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Dujon
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I'm with you, thebish.
About 400 metres from my place is a small shopping strip which has its own wee car park (front and back). Whilst over the years the occupants and the businesses they have run have changed the constants have been the butcher and the little supermarket plus the wonderful bakery and what you would term a 'chippy'. There is a mere six or seven other commercial premises.
Some years ago - I cannot say exactly when - the local service station, which is not part of that block of shops but just across a side road, closed down its workshop and let its mechanics loose in the wilderness in order to install a more than tiny 'convenience' store in the space thus freed. I have flatly refused to buy anything other than petrol, pump up my tyres and the odd kilogram of LPG from it.
No, I don't oppose opposition in the market place and, yes, competition can be good. In this case however the prices I found when, out of curiosity on the odd occasion, I wandered around were incredibly inflated when compared to those of the existing businesses. Given that the butcher the baker and the candlestick maker are still in business and the bakery continues to produce lovely bread leads me to believe that most of my fellow residents are of like mind. There is obviously an element in my society who put convenience over quality and price over sensibility.
Tomorrow is a wedding anniversary for me. I shall attend the florist and not the service station (which displays buckets of flowers not arrangements of same) in order to proclaim my undying love for my beloved.
About 400 metres from my place is a small shopping strip which has its own wee car park (front and back). Whilst over the years the occupants and the businesses they have run have changed the constants have been the butcher and the little supermarket plus the wonderful bakery and what you would term a 'chippy'. There is a mere six or seven other commercial premises.
Some years ago - I cannot say exactly when - the local service station, which is not part of that block of shops but just across a side road, closed down its workshop and let its mechanics loose in the wilderness in order to install a more than tiny 'convenience' store in the space thus freed. I have flatly refused to buy anything other than petrol, pump up my tyres and the odd kilogram of LPG from it.
No, I don't oppose opposition in the market place and, yes, competition can be good. In this case however the prices I found when, out of curiosity on the odd occasion, I wandered around were incredibly inflated when compared to those of the existing businesses. Given that the butcher the baker and the candlestick maker are still in business and the bakery continues to produce lovely bread leads me to believe that most of my fellow residents are of like mind. There is obviously an element in my society who put convenience over quality and price over sensibility.
Tomorrow is a wedding anniversary for me. I shall attend the florist and not the service station (which displays buckets of flowers not arrangements of same) in order to proclaim my undying love for my beloved.
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Montreal Wanderer
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Good thinking - stay out of the kitchen if you want her undying love in return.Dujon wrote:
Tomorrow is a wedding anniversary for me. I shall attend the florist and not the service station (which displays buckets of flowers not arrangements of same) in order to proclaim my undying love for my beloved.
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What about bats? Please share your views on them.East Lower wrote:Cats.
Horrible creatures. Dirty and mangy - should all be put down. Caught one this morning taking a shit on my driveway, gave it a nice boot on its way.
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did someone say cats?? here's summat to cheer you up! (made me smile anyway!)
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You suggesting he should use a bat on his cat ??Zulus Thousand of em wrote:What about bats? Please share your views on them.East Lower wrote:Cats.
Horrible creatures. Dirty and mangy - should all be put down. Caught one this morning taking a shit on my driveway, gave it a nice boot on its way.
Clicky-Ba' style ?? Get's my vote.
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Bats are pretty cool, we have some in our back garden from time to time. Much better than cats.Zulus Thousand of em wrote:What about bats? Please share your views on them.East Lower wrote:Cats.
Horrible creatures. Dirty and mangy - should all be put down. Caught one this morning taking a shit on my driveway, gave it a nice boot on its way.
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You can't send a cat to court....Hoboh wrote:I feel a termination called for here!!! or at least a court appearance alongside wheelie bin woman!!!East Lower wrote:Cats.
Horrible creatures. Dirty and mangy - should all be put down. Caught one this morning taking a shit on my driveway, gave it a nice boot on its way.
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What about bats? Please share your views on them.[/quote]Zulus Thousand of em wrote:East Lower wrote:Cats.
Horrible creatures. Dirty and mangy - should all be put down. Caught one this morning taking a shit on my driveway, gave it a nice boot on its way.
Bats are great. .....................Until you find 'em in your attic and telephone the council. Then you have twenty feckin' bat conservationists climbing up and down your loft ladder trying to identify which species of bat it is. Then, two weeks later, when they have met the council representative responsible for bats, and all decide that you have a colony of common a garden bats, and not a protected pipistrel bat, or giant fruit bat, or even some dangerous, mean, bloodthirsty vampire bat; they tell you they don't give a fcku and you need to sort the problem out yourself. So you do. You catch 'em in a big net, being carefull not to harm 'em, and then place said bats and netting in a large sack. When you come down from the attic carrying large sack, then think; "hmmm, what do I do with 'em now". So you ring the council for further advice, leaving a pulsing sack of screaming bats on the kitchen table. The council say you can't just dump 'em; 'cos they're bats. Row with council ensues, as you state how they didn't give a toss earlier.You have to leave sack of bats on kitchen table, much to wife's dissaproval, until it begins to get dark. By now, bats have quietened down. Place sack in car and drive to nearest woodland. Triumphantly remove sack from car, open, and wait for bats to exit. And wait, and wait some more. Bats now seem very comfy in sack and refuse to leave. Place bats back in car and drive home, 'cos you have forgotten rubber guantlets you need to scoop out the bats from sack. Repeat earlier process after guantlets have been found. I love bats me.......
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