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Identifying the filthy Northern-Liners

What a weird thing to say.

Well, whilst this is a light hearted thread, I can see how some of the things on here might seem to have a bit more bite for other people. And if you took your souless comment more seriously than a banterish jibe then it is a bit off. :)
 
I look for some sign that my fellow passengers are urbans without sucess so far - what do I need to look for?

It's more a smell than a look, to be fair.






Have you tried looking on the ugly mug threads for brixtonites, or offline pics?
 
no one has ever called me inbred before lol

good night and fuck you, you're not worthy of my time gabi
 
maybe they are going to Colliers Wood to see one of London's most ugly buildings, Savacentre, the Bill's film studio's and Merton Abbey Mills (which used to be nice till some dick built a load of flats and a gym in the car park)

or maybe not.

:hmm:
 
Collier's Wood is a strange place. It's in that weird zone where London kind of starts to disintegrate into an uncomfortable mixture of suburbia, industrial estates and B&Q's.
 
Collier's Wood is a strange place. It's in that weird zone where London kind of starts to disintegrate into an uncomfortable mixture of suburbia, industrial estates and B&Q's.

it's been pretty hard done by. the bit round the Mills is lovely and rich in history. iirc Editor posted some pics on here a while back of a walk of his around there.

but savacentre, that building, mitcham sprawl. urgh.
 
I play a similar game on the bus going home.
Where I live there is a VERY high concentration of teh gayers and I try and spot them to see who is going to get off at my stop too.

Going to work I try and spot all the meejah people that are gonna get off when we go broadcasting house.
 
I play this game, and I too reckon I'm about 60% correct. The identifying trait that links everyone who lives on the northern line below stockwell is looks like a cunt. The 40% error rate i reckon is for people who really live in stockwell, and people forced to visit cunts who live in clapham and balham and other snot pits.
 
A variation on the game is to try to guess which band's playing the Academy based on the punters who do stay on past Stockwell when they clearly should've got off much earlier. I've got about a 50% strike rate.

I do this too. I'm not bad until we get to godawful metal bands only liked by teenagers with haircuts.
 
I spent my first four years of my life in Clapham Old Town. I feel many Brixton people have Clapham issues...nowt wrong with the people of Clapham - think of them as being for your entertainment and not to be taken too seriously.

I don't play these kind of tube games. However I do play a walking home game on occasion called Original features where I spot which house/building has the most original features - tiles, windows, doors, knockers, etc...
 
Reminds me of something I wrote about 2 or 3 years ago.

"Arriving at Brixton tube each evening the simplest form of entertainment (bar shouting competitions with my daughter) is guessing who is playing at Brixton Academy from the assembling crowd. Sometimes it's obvious, like two weeks ago when throngs of ageing art school goths camped it up on their way to Bauhaus, and sometimes I only get the as close as the genre.

Last week I was perplexed by a swarm of well to do normals, peeping out of Brixton tube, shitting themselves at the flashing digital signs advertising our local muggers and warning of violent attacks, and the need to keep small expensive electric gadgets hidden deep in corduroy pockets. Many had brown coats and those funny stripey scarves which were fashionable last year, from places such as Gap (street clothing to be worn in Volvos) and Next - what else could it be called?
My first thought was that a coach load of junior chartered surveyors had taken a wrong turn, but it's a long time since the kilns cooled and there are no longer bricks to assay in Lambeth.

The cashpoint machines sported queues of always-do-wells, waving their wallets about and chatting happily. I began to fear I was no longer in Brixton.
Finally daughter and I noticed they were converging on the Academy, and that this was an audience. In a cartoon a light bulb would have come on above my head, the headliner at the Academy was the man cockney rhyming slang was invented for, James Blunt."

I wrongly assumed at the time that Brixton got it's name from a brick factory.
 
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