marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Abney Park Cemetery which is curiously very close to the shop
Artisan florist in Stoke Newington sells sticks for up to £18
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hiraethified
Something as advanced as a saw and a bit of sandpaper, you mean?
editor
hiraethified
Where are these 'fields and fields'? Or do you mean private allotments?There are fields and fields of cabbages and onions around here. Why would someone pay for these things in a shop
bi0boy
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Have you never been outside London? Stuff grows right out of the ground - sticks, carrots, beefs, flowers... all sorts - surely there for the taking!
editor
hiraethified
I thought we were talking about Stokie, sorry.
bi0boy
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So people have to buy these things there? Perhaps there is no shortage of cars, street furniture etc. Why pay for a vehicle when you can just take one from your local road?
Johnny Canuck3
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I'm sure there are; but it would be uncool if people went into public parks to saw off pieces of healthy trees in order to cadge themselves a free ornamental branch.
Fallen wood is often dead or diseased. Healthy wood sometimes blows down in storms etc., but wood is heavy: fallen healthy wood is often cracked or otherwise damaged from the fall.
Also, certain types of wood will be more desirable for decorative ornaments than others. People generally won't want the softer hardwoods or softwoods, like birch, cottonwood, or chestnut. Ornamental decorative branches are more likely to be cherry, maple, walnut, etc.
Finding a pristine length of the proper kind of wood will probably take a good dose of hunting and luck.
Some people might prefer to pay for something like that, rather than put in a lot of work to chance upon it in Clissold Park. Doesn't seem all that outrageous.
What this story really is, is a bit of clickbait which is actually about a non-event; but written in such a way as to ensure lots of views, and lots of 'righteous indignation' type comments in the 'Replies' section.
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Johnny Canuck3
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Two Stoke residents, after a successful outing to Clissold Park:
Neither of them lives in StokeyTwo Stoke residents, after a successful outing to Clissold Park:
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Johnny Canuck3
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^ How do you know: are you one of their stalkers?
No but Google keeps a close eye on them
Johnny Canuck3
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Googling the addresses of the Stars: I'll have to give that a try sometime. 
Googling the addresses of the Stars: I'll have to give that a try sometime.
Google "gratuitous unnecessary punctuation" while you're there.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
More likely to go to Finsbury ParkTwo Stoke residents, after a successful outing to Clissold Park:
They probably do still live on Ferme Park Road
Johnny Canuck3
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Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
Are decorative sticks really a thing?? I've got a nice shard of driftwood, and I've saved a large oak biscuit because it's pretty and makes a nice plant stand..wood is lovely, but a single, solitary stick?!
I'd need maybe 20 of them, and a tall vase, and some fairy lights, and we'd have something worth dusting... But such a project would at London prices set me back £18 x 20 just for the sticks. I can't agree to this.
Unless the stick is for dog owners, as something to throw? Or maybe it's for diviners?
I'd need maybe 20 of them, and a tall vase, and some fairy lights, and we'd have something worth dusting... But such a project would at London prices set me back £18 x 20 just for the sticks. I can't agree to this.
Unless the stick is for dog owners, as something to throw? Or maybe it's for diviners?
Johnny Canuck3
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Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
Many of those products are gorgeous architectural tree branches which are lovely, or horsetail which is useful, or slices of wood which would be hard to cut without a saw thingie.... All makes sense, especially if I'm after Manzanita or Mitsumata branches, as they aren't common in Salford.
But 19 dollars for 2ft of chestnut branch. I am in the wrong business. The ones posted by editor look ridiculous, perhaps part of a wider and more sense-making product offer?
Johnny Canuck3
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It's not chestnut: but that's beside the point.
It might look ridiculous to you; but so what?
What's with this impulse to ridicule, become offended or even outraged by other people who make otherwise non-important lifestyle choices that happen to be different from yours?
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
I'm a crafter, I see no issue in buying wood necessarily. I do think stout little branches of common or garden wood at inflated prices is ridiculous, and probably against the spirit of crafting actually!
Other that that minor issue, I remain steadfastly unoffended and unoutraged.
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
That was me, some moments ago. And you were right JC, it was birch not chestnut.
Johnny Canuck3
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They sell those wood chunks in artisanal shops and florists here, too - and we live in a Coastal Rainforest. Literally thousands of trees. Probably millions.
I hadn't given it much thought before now: but from now on, when I'm at Granville Market, I will be on the lookout for any of my fellow citizens who are engaging in this ridiculous behavior... and will perhaps give a disapproving 'tsk tsk', as I pass by.
The moral/cultural high ground is such a fulfilling place to be.
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
The moral/cultural high ground is such a fulfilling place to be.
... and not a drip of irony intended...
Johnny Canuck3
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Moi?
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I don't blame the shop. They're just catering to the needs of dickheads with vastly more money than sense.
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