Tragedy in Burgess Hill, it's boring again

[Weatherman]

I live about 80 yards behind it so didn't get much kip. Difficult keeping the smoke out though.
As for the club itself, i think it's been brilliant - so much quieter at night than when it was just a music / drinking den. Different class of clientel altogether. Why don't these moralists just foxtrot oscar.

 

[Weatherman]

I find it shocking that in this day and age you can go to a lapdance club and not even get an eyeful of muff. Burn it down I say

My son went there on Saturday and spent a fortune.
Does anyone remember the ship in Lewes rd in the 70's where the stripping was free and at the end of the show a glass tankard was passed around to put your loose change into ?
When there was enough in the pot out would come the dildo.

 

[Springal]

HAHA! He's not THAT extremist!

Unless his sat nav failed and he thought he was off to the Liquid Lounge cos that one opened this week!

Its in its 3rd week now actually! But he has been rather quiet since it opened, not seen him or heard of him in town and he has not been seen outside at all with his follow god botherers.

I do not understand how somehow so discreet and quiet can cause so much offense when its opening hours are 10-2,3,4 when all of the people "so against it" are tucked up in bed with a cup of cocoa? Madness!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I didn't think there'd been many objections to the place anyway- after all, it's not as though it's in a majorly residential area, only a few flats above some of the shops.

It's one of those things, that if you didn't know it was there, you'd probably never be bothered by it, but once people know, they think they have to get on some kind of moral crusade about it.

There's been a house of ill repute, shall we say, opposite a primary school in Brighton since about the early 80s, and nobody even noticed it, such was the lack of problems surrounding it. But a couple of years ago, the Argus picked up on it, and all of a sudden the parents of the kids were up in arms, giving it the old "won't somebody think of the children", and imagining it was going to bring plagues of pestilence upon the area. 20 years with no trouble at all, and all of a sudden it's the worst thing in the world.

 

[steward 433]

HAHA! He's not THAT extremist!

Unless his sat nav failed and he thought he was off to the Liquid Lounge cos that one opened this week!

Yes he is sadly

Bitter old man who has forgotten that the world DOES NOT revolve around his beliefs

 

[Robbie G]

Had a look at it today, right old mess. Though looks like the damage was contained to only 3 outlets

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The only decent thing in BH and it burns down.

Oi! You're forgetting something!

 

[BensGrandad]

According to the 'local lads' it didnt do much business and I am sure that Simon Hancock will come out of it smelling of roses.

 

[surrey jim]

According to the 'local lads' it didnt do much business and I am sure that Simon Hancock will come out of it smelling of roses.

i thought Simon Hancock got rid of the place when it turned from hancocks to pulse and the nightclub (chapmans??) or does he still own them??

 

[surrey jim]

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/videos/index.var.36639.0.0.php


and arsonists blamed:
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/videos/index.var.36800.0.0.php

 

[BensGrandad]

i thought Simon Hancock got rid of the place when it turned from hancocks to pulse and the nightclub (chapmans??) or does he still own them??

I am told he still owns them, in partnership with somebody, either that or he is the manager because the licence is still in his name.

 

[Marshy]

He still owns downstairs. Dont think he has anything to do with the club anymore

 

[surrey jim]

ahh fair enough

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Hancock sold the club ages ago, he only owns the bar downstairs now.

I can't help thinking the club owner in that Argus video is being a bit optimistic in pledging to reopen the place in three months...

 

[surrey jim]

Hancock sold the club ages ago, he only owns the bar downstairs now.

I can't help thinking the club owner in that Argus video is being a bit optimistic in pledging to reopen the place in three months...

dunno if it was in the video (cant access at work) but the Sun has quoyed the manager as saying "this is no diffrent to censorship in nazi germany except they are burning lap dancing clubs not books" a bit of a ott comment in my opinion

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I see what he's saying, after all, burning down someone's property is a pretty extreme way of making a point isn't it, albeit he probably didn't choose his words that carefully.

Having said that:

-there's no official confirmation that it was arson yet...

-if it was, it doesn't necessarily follow that it was some moral crusader that torched it, could be a business rival or an old enemy. After all, where's the logic in thinking a few ropey girls legally dancing for men who can't get any at home is the start of a decline in moral standards, yet committing a criminal act costing thousands of pounds isn't?.

-or there could be another explanation, which I won't write on here as I don't want to get sued