Absolute *** of our time Pt.MXXVI

[Parafox]

31 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Not unrealistic at all. 

 

If you open 12 hrs a day, 7 days a week, that's 12 hair cuts an hour.

 

These guys are industrious.

I've never ever seen a queue...

[Parafox]

8 hours ago, Samilktray said:

Bet the selection of soft beverages in that shop is class though 

All Monsters you can get your hands on

[Parafox]

9 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Maybe I should have issued a sarcasm alert?

I got your inference. Other people? Not so much.

[Parafox]

38 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Not unrealistic at all. 

 

If you open 12 hrs a day, 7 days a week, that's 12 hair cuts an hour.

 

These guys are industrious.

Sometimes there's 2 barbers in the shop. 2 more and they could make a quartet.

I might visit just for the singing.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Just in case anyone missed it...

 

How to Tell If Someone Is Being Sarcastic: In Speech or Text

 

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[Muzzy_no7]

2 hours ago, Parafox said:

Hinckley has around 11 "Turkish" barbers. 2 are across the road from each other.

 

I seem to remember hearing/seeing a news report that, when one of them was challenged by HMRC, they claimed that they legitimately made around £10,000 a week. At £10 a cut that's a thousand customers. For just one shop. 

The non-Turkish barbers in Hinckley are mostly so much busier and always fully booked 2 weeks in advance. 
 

For me, there’s no doubt the dodgy shops and barbers in Hinckley for example are all linked to some sort of fiddling or criminality. 

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

The non-Turkish barbers in Hinckley are mostly so much busier and always fully booked 2 weeks in advance. 
 

For me, there’s no doubt the dodgy shops and barbers in Hinckley for example are all linked to some sort of fiddling or criminality. 

I think we all know what's going on.

 

If we, the average Joe knows it, you can bet the authorities know about it. 

 

It's how to stop it and remove those that are engaged in dodgy dealings that is the issue.

 

The powers that the councils and trading standards regulators have to investigate and then close suspicious shops etc. are limited. Initially it's 3 months closure but can be longer depending on the offences.

 

AFAIK, There's no such regulations on barbers, nail/brow bars, dessert bars, car washes or (Chinese) take-away outlets.

 

But, it's cash only at every one of them.

 

The public nationwide that are experiencing this knows what's going on, so the Gov must also know. Why is it being allowed to continue?

[Sampson]

26 minutes ago, Parafox said:

I think we all know what's going on.

 

If we, the average Joe knows it, you can bet the authorities know about it. 

 

It's how to stop it and remove those that are engaged in dodgy dealings that is the issue.

 

The powers that the councils and trading standards regulators have to investigate and then close suspicious shops etc. are limited. Initially it's 3 months closure but can be longer depending on the offences.

 

AFAIK, There's no such regulations on barbers, nail/brow bars, dessert bars, car washes or (Chinese) take-away outlets.

 

But, it's cash only at every one of them.

 

The public nationwide that are experiencing this knows what's going on, so the Gov must also know. Why is it being allowed to continue?

Even if they close them down,  they'll just become another business, it was car washes and 2nd hand cd stores in the past. Neither the council nor police have many powers to get involved in people's economic business, so you can't block all these fake shops coming up so will never be sorted - but that's what right-wing economics is all about - small state, low taxes, limited beurocracy, limited power to interfere in the way people make their living.  You're never going to change this when people have spent the past 47 years voting for neoliberalism and shout "you will hurt growth and take away our freedoms" anytime government regulation of economic activity is suggested  - that's not necessarily wrong, but these are the inherent downsides that you have to live with in free market capitalism, if you think that's a fair trade off fair enough,

 

Britain high streets are seen as an easy touch because our high streets and job market is so much less regulated than our more social democratic European neighbours, and tge French have been for years making the argument that if we want to stop the pull factor of people crossing the channel then we need to be more in line with the rest of Europe as its so much easier in the uk for people without permission to work here to disappear in and so much easier to wash money through, because the job and business markets are so less regulated. It's nothing new that right wing economic policy and right wing social policy are at odds with each other though. If you want to stop this kind of thing, you ultimately have to vote for more socialist governments who would make the economy more regulated and increase checks and beaurocracy on our high street stores, but the UK for better or worse is still too bedded to arguments of Thatcherism which are inherently against that stuff that we don't consider the trade offs worth it.

Edited 1 hour ago by Sampson