Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon

[pissflaps]

snails?

 

[TruXta]

Snails are nom nom nom.

 

[pissflaps]

you can have mine.

 

[TruXta]

you can have mine.

Those aren't snails, they're slugs.

 

[pissflaps]

...puppy dogs tails.

 

[leanderman]

was the child conceived IN the Duke Of Edinburgh?

typing that made me feel yukky.

Pretty sure we kept our clothes on until we got back to Whitechapel.

 

[Dr Nookie]

I think the reason I hate 'hipsters' or 'yuppies' or whatever we're calling them, is because they remind me of the kind of people who go on holiday to Greece or Spain, but only eat English food, drink English beer, watch English telly, speak English, and hang out with other English people with no interest in experiencing anything Greece/Spain etc has to offer but their sunshine.
It's just posh people wanting to have all the trappings of Clapham with the cheapness (in the first place) of Brixton. And never mind whose culture/family/real life gets trampled on in the meantime.

 

[pissflaps]

do u even france, brah?

 

[Winot]

If you provide the champers, I can make that round my house easy. Most of it is just shopping. The sourdough will be homemade.

Will there be hipsters?

 

[pissflaps]

there will once you get there.

/etcetera.

 

[leanderman]

I think the reason I hate 'hipsters' or 'yuppies' or whatever we're calling them,.

Hipsters as yuppies? Although a little less money-oriented?

 

[cuppa tee]

Hipsters as yuppies? Although a little less money-oriented?

Hipsters are like the Victorian travellers someone alluded to before,in their role as self appointed arbiters of cool they go far and wide ( on the Internet ) to find things which can be filtered through the gauze of irony or quirkiness and give the things a new gloss which sooner or later in time may become meaningful to yuppies who are too career orientated to have much of a culture at all but need something to spend disposable income on which will make them look interesting to competitive friends and potential mating prospects.

 

[clandestino]

I enjoyed the early days of this thread, but now I feel like I've been priced out of it entirely...

 

[editor]

I enjoyed the early days of this thread, but now I feel like I've been priced out of it entirely...

I hear it's continuing in Anerley.

 

[clandestino]

I respect the opinion of everyone who posted in the five posts before me, but those people afterwards...

 

[DietCokeGirl]

Okay, here's my perspective as a worker inside Granville Village. There are two distinct types of businesses and business owners/staff that come in: the first come and introduce themselves, chat a bit, talk about what they're going to do, maybe invite you for a freebie on launch night and come along for a beer after close. The second type...don't. Keep to themselves, complain to market management rather than just come and ask if they can borrow a table/if you can move your sign/whatever, and basically aren't community spirited people. I leave to your imagination which group- so far - these lot have fallen into.

 

[simonSW2]

Well I'm not going there, ever.

A deep recession, aggressive Tory attacks on the poor, Brixton people being turfed out of their homes, and here's a bunch of jolly chortling chaps mopping up champagne spills with overpriced sourdough, oblivious and unaffected.

And that delivery service photo is just sexist bullshit.

It makes me fucking sick. Fuck whoever is allowing this level of inappropriateness in.

 

[leanderman]

Well I'm not going there, ever.

A deep recession, aggressive Tory attacks on the poor, Brixton people being turfed out of their homes, and here's a bunch of jolly chortling chaps mopping up champagne spills with overpriced sourdough, oblivious and unaffected.

And that delivery service photo is just sexist bullshit.

It makes me fucking sick. Fuck whoever is allowing this level of inappropriateness in.

Can't see myself using it either.

But one of the things about this country is that you can basically do what you want without asking anyone's permission - and that includes opening a champagne shop.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Can't see myself using it either.

But one of the things about this country is that you can basically do what you want without asking anyone's permission - and that includes opening a champagne shop.

come the revolution all that will change, chummy.

 

[leanderman]

come the revolution all that will change, chummy.

will there be no more champagne?

 

[simonSW2]

Can't see myself using it either.

But one of the things about this country is that you can basically do what you want without asking anyone's permission - and that includes opening a champagne shop.

Sure, anyone can do anything, and that's fine, but it doesn't make it any good, or worthwhile, or interesting, or even profitable.

Something good would be whoever is overseeing the market thinking strategically, long term, and telling these nice but dim mumfordfuckers to kindly take their frippery elsewhere, eg: Chelsea.

It demonstrates that whoever is 'planning' the Brixton Village is a clumsy dunce.

 

[editor]

Can't see myself using it either.

But one of the things about this country is that you can basically do what you want without asking anyone's permission - and that includes opening a champagne shop.

No need to bother with planning permission either! Just wave your wad about and in you go -and the old traders can just GTFO.

 

[leanderman]

Sure, anyone can do anything, and that's fine, but it doesn't make it any good, or worthwhile, or interesting, or even profitable.

Something good would be whoever is overseeing the market thinking strategically, long term, and telling these nice but dim mumfordfuckers to kindly take their frippery elsewhere, eg: Chelsea.

It demonstrates that whoever is 'planning' the Brixton Village is a clumsy dunce.

True. This latest idea is bonkers. Sausage-dog cafe bonkers

 

[editor]

True. This latest idea is bonkers. Sausage-dog cafe bonkers

Oh my Lord. The cat cafe reached their funding goal of £108k and will be opening in East London soon. And then a Brixton branch will follow. Possibly.

 

[Gramsci]

Quite a large chunk of long-time Brixton friends who have been priced out by the wealthy incomers have reluctantly moved to Hastings. Maybe they're all giving it large Brixton-style around the sea front

A friend of mine who is an artist said the same about going to live up North. A few artists they know live up North and get by. London is starting to become no longer feasible.

Hastings is old seaside town. Old seaside towns may be our future.

 

[Gramsci]

looks like it already has. either that or that nice lady has pissed herself.

Normally u irritate me but this made me laugh.

 

[Gramsci]

Well I'm not going there, ever.

A deep recession, aggressive Tory attacks on the poor, Brixton people being turfed out of their homes, and here's a bunch of jolly chortling chaps mopping up champagne spills with overpriced sourdough, oblivious and unaffected.
.

As nearby on the Loughborough estate where the residents association recently had to campaign to stop some poor guy being evicted over the bedroom tax.

 

[Gramsci]

Then, I had a look at the prices at the new restaurants...and that's where it all falls apart. They're just so expensive. And I think that's what sticks in the craw most about Brixton Village and the way the area is going.

Top post.

This is spot on.

 

[Gramsci]

I think there's a lot to be angry about, and apart from some Chinese dumplings I've never felt the need to eat in the village, but there's fuck all wrong with fizzy wine and cheese, and wanting to eat them doesn't show some moral fucking failing. Nor does being able to afford them, as it goes. I've lived all my life in south London - I'm not a gentrifier (and in fact have moved out to Sydenham myself because I couldn't afford to stay further in), but I don't have kids and I have a teacher's salary and if I want to blow my disposable income on champagne and cheese that makes me no more of a cunt than if I spend it on a big night in the Albert (which I have also been known to do).

Be angry, of course - what's happening to the market, and to Brixton is shit - but this kind of bollocks dilutes your justification. People spend their own money on what they like. We can all make judgements on that... But it's hardly edifying.

As an aside I get around a lot of London. Meet all kinds of people.

Including some who are very wealthy. One I was thinking of ,who I get on with as it happens, is a style setter not a hipster. Not going to say who it is. She is perfectly nice person on personal level.

That however does not stop me resenting the inequality I see around London.

A lot of these people live in a different world from the rest of us.

Its not the individual its the system. What I wonder is what would happen if there was a government that really tried to distribute wealth and power? How would these kind of people react?

 

[Manter]

Many, I imagine, would say 'but we worked for it'- inherited wealth is pretty much universally derided but the great myth of the current inequality is that that's its a meritocracy. I think everyone in a fortunate position is trying to kid themselves that privilege is not entrenched.