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Title: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 17 October 2024, 11:40:46
Within the last couple of years it has changed beyond recognition.

We still have 3 banks, but only one is open
3 charity shops.
A strange sort of 'army surplus' store run by 'foreign gentlemen' using the old Woolworth store.
3 pizza shops.
3 pubs, but only one in use.
Superdrug.
7 Turkish barbers. Yes seven. That seem to have come about almost overnight. I wonder how they managed to get this past all the council regulations. ::)

Change can be good, but not always. :-X

 
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 17 October 2024, 11:42:29
Oh sorry, there is also a Specsavers. :)
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: STEMO on 17 October 2024, 11:47:20
Within the last couple of years it has changed beyond recognition.

We still have 3 banks, but only one is open
3 charity shops.
A strange sort of 'army surplus' store run by 'foreign gentlemen' using the old Woolworth store.
3 pizza shops.
3 pubs, but only one in use.
Superdrug.
7 Turkish barbers. Yes seven. That seem to have come about almost overnight. I wonder how they managed to get this past all the council regulations. ::)

Change can be good, but not always. :-X
Albanian barbers, i.e. money laundering enterprise.
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 17 October 2024, 12:43:48
Within the last couple of years it has changed beyond recognition.

We still have 3 banks, but only one is open
3 charity shops.
A strange sort of 'army surplus' store run by 'foreign gentlemen' using the old Woolworth store.
3 pizza shops.
3 pubs, but only one in use.
Superdrug.
7 Turkish barbers. Yes seven. That seem to have come about almost overnight. I wonder how they managed to get this past all the council regulations. ::)

Change can be good, but not always. :-X
Albanian barbers, i.e. money laundering enterprise.

Surely not. ::) ::)

As honest as the day is long. :)
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Nick W on 17 October 2024, 12:57:58
Oh sorry, there is also a Specsavers. :)


You've only just noticed?


Perhaps you should book an appointment ;D
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: LC0112G on 17 October 2024, 13:02:49
No Nail Bars, Sun-tan Saloons or Poundlands/Poundworlds? If so you must be living in some deprived northern ghetto.
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 17 October 2024, 13:11:21
Oh sorry, there is also a Specsavers. :)


You've only just noticed?


Perhaps you should book an appointment ;D

I should have noticed because it is next door to 'Istanbul Barbers'
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Rangie on 17 October 2024, 14:29:26
 Opti your shops sounds more or less identical to our " town centre" a money laundering paradise. Most of the foreigners hang around outside the chemist boozing & shaking hands with each other , evil scrounging c**ts.
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: grifter on 17 October 2024, 14:45:49
No greggs then so the 30 year olds can feed their great grandchildren? :)
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 17 October 2024, 14:51:43
No mosque?  ??? 

Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 17 October 2024, 14:59:10
What, no Vape shops?
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: STEMO on 17 October 2024, 15:36:13
No Nail Bars, Sun-tan Saloons or Poundlands/Poundworlds? If so you must be living in some deprived northern ghetto.
With a 'cash only' sign in the window.
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Keith ABS on 17 October 2024, 19:30:34
 I managed to get my hair cut in Turkey last week which is a surprise seeing as all the barbers seem to be over here
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 17 October 2024, 22:21:58
No mosque?  ???

Give it time.  ;)
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 17 October 2024, 22:56:08
No mosque?  ???

Give it time.  ;)

Yep the Arabic call to prayer from the wailing muezzin in the church tower minaret 5 times a day will be commonplace as well by then!  :-X
Title: Re: Hoow times change. My local high street.
Post by: Varche on 17 October 2024, 23:24:13
I needed a haircut in Scarborough. Skilfully avoided half a dozen “ Baz Barbers”. Looked in several others and rejected . Finally chose one. The “ English” looking barber said come in and his colleague appeared out of the back. Nice enough fellow from Kurdish Iraq. Family back home.

Just about everyone in Scarborough is foreign. Hardly ever hear English being spoken.