Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@ralphdibny 🤣

So the hype I have felt for the Spider-Man game have varied a lot over the last couple weeks.

@TheBrandedSwordsman I haven’t read them, nor have I read the books. I do love comics though, with Sweet Tooth as one of my favourite series. Jeff Lemire is brilliant. I only wish the tv show was a more faithful adaptation… I really enjoyed The Witcher 3 and the first season of the show but it’s the only exposure I’ve had to the series.

@Kidfried I’m ashamed to say I always forget about poor old Weezer, top band too. I love the simplicity and sheer ruthlessness of just sticking to self titles all the way ✊

At what point does the amount of barbers popping up in your town cross over into suspicious territory?

@AgentCooper Maybe they think there is a market that they can cut into?

@RogerRoger I've heard it can be a cut throat business.

@JohnnyShoulder @RogerRoger I think the only cutting going on is the baking powder and cocaine. I expect when it comes to profits they take a little off the top.

@AgentCooper
I was wondering, while wandering through the town, if you lumped together all the barbers, hair salons, beauticians, nail salons etc. would they outnumber all the cafes, takeaways and coffee shops? It really seemed that two out of every three businesses on most of the main roads was in one of those categories

@AgentCooper @sorteddan Vap, betting and card shops seems to be popping up everywhere in the town I live.

I recall this coming up recently as I remember saying this, but there are 4 places where you can get your hair cut in the mini High Street round the corner where I live. 3 of them are all bunched together, with the fourth one taking over a florist that was there a bit further along.

@JohnnyShoulder @sorteddan it’s a sad state of affairs and the proprietors are always sat scrolling on their phones with nary a customer in sight. Rather more egregiously is the proliferation of estate agents, I mean how many do you need? The health and future of the high street is looking pretty bleak.

@AgentCooper @JohnnyShoulder Don’t forget about the coffee shops and café’s too! They’re everywhere!

@KAIRU My town has had two open in the last 6 months, what on earth is going on? One closed also and almost immediately another popped up in its place inventively named “the coffee and chocolate shop”

It’s hardly surprising, is it, when the high street is flooded with industry that the internet can’t compete with. Amazon hasn’t taught its drones how to hold a razor blade and pair of scissors just yet. As for shops closing and reopening, perhaps offering the same services, this can be down to landlords negotiating higher rents. Perhaps one business owner got a great rate during the pandemic, built a business and lifestyle around that rate and couldn’t afford the increase despite there still being a viable business there for somebody else. Of course, sometimes landlords are unrealistic, too, and it takes a vacant unit to bring them back down to earth where they will be more likely to accept an offer.

@kyleforrester87 Where are all the jam shops when we need them?

@JohnnyShoulder you can order jam online you div

We're really lucky as our high street is mostly independent places which seem to all keep themselves going. A few come and go but they're mostly pretty nice places.

How the town manages to sustain three separate butchers on the same short stretch of road does baffle me slightly though.

It's something I've appreciated so much since moving here though, and even more so now I have a kid, is that it's great to have all of those things plus the supermarket all in walking distance. We live somewhere with loads of amazing outdoor space really close by too so for the most part I only have to use the car to commute to work for the most part.

@Falcon94 This post is Johnny Jam Approved.

@Falcon94 yeah you try eating jam with broken glass in it

@Thrillho do you get a lot of tourists?

@Falcon94 just the aura you exude, I guess!