on matters of dry cleaning

[rm]

While debating with Patty if I should get my dress shirts done here where it's expensive and I don't speak the language or wait until Cardiff; she said she was not sure if Cardiff had dry cleaning, being Cardiff (clarification: 1. Patty doesn't use dry-cleaning and so hasn't noticed any. 2. We're from New York, and yes, we can be assholes about any city that is smaller than ours, which is most. This is probably shitty, but was not meant as any particular dig at Cardiff or Wales).

And then I said, "Ianto Jones owned too many fabulous fucking suits for there not to be fucking dry cleaning in fucking Cardiff."

Which, you know, didn't seem absurd until it came out of my mouth.

Comments

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Heh.

On a related, but wholly unridiculous angle, there's far too much BBC presence for there not to be dry cleaning in Cardiff.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is a VERY GOOD POINT.

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Lol!

Cardiff apparently has a ton of dry cleaners.
http://www.city-visitor.com/cardiff/drycleaners.html

[miscellanny.livejournal.com]

There's dry cleaning at 84 Crwys Road, in Cathays, at least - I used to work there, back in Uni. :)

[specialj67.livejournal.com]

Rock-solid logic!!

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

Ha! :) I needed that smile. Thank you.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Um, why would Cardiff not have dry cleaners? Pretty much every reasonable-sized town in the UK has one, and Cardiff is a major city.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Of course. Patty doesn't use dry cleaning though (it is an evil I foist upon some of her garments), so she wouldn't have noticed one to tell me how the rates compared to Switzerland, and she said she hadn't seen any. So I replied with the first random thing that popped into my head.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

It will be cheaper in Cardiff than in Zurich. One can live cheaply in Zurich, and I'm sure if I'd done my PhD there I'd have found out how very quickly, but it's much easier to live cheaply in Cardiff.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

*giggling*

[cozzene.livejournal.com]

Starched shirts are one of my favs. I only wish our placed used enough so shirts would stand at attentionand not need a hangar.

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

Ianto has a memorial in Cardiff... so it's not as absurd as you think, I'd say

[therealycats.livejournal.com]

Actually that is a fair argument, since the show was filmed in Cardiff, and therefore one can conclude that said fabulous suits were housed and cleaned there.

[lyorn.livejournal.com]

Only marginally related, but re: "don't seem absurd, or does it":

In the hostel where I stayed in Cardiff, there were questionaires from the tourist office. One question was, "What made you come to Cardiff", and one possible selection was, "TV".

In retrospect I wonder if they meant more the discovery channel type of TV, but at the moment it made me giggle.

[rm.livejournal.com]

No, that's awesome and makes a lot of sense. A ton of shit gets filmed there. TV is my answer until Patty wound up there for a semester!

[bare-bear.livejournal.com]

Man, my home town of 2000 people in rural Manitoba had a dry cleaners. Even small town people own nice clothes, you know. :)

Although, yeah, my first thought when reading the above was about Ianto Jones and his fucken awesome suits, so you're not alone in that!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I assume dry cleaning to be ubiquitous, but if you don't use it, stores for it don't register, which makes sense.

[marcmagus]

It is. They don't. It does.

When you start noticing them it's like, "Where the fuck did all of these come from? There's no way there were this many dry cleaning places and I wasn't aware of *any* of them. Maybe the world really does revolve around me."

[bare-bear.livejournal.com]

That's true! I never knew about our dry cleaners until I needed to get a dress cleaned. Remember, small town, not many stores. How the heck did I miss this place for so many years?! lol

[yamx]

I've seen one! In Cardiff! It was somewhere in this *huge* mall that has several entrances, amongst others on Queen's street.

Okay, that doesn't narrow it down *much,* given the size of that thing, but it's a starting point! :)

[shesingsnow.livejournal.com]

LOL there are plenty of dry cleaners in Cardiff. Sometimes they are called dry cleaners; sometimes they are called steamers.

[miep.livejournal.com]

now this* is actually helpful...

[shesingsnow.livejournal.com]

LOL --

Cardiff has about 350,000 people, which makes it about the size of St Louis or New Orleans. That's totally not New York sized, but luckily nothing so small as to prevent the finding of a good restaurant!

[rm.livejournal.com]

We actually have quite a list of places to eat when we're there. PAtty's found a sushi place she's pleasantly fond of.

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

LMAO.

I'm sure you'll find one. ;)

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

Well, according to the tie-in novels, Ianto was Torchwood's dry-cleaner.

[electricalgwen.livejournal.com]

There will be dry-cleaning in Cardiff, and it will almost certainly be a fair bit cheaper than Switzerland. Although it will also, probably, be cheaper if you bring in 3 or 5 items at a time.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Say what you will about the line between fiction and ordinary reality in your statement, it's not a bad argument. I mean, how else would the writers have got there?

Reality: it writes the story! :D

[sageautumn.livejournal.com]

This made me giggle.
My town has at least three dry cleaners... and we're about ohhh... 20-30,000 in Kentucky. I can't imagine they weren't thick on the ground. (And as the prior comments have pointed out--they are!)