A pub suddenly making a lot more noise is an entirely different thing to young professionals moving into an area with a well established night economy and then complaining about the noise coming from a place that's been there for decades and hasn't made any changes.
the Hopeless Wanker in its Grand Union incarnation. GU were utter cunts.
Ah, that lot! Yes, I heard that they were a fucking awful bunch. Is it any better now? I went to the relaunch and swiftly decided it really wasn't the kind of place (or people) I want to hang out with.
No idea. Had a quick look in soon after they reopened and decided it's not my sort of place either. Can't be any worse than it was, though.
What I saw was grim. Wall to wall over-confident young professionals.
It's an odd one. A friend was telling me that the admin staff from his office, who are young but definitely not professionals, see it as their weekend destination of choice and travel in from Croydon and beyond on a Saturday night. I have no idea why anyone would do that to themselves.
If I was in charge, every time some blow-in yuppie complains about existing noise levels, the club or bar should automatically get an hour's extension.
.....and offies too plz ?
Of course. And I'd get rid of this stupid law that punishes offies if they sell a single can. If it's OK for the yups to get smashed on cocktails and bars that have extended their space into the street, then it should be OK for people who just want a single can al fresco.
People of my acquaintance have been driven out of pubs and bars by the high prices and the fact a lot are not welcoming to those who fall outside the desired cool demographic so drinking in public space is their only option for a social drink.....unfortunately sniffy cunts find this intimidating and get the authorities involved but they wouldn't bat an eyelid at a throng of braying w*nkers with bottles of prosecco, and a Cath Kidston picnic set.
Case in point is the Ritzy and Windrush Square. It's absolutely fine for these chortling guys to glug as much booze as they like down their throats, but if anyone wants to have a can outside the Ritzy's 'bagsied' space the cops could take it off them.
It’s a shame you’re not allowed to chortle these days
What on earth are you on about now? Why are you making stuff up?It’s a shame you’re not allowed to chortle these days
Brixton must be the only place on the planet that doesn't turn in to wanker central when the cocaine and booze is flowing
or you don't get out much.
I remember some coked up posh cunt kicking his empty pints around in the Albert until some old school drinkers told him to GTFO. Brixton is full of braying coked-up twats on the weekend. They've taken over and it's as depressing as fuck - and they're far more likely to cause a fight than a street drinker.Brixton must be the only place on the planet that doesn't turn in to wanker central when the cocaine and booze is flowing
There's a first time for everything.
I found Brixton and other areas less hostile when it was more about dancing/clubbing. The fridge, brix, 414 housed thousands of ravers that generaly behaved and policed themselves. Booze and cocktails wasn't the main driver back then mind!
Have you been mugged by individuals clutching single sale cans of whatever high percentage alcohol is on offer that week ?
You don't have a mortgage then!
No, It was just a different and better crowd of people. I see you are trying to blame this on street drinkers/ alcoholics. Is it possible to buy a single can in Brixton? I don't see many of them out late when Brixton is emptying out.The pissed up twats i see down there are not street drinkers.That's because everyone was loved up. If offies were selling single pills instead of single cans.....
....I've just thought of a brilliant single issue political party
Believe it or not, a lot of people that pull blades aren't holding a can.
