What kind of shops would you like to see in the Brixton Arcades?

[TruXta]

i bought a safari suit in there.
and a vile shirt.

QE fucking D.

 

[Orang Utan]

it's great for fancy dress and/or west african weddings

 

[Greebo]

<snip>I'd like a shop with proven worldwide remedies that all the natives swear by, but none of them allowed to use endangered/illegal stuff.

What would be the name of that type of shop?

Baldwins, moved south

 

[BarbedWire303]

i bought a safari suit in there.
and a vile shirt.

You must have looked like someone on their way to overthrow a central African dictatorship dressed like that

 

[Orang Utan]

i think that was the idea

 

[BarbedWire303]

lmao

 

[100% masahiko]

Two units granted for a very small gay bar. They can go and dance in snowy's dancerie

That's excellent news.
Widen the crowd/ demographics a little...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Baldwins, moved south

I have no idea what that is

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You basically want home remedies from other countries?

Yes. Foreign home remedies. There's people from all over the world in Brixton that would love to see names familiar to them. It'd me like an international ex-pat shop, but they wouldn't be able to buy shark fins, ivory, sea cucumbers or dodgily sourced penises

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Coffee has been banned, apparently.

In that case, can we have a Hong Kong-style tea place, where you just go up to the guy with the huge water boilers and they pour you a cup of tea which only costs you pennies instead. There's never a bad time for yum cha

Yes. This is the UK. Of course you may have tea. International teas. I'll have some Boh Cameronian Gold Blend please

 

[shakespearegirl]

It'd me like an international ex-pat shop, but they wouldn't be able to buy shark fins, ivory, sea cucumbers or dodgily sourced penises[/quote]

Can I order some cherry ripes? Whilst not strictly medicinal they've got me through some tough times

 

[leanderman]

I've been driven to frequent H&M of late for basics. This cannot continue!

H&M men's clothes fall apart in hours.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

*googles cherry ripes*

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It'd me like an international ex-pat shop, but they wouldn't be able to buy shark fins, ivory, sea cucumbers or dodgily sourced penises

Can I order some cherry ripes? Whilst not strictly medicinal they've got me through some tough times[/quote]

You can have a unit selling international foods that ex-pats can't do without or miss.

Oh, you can get us some Milo in please.

 

[TruXta]

H&M men's clothes fall apart in hours.

Some do, some don't. Hard to tell which ones are quality and which aren't.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

A sweet shop (old style one). That will annoy all the people eating if there's thousands of screaming kids running around high on sweets

 

[Dan U]

It'd me like an international ex-pat shop, but they wouldn't be able to buy shark fins, ivory, sea cucumbers or dodgily sourced penises

Can I order some cherry ripes? Whilst not strictly medicinal they've got me through some tough times[/quote]

I.found some out of date cherry ripes in my cupboard recently. Totally forgot I had bought them last time I was in oz

 

[Orang Utan]

Some do, some don't. Hard to tell which ones are quality and which aren't.

you can see threads hanging right off them. they're well shoddy.

 

[TruXta]

you can see threads hanging right off them. they're well shoddy.

I thought that was just a trend thing...

 

[shakespearegirl]

Minnie, think I'm heading for my own avenue, people will start thinking you are playing favourites.

Mmmm Milo. Now I've got a milo craving.

 

[story]

I'd quite like some kind of non-prescription chemists (but not a Chinese herbalist as can't trust what's in them, but also not Holland and Barrett and the like). Not sure what they're called, but for example, when in Malaysia, I got this cream made from sea cucumbers (which I was told was illegal) that worked really well on my prickly heat. I'd like a shop with proven worldwide remedies that all the natives swear by, but none of them allowed to use endangered/illegal stuff.

What would be the name of that type of shop?

Brixton Wholefoods...

 

[story]

I second book shop.

A picture framers which does amazing frames for £10.

Bookmongers is the best second hand bookshop in the world. With added dog. We don't need another one.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Brixton Wholefoods...

Do they sell products that don't contain sea cucumber that will stop me itching? Do they sell a Nutmeg cream to stop insect bites itching?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Bookmongers is the best second hand bookshop in the world. With added dog. We don't need another one.

Maybe people want a bookshop selling new books? Would you give a tatty second-hand book to someone for Christmas?

 

[story]

A sweet shop (old style one). That will annoy all the people eating if there's thousands of screaming kids running around high on sweets

That's kitty corner to Cornercopia.

 

[story]

Maybe people want a bookshop selling new books? Would you give a tatty second-hand book to someone for Christmas?

I often give second hand books as gifts

I'm afraid I have to admit that I misread the post that I quoted. I thought "second book shop" was "seconf hand bookshop"

 

[Orang Utan]

a decent kebab/lamuhcan/falafel shop

 

[story]

Do they sell products that don't contain sea cucumber that will stop me itching? Do they sell a Nutmeg cream to stop insect bites itching?

The do sell all kinds of odd things, and can order things in for you. Reckon its worth a punt...

 

[story]

a decent kebab/lamuhcan/falafel shop

I thought eateries were out?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That's kitty corner to Cornercopia.

Yes, but they're probably middle-class kids called Felix who scream and run about in a middle-class manner