BL> I *hate* the new hardware shops. I used to like the days when
 BL> you grabbed a handful of nails out of the box, put then in the
 BL> brass tray and the man balanced themn up with little weights
 BL> and figured a price in his head. Now they're all in little
 BL> poofy plastic bags.

 BG> Which means that somebody has already weighed them, packed
 BG> them, and figured out the price in advance, in order to save
 BG> fucking around with some wanker who only wants 20 nails from a
 BG> box of 10,000 when the shop's full of customers on a busy
 BG> Saturday morning... Give me the poofy little bags any day! 

  In the old hardware shops if you only wanted a few nails he'd *give*
them to you!

 BL> I bought a tin of Irish ham the other day, but only after
 BL> serious debate with myself (it was crook anyway).

 BG> Yeah, their protestant ham is awful. Try their catholic ham
 BG> next time. 

  ROFL! It couldn't be any worse. Cannibals call people long-pork.

 BL> Jeeze! You're meaner than I am. What do you use for a
 BL> conditioner... sump oil?

 BG> What the fuck is conditioner?

  That's what baldies never use on their hair after washing it in
Morning Fresh.

 BG> When you're saving say $15 every $100 spent, tripping over a
 BG> few empty boxes is tolerable, and could even mean a $10 million
 BG> 3rd party damages payout if you're really lucky, and break your
 BG> leg. 

 BL> My thoughts exactly.

 BG> What, the cheaper groceries, or the chance of a $10m 3rd party
 BG> payout?

  All of the above.

 BL> ROFL! Quite right, too. She'd only end up paying for the
 BL> Bandaids by EFTPOS, and the card would bounce, and the baby
 BL> would bleed to death anyway. It's better that women like that
 BL> don't have descendants.

 BG> Might have been even better if they'd have no ancestors either,
 BG> but one can't help bad luck, I guess.

  ROFL! We all have ancestors. It's compulsory.

 BG> Re the EFTPOS, I was in our local Coles yesterday, and a really
 BG> weird looking fellow in front of me bought a plastic bag of
 BG> elastic bands, cost $0.80. And then paid for it with his bloody
 BG> Mastercard! Fucking hell, doesn't he realise that there's a
 BG> $1.00 transaction fee on that? 

  ROFL!!! You should have told him.

 BL> The checkout-chicks in Jewel seem to be fourteen and they don't
 BL> have breasts yet. I think hey use children in the hope that we
 BL> won't yell at them so much.

 BG> Or to attract the paedophiles. Good business IMO. :)

  I always buy my boiled lollies on EFTPOS.

 BL> Women don't develop a sense of humour (if any) until they are
 BL> 63, and only then for 6 months.

 BG> I strongly disagree. I believe you'll find it's more like 7
 BG> months.

  I think you'll find that only applied to Phyllis Diller.

Regards,
Bob
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