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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Of course no one would be able to queue jump if everyone queued properly in the first place.

    Very definitely not true.  One road near us is wide enough for two lanes of traffic but the central area has been 'hatched out' for safety reasons.  Almost every time I drive down there some idiot or other drives down there to get past stationery traffic.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Interesting fact of the day: Shane MacGowan was born in Tunbridge Wellies😯
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I did something today I've never done before. I finished reading a rather trashy paperback which was so preposterous that I decided no-one else should have to read so tore it up and dumped in the compost bin!

    Now I feel guilty and like those 17th hell fire preachers.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3 said:
    Interesting fact of the day: Shane MacGowan was born in Tunbridge Wellies😯
    Yes and he went to a private school,  so much for the working class rebel. 
    AB Still learning

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Better Christmas song than Santa roasting on an open fire, though.
    I'll shop with my hearing aids out for the next few weeks. Deepest sympathies fire those of you who don't have the option. 
    I feel real feel sorry for the supermarket workers who have to listen to the Christmas c**p tunes all day. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    Better Christmas song than Santa roasting on an open fire, though.
    I'll shop with my hearing aids out for the next few weeks. Deepest sympathies fire those of you who don't have the option. 
    I feel real feel sorry for the supermarket workers who have to listen to the Christmas c**p tunes all day. 
    Shop in Waitrose, never any music in there.
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited November 2023
    One year when my hearing was better, I abandoned my trolley in Sainsbury's and went to Waitrose.  It's a hypermarket and one end was playing one load of Christmas tunes and the other was the was playing a different set. I was in the middle and could hear both at the same time.😩
    Wwife aisles peace and quiet but their vegetables are c**p
    Lidls is quiet too but cluttered. Better vegetables, though.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Shane MacGowan may well have gone to Public school, but he did so on a scholarship, not because of his parents wealth, and he was expelled after 2 years, so I think he was for real.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @Lizzie27. The paper will be recycled and used for a book more worthy of your interest. You are absolved of all guilt
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    It hadn’t occurred to me that I was ‘missing out’ on Christmas music by shopping in Waitrose! Another benefit! The vegetables in our branch are usually excellent, while those from our local Sainsbury’s tend not to last as well. 
    I do miss the Christmas lighting though. We rarely go into town after dark now, (poor night vision, and no fun in the cold,) so we only see the festive lighting in daylight, when it just looks a bit weedy.
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