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WTF? cool feeling of poverty? FFS
I bet they are out of business within a year
What have you guys got?
not beardy enough to be hipsters surely 😕
Still deserve a steady supply of bricks through the window.
Guy on the left looks like one of the (young) Proclaimers ironically 😁
He said ‘say something controversial so it will get shared round social media like wildfire’
See also, charging corkage for breastfeeding mothers, refusing to serve vegans without 24 hrs notice, and asking for a doctors note when gluten free food is requested.
Thought you were immune to advertising/marketing, TJ? 😉
thankfully i know nothing about 'Leith' and nor do i care for it or a coffee shop there.
Ultimately if people are offended, just dont use the place.
Meh. They didn't share their pronouns so I'm out*.
No, not "out" in that sense. I don't think.
Does this place even exist!?
Nothing showing when you google 'cafe vine, great junction street'.
Hard to credit that anyone with more than half a brain would be dumb enough to say that out loud, even if they were insensitive enough to think it. Let alone be happy to have it quoted.
Thick as a whale omelette, deserve to go bust pdq.
What have you guys got?
The Rapha Short sleeved Insulated Jacket
Sometimes Rapha come up with nice kit, sometimes, I think they're just trolling everyone
I don't actually know if its a real place but the twitter link was sent to me by a pal
So reminds me of Harry and Paul "I saw you coming " sketches set in Notting Hill
The guy on the right does look like Harry Enfield
Brick wall does look good but what's the betting their £3.50 flat white will be in a cold cup served tepid
the-muffin-man
Full MemberDoes this place even exist!?
Nothing showing when you google ‘cafe vine, great junction street’.
The window appears to say "The Vine..." and there is a place called the Vine Bar on that street, so maybe it's a typo or they've just taken that place over and Google Maps hasn't been updated yet. 🤷♂️
Also nice to see a bit of anti-english sentiment in the twitter comments.
It reminds me of Private Eyes, Grim up North London cartoon.
Thought you were immune to advertising/marketing, TJ?
LOL don't open that can of worms again. That thread is in my All-Time Top 10 🙂
The window appears to say “The Vine…” and there is a place called the Vine Bar on that street
the Vine Bar is on North Junction Street not Great Junction Street
twitter link was sent to me by a pal
without attribution
maccruiskeen
the Vine Bar is on North Junction Street not Great Junction Street
Ah, right you are.
cookeaa
Full Member
well coincimental
Oh well - maybe it is satire. I'll have a look later
anyone got any more hipster nonsense to laugh at? I liked Nickc's rapha thingy.
well coincimental
Totally Mexico...
The place is "real" enough, but it looks like a working mens' club not a hipster hangout
also the pic looks totally photoshopped, no? Especially the "Leith" lettering & the window graphic.
Interesting point though re. being manipulated on social media into spreading bullshit faux-outrage (or whatever "they" want you to think/say) 🤔(especially just wanging stuff on without pausing to think/fact-check first ) Guess it can fool anyone no matter how immune they think they are to it.
I guess tell people what they want to hear and make it [I]just[/I] believable enough & they'll lap it up...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/ @55.9772305,-3.179844,3a,75y,259.96h,89.54t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVmoJpyyc6VU3qDcVW2t6hA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DVmoJpyyc6VU3qDcVW2t6hA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D32.617554%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
The place is “real” enough
as above - wrong street
Interesting point though re. being manipulated on social media into spreading bullshit faux-outrage (or whatever “they” want you to think/say) 🤔(especially just wanging stuff on without pausing to think/fact-check first ) Guess it can fool anyone no matter how immune they think they are to it.
Google ‘white moose cafe outrage marketing’. Interesting stuff.
Totally ****in’ Mexico, yeah?
I don't really understand what he means, but to me it instantly made me think of the sentiment in 'Common People' by Pulp.
Especially the “Leith” lettering & the window graphic.
It was the font on the window graphic that caught my eye - no proper hipster would have a classic script font on any of their branding!! 🤣
Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'Cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah
There's a bike shop in Edinburgh which is very cool inside and will serve you a very nice coffee, but when my dad called to ask them if they could order him in some parts (Campag at least), their response was 'yeah... we're not really that kind of bike shop'.
His first response was to accuse me (working in a different bike shop at the time) and all others of perpetrating 'hipster nonsense' or words to that effect 😂
One of my sons lives in Leith, and I can confirm it contains some right poncy places. At which I've eaten.
And places like the Vine. It's a good mix right now though doubtless the povs will be gentrified away eventually by folks letting out their flats for profit.
I have lived in leith for 32 years - its changed hugely in that time. From one of the cheapest parts of Edinburgh to one of the most expensive. From a run down area as in Trainspotting to its now full on gentified hipster self.
I went to a cafe for a fry up recently. It came all piled up on a plate with a salad containing coriander on top - thats gentrification gone too far
thats gentrification gone too far
agreed, salad has no business being on (or anywhere near) a fry-up.
It's embra, this is just par for the course!
Brave in Leith tho. A comedian was taking the piss out of leithers at the granary a few years ago at fringe time a punter left, came back and petrol bombed the bar.
Really? I can see the granary from my flat and never heard of this. There was a kitchen fire maybe 15 years ago before it became the Granary
Used to be the trading post - a hibs casuals bar back in the day
If think that's bad, look at what these hipsters are saying
Probably entirely AI generated.
Most things on social media seem to be these days.
My dad is an ex navvie, Irish worked offshore in the seventies and still now will have a dram in his morning tea, proper hard and full on pub goer. Came back from a visit to The Vine telling me about women fighting and getting groomed for cash by a guy who’d been released from Saughton that morning during a Wednesday afternoon visit. (“ I bought him a pint but told him to **** off when he asked for twenty quid because it was his kids birthday that day”)
He loved the place
Interesting point though re. being manipulated on social media into spreading bullshit faux-outrage (or whatever “they” want you to think/say) 🤔(especially just wanging stuff on without pausing to think/fact-check first ) Guess it can fool anyone no matter how immune they think they are to it.
I saw this in action regular away on an anti-brexit Facebook group. They'd copy some pro-brexit meme and there would be loads of comments about how easy it was to fact check claims like the EU banning [bent|straight] bananas. Then some utter nonsense would appear which would align with the group and suddenly fact-checking would go straight out the window.
People are predisposed to believing things which reinforce their existing opinions and only questioning those which don't.
The proclaimers hit hard times and open a bar
Harry_the_SpiderFull Member
Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you’ll never get it right
‘Cause when you’re laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah
I always thought the real ire and spite came out brilliantly a bit later in the song.
"Like a dog lying in a corner
They will bite you and never warn you
Look out, they'll tear your insides out
'Cause everybody hates a tourist
Especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh
Yeah and the chip stain's grease
Will come out in the bath
You will never understand
How it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go
You are amazed that they exist
And they burn so bright
Whilst you can only wonder why"
also the pic looks totally photoshopped, no? Especially the “Leith” lettering & the window graphic.
Certainly looks like it, but the resolution isn’t good enough to be certain. That ‘window’ graphic looks wrong, if it’s a window, why is it opaque? And what they’re sitting on is just flat sheets of plywood.
Probably entirely AI generated.
Most things on social media seem to be these days.
Don’t think so, I think it’s photoshopped using original images - they’ve got the correct number of fingers, for starters.
they’ve got the correct number of fingers, for starters.
definitely not from Leith then!
Outrage marketing?
this was one of my favorite cafes in that there London.
amusing name. Great coffee. Nice people.
when I saw the opening post I thought ‘joke’. Must read more of the thread.
There’s a bike shop in Edinburgh which is very cool inside and will serve you a very nice coffee, but when my dad called to ask them if they could order him in some parts (Campag at least), their response was ‘yeah… we’re not really that kind of bike shop’.
His first response was to accuse me (working in a different bike shop at the time) and all others of perpetrating ‘hipster nonsense’ or words to that effect 😂
Hmm there are or were two shops that fit the brief. I can't believe the remaining one would come across like that the guy who runs Gamma Transport Division is really friendly.
I’m on a train with some students on their way to a festival. They have all the usual stuff - Tents, crate of beer, full rucksacks and a 2ft wide cast iron paella pan which, of course, they are pronouncing within an inch of its life when explaining to anyone that will listen what it is.
Made an almighty racket when it fell out of the luggage rack…