Turkish Barbers.

kneemos

What's going on in Turkey? They seem to have completely cornered the Barber market around here.

Count Dracula

It is a cash business, very easy to operate and manage and a great way to make money.

Why do you ask?

Bobblehats

African around here.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120112348#Comment_120112348

Must be money in touch ups

sully123

There's three in clonakilty when I was there. Got me curious too

Everlong1

The Turks: great at haircuts. And killing Armernians.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058279785/turkish-barbers

I was in Turkey. I didnt see one place calling themselves a genuine Turkish Barbers.

KevRossi

Most of them aren't Turkish, usually SE European, Mid-East, Asian etc.

'Turkish Barber'' is a bit like 'Irish Pub' or Italian Restaurant; a bye word for quality (real or imagined). Plenty of lads out to use and abuse it as they see fit.

Gregor Samsa

My barber’s from Iraq. Rarely speaks and I don’t have to tell him what I want. Just the way I like it.

Only time I ever saw any emotion out of him was a day his (Irish female) assistant was cutting my hair. He was at the back watching a video on his phone, laughing away. Next thing he comes off to the two of us and goes “Look! Look! Very funny!” and shows us a video that appeared to be from something like Russia’s Got Talent. Three judges, big stage, big audience. Next thing this naked guy comes out on stage and proceeds to do paintings on canvass with his cock. It was filmed in such a way that his modesty was covered by the canvass, paint pots, etc, but basically he’d dip it in the paint then helicopter it and produce a portrait or a landscape. Iraqi barber thought it was the funniest thing he’d ever seen.

Oddly, this is not the strangest story I have from a barber visit, but the other guy was Irish.

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120112755#Comment_120112755

Not all that funny,but an incredible talent in fairness.

https://youtu.be/HeCJdtBNDZc

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120112788#Comment_120112788

Jaysus Mohamed, I didn’t expect you to be on Boards. I’ll be in next week for the usual.

niallpatrick

Regardless barbers have come a long way since the days of getting dragged by your mum for a hair cut back in the days of the old b+w different types of cut on the wall a la 1970's Burt Reynolds and footballers, the 'terry Mc Dermott'. Traditional Irish barbers now is practically a Turkish hair cut and shave, go in for a number 4 up top and 3 at the back they'll sculpt your stubble to the point where you have to shave yourself clean when you get home otherwise you look like George Michael. Part of the service when I didn't want my beard sculpted.

Bobblehats

I’m envious, there’s more hair on a Turkish baby’s back than my upper lip

Relatively easy trade to learn, start up costs are fairly minimal, regular custom, pretty much recession proof, still some cash business going through the tills. Can see why it is an attractive small business model for an entrepreneurial immigrant from Turkey. There are a lot of them around these days though - wonder if the market is reaching some sort of saturation point.

forbesT

It's primarily because Leo Varadkar/Fine Gael ended visa-free travel with the middle east, africa, asia and south america in 2019 when his Government made it easier for unskilled migrants to flock here. Big Corporations were basically lobbying his Government to make it easier to import more "cheap" labour from outside Europe to address a supposed "labour market shortage" both real and imaginary. As a result of this lobbying, Varadkar caved to pressure and introduced the "Critical Skills Employment Permits" in 2019. My 17 year old son cannot get part-time work in his locality because the employers decided to hire non-EU workers and my wife has written to our local Government TD but never got a response and was met by a wall of silence. They couldn't care less.

Yurt2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120113493#Comment_120113493

Precisely what profession does your 17 year old son specialise in that he's being pushed out of the labour market by critical skills permit holders?

Hate to break it to you, but anyone in possesion of one of those permits has significant education and/or work experience in their occupation behind them and would run rings around your son.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120112415#Comment_120112415

That's nobody's business but the Turks....

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120113493#Comment_120113493

**** it, I'll bite...

"Unskilled" - I think you'll find barbering is a skill you have to train for.

"Big corporations" - they're small independent buisness owners/operators, not like there's a chain store of them.

"Critical Skill Employment Permit" - it''s not a "critical skill" covered by the act, so that's irrelevant.

Go back to blaming Leo for the weather and our crappy recent Eurovision Song Contest record.

Everlong1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120113796#Comment_120113796

You're not the boss of me now!

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120113493#Comment_120113493

Every pub, restaurant, coffee shop and ANY shop around me is crying out for staff. Has your looked for any of these jobs?

silliussoddius

2019, I thought the immigants were taking jebs before that. Or maybe the op just got wifi in 2019.

Strumms

19 establishments in Dublin refer to themselves as ‘Turkish barbers’ according to google maps.

gazzer

Brazilian Barbers is where to go. I started going to one just off Talbot St in Dublin last year and in all honesty the guys in there are fantastic. Best barbers I have been too and over the years I have been to a lot of different barbers

Bobblehats

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120115527#Comment_120115527

Formaldehyde-free zone?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120115527#Comment_120115527

Takes a special man to go for a Brazilian...

HBC08

There's so many of them in Castlebar that when the most recent one opened they didn't call themselves Turkish Barbers they just called the shop "Another one"

Not messing.

Pretty funny in fairness.

Tipperary animal lover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120115701#Comment_120115701

The toilets in M&S mary street would disagree

Emblematic

Aren't they supposed to remove ear hair by singeing it?

https://youtu.be/2nATnbGQoqQ?t=230

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120116293#Comment_120116293

Local guy used to do that. Stopped though for some reason.

Must've burned someone or something.

Emblematic

Is it the fire thing or is there some other characteristic that sets them apart, or do Turks simply have a very good reputation as barbers internationally?

tinytobe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058279785/turkish-barbers

I must admit, they do cut quite well.

Apart from that, it's probably a money laundering affair.