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Re:'Third places': The ways losing our local haunts hurts us... by thinkingemote on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:19AM (#35945181)
It's not hidden. It's in the title. However the language is... well... local. "our local" or "the local" means "our local pub" in the UK.

"going down to the local" means visiting one's nearest pub.

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Re:'Third places': The ways losing our local haunts hurts us... by OJFord on Monday May 15, 2023 @07:07AM (#35946337)
I agreed with you at first, that was my first reading - but actually it doesn't make sense like that (I think we must have merged it as 'haunts us & hurts us' or something) - it's 'local haunts', which certainly includes pubs but explains why the second photo is a coffee shop, which nobody would non-jokingly call their 'local'.
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