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CURMUDGEONS ' CORNER 5 - BAH HUMBUG!🍬

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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I got the ‘unexpected item in bagging area’ message when I was in Asda. It was my Fortnum and Mason’s hessian bag. How did it know?
    Rutland, England
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    My wife wanted me to buy some Xmas chocolate for some things she's making up as presents for her friend's kids. The standard chocolate is £1/100g but anything with Xmas written on the label is almost double that price. No fancy packaging, no different ingredients, just added Xmas tax. And then you get Lakeland's chocolate Harry Potter wand at £26.17/100g :o

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I have taken to making my own chocolate truffles @wild edges.   Much cheaper than bought and I can control the flavourings and not roll them in pure cocoa which I always think ruins a good truffle.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    wild edges said:
    My wife wanted me to buy some Xmas chocolate for some things she's making up as presents for her friend's kids. The standard chocolate is £1/100g but anything with Xmas written on the label is almost double that price. No fancy packaging, no different ingredients, just added Xmas tax. And then you get Lakeland's chocolate Harry Potter wand at £26.17/100g :o

    They wouldn't sell if there weren't idiots out there buying them.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's the Harry Enfield  'I must have seen you coming' character over and over again

    Almost as bad [ or funny ] as the 2 people who've bought a banana gaffer taped to a wall for 90 grand [120,000 dollars] a pop. 
    https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-06/banana-taped-to-wall-proves-a-peeling-offer-to-art-world-as-it-sells-for-more-than-90-000/

    That bloke who did it must be laughing all the way to the bank...or the nearest supermarket .. :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50695211

    Maybe if we taxed footballers rather than let them sending their incomes overseas, that'd cover it????
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited December 2019
    "Mr Johnson, in a column in The Spectator magazine in 1995, said single mums were producing a generation of "ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate children"."

    One wonders if he considers his own children in the same light.
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    philippa smith2 said:
    Fairygirl said:


    That bloke who did it must be laughing all the way to the bank...or the nearest supermarket .. :D
    To buy a fresh banana I'd think  :D
    and another roll of tape
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The trick is to get some other mug to invest in the banana and the tape.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I remember going to the Hayward gallery with a friend around the time of piles of bricks as art. Outside there was a pile of black bin bags with a banana skin chucked on the heap. She stopped to study it. I walked away in case someone thought I was with her. That's the kind of good, supportive friend that I am😐
    I believe they're called installations. Maybe it was one, but the banana skin looked awful fresh.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
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