Lapdancing clubs disappearing fast

[pat_y]

according to the BBC, local hand-wringers are refusing to renew licences thanks to new laws, bit sad really, friends and i always found it was a great (if not the best) part of a stag or birthday do.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16869029

[s3fella]

Thread worthless without pics??

[StevieBee]

There's a gents barbers somewhere near Fenchurch Street in the City that also incorporates a bit of pole dancing while you have your barnet trimmed. Think this is an excellent bit of marketing

[Shinobi]

StevieBee said:

There's a gents barbers somewhere near Fenchurch Street in the City that also incorporates a bit of pole dancing while you have your barnet trimmed. Think this is an excellent bit of marketing

What's the name if this place?

[s3fella]

StevieBee said:

There's a gents barbers somewhere near Fenchurch Street in the City that also incorporates a bit of pole dancing while you have your barnet trimmed. Think this is an excellent bit of marketing

Makes a change from picking your haircut out of a well thumbed magazine from the 1980s.......!!

"No 3 sir, 4 maybe...?"
"No, like her over there, please!!!"

"Ah, a bleached number 1 with a centre parting! Good choice sir!"

Edited by s3fella on Wednesday 8th February 13:20

[vxr8mate]

StevieBee said:

There's a gents barbers somewhere near Fenchurch Street in the City that also incorporates a bit of pole dancing while you have your barnet trimmed. Think this is an excellent bit of marketing

How much is the hair cut, £100!

[pat_y]

StevieBee said:

There's a gents barbers somewhere near Fenchurch Street in the City that also incorporates a bit of pole dancing while you have your barnet trimmed. Think this is an excellent bit of marketing

This sounds like a great idea, bit like the Waterstones/Costa Coffee mix but only 50 times more interesting.

[freecar]

I've never understood strip clubs or lapdancing joints.

I for one am glad that these places are being run out of the town centres.

All we've got to do now is legalise prostitution in legal brothels and we'll finally be getting civilised!

[Gogoplata]

freecar said:

I for one am glad that these places are being run out of the town centres.

Why?

I don't see what the fuss is about. It's not like you can look in from the outside and be offended. We live in such a prudish country. Nudity is wrong! Sex is wrong! etc.

[jonah35]

you sure it doesn't have more to do with the credit crunch and people not wanting to spend £150 on a night out anymore? i'd have thought that's more to the point.

[davepoth]

Quality over quantity gents - do you really want huge numbers of provincial lap dancing clubs, populated by the kind of dancers that get thrown off Jeremy Kyle for being too ugly?

[qube_TA]

jonah35 said:

you sure it doesn't have more to do with the credit crunch and people not wanting to spend £150 on a night out anymore? i'd have thought that's more to the point.

Still loads of them in Leeds but I would have thought that the crunch would wipe them out.

[UnderTheRadar]

StevieBee said:

There's a gents barbers somewhere near Fenchurch Street in the City that also incorporates a bit of pole dancing while you have your barnet trimmed. Think this is an excellent bit of marketing

30 years ago I used to go to a barbers on Mile End Road in Whitechapel. All the staff were very busty young ladies who kept rubbing their bust against you "by accident". They weren't short of customers.

[del 203]

StevieBee said:

There's a gents barbers somewhere near Fenchurch Street in the City that also incorporates a bit of pole dancing while you have your barnet trimmed. Think this is an excellent bit of marketing

The advertising board says has a pole (no dancing)

[Nicholas Blair]

Think I'd rather stuff a tenner down my own pants than someone else's in these hard times.

[Negative Creep]

I've never seen the point of going to some dingy bar and paying someone to pretend they like you for 10 minutes

[grumbledoak]

Negative Creep said:

I've never seen the point of going to some dingy bar and paying someone to pretend they like you for 10 minutes

There is no more point in spending £10 to see a film in a cinema. I presume you do that?

[StevieBee]

del 203 said:

StevieBee said:

There's a gents barbers somewhere near Fenchurch Street in the City that also incorporates a bit of pole dancing while you have your barnet trimmed. Think this is an excellent bit of marketing

The advertising board says has a pole (no dancing)

Noooo - don't say that!!! Keep the dream alive!

[Negative Creep]

grumbledoak said:

Negative Creep said:

I've never seen the point of going to some dingy bar and paying someone to pretend they like you for 10 minutes

There is no more point in spending £10 to see a film in a cinema. I presume you do that?

A film isn't a person so I don't really see the comparison

[grumbledoak]

Negative Creep said:

A film isn't a person so I don't really see the comparison

You voluntarily pay money you have to be entertained. Nobody forces you to do either.