Posted on 06/17/2015 1:27:32 PM PDT by familyop
I actually cannot believe what i am seeing in tesco!! People waiting for the reduced food to be brought out, fair enough. But the staff have to tell them to wait and stay back like you would a dog while your preparing its dinner, then have to be told to let the staff out so they don't get crushed when every one piles in....literally, how there was not a fight is beyond me. I'm actually lost for words that this can happen like that in a supermarket and is let to happen nightly.....you have to watch the video to believe it....
Now that's funny.
ROFL ROFL
When they kick out your front door, how ya’ gonna’ come?
With your hands on your head, or on the trigger of your gun?
When the law breaks in, how you gonna’ go?
Shot down on the pavement or waiting in death row.
You can crush us, you can bruise us, but you’ll have to answer to...
Ooooo, ooooo the Guns of Brixton!
— the Clash
We were eating horse meat, during the meat shortages of the 1970s.
Yes. They were at risk of being disappeared.
The movie "Threads" immediately comes to mind.
Cabbage Patch. Wow
My daughters were young adults then but I remember the gals at work going INSANE over trying to get these for their kids.
Forgot about that. :-)
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And then we had that mini “tickle me elmo” depression. I honestly don’t know how our nation survived that one intact.
"And now it is time for the penguin on top of your teli to explode!"
IIRC, it was one egg a week in WWII. My poor British cousins.
There’s actually a store her in KahLeePornia that does that and they are headquartered in England.
“Fresh and Easy”.
Awesome deals when they do it too.
and then the dreaded Zhu Zhu Pets rampages.
Yes siree Bob, we have lived through of mankind's darkest moments with the "must have" toy shortages of the last fifty years. Kids crying, Mothers screaming, Daddy's fightin in the isles. Pure pandemonium.
Remember the mini “tickle me elmo” depression. I honestly don’t know how our nation survived that one intact.
It does play out all over the US every year, it's called Black Friday. :)
I use to go to London, England, fairly regularly as my son has lived there for over 25 years. I would take money to give to them and more money for me to buy stuff for them. At the money change rate, what would cost me $1.00 here would be $1.65/75 over there. That's close to double what I would pay here.
When I took the mom and child and me to a regular lunch place, it was at least $75.00. I would spend $100 for groceries and carry that in my arms, no need for a rolling basket to get to the car.
If one took the American products out of their grocery stores, it would be about 1/2 full without the American products, however the American products were packaged for them and the bottles/cans/whatever would be about 1/2 smaller than we bought here for the same American product.
I understand why a meat sale would have them scrambling for it, no matter what the meat is.
I don't care to live in any other country than this and I've been in many. About that travel: Most of the countries I went to, I wouldn't go today due to the unrest or almost bankrupt the country is now, such as Greece where I wouldn't go again. Wouldn't go to China again. Maybe Germany is okay.
Wouldn't go to Italy again due to the immigrants coming by the boatload to their shores and they don't know how many are terrorists in those groups. Hawaii would be okay, maybe Canada is okay except for the two murderers from Clinton Prison who may be there.
Then there are the planes one has to get on to leave this country. Who wants to fly now with the employees at the airports not catching bombs in luggage and guns on passengers? Plus, they are again lowering the measurements of a bag you can take on board. I'm not flying anymore.
There was a time when I carried a concrete Armadillo to my Texas son in London to put in his garden. I couldn't even lift the bag, men had to lift it onto the belt to go through the scanner. It was so heavy, I wondered if it would bring down the plane. In today's world, I would never get that concrete Armadillo to London.
By the way, the new area they are searching for those murderers, is the area where a close family member lives with her husband, just before one gets to the border of Canada. They have their guns loaded and easy to reach and keep everything locked up.
Our world is nuts these days.
” Yes siree Bob, we have lived through of mankind’s darkest moments with the “must have” toy shortages of the last fifty years. Kids crying, Mothers screaming, Daddy’s fightin in the isles. Pure pandemonium. “
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Oh,the humanity !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enough to bring tears to my eyes.
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