sendô wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:30 am
If the weather's nice that could be a decent pub crawl.
Absolutely - that's a fantastic pub crawl. Delbs - what went wrong?
Anyway, I've been looking at this thread but keeping out of it. Comments like Richie's now deleted, ridiculously over-the-top one from the other day mean I've felt best to swerve it for now.
I count myself as a Republican but had massive respect for the Queen but not much time for most the rest of them. Give loyalty to a king who showed no loyalty from the outset to his wife? He can't truly expect that from al of us can he. Admire someone who wanted to come back as Camilla's tampon? Sorry, but I can't.
But this is all getting ridiculous now. Witness the Center Parcs fiasco ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-62906112
Still I wouldn''t have bothered to have posted on here but I've just encountered my own example of ridiculousness.
Just went to Waitrose* - Fish Friday - 20% off. Some breaded haddock (we know how to live
) was already 20% off so I thought I'd have some of that.
Get to check-out and what was marked up as £9 should have come down to £7.20. It didn't. I asked why. The lady on check-out asked the manager. She said it's out of respect to the queen. Me: What? Her: We're not doing any promotions this week as a mark of respect. Me: How is that respectful to the Queen? Her: We're not doing any promotions this week. And that was that - no explanation of how that constituted respect, and how could there be? Just ridiculous.
So Waitrose are making another couple of quid profit at my expense out of somer indefinable, impossible-to-explai-or-justify mark of 'respect' to the queen. I'm sure she'd be delighted.
* Before anyone goes down the 'ooh-look-Dave-the socialist-goes-to-Waitrose' route - yes, I do for meat and fish and because I only get it when it's reduced (see above) it's more often than not less expensive as well as better quality than other places).