What part of Belfast are you from? You see I have this great business idea to import bottled water from all over the world and sell it for £5 a pop...it will be great don't you think, i'll even throw in a coloured straw FREE with each purchase. Sure some people might not be able to afford it but i'll make sure to donate a case or two to local charities to ease my social conscience. What do you think? We will call it a cultural exchange to silence the dissenters.
No he doesn't. If you were on television news program you too would have to wear an outfit that reflects the shows values: a uniform.
People really don't need to earn as much as you think to afford to pay £3.20 for a bowl of cereal in a brightly decorated room.
And that's the whole bloody point. You don't have to be a millionaire to spend three quid on a bowl of cereal.
Oh fuck off. I know full well what the life of a freelance journo is like, and one who is getting gigs on national tv will be doing ok.
Yeah, you're right.It's as if he couldn't choose between insulting him for wearing an expensive suit or a cheap one so he tried an amalgamation of the two
How is that the point of the proprietor accusing him of wearing an 'overpriced river island suit'.
Surely most 'hipsters' are students?
No, but you do have to be able to afford more than the very basics, which I believe is the point being made. It's not being said that people don't have £3.20 to spend, just that it will go on countless other things before many would consider using it on one bowl of cereal.
Well the test of that will be if it survives. You can say the same thing about drinking coffee at starbucks or having a pint at the pub, or a curry at a curryhouse, or a whole number of other things. This is a disposable income place, just like loads and loads of places all around it.
I was thinking of graphic designers, tbh. Hence a wage around 30k. There seems to be some misplaced idea here that hipsters are some fabulously wealthy group.
And those kind of establishments have never come in for similar criticism? Of course they have, it's just this is a new story, and has a bit of 'flavour' because it's more unusual.
Like pubs, you mean?
Used to be. And I know the rates.
See this is not true. How come private rents in the surrounding community are sky-high? There are pretty wealthy people living around there too, and they are also part of the 'surrounding community'. And guess what, very very very few businesses open with the aim of serving the poorest people with no money for anything other than the basics. Many of them aim at those with at least some disposable income.
To be honest, a lot of pub prices leave me sick as well, particularly as someone who drinks soft drinks. Probably still more 'value added' than £3.20 for a bowl of cereal, though, and with a broader appeal.
The value added is mostly in the form of the room to drink/eat your cereal in. We'll see if this works. My guess is that it won't. But that doesn't make it an evil idea.
