Edmunds £375 poetry haul a catalouge

[luka]

But I thought that that demographic hates Wetherspoons because all the proles and because of the furlough thing.

they wont wont to go in but they might pretend to care i reckon.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

they wont wont to go in but they might pretend to care i reckon.

Spoons is the most Brexit of pubs, and there aren't that many of the approved oppressed minorities in there.

 

[luka]

yeah there are theyre easily the most ethnically diverse and cosmopolitan crowds in london. its not even close.

 

[luka]

@craner @craner whens the last time you were in the Barry one and what did you drink @craner @craner

 

[woops]

we all hate Tim Martin but we all love the Rochester. there you will find people of every demographic that wants a cheap pint. people of every continent.

 

[luka]

not too many actual hijab wearers but literally everyone else is theres cos there is literally no alternative.

 

[version]

Drinking's falling out of fashion. People are more health conscious and nobody's got any money.

 

[luka]

a social life dominated by drinking seems like a relic now, and not a particularly lamentable one, but it is as much the demands of the work culture as anything else i suspect.

 

[luka]

or perhaps we could about a mixed biscuits reading and posit a decline in the stock. we can't handle it like our forefathers could. we've lost our native vitality and vigour

 

[luka]

there's a reason that edmund, at 44, is the youngest regular at the Rochester Castle. he calls his companions 'the rochester granddads.'

 

[luka]

this site documents london pub culture and mourns it's demise but there's something regressive, sentimental and even pernicious about it i think. i understand the sentimentality but ultimately it's quite distasteful. women at home, men sinking a few after work, expecting dinner in the oven etc. https://www.instagram.com/londonpubexplorer/

 

[luka]

the problem is more that nothing seems to be able to adequately replace it though the growth of the resturaunt and cafe sector goes some of the way i suppose. the pub and the church were the twin sites of community and both have fallen by the wayside.

 

[luka]

when edmund says the rochester is the only place in stoke newington where people aren't afraid of strangers he's quite right and gets at something important.

 

[luka]

the new apartment complexes try to foster something with their shared workspaces and gyms and concierges but on a much more insular, exclusive and paranoid scale.

 

[version]

I see a lot about younger people being the most antisocial ever. A lot of older people remarking that they don't like answering phones, don't go out clubbing, can't read etc.

Maybe that's the case for some of them, but they're clearly responding to their environment. A new type of person is being born. One suited to an automated, screen-mediated world.

It's that Bourdieu article from earlier. An environment's been, and being created, which fractures all collectives.

 

[woops]

never mind bourdiey someone's made a petition online to save our Rochester sign it unless you are a total disgrace of a human being

 

[yyaldrin]

Tracey Mc keever·13 minutes ago
when did we become a Muslim state ? PUBS ARE OUR CULTURE

 

[yyaldrin]

how is your poetry haul doing woops? did you already manage to photograph and catalogue it?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Tracey Mc keever·13 minutes ago
when did we become a Muslim state ? PUBS ARE OUR CULTURE

@woops watch out, yyaldrin's found the oil in the water and has just emailed Change to cancel the petition.

 

[woops]

@woops watch out, yyaldrin's found the oil in the water and has just emailed Change to cancel the petition.

well 2 can play at that game cos I've just reported that comment