Re: The Bigger, Badder, Even More Serious Thread

[Pettytyrant101]

as are Turkish barbers - Figg

{{ We've 2 of them! Doubt they are a racket however, its hard to get away with running an illegal business in a small town High Street where everyone (including authorities) knows all your business}}.

[Pettytyrant101]

Shopping online, supermarkets, out of town malls have all eaten in to the High Street- Lance

{{ Being a bit out of the way here to go to a mall involves a ferry and either car or train travel, so thats not been so big a factor. Supermarkets are however we have two in this town, a co-op and a Morrisons, and they take the bulk of the weekly shop now, theres only one butchers left, the supermarkets put pay to rest, and they killed entirely the fishmongers, the fruit and veg shop and the florists. And that was before the full effects and widespread use of online shopping happened, that finished a lot of the rest off, the Mackays clothes store shut hen the chain went bust, as did the Gents clothes shop. And then most of the banks went too leaving just one.
What replaced them (where anything has but empty properties) are hairdressers, nail saloons, charity shops, second-hand and thrift shops, and some tourist knick-knack shops. About the only shops of note left are a couple catering to the rural needs - outdoor clothing, camping equipment, fishing gear and rods and of course guns (yes, we do have gun shops its where farmers and groundsmen and licenced gun club members get theirs from) and a garden/hardware store). There used to be few cafes too, but now there's only one of them left, Blacks, though I do recommend them if you visit, especially their cakes and rolls, all baked fresh that day at their own bakery.

We do still have 5 pubs in the High Street area so thats something, 6 if you dont mind a small uphill walk, 7 if you dont mind a longer uphill walk. But we used to have about 10 and 2 nightclubs, and they were all busy, now the ones we have left are mainly empty most nights, often close early weekdays due to lack of custom, and most have branched out and are half pub restaurants now.

Its a vicious circle online shopping for local shops, once people start to get some stuff online it damages local business till they go out of business, then when you need something quick, say that day, there is nowhere left to get it and you have no choice but to order online.
And in a rural area like mine, though a peninsula, as the road tends to be closed half the year due to landslides and they have to get here on the ferry courier companies hedge their bets and count us an island. So no next day delivery here. If you need it now tough, you've several days wait at best. And it having killed the high street off, you have no other choices.}}

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It's better to have a uphill walk to a pub than an uphill walk from a pub.

[Pettytyrant101]

{{ The one that always baffled me, in that no one ever drowned, was one of the nightclubs, the Pier Disco, it was literally at the end of the old Victorian pier.



The disco was in the fancy building on the left. }}

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I was going to be baffled if the one on the right was a disco: more suited for line dancing.  But yeah, for a night club in Scotland I'd think chain link fences between the door and the water would be called for.

[Pettytyrant101]

{{ This lass popped up on my youtube feed, not bad, she certainly isnt shy of calling out the mess the Tories have made of the country}}

[Pettytyrant101]

{{ Best laugh of the day the SNP calling out Labour at PMQ's by pointing out Starmer has u-turned Labour policy to support Tory welfare cuts and the bedroom tax, describing them and the Tories in Parliament as "Two cheeks of the same arse" much to the annoyance of the Speaker who called it for unparliamentary language, so the SNP corrected it to 'bottom'! }}

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{{ Yup Truss must need to buy one hell of a lot of Brasso for that brass neck of hers! }}