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You gotta be kidding me with that picture!

I will find some more pictures I took but forgot to upload in the past for tomorrow.

lol@ cone picture

so many have closed near me! not that i really went in them, but still

Pubs are closing for a lot of reasons. I'll think of some:

• People's homes are far more pleasant than they once were, with central heating, satellite TV, Internet connections, good supermarket beer and so on.
• The relative high cost of drinking in pubs as compared to the supermarket though this was never a problem in the past. I think the dynamics have changed in this regard due to many pubs being so stale, quiet and depressing places.
• The drink-driving legislation slightly increased the amount of pub closures from the 1970s onwards, leading to a lot of rural pubs closing but this cannot be blamed for the massive rise in British pub closures in the last five years.
• The mandatory smoking ban which is without doubt one of the toughest in the whole of Europe (along with the Republic of Ireland's).
• A younger generation that sees pub-going as something far more disposable and much less important to them than the previous generation - i.e. demographic changes.
• A lot of areas being swamped with immigrants, especially those from the South Asian, Afro-Caribbean and Chinese communities who either don't see any point in pub-going or in fact are specifically prohibited from doing so by their fairy book.
• Bad customer service and a stale eating environment.
• Inconsiderate, rude and thuggish punters; people less willing to pay more to spend time with people they don't particularly like or wish to socialise with.

Of course, we have exactly the same thing in the UK with businesses closing left, right and centre. Here's a photo I took in Preston in late September:



You'll see this up and down the country in the UK, especially in densely-populated urban areas and town/city centres. Generally, the more deprived the area the worse it looks and the more empty buildings there are. Not even the famed British love of charity shops and discount stores can occupy all the buildings.



A lot of people that mourned pub closures never went in them in the first place. I used to do a lot more than I do now. I go in one perhaps once a week if that. The range of beers and the 'delightful' company put paid to that.

Some from today:

where was the purple microwave and can you buy it for me?

Click the photo and it shall reveal all.

Just because you're a woman and I know you women like being lazy I'll spell it out: Longridge Electricals, Berry Lane, Longridge.

that's pretty far...

Tadaaa: http://www.longridge-electrical.co.uk/

Longridge has a great fell. It's called Longridge fell.

i want to go to preston and buy electrical goods in quaint shops where they handwrite pricetags:(

Eeee... hand-written price tags, dead flies in the window. Those were t' days.
*goes nostalgic*

Don't forget the exotic hand carved wooden statue in the corner covered in dust and cobwebs that the owner bought on a whim 15 years ago and has never sold.

I went to secondary school in preston. It's really not that quaint, just a bit backward. And rundown.

Is it?! You don't say.



Aye, we are a bit backward and rundown up here. Some more so than others, mind you but as our diet is mainly made up of...



...I think you might be expecting a bit too much there.



It's not quite that bad, you know. You have to go to rural Wales for that sort of thing.



Can I help you?

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*wipes tear from eye*

Actually, seeing that block of lard reminded me that I used to love bread-n-dripping sarnies, especially the jelly bits.

In Bcharre - Northern Lebanon.

















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