'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by a34729t on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:43AM (#50368180)

London has been basically subsisting off the remains of the empire while everything else just crumbles.

Also for Frenchman to say re les Anglais "what I perceived was their refinement"... there's a joke that the only people who think the English are refined are Americans (as we are a savage people).

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by VeejayRampay on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:51AM (#50368296)

for me English people are a mix

it's the drunken brutes, the burping, clanic, air max 95-wearing savages, but it's also a culture where entire musical genres emerge, the country of Richard "Aphex Twin" James and Boards of Canada, the appreciation for gardens, the relentless success of great authors and directors

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by VeejayRampay on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:56AM (#50368371)

Boards of Canada are Scots, but let's say "UK" and not "English"

slightly different mix and I don't want to mistake one from another (total faux pas) but for me as an outsider, there's less of a difference

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by braj0 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:08PM (#50381602)

Huh? The French are even more savage and less refined, as can be seen in their history.

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