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Private Speech posted:In Cambridge the high street is still full of various shops and quirky places. Oxford is exactly the same. I lived around it all my life & have come to hate the loving place.
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Dec 26, 2023 16:25
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Mega Comrade posted:Back in my glorious retail days we had a regular who was a believer in chemtrails. He would lean against the counter and just talk for hours about the various nonsense theories of his. Chemtrails  Chem rails 
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Dec 26, 2023 16:26
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Crust First posted:I have wondered if that place was ever open. There was also a traditional candy shop that opened, failed after a short time, and was replaced by a different traditional candy shop that also failed in short order. Plus an American themed diner that was basically never open with no posted hours that has, shockingly, closed as well. I remember Toast 2 Roast because I went in there when I first moved down to Poole. I went in the American Diner once too, again maybe 8 years ago. It changed hands a few times and was a milkshake place before going back to a diner. Its been closed since Tony and Guy moved next to it which is at least 5 years now.
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Dec 26, 2023 16:30
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There's an American Candy shop in my nearest town, and it's surrounded by two or three empty shops in each direction. You can't even pretend it's a legit business, because nobody is going to trek down that street to get some overpriced sugar and nobody is going to want to open a shop surrounded by derelict buildings.
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Dec 26, 2023 16:36
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Guavanaut posted:"Yes people need to fly far less, it's destroying the environment and causing changes to the global climate." Imagine if there were tiny planes flying around at ground level and we were all breathing in chemtrails 24/7.
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Dec 26, 2023 16:39
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There is a Chinese takeaway nearby that I swear must be into money laundering or front for organised crime. All I know is that they sell a main menu option with separate rice for £4.80. These are not small portions either. They have to be up to nefarious deeds.
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Dec 26, 2023 16:47
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Tsietisin posted:There is a Chinese takeaway nearby that I swear must be into money laundering or front for organised crime. My local Chinese and barbers are the only cash only businesses I frequent and I implicitly assume they're into something dodgy together.
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Dec 26, 2023 16:50
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Trainee PornStar posted:Oxford is exactly the same. Having lived in both I actually feel Oxford is more barren - not terrible by any means, but still. The Templar Square, Cowley, etc. high streets are full-on urban decay and the city centre is full of chain stores with a few tourist traps. e: I said it was closer to Bristol but Bristol has lots of neat places. Either way they are both a lot better than most places. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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Dec 26, 2023 16:52
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serious gaylord posted:I remember Toast 2 Roast because I went in there when I first moved down to Poole. Ah I forgot about that American diner, I was talking about Sweet Caroline's which I had only managed to catch open one time and it was... fine, I guess.
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Dec 26, 2023 17:06
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According to my Nail bars Barbers Takeaways Taxi firms Window cleaners Hand car washes The HMRC can't do poo poo about any of this due to a combination of the high burden of proof and the high proportion of cash transactions. Occasionally some weak-rear end civil proceedings for paying below minimum wage. Disclaimer: these are not my opinions but rather those of a filthy loving fed, so take with a pinch of salt
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Dec 26, 2023 17:17
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stev posted:My local Chinese and barbers are the only cash only businesses I frequent and I implicitly assume they're into something dodgy together. If you mean "something dodgy" in the sense of "paying gently caress all tax" then yea. E: I don't give a poo poo really. I paid for 90% of my house extension with cash-in-hand so I'm in no position to grumble if a local takeaway is doing their thing
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Dec 26, 2023 17:17
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Skarsnik posted:He's a good lad so is Wilf the cat. More Wilf would be nice but yes, that's the kind of Xmas message we need more of.
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Dec 26, 2023 17:28
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Takeaways are providing an essential public service (feeding hungry goons for pennies) and should not be taxed
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Dec 26, 2023 17:31
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Private Speech posted:Having lived in both I actually feel Oxford is more barren - not terrible by any means, but still. The Templar Square, Cowley, etc. high streets are full-on urban decay and the city centre is full of chain stores with a few tourist traps. The centre and the north of Oxford are very wealthy, then there's very impoverished areas round the periphery like Blackbird Leys etc. For a small city, it has a surprising number of invisible glass walls cutting different social groups off from each other. I used to live there, and always thought of there being a Student Oxford, a Workers Oxford and a Tourist Oxford, with no overlap between the groups and each group experiencing an entirely different city. I used to drink in the Bullnose Morris, where the BMW and Unipart workers would go and imagine an intrepid backpacking couple somehow finding their way there and being blown away by realising that they'd done the impossible, and found somewhere in Oxford that no other tourist had ever been before.
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Dec 26, 2023 17:49
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*musing tipsily* "Aah, the Bullnose Morris! They used to chill their Stella (the old, strong stuff) to ridiculously low temperatures, so the Stella pump would always be covered in a thick layer of frost. (So sophisticated!) Finishing work at 4 on a Friday; being at the bar by quarter past; watching the fights in the carpark with a good buzz on; those were the days!" *Heads back to the bar again*
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Dec 26, 2023 17:56
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Lady Demelza posted:There's an American Candy shop in my nearest town, and it's surrounded by two or three empty shops in each direction. You can't even pretend it's a legit business, because nobody is going to trek down that street to get some overpriced sugar. Most of the stock in those "American Candy" shops is expired and not meant to be sold. The money laundering is done by opening a second business and buying all the stock from the first business at a premium before closing it down. Rinse and repeat, so to speak.
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Dec 26, 2023 18:10
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Yeah it's a good policy but also not a top thousand priority that'll probably fail to be achieved because closing down money laundering would gently caress up a lot of potential donor's businesses.
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Dec 26, 2023 18:16
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Pistol_Pete posted:The centre and the north of Oxford are very wealthy, then there's very impoverished areas round the periphery like Blackbird Leys etc. These are the same bit (it's the city centre and is, as you suggest, not Cowley or Blackbird Leys or indeed Barton)
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Dec 26, 2023 18:18
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Wachter posted:According to my Sorry to dirty up y'all's thread with my burgerposting, but do you really refer to UK government employees as "feds?"
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Dec 26, 2023 18:19
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No
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Dec 26, 2023 18:20
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mycomancy posted:Sorry to dirty up y'all's thread with my burgerposting, but do you really refer to UK government employees as "feds?" No, but it's a fun thing to import from the US occasionally.
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Dec 26, 2023 18:30
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Unlike candy.
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Dec 26, 2023 18:31
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OwlFancier posted:No, but it's a fun thing to import from the US occasionally. Yeah when I temped in one particular office- (before the days of mobile phones) one of the guys always used to come in from site visits and say "anyone after me?" and I always used to say "the feds" - we both thought it was hilarious. Little things etc.
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Dec 26, 2023 18:39
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Lady Demelza posted:There's an American Candy shop in my nearest town, and it's surrounded by two or three empty shops in each direction. You can't even pretend it's a legit business, because nobody is going to trek down that street to get some overpriced sugar and nobody is going to want to open a shop surrounded by derelict buildings. *steps out of shadows and opens my beige trench coat, lined with overpriced american sweets and shitey old hersheys chocolate* eer m8 u fancy somefing sweet??
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Dec 26, 2023 18:39
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OwlFancier posted:No, but it's a fun thing to import from the US occasionally. Just be sure to say it in a Brooklyn accent.
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Dec 26, 2023 18:41
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crispix advising some ladies on confectionary
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Dec 26, 2023 18:49
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your sex perverts back them days had to go outside for to do their sex-crimes, isn't it
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Dec 26, 2023 18:52
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Two had strokes from what I heard. The third couldn't reach.
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Dec 26, 2023 18:59
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Yea not general government employees, 'feds' is used to refer to police usually
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Dec 26, 2023 19:12
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feedmegin posted:These are the same bit (it's the city centre and is, as you suggest, not Cowley or Blackbird Leys or indeed Barton) The students experience the colleges and other city centre facilities as insiders: they live there, are part of the institutions and belong to the appropriate social class. The tourists experience these things as outsiders: they visit briefly and take photos but are not part of that social class and do not belong to the institutions. A typical student would never interact with a typical tourist and vice versa. They might be in the same physical space but are experiencing Oxford in completely different ways.
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Dec 26, 2023 19:19
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Pistol_Pete posted:The students experience the colleges and other city centre facilities as insiders: they live there, are part of the institutions and belong to the appropriate social class. The tourists experience these things as outsiders: they visit briefly and take photos but are not part of that social class and do not belong to the institutions. A typical student would never interact with a typical tourist and vice versa. They might be in the same physical space but are experiencing Oxford in completely different ways. To expand on that a bit, the 'working people' of oxford experience a completely different thing to both.. Unless you've got a well paid job, your likely going to be earning poo poo money & paying top tier rent to live in a poo poo hole.
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Dec 26, 2023 19:39
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There's also a tiny subset of student oxford which is that experienced by diversity hire students who aren't from obscenely wealthy backgrounds. Where they can afford to live and socialise is a bizarre liminal space, perpetually broke and draining their families resources because they're not allowed part time jobs while also constantly having the obscene wealth of their cohort rubbed in their faces. The pitch for Saltburn sort of looks like it might be about that sort of thing. I've known a few people who were in that situation and it usually breaks them by alienating them from both worlds. Gorn Myson posted:I get why you'd clamp down on those stores, and I get why Labour have announced that they intend to, but I want to know what their actually watered down policy will be by the time the election rolls around.
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Dec 26, 2023 19:58
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Pistol_Pete posted:The students experience the colleges and other city centre facilities as insiders: they live there, are part of the institutions and belong to the appropriate social class. The tourists experience these things as outsiders: they visit briefly and take photos but are not part of that social class and do not belong to the institutions. A typical student would never interact with a typical tourist and vice versa. They might be in the same physical space but are experiencing Oxford in completely different ways. Like The City and the City: "The City & the City is a novel by British author China Miéville that follows a wide-reaching murder investigation in two cities that exist side by side, each of whose citizens are forbidden to go into or acknowledge the other city" "These two cities actually occupy much of the same geographical space, but via the volition of their citizens (and the threat of the secret power known as Breach), they are perceived as two different cities. A denizen of one city must dutifully "unsee" (that is, consciously erase from their mind or fade into the background) the denizens, buildings, and events taking place in the other city – even if they are an inch away. This separation is emphasised by the style of clothing, architecture, gait, and the way denizens of each city generally carry themselves. Residents of the cities are taught from childhood to recognise things belonging to the other city without actually seeing them."
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Dec 26, 2023 20:03
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Jedit posted:Most of the stock in those "American Candy" shops is expired and not meant to be sold. The money laundering is done by opening a second business and buying all the stock from the first business at a premium before closing it down. Rinse and repeat, so to speak. All the corner shop/convenience store places around here also have a small display of american candy (together with a big sign in the doorway advertising it). I assume that's where it goes after its failed to sell in the high street american candy shops.
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Dec 26, 2023 20:12
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Bobby Deluxe posted:There's also a tiny subset of student oxford which is that experienced by diversity hire students who aren't from obscenely wealthy backgrounds. Where they can afford to live and socialise is a bizarre liminal space, perpetually broke and draining their families resources because they're not allowed part time jobs while also constantly having the obscene wealth of their cohort rubbed in their faces. I've got a friend in his 60's who grew up in Barton with all the rough kids, at 13 he won a scholarship at one of the colleges in oxford. It hosed him up... He no longer fitted in with his old mates because he was going to the 'posh school' & on the other side he was a broke arse fucker from a council estate to all his classmates at school. He's a good bloke & didn't deserve that poo poo.
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Dec 26, 2023 20:12
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Ricky Gervais Netflix review. Imagine Bernard Manning on stage for 90 minutes telling the most extreme, cruel racist and sexist jokes imaginable and then cackling and explaining he’s doing it ironically
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Dec 26, 2023 20:38
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Like The City and the City: I think it was that one anyway, most of it goes over my head but it's just nice to hear Riley and Alice talking about clever stuff.
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Dec 26, 2023 20:43
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smellmycheese posted:Ricky Gervais Netflix review. Imagine Bernard Manning on stage for 90 minutes telling the most extreme, cruel racist and sexist jokes imaginable and then cackling and explaining he’s doing it ironically god he really is a horrible oval office
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Dec 26, 2023 20:45
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crispix posted:god he really is a horrible oval office I watched some because my wife liked him in Afterlife and it is honestly like the worst of 1970s working men’s club comedy but with him saying “ha ha! It’s just an act lol!!!” Genuinely feels like we are due a comedy revolution like the early 80s where this hateful poo poo is rightly mocked and consigned to the bin.
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smellmycheese posted:Ricky Gervais Netflix review. Imagine Bernard Manning on stage for 90 minutes telling the most extreme, cruel racist and sexist jokes imaginable and then cackling and explaining he’s doing it ironically Say the most offensive jokes possible but you're dressed as cross between a music hall comic and a circus clown, so it's actually ironic, anyway here's a piano interlude**. Gervais has just managed to reinvent that without the hat and jacket and piano. Honk honk. *which my phone autocorrected to white, which also works **the song is also racist
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