View Full Version : North Croydon is the New Brixton....
ernestolynch
23-03-2004, 10:18
Dismayed that new bars are opening in Brixton?
Feeling let down by the blandness of SW9?
Railton Road becoming too 'pale'? In hatboy's words
Friends and family back home in Godalming and Guildford no longer shocked/impressed/outraged that you have moved to Brixton?
Needing some 'Urban Vibe' to go with your Supermalt?
Depressed that rasta togs have been replaced by whistles?
http://www.brixtonlounge.com/images/gallery07.jpg
Then move your arses down to Thornton Heath (pron: Tornton'Eat) - it has it all! It's even got a Gay Bar for 'non-conventional' types - batty bwoys and the likes. It's the home of the famous McKenzies! (Currently closed for >ahem< reasons..)
Come on kids! Re-live that edgy feeling and continue to impress/shock/outrage your dicrepid old ex-army/clergy/civil service parents when they come down for the weekend...
IntoStella
23-03-2004, 10:20
Oh quit trolling the Brixton forum will you ernie? :(
Dismayed that new bars are opening in Brixton?
Then move your arses down to Thornton Heath (pron: Tornton'Eat) - it has it all! It's even got a Gay Bar for 'non-conventional' types - batty bwoys and the likes.
mmm, you really have to do something about your homophobia ernie....i know...just stop it...
Do they play that Dancehall music at Fairfield halls?
tarannau
23-03-2004, 10:55
You're so passe Ern.
I was dishing up peas n'rice to elderly Guyanese folk in Thorton Heath at GOCA* meetings nearly 20 years ago. Used to have the folks from Desmonds come down to help out at Chrimbo for an added fuss.
North Croydon was still shit then. And people still moaned about the bus ride from Brixton. it was just cheaper to hire the hall down there...
;)
*The splendidly named Guyanese Organisation for Cultural Advancement
isvicthere?
23-03-2004, 11:12
Dismayed that new bars are opening in Brixton?
Feeling let down by the blandness of SW9?
Railton Road becoming too 'pale'? In hatboy's words
Friends and family back home in Godalming and Guildford no longer shocked/impressed/outraged that you have moved to Brixton?
Needing some 'Urban Vibe' to go with your Supermalt?
Depressed that rasta togs have been replaced by whistles?
http://www.brixtonlounge.com/images/gallery07.jpg
Then move your arses down to Thornton Heath (pron: Tornton'Eat) - it has it all! It's even got a Gay Bar for 'non-conventional' types - batty bwoys and the likes. It's the home of the famous McKenzies! (Currently closed for >ahem< reasons..)
Come on kids! Re-live that edgy feeling and continue to impress/shock/outrage your dicrepid old ex-army/clergy/civil service parents when they come down for the weekend...
Ernesto, you really are a wanker,.
I work in Croydon 1 or 2 days a week. I know what its like.
Its rubbish.
Ernesto you are a wanker. Ernesto this is a personal dig because you couldn't find a civil reply to my perfectly valid questions that I asked on the "Lynch Ernesto" thread, now in the "dustbin".
(Fuck knows in reference to that why me saying black "guys" not black "men" makes me a "rascist" according to Ernie, but there you go, LOL).
I WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS SORT OF TWISTED NASTY HOMOPHOBIC AND PERSONAL ATTACK.
I HAVE BEEN THRU TOO MUCH SHIT IN MY LIFE ALREADY TO PUT UP WITH THIS SORT OF IGNORANCE.
I HELP OUT WITH THIS FUCKING FORUM FOR FREE YOU KNOW. NOW FUCK OFF ERNESTO OTHERWISE I WILL ISSUE YOU A TEMPORARY BAN AT THE LEAST. AND IN THIS INSTANCE (relatiing to homophobia and your twisted humour) I EXPECT THE OTHER MODS TO BACK ME UP.
:mad:
This thread may be deleted later.
Hatboy - I *honestly *don't think Ernie is having a personal dig, and God knows I don't agree with much of what he spouts off here. (if you were having a personal go ernie then apologise...)
He is I believe having a dig at what I would call the inverted snobbery of SOME Brixtonites on here.
I don't think you should ban him for that - but you're the boss.
ernestolynch
23-03-2004, 11:50
If this is going to be airbrushed out of history then so be it.
I was having a dig at his 'bland' 'pale' remarks. For a suburban white man to have a go at a place for being too suburban and white smacks of cultural imperialism.
But there you go.
IntoStella
23-03-2004, 11:51
He is I believe having a dig at what I would call the inverted snobbery of SOME Brixtonites on here. Oh change the record. Anyone who doesn't buy into your selfish, short-sighted ''Bring on the Starbucks'' mentality is an ''inverted snob". :rolleyes:
Oh change the record. Anyone who doesn't buy into your selfish, short-sighted ''Bring on the Starbucks'' mentality is an ''inverted snob". :rolleyes:
You're being daft - I like Starbucks about as much as I like McDonalds. That is, not at all!
Streathamite
23-03-2004, 12:11
If this is going to be airbrushed out of history then so be it.
I was having a dig at his 'bland' 'pale' remarks. For a suburban white man to have a go at a place for being too suburban and white smacks of cultural imperialism.
But there you go.
err, yeah right, and f-all to do with having lived so long in an entirely multi-cultural city to feel not-at-home in any different environment, and to want to defend his community against the suburbanising process?
cultural Imperialism? ern, you disappoint me. You're such a middle-class Liberal, these days...
ernestolynch
23-03-2004, 12:14
err, yeah right, and f-all to do with having lived so long in an entirely multi-cultural city to feel not-at-home in any different environment, and to want to defend his community against the suburbanising process?
cultural Imperialism? ern, you disappoint me. You're such a middle-class Liberal, these days...
I'm afraid the 'community' he has decided to 'defend' are upwardly mobilising to two miles down the road, leaving him to wistfully dream of days when the place was 'less pale'.
I've already said - he could move to T/H you know. Or Catford. Or Croydon.
Thankyou Red Jezza - I'm the first to admit I'm not a born Londoner, but after 20 years in south London, my situation is as you describe. This is my home and I will speak up when I think the poor, the vulnerable, the marginal are threatened - because, despite my big gob, I am one.
Honest enough for you Ernie? You should try it.
And thanks IntoStella. I know we really do miss eachother's points sometimes but I agree totally with your "Starbucks" thing.
Ernie said:
"I'm afraid the 'community' he has decided to 'defend' are upwardly mobilising to two miles down the road, leaving him to wistfully dream of days when the place was less pale"
Some have, some haven't. As big a generalisation as anything on these boards.
And as I've pointed out already, there is a full explanation of my "pale imitation" comment on the "Brixton Blanding Out" thread.
I'm going to leave this thread on here for now. People can think what they like.
:)
Nice one hatboy.
It was a little bit funny, eh?
Not much, just a little bit though...
:)
Streathamite
23-03-2004, 19:25
I'm afraid the 'community' he has decided to 'defend' are upwardly mobilising to two miles down the road, leaving him to wistfully dream of days when the place was 'less pale'.
I've already said - he could move to T/H you know. Or Catford. Or Croydon.
christ! are you even capable in thinking in anything other than Sun-style headlines and massive generalisations? :rolleyes:
Ernesto - what do you know about South London? I thought you lived and worked in Hackney (and were born and bred in Wales)?
Dubversion
24-03-2004, 00:13
lambeth north?
aurora green
24-03-2004, 08:48
I'm afraid the 'community' he has decided to 'defend' are upwardly mobilising to two miles down the road, leaving him to wistfully dream of days when the place was 'less pale'.
Have you been to any estates around here?
Its seems quite plain, you know little about this area.
You seem to have antipathy towards Hatboy, which comes across as most unpleasant.
Streathamite
24-03-2004, 09:02
Have you been to any estates around here?
Its seems quite plain, you know little about this area.
You seem to have antipathy towards Hatboy, which comes across as most unpleasant.
no but ernesto never lets little things like ignorance and stupidity stand in the way of his right to judge others
isvicthere?
24-03-2004, 11:02
If this is going to be airbrushed out of history then so be it.
Ah yes! The unmistakable whiff of burning martyr.
Mrs Redboots
24-03-2004, 21:08
Anyway, isn't it pronounced "Forn'on Eef"?
:D yeah mrs red. I went to a school in clapham called "enry forn'on" or "fornton" if you were posh.
ViolentPanda
25-03-2004, 18:50
:D yeah mrs red. I went to a school in clapham called "enry forn'on" or "fornton" if you were posh.
From what I can remember, most of your fellow pupils never actually bothered to "go" there, they just hung around Clapham and Balham, or sloped over to the girl's school on Clapham Common West Side (Marianne Thornton, which was renamed Walsingham) of a lunchtime. :D :D :D
As for Thornton Heath, if Ern thinks "North Croydon" is the new Brixton, I reckon they need to check what he's put in the staffroom coffee jar....
From what I can remember, most of your fellow pupils never actually bothered to "go" there, they just hung around Clapham and Balham, or sloped over to the girl's school on Clapham Common West Side (Marianne Thornton, which was renamed Walsingham) of a lunchtime. :D :D :D
As for Thornton Heath, if Ern thinks "North Croydon" is the new Brixton, I reckon they need to check what he's put in the staffroom coffee jar....
Hee hee. That was such a long time ago! Absoloutely right - a large number of boys just wore the uniform.
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