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Town planners across the UK chanced upon the idea of selling off huge plots of land in areas free of the signs of life to large electrical chain stores and Americanised restaurants suggesting to them – and us – that they could control the Sunday afternoons of the population and thus increase their profits ten fold. The only good point of these industrial parks is the usual inclusion of a cinema, so if your other half insists on driving up to the arse of nowhere to look at a tumble dryer you can slope off quietly whilst they're considering the finance plan, catch a movie and then return two hours later claiming to have been waiting by the toasters for them for ever and can we please go now?

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