Artisan florist in Stoke Newington sells sticks for up to £18

[Johnny Canuck3]

What's the Urban group opinion about people who purchase this sort of wood product?

 

[Wookey]

*tunes in to the hivemind*

We're mostly meh.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

...because personally, I'd rather have a nice hunk of cherry wood on the floor by the fireplace, than one of those atrocious wood clocks. The natural wood has way more aesthetic appeal for me.

 

[Saul Goodman]

What's the Urban group opinion about people who purchase this sort of wood product?

It would be cute if your 10 year old child made it for your birthday, but otherwise it's a perfectly fine piece of wood, ruined.

 

[Wookey]

Well, I'm hearing murmurs that the wood has rather nice stratification and is well lacquered, but the antique-style gold effect clock hands are dated and speak, with their clicky little second hand, of a fixation on time which is altogether at odds with the stretch of years as belied by the rings on the wood behind.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Well, I think they're ridiculous. It's an abomination to the natural wood.

 

[DotCommunist]

is anyone outraged or offended by this though, thats the question. I mean 18 quid for a stick doesn't arouse much other than a lol here with me. Lets hear from all the outraged people Jonny seems to have spotted

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Tomorrow's story of the day:

"Shop sells bottles of water despite being minutes from a tap!"

 

[DotCommunist]

Tomorrow's story of the day:

"Shop sells bottles of water despite being minutes from a tap!"

BBC NEWS | Business | Coke's water bomb

feel the outrage

 

[xenon]

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?

Erm. You've been on the Internet before, yes?

If you can't judge people, on the Internet really what is the point. It would all just be recipes, music, Computer nerds and porn.

Oh

 

[editor]

What's the Urban group opinion about people who purchase this sort of wood product?

It's ugly as fuck, but if it floats your boat, get out your wallet and enjoy.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It's ugly as fuck, but if it floats your boat, get out your wallet and enjoy.

I'd never buy one, but I agree: to each their own.

Same with the hunks of wood.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I read all of the Evening Standard article, and I think I see the problem: it's hipsters buying the wood in London.

Over here, the kind of people that go for pieces of wood at the store, are either wearing Birkenstocks and home-knitted ponchos; or they're tourists from Asia. Either one basically being pretty inoffensive groups.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Armed with a chainsaw and a vehement lust for wealth, I today took my first step to millionairedom

 

[T & P]

Fuck it, I'm going to chop all the overgrown bushes and trim down the tree, and put a sign outside the house that reads 'pick your own sticks'.