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leonardratso
2 minutes ago, Cosmic Apple said:

Perhaps you should go to the doctor? Unless you have a very long walk you shouldn't need a piss between home and work. Could be a prostate problem.

sorry wasnt clear, what i meant was the only time i go into the starbucks is when i need a piss walking to work, would never go in to buy anything, its just too batty.

It is a fair old walk, but sometimes i dont get the chance for a piss at home cos the missus or kids are hogging the bog/bathroom, Im not well enough off to afford en-suites or even a pot to piss in for that matter.

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2 minutes ago, leonardratso said:

It is a fair old walk, but sometimes i dont get the chance for a piss at home cos the missus or kids are hogging the bog/bathroom, Im not well enough off to afford en-suites or even a pot to piss in for that matter.

I will admit to going in the compost bin when the girlfriend is hogging the bathroom, or if I've been working outside and am covered in bits/dirt.

Good to know you don't have a prostate problem :P

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3 minutes ago, Cosmic Apple said:

I will admit to going in the compost bin when the girlfriend is hogging the bathroom, or if I've been working outside and am covered in bits/dirt.

Good to know you don't have a prostate problem :P

theres no guarantees on that front, i do piss a lot, but i do drink a lot, and no i dont believe i have diabetes, i just like to drink a lot of water and tea ( havent drunk any alcohol for nigh on 30 years - just could never deal with hangovers).

 

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On 08/06/2018 at 17:28, leonardratso said:

Sorry to carry on a tos subject but i used to like reading the who will collapse next thread, so i thought id carry on here if anyone else is interested.

Starter for 1, a tiddler and probably not helped by HOF:

Henri Lloyd goes into administration

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/henri-lloyd-administration-truro-falmouth-1655217

looks like venger might have written the story as well hahaha.

Well done.  One of my very few successful threads on TOS. 

And a much better thread title :Old:

On 08/06/2018 at 21:06, sancho panza said:

 

 

Count's collapse thread was good.So an excellent idea to revivie. it here.

 

 

Thanks SP.  It's getting a thumbs up from me too.

 

Was about my only popular thread that was troll bashed within 3 hours.

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On 10 June 2018 at 22:04, dgul said:

 

Debenhams is dead-man-walking.  It could well survive, but only because Ashley turns it into a Sports Direct concession.

Carpetright has had it.

Moss Bros is in trouble, but might well survive depending on how things turn out.

Kingfisher (B&Q) is going to get hammered.  Probably will survive, but only because of Screwfix.  Expect a few closures.

Halfords is in a much worse place then they're letting on.  Bike sales (keeping them going) will plummet.

I don't see how Mothercare can survive in current form.

Similarly for Paperchase -- they're a 'nice people shopping for nice stuff' shop, but they have huge shops for sales of just a few pretty pens.

Dunno what's going on with New Look -- should be dead by now.

WH Smith will hurt next time round the economic cycle.  It'll survive as a brand, but with loss of a decent %age of the current stores.  (Stations and airports will bankroll it).

We're due to lose a few specialist-but-crap shops on the high street:

  • I can imagine we'll lose some of the 'new pawnbrokers' -- Cashconverters, CEx, etc -- they depend on turnover (not the actual loans), but there won't be any.  OTOH traditional pawnbrokers might do okay (as they make money on the 'loan', not simply the resale).
  • There are absolutely loads and loads of vanity shops around.  These will go -- not because they don't make money (they don't make profits now, so there'll be no change there), but because the wealth that bankrolls them will go.

I think we'll lose some charity shops --the high street landscape is due for a change.  Perhaps because they can't get volunteers to run the things?  (note, just in case you don't know, that charity shops exist to avoid the landlord having to pay business rates while they have an otherwise unrentable shops -- but local councils are now changing their attitude about how they treat charity shops for rates purposes)

Oh, and we'll lose coffee-shops.  All of the new ones, hopefully.  They're entirely pro-cyclical, and will just vanish in the next downturn.

I really don't know about book shops (Waterstones, particularly) -- we've lost so many that the few survivors will probably continue to survive.

I also don't know what to think of the 'boutique shops' -- Hotel Chocolate, etc.  I've no idea how they currently make money, but I could well imagine that there'll be enough wealth to keep them going.  But it all seems mad to me.

We'll have consolidation in the mobile phone space.  The current setup is very 2010.

I also expect we'll lose something big in cars -- not sure which one.  Perhaps Pendragon, but difficult to tell.

Let's hope we lose Brighthouse -- blood sucking leeches.

We'll lose a few bookies just because they're cross about FOBT, but that's just them playing the game.

 

 

Crikey, although I can't disagree with any of your thoughts, I am left wondering what will be left! Maybe an Aldi/Lidl, Tesco Express and a Primark

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8 hours ago, Rhaegal said:

Crikey, although I can't disagree with any of your thoughts, I am left wondering what will be left! Maybe an Aldi/Lidl, Tesco Express and a Primark

jack fulton cannot be killed, hes not human i tell you.

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Unfortunately I work in Bradford, so on occasions have to suffer the town centre if I want to get something on my lunch, and I thought this summed the place up perfectly.

There's a street which used to have: M&S*, Boots*, Phone4u, BlueInc, Game, Nationwide**... all been closed for a good while. Well they finally let one of the shops... There is a brand new Poundworld ffs.

 

* Moved to new shopping 'mall', where the headline act is Debenhams

** Just moved

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im not surpirsed phone4u shut down, if it was just the 1 phone they had. Being in bradford it probably got stolen by the locals.

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leonardratso

some shity tiny vanity projects in the dorty ole town;

15:14

Prescott and Conran restaurants go into administration

A London-based hospitality venture by Peter Prescott and Sir Terence and Lady Conran has gone into administration.

Its the latest of a string of restaurant chains and retailers to fold in the capital.

Two restaurants and a pub have closed, administrators from Duff & Phelps said.

"Prescott and Conran’s portfolio included Parabola in Kensington, Lutyens on Fleet Street and the Albion in Clerkenwell, all of which have now been closed."

Stephen Clancy of Duff & Phelps said: "Over the past few months the group has been undertaking an operational review looking to enhance profitability and exit underperforming businesses. As part of that process some restaurants had already been closed."

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PatronizingGit

Few small chains in East Anglia that can't be long for this world...Roys and Beales. Bigger than a woolworths but smaller than a debenhams. Always seem dead.The mens toilets in my local Beales look they they are the c.1965 originals. Probably complete with asbestos panelling. 

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Plenty going on out there, being the worst consumer ever i must admit i dont notice 99% of it myself, ive never been in a debenhams in my life, and i dont plan to either, probably wont get the chance by the look of it. I think i went into a woolworths once, but that was to go in the front and pass out the back as a shortcut to somewhere else, probably was 35 years ago but i remember thinking as i passed thru the store and eyed up the stock on offer 'what a load of shit'.

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Following on from the Poundworld slow death I've noticed that the list of 25 stores to close includes the BRADFORD one that opened in MARCH! Good profitable store then?! Not...

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On 20/06/2018 at 19:47, Option5 said:

Roy's always does well in the summer, the tourists and broads boat people. So if it goes it will be in January or February

Is that Roy's of Wroxham? That whisks me back to my childhood. Grandpa Gloommonger would take me there and spoil me rotten. Ah great memories. 

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14 minutes ago, Chewing Grass said:

Never heard of Gaucho, what do they do, sell Mexican hats and bags of Doritos?

Don't know but Chico, Harpo, Gummo and Zippo don't eat there.

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leonardratso

Gaucho owns CAU apparently, so that may be more familiar.

They basically flog overpriced steaks.

 

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sancho panza

' The slump to the brink of administration has come after CAU saw double-digit declines in like-for-like revenues, with over-expansion, poor site selection and onerous lease arrangements among the factors now contributing to Gaucho's financial difficulties. '

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Yes, i believe all those fuck ups would effect the bottom line negatively.

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7 hours ago, leonardratso said:

Gaucho owns CAU apparently, so that may be more familiar.

They basically flog overpriced steaks.

 

Pretty much. £100+ for two for a meal in a canteen environment.

Not that I have been.

I did go to the Goucho grill once. Not sure there are enough people left to pay that kind of money for a slice of dead cow.

 

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17 minutes ago, Cunning Plan said:

Pretty much. £100+ for two for a meal in a canteen environment.

Not that I have been.

I did go to the Goucho grill once. Not sure there are enough people left to pay that kind of money for a slice of dead cow.

 

Never even heard (or should that be herd?) of them. 

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