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@StufferSuitcase @YorkshiremanDan Yes, for certain products. But my local corner shop run by Sri Lankans sells nothing uniquely Sri Lankan. It sells stuff that all customers need: fresh British milk, butter and cheese, eggs, bog roll, tins of beans, a good selection of beers and wines...and much more.

@GDladlin @YorkshiremanDan Even stocking them might be prohibitively more expensive if you don’t have the right contacts in the areas producing the products!

She genuinely doesn't see the problem. There's being thick and then there's this. Foreigners prefer to buy from their own people and they don't want what we do. They will often get things elsewhere. As the English are replaced in many areas, who is going to buy from the English owned shops? The shops eventually have to shut down and then a group of foreign people will take over and gradually take the whole area. Has happened here in my hometown in multiple areas. There's massive stores that have closed in my town centre such as M&S that are now somehow operated by foreign people selling pure tat, with the outside of the shop looking like downtown Baghdad. How can they afford such a premises in the centre of the town? Something to be looking into I think. But sure, it's just jealousy and a poor work ethic. Twat.

@YorkshiremanDan It's not on purpose. Please try to explain, rather than just give up (and prove the point the poster was making).

@GDladlin You are missing the point entirely and I think on purpose. I'm not wasting any more time on your games.

@YorkshiremanDan I get your point if you're talking about halal butchers or shops specialising in African/Caribbean hair and beauty products: you need specialised knowledge and connections for that. But to sell bog roll and baked beans?

@YorkshiremanDan I'm really not. My local corner shop, run by Sri Lankans, sells pretty much everything anyone from any background is likely to need on a day to day basis. If there was a similarly well-stocked shop nearby run by white Englishmen, I'd happily shop there.

@Kristin30247520 @GenZPolitics99 @TheGriftReport I recall there were a few that allowed children, but I thought it was actually against the law for a child under 16 to be in a pub unless it was one of the rare ones in those days that offered sit-down meals.

@GDladlin @GenZPolitics99 @TheGriftReport I’m 67 and it was normal for kids to go in pubs when I was growing up. Many had a children’s room. I never got to go, so I was jealous of my friends that did.

"NO KIDS ALLOWED!" PUB LANDLORD BANS ALL CHILDREN AFTER ENTITLED PARENTS TURN BOOZER INTO A CRÈCHE! Egil Johansen, boss of The Kenton Arms in Hackney, has made his popular East London pub completely adults-only after years of chaos. He blames “entitled” parents who let their kids run riot unsupervised, treating the pub like a playground while they get drunk. Screaming, accidents and parents blaming staff finally broke him: “This is a pub, not a crèche.” Locals are cheering the move while some parents cry “discrimination.” His pub, his rules!!

@GiuseppeMe13526 @admcollingwood @arisroussinos This is the most I can find to support my claim: not much.pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC89…

@GiuseppeMe13526 @admcollingwood @arisroussinos I seem to recall reading that the Normans contributed to the degradation of Sicily's land by deforestation and excessive cultivation of wheat at the expense of other more varied vegetation. Probably just imagining it - sorry.

A world in which fertilisers become massively more expensive is a world in which we all need to revisit @arisroussinos's lovely essays about Britain's small farm future from back in the day. If the Gulf states fail, they return to desert. We are blessed with green and fertile lands protected by mercurial steel-grey seas.

@GiuseppeMe13526 @admcollingwood @arisroussinos The desertification of Sicily has been a phenomenon since the middle ages.

@admcollingwood @arisroussinos Britain's carrying capacity without fertilizer is a third of its current population, and that's far too optimistic. Sicily is far better: there's a reason the Normans arrived here, leaving us some of the greatest architectural wonders of all time.

@GenZPolitics99 @TheGriftReport When I was growing up it was normal that kids weren't allowed inside pubs. We had to sit outside in the cold nursing a can of Shandy Bass until the adults had finished.

@TheGriftReport His right to let anyone he likes in, councils right to withdraw alcohol license for discrimination. Two can play that game.

@LocoCocoPopps @linmeitalks @Tesco @sainsburys Yet somehow the Asian convenience stores seem to survive. White can't white British people run successful independent grocery stores?

All areas had a butchers, a green grocer a hardware store and a pub and so on. Even a little market a few days a week. All owned by members of community. It all changed when shops like @tesco @sainsburys opened up soulless shops and forced those places out of business. It was napoleon who called us the nation of shop keepers. It was external greed that destroyed the local community.

I completely understand the frustration of British cities no longer looking “English” but can I ask why English businesses have stopped trading in these same places they complain about. I hardly see independent English/white owned fruit and vege, corner shops, butchers, restaurants etc WHY?? There are plenty of empty buildings up and down the high street- so why can’t you English pull your finger out? Can’t be bothered? Poor work ethic? If there is an empty building and no one is taking out a lease or buying it who’s English, what’s wrong with Asian, Middle Eastern businesses setting up shop It just sounds like jealousy at times. Nothing is stopping you from opening a business on a high street of your choice.

@pugalventhan_91 @TyrantOppressor 'Take her out for walk'. She's not a dog. Can't she go by herself?

@TyrantOppressor After effect of Pregnancy and improper diet (skipping breakfast). If you want your wife to be slim, take her out for walk and gym, don't make her pregnant often, give her proper diet after child birth etc etc. You cannot do any of it, so just accept reality and 🤐!

How do Indian women go from this to this in just a few years ?

@MyAlteredEgo @artilekt1 @MichaelAArouet Winning response to everything. What does it matter anyway?

@GDladlin @artilekt1 @MichaelAArouet Whatever.

And it’s not my job to pay your salary, it’s the job of your employer Can someone please explain the strange US 20–25% tipping culture? Many countries around the world don’t have tipping as a common practice. The business simply pays the salary. Why is it so different in the US?

@MyAlteredEgo @artilekt1 @MichaelAArouet I'm very aware of the real world of badly-run businesses, which their owners are unwilling to improve. I try to avoid them as much as possible.

@GDladlin @artilekt1 @MichaelAArouet Because there's a real world of which you are apparently unaware.

@MyAlteredEgo @artilekt1 @MichaelAArouet "It's better for the customer to be able to evaluate the service and tip accordingly." Why is that better than the business owner assuring good service as standard, which customers can rely on?

@artilekt1 @MichaelAArouet I too don't understand why they don't understand it. On top of that, they don't seem to get that if the employees weren't tipped, prices would go up in the restaurant. It's better for the customer to be able to evaluate the service and tip accordingly. But these idiots complain.

@artilekt1 @MichaelAArouet - "Can someone explain the culture?" - "Yes, it's the way the culture works in America" Thanks for the explanation: very informative.

@MichaelAArouet I really don't get why this is so hard to understand for some people. It incentivizes good service and is the way restaurant culture works in America. Different places do things differently this isn't rocket science.

@Sosban_in_Exile @robprogressive Prudential risk management. So he can have custody of his own reserves of liquid assets in case of need (e.g. if the banking system collapses), without exposing himself to counterparty risk.

@robprogressive Why would anyone want to have £20,000 in cash? Unless it was for criminal intent. Give me one good reason. Just one.

My friend tried to withdraw £20k from his high street bank & their response was shocking For 30 years he’s has been a loyal customer of this major bank He called to withdraw the money & they said no, you have to come into the branch He went into the branch & asked asked to withdraw the £20k and they asked 'what it’s for'? He said ’none of your business, it’s my money’ They said ‘unless you can tell us exactly what the money is for, you cannot withdraw it' This should shock & terrify you, because your own money isn’t even yours anymore

@IsobellaUK @CraigHouston_ @Stormmaker77 It's not politeness: it's incompetence, disorganisation, apathy, laziness, lack of conviction, lack of direction, lack of curiosity, glorification of ignorance - countless other moral failings.

@CraigHouston_ @Stormmaker77 Our British politeness has been our biggest weakness. Not for much longer though.

Why after 52 years on this planet why is it only recently that there’s been a need for mass public celebrations of Eid in the UK?

@AnneSelf2 @CraigHouston_ The fact that you have to wonder, and that no-one among the entire non-Muslim UK population gave it a try, is evidence either of a general lack of concern, or a lack of conviction, courage, determination, interest, organisation, energy, faith, moral fibre etc.

@CraigHouston_ I wonder what would have happened if a few non-muslim women had joined in?