Brixton news, rumours and general chat - October 2012

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Sure?

Something weird is happening to quotes, or maybe Onket's just being weird

 

[Onket]

Maybe both.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Maybe both.

Are you practising multi quotes?

Are you practising multi quotes?

 

[quimcunx]

Something weird is happening to quotes, or maybe Onket's just being weird

Something weird is happening to quotes, or maybe Onket's just being weird

Something weird is happening to quotes, or maybe Onket's just being weird

Something weird is happening to quotes, or maybe Onket's just being weird

Something weird is happening to quotes, or maybe Onket's just being weird

Something weird is happening to quotes, or maybe Onket's just being weird

How'd you mean?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Something weird is happening to quotes, or maybe Onket's just being weird

Something weird is happening to quotes, or maybe Onket's just being weird

Something weird is happening to quotes, or maybe Onket's just being weird

Something weird is happening to quotes, or maybe Onket's just being weird

Ah, it's alright, it's just you and Onket

 

[Manter]

I just read the thread for the last two days.

Some properly stinking chat.

 

[Badgers]

Tittle Tattle

 

[quimcunx]

which bits? I don't remember.

 

[Manter]

There are four whole pages on post offices. You are actively worrying me

 

[Ol Nick]

Kaosarn's nice though. Wherever it is.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Bloody chuggers two nights running interrupting me cooking supper. On the street is bad enough but of an evening on my doorstep is beyond annoying

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I lied to the first and said I didn't have a bank account which really worked in making them melt away. The second was really persistent, unbearably chipper and full of 'witticisms' and I ended up just closing the door.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Saying you're unemployed as well is a no-worker. I've been told there's people worse off than me

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The 'no bank account' or 'undischarged bankrupt' always works but I only use it in extremis.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Its probably illegal to have a sign saying cold-callers, men from the Pru and chuggers may be shot.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Its probably illegal to have a sign saying cold-callers, men from the Pru and chuggers may be shot.

What about Fuck Off Chuggers?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The 'no bank account' or 'undischarged bankrupt' always works but I only use it in extremis.

Anyway, I reckon after all these cuts that are coming, people can say "I'm skint, blame the Government", or better still, "please go and do your stuff in Whitehall"

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I want to cause wider fear than just chuggers. TalkTalk will have a special place in hell

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I want to cause wider fear than just chuggers. TalkTalk will have a special place in hell

Talk Talk are in my Top 5 of most hated companies

 

[Greebo]

I want to cause wider fear than just chuggers. TalkTalk will have a special place in hell

At any other time of year, a "Neighbourhood Witch" poster or sticker might work. At this time of year it'd probably just replace one problem with another.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I don't mind trick-or-treaters unless they've made no effort to look ghoulish.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

How could anyone resist this request for a treat?

 

[Pickman's model]

How could anyone resist this request for a treat?


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very easily

just look in her bag, she's a load already. would you want to be the cause of her getting fillings? i wouldn't.

 

[ajdown]

Easy, don't open the door in the first place. Works for me every time, in conjunction with the lights off for a few hours to make them think nobody is in.

Stupid american custom that can piss off back there.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Easy, don't open the door in the first place. Works for me every time, in conjunction with the lights off for a few hours to make them think nobody is in.

Stupid american custom that can piss off back there.

Actually as has been established on another thread, it's an Irish custom that went to America. I think anything on my estate where there's positive interaction between adults and teenagers (as well as sweet little toddlers from over the road) is A Good Thing, and I really don't want to hide behind the sofa in the dark.

 

[nagapie]

Halloween is harmless and kids love it. My road is Halloween central and it's very sweet. My boy is too young for trick n' treating but I think he will love handing out the sweets this year. It's just curmudgeonly to dislike it, I'm sure there are about a trillion American things in our culture that we actually like and are not even aware are from there. Liking Halloween doesn't mean you can't dislike some of the less attractive (word of the day) imports.

Edit, seems that it's not even American. Does that mean people will like it more now?

 

[editor]

Actually as has been established on another thread, it's an Irish custom that went to America.

Looks like we've actually got the Scots to blame.

The tradition of going from door to door receiving food already existed in Great Britain and Ireland in the form of "souling", where children and poor people would sing and say prayers for the dead in return for cakes.

Guising—children disguised in costumes going from door to door for food and coins—also predates trick or treat, and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in 1895, where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money.

While going from door to door in disguise has remained popular among Scots and Irish, the North American custom of saying "trick or treat" has recently become common.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating

 

[Orang Utan]

Must be a Yorkshire thing too, cos it's also a tradition there. American? Don't think so

 

[gaijingirl]

There's a lovely looking Halloween kids' party on outside Herne Hill station on Wednesday 31st with all kinds of exciting things happening from 5pm for those who prefer not to take the kids out Trick or Treating. http://www.hernehillforum.org.uk/ne...l+e-Newsletter+Oct+18th+2012&utm_medium=email