a two-fer thread

Number One: My grandfather once said there was a lot of goofy stuff in Britain and I believe he was right. American here. Damn Yankee.


1. driving on the wrong side of the road
2. having a queen
3. iron-fisted gun control
4. excessively narrow city streets
5. pollution of the Thames River
6. bagpipe men in plaid skirts
7. perverse and even nonsensical song lyrics in pop/rock music, check out some of that early stuff by David Bowie and Jethro Tull and see what I mean, check out The Walrus by The Beatles
8. those wild Elton John glasses, spectacles
9. income tax rates that are medieval, wicked, barbaric and cruel , even George Harrison sang a song detesting it
10. anti-Catholic sentiment


Number Two:Walmart is the chits. I went in there last Saturday night an hour before closing. This was the Neighborhood store in Lawton, Oklahoma. I had a cartload of stuff and was too lazy to use the self-checkout. I could only see one person, a fat young fair-complexioned woman in glasses, working one of the checkstands but she put a closed sign on her counter. I asked her if there was a "human being" that could ring me up. She said, "You mean a cashier?" I said, "Yeah". Then she said no, unless I had a "tax exempt" card which I don't. I then told her I wanted to speak to a manager. Then she said reluctantly that she would ring me up. She did finally ring me up. I told her I expected a live person to be ringing customers up until they shut the store down. She then said usually they did but they didn't anticipate the store's being so slow at that hour so they sent everybody else home. There were still quite a few people shopping in there. I don't mind using self checkout if I have a handful of things as it's usually faster but for a full shopping wagon I want a store worker to ring me up and bag my stuff. A week ago I went to the Walmart Supercenter on QPT here in town and asked the middle-aged fair-complexioned broad there that I was look for a spool of white thread. She said, "What?" I said, you know, that stuff that you put on a needle to sew with. The sewing basket stuff. I use thread for my home hobbies like model airplane building. Then she showed me the aisle where it was. Walmart hires a bunch of mental retards for sure. She doesn't know what THREAD is because women don't sew at home anymore maybe. In another Walmart in CA, I once asked a male worker of sub-Saharan African descent there for Darigold milk. He said do you mean goat milk? then I had to spell the brand name out for him then he showed me chocolate milk in that brand. I said no, white milk and that brand but it turned out they were out of it. I guess this airhead thought I said DAIRY GOAT.

 

Being that this is a gun forum, I would hope to have gotten sympathy from those who know darn well how anti-gun the UK government is and how much violence still persists in the UK.

 

Unfortunately, Walmart runs a monopoly in my town on groceries. There is a Neighborhood store and two Supercenters here. There is no independent regional supermarket chain (think Kroger, Winn-Dixie, Safeway, WinCo) here as there is in other towns across America I've lived in. There are a few other dinky grocery stores here that have very limited selection, lousy produce and are also prohibitively expensive. I have to go to Target for a couple things but it's much too pricey for everything else. Some cities/counties in America even ban Walmarts. But those are usually high-price cities: San Fransisco is one of them.
I can't say Walmart has quality workers as did the independent/regional chain supermarkets we had in the 1950's/1960s'/1970's/1980's/1990's/early 2000's. Of course, people in general aren't the same quality anymore either. The human race is about extinct. This is a world now largely of brain-dead zombies. I suspect many babies of newer younger generations were deformed in their mothers' collective wombs from dope or whatever. Many two-legged critters running around these days without the brains God gave a goose. Were they born or hatched? The 21st century is definitely a world freak show.

 

You can't usually buy groceries and perishables on amazon.com. Suffice it to say, I religiously pack a piece while Wally World shopping. It heightens my peace of mind. It is inspired by the El Paso incident in 2019.

 

I did like the WW's in Boise, ID much better. The floors were actually so clean on those you could eat off them. The Target in Lawton, OK looks immaculate inside but those three Wallys look pure "hood". They won't pay full-time janitors. Wally has a ghetto image in some parts.

 

Depends on your city and state. Lawton, OK is not exactly the crown jewel of American cities but the Target store here surprisingly shines over all the rest.

Oklahoma is the 9th poorest state in the Union with Mississippi at the bottom of the barrel at number 1. Georgia, Arkansas, Kansas, Indiana and Missouri are way down there too. It's odd. Quite ironic. A "minority" guy in the army once told me he was "too poor to vote Republican" but the most expensive US states and cities to live in are the blue Demo states and cities. They are also the most anti-gun. So much for the Democrats as the "party of the poor".