PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Can anyone shed any light on why there are dancing chilli lights outside Woolworths? Am I missing the obvious connection between christmas and chillis?
Brixton's Christmas Lights - Woo!
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gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
They both begin with "ch"?
Has anybody else seen Santa emerging from his Easter egg by KFC? I love it -- chilli lights.. Easter Santas... only in Brixton...
clandestino
no llevar papel
we were talking about this on the way to the tube yesterday! we decided they were probably left over from something else - i remember there was a latin festival off the walworth road sometime during the summer. maybe they were the night time lights for that? whatever the reason, though, i love them. dance chillis dance!
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Xmas begins with Xgaijingirl said:
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
IntoStella said:
Loughborough Junction: 2004 Christmas light unveiled.
Some bastard has already nicked it.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
ianw said:
I was looking at those this morning and wondering. Decided they were either funny shaped Christmas stockings or chillies. Settled on chillies
I thought they were used condoms.
clandestino
no llevar papel
dancing used condoms?!? 
that's next year probably.
that's next year probably.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
ianw said:dancing used condoms?!?
that's next year probably.
Given the apparent dismal failure of their current "yoot speak" initiatives to reduce either teenage pregnancy or rates of chlamydia infection in the borough, you might be able to convince Lambeth Primary Care Trust to fund them...
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
My nurse told me that Lambeth has the highest rate of STDs in Europe!
But I do really like the dancing chillies! 'cept they make me think of food...then I get hungry...
But I do really like the dancing chillies! 'cept they make me think of food...then I get hungry...
edgarlesty
Viagra Gibbons
chilli vindication...
...i put red chillies on my tree at home this year (the genuine edible non-dancing variety) and everyone said I was weird
then the brixton lights went up - therby proving my insanity!
...i put red chillies on my tree at home this year (the genuine edible non-dancing variety) and everyone said I was weird
then the brixton lights went up - therby proving my insanity!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
edgarlesty said:...i put red chillies on my tree at home this year (the genuine edible non-dancing variety) and everyone said I was weird
then the brixton lights went up - therby proving my insanity!
have you put any condoms on your tree?
edgarlesty
Viagra Gibbons
condomular crimbo
no, they're underneath!
Minnie_the_Minx said:
no, they're underneath!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
edgarlesty said:
Ah wrapped up and waiting in anticipation eh?
Goodnight
Prototype unveiled for next year's Brixton Christmas lights
happyshopper
Well-Known Member
Defend Brixton lights
I've always liked the winter festival lights in Brixton. Some of my favourites have gone but the slow turnover of snowmen/parrots/stars etc. has marked the passage of the years. One of the few excitements of an approaching winter was to wonder if the old friends will return to their accustomed lampposts.
This year's blue triangles mark a substantial break with tradition but maybe they are there to challenge traditional concepts of what constitute festive colours - alternatively they were a job lot from somewhere, like one suspects was the case for each preceding generation of lights.
Any more complaints and wingeing and I might have to mobilise a defend Brixton illuminations campaign.
I've always liked the winter festival lights in Brixton. Some of my favourites have gone but the slow turnover of snowmen/parrots/stars etc. has marked the passage of the years. One of the few excitements of an approaching winter was to wonder if the old friends will return to their accustomed lampposts.
This year's blue triangles mark a substantial break with tradition but maybe they are there to challenge traditional concepts of what constitute festive colours - alternatively they were a job lot from somewhere, like one suspects was the case for each preceding generation of lights.
Any more complaints and wingeing and I might have to mobilise a defend Brixton illuminations campaign.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
IntoStella said:Prototype unveiled for next year's Brixton Christmas lights
ooh lovely, but shouldn't they be blue or purple as they seem to be the "in" colours for Christmas decorations?
BrixiSteve
Reluctant Human
Trafalger Sq
Never mind the lights in Brixton, what about the tree in Trafalger Sq...? We must really have pissed Norway off. I think they hate us because of the war and have sent some bug infested twig of a tree in the hope of wiping out our entire tree population.
Never mind the lights in Brixton, what about the tree in Trafalger Sq...? We must really have pissed Norway off. I think they hate us because of the war and have sent some bug infested twig of a tree in the hope of wiping out our entire tree population.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
BrixiSteve said:
What's wrong with it?
colin37400
Well-Known Member
Apparently in japan there is a tradition of going to KFC on christmas day. Something to do with getting the colonel and santa mixed up i think. Perhaps we somehow need to recognise this tradition in brixton given the prominent location of kfc. Also a friend told me that he had seen, again in japan, a giant santa nailed to a cross. So the easter egg thing isn't so wacky after all.
PacificOcean said:Regarding the Christmas lights in Brixton. Is that it? A few strings of lights hung haphazardly from lamposts. Last night only one string was on in the whole street and already had a few blown bulbs.
Are there more lights going up or is that it? So far it looks like they have spent £20 at B&Q. Shockingly poor.
It's political half-arsedness gone mad.
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
colin37400 said:
There is some problems with the Colonel and Santa Claus, I think it's Christmas Eve when it's popular to go to KFC but I think that's more because they do Christmas specials and also because there's no turkey in Japan. (We used to get them from the American army bases for Thanksgiving celebrations.) Christmas Eve is also when young girls expect to be taken out by their boyfriends and treated to a very romantic (ie expensive) night by their boyfriends - and is marketed as such. Mostly on Christmas Day they have a "Christmas cake" - which is just a sponge cake type cake usually. Recently small children have started to get gifts.. but it's a working day in Japan. Also Easter is a major problem. I had to give talks on both issues to groups in my area in Japan. Christmas is not so problematic but Easter really is a tough one to explain. Most people just think it's to do with the Easter Bunny and chocolate though - start talking about crucifiction and resurrection and it all gets a bit difficult..
clandestino
no llevar papel
IntoStella said:But I am slightly confused by the display on the corner of CHL and Brixton Road, which appears to depict Santa popping up out of an Easter egg. Shouldn't he be on a cross or something?
For anyone wondering what happened to this this year, it's in Herne Hill.
Oi - hands off our Brixton lights you lot! Return the Santa-popping-out-of-an-Easter-egg to its rightful place outside the Ritzy.
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