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12 years ago @ yourCardiff - Revealed: The reasons ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thank you for posting this, it answers a lot of questions and should hopefully put to rest some conversations that have been going on regarding what exactly constitutes a low rating.

12 years ago @ yourCardiff - Homeowners united agai... · 0 replies · +3 points

Ah, a meeting of the village elders - the 100 who know what is best for the area, and everybody else there need to be told, because they cannot be trusted - if it comes, the proles will shop there, so we must campaign and stop it, because we know best.

12 years ago @ yourCardiff - Canton Welsh-medium pr... · 0 replies · +2 points

We won't get too excited. There have been far too many "artist impressions" released over the past few years that have never gone on to be built.

We'll won't get our hopes up...

12 years ago @ yourCardiff - Scene of devastation a... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm sorry, but I wouldn't call this a "scene of devastation".

12 years ago @ yourCardiff - Howzat! Cricketers app... · 0 replies · +2 points

Too bad it doesn't care about the state of the kitchen the food is prepared in, 1/5 in it's most recent health inspection, yuck. I hope I don't get banned from there for bringing this to light...
http://bit.ly/pg7ddD

12 years ago @ yourCardiff - Cardiff councillors ge... · 0 replies · +5 points

Council jobs, cut.
Council services, cut.
Council tax, raised.
Councillors salaries, raised.
See a trend here?

12 years ago @ yourCardiff - Cardiff retailers arm ... · 0 replies · 0 points

Shopkeepers - If you use a weapon on anyone, even if they are robbing you, you will be breaking the law - and if you injure or kill them, you will go to jail. These are just the facts, whether you think them to be right or wrong.

"I have to wait for the police who never come", maybe not "never" but still, you can't take the law into your own hands. Yes, they're robbing you, that's wrong, but vigilante justice is won't win you anything. Sad, but true.

12 years ago @ yourCardiff - Cardiff Skyflyer clear... · 0 replies · 0 points

I hope someone cuts its strings and it flies away.

12 years ago @ yourCardiff - Supermarkets look to i... · 0 replies · +1 points

The whole "supermarket instead of corner shop" argument is really starting to get on my proverbial tits.
The Stokes Croft riots in Bristol, caused by the opening of a Tesco just proves how people have really lost their minds.

If a supermarket opens a branch in your local area and you are opposed to that, then you do not shop there. The idea that because a chain opens in your area you are forced to shop there is idiotic, if your values are that elastic then you do not deserve to have a say.
If the residents of that area do not shop there then, as with the shops that came and went before it, allowing it to move into that area, it will close down. End of story.
If Tesco open a branch and it is not profitable, it will notice this rapidly and close it down.

Also, the days of the corner shop being the hub of an area are long gone. We don't buy newspapers any more and we do all of our shopping at the large supermarkets, if a local corner shop closes down it's because it was underused by the residents of the area, and cultural shifts. This idealism that "Tesco means the area is ruined" is false and sensationalist, perpetuated by the press - with stories like this.

12 years ago @ yourCardiff - Call to end 'stigma' o... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yeah, because swipe cards will stop kids from making fun of each other. Come on, Councillor Patel.

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