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leanderman said:
£25 must be the take-out price.
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yeah, i worked in Oddbins years ago - champagne starts around £15-17, up to about £25 for Moet and then from there the sky is the limit.
leanderman said:
It may be as much cock-up as conspiracy.
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its a clear disinterest in the fate of the poorest: anything other than building skyscrapers and attracting the rich to London, turning the uk into a tax haven, consolidating london as a center for banking, clearing social housing out of inner london, forcing those on housing benefits out of inner london, no shits given that day for affordable housing etc, etc - maybe not part of a Master Plan, but all carried out with only the interests of the rich at heart.
Dexter Deadwood said:
Those that flaunt their wealth in Brixton now have nothing to fear, there is no resistance. They see the poverty, they screen themselves from it but they see it nonetheless.
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the flaunting is what makes this place particularly bad taste. let them eat cheese!
 
ska invita said:
yeah, i worked in Oddbins years ago - champagne starts around £15-17, up to about £25 for Moet and then from there the sky is the limit.
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Your prices are a bit out of date, I think. It's more than that now, unless it's on offer. That said, Lidl does a very tasty Champagne for around £13.

My top tip for fizz is to buy NZ Lindauer. Used to be available for about £7 but then people cottoned on to how good it was and it's now about a tenner. As good as or better than low-end Champagne, and half the price.
 
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editor said:
Enthusing about the 'right' sort of places in her neighbourhood also helps ensure that it maintains a direction that is comparable with her own self interest.

She wants to live in a 'nice' Brixton, so she will write and give great reviews to anything that fits her personal aspiration.
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Exactly the same as you do, about 'your' Brixton, and articles on your websites.
 
littlebabyjesus said:
Your prices are a bit out of date, I think. It's more than that now, unless it's on offer. That said, Lidl does a very tasty Champagne for around £13.

My top tip for fizz is to buy NZ Lindauer. Used to be available for about £7 but then people cottoned on to how good it was and it's now about a tenner. As good as or better than low-end Champagne, and half the price.
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I used to find it hilarious when I lived in London that Lindauer was 7 quid and considered a good drop. We used to drink it as 15yo delinquents in the botanical gardens in Wellington as it was cheap n nasty :D
 
gabi said:
I used to find it hilarious when I lived in London that Lindauer was 7 quid and considered a good drop. We used to drink it as 15yo delinquents in the botanical gardens in Wellington as it was cheap n nasty :D
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Dunno if it has changed since then, but I really like it. As I said, as good as most cheaper Champagnes.

Maybe you just had an unsophisticated 15-year-old palate. :p
 
littlebabyjesus said:
Your prices are a bit out of date, I think. It's more than that now, unless it's on offer. That said, Lidl does a very tasty Champagne for around £13.

My top tip for fizz is to buy NZ Lindauer. Used to be available for about £7 but then people cottoned on to how good it was and it's now about a tenner. As good as or better than low-end Champagne, and half the price.
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A mate of mine's Mum became a bit of a "heavy drinker" back when we were at school - late 80s. She decided to give up all together but would allow herself a cheeky glass of champagne every now and again as a treat. This evolved into a hefty Lindauer habit. We didn't really understand the circumstances and just thought it was very cool that she would pop a bottle every time we turned up at their house. I've never quite been able to break that association.
 
rutabowa said:
my favourite bar, the Pits in belgium, has toilets inside the bar:
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....... and graffiti in both.
 
rutabowa said:
really? was it the first thing that crossed your mind, "this must be against building regulations"?
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No. It was one of many things that crossed my mind. It appears to have been your eagerness to prove you street credentials which allowed you to imagine the word "first".
 
Rushy said:
A mate of mine's Mum became a bit of a "heavy drinker" back when we were at school - late 80s. She decided to give up all together but would allow herself a cheeky glass of champagne every now and again as a treat. This evolved into a hefty Lindauer habit. We didn't really understand the circumstances and just thought it was very cool that she would pop a bottle every time we turned up at their house. I've never quite been able to break that association.
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working at oddbins (in Greenwich) as soon as the doors opened in the morning it was middle aged women buying wine and vodka that made up the majority of the business - lots of regulars- the daily mail is full of articles about it. I think i saw a stat that its the affluent middle class who drink the most in the UK.... can only find this at the mo: "Wealthy areas head alcohol table" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7045830.stm
 
Monkeygrinder's Organ said:
Two factors I think: She's just moved to Brixton (she likes to write about herself) and she seems to be an incredibly lazy, half arsed excuse for a journalist. Something right on her doorstep suits her nicely.
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All her articles are either speaking her branes, or ripped off the internet, or sometimes both. Last week she had a particularly poor effort about dress at work ripped off from roll on friday.
 
editor said:
Enthusing about the 'right' sort of places in her neighbourhood also helps ensure that it maintains a direction that is comparable with her own self interest.

She wants to live in a 'nice' Brixton, so she will write and give great reviews to anything that fits her personal aspirations.
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I thought she said she lived in Camberwell
 
ska invita said:
working at oddbins (in Greenwich) as soon as the doors opened in the morning it was middle aged women buying wine and vodka that made up the majority of the business - lots of regulars- the daily mail is full of articles about it. I think i saw a stat that its the affluent middle class who drink the most in the UK.... can only find this at the mo: "Wealthy areas head alcohol table" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7045830.stm
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I can believe it.

My Mum has a built in protection against it. One small glass of red and she's totally ratted - then falls asleep wherever she is. She's in her 70s now but it has always been thus.
 
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