Monday 2 July 2012

Stokes Croft goes national


The guardian has published article looking at stokes croft as a place to live.

This is the first time that Stokes Croft has anything vaguely resembling positive coverage, so it's worth a read.

Sadly, it's flawed. As we've stated before stokes croft is not Bohemian.

Yes, it does have a flower shop, so the "A revolution must have flowers" quote is correct -yet the author of the article completely omits the adjacent retail outlet, Slix -the food of the revolution, or how this so-called revolution will impact the paid-sex industry of the area.




For claims that the croft is gentrified, we are pleased to reassure people that the coloured paint is, literally, a thin layer of paint over the cracks.
  
Nor did the article mention the familiar sound of the A38 -the sirens- or the fact that for many of the residents, Alcoholism is in fact a career choice.
  
there was lots of praise for the Post Office, : "the lovely folk at the post office". Yet the article implied that walking and cycling were the way to get around.
 
Regular readers will know that the cycle lane is for short-stay visitors to the post office, while the recommended transport for the area is in fact a van.

On the topic of stokes croft vans, can we ask the driver of the red van turning right into Ashley Road at about 4:30pm today, monday Jul 2, what did that female pedestrian in the grey jacket do that merited you getting out and trying to start a fight with her? Pedestrians can damage your paintwork if they hit your van or wingmirrors, so we are sure that whatever she did it was deserved.

We were just suprised, watching it from our own van, that the first road-rage incident of the evening rush hour was starting that early on in the evening. Usually the fights don't kick off until after 5pm.

2 comments:

thescouselander said...

Yes, I can imagine stokes croft is the average guardianista's paradise. It's certainly one of the more expensive places to live in Bristol yet you can go round pretending to be poor while spending a fortune on fair trade hemp products on sale in the local "independent" stores. Then when you've got all worked up about the tensions in the middle east after reading the observer on Sunday you can release a bit of anti-Semitic frustration by smashing up the local Tesco while totally ignoring the other large super market down the road.

Stokes croft in a nutshell I think.

Dru Marland said...

Does my boycotting of Tesco count as anti-semitism too? Gosh- enquiring minds need to know!