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At least they didn't call it poundtown :>

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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AFAIK, Poundtown is in Poundland, so πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TFW your date makes the turn heading towards poundland

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

PSA: if you pat your brow with sweet, yeasty white bread before joining her in Poundland, you both're gonna have a bad time. 🫣

[–] Technoworcester@feddit.uk 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

TIL the yanks have a thing called a dollar store.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dollar Store, Dollar Tree, Dollar General (where they couldn't keep prices at $1.)

5 Below - I thought would be a winter clothing/sports store, nope. $5 and below items

[–] Technoworcester@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ha. I would have also thought 5 below was a temp. thing.

[–] emogu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There’s one a few miles from my house and I thought the same until this thread.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They opened one in Panama City Beach years ago. It's actually a decent place to bring younger kids if you have them or are hanging out with your nieces/nephews. All kinds of random things at the time.

I'm sure it's all cheap junk but if you are hanging out and want to find them some quick entertainment they have cheap pool floats/ beach stuff, marker/drawing/coloring sets, TShirts, little plush stuffed animals of things like Lilo and stitch, small Lego sets, sports balls, backyard games and even some shitty headphones and such.

Can find some activities for them for the weekend and they have fun looking around while you don't have to worry about it being expensive like if you bought a toy at Target or something.

For us it was usually things like little water guns, water balloons with fillers and big notepads and colored pencils as the kids were 4-12 years old and they loved going there. Not sure how they'll survive the tariffs though.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Don't worry. TACO.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 weeks ago

funnily they don't have Dollar Store, that's a swedish thing

[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was also just sold for Β£1!

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

That's comittment πŸ’―

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's so interesting to see how people react to something that is so normal to me 🀣

We also sometimes call it The Pound Shop.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I watch an electronics guy called Big Clive on YT and I'm always impressed by the stuff he finds at Poundland.. kinda jealous.

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Theres a GREAT channel that covers poundland tat called Ashens you should check out then. Thats where I learned of it.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I always watch his buying undelivered mail ones... absolutely love that a brown chair is his studio.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hello!

Haven’t seen that guy in years, but was one of the first YouTubers I actually followed.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

He still does the same thing, just a bit less frequently. He does a lot of other stuff though, including full movies.

Two tickets, please, I’d like to ride The Fuck Train to Poundland.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In related news, Americans wear thongs on their feet.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That would explain all the foot fetishists on onlyfans

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

One of my buddies has a big time thing for high heels, but only if he cant see toes because he thinks feet are disgusting.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

And they don't seem to know what "gangbanger" actually means.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know it’s gonna sound weird, but thanks to Big Clive, I am quite familiar with Poundland.

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

In my case it was Ashens.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We have a dog daycare center around here called Pound Town.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think I'd have the heart to take my dog to poundtown 😨

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

The Yelp cover picture for Pound Town.

Somebody's gonna watch some Ashens tonight.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Someone has never watched Ashens and it shows.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is also the name of my bedroom. :)

[–] Rednax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Zier@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

I never charge. Pounding is free.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

There is also the "Poundstretcher".

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Last I heard about this place, it (the whole company) was sold for one pound.

[–] postnataldrip@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some of my favourite UK towns/villages etc:

  • cockfosters.
  • petts wood.
  • fingringhoe.
  • bitchfield.
  • shitterton.
  • Twatt.
[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Would a blowout sale there be called a Fingerbang!?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Man, Europeans are so sexually mature.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I understood that reference

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

I just woke up and I will have a very good day all thanks to you! I will dream of this moment, this feeling of accomplishment!

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

There's a Poundtown Burgers in Syracuse

[–] aaron@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

How many pounds to get pounded?

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

It's just south of Newpoundland.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago
[–] swagmoney@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

me and your mum went to the shops last night