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Was that the only advert for the festival on that stretch of road?
Brixton news, rumour and general chat - Sept 2015
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hiraethified
Here's what people can do if you actually give a toss about promoting this event: add it to the Buzz calendar here.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
It's a shame the wind didn't also blow down the Lambeth sign that the Haart sign was attached to, because most of the lettering on it is even smaller than the lettering on the Haart sign, so local residents would not have been able to read it from the street either and hence it serves no purpose except as an eyesore.
Maybe it will be stormy again tonight?
Maybe it will be stormy again tonight?
editor
hiraethified
Maybe you'll give up being so pointlessly petty? That would be better all round, I think.
discobastard
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I have no direct interest in the event as I don't live in the area, so I am unlikely to promote it.
Neither was I attempting to score points - I merely stated that it was a shame that the wind blew it away as it was promoting a community event. If you think I was trying to score points you must be paranoid.
I also answered your question about why it was bolted to a council sign.
So *please* give the 'holier than thou' crap a rest will you
AFAIK there's a similar family fun day staged this weekend on this estate (Cressingham Gardens) - I have good reason to suspect that it'll be used to sell regeneration (regardless of consent) as a Good Thing, particularly when part of it will showcase the estate team doing minor repairs for free around the estate. Minor repairs, for free, which they ought to have been getting on with all along. This is on a par with a child who's past the first bit of potty training still wanting lots of praise every time they do a poo.
editor
hiraethified
It really won't have been approved by the council, you know.
editor
hiraethified
Yep - they've done that on our estate, and we're supposed to feel grateful for it.AFAIK there's a similar family fun day staged this weekend on this estate (Cressingham Gardens) - I have good reason to suspect that it'll be used to sell regeneration (regardless of consent) as a Good Thing, particularly when part of it will showcase the estate team doing minor repairs for free around the estate. Minor repairs, for free, which they ought to have been getting on with all along. This is on a par with a child who's past the first bit of potty training still wanting lots of praise every time they do a poo.
I for one have better things to do, and quite a few people on the estate will be boycotting it.
editor
hiraethified
No idea what that means, but I will remain delighted every time the wind takes down an ugly estate agent advert that has been bolted on to council property without permission or planted in communal green space.
editor
hiraethified
What's the biggest word you can see on the board? Whose are the only contact details on the board? What is the only website address on the board?
Unless you get really close it looks like a summer festival for the estate agent.
If you like, I can mock up what a genuine advert for a community event looks like.
T & P
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Community events are often sponsored by companies, and their names will be present. Such is the world we live in.
I still see no good reason whatsoever for the wind wanting to knock this board down. None whatsoever. Indeed, the wind has perhaps made itself look a bit of a dick here.
I still see no good reason whatsoever for the wind wanting to knock this board down. None whatsoever. Indeed, the wind has perhaps made itself look a bit of a dick here.
editor
hiraethified
Ah back to the usual, "I don't agree with something so I'll just make it personal." Nice work. Great for the forum all round.
discobastard
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T & P
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Maharani
Just like Heaven
I have to agree with ed here. A friend from my d's school asked if I wouldn't mind having a Pedder board put up at the front of my place for the school summer fate. Got so fed up with people asking if I was selling and even I could barely see the ad for the school fete I called them and asked them to take the fucker down a week after the fete...I waited and waited and had to call again before it was removed. I made it very clear I didn't want any of their boards put up again. It's basically free advertising for them.
discobastard
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I can't see anybody being mentioned in a way that makes it personal.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Cheap advertising for them. I think they usually give a certain amount of money to the cause being advertised. My neighours had one up for their kids' school fete. I think the school got £25 or something.
editor
hiraethified
I'm not going to sit back and watch another Brixton thread being trashed by the same faces pursing the same point scoring agendas, and it's clear the way this one is going, so I'm putting teuchter, T&P and discobastard on mutual ignore for a month.
This shit simply can not go on.
This shit simply can not go on.
discobastard
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Chilavert
Undermining strikes :-(
You've made the mistake of disagreeing with him.How in god's green earth was my comment personal???
If you're not careful the usual attack dogs will be to defend his honour too.
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hiraethified
There really is nothing to be gained from you belatedly popping in to stir the pot. Please don't continue.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
How does this help?
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
That's a shame - our experience with Pedder has been quite the opposite.
Signs should be forcibly removed if they exceed the period of lawful display.
The problem is working out what that period is in each case.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
When I lived in (the affordable housing bit of) Brockwell Gate, the estate agents would attach them to the common railings.....so we just used to take them straight down again....
...especially To Let ones, as no one was supposed to be letting properties in that block....
...especially To Let ones, as no one was supposed to be letting properties in that block....
T & P
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I'm genuinely at a loss here. The only possible way in which my comment could have been personal is if the board had been ripped down by Editor. The ONLY possible way. And even then I had no way of knowing it'd' been him.
If that is case and Editor seems to be so willing to out himself as the perpetrator of the act, then why bother suggesting at all it must have been the wind?
For all the claims that everyone is free to speak their mind here, time after time it has been shown that holding certain opinions will result in censure, warnings and/ or mockery and ridicule, like the recent disgraceful attack on the poster who had the temerity to say he'd had a great time at Pop Brixton, and for which no retraction, admission of wrongdoing, apology of needless to say warning was ever issued. Truly one rule for them..
I look forward to learning how exactly my comment has breached any rules or constituted an attack on anyone.
If that is case and Editor seems to be so willing to out himself as the perpetrator of the act, then why bother suggesting at all it must have been the wind?
For all the claims that everyone is free to speak their mind here, time after time it has been shown that holding certain opinions will result in censure, warnings and/ or mockery and ridicule, like the recent disgraceful attack on the poster who had the temerity to say he'd had a great time at Pop Brixton, and for which no retraction, admission of wrongdoing, apology of needless to say warning was ever issued. Truly one rule for them..
I look forward to learning how exactly my comment has breached any rules or constituted an attack on anyone.
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