, though.
Onket
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Idiots calling people names on the internet is hardly evidence.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
I do feel I have to warn virgins that it's a bit full on and arrange to meet outside bodyshop to spare them having to hang about outside. It can be quite overwhelming.
Conversely an old landlady on Ferndale road, near the DoE told me of a neighbour who claimed to friends she lived in Clapham and would make them go to CN and walk from there to hers so they would not suspect.
Onket
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I also got looked up and down when I asked exactly the same question several weeks ago. Hardly welcoming. He did tell me they were open the next day, though.
Onket
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I find hearing the sirens the most comforting thing on exiting the tube after being abroad and hearing none
Rot.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Couple of years ago one of the old reggae sound system guys died and Mighty Wanderer did a nice acrobatics show with loads of the kids at his nine night at 169 Arches.
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