UK is Fucked
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- neverscared0
- ah damn its right above.. sorry.neverscared
- yours is betterMrT
- drgs0
- At least we’re good at something over here.Ianbolton
- I'm surprised at Iceland - I was under the impression that Iceland had almost made DS kids 'extinct' there due to very tight screening policies?Nairn
- Something tells me that across a lot of the world, DS kids don't make it much beyond their first day... .Nairn
- PhanLo0
Painting in public often has strange interactions with allsorts of people, over the weekend, I chatted to loads of passers by but towards the end of the sunday night two Polish guys were hanging out, one is a graffiti writer, who's been out of work as a painter and decorator for a while since he broke his leg and his mate said he made trap music.
They both floated in that street drinking weed smoking style, that is mellow enough but I got chatting to them about their living situation, they were sort of homeless, but in edinburgh, there is very few truly homeless people, there's a lot of services that help people so very few people sleep rough.These guys have been staying in B&B's and I found it insane to hear the rent was £400 a week for a room and a shared bathroom, this was in houses with sometimes ten residents.
So the landlord was pulling £20,000 a month from people who were pretty desperate and they had curfews.The trap music guy had got a flat but it seemed such a deliberately confusing process of getting it all sorted out, he was saying it was quite overwhelming.
I had been in the sun all day and managed to get mild heatstroke so had to apologise as my migraine made me vomit out my triple chicken sandwich at full velocity.
The graffiti guy disappeared and I was left hanging out with the trap guy who had a box full of cd's and clothes he'd found in the street. The housing estate he stayed in was miles away so I ended up giving him a lift home.
Made me feel grateful that I have somewhat of a more stable life.
TWENTY FUCKING GRAND A MONTH!
- The B&B thing came in during covid, but has been going on before that, good little deal for the slumlordsPhanLo
- faccckkkkkknecromation
- Horp0
Broken Stoke video below really reminds me of Birmingham in the 1970s. It as derelict and neglected as this.
I feel like stuff happened that lifted places out of this kind of mire, but none of what happened was a solid structural foundation for continued development. It was like a bubble in mud. It rises above the surface but it will inevitably pop and collapse back down.
I think the Stoke video is arguably the natural state for British towns and cities. We are no longer industrial, so there is literally nothing to build on. Everything is easier and cheaper ordering online, so the idea of shops bece too expensive to maintain for a much smaller share of the customer base.
Without the cohesion of work, shared spaces, and a community based on routines, rituals and beliefs, it all falls back into neglect. If we are not pack animals then we become lone scavengers.
Smaller communities are going to be the more sustainable option vs big towns and cities. I do feel cities are a thing of the past in terms of community. They are good for administrative business only. Ottowa being a good example. It is the administrative capital and Monday to Friday 9-5 it is populated. At other times, it's an abandoned ghost city.
I spent 6 weeks there a few years ago and I would walk for many miles at weekends, and barely see another person.
- PhanLo0
- tbf, it is sunderland - there are innumerate reasons they could've all gotten diarrhoea.Nairn
- ... but small boats ...Continuity
- shapesalad-5
- Tory 'levelling up' went well.fadein11
- went to uni there. it was grim even in 1994-98trooperbill
- most towns like this now... it's grim.zardoz
- Sad. Industrial town centres have been killed by out-of-town retail parks and underfunding of planning depts.Fax_Benson
- Stoke was hit very hard in the 80's, with zero support after.fadein11
- preferred him when he was happier in the 90s
https://www.youtube.…Fax_Benson - That's actually an interesting videodee-dubs
- "that's not enough chimney to satisfy me".. by far my fav quote from that vid!!dee-dubs
- Once did a show in Stoke, many moons ago. Wanted to go out for a beer and asked the gallery owner where to go...PhanLo
- ...he said he didn't go to pubs really because he had an earing and that was enough to start a fight.PhanLo
- is that where there was a nealry 70% pro brexit ?! would be irrational to expect anything else than a downfall to ghost city with so many people with thatneverscared
- national mindset..neverscared
- nearly all deprived post-industrial towns voted the samefadein11
- had 2 fantastic 'rave' clubs in the early 90's though, a little moody at times though.fadein11
- ^saw fights there a lot in the 4 days I was there. I even ended up punching a guy who slapped his girlfriend in the taxi queue, posi vibes.PhanLo
- fadein110
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‘The culture has changed’: end of the boom for Birmingham’s Balti Triangle
- grew up walking distance from it.fadein11
- The food standards agency spelt their doom back in the 90s. The best places were the BYOB, garden furniture and naans the size of tables. RIP The Royal Naweed.Morning_star
- ha morning, The Royal Naweed was one of my faves with my older brother when I was about 13fadein11
- Ladypool Road? a bit above the triangle?fadein11
- That's the puppy. Magnificent food. They had a boss eyed waiter who looked like Chris Cornell. We called him Crispy Cornea.Morning_star
- lol... so funny we went to the same place. it closed about 4-5 years ago I thinkfadein11
- jmckinno1
The worst fucking “news source” in the UK. Read the comments:
- shapesalad0
- you couldnt make it up.zardoz
- The guy's an asshole, but this vlogger has decided to make it into a "look how shit black people are, and white people can't sneeze in public any more!!" rantProjectile
- PhanLo0
New Zealand flags on our food. FFS
-- SS should've done a keynotefadein11
- Excuse you.. I'd have used Google Slides. How dare you!shapesalad