The changing face of brighton and hove

[Dave the OAP]

To be fair, I lied...I fecking hate them purple *******s, coming over here from Venus, taking our jobs and seducing our women....don't get me started on the greenies coming here for our benefits.

Happy now?

 

[Nibble]

Maybe so,but for someone like me who spent years on markets you can't beat the tradition Del Boy white man traders for humour.

You'd know more than me. I can take most markets except fake farmer's markets .

 

[pastafarian]

I wouldn't have mentioned their origins. By doing so, I would be judging them based on their race (or origins). A dodgy trader is a dodgy trader.

If you phoned up Trading standards to report a bloke selling fake Albion gear who was Asian,would your description be

5ft10,about 15 stone,balding,tattoo on right arm and Asian
or
5ft10,about 15 stone,balding,tattoo on right arm and a trader

 

[sir albion]

You'd know more than me. I can take most markets except fake farmer's markets .

To be fair the Indian traders back then were cracking blokes,but the white English humour is renown worldwide and is second to none.

 

[sir albion]

If you phoned up Trading standards to report a bloke selling fake Albion gear who was Asian,would your description be

5ft10,about 15 stone,balding,tattoo on right arm and Asian
or
5ft10,about 15 stone,balding,tattoo on right arm and a trader

To be fair you'd say Asian as you would if reporting a black man or Chinese man to the police etc.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

I think what he was trying to say is that it's fine if you knock out rip off gear as long as you have good banter.






































































And are white.

So glad I'm sat on the toilet reading this, otherwise I'd have wet myself

 

[alfredmizen]

Many years ago...probably 30 years, we used to look forward to going to the bank holiday market on the race hill. There were always many stalls selling fruit and veg, cheeky chappie Del Boy characters who sold any old stuff and of course the obligatory meat sellers, turning the place into a comic music hall type banter filled arena...I m not charging £30.... Not even £20.....give me a tenner for all this meat and I will throw in 10 sausages...you know the sort of thing.

Today, we went up there and it was a horrible experience. Almost every stall was bring run by Asian characters, flogging fake designer gear...crappy dodgy electrical goods...and not a craft stall to be seen. No vegetable stalls, cake stalls or meat stalls...no banter apart from an violent argument between two burka wearing women over a fake Ralph Lauren tracksuit which they both wanted and everyone looked on as they came to blows.

For those of you who have been overseas this year, especially Europe, you will have come across Africans with their blankets full of fake gear that are constantly on the move due to police wandering about. Why the police and or council officials not depending on the place confiscating this fake bollocks. I even saw fake brighton shirts being knocked out at £10 each! So they are ripping our club off too!

What a hypocrite, lecturing us how we should be taking more immigrants on another thread, and then moaning about it when the consequences land on your own doorstep.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

If you phoned up Trading standards to report a bloke selling fake Albion gear who was Asian,would your description be

5ft10,about 15 stone,balding,tattoo on right arm and Asian
or
5ft10,about 15 stone,balding,tattoo on right arm and a trader

If I had to describe someone to help with identification, of course I would mention his colour. It would be relevant.

But if I were to describe how things have deteriorated, in my mind, and referenced people's race to help explain this deterioration, I would be being racist.

Surely it's not that difficult to understand?

 

[Dave the OAP]

If I had to describe someone to help with identification, of course I would mention his colour. It would be relevant.

But if I were to describe how things have deteriorated, in my mind, and referenced people's race to help explain this deterioration, I would be being racist.

Surely it's not that difficult to understand?

Oh for goodness sake

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Oh for goodness sake

What?

 

[Nibble]

Perhaps we should use IC codes to make it more perfunctory and less about their race.





Let's not do that.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Oh for goodness sake

Quite. The sensitivity shown here can create more of a problem than your original observation.

 

[BigGully]

If I had to describe someone to help with identification, of course I would mention his colour. It would be relevant.

But if I were to describe how things have deteriorated, in my mind, and referenced people's race to help explain this deterioration, I would be being racist.

Surely it's not that difficult to understand?

What an utterly depressing world view you have, it must be a real test to smile, it seems lost on you just how judgemental you are.

 

[Nibble]

I him it's fair to say that Asians have different trading styles than white British. In my opinion that's to be celebrated as long as the old traders have left willingly and not been driven out by cheap foreign goods traders.
Not my field of expertise but I can't imagine a bazaar in Pakistan taking kindly to white traders taking over.
Oh I dunno. I'm going to watch Parks & Rec where everybody's nice to one another.

 

[smillie's garden]

Was he English or from foreign country?

Why do you assume the vegetable peeler was male? Bit sexist...

 

[Pogue Mahone]

What an utterly depressing world view you have, it must be a real test to smile, it seems lost on you just how judgemental you are.

Eh? I am quite the smiler, actually.

And it's others' judgementalism that I am commenting on.

 

[BN9 BHA]

 

[BN9 BHA]

I understand what is being said here. It's not a racist reference but an observation that every other stall is being overseen by an asian. Back in the day, there used to be plant sellers(i'm very much into my garden)and stuff which you couldn't get in the local shops. Now it's just dodgy clothes. The only thing that has remained the same....is the rain on a bank holiday!

Spot on, just an observation.
Not really sure why the OP is getting grief.

One of my sons went to the Race Hill market last year, he came back with some fake Ralph Lauren and Fred Perry polo shirts, they were very,very poor quality.
I haven't been to one of these markets for years, but I don't remember seeing fake designer clothing on sale, only cheap jeans and leather jacket stalls.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

What!! But hang on Bushy says we don't any of these types round Brighton? Just who is telling lies here!!!!? I guess from his leafy Haywards Heath he doesn't see the influx of nomadic wrapping paper/80's poster/ mirror / phone case/ luggage/ phone card shops that move along as soon as the tax man/ immigration officers get wind that litter Brighton & Hove?

** cough ** remind me of your statement about attacking other posters when you've been well educated ( by the private sector ) ?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Back in the day, there used to be plant sellers(i'm very much into my garden)and stuff which you couldn't get in the local shops.

Hmmm ... you didn't happen to use a set of stolen garden vouchers by chance ?