What pretentious businesses have you come across?
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StuTheGrouch said:
Olivero said:
I live in Brooklyn. There is a store close by that sells "Artisan sharpend pencils"...
We need a link or a picture of that!Are the pencils themselves different? Or is that they have been sharpened in a pointless (not literally) way?
J4CKO said:
I love lager and make no apologies, Bitter I generally find a bit insipid, I have made an effort, I just prefer lager but especially the IPA type beers, sometimes enjoy a pint of bitter, Holts MPA in our local is nice.
I've read that sentence a number of times, but whichever way I read it, you're saying you love lagers but especially like IPA, which is a heavily hopped ale, not a lager?
I'm a great fan of a nice IPA too, but none I've tasted have ever been anything like a lager, starting with not being anything like as gassy.
There's a little tea shop in harrow on the hill that exists mainly for the harrow school crowd.
It is s
t. But there are only stter alternatives within short walking distance. I went with MrsJuice once. It was st. So I went to look at reviews on trip advisor. Lots of fake positive reviews. Then one disgruntled customer wrote about how st the cakes were. The owner writes back saying something along the lines of you're probably not used to the high quality ingredients we use and our cakes are baked daily. Utter bks.
It is s
t. But there are only stter alternatives within short walking distance. I went with MrsJuice once. It was st. So I went to look at reviews on trip advisor. Lots of fake positive reviews. Then one disgruntled customer wrote about how st the cakes were. The owner writes back saying something along the lines of you're probably not used to the high quality ingredients we use and our cakes are baked daily. Utter bks. The ''Emperors New Clothes'' effect really does play a big part in a lot of these pretentious businesses... there's a restaurant near me which went from being a greasy spoon to reinventing itself as some kind of nouvelle cuisine eatery and has somehow managed to become the darling of the media mainly down to it's quirky features, it's actually a tin shack... it's had features in the Guardian and been on various BBC programmes, it gains rave reviews on TripAdvisor and people come from miles away to eat there.
I've been there 3 times (not my choice of venue) and each time the food has been appallingly expensive, tiny portions, everything either over cooked, under cooked, bone dry or swimming in grease, I'm convinced other people must have been equally disappointed with it but they don't want to stand out from the crowd and admit to it.
I've been there 3 times (not my choice of venue) and each time the food has been appallingly expensive, tiny portions, everything either over cooked, under cooked, bone dry or swimming in grease, I'm convinced other people must have been equally disappointed with it but they don't want to stand out from the crowd and admit to it.
Nespresso "Boutiques", basically a shop in London that sells coffee pods.
I have a Nespresso machine and I love it, however the whole process of buying the pods is pretty pretentious from the website and the descriptions of the cofee and other products that can be purchased, to the "boutiques", which are staffed by people who look, sound and and act like a film caricature of staff who work in a designer clothes shop in Monacao; accents inclued.
I have a Nespresso machine and I love it, however the whole process of buying the pods is pretty pretentious from the website and the descriptions of the cofee and other products that can be purchased, to the "boutiques", which are staffed by people who look, sound and and act like a film caricature of staff who work in a designer clothes shop in Monacao; accents inclued.
p4cks said:
zb said:
There was one of these in Newcastle, of all places. You'll never guess what happened to it... Yipper said:
Given the coffee shop is the "new pub" for under-21s, Dry Edinburgh is actually a forward-thinking business rather than a pretentious one. Alcohol is quietly going out of fashion for young folk and the days of socialising while harming one's health (by alcohol and tobacco) is steadily fading from the cultural landscape. Sounds pretentious, of course, but staying healthy is more important than ever. This offers a possible alternative to the coffee shop and pub.
Thank god I'll be dead. The future sounds boring.An estate agent local to us. Just read the bio of their "CEO"...
http://www.saxecoburg.eu/meet-the-team/
http://www.saxecoburg.eu/meet-the-team/
romeogolf said:
An estate agent local to us. Just read the bio of their "CEO"...
http://www.saxecoburg.eu/meet-the-team/
I'm more amused by the 'International Lifestyle Director'.http://www.saxecoburg.eu/meet-the-team/
Surely that's an 'I'm shagging the boss' job?
This has got to be it
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/null-stern-out...
A hotel room in the alps with no walls. Or roof.
Get that for free would you not?
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/null-stern-out...
A hotel room in the alps with no walls. Or roof.
Get that for free would you not?
I went to a restaurant where the menu had a very pretentious way of pricing the menu.
For example £6.50 was written as 6.5, £4.00 as 4 and so on.
in fact a lot of restaurants are pretentious nonsense. It's just food,don't try to make out fish and chips is anything more than fish and chips,
Oh and serve it on a plate please, anything else is pretentious.
For example £6.50 was written as 6.5, £4.00 as 4 and so on.
in fact a lot of restaurants are pretentious nonsense. It's just food,don't try to make out fish and chips is anything more than fish and chips,
Oh and serve it on a plate please, anything else is pretentious.
mike74 said:
Europa1 said:
Artisan bakeries and craft breweries.
There's an ''artisan cake baker'' in my town.... buys all her cakes, buns etc from Costco and just displays them in vintage rustic baskets for 4x what she's paid for them, the local mugs can't get enough of them.In the West Country, as far as I can tell, it means "something made in the traditional way by someone that has only recently started doing so.
In a slight diversion, the random words on signs on new housing developments make me titter. One near me advertises "a selection of 2,3 and 4 bed houses". What was the selection criteria?
Another describes "an exclusive development of 2,3 and 4 bed houses". What does "exclusive" mean in that sentence? What is excluded?
Johnnytheboy said:
Another describes "an exclusive development of 2,3 and 4 bed houses". What does "exclusive" mean in that sentence? What is excluded?
Exclusive in this context often means "not many, so it's still a development, and definitely not an estate". Can also mean "not quite enough houses that we would have to include some affordable housing among them in order to get planning consent".Any restaurant featured on "We Want Plates" on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/WeWantPlates/?fref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/WeWantPlates/?fref=ts
Anywhere that refers to their wares as 'pieces'.
Galleries no longer sell paintings, bronzes or ceramics, but pieces. Tables? Chairs? Lamps? No. Pieces. Don't even start me on watches. Timepieces? Jesus wept.
There's an absurd junk shop locally that seems to source most of its furniture stock from the homes of the recently deceased. What you and I might call a tired G Plan coffee table covered in coffee mug ring-stains is apparently a distressed mid-century modern piece, with a price to match.
I suppose the motoring equivalent would be those dealers who sell Motor Vehicles rather than cars.
Galleries no longer sell paintings, bronzes or ceramics, but pieces. Tables? Chairs? Lamps? No. Pieces. Don't even start me on watches. Timepieces? Jesus wept.
There's an absurd junk shop locally that seems to source most of its furniture stock from the homes of the recently deceased. What you and I might call a tired G Plan coffee table covered in coffee mug ring-stains is apparently a distressed mid-century modern piece, with a price to match.
I suppose the motoring equivalent would be those dealers who sell Motor Vehicles rather than cars.
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