#166

The Hebrides are beautiful but bleak. Stunning beaches if it’s not raining.

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#167

There’s the one on the stretch near Grantham and Stamford with the big sign outside proudly proclaiming to be ‘EUROPE’S LARGEST SEX SUPERSTORE’.

#168

I remember going to an Aldi sale a while back. They opened up the stock room and sold stuff straight out of the cardboard boxes. Normally a fan of Aldi but this was really grim

#169

It’s not even a vaguely plausible lie.

I pass that place a lot and have haunting mental images of swingers and doggers from the Fens popping in to top up their butt plug collection.

#170

Is that near the sign to the ‘Alconburys and the Stukeleys’? For reasons best left unexplored, I always imagine key swapping parties happening in those villages.

#171

Moreover, who associates buying lube and nipple clamps with getting a cheeky mojito?

#172

I went in a few weeks ago for a driving theory book and they didn’t even have that. I live in a city with lots of students so quite a few learner drivers so I am so puzzled.

#174

The Works.

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#175

Matalan
Carpet Right
Those giant f**king costume hire shops
Also any tiny joke/costume shop
The Range
B&M Bargains (like entering a different decade)
Most department stores before they all got refurbed around 2010
GO Outdoors
The parts of IKEA after you get past the show rooms
Dunelm

Do quite enjoy the bleakness of some of the above shops though in a weird way

#176

Has anyone said WH Smith yet?

#177

They have. Slightly unfairly in my view as in my experience it’s the only place I can find birthday cards for my parents that aren’t either rude or cloyingly sentimental.

#178

They do that whole Ebay and other pickup stuff now, don’t they? I actually felt like the Holloway Road Argos got pretty unbleak over the last few years before I left. Always very popular.

I miss having Argos. Its range is really great.

#179

So sterile
So smug
I’ve decided its probably a bad idea to title your staff’ ‘Geniuses’

#180

Theres a poke place in there now and more local stuff, it been trendyied a bit.

#181

Reckon it’s the Wembley stadium shop actually

#182

Mr Bleak’s Bleakery

#183

No way! I love that place!

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#184

Cash Converters

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#185

I found the Disney store I went in really depressing - all the stuff I’d seen kids in for carnivale that I’d assumed to be market stall knock offs turn out to be insanely expensive actual Disney stuff. Also everything else about it was depressing.

#187

Or, worse, any kind of Cash Converters knockoff. Usually with a name like Cash Xchange.