Walking past a nightclub in town recently I was reminded of an episode of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet where they decide to paint the communal site hut. After Barry convinces the others to redecorate he organises a vote to choose the colour. He uses a complex point-based voting system previously used by the West Bromwich & District Sunday Methodist Table Tennis League. It contains the classic scene where, after the votes are counted, the result of the ballot is that yellow wins by one point - despite no one selecting it as their first choice. It won because it received the most second-place votes, whereas the popular choices split the first-place points. When the others complain, Barry explains: "That’s democracy, Dennis. Everybody gets what nobody wants."
Anyway, back to that nightclub. When I photographed it back in 2020 it looked like this.
And now it looks like this.
I can't help wondering that at some point Barry had something to do with it.
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The photo at the top of the page was taken in Sheffield last week. It's not a nightclub, but it is yellow. I like yellow, though it's not my favourite colour. However, it has its place.
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