Farmers' market in Brixton
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
Don't you remember, T?
Mr. Down has an acute fear of ethno-butchers.
Tbf if he does he'll be ok with Dombeys, so long as the Polish girl doesn't serve him
editor
hiraethified
Because I can't get worked up into a froth over a single bike slot being used? Yeah. That really adds up.
Because I can't get worked up into a froth over a single bike slot being used? Yeah. That really adds up.
His denial is telling
Mark my words. It starts with the farmers' market. Next thing you know you'll have bikes advertising the latest over-priced deli/coffee shop, then about a week later the estate agents will be there, and in a few months every bike rack in Brixton will have the crumbling remains of adbikes for a short-lived and quickly-forgotten lifestyle bar clogging up its slots....
editor
hiraethified
Could you provide some illustrations of advert-bike laden shopping centres nearby?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
It's interesting to compare the response to this, with the response to the incident a couple of years back when a butcher's shop took over the (then) ex-living bar on CH lane and stuck signs and canopies all over the listed building without planning permission.
Yuppie bar converted to independent butcher, signage applied to private building ----> outrage on U75
Commercial operation opens premium food market for middle classes, signage applied to public bike parking facility and blocking pavement ----> apathy on U75
Yuppie bar converted to independent butcher, signage applied to private building ----> outrage on U75
Commercial operation opens premium food market for middle classes, signage applied to public bike parking facility and blocking pavement ----> apathy on U75
TruXta
tired
One was permanent, the other not.
editor
hiraethified
I think people were more pissed off at such a fine building being trashed, just like they were pissed off when the original 'yuppie bar' did exactly the same.
It is just surprising at the level of Daily Mail outrage over a bike with a bit of blackboard taped to it chained to a bike rack. In the grand scheme of Brixton life, this is nothing. The stink of piss around the public toilet opposite Los Americos is worth getting worked up about. The shite skating rink is worth getting worked up about. The poor traffic planning in Brixton is worth getting worked up about.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
The rink seems ok. The prices are the problem: £24 for a family of four.
PLUS £2 each for skate hire, £3 for a child's penguin for 30mins. Locker £1.
It's £1.30 a minute!
I'd echo this. I would't say that their burgers or sausages are all that mind - bit too finely ground and innocuous for my tastes - but they're decently priced. I have had one bad chicken off them admittedly, turning to stinking badness within a couple of days in the fridge, but they resolved it well and they're a good source of competitively priced meat
Whisper it quietly, but the friendly, ruddy faced butcher who turns up at Dulwich (College) Farmers Market boasts better produce and prices that are near comparable.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
I'd be more concerned about the Foot Locker nearby which has been boarded up since the riots, and it doesn't block the pavement, there's loads of space around there.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Does two posters a bit annoyed about the advertising bike constitute "daily mail outrage"?
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
The yuppie bar had been closed for a good few years before the building was used as a butchers. The signage was erected without planning permission in flagrant breach of planning laws. It also looked fucking shit. That was why people were annoyed.
Farmers Market bike-sign bad, excessively large hoarding round Foot Locker worse in my book. They frequently hog even more of the pavement space by opening up the back hoardings outwards, leaving a perilous sliver of pavement for the onrushing commuter crowd from Brixton Rail to underground station. Gets a bit hairy around there at times.
newbie
undisambiguated
sfaik Footlocker didn't make a conscious decision to burn their building down, nor do they turn up on this fine community oriented forum to regularly post spam promoting their business. The same goes for all the other things people have mentioned that irk them more than these adbikes (plural) and the blackboard that blocks the pavement.
I know the editor is happy for that particular business (and only that one business) to use his boards for regular free advertising despite the fact that they never, ever post anything but spam. That's his call.
From my point of view, however, this is an open thread and as I know that Londonfarmers post here it seems the obvious place to ask them to explain their antisocial behaviour. Of course, if the editor objects to me using his boards to question them I will, of course, desist.
I know the editor is happy for that particular business (and only that one business) to use his boards for regular free advertising despite the fact that they never, ever post anything but spam. That's his call.
From my point of view, however, this is an open thread and as I know that Londonfarmers post here it seems the obvious place to ask them to explain their antisocial behaviour. Of course, if the editor objects to me using his boards to question them I will, of course, desist.
editor
hiraethified
What are you on about, please?
editor
hiraethified
Have you not seen the Brixton Noticeboard forum then?
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
It's not blocking the pavement and it's not antisocial behavior. If you drew up a list of what was wrong with central brixton it wouldn't even register. Besides, the farmers market provides an outlet for farmers to sell their produce besides getting screwed by the likes of Tesco, and that should be encouraged.
newbie
undisambiguated
I don't agree with your last point, for reasons spelt out further up this thread, as for your first point, I don't really care if it doesn't register with you, it does with me and I'm asking the people who've done it to explain themselves, in public in a forum they post on.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
There's nothing to "register", that's the point.
editor
hiraethified
The bit you seem to be missing is that some people find londonfarmers' posts useful and informative. They're completely on topic for a Brixton Noticeboard and well within our rules. I've certainly found them useful a couple of times when I've wanted to know what stalls were going to there on the weekend.
newbie
undisambiguated
I've asked a poster on these boards to explain their behaviour. Do you have a problem with that?
You've made it very clear that something that concerns me is of little or no interest to you. Fine. I'm not particularly exercised about the billboard on CHL and d'you know what, I haven't posted on your thread to tell you that.
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
Surely a huge permanently erected bilboard is worse in both terms of being an eyesore and pervasive capitalism than a temporary bike with sign?! 
newbie
undisambiguated
yes probably but I'm not personally particularly exercised about it. I'm sorry if that makes me a bad person, but frankly they're both utterly insignificant compared with world hunger or malaria, on which basis nothing else is ever worth mentioning.
I really, really don't care if no-one else considers this significant, reading this thread is not compulsory.
I really, really don't care if no-one else considers this significant, reading this thread is not compulsory.
