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Limerick Businesses Closed V 2.0 [Mod note post 1]

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    #1382
    TonyCliftonEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭TonyCliftonEsq


    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    I said faux hipster. Upcycled furniture, large gin menu, quirky light fittings. It's going for that whole east London look. Mother Macs does it as well...it just works a bit better.


    Gin and quirky lights qualifies as hipster now? What?


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    #1383
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    TonyCliftonEsq wrote: »
    Gin and quirky lights qualifies as hipster now? What?

    Oh for faux sake lads...


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    #1384
    Alonso77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Alonso77


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    I get ya. It was pretty clear what you meant the first time, mainstream with a faux hipster kinda vibe. It's not a difficult concept, well I can't see the cause for confusion anyway.

    Aside... I was working in a place where a guy brought his own jam jar in case he'd have to resort to drinking from a mug or a glass. Snacks on offer included some kinda greek? Turkish?stuff wrapped in vine leaves. Obviously kale juice was avaliable. Serious hipster stuff haha.

    Some awful guff being spouted here -"faux hipster" - haha. They are just pubs serving various drinks with varying styles of decor. Go to the Red Hen on a weekend night and you'll see the same regular type of people as elsewhere not some guy with a monicle, handlebar moustache, sipping pimms and smoking a pipe and listening to LCD Soundsystem on his portable phonograph


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    #1385
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    Whatever about the Red Hen, I wouldn't describe the White House as hipster anyway!

    What's the verdict? Is it actually being turned into a sports bar, and are those Munster rugby players behind it? They've ****ed up Munster rugby well enough, they may as well **** up one of the finest Victorian pubs in Ireland. Way to go lads.


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    #1386
    Bored_lad
    Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Bored_lad


    I really don't see what this forums obsession is with whether things or places are hipster or not. We can't discuss something in Limerick without someone saying it's hipster and then having a big long discussion about it being hipster or not. Can we not just agree to disagree about things being hipster in Limerick.


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    #1387
    TonyCliftonEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭TonyCliftonEsq


    Bored_lad wrote: »
    I really don't see what this forums obsession is with whether things or places are hipster or not. We can't discuss something in Limerick without someone saying it's hipster and then having a big long discussion about it being hipster or not. Can we not just agree to disagree about things being hipster in Limerick.

    What, did it make you bored lad? :pac:


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    #1388
    Special Circumstances
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    Alonso77 wrote: »
    Some awful guff being spouted here -"faux hipster" - haha. They are just pubs serving various drinks with varying styles of decor. Go to the Red Hen on a weekend night and you'll see the same regular type of people as elsewhere not some guy with a monicle, handlebar moustache, sipping pimms and smoking a pipe and listening to LCD Soundsystem on his portable phonograph

    So... you're saying a bar without these authentic hipster features is not an authentic hipster bar right?

    But you can't understand why a poster would call it faux hipster for including some of commercialised versions of stereotypical "quirks".

    The amount of hand holding and spoon feeding needed on here is off the scale boys and girls. The inability to understand "faux" is actually tragic.


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    #1389
    TonyCliftonEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭TonyCliftonEsq


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    So... you're saying a bar without these authentic hipster features is not an authentic hipster bar right?

    But you can't understand why a poster would call it faux hipster for including some of commercialised versions of stereotypical "quirks".

    The amount of hand holding and spoon feeding needed on here is off the scale boys and girls. The inability to understand "faux" is actually tragic.

    What does a faux hipster look like? Is their twirly moustache fake or something? Now every time I am in the Red Hen I'll be trying to spot the faux hipsters.


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    #1390
    Special Circumstances
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    Bored_lad wrote: »
    I really don't see what this forums obsession is with whether things or places are hipster or not. We can't discuss something in Limerick without someone saying it's hipster and then having a big long discussion about it being hipster or not. Can we not just agree to disagree about things being hipster in Limerick.

    The hipsters are not the issue here dude, I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand! Making a stand for written comprehension and common sense! :pac:

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    #1391
    Special Circumstances
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    TonyCliftonEsq wrote: »
    What does a faux hipster look like? Is their twirly moustache fake or something? Now every time I am in the Red Hen I'll be trying to spot the faux hipsters.

    They look like you Tony, just like you. They sound like you. And they have below written average comprehension skills.

    I'd imagine that "Irish bars" are never exclusively full of Irish people, nor are sports bars exclusively full of sporty people. Indeed, many of these "Irish" bars are as faux Irishy as you'd get. If that concept isn't just plain confusing for you.

    But look, you carry on with mangling logic just for the sake of disagreeing with someone.


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    #1392
    davo2001
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    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    And they have below written average comprehension skills.

    :pac::pac::pac:


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    #1393
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    zulutango wrote: »
    Whatever about the Red Hen, I wouldn't describe the White House as hipster anyway!

    What's the verdict? Is it actually being turned into a sports bar, and are those Munster rugby players behind it? They've ****ed up Munster rugby well enough, they may as well **** up one of the finest Victorian pubs in Ireland. Way to go lads.

    Munster players?What


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    #1394
    Alonso77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Alonso77


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    So... you're saying a bar without these authentic hipster features is not an authentic hipster bar right?

    But you can't understand why a poster would call it faux hipster for including some of commercialised versions of stereotypical "quirks".

    The amount of hand holding and spoon feeding needed on here is off the scale boys and girls. The inability to understand "faux" is actually tragic.

    Awful guff altogether. Awful. The words of a faux guffster


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    #1395
    Special Circumstances
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    Alonso77 wrote: »
    Awful guff altogether. Awful

    Oh golly gosh, that comeback has really blown my points out of the water:pac:


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    #1396
    Alonso77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Alonso77


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Oh golly gosh, that comeback has really blown my points out of the water:pac:

    "Your points" lol. Look, quite simple , The Red Hen is not a haven of the hipster, faux hipster, po-mo ironic or any other kind of lazy daft label you can summon up. No amount of foot stamping and complaining you are being misunderstood will change that.


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    #1397
    moleyv
    Registered Users Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭moleyv


    Is a gin menu a hipster (faux or otherwise) thing?

    Gin would be my tipple of choice for many years, so I welcome a bit of choice beyond cork dry ****e and vile club tonic.

    What's normal, smithwicks with a side of boiled spuds?


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    #1398
    Mc Love
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Gin has started to become a lot more popular in the last year or so. but maybe this topic is better served in the random waffle thread?


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    #1399
    Alonso77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Alonso77


    moleyv wrote: »
    Is a gin menu a hipster (faux or otherwise) thing?

    Gin would be my tipple of choice for many years, so I welcome a bit of choice beyond cork dry ****e and vile club tonic.

    What's normal, smithwicks with a side of boiled spuds?

    Tom Collins pub has a good gin menu . But don't say it too loud or the hipster police will start whinging. 😀. Anyway, not go drag this thread off topic anymore, maybe we should have a hipster or nay pub thread !


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    #1400
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Debenhams moves to cut rent roll at loss-making Irish stores
    via The Irish Times
    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/debenhams-moves-to-cut-rent-roll-at-loss-making-irish-stores-1.2704614

    Not a closure announcement as such but it looks like Limerick's Debenhams is one of 3 stores most likely to shut down as part of examinership process. Not good news for the city. I can see Dealz or Eurogiant queuing up to occupy that unit!! 😟


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    #1401
    moleyv
    Registered Users Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭moleyv


    ongarboy wrote:
    Not a closure announcement as such but it looks like Limerick's Debenhams is one of 3 stores most likely to shut down as part of examinership process. Not good news for the city. I can see Dealz or Eurogiant queuing up to occupy that unit!! 😟


    They could dedicate a whole floor to boiled sweets...


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    #1402
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,722 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    **Mod Note: Drop the hipster discussion, nothing to do with Closing/Closed businesses"


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    #1403
    Coill1
    Registered Users Posts: 117 ✭✭Coill1


    Don't wanna jump the gun here-but I think Remix in curragh birin is shut up shop


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    #1404
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    Somehow I don't think any of us will lose sleep over Remix closing!


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    #1405
    dunworth1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭dunworth1


    Poxyshamrock wrote:
    Somehow I don't think any of us will lose sleep over Remix closing!

    Except for maybe the people working there


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    #1406
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    dunworth1 wrote: »
    Except for maybe the people working there

    Yes, that's true but how long before it is replaced by another establishment that can employ the same people again. I'm sure there are enough takeaways around for the guys there to find a new job.


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    #1407
    JamesBond2010
    Registered Users Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭JamesBond2010


    See Hmv is having a closing down sale in the Cresent. I thought they were going to stay open & not close again. (side note gamestop & smyths will be only place to get console games now)


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    #1408
    Bored_lad
    Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Bored_lad


    JamesBond2010 wrote: »
    See Hmv is having a closing down sale in the Cresent. I thought they were going to stay open & not close again. (side note gamestop & smyths will be only place to get console games now)

    All the stores are closing and the company is becoming some sort of online streaming service like Netflix it seems crazy to me as that market is already saturated in my opinion.


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    #1409
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,859 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    JamesBond2010 wrote: »
    See Hmv is having a closing down sale in the Cresent. I thought they were going to stay open & not close again. (side note gamestop & smyths will be only place to get console games now)

    Prerty sure all HMV shops in Ireland are closing, not just our one.


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    #1410
    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    An File wrote: »
    Prerty sure all HMV shops in Ireland are closing, not just our one.

    Yeah only belfast will be left in NI


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    #1411
    Swiper the fox
    Registered Users Posts: 6,745 ✭✭✭Swiper the fox


    JamesBond2010 wrote: »
    See Hmv is having a closing down sale in the Cresent. I thought they were going to stay open & not close again. (side note gamestop & smyths will be only place to get console games now)

    Am I the only one who feels it is a little bit sad that HMV closing down has somebody concerned about a reduction by one of the number of places to buy video games in Limerick.


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