Blimey Rob, had they run out of Coco Pops and fizzy vimto again?


On 7 Mar 2013, at 07:54, "Robert Woodmansey" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just how stupid do I look? “Enter your PIN”, grunts the uniformed Neanderthal 
> who has just manhandled my job lot of Filets de Cheval through the checkout 
> at the local branch of “a major supermarket”. Really? And there was me 
> thinking I had to get my cock out and rub it on your funny little machine to 
> make it work…we’ve only had chip and PIN in this country for the last fucking 
> decade, you grotty little serving twerp. Not everyone who passes through the 
> doors of your establishment would lose a battle of wits with the contents of 
> the shelves, or is rendered so feeble and incontinent by dementia that the 
> aisle needs to be mopped after they’ve walked down it. 
> 
> At least, that’s what I should have said. But being British and relatively 
> well-brought-up, I simply paid up and pissed off. There would also have been 
> no point in the above diatribe, because most of the words in it would have 
> been far too long to have registered much more than the merest 
> electro-chemical blip in the junk-food-and-alcopop-stunted frontal lobes of 
> the recipient. Take a look around you the next time you’re queueing at a 
> checkout and you’ll realize that Planet of the Apes was in fact a 
> groundbreaking and prophetic documentary.
> 
> It’s enough to inspire a degree of sympathy with the 83-year-old Birmingham 
> woman banned for life from her local Tesco for allegedly “bullying” the staff 
> when they neglected to serve her at the deli counter with what she considered 
> the requisite degree of responsiveness. She was only after two slices of ham. 
> Unfortunately, whether or not she is actually guilty of ramming staff with 
> her trolley as alleged, she instantly loses all credibility with her 
> counter-argument to the accusation: “I watch Songs of Praise every week for 
> goodness sake, I hardly go around attacking people”. No, love, not personally 
> perhaps. But on the other hand, you do adhere to a belief system based on 
> fantasy, bigotry and a complete disregard for the established facts of 
> physical science that has over the centuries accounted for untold millions of 
> war dead, embraced torture as a means of determining guilt or innocence, 
> repressed just about every minority you can think of and worst of all still 
> persists to this day as a legitimate component part of our state and 
> government.
> 
> But I digress. Poking fun at religious fantasists is too easy. At least the 
> lady in question could have been reasonably sure that what she would have got 
> at the deli counter, had she not attempted to emasculate the serving ape with 
> a trolley, originated from a pig, because you can generally see what it is 
> they are flogging you. 
> 
> The issue of the moment as far as supermarkets are concerned appears to be 
> that anything less immediately recognisable, i.e. anything packaged, can no 
> longer be guaranteed to contain precisely what is described on the outside. 
> This is a scandal of titanic proportions, so we are told. Well, what a load 
> of patronising, middle-England Daily Mail-reading bollocks. The British 
> public will quite happily gobble down all manner of rancid, stomach-turning 
> shit, by choice, without batting an eyelid. Why? Because most of the great 
> unwashed know no better, and have grown up on…well…Coke, gristle and chips, 
> basically. 
> 
> How are we topping the international leaderboard in obesity if we are all so 
> fucking particular about what we eat? Does the pallid, acne-ridden 
> job-avoider queueing at the kebab van give an ounce of thought to the 
> contents of that greasy pensioner’s leg revolving so temptingly on the spit? 
> Of course not. No, claiming that this is all a crusade to defend the public’s 
> health is disingenuous at best. The whole thing smells worse than the 
> festering contents of a fatty’s unwashed rolls of flab. 
> 
> Somebody, somewhere wants to stick it to the retail food giants and the meat 
> trade. More than likely, some group of disaffected left-wing vegetarian 
> fairies lurking on the back benches with nothing better to do now that it’s 
> not their turn to fuck the country. The only people who give a toss are the 
> pointless media twats who exist only to perpetuate crises and the politicians 
> who instantly pop their heads up like coked-up pinstripe meerkats the minute 
> there is a whiff of potential airtime. In any case, I can absolutely 
> guarantee you that for well over 90% of the kebab-and-pot-noodle-consuming 
> general population, horse meat would represent a radically beneficial shift 
> in their overall dietary health. 
> 
> So bring it on. Quite apart from anything else, more horse on the menu means 
> fewer fat-arsed equestrian toffee-noses self-righteously blocking up the 
> roads round my way…I just saw Labour's latest political broadcast on 
> immigration and "one nation Labour" and I'm heading form the vomitorium
> 
> 
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