2026-02-21 18:06 UTC
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@davidnjoku@mastodon.world 2026-02-22 10:16
@lordof1@masto.ai I used to work in Twickenham and our high street was exactly the same - hairdressers everywhere. I think things are changing now, tho; it's vape shops instead of hairdressers in most places now. https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/17/britains-vape-capital-50-shops-lining-two-streets-26945289/
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@Knitronomicon@mastodonapp.uk 2026-02-22 11:27
@lordof1@masto.ai There is no shoe shop locally. The nearest is at least a mile away, and it's a ShoeZone. The next nearest is probably at least half an hour away by bus (and is either another ShoeZone, or a sports shop that sells mostly sports shoes). However, as one local resident once remarked, there are almost enough nail bars to go to a different one for each finger...
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@joshbuddy@sfba.social 2026-02-22 09:37
@lordof1 Hair is a growth industry!
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@jwz@mastodon.social 2026-02-22 09:42
@lordof1 As the owner of a nightclub, I have often said that my dream neighbors would be Auto Glass, Locksmith and Tattooist, because those discourage the Undesirables from colonizing my neighborhood.
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@bazzargh@hachyderm.io 2026-02-22 09:44
@lordof1 30 years ago was walking round Xi'an and we found ourselves on a street not of hair salons but of shops that sold hood dryers for hair salons. That felt like a glitch in the matrix, why so many, so specialised.
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@HollieK72@mastodonapp.uk 2026-02-22 09:47
@lordof1 We've got a lot of hair salons and barbers, at least 3 nail bars, and a tanning salon.
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@shimminbeg@masto.ai 2026-02-22 09:49
@lordof1 my hometown was already like this when I was a teenager…
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@rozeboosje@masto.ai 2026-02-22 09:51
@lordof1 It'll be a dystopic future but everyone will have fabulous hair.
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@syn_rst@norden.social 2026-02-22 09:54
@lordof1 There was a certain road of shops near where I went to school, which, when amazon opened business almost died out. Shops closed and were replaced by low cost bakeries or cell phone shops. Today, nearly thirty years later, it seems variety comes back.
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@cat@fed.cat.scot 2026-02-22 09:55
@lordof1 B ark
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party 2026-02-22 09:58
@lordof1 Event Hairizon
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@nickapos@mastodon.oncrete.uk 2026-02-22 09:58
@lordof1 A shoe shop requires some manufacturing capacity unless the shoes are imported. In really bad times you will only see services shops, such as the hair parlours, nail parlours and tatoo shops.
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@knud@mastodon.social 2026-02-22 10:02
@lordof1 Now show me people's hairdo's around there!
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@SteveClough@metalhead.club 2026-02-22 10:13
@lordof1 He was right, if the wrong type of shop. There are a certain set of shops that so often fit together. And we have the same around us.
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@fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de 2026-02-22 10:17
@lordof1 i've heard it suggested here that, like nail parlors and american sweet shops, the hair places are often fronts for money laundering.
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@tripleman@mastodon.social 2026-02-22 10:22
@lordof1 Tattoo shops, nail salons and hair salons. The absolute trifecta of a hollowed out culture and economy.
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@suearcher@toot.wales 2026-02-22 10:31
@lordof1 We have a thriving high street near us in a sought after area, and it's almost all coffee shops, bars and beauty salons of some sort*. All the things you can't buy online. *There is a post office, a couple of mini supermarkets, a gift shop and a couple of charity shops. But it's majorly hospitality and beauty.
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@DrJLecter@beige.party 2026-02-22 10:41
@lordof1 my town is the same. The barber shops are like weeds, popping up everywhere. Whenever a shop closes it's guaranteed that the next thing it will be is a barber shop or a hair salon.
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@RolfBly@mastodon.social 2026-02-22 10:43
@lordof1 A great variety of enterprises covered up by hair salons. Is it warm inside? The neighbours are growing cannabis.
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@wyliecoyoteuk@mastodon.org.uk 2026-02-22 10:43
@lordof1 Now we have dropped to the level where we can't even build shoe shops.
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@lyndamerry484@mastodon.social 2026-02-22 10:45
@lordof1 The UK is full of Barber shops cafe's and nail bars, mostly because Maggie Thatcher destroyed our big industries in a fit of spite aimed at the Trade Unions, and the stupid UK voters loved her for it.
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@Tooden@aus.social 2026-02-22 10:46
@lordof1 Holy Guacamole!
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@Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk 2026-02-22 10:51
@lordof1 Barbers, hair salons, nail bars, tattooists and dog groomers, the only things left you can't be required to do online. Part of me thinks there should still be dry cleaners about.
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@lionelb@expressional.social 2026-02-22 10:52
@lordof1 Local authorities should buy up shops, designate them as greengrocer or butcher and invite tenders to run them.
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@temporal_spider@masto.ai 2026-02-22 11:21
@lordof1 around here, it's mattress stores and vape shops.