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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21023610
Nick Twine, a 47-year-old supervisor at home improvement chain B&Q in Lincoln, probably speaks for many of his kind when he laments the changes at his local HMV shop. "My time to go to the High Street is to take the kids shopping," says Mr Twine, who has three daughters. "They want to go to the shops and buy clothes and make-up. HMV is my soother to the pain of going to the shops - I can spend a couple of hours browsing around."
The problem is that browsing is all he does there nowadays. The chain's decision to stock fewer music titles in favour of games and gadgets has made it hard for him to find any CDs worth buying.
"I have broad music tastes - anything apart from opera - but I went there on Sunday with £50 to spend and I actually couldn't find anything that I needed.
"It's kind of indicative that they can never carry enough stuff to appeal to guys like me, who have vast record collections and go online to find the stuff they need."...
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:16 AM (1 hour ago)
50 quid man! a spotting in the wild!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:31 AM (1 hour ago)
Nick Twine, a 47-year-old supervisor at home improvement chain B&Q in Lincoln
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:32 AM (1 hour ago)
Last time I went to Rough Trade, without meaning to, I spent exactly £50. I had become that guy.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:36 AM (1 hour ago)
you bought two CDs?
― Mark G, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:37 AM (1 hour ago)
Last time I went to B&Q to nick twine, I got thrown out by some 47-year-old supervisor
― qbert yuiop (NickB), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:38 AM (1 hour ago)
you cut off the best bit, nilmar
Nick Twine, a 47-year-old supervisor at home improvement chain B&Q in Lincoln, probably speaks for many of his kind
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:39 AM (1 hour ago)
"My father was a 47-year-old supervisor at B&Q, and his father before him, and his father's father..."
― Four days left to vote in the ILM End of Year Poll! (seandalai), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:40 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Don't you just hate people in their 40s buying music and having jobs?
― Stop Gerrying Me! (onimo), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:44 AM (1 hour ago)
Coalition govt. should start demonising them imo
― Designated Striver (Tom D.), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:45 AM (1 hour ago)
They don't deserve HMV.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:46 AM (1 hour ago)
While the rest of us are getting up early in the morning to go to to work these people are getting up early in the morning to go to to work and going to HMV in their lunch breaks
― Designated Striver (Tom D.), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:48 AM (1 hour ago)
Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:49 AM (1 hour ago)
Don't you just hate people in their 40s buying music and having jobs?
yeah, these young people...
― Mark G, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:50 AM (1 hour ago)
I must confess that Nick Twine - that Nick Twine – is a friend of a friend.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:50 AM (1 hour ago)
thank you, Rob Thread.
― Mark G, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:51 AM (1 hour ago)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
a huge component of following sports - rather than just watching them - is the ridic drama!
if something like this happened in tennis i'd be GORGING MYSELF, i'd be riveted
― lex pretend, Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:41 AM (13 minutes ago)
i mean i'm pretty riveted as it is and i'm not even sure what sport this is
― lex pretend, Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:41 AM (12 minutes ago)
The sport is called "human sock puppeting"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:45 AM (9 minutes ago)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link