Buildings that should never, ever, be located next to another.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m currently in Vienna Airport on a layover and I decided to wander around the overpriced duty free stores. Lots of designer clothes stores, perfume stores and luggage shops (who buys a suitcase inside an airport??). Another establishment that many airports have is a chapel/prayer room. Sure enough, the Austrians have a twee but efficient space for talking to God. But, um, next door there was an establishment with bead curtains tastefully guarding the entrance and preventing prying eyes from the casual glances of passing passengers. Right next to the Chapel, there was

Der Erotik Boutique

There’s nothing wrong with selling dildos and there’s nothing wrong with God, but do they really nearly need to set up shop next to each other.

Anyone else seen any incongruous establishment pairings?

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That’s just so wrong!

Since “Boutique” is feminine in both French and German, it should be “Die erotike Boutique”

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Right here in Salisbury there’s a KFC with a funeral parlour immediately behind it…

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Not far from my place, there is a religious supplies shop (Sydneysiders, it’s on Burwood Rd, near the Hume Hwy). There used to be a cleaning supplies place next to it called, of course, Cleanliness is Next to Godliness. Sorry, this doesn’t really fit the OP, but I just had to share.
I used to go to a dentist who had a large window which, from the viewpoint of a patient in the chair, perfectly framed the McDonald’s opposite. The dentist assured me the “irony wasn’t lost” on him.

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A prostitute outside "Mr Floppy’s (Computer Repair)

Og, I miss Auckland sometimes.

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I remember seeing a “massage” parlour above a butcher shop in country Victoria years ago. I said, “Buy your meat downstairs and get it beaten upstairs.”

And I remember the famous case of La Petite Aroma, a legal brothel in Chatswood who complained to the local council about plans to build a church in the same street - saying it would attract the “wrong sort of people.”

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The Department of Family Services Office (Child Protection Agency) in Stones Corner, Brisbane used to be right above a gun store.

Not a well-fated juxtaposition.

mm

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[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin]
I’m currently in Vienna Airport on a layover and I decided to wander around the overpriced duty free stores. Lots of designer clothes stores, perfume stores and luggage shops (who buys a suitcase inside an airport??). Another establishment that many airports have is a chapel/prayer room. Sure enough, the Austrians have a twee but efficient space for talking to God.<snip>QUOTE]
“twee”? Tkype of “we”? If not, what, por favor?

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[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin]
I’m currently in Vienna Airport on a layover and I decided to wander around the overpriced duty free stores. Lots of designer clothes stores, perfume stores and luggage shops (who buys a suitcase inside an airport??). Another establishment that many airports have is a chapel/prayer room. Sure enough, the Austrians have a twee but efficient space for talking to God.<snip>QUOTE]
“twee”? Typo of “wee”? If not, what, por favor?

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twee: dainty, old fashioned, prissy

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Oh, I don’t know… “are not all acts of love and pleasure acts of worship”? :slight_smile:

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And both might involve calling out to God. :wink:

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All that separates these two places is a row of bushes. The first time my wife noticed it she said “What, do they just toss them over the fence if they can’t fix them?”

Another one, we have a gun shop attached to a gas station/liquor store. That’s just asking for trouble.

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Sounds cliche, I know, but a couple of years ago I worked near a pet groomers that was next door to a Chinese restaurant. Not that I’m suggesting anything, mind you! But it was just funny.

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Here there’s a long established Christian bookshop which is up one flight of stairs. Right beside the doorway is a belly dancing shop…

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There was a Baptist Church in Roslyn Va, for many years that was above a Gas Station. (Part of keeping the church alive in times of commercialization, and secularization of the area. The church was there first.)

My question was, is it the First Exxon Baptist Church, or the First Baptist Exxon Service Station?

Tris

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We have a day care center next door to a bacterial genetics research lab.

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A friend of mine used to live in Iowa. When I went out to visit once, I noticed a gun shop right next to a bar. When I pointed it out, my friend told me he couldn’t count the number of times he saw someone come out of the bar and go immediately into the gun shop.

Drunks and guns, a great combination.

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There is a cemetary on the grounds of the local hospital. It’s not discreetly in the back, either, it’s right out in front. I think it’s funny, no one else seems to notice.

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We used to live opposite a very large cemetery and a few buildings down from us was an apartment building for seniors. At some time in the 4 years we lived there, we started joking about that building just having a catapult on the roof, so when the tenants died, they could just launch them over the road and into their final resting place. During those years, the grave plots that were being dug and filled all seemed to be in that zone near the fence anyways!