Green shoots

lostinrates

Snooze wrote: »

. No 28 year old wants to sit down in a pub..... on a Saturday night.... and they certainly don't drink bitter! I'm surprised he didn't mention his pipe or slippers in his rant...

Rob

They do if they wear vertiginous heels or have mobilty problems.

Or both

I'm guessing Cleaver's GF isn't keen on him wearing his high heels on nights out though

lostinrates

SGE1 wrote: »

Tut tut, how short-sighted of you? Cleaver's a trannie wearing fabulous footwear, and as a lady who enjoys wearing beautiful (but uncomfortable) heels, I understand that having a bit of a sit down is very important. And I'm only 23.

oops, sorry SGE1...didn't have you on ignore, just missed this

Cleaver

I feel I have a few things to clarify and add:

1) Good news on the date front Sue. Have fun.

2) I don't really think that a packed city centre mean's we're okay. But I have never seen it that busy, and it wasn't really that sunny here yesterday (it is Manchester remember). Must just be one of those things.

3) Snooze: Long gone are the days when bitter signifies an old man with a pipe and slippers. We were in NYC in January and micro-breweries and local 'ales', as they call them, are all the rage. Lager is fine when it's a really hot day, or you've having a BBQ. Otherwise, something with flavour is necessary.

4) I've always liked sitting down in pubs. It did a bit of dancing in my uni days but, as a general rule, I prefer a trip to the dentist than I do a night out dancing. Luckily we have a gay couple we are friends with and Mrs C goes on nights out to the village where she can boogie away until 4am along to awful Euro-pop anthems. (On another note, one thing I've noticed, and surely other people have, are these couples that sit in pubs all dressed up and just don't talk. It makes me really sad, they must have just run out of things to say.) Anyway, nobody need worry about Mrs Cleaver, she gets her dancing shoes on regulary enough but, I think, enjoys her drinkies with me too. But thanks for your concern.

5) I am 28, and only turned 28 very recently. I felt I could get away with 'mid-twenties' at 27, but must now admit that I'm late twenties.

6) I'm not on crack.

7) The trannie comment is spot on. I'm going to have a foot spa today.

SGE1

lostinrates wrote: »

They do if they wear vertiginous heels or have mobilty problems.

Or both

I'm guessing Cleaver's GF isn't keen on him wearing his high heels on nights out though

She doesn't mind, he lets her wear them occasionally. Luckily he has very small feet for a man. They're still a size bigger than hers, but nothing a Sholl insole can't fix.

Zelie

Cleaver wrote: »

I've had one too many, I'm watching a recording of Match Of The Day and I'm posting about my wife's ars* on an internet forum. Time for bed methinks.

It's quite cute actually. Your posting I mean. Dunno about yours or Mrs C's !!!!!!.

Snooze

Cleaver wrote: »

On another note, one thing I've noticed, and surely other people have, are these couples that sit in pubs all dressed up and just don't talk. It makes me really sad, they must have just run out of things to say

It's nothing to do with that. When the 'music' is being pumped out at 120dB it kinda makes any form of discussion a bit difficult..

Rob

The_Fat_el_Hombre

Cleaver wrote: »

I've never posted a thread of this type before, but everyone else does and I want to jump on board.

Me and Mrs Cleave went out tonight and everywhere was fluppin' packed. Heaving. Absolutely packed to the rafters with people. If there is one upside, just one, to this recession it should be that I can get a seat in a pub or bar when I go out on a Saturday night. But oooohhhh no, people aren't paying off that debt, aren't saving for the future, aren't thinking of tomorrow... they're out drinking. And drinking in every bar I want to go in. B*stards. Is it too much to ask? I'm 28 and I want to sit down. I can cope with RnB, I can cope with not being able to drink bitter and having to pay £3.45 for a pint of Staroparomenanmamenenanennannnen, I can cope with DJs playing 'mash ups' of the A-Team mixed with Public Enemy and I can cope with every single bloke having a third division footballer's haircut. But I like to be able to sit down. And I can't. Because every drinking establishment has 17,256 people in it.

So you heard it here first. Recession over. Everywhere bloody heaving. Houses will now start selling, FTSE will rise 30% by the end of the year and alcohol sales will treble (at least in Manchester). Green shoots people, green shoots.

Haha, well wherabouts in Manchester did you go?

fc123

Cleaver wrote: »

So you heard it here first. Recession over. Everywhere bloody heaving. Houses will now start selling, FTSE will rise 30% by the end of the year and alcohol sales will treble (at least in Manchester). Green shoots people, green shoots.

I was going to post onto SGE1's thread the other day about Recession? Could you tell if you hadn't read about it?....and then I got distracted. May as well hijack Cleavers...and I am sober.:o

I had a Central + East London day this week. Things to do, errands to run, people to meet plus wanted to recky a new venture I am involved in.

Recession what recession? I was in areas that I have been involved in for over 2 decades. There was so much shopping, spending, queueing for sandwich, pushing through crowds, watching young girls scoop up armfuls of fashion in TopShop. Then I thought, it was just like this during the 90's when I was in my 20's.

I sell in several ways at the moment and it's the same feeling. Barely noticeable via some channnels. + have just taken on a distributor up north and sent a bit of stock up....sold out in 1 weekend. Manchester must be doing fine

Brighton has been rammed with visitors this weekend and our shop is as busy as ever....but it's our local spend that has skewed the figures downwards, the reason is not just credit crunch but local changes out of our control + an increase in overheads.

In SE London, new developments near me are still being completed, no sign of abandoned new build at all.

On here, it feels like a different world to the one I look at when I am out and about. I thought it was just me.

downshifter98

Hi all

Its the 'big boring purchases' that people have cut back on (cars, sofas, beds, kitchens etc) this, plus the fact that many people still in work (probably 90% plus of those that want to) are actually a bit better off currently (petrol, mortgages,deflation) means that smaller 'treat' type spending is still doing rather well (including Sat nights out).
As an example, friends run a local florist and apparently 'Valentines' weekend was busiest for years.

Reading all the 'doom & gloom' type comments on these forums (admittedly its even worse on other sites) always reminds me of that lovely phrase 'none of us are getting out of this alive' (and nothing truer) - we are all ultimately doomed and always have been - now lets get on with enjoying life while we bloody well can.:beer:

Downshifter

agent_orange_2

I love to read posts like the last two. How it must irk some of our doomsters.