Whacky Signs.

[Dunsignalling]

8 minutes ago, kevinlms said:

Here's is an old workers village, which is being revamped to cater for a shortage of hospitality workers. Shows that it's a world wide problem. The shortage has killed off the underpayment of those same people, not too many years ago. It was rife in Australia.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-10/can-revived-bogong-village-ease-vic-alpine-accommodation-crisis/103673830

 

There's a hotel in Cornwall that's bought a warehouse and converted it into a hostel because they can't get enough staff without offering accommodation for single youngsters from "away".

 

Local kids have left or are wisely learning trades in order to exploit the second-homers.

 

Trades are in such short supply in some bits of Cornwall that "Flying Plumbers" etc. from Plymouth and beyond are filling the gaps and their customers end up paying almost as much for travelling time or accommodation as they do for the work. 

 

There was a TV documentary a week or two ago featuring a holiday park in the Lake District that has to bus most of its staff in daily from de-industrialised towns sixty-odd miles away, outside the National Park.

 

Something has to give; and it surely will.    

 

 

[eastglosmog]

1 hour ago, Michael Hodgson said:

Simple fact of life that the natives of places whose local economy depends on tourism can't stand the bl**dy tourists.

Rather like US troops during WW2 - overpaid, overfed, oversexed and over here,

But we don't rely on tourism.  Certainly not the variety that visits a farm shop run by a certain celebrity TV bod!

[melmerby]

1 hour ago, Dunsignalling said:

There was a TV documentary a week or two ago featuring a holiday park in the Lake District that has to bus most of its staff in daily from de-industrialised towns sixty-odd miles away, outside the National Park.

When we had a guest house in Keswick, we learned that a lot of the shop staff, waiting staff etc came from Workington and such places where industry had died.

The locals weren't interested in the service industry.

[F-UnitMad]

19 hours ago, Dave 46 said:

Two stories about Welsh speakers

You have never seen looks that could kill instantly, until you have got out of an unmistakeably Welsh truck, in a North Wales town, to ask in a Midlands English accent, for directions to a place you can't pronounce.... 😬😱🤦‍♂️🤯

[Reorte]

41 minutes ago, melmerby said:

When we had a guest house in Keswick, we learned that a lot of the shop staff, waiting staff etc came from Workington and such places where industry had died.

The locals weren't interested in the service industry.

I used to know someone who lived in Keswick but would commute out of it to help in his parents' pub just outside the Lakes. Used to go and watch Carlisle United with him. Glad I've not been doing that this year.

[The Johnster]

3 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:

 

For those determined to stay where they grew up, Japanese-style multi-generational mortgages will soon be a thing.

 

Let us hope so, it is a very good idea that would make properties more affordable to first-time buyers,  I believe they do this in Germany as well.

 

49 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said:

You have never seen looks that could kill instantly, until you have got out of an unmistakeably Welsh truck, in a North Wales town, to ask in a Midlands English accent, for directions to a place you can't pronounce.... 😬😱🤦‍♂️🤯

 

You want to try the same thing with a South Walian accent; the gogs hate us much more than the English, have done for 1,500 years at least.  Actually, my experience of Gogland xenophobia is that it exists in inexplicable pockets; Bettws y Coed is much friendlier than Llanwrst despite them being either side of a bridge.  In Barmouth you can't take it personally because they hate everybody, even themselves... 

 

It's parochialism as much as anything else, and a sense of the culture being eroded that may have some basis in fact.  It is also a reluctance to blame locals for selling to incomers at inflated prices, cashing in and getting out. 

[martin_wynne]

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[The Johnster]

Sammo would fit in well under the pier in Brighton...

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[Steamport Southport]

21 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

Sammo would fit in well under the pier in Brighton...

 

Zammo!

 

The girl who played his girlfriend turned into a bit of a hottie....

[30801]

6 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

 

Zammo!

 

The girl who played his girlfriend turned into a bit of a hottie....

Zammo himself is a locksmith these days.

[GMKAT7]

Good morning folks,

 

To follow up The Johnster's comment about Llanwrst being a bit off, I went there in 1977 on a school geography field trip.

 

Being 6th formers we were able to visit the local pubs. One of the lads spotted a jukebox in one, and proceeded to load it with coins.

 

And his first choice was......Immigrant Song by Led Zepp!

Needless to say, our welcome was even less warm after that 😂

 

Cheers, Nigel.

[The Johnster]

You mean the locals didn’t quite agree that you were their overlords?  What a surprise…

[Buhar]

3 hours ago, 30801 said:

Zammo himself is a locksmith these days.

As well as continuing to act when the opportunity arises. A stable job is often necessary for those in the performing arts.

Alan 

[franciswilliamwebb]

37 minutes ago, Buhar said:

A stable job is often necessary for those in the performing arts.

 

 

 

[JZ]

My employer is dropping subtle hints that I should retire.

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[KeithMacdonald]

5 hours ago, The Johnster said:

You mean the locals didn’t quite agree that you were their overlords?  What a surprise…

 

Rumour has it, the conversation was something like this:

"Hello Welsh persons. My name is Norman. You may bow before us. It's nothing personal, we are the overlords of the English as well."

[Compound2632]

8 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said:

Rumour has it, the conversation was something like this:

"Hello Welsh persons. My name is Norman. You may bow before us. It's nothing personal, we are the overlords of the English as well."

 

With, for good measure: "Is this the right way to Ireland?"