Fuck Gentrification - Join the Fuck Parade...Part 3!
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Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Giving the finger how? By making a profit? I don't understand that mentality. I work in an area that sells stuff (mostly antiques) which I could never afford. I don't get why that's an insult I should tàke personally. It is a symptom of gross inequality but I don't think the right way to go about fixing that is intimidating shop owners.
You can sit down and have a chat with someone at the cereal place. You are paying for the surroundings there as well. I fail to see the difference.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Landlords have a fair sense of how much the market will bear too - and will set rents accordingly.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
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hiraethified
Landlords? Fair? Hahahahahahahaha.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Has the area you work in suddenly become an area that sells antiques, such that other shops with more utility for poorer locals like yourself have been driven out? If not,then your analogy wasn't worth the thought it took to write it.
Perhaps because you're unable to differentiate between venues for eating, and venues for entertainment?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i think the collective noun is infestation. an infestation of outraged liberals.Outraged liberal magnet, this thread.
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hiraethified
You literally can't move for Hipster Cereal Cafe Pool teams, Hipster Cereal Cafe quiz nights, Hipster Cereal Cafe darts teams and I love it when they put on free live music and entertainment in the Hipster Cereal Cafe. And it's great they way they let OAPS sit there all night with just a half of bowl of rice crispies. Oh wait....
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Generally after the fact of gentrification, thus revealing that such traders make a rod for their own backs by gentrifying. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind, as far as they're concerned, but it fucks over local traders and their customers even further.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Pasties for the pasty-faced generation.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
What's your point? That they are not a charity? Neither are other businesses. Neither I bet, was the previous business they replaced.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Quite. Pubs are (and have been historically, too) local social venues in a way that few cafes or restaurants (or cereal bars) will ever be.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
^^^^Not waving, but drowning.
And there are heaps of bars along Brick Lane which don't have pool teams, quiz nights,darts teams and charge for entry when they have music on. They certainly wouldn't be very accommodating to a broke OAP either.
McDonalds must be chuffed that its cool to hate small businesses instead these days.
I'm guessing fried chicken chains, bookies and electrical stores offering credit at outrageous APR don't get targeted though... since they provide such a great service to the local community too.
Nah it is definitely 'hipsters' that need putting in their place, well done to the protesters I'm sure you'll change a lot...
I'm guessing fried chicken chains, bookies and electrical stores offering credit at outrageous APR don't get targeted though... since they provide such a great service to the local community too.
Nah it is definitely 'hipsters' that need putting in their place, well done to the protesters I'm sure you'll change a lot...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
oh fuck off. i bet the business they replaced actually served the local community rather than lining their pockets off the backs of hipster tourists.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Why do you hate champagne and...
...oh, sorry, wrong thread
...oh, sorry, wrong thread
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
What if (as is more than likely) the local community contains hipsters who want to pay for overpriced cereal? Or do their views not count?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
and the problem comes when the market will bear what is a lot more than even a third of the average wage thusly pricing people out. Not just london where this happens either, it just gets more coverage in that there. Most big towns and cities will have over the years seen some it. In slo-mo for the big towns praps. I'd have left the cereal prats to it but the estate agents was a fair hit.
This thread has attracted loads of irrelevant tossers.
cantsin
Well-Known Member
what would attacking RBS in Lpool St have had to do with Gentrification in Shoreditch ?
well it was started by one to be fair...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
so you're suggesting hipsters actively want to be ripped off. you may know more of the hipster community than i, but i think you are talking out your arse.
You know that poster?
what does a cereal bar have to do with it either - they don't seem to charge any more than a kebab shop and are cheaper than a curry house...
perhaps a building development or an estate agency might be more in line with what you're actually protesting about?
nope, do you know the various people you're referring to as 'irrelevant tossers'?
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