Mah-Jong

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• WillM

  October 2010 edited 5:04AM

  Potentially. Far more likely to be talked into a game of bridge though, if that takes anyone's fancy?

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• andy

  October 2010 edited 5:04AM

  Can we declare the gentrification of Stroud Green complete?

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• WillM

  October 2010 edited 5:04AM

  hope so

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• miss annie

  October 2010 edited 5:04AM

  @Andy We could if they were playing it in the White Lion.

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• ADGS

  October 2010 edited 5:04AM

  The 99p shop opened yesterday. I think if anything the gentrification gradient is just becoming more severe as one goes north up SGR.

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• JungleFaceJake

  October 2010 edited 5:04AM

  I often play Mah-Jong on the benches outside Tesco with the other Gentrified types... Smoking Cigarillo's whilst sipping a vintage 'vin bon marché'

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• andy

  October 2010 edited 5:04AM

  Now there are nascent bridge clubs and bloody mary clubs, we're really only missing a Boxing Day Hunt along parkland walk.

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• Mirandola

  October 2010 edited October 2010

  How long would it take to learn? The only person I knew who played once hand-carved a Maj-Johng set as a present for her then boyfriend. He left her the same day, and that was that.

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• krappyrubsnif

  October 2010 edited 5:04AM

  @Mirandola - it can have that effect. In Hong Kong Mah-Johng is not at all gentrified. It's nasty, brutish and short, very loud, very aggressive and played by everyone. Have seen it. That's what I had in mind. @andy I think you may be thinking of American Mah-Jongh clubs of the 1950s, very Mad Men style.

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• Ali

  October 2010 edited 5:04AM

  You can also hear it from a 100ft !

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• JackieEastSide

  October 2010 edited 5:04AM

  I'd love to learn Mah-Jong -- count me in!
  
  My mom used to play (in America in the 50's and 60's). As I recall the women were mostly short, very loud and a bit aggressive.

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• staplejack

  October 2010 edited 5:04AM

  I'd be keen, although not sure about the regularity of attendance.
  
  I was once in a band called Leviathan, Our music was, similarly, nasty, brutush and short.

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