What did you cook or eat today (June 2024) Chit Chat

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

After spending about a year in my home town back in 2022, wandering around the town in utter disgust at how the council had abandoned the High St, allowed pawnbrokers and grubby casinos into the pedestrian areas, a strip club wouldn't surprise me one bit

The high street is a sad sight in most places now. Mall's and Amazon finished them off.
It's bad here too and our council would struggle to do a worse job.

I live about 15 mins from the main towns highstreet and I never ever go there.

There is a college that became a university here and it offered real hope for the crumbling high street as it brought in a lot of young people that balance out the 100's of old folks homes plus they spend money but our dumb ass council won't let them expand.
They block almost all enterprise that tries to come here.

Bridgwater 20 mins down the motorway used to be an awful smelly dump of a place, the sort of place you'd go if you wanted to get in a fight on a Saturday night but their council were proactive and every business that Weston blocked Bridgwater took.
Bridgwater has rescued itself and Weston is a worse than it's ever been, and it wasn't great to start with!

 

[karadekoolaid]

In fact there is a strip club in High Street 'Players Gentlemen's Club' at 57 High Street:

that must be down the end near the river, correct?
The last part of the High St is really dreadful. A bit like a lizard's tail - if it falls off, no-one would notice.

 

[TastyReuben]

I do know that there used to be 'opportunities for men' which weren't strip clubs in Union Street.

In fact there is a strip club in High Street 'Players Gentlemen's Club' at 57 High Street:

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First, I love that phrase “opportunities for men,” and second, that fellow looks a friendly sort, no?

Gentlemen’s clubs here, especially the nicer ones, do enjoy some patronage from women. I don’t know exactly when it became a “thing,” but it’s not terribly uncommon for a girls’ night out to include a stop at a club of that sort.

 

[medtran49]

Gentlemen’s clubs here, especially the nicer ones, do enjoy some patronage from women. I don’t know exactly when it became a “thing,” but it’s not terribly uncommon for a girls’ night out to include a stop at a club of that sort.

Pole dancing classes in the gym!

 

[TastyReuben]

Pole dancing classes in the gym!

Definitely, and the women I’ve known who’ve done that (and still do), it’s almost always been about the physical conditioning and artistry, and not about anything else - matter of fact, making an off-color comment about it usually results in a real lecture.

There are events for that as well, and they look a lot more like weightlifting competitions, as opposed to pole dancing purely for entertainment. Very interesting stuff.

I do remember an episode of the sitcom King of Queens, where Carrie decides to take a class and have a pole installed at home to spice things up in the bedroom, but she’s so hilariously bad and awkward with it, that it has the, um, opposite effect on her husband Doug - even funnier, Doug discovers that he’s actually quite graceful at it!

 

[Morning Glory]

that must be down the end near the river, correct?
The last part of the High St is really dreadful. A bit like a lizard's tail - if it falls off, no-one would notice.

Yeah - opposite where the big Barclay's bank branch used to be.