Here's a non-exhaustive list of things that we need more of in order to increase our real wealth, and hopefully overall contentedness:
Houses
Factories and offices
Ports and airports
Roads and railways
Coal mines and power stations
Pubs in which you can smoke
Lap dancing bars
Fox hunting
Legalisation, regulation and taxation of drugs
Free markets
Let's compare that with a non-exhaustive list of things that the Home-Owner-Ists, Greenies and hairshirters generally want us to have less of:
Houses
Factories and offices
Ports and airports
Roads and railways
Coal mines and power stations
Pubs in which you can smoke
Lap dancing bars
Fox hunting
Legalisation, regulation and taxation of drugs
Free markets
Thursday 18 February 2010
[Non-exhaustive lists] Spot The Difference
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Pubs in which you can smoke
Funnily enough, a few years ago we needed a lot more pubs wherein one could not smoke. Now it may indeed be argued that there are too many.
I'm curious MW, how does foxhunting increase our 'real wealth'?
K "it could be argued?" You're 'avin' a larf! "It is definitely the case", more like.
MW, the foxes are going to be killed one way or another (shot, poisoned, trapped), so why not allow people to pay for the privilege of doing so (by employing people to look after horses, dogs etc)? Admittedly, it's only 0.00001% of our economy, but so what?
"the foxes are going to be killed one way or another (shot, poisoned, trapped)"
AFAICS, the antis realise this, but what they object to is people enjoying themselves doing it. Which is why I am not so much pro-foxhunting, but anti-anti-foxhunting.
"It is definitely the case", more like.
We'll have to disagree on that one, I think.
The government are bringing in legislation about lap-dancing clubs where residents will be able to appeal against them.
Lap dancing clubs are mostly an LVT issue. Sure, residents will talk about what their children will see, the noise or the crime, but the fact is that a bar is far more trouble than a lap dancing club. The real argument is because it makes the area look sleazy and that impacts on house prices.
Like brothels and casinos, it's far better to accept the need for them and work out a way to get along with them (I liked Canberra's approach to brothels where they stuck them on business parks).
More lapdancing yes please - especially the type in pubs.
We definitely need more of these venues as we have lost over 200 strip-pubs in London over the last decade or so.
http://londonstrip.co.uk/articles/index.php?article=16#former_pub
Reason. Maybe there's a correlation with the decline in strip clubs with the growth in Home DIY?
Lola:
Yes, I understand a number of lapdancers have set up their own "DIY" parties in rented apartments and upstairs rooms of pubs!
JT, as to the siting of strip clubs, brothels etc (which will all be legalised when I'm in charge), we have to balance a safe journey home for the girls who work there with anonymity for the customers, so an industrial estate or a very busy high street with a taxi rank or good bus service would fit the bill.
Plus you'd be mad to site a strip club in a quiet residential area anyway - rents far too expensive, no anonymity etc.
"Plus you'd be mad to site a strip club in a quiet residential area anyway - rents far too expensive, no anonymity etc."
The interesting one that I saw was Henley which is a rather nice little place with lots of money, but you'd struggle to find anywhere that you could stick a strip club there (unlike say, Reading) without damaging the image of the place.
Of course, there's quite obviously customers there ;)
Righteous aren't good for the economy, and harm themselves for selfish reasons, you mean?
Who knew? ;-)
Lap dancing bars - you can take them or leave them.
JH, I do not personally 'approve of' lap dancing bars, but other people clearly do, and people can earn more money working there than elsewhere, so all in all, they are A Good Thing.
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