It's totally ridiculous the approach towards cannabis, people are using it anyway, so make it legal, and bring in those smoke shops you lads want. It makes sense to me, let people do what they want, and stop treating everyone as a criminal and bunging up our prison system with them, it's like a turd that won't flush and adding more turds...when the sensible approach is a shop that sells the laxatives to free it all up.... please log in to view this image
Pubs are dying, for the reasons you said in the last post and because my generation and after smoke weed more than drink. Coffes shops would take the pub trade over imo if we had them.
I think covid did so much damage to our society as social beings. It's quite worrying to be truthful, High St's destroyed (due to the internet) and being turned into housing, Pub trade destroyed through constant taxation and regulations around smoking. Supermarkets are even losing their restuarants now, another place where older people might gather, again through various tax legislation. Hospitality wrecked as a whole and we seem to be doing nothing to reverse this trend. Even post offices and banks gone, the PO use to be a social activity for pensioners - no wonder we have a mental health problem, we are destroying the basic human activities in return for stay at homes and do it all online. I will go out and keep using what's left, but can't see it all surving past my lifetime, give it two or three decades what's left will be wiped out and we are allowing it to happen.
Honestly I just think pubs are old fashioned. Firstly in many parts of the country, there are way too many of the ****ing things, in this day and age you don't need a pub every 2 minutes unless it's around a football ground. If we are honest, most of these places were opened when there was simply not that much to do so you needed a metric **** ton of pubs to cater to everyone. Now most of them are surplus to requirement. Clubbing and home drinking have taken over. The only ones who are surviving this wave are the Weatherspoon's and pubs which operate as a Premier Inn.
Do you remember during the cost of living crisis, how supermarkets were offering elderly customers free hot drinks and places to keep warm all day. I've seen these cafes holding various little groups, like your local knitting clubs etc, lol, now it has no appeal to me, but that's not the point, it's taking away this free space to meet and replacing it with sit at home types. I just imagine a lonely old world in the future if we keep on this path.
Same goes for youth clubs too mate. They were the 1st to go and look how the yoof are these days... Feral All by design bro.
Clubbing lol....most of them have shut down as well. Suppose we could all meet at the local betting shop or tan salon....or turkish barbers.
On youth clubs I reckon in my school if you suggested you were going to spend your weekend at the youth club you'd be called a queer and beaten up
Yeah clubbing too, London used to have so many famous ones, stratford rex, bagleys, Watford junction, labyrinth and many more, most gone now. Tragic when you consider the uks affinity and history with dance music. Jungle, garage and the rest.
Well now you mention it. I was away from home for a while and had to live somewhere else, and there use to be an activity centre I went to, it was sort of like a Youth Club, but religious based. I think they were set up by Cliff Richard....I'll say no more. I don't really remember much about them beyond that....maybe someone older might do.
