Mystery white stone

[Mrsz1ppy]

i thought the high street was the main street ?
is that just the UK ?
its so easy to get confussed ?

It is. But also high street shops are the same shops that are in a mall in the US. Went to school and lived both places. Just trying to help bridge the gap over the Atlantic.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

It is. But also high street shops are the same shops that are in a mall in the US. Went to school and lived both places. Just trying to help bridge the gap over the Atlantic.

yip
understood
same here too
although you can still get nice shops in the main street that arnt part of chains

 

[JewelledEscalators]

In going with white topaz.

Edit: I see I was wrong!

Ha, interesting that quite a few people thought this - I completely overlooked that possibility!

 

[JewelledEscalators]

well actually the mall i shopped in needed a stick or two of dynamite to improve it
Gary said its been that bad since it opened in the 1980s when we first got saturday shopping.
see i used to commute to work against the flow and worked in a tiny village that bascially only had supermarkets and cafes, booze shops (we all drunk so much at my work ) and our timber/hardwar store
most workers commuted into Wellington but i went the other way - on the first train at 6.10am i was usually the only passenger going all the way
but the next train stop down was this much bigger town where Gary's grown up family live
its a bl**dy awful dead end place - if you were looking for Florida man in NZ he'd be in Paraparaumu
its a pretty skanky down - the staff on the train used to call the friday 5pm service into Wellington the ***skank train (think scantally clad girls even on very cold nights)
see its a town of old retired white people or **bogans
it has no real diversity, its basically dead
imangine a beach town in the off season or a wet day on your holiday

Not sure I've ever heard anyone speak so poorly of their hometown - sounds like New Zealand can do with its own version of Crap Towns

Crap Towns - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[JewelledEscalators]

We call malls 'shopping centres' in the UK. The main difference for me between high street and shopping centres is that on a high street you can get some non-chain individual businesses, but shopping centres are more or less nothing but chain stores.

I just wondered if malls in New Zealand looked much different to ones in the UK.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Not sure I've ever heard anyone speak so poorly of their hometown - sounds like New Zealand can do with its own version of Crap Towns

Crap Towns - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

good lord
put the breaks on and back up that bus
im from Dunedin Otagto

im not from any where in the Wellington region, im from a whole diffetent island and until im dead and probably from beyond the grave proudly so
Dunedin has a long and proud history and my family have been a part of that since before the first ships

i just happened to have a job in a sh*t hole town on the Kapati coast in the north island, living in Wellington
a world of difference

people who live there tend to love it - Paraparaumu i mean
but kids leave school and many dont even go so far as getting a job in Wellington (which is a great place for young people) they just stay on the kapati coast
there is a whole world out there and they dont want to go see it




Dunedin https://g.co/kgs/i86BxR

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

We call malls 'shopping centres' in the UK. The main difference for me between high street and shopping centres is that on a high street you can get some non-chain individual businesses, but shopping centres are more or less nothing but chain stores.

I just wondered if malls in New Zealand looked much different to ones in the UK.

a mall here is usually a single building housing many shops usuallly all the big chain stores are represented
the problem with the mall i mentioned in the mall mamagment
they don't have the right mix of shops (its 1/2 health related - lots of old people remember
but they are also very hard to work with from what ive heard

malls will also have local speciality shops

malls kill main streets
i mean free parking is nice, its all under one roof with a food court
ive seen some lovelly malls in Australia
we quite liked our Porirua mall - we lived in North Wellington and did all our shopping in Porirua (originally a dormitory city for Wellington but now with plenty of identity of its own (although some would unkindly put Porirua in the crap catagory) it had very nice shops and when you walk into that mall it feels alive with a good ethic mix and lots of young people and a really good food court and most importantly is welcoming to outsiders as its a city of 1st and 2nd generation - but it was also friendly to me, something i never felt in Wellington

gee ive completly forgotten what this tread is about

 

[JewelledEscalators]

good lord
put the breaks on and back up that bus
im from Dunedin Otagto

im not from any where in the Wellington region, im from a whole diffetent island and until im dead and probably from beyond the grave proudly so
Dunedin has a long and proud history and my family have been a part of that since before the first ships

i just happened to have a job in a sh*t hole town on the Kapati coast in the north island, living in Wellington
a world of difference

people who live there tend to love it - Paraparaumu i mean
but kids leave school and many dont even go so far as getting a job in Wellington (which is a great place for young people) they just stay on the kapati coast
there is a whole world out there and they dont want to go see it




Dunedin https://g.co/kgs/i86BxR

Oops, my bad

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Oops, my bad

thats ok
its a south - north island thing
you may have seen Ireland beat the all blacks on the news in Dunedin last night (we have Scottish heritage)
i am about to clean my white saphires for you
slightly embassing because turns out its not a 3 stone
well its a silver ring from the mall
but i like peridot

turns out it has 3 side stones each side of the peridot
embassing because due to the pandenic this is the ring ive worn the most as it fits my index finger and i wore it in lockdown to remind myself not to touch my face while grocery shopping