Brixton news, rumours and general chat - Sept 2013

[sparkybird]

Does amaze me what people put themselves through just to get into a place that's deemed to be fashionable. Que for an hour, no doubt followed by a 40 min wait at the bar.

So that must mean that when I went there it wasn't fashionable then!

Hurrah!

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Woken by a house alarm on a house on our street at about 5.30am today, bit tired now. What should I have done about it?

Try not to fall asleep when burgling someone's house


But seriously....next time you rock home from the pub at 2am, just give them a little knock and ask them to be more considerate in future

 

[teuchter]

a group of what could be described as 'young professionals' turned up around midnight. Maybe eight people around the 20-26 mark,

 

[editor]

How about you just spit out whatever sarcastic point it is you're trying to make here?

It might make it easier for the few people who give a fuck about your endless condescending, sneering comments. Thanks.

 

[editor]

is there a date on the closure yet?

No. It hasn't been sold yet as far as I know. I heard that the current owners have had second thoughts about the price they were selling it for.

 

[pissflaps]

How about you just spit out whatever sarcastic point it is you're trying to make here?

It might make it easier for the few people who give a fuck about your endless condescending, sneering comments. Thanks.

erm - it's not like you don't have form. haven't you posted up your fair share sneering, sarcastic pictures over the last few months yourself? - there were a few of people dressed in a way you take exception too strolling about the village if memory serves.

 

[editor]

haven't you posted up your fair share sneering, sarcastic pictures over the last few months yourself? - there were a few of people dressed in a way you take exception too strolling about the village if memory serves.

Your memory appear appears to be riddled with bitterness, and your cross-thread point-scoring doesn't even make any sense.

 

[pissflaps]

not bitter, just enjoy pointing out your rank hypocrisy. To be honest you'd have to forgive anyone for thinking you stuck those pics up earlier in an attempt to bolster your previous witterings about young folks cluttering up 'your' brixton.

who would i be trying to score points with?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

No. It hasn't been sold yet as far as I know. I heard that the current owners have had second thoughts about the price they were selling it for.

good.

 

[editor]

not bitter, just enjoy pointing out your rank hypocrisy. To be honest you'd have to forgive anyone for thinking you stuck those pics up earlier in an attempt to bolster your previous witterings about young folks cluttering up 'your' brixton.

Please stop disrupting this thread with your bizarre lies, cross-thread beefs, gross misrepresentations and unprovoked personal attacks.

 

[editor]

good.

I still don't hold out much hope for the place being saved though. Sadly, there just doesn't seem much will amongst locals.

 

[pissflaps]

Please stop disrupting this thread with your bizarre lies, cross-thread beefs, gross misrepresentations and unprovoked personal attacks.

personal attacks? what are you fucking on?

tho it seems perfectly acceptable for you to say nasty things about other posters.

You really are an odious little creep. now THATs a personal attack.

 

[editor]

You really are an odious little creep. now THATs a personal attack.

And that's a 24 hour ban.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I still don't hold out much hope for the place being saved though. Sadly, there just doesn't seem much will amongst locals.

It seems that way - I reckon the football and the pre-academy crowd are the only things that keep them going. Personally, I've got at least two other things on the go re: community right to buy so I can't spare the time for this too

It would easy enough to get the place listed I reckon - but as Tricky Skills said, you need the will & the numbers to get behind actually buying and running the pub as a community, and I'm not sure that exists. Having said that, it's a great location for a pub and I bet someone could make a go of it if they wanted to.

 

[editor]

It would easy enough to get the place listed - but as Tricky Skills said, you need the will & the numbers to get behind actually buying and running the pub as a community, and I'm not sure that exists. Having said that, it's a great location for a pub and I bet someone could make a go of it if they wanted to.

It's a real shame because the interior of the pub is wonderful, but perhaps because of its location and, err, management style, there really doesn't seem much of a groundswell to try and save the place. Or maybe it's just that their regulars aren't particularly empowered and web-savvy?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

It's a real shame because the interior of the pub is wonderful, but perhaps because of its location and, err, management style, there really doesn't seem much of a groundswell to try and save the place. Or maybe it's just that their regulars aren't particularly empowered and web-savvy?

I think it's all of those things

 

[Mrak]

A+ thread, this. Would read again.

 

[editor]

A+ thread, this. Would read again.

 

[Mrak]

 

[cuppa tee]

A tiny mention for Brixton in a piece on the 'G' word in the Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2013/09/mapping-gentrification

.......At the moment, complaints about gentrification in London tends to be limited to carping about the silliness of hipster bars, or the cost of a burger in Brixton village. But if the future involves the redevelopment of London's long-protected social housing, then the politics of gentrification in London could eventually become quite tetchy.

 

[Dan U]

Become?

 

[editor]

Become?

Because no one's been complaining about the mass evictions from long-standing squats or Lambeth's dismantling of short-let communities, have they?

 

[Crispy]

"quite tetchy"

 

[gabi]

Hmm. If I could get use of the banhammer every time someone had a shot at me.

 

[editor]

The Ritzy really are taking the piss asking £2.60 for a coffee with milk.

 

[TruXta]

The Ritzy really are taking the piss asking £2.60 for a coffee with milk.

Then don't go/don't buy their expensive coffee.

 

[Sirena]

Hmm. If I could get use of the banhammer every time someone had a shot at me.

Editor's prerogative...

 

[Badgers]

The Ritzy really are taking the piss asking £2.60 for a coffee with milk.

What is the going rate? I almost never have coffee apart from at home.

I know the Ritzy is a nice spot but I really don't like it. Sitting watching a film (once you are in your seat) is fine but the rest of it irritates me, especially the food.

 

[editor]

Then don't go/don't buy their expensive coffee.

I'd forgotten that they'd hiked the prices up, but I certainly won't be going back there again in a hurry for a coffee. And that's a bit of a shame because I always found the Ritzy cafe a good place to get some work done.

 

[editor]

What is the going rate? I almost never have coffee apart from at home.

Usually around £2.20-£2.50, tops and that's usually for a better coffee. For £2.60 I demand some ludicrously ornate pattern on my froth!