Are hobby shops like porn shops?

[Sir Edgar]

A lot of hobby shops are like porn shops because:

1. They are full of bearded men and pimply teenage boys.

2. Everything you buy is discreetly put in a brown paper bag or black plastic bag.

3. A lot of people browse around the shelves but don't buy.

4. It's eerily quiet in the store.

5. Lots of funny-looking toys and games.

6. The store owners look kinda weird.

7. You walk in and out discreetly.

Of course, I'm not serious, but I thought some of the similarities are funny. Anyhow, not all hobby shops are like this, but when you think of the typical small store...

 

[Utrecht]

Of course not all porn shops are like this either - One just has to be more discriminating where they go!!!

in a great many ways Victoria Seacret has helped that out considerably.

 

[Sir Edgar]

I forgot:

8. Lots of magazines and books with scantily-clad females on the cover.

 

[Airwolf]

I forgot:

8. Lots of magazines and books with scantily-clad females on the cover.

Woo Hoo!

 

[Pielorinho]

When I lived in Chapel Hill, the frustrated-testosterone level at our FLGS was so high that a friend of mine dubbed it the I Have No Girlfriend Store.

Female friends of mine who went in often went right back out again very quickly. It wasn't a girl-friendly place.

I've heard that it's gotten worse, lately -- but my last update was a couple years ago. Anyone know if Cerebral Palsy is still like that?

Daniel

 

[Skullfyre]

I forgot:

8. Lots of magazines and books with scantily-clad females on the cover.

Oh Yea!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Azure Trance]

I've heard that it's gotten worse, lately -- but my last update was a couple years ago. Anyone know if Cerebral Palsy is still like that?

Daniel

Cerebral Palsy is the name of the store?

 

[Aeolius]

Cerebral Palsy is the name of the store?

That upsets me, as well. I would boycott patronage of the store base on that alone.

edit: A quick google search found "Cerebral Hobbies" in Chapel Hill. Let's hope that's the one.

 

[Sanackranib]

Victoria's secret . . .

Of course not all porn shops are like this either - One just has to be more discriminating where they go!!!

in a great many ways Victoria Seacret has helped that out considerably.

. . . and how!

 

[Pielorinho]

That upsets me, as well. I would boycott patronage of the store base on that alone.

edit: A quick google search found "Cerebral Hobbies" in Chapel Hill. Let's hope that's the one.

That's the one. But we gallows-humor gamers have never found a store with so clever a name that we didn't think we could improve on it.

'Sides which, Cerebral Palsy is a lot quicker to say than The I Have No Girlfriend Store.

Daniel