Читать книгу Grumpy Old Men: New Year, Same Old Crap - David Quantick - Страница 56

They used to be sort of forums where middle-class people would go and be reassured. Now they are used, brilliantly and wrongly, as afternoon fillers. Beefy couples in ill-fitting sweatsuits are forced to go to markets in the rain to look at bits of old lamps and one-eyed stuffed rats. Worse, they are made to hang around with bowtie-faced professional patronizers who apparently make a living running antique shops. The whole thing is not only deeply depressing but also encourages people to buy as much old toot as possible in the vain, dead hope that one day it will be worth a spillion quid. Such things can destroy the morale of a nation.