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Post by dave1 on Mar 5, 2022 21:46:03 GMT
Get in!!! There chicken ramam is quality
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Post by danceswithclams on Mar 5, 2022 21:52:55 GMT
Should have been an IKEA.
(and why won't they bring the public toilets back?)
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Post by dave1 on Mar 5, 2022 21:53:58 GMT
Should have been an IKEA. (and why won't they bring the public toilets back?) Where would you put an IKEA?? |
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Post by danceswithclams on Mar 5, 2022 22:00:26 GMT
The old JJB Sports.
IKEA stores are famously not very big and there's one in every city in the UK except for Stoke which shows you how much of a backwater this place is.
I reckon if the council put loads of public toilets everywhere though that could persuade the Swedish flat-pack hawkers to grace Hanley with its presence.
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Post by lordb on Mar 5, 2022 22:39:35 GMT
Should have been an IKEA. (and why won't they bring the public toilets back?) Where would you put an IKEA?? In the public toilets |
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Post by lordb on Mar 5, 2022 22:41:01 GMT
And anyway IKEA considered a site years ago but decided not to as they felt it was too close to other stores
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2022 22:46:03 GMT
Where would you put an IKEA?? In the public toilets I think the IKEA Hupli urinal would be too weird for the cottagers. |
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Post by Boothen on Mar 5, 2022 22:56:20 GMT
Opening on a grotty little industrial estate about half a mile from the centre of town. Not good for those who don't drive.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Mar 6, 2022 0:38:19 GMT
I “worked” at the company who has the contract to fit all the Wagamamas out nationwide for two decades.
It’s not in my best interest to comment about either😏
Good news is, the company is based in Stoke on Trent. So a bit of a boost there for any anti Stoke slaggers!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2022 2:39:21 GMT
Am I the only person who had to Google Wiggymama or whatever? New one on me. I miss Wimpy too much still perhaps
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Post by Boothen on Mar 6, 2022 5:08:49 GMT
Am I the only person who had to Google Wiggymama or whatever? New one on me. I miss Wimpy too much still perhaps It's Cactus Jack's I miss, from the old food court in the Potteries Centre. Back when it actually had shops, and Hanley wasn't blighted by violent beggars, dustheads and street drinkers. |
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Mar 6, 2022 7:41:18 GMT
The old JJB Sports. IKEA stores are famously not very big and there's one in every city in the UK except for Stoke And Leicester, Coventry, Southampton, Portsmouth,York, Norwich, Bristol, Glasgow etc etc And the 2 Ikeas I've been to are fucking massive. |
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Post by mattador78 on Mar 6, 2022 9:18:04 GMT
The old JJB Sports. IKEA stores are famously not very big and there's one in every city in the UK except for Stoke And Leicester, Coventry, Southampton, Portsmouth,York, Norwich, Bristol, Glasgow etc etc And the 2 Ikeas I've been to are fucking massive. Could probably replace most of the potteries centre as most of the shops are shit or empty now. The old Lewis’s is a massive blueprint for it and use the old Tesco go outdoors as it’s car park. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on Mar 6, 2022 9:26:59 GMT
The old JJB Sports. IKEA stores are famously not very big and there's one in every city in the UK except for Stoke And Leicester, Coventry, Southampton, Portsmouth,York, Norwich, Bristol, Glasgow etc etc And the 2 Ikeas I've been to are fucking massive. Managed to get lost in the one in Barnet, colossal, takes up a sizeable chunk of the North circular. |
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Post by innocentbystander on Mar 6, 2022 10:14:23 GMT
Should have been an IKEA. Yeah, cos we all need more stuff to jam up our homes. Too bad about trees cut down,agricultural land lost to factories, hydrocarbon converted into everlasting plastic, more wagons chucking out emissions and clogging up the roads just so someone can spend an afternoon buying a saucepan that's slightly shinier than the one they 've already got. I'm nauseated by the sight of people in B&M ( for instance) buying up crap made from the planet's rain forests that will be in the bin by the end of the year. Make the most of what you have. |
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Post by wagsastokie on Mar 6, 2022 10:33:40 GMT
The old JJB Sports. IKEA stores are famously not very big and there's one in every city in the UK except for Stoke And Leicester, Coventry, Southampton, Portsmouth,York, Norwich, Bristol, Glasgow etc etc And the 2 Ikeas I've been to are fucking massive. There’s a collection only store in Norwich |
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Mar 6, 2022 10:51:46 GMT
Why are so many people taking DWC's post seriously?  |
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Post by henry on Mar 6, 2022 10:57:39 GMT
Should have been an IKEA. Yeah, cos we all need more stuff to jam up our homes. Too bad about trees cut down,agricultural land lost to factories, hydrocarbon converted into everlasting plastic, more wagons chucking out emissions and clogging up the roads just so someone can spend an afternoon buying a saucepan that's slightly shinier than the one they 've already got. I'm nauseated by the sight of people in B&M ( for instance) buying up crap made from the planet's rain forests that will be in the bin by the end of the year. Make the most of what you have. Hmmm  |
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Mar 6, 2022 11:38:25 GMT
Why are so many people taking DWC's post seriously? Because I'm very hungover. |
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Post by Eggybread on Mar 6, 2022 11:38:30 GMT
Somethings better than nothing. Its a decent well established chain with decent food. Just hope the people in Stoke can pull the pies and oatcakes out of their chops to taste it.
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Post by svengaliinplatforms on Mar 6, 2022 11:44:22 GMT
"We'll have none of this foreign muck"
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Mar 6, 2022 11:59:33 GMT
"We'll have none of this foreign muck" As my grandad called it, “splodge” |
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Post by thevoid on Mar 6, 2022 12:00:07 GMT
I hear Salt Bae's opening his next restaurant up Hope Street. Next to the Rolex boutique
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Post by Eggybread on Mar 6, 2022 12:00:59 GMT
"We'll have none of this foreign muck" There wouldn't be anything left in the city to eat if all the "foreign" establishments closed. |
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Post by lordb on Mar 6, 2022 12:17:11 GMT
"We'll have none of this foreign muck" There wouldn't be anything left in the city to eat if all the "foreign" establishments closed. Yes just proper English food like pizza, burgers and curry |
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Post by dave1 on Mar 6, 2022 12:28:28 GMT
"We'll have none of this foreign muck" As my grandad called it, “splodge” Briliant. A good friend of mines old man won't eat any of that 'foreign muck'. Won't eat pizza or nothing..... Remember him telling me a story about his old man walking in a curry house with a hanky over his nose. He asked him what was up to which he replied he doesn't like the smell!!! |
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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 6, 2022 12:55:49 GMT
And anyway IKEA considered a site years ago but decided not to as they felt it was too close to other stores I may well have imagined this, but when I worked in the centre of Hanley in the 1980's I thought there was a small IKEA store in Picadilly, near where Bucks Jewellers used to be. I'm pretty sure the store was there then and even had the prominent display of a Swedish flag outside. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2022 12:59:52 GMT
And Leicester, Coventry, Southampton, Portsmouth,York, Norwich, Bristol, Glasgow etc etc And the 2 Ikeas I've been to are fucking massive. There’s a collection only store in Norwich Awkward to pick up I would guess due to the pedestrianisation of Norwich City centre |
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Post by heworksardtho on Mar 6, 2022 13:06:18 GMT
Am I the only person who had to Google Wiggymama or whatever? New one on me. I miss Wimpy too much still perhaps Me too I’ve never heard of it |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2022 13:07:26 GMT
Am I the only person who had to Google Wiggymama or whatever? New one on me. I miss Wimpy too much still perhaps It's Cactus Jack's I miss, from the old food court in the Potteries Centre. Back when it actually had shops, and Hanley wasn't blighted by violent beggars, dustheads and street drinkers. I think I remember that. Was rarely in Hanley ever to be honest but my ex gf worked in Ernest Jones jewellers before they moved to Crewe. The outside of the shopping centre had one of those fried donut places I seem to remember. |
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