Woolies down

I have bought stuff in them.

In the Reading 99p shop, for example, I bought a rather random cooling
rack and fondue fork combo which, when combined with four empty beer
cans, a campfire and a late night at the festival, made a wicked ersatz
barbecue.

Compared to the queue for a porcelain shit at John Lewis, the 99p shop
was almost civilised.

 

Maybe in some of the regiments they do but certainly not in the Paras.

My youngest was going to join up and he had to be able to run around a
playing field in boots and overalls within a set time period or they
wouldn't even let him apply. I can't remember the distance or the time
but it wasn't easy and he had to do a reasonable amount of training to
be able to get under the target time.

He also did a long weekend in Colchester with the Paras where he was
expected to do the same tests as the recruits had after a fortnight
and he came home with raw blisters on both hands from the ropes on the
assault course and the log carrying.

Given the way things have worked out in Iraq & Afghanistan I'm pretty
glad he had shin splints and failed the medical but I don't think he
was amused.

 

'ogden' wrote...>

But you knock Tesco and Asda for being pikey?

You can't get more pikey than a 99p shop, even charidee shops charge
more.

 

Tesco in particular aspire to, and market themselves as, being non-
pikey. But they're shit. There's a cheerful honesty about a pound shop.

One year I got all my sister's birthday presents from a pound shop as a
joke. She was delighted because it turned out she really needed pegs.

 

Heheheh. Talk about pushing the boat out.

 

'ogden' wrote...>

YMODV. MK is full of Tescos. The ones in pikey areas are definitely
pikey, but the ones in the good areas are un-pikey, they get more money
spent on them, get updated more frequently, better layout, etc.

They just look sad to me. The last gasp of goods no one else wanted, or
were too poor a quality for anywhere else, or iffy imported goods like
Durallcell batteries and Nuke trainers.

Hehe, women, we'll never know what they really want.

 

Oh yes we will/do. They want the same as we do and that's to get laid as
regularly as possible.

The old saying "Keep e'm poorly shod and well fucked" works as well today as
it ever did.


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Beav

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And we're eating much, much more too.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Me too.

Glad you're around to produce some numbers.

 

we pay about 25-30p in our local charity shop for plushies for the hound
to play with (read: rip the heads off).