Members Phait Posted March 7, 2009 Members Share Posted March 7, 2009 Literally. Shot this downtown, used to be a tattoo shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted March 7, 2009 Members Share Posted March 7, 2009 Gotta Wal-Mart in town? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Phait Posted March 7, 2009 Author Members Share Posted March 7, 2009 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted March 7, 2009 Members Share Posted March 7, 2009 Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jotown Posted March 7, 2009 Members Share Posted March 7, 2009 Well one thing is for certain; buisnesses that sell things that are not necessary are going to be hurting in next couple of years. The tatoo thing has been a trend that has kind of peaked in the last couple of years. When money gets tight and you see people around you losing their jobs and homes, getting a new tatoo just doesn't get as high a priority as it used to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted March 7, 2009 Members Share Posted March 7, 2009 Well one thing is for certain; buisnesses that sell things that are not necessary are going to be hurting in next couple of years. The tatoo thing has been a trend that has kind of peaked in the last couple of years. When money gets tight and you see people around you losing their jobs and homes, getting a new tatoo just doesn't get as high a priority as it used to. Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted March 7, 2009 Members Share Posted March 7, 2009 Gotta Wal-Mart in town? Yeah, those damn Wal-Marts drive all the ma and pa tattoo parlors out of business... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted March 7, 2009 Members Share Posted March 7, 2009 That old attack that Wal-Mart causes local businesses to close has be debunked many times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Richard King Posted March 7, 2009 Members Share Posted March 7, 2009 What does a tattoo parlor closing have to do with Bush? Trends change. Tattoos aren't as "hip" as they once were. The new trend is tattoo removal. Maybe they should have closed up shop and opened a shop specializing in removal of their previous work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted March 8, 2009 Members Share Posted March 8, 2009 Well one thing is for certain; buisnesses that sell things that are not necessary are going to be hurting in next couple of years. The tatoo thing has been a trend that has kind of peaked in the last couple of years. When money gets tight and you see people around you losing their jobs and homes, getting a new tatoo just doesn't get as high a priority as it used to. Yup, thats what I was thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted March 8, 2009 Members Share Posted March 8, 2009 What does a tattoo parlor closing have to do with Bush? Trends change. Tattoos aren't as "hip" as they once were. The new trend is tattoo removal. Maybe they should have closed up shop and opened a shop specializing in removal of their previous work. Well, if the owner was republican, they would have blamed it on Obama so... Am I right or am I right? Believe me, its just a matter of time before we start chanting... impeach Obama. When the economy really takes a dump which it will in another 6-12 months... watch how freaked out everyone gets. People forget that during the Great Depression, the unemployment rate was 24%. 1 out of 4 people was unemployed! Thats a lot of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super 8 Posted March 8, 2009 Members Share Posted March 8, 2009 Phait, judging by the reflection in your photo you're being trailed by the police. But you didn't hear about it from me..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted March 8, 2009 Members Share Posted March 8, 2009 That old attack that Wal-Mart causes local businesses to close has be debunked many times. I don't know this for a fact, so take it with a grain of salt, but I remember reading an article that said it's sort of a give and take, as it does tend to make small businesses close (or certainly make a lot less money) but that it also created jobs for the community as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted March 8, 2009 Members Share Posted March 8, 2009 Walmart's offering lower priced tattoos? The tattoo mention was not there when I made that comment. No clue from the picture. Phait pulled some edit scam on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted March 8, 2009 Members Share Posted March 8, 2009 Now you can get a picture of Sam Walton tattooed on one ass cheek and Dubya on the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted March 8, 2009 Members Share Posted March 8, 2009 Literally. Shot this downtown, used to be a tattoo shop. It's funny, I think of the proliferation of tattoo shops as being a sign of the times... part of the dumbing down... collective loss of common sense. A couple days before this thread I had noticed yet another tattoo shop open where another business had been for a couple decades. So yeah, with that in mind it's pretty unsettling when even a tattoo shop can't survive. A different way of looking at it than you intended, I'm sure, but same conclusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted March 8, 2009 Members Share Posted March 8, 2009 Bars and porn shops will be next. Those are the real indicators of how things are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted March 8, 2009 Members Share Posted March 8, 2009 Now you can get a picture of Sam Walton tattooed on one ass cheek and Dubya on the other. Joe Biden's already in the middle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pink floyd cramer Posted March 9, 2009 Members Share Posted March 9, 2009 so where's Obama? Swinging in a pouch up front because he's nuts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bp Posted March 9, 2009 Members Share Posted March 9, 2009 This belongs over at PP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dean Roddey Posted March 9, 2009 Members Share Posted March 9, 2009 Believe me, its just a matter of time before we start chanting... impeach Obama. When the economy really takes a dump which it will in another 6-12 months... watch how freaked out everyone gets. People forget that during the Great Depression, the unemployment rate was 24%. 1 out of 4 people was unemployed! Thats a lot of people. There is obviously a doom gene. There are just certain people who, in the face of any downturn, predict the end is near because they become overwhelmed with paranoia I guess. And of course there are lots of people out there who make their living telling us that the other side is dragging us down into oblivion (even when their side is running the show), and if you aren't curled up in a ball of fear then their big paycheck is in danger. The Great Depression was in so different a finanical and political time that it would probably take ten times the problems to get us to the same place today, if not more. Governments are far faster to react such things, and since so much of it is perception anyway, those things do make a difference, however little they may be based on any sort of proveable thesis. The actual problems will be corrected in time, and they'll be corrected a lot quicker if people don't go into bunker mentality mode. But anyway... The econony is cyclical, come to accept it. Most of the time the many different cycles are out of sync, but sometimes they sync up and the hit will be worse. But if you really think that this is going to put us into another great depression, you have really been listening to too many fear mongers, IMO. I guarantee you that the seeds of the next upswing are being planted right now. It's these times where the small and the quick get their chance to make inroads and create the next wave of innovation. The people who make a real difference don't sit around and worry about the fact that the economy is down. They create the conditions that turn the economy back up. And, frankly, the big companies get what is probably a much needed shakeout. Continued good times, as much as we like them, are not always good for us in the long term. Lack of adversity makes us careless and egotistical and fat. So it's not always a bad thing. It's cruel for sure, but I think it's a necessary thing for long term financial health. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted March 9, 2009 Members Share Posted March 9, 2009 This belongs over at PP. And ruin a good thread? Just say what ya gotta say. We know your cool. Piss on those jokers in PP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted March 9, 2009 Members Share Posted March 9, 2009 Unless of course you were feeling like trading insults with somebody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted March 9, 2009 Members Share Posted March 9, 2009 Good post, Dean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jotown Posted March 9, 2009 Members Share Posted March 9, 2009 But anyway... The econony is cyclical, come to accept it. Most of the time the many different cycles are out of sync, but sometimes they sync up and the hit will be worse. But if you really think that this is going to put us into another great depression, you have really been listening to too many fear mongers, IMO.Well, I am a pathological optimist, but I don't know what to think these days. We have tent cities popping up all over the country; Reno, Seattle, Nashville, San Bernadino. We haven't seen anything like this in our lifetime and I assure you that those folks living in those tent cities who just months ago had a job and a home would tell you that this is a lot like the Great Depression to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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