The Medusa Fora

DzM wrote:

IrishRover wrote:me views & accent aren't exactly caged anoimals.. essence matters

This has nothing to do with your views. It has to do with your approximation of an Irish accent.

You've said before that you're embracing the Irish spirit and culture, and that one of the ways you're doing it is by writing in a way that reads like an Irish accent. I agree that some of your phonetic constructs do this, but many of them are just gibberish. I don't imagine you'll find many people in Ireland that pronounce "animals" as "an-oy-mals," "profitable" would not often "prof-oyt-able," and "renting" I hope would never be "rent-oyng" (that, to me, is how your words in this post "sound" when I read them). That's just farce.

I'm not asking you to stop. I just don't understand why you're going to such great lengths to make your writing unpleasant to read. Some people seem to invest a large amount of energy in making their writing a chore to read. It makes me wonder why they bother writing if they want to discourage others from considering the words.

so rents aren't profoitable category? maybe Sam Walton took the fortune from rentoing and founded next chain of profoits called Walmart

There are a lot of causes for neighborhood gentrification. It's a stretch to blame higher rent on "corporate society" though.

If your point is that people are preferring to shop at chain stores and malls rather than independent music shops, and that this general trend toward centralized corporate management is responsible for Rock On closing, then OK. Now your "victim of corporate society" comment makes sense. That's not what Philip said though. He said that the owner was unable to keep pace with the increased rents that resulted from the neighborhood becoming "yuppiefied."

philipchevron wrote:

DzM wrote:

Oirish wrote:so rents aren't profoitable category? maybe Sam Walton took the fortune from rentoing and founded next chain of profoits called Walmart

There are a lot of causes for neighborhood gentrification. It's a stretch to blame higher rent on "corporate society" though.

If your point is that people are preferring to shop at chain stores and malls rather than independent music shops, and that this general trend toward centralized corporate management is responsible for Rock On closing, then OK. Now your "victim of corporate society" comment makes sense. That's not what Philip said though. He said that the owner was unable to keep pace with the increased rents that resulted from the neighborhood becoming "yuppiefied."

Well, yes. But it would be disingenuous to pretend that the rent escalation had nothing to do with the aggressive spread of corporate retail, both American and British, in the neighbourhood. Where there are yuppies, there are shops for yuppies, where there are shops for yuppies, there are yuppies. The character of the Camden Town area faced an inevitable decline into homogenization once the television media (TV AM then MTV) moved in.

philipchevron wrote:it would be disingenuous to pretend that the rent escalation had nothing to do with the aggressive spread of corporate retail

IrishRover wrote:oif smn asked me.. oid put "koids from flats all hoigh from snoiffing glue" to where corporate bastards have bulit koingdoms & mansions, and em' profoit makers into edgy ghetos

IrishRover wrote:

philipchevron wrote:it would be disingenuous to pretend that the rent escalation had nothing to do with the aggressive spread of corporate retail

exactly.. and now for example, although years after same thoing is happenin' in Belgrade, Serbia.. proice of square meter of property skyrocketed(oid say multoiple oincrease comparin' to 90s).. flats and houses proices now oi thoink could match UK whoich is absurd.. all it shows capital and profoits have no boundaries and stroike everywhere.. and tis' obvious that where yuppies are, where corporate headquarters, boig banks, malls etc. AND wherever them BOIG ONES appear tis' all becoming loike reserved yappy space, pushes out average people, pushes out small shops, pushes out cultural stuff.. not to mention the subculture! and they tend to grab best parts of the coity .. so the urban subculture is forced out of urban areas - paradox par exelans!

oif smn asked me.. oid put "koids from flats all hoigh from snoiffing glue" to where corporate bastards have bulit koingdoms & mansions, and em' profoit makers into edgy ghetos

DownInTheGround wrote:I am sure a Pawn Shop would have a good guitar at half that price.

IrishRover wrote:oim voictim of geography mate, oim here only cause oi have to... anyway wages in Serbia are soilly to be honest.. average monthly(!!!) wages here are sth above 300$

Zuzana wrote:"Cenzoiring sheep" smells of animal cruelty. No such things tolerated here.