Unpopular Opinion: I Think These Street Vendors Should Return and Bring Life Back to City Centre
by borschbandit
Unpopular Opinion: I Think These Street Vendors Should Return and Bring Life Back to City Centre
by borschbandit
26 comments
Street traders vs Street Preachers
FIIIIVE LIGHTURS FUR A POUUUUN
The finger on the money’s paw curls. The street vendors return. They now scream “5 cigarette lighters for a pound” into microphones linked to amplifiers bigger than those used by the buskers. Every window in the city shatters by lunchtime on the first day due to the uniquely nasal timbre of their Belfast accents.
The street trader they interviewed owns Argento. Mans a millionaire now fair play to him.
I’d take them back in a heartbeat if it meant we could get rid of the Bible Bashers.
It made sense to ban them when the town was always busy, just as it makes sense to bring them back now it’s dead.
They’ve been replaced with Religious cunts.
I’d have them back tomorrow tbh.
100% better than the lifeless , soulless hole that belfast is now
This just highlights how much better Belfast city centre used to be, I miss it. Absolute shit hole now with 0 reason to ever want to go in to it
Weed, Bible, Coke, Fleg, Electric Ireland, Meth, Weed, Bible, Coke, Fleg…… all the way down the Ormeau Road. Could delete Signal and Telegram!
“It’s becoming a danger” says 1990s Belfast man.
Haha, that’s Pete Boyle (Argento) with the long hair. Guy took selling complete tatt to the next level.
I do remember how the streets used to absolutely stink of onions with shitty burger stalls.
I know it wasn’t Belfast but….
Cmon ladies Cmon ladies ONE POUNNNNND FIIIIISH
I didn’t even exist until several years after this was recorded, but the city centre appeared to be so much more cosmopolitan during that time. In some of those stills, you could easily mistake the streets for somewhere in London or New York. It just seems like the world has become much less vibrant over the past decade or so. Perhaps someone from one of the older generations can provide more insight or correct me, but it feels as though people and places actually had character back then
I also remember the guys shouting “TELEEEE” for the Belfast telegraph
Very good. Thanks for uploading.
Wow, I remember the 5 cigerette lighters for a pound soundtrack
Wow, a 4:3 horizontal video, uploaded to tiktok in 1080×1920 portrait, screen capped, then uploaded to reddit where the majority of users will be using a mobile.
This is some “Brenda from accounts encounters a PDF” level shenanigans
This is the most chilled out news report on Belfast I’ve ever seen.
They were illegal back then, as they would be now so there’s no stopping them, if people would buy their stuff.
My cousin used to do the “name on a grain of rice” stand. I think that every day an RUC man would come and ask to see her licence, which he knew she didn’t have, then read some piece of legislation to her, take her name and address, which had been taken hundreds of times, and then be on his way. I’m not sure if she was ever prosecuted or suffered any negative consequences as a result.
Doesn’t the City council pay millions to bring street traders into Belfast every year, for the Christmas markets? But just basing them in the City Hall grounds. Don’t like street preachers or buskers, especially those with their own amplification system. Licence them all & stick them in Writers Square, to bring a bit of life into that area.
Would love to see the castle street I grew up with back on Belfast.
Cheeky Charlie and Mickey Marley
Best place to buy a score of hash.
There’s no way this is an unpopular opinion. The high street is dead and is never coming back. The only option for a thriving city centre is independent traders like this.
You only have to look at the open air markets in London, Paris and beyond to see how popular they are, definitely something interesting for tourists to see other than the usual shite.
Of course bringing it back is a complete no-brainer which is why it’ll never happen. The Xmas Market is a decade long example of how popular it can be, and if it was a permanent fixture it would be less of a strokefest.
There’s too much form filling and over regulation now for street vendors
I agree. The council was fast to remove them but not the hate preachers or the anti abortion people with posters of chopped up feotuses