Sugar (new shop)

[SimonM]

>>right so :D

[snorky]

Shopping - its a carefullly targeted placebo - a substitutre for love/relationships/travel/adventure/excitement and the like

( I am notoriously mean and a skip scavanger in a suit - but with a penchant for 3.2Litre air cooled flat six engines )

[*Bob*]

Asset..

I'm not slagging off nice things. I like nice things. In fact, I really like nice things.

I go out of my way to find them though, rather than flicking through 'Wallpaper', watching Grand Designs and then nipping down Mrs R to 'live the dream'. Such shops are like interior-design versions of those 'GET THE LOOK!!' pages in Grazia/Chat/Heat/Blah magazine.

Here's a puzzler.

You pop down Mrs R and buy a 'retro!!' sputnik chandelier. It cost a few hundred quid. By the time you get it home, it's worth zilch quid. It looks a bit new and rubbish, but it obviously cost a bob or two so you're happy.

or

You take ten minutes to find one of the countless 60s/70s sputnikky chandeliers. It costs a few hundred quid. By the time you get it home, it's still worth a few hundred quid. It's got a bit of character and charm and you don't see the same one hanging-up next door. And you found it, so that makes you feel kinda chirpy.

As Graham from 'Blind Date' would say.. "The decision.. is yours!"

[Asset]

I agree, but you can mix and match. I certainly wouldn't go to Mrs R and furnish a whole room but it does have some nice things in. Likewise Mootoo, although I have never bought anything from there myself but I'm not going to slag people off who do shop there.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Sensible comments Bob and Asset

sounds like my White Stuff argument all over again - no I wouldn't buy a wardrobe there or buy anything made me look like I wanted to live in Putney - but a bit of mix and matching goes a long way

[DaveR]

"I trust you people who are slagging off these things don't have any cushion covers or tea-light holders or shiny coffee grinders or vases or any such things in your houses."

Agreeing to have these things in the house is one of the (many) 'silent vows' of marriage

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I hate stuff. Can't be arsed with all the clutter.

I'm way too much of a functionalsit (and a tight arse) to buy anything I don't absolutely need.

[*Bob*]

Chav.. if you did have money to burn, what would you spend it on?

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Bob - I'd get a big farm with woodland and a fast flowing stream on a relatively high piece of land.

I'd also install solar panels, windmills and a water mill and convert loads of the barns into homes for my kids, grandkids, Dad, brothers and any mates who want to come too.

Why are you gona buy one for me??

Maybe I should set up a charity and raise money to help all the landless chavs to become peasants and subsitance farmers again.

[SimonM]

But then you'd not be a chav any more...you'd be landed gentry, voting tory, hunting foxes etc

:))

[Alan Dale]

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote:

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> Bob - I'd get a big farm with woodland and a fast

> flowing stream on a relatively high piece of land.

>

>

Sounds awesome. You could have paintball and white water rafting. You'd make a bundle out of stag dos.

[snorky]

Slovenia is wot you want then.

[Alan Dale]

Exercise your right to buy Amanda with a law degree, sell up and buy the farm in Slovenia.

Go on - I dare you.

[eccentric]

karter Wrote:

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> Sugar mamma will do well IMHO. The area will

> support it. Moo too sell Alessi, In Sicily Alessi

> have many many branches and they are quality

> products for people that appreciate quality. Moo

> too are also expanding to the rear it seems if you

> check out the old garage they had on Frogley Road,

> no more garage so what that space to see what

> appears.

>

> Oh and by the way, the proposed new coffee shop on

> Northcross Road as discussed in a previous thread

> aint gonna happen.

Hi Karter,

As someone in the know re property in ED any ideas which brave soul has taken on the old Design Six site on Upland Road? and if it's not too cheecky can you give up which site on NCR was going to be the new coffee shop?

Eccentric

[snorky]

http://www.slovenianproperty.si/upload/946.jpg

Eur 114K ?

[snorky]

yes, thats EUR 114K

about ?80K

[SeanMacGabhann]

So can you tell us what coffee place it WAS going to be karter?

[SimonM]

>>Exercise your right to buy Amanda with a law degree, sell up<<

A former Right To Buy "lawyer" writes:

She'd have to wait three years before selling up, as otherwise she'd have to repay all/some of the discount...

[Ultraconsultancy]

Don't chavs all vote tory anyway Simon, to keep out all the imigrants that steal their jobs and get free houses?

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

No, most chavs don't bother to vote because the only people represented in our representative 'democracy' are the middle and upper classes!

[Asset]

not gonna be represented if they don't vote though

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Vote for who tho? How many chav's standing to represent the chavs? How many are ever likely to be selected by mainstream, high spin, middle-class-vote chasing parties?

[Asset]

well I don't know, but voting is better than not voting. What did Emily Pankhurst chain herself to railings for? Anyway, I thought we'd established that chav is not a class thing but we can assume chav means working class now. There's no one out there that is doing it for me either and I suppose I am 'middle class' whatever that is.

At least vote for a marginal party if the big ones don't cut it but not voting at all is apathetic.

[macroban]

> I suppose I am 'middle class' whatever that is.

There are the Upper Class, the Nomenclature, and "others of little consequence".

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

That's why I'm in the Green Party, they are a mad mix of all kinds of people, although there are some in the party at the moment, trying to turn us into a clone of the other grey parties. Hopefully they will not succeed, but history tells us that any egalitarian/revolutionary party always gets sidetracked (infiltrated?) and watered down the closer they get to 'power'.