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Hefty
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What the fuck does 'life aficionado' even mean? it always crops up in crap like people's dating summaries. 'Cupcake connoisseur' or 'wanderer of life's discourse". No you silly prick, you just eat cupcakes and walk, so piss off with your architect speak and drown in the overpriced piss you call craft beer.
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Hipsters are now so very mainstream they're dressing up posh #lookatmyfuckingredtrousers and opening estate agents :
http://www.stowbrothers.com/Content/The-Stow-Brothers/About-Us.aspx
Walfamstaaaa > Shoreditch
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Could someone tell me wtf is going on at Cookes pie and mash in broadway market? Rolled past on saturday night and there were a bunch of students listening to the ecks ecks or or whatever in there. Flashing lights, beer in tins, the whole thing.
The old boy there usually shares bitter stories about good old days with me. I'll have to check that he's not dead tomorrow.
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stowbros...FFS.
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Chak
What the fuck does 'life aficionado' even mean? it always crops up in crap like people's dating summaries. 'Cupcake connoisseur' or 'wanderer of life's discourse". No you silly prick, you just eat cupcakes and walk, so piss off with your architect speak and drown in the overpriced piss you call craft beer.>
No wonder the whole medium of online dating failed for me....I think I was too raw. I should have gone with that ^ guff
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Sorry to post old news but I have just seen this.
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I was talking to the door men about three months back when some bloke riding past shouts fucking wankers. I caught up with and asked what it was all about. Sadly he didn't relay his message as well as that Guardian article. I was unaware of the feeling surrounding the centers closure but I question how successful it was in it's former life...a terrible place to sign on.
In my mind I thought it'd be nice to have somewhere local open for a drink, I just don't buy into the outrage about the naming of the business being that bad...esp as it was an art space for some time in between the two job centers.
More reading:
http://www.hackneyhive.co.uk/index/2011/04/claptons-gentrification-at-what-cost/
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Weirdly, I was thinking this morning that maybe I should subscribe to The Guardian because I'm lagging a bit in the current affairs department.
That shit^ has put me right off.
There is nothing more nauseating than the middle-class 'intelligentsia' getting all hot-under-the-collar about the working (or non-working) classes.
This bullshit:
To do something ironically means doing something with a wink and a nod that says you aren't "really" doing it. Much hipster style involves adapting formerly déclassé activities or objects in this way. When it comes to gentrification, though, this inverted-commas aesthetic has a special resonance. Many of those moving into neighbourhoods such as Deptford – myself included – would prefer not to see themselves as part of the wave of displacement and feel some allegiance to the kind of progressive politics that protects and supports low-income inhabitants. Ironic style distances the process of gentrification by putting it in inverted commas. It says, yes, we're displacing you, but we're not "really" displacing you. Meanwhile, for those outside the orbit of this style, the gulf between the jobcentre as a service and the Job Centre as a bar isn't an ironic smirk at gentrification but its most blatant manifestation.
Was clearly written by someone who has never had to suffer the futility of using a Job Centre for its intended purpose.
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"Many of those moving into neighbourhoods such as Deptford – myself included – would prefer not to see themselves as part of the wave of displacement and feel some allegiance to the kind of progressive politics that protects and supports low-income inhabitants."
The only irony I see here is massively unintentional. I'm right with @Jingle_Jangle on this.
There is nothing more nauseating than the middle-class 'intelligentsia' getting all hot-under-the-collar about the working (or non-working) classes.
Hitting the nail very squarely on the head there.
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This is the same company who's just bought the old indie cinema in Walthamstow, who locals have been trying for years to get turned back into a cinema (it's been owned by a weird religious cult for ages). The MP met with the new owners to make sure they understood how much local interest there is in an independent cinema and function space, rather than a pub called The Pictures or something
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The Job Centre is horrific. Some of their pubs are quite nice though, they've taken over some shitholes and made them into decent pubs where they were needed.
With the new cinema in that horrible development Walthamstow, it was unlikely that the old one was going to become a cinema as well. Shame.
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Really? I was under the impression they would compliment each other nicely. Soho Theatre are supposed to be involved somehow, they're doing some sort of pop-up* cinema/bar before more final plans are decided (it's all a bit wooly at the mo).
- In know 'pop-up' has become shorthand for wanker-magnet, but in reality and in many cases it's a way of testing a concept before committing to potentially bankrupting leases and fit-outs, before the naysayers pipe up!
- In know 'pop-up' has become shorthand for wanker-magnet, but in reality and in many cases it's a way of testing a concept before committing to potentially bankrupting leases and fit-outs, before the naysayers pipe up!
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