I lived in Wales for a year a few years back. Actually colored hair was way more common over there when I was there. Even in older adults.
Had teachers with pink hair in their 60s.
Tattoos also more common. I recall one of the professors lookee like a Goth girl. She also gave me mediocre grades on everything I submitted to her. 😅
Septum piercing. Always wore black. And long jet black hair. She also told us how to pirate research papers and textbooks on day one. In a power point.
Idk. The culture there was just more chill about alternative style. At least while I was there.
maybe it’s Wales, maybe it’s just academia. smart people are usually capable of figuring out that self expression no matter how eccentric is harmless and simply brings colour to the world
Surely. But I’m still in academia. My most recent university was in Chicago. People there are more clean cut. Few alternative looking grad students but not professors. Professors all look like standard teacher types. Clean cut.
Only knew of one other grad student with a visible tattoo on her wrist.
I had a face piercing (Monroe). She has a side nose ring. Can’t think of anyone else with either.
Maybe it’s just that culture at that university.
Swansea was just really different to me.
Also something funny about Wales.
So here (,until the last few years) Starbucks was pretty popular, wouldn’t you say,?
Like the hip young people. The career go getters. The hipsters.
All hanging around starbucks.
But not in Wales.
Costa coffee was their hip coffee chain.
Starbucks was like. … idk how to phrase this without sounding shallow. But I’ll try.
Rough people hung out at Starbucks.
Like. People who looked like drug addicts.
Always outside chain smoking.
Rough people. The 2 am Denny’s crowd. You know.
Starbucks was so disliked, that small Starbucks , like the one inside a university building and one at a museum I visited, tried to hide their brand so people wouldn’t know it was starbucks until you got your cup. No apron logo. No racks with cups. No logos on anything anywhere. Except the to-go cups.
I’m 100% serious.
Local people always said that Starbucks coffee was shite.
I remember taking a video of the goings on to send it to a friend to show how much they tried to hide they were a star bucks. Cause this was like peak star bucks popularity time (2017-2018).
I lived in Wales for a year a few years back. Actually colored hair was way more common over there when I was there. Even in older adults.
Had teachers with pink hair in their 60s.
Tattoos also more common. I recall one of the professors lookee like a Goth girl. She also gave me mediocre grades on everything I submitted to her. 😅
Septum piercing. Always wore black. And long jet black hair. She also told us how to pirate research papers and textbooks on day one. In a power point.
Idk. The culture there was just more chill about alternative style. At least while I was there.
I was in Swansea.
Should’ve domned her instead
maybe it’s Wales, maybe it’s just academia. smart people are usually capable of figuring out that self expression no matter how eccentric is harmless and simply brings colour to the world
Surely. But I’m still in academia. My most recent university was in Chicago. People there are more clean cut. Few alternative looking grad students but not professors. Professors all look like standard teacher types. Clean cut.
Only knew of one other grad student with a visible tattoo on her wrist.
I had a face piercing (Monroe). She has a side nose ring. Can’t think of anyone else with either.
Maybe it’s just that culture at that university. Swansea was just really different to me.
Also something funny about Wales.
So here (,until the last few years) Starbucks was pretty popular, wouldn’t you say,?
Like the hip young people. The career go getters. The hipsters. All hanging around starbucks. But not in Wales.
Costa coffee was their hip coffee chain. Starbucks was like. … idk how to phrase this without sounding shallow. But I’ll try.
Rough people hung out at Starbucks.
Like. People who looked like drug addicts. Always outside chain smoking. Rough people. The 2 am Denny’s crowd. You know.
Starbucks was so disliked, that small Starbucks , like the one inside a university building and one at a museum I visited, tried to hide their brand so people wouldn’t know it was starbucks until you got your cup. No apron logo. No racks with cups. No logos on anything anywhere. Except the to-go cups.
I’m 100% serious.
Local people always said that Starbucks coffee was shite.
I remember taking a video of the goings on to send it to a friend to show how much they tried to hide they were a star bucks. Cause this was like peak star bucks popularity time (2017-2018).