Jaw-dropping Brixton description in blog

[RaverDrew]

Do you think the younger crowd are that into forums in the first place? AFAIK they get their fix on facebook and twitter.

There may be a certain amount of truth to that, but it doesn't seem to be a problem for many other forums I use. This place used to attract plenty of younger posters in the past but without a doubt the tone has changed over the years. Posters have been increasingly permitted to be more hostile and condescending towards them, I can understand why they'd be put off.

 

[editor]

This place used to attract plenty of younger posters in the past but without a doubt the tone has changed over the years. Posters have been increasingly permitted to be more hostile and condescending towards them, I can understand why they'd be put off.

So you think young people are just too sensitive to engage in a lively bulletin board?

This place has been far, far ruder in the past, and we didn't have much trouble attracting posters of all ages then, but what has changed is the Internet, and we're no longer one of the few places people can post up their thoughts, thanks to Facebook, Twitter etc.

 

[editor]

Reading this thread it's no wonder that urban75 fails to attract younger posters any more..

How do you know the ages of new posters?

 

[RaverDrew]

So you think young people are just too sensitive to engage in a lively bulletin board?

Yes, because that's exactly what I said...

This place has been far, far ruder in the past, and we didn't have much trouble attracting posters of all ages then, but what has changed is the Internet, and we're no longer one of the few places people can post up their thoughts, thanks to Facebook, Twitter etc.

"oh it's the internet/world has changed, not us" line being trotted out again...

 

[editor]

"oh it's the internet/world has changed, not us" line being trotted out again...

That's because it's correct.

So, how do you know the ages of new users posting here?

 

[isvicthere?]

The opening post and title of the thread, subsequent comments directed at the blogger. The hysteria is really about the jaw dropping British class system and the awful baggage that people carry to do with that and not poverty per se. I'm not British. I read the blogs and did not find them offensive. When I'm low on cash I shop at Iceland and consider it a gift from the Gods.

Ah, the "British class system"! An early resort of the dabbler in lazy stereotype.

It must be great to come from somewhere which doesn't have any social divisions whatsoever, like....... err, wait a minute.

 

[RaverDrew]

It's pretty obvious there are fewer young people posting on this site nowadays, are you really trying to deny it ?

 

[TruXta]

That's because it's correct.

So, how do you know the ages of new users posting here?

He doesn't, obviously, he's just spouting shit.

 

[Aquamarine]

It must be great to come from somewhere which doesn't have any social divisions whatsoever, like....... err, wait a minute. [/QUOTE]

Economic social divisions are universal. The British class system is unique in its subtle complexities and can take half a lifetime to fully comprehend. Excuse the vest pocket autobiograhty: as the child of one bog Irish parent and one form the US I have lived in both countries as well as in France and Germany. My understanding of the British obsession with class actually stems from not having that same obsession. The way British people usually peg each other right away blah, blah.

 

[DotCommunist]

whereas in america you peg it by accent and skin tone

 

[TruXta]

It must be great to come from somewhere which doesn't have any social divisions whatsoever, like....... err, wait a minute. Economic social divisions are universal. The British class system is unique in its subtle complexities and can take half a lifetime to fully comprehend. Excuse the vest pocket autobiograhty: as the child of one bog Irish parent and one form the US I have lived in both countries as well as in France and Germany. My understanding of the British obsession with class actually stems from not having that same obsession. The way British people usually peg each other right away blah, blah.

WTF are you on about? What's your point?

 

[trashpony]

If we're talking "budget" supermarkets, I'm with you, comrade. However, I do like (the admittedly quite expensive) Dorset Cereal muesli, which you can only get in Tesco.

You can get it in other supermarkets too. Actually Aldi was selling a multipack for a couple of quid last week (not sure if there is an Aldi in Brixton)

 

[gaijingirl]

our corner shop sells it (Dorset Muesli) - near the Hootenanny

 

[Ms T]

You can get it in other supermarkets too. Actually Aldi was selling a multipack for a couple of quid last week (not sure if there is an Aldi in Brixton)

Lidl had those too - I bought some. Useful for night shifts.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Anyone wanting to decide for themselves whether the reaction on here has been ever so slightly hysterical can read the articles here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk

I think she should write a review of U75; that would be amusing.

I've already quoted that whole story, along with the link

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

If we're talking "budget" supermarkets, I'm with you, comrade. However, I do like (the admittedly quite expensive) Dorset Cereal muesli, which you can only get in Tesco.

You can get Dorset Cereals in Sainsbury's (although when I ran out recently, there didn't seem to be any, so maybe they've stopped stocking it)

 

[teuchter]

I've already quoted that whole story, along with the link

Did you? Where? The only links I could find on here were to the original page from which the articles are now removed.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Did you? Where? The only links I could find on here were to the original page from which the articles are now removed.

Post 18 (a paragraph, plus the link) and post 54 (the whole story)

 

[teuchter]

Post 18 (a paragraph, plus the link) and post 54 (the whole story)

Yours just link to Canterbury Arms one - mine includes the Albert and Rest is Noise posts which are the ones that are apparently the most shockingly jaw-dropping and reveal the writer to be probably the most terrible person ever to write anything on the internet.

 

[Gramsci]

Don't know about the Acre Lane one as I don't go there as it's too far for me.

The Streatham one would have been in the afternoon. I guessed maybe their au pair/nanny/cleaner/home help/skivvy was off sick that day maybe

I was in Waitrose in Belgravia today. Very upmarket clientelle + me

 

[Gramsci]

The cereals are made to the German recipe. For some reason they put calcium carbonate in a lot of their "cornflake"-type cereals, which is where the "cardboardy" thing comes from, from what I can work out. Lots of English expats in Germany moan about the cereals.

I have a German friend who goes to Lidl to get all those German biscuits etc that remind her of home.

The tinned herrings are good value. Specialty from the Baltic.

 

[nagapie]

our corner shop sells it (Dorset Muesli) - near the Hootenanny

So does Nisa. Not that I really like muesli.

 

[Ms T]

You can get Dorset Cereals in Sainsbury's (although when I ran out recently, there didn't seem to be any, so maybe they've stopped stocking it)

Waitrose sell it too.

 

[quimcunx]

I've got some dorset muesli in the cupboard from Nisa. Free to a good home. It's been in there over a year like.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I can see you popping in there from my window. you never wave.

Yeah, well I don't want people seeing me wave at the naked mad lady standing at her window, they might think I'm a customer!

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's pretty much impossible to get decent pre-mixed muesli. The best muesli requires a trip to Brixton Wholefoods to buy jumbo oats, mixed nuts, coconut flakes and raisins/sultanas/dates/dried apricots. Mix to taste.

Only premixed one besides the Lidl one tat I've really liked was from the wholefood stall in Watford market.

 

[Greebo]

Only premixed one besides the Lidl one tat I've really liked was from the wholefood stall in Watford market.

AFAIK that was because of the trace amount of ground cardamom in it.

 

[ViolentPanda]

AFAIK that was because of the trace amount of ground cardamom in it.

Which made it really lovely (taste-wise and smell-wise) when eaten with hot milk.

 

[oryx]

If you subtract the (often entertaining and valid) posts about groceries, this thread is about challenging snobbish assumptions in the media.

As I said earlier on this thread there are far too many ignorant assumptions in the media about less well-off people, such as (often) council tenants, varying between throwaway assumptions and the downright poisonous.

The blog concerned was definitely in the former category, and was probably quite innocent - but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be challenged.

 

[DotCommunist]

make a ghetto by only gving the really desperate a temp home.Repeat untill votes or gout destroy your influence