| Barber shops 10:58 - Apr 21 with 3222 views | Illinoisblue |
Is it my imagination or are there barber shops seemingly everywhere now? Driving/waking around Ipswich and parts of Surrey the last few days and there’s no reason to not get a haircut. Barbers everywhere. Even noticed one in Tesco this morning. |  |
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| Barber shops on 11:05 - Apr 21 with 3177 views | davblue |
They even open on Sunday's now! |  | | |
| Barber shops on 11:11 - Apr 21 with 3177 views | BLUEBEAT |
As generally cash, they’re popular with criminal organisations for money laundering.
See also hand car washes, Asian alternative medical centres, mobile repair shops… |  |
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| Barber shops on 11:37 - Apr 21 with 3103 views | EdwardStone |
| Barber shops on 11:05 - Apr 21 by davblue |
They even open on Sunday's now! |
Sunday opening
It rather kills the "Something for the weekend, Sir?" question that I remember from a long time ago.
Roses, top of North St, Sudury. Grizzled hairdresser would lean in a whisper the question as he was just finishing the cut......
I was 12 at the time, but I looked younger [Post edited 21 Apr 2022 12:28]
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| Barber shops on 11:57 - Apr 21 with 3054 views | Fixed_It |
| Barber shops on 11:37 - Apr 21 by EdwardStone |
Sunday opening
It rather kills the "Something for the weekend, Sir?" question that I remember from a long time ago.
Roses, top of North St, Sudury. Grizzled hairdresser would lean in a whisper the question as he was just finishing the cut......
I was 12 at the time, but I looked younger [Post edited 21 Apr 2022 12:28]
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I hope you didn't ask for a copy of the Beano... |  |
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| Barber shops on 12:10 - Apr 21 with 3022 views | Lord_Lucan |
The Turkish barbers are great, now I have decided to have a bit of hair again I visit one fortnightly. Good for a nostril wax as well.
Try and offer them a debit card though and they look at you as if you were a madman.
Those car wash peeps must draw in a fortune, I have tried on occasion recently to take Mothers car to the one in the BP garage next to what was The Golden Key but they are usually queued onto the road. |  |
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| Barber shops on 12:38 - Apr 21 with 2966 views | Illinoisblue |
| Barber shops on 11:05 - Apr 21 by davblue |
They even open on Sunday's now! |
World’s gone mad. Game’s gone. | |
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| Barber shops on 12:46 - Apr 21 with 2925 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Obviously not planning on getting your nails done or you would have noticed all those places too! |  |
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| Barber shops on 12:49 - Apr 21 with 2903 views | jeera |
Victor Doe. |  |
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| Barber shops on 12:51 - Apr 21 with 2894 views | Lord_Lucan |
Adam and Eve's on Bramford Rd was the place to go.
Wall to wall wedges! | |
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| [Redacted] on 14:06 - Apr 21 with 2760 views | victorywilhappen |
| Barber shops on 12:51 - Apr 21 by Lord_Lucan |
Adam and Eve's on Bramford Rd was the place to go.
Wall to wall wedges! |
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| Barber shops on 14:28 - Apr 21 with 2715 views | davblue |
| Barber shops on 12:38 - Apr 21 by Illinoisblue |
World’s gone mad. Game’s gone. |
Getting your hair cut on a Sunday is a disgrace.
'your not fit to wear the hair' [Post edited 21 Apr 2022 14:29]
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| Barber shops on 15:17 - Apr 21 with 2640 views | Pendejo |
Many next door to each other and open to 23:00 around my way.
Much like the many greengrocers next door to each other selling virtually the same products.
Surely can't all laundering, can they? |  |
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| Barber shops on 17:15 - Apr 21 with 2550 views | ParisBlue |
| Barber shops on 11:05 - Apr 21 by davblue |
They even open on Sunday's now! |
When I moved from London to Bristol 15 years ago I was most annoyed I couldn't get a haircut on a Sunday. |  |
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| Barber shops on 17:27 - Apr 21 with 2539 views | Chondzoresk |
I had a great skin fade at First Class Turkish Barbers in Diss. Massage, hot towelled face, ear hair removal, eyebrow trim all for £16. Can’t beat it! |  | | |
| Barber shops on 21:08 - Apr 21 with 2381 views | jontysnut |
Ted on Spring Road. Short back and sides or nothing. |  | | |
| Barber shops on 21:46 - Apr 21 with 2326 views | Bent_double |
| Barber shops on 15:17 - Apr 21 by Pendejo |
Many next door to each other and open to 23:00 around my way.
Much like the many greengrocers next door to each other selling virtually the same products.
Surely can't all laundering, can they? |
Course they are, as is any business that takes cash - according to some on here anyway.
Can't be anything to do with the banks/card processing companies that take a wedge of your cash at every opportunity, can it? |  |
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| Barber shops on 23:35 - Apr 21 with 2253 views | WeWereZombies |
| Barber shops on 21:46 - Apr 21 by Bent_double |
Course they are, as is any business that takes cash - according to some on here anyway.
Can't be anything to do with the banks/card processing companies that take a wedge of your cash at every opportunity, can it? |
And as for laundrettes...I bet if you go in one after eleven it is nothing but a queue of drug dealers pushing the evenings takings into those horizontal slots for the coins and just washing single shirts one after the other all night. |  |
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| Barber shops on 10:16 - Apr 22 with 2071 views | Seablu |
One of the few things left that people can’t get from Amazon or deliveroo I guess. |  | | |
| Barber shops on 10:30 - Apr 22 with 2043 views | jeera |
| Barber shops on 10:16 - Apr 22 by Seablu |
One of the few things left that people can’t get from Amazon or deliveroo I guess. |
*Spots a niche* | |
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| Barber shops on 10:49 - Apr 22 with 2013 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Barber shops on 21:46 - Apr 21 by Bent_double |
Course they are, as is any business that takes cash - according to some on here anyway.
Can't be anything to do with the banks/card processing companies that take a wedge of your cash at every opportunity, can it? |
Your point would make more sense if it wasn't for the fact that it's dearer to bank cash than take a card.
Cash is a royal pain in the arse these days - hypothetically, if you had a good stash of cash it's bloody difficult to spend it on anything legal as if you take more than £5k anywhere you run the risk of a stewards, they even have cash sniffing dogs at airports!
It's gonna be carnage with people trying to get rid of all their paper notes before September! | |
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| Barber shops on 13:04 - Apr 22 with 1876 views | WeWereZombies |
| Barber shops on 10:49 - Apr 22 by Lord_Lucan |
Your point would make more sense if it wasn't for the fact that it's dearer to bank cash than take a card.
Cash is a royal pain in the arse these days - hypothetically, if you had a good stash of cash it's bloody difficult to spend it on anything legal as if you take more than £5k anywhere you run the risk of a stewards, they even have cash sniffing dogs at airports!
It's gonna be carnage with people trying to get rid of all their paper notes before September! |
I can confirm the presence of cash sniffing dogs at airports, I was given the once over by one at Schipol eighteen months ago, but it was just a quick once over, it probably didn't fancy me...
There was also an episode of the French crime drama 'Spiral' that featured a dog sniffing out cash in, I think, one of those wide bits of ventilation tubing that scuzzy warehouses have hanging from the walls. Fiction, but plausible. | |
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| Barber shops on 13:18 - Apr 22 with 1855 views | Bent_double |
| Barber shops on 10:49 - Apr 22 by Lord_Lucan |
Your point would make more sense if it wasn't for the fact that it's dearer to bank cash than take a card.
Cash is a royal pain in the arse these days - hypothetically, if you had a good stash of cash it's bloody difficult to spend it on anything legal as if you take more than £5k anywhere you run the risk of a stewards, they even have cash sniffing dogs at airports!
It's gonna be carnage with people trying to get rid of all their paper notes before September! |
Who says they bank the cash? If you're predominantly a cash business, you take cash in, you spend cash on your outgoings, and you can still bank a reasonable amount of cash f-o-c to pay for monthly bills, etc.
I regularly shop in Bookers and it's normal to see people in there pay their bills (many hundreds of £s) in cash. I still get paid in cash, but probably no more than 10% of my turnover, I just use it to pay for day-to-day stuff.
Of course there will always be an element of money laundering/tax avoidance/tax evasion with cash, but I still wouldn't want to see it eradicated totally. | |
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| Barber shops on 13:56 - Apr 22 with 1817 views | Perublue |
Just an observation re.Barber shops , I remember travelling around India in the early 2000's and discovering the delight of a barbering experience for the first time .. shave,head,massage,etc,etc...something I am sure I would have experienced a lot earlier in life in the UK if not for the AIDS epidemic which I learnt did for the trade totally in the 80's even though it was already in decline..tattoo shops likewise effected. |  |
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| Barber shops on 14:02 - Apr 22 with 1803 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Barber shops on 21:08 - Apr 21 by jontysnut |
Ted on Spring Road. Short back and sides or nothing. |
Town fanatic John on Felixstowe Rd (near to where Aldi is now) was also a great place. I used to take RKD there for a short back and sides.
He once got vertigo in the middle of a hair cut and left his customer with half a head of hair. | |
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