State of the Game

[Red Anders]

Nearly, it was sainsburys, so I was a sore thumb in there until I got to the booze aisle.

LOL shamed myself there then, Sainsburys is my usual go-to supermarket.

It's not like I'm short of choice either, I have a Sainsburys, an Asda, an Aldi, a Morrisons and two Tescos (including a massive Tesco Extra) within 5 minutes drive of my house. It's crap for any other shopping here but supermarkets are well covered. By contrast the nearest Waitrose was seven miles away, it was tiny and it closed a couple of years ago. Closest one now is 15 miles away and after that they're 20+. Keeping us riff raff out.

 

[Darth Ender]

As usual, looks like ender missed the joke....

I require higher caliber jokes than whatever passed as a joke when you learned how to make them when entertainment was only pushing hoops with sticks or live puppet shows out of the back of horse drawn carts

 

[Athlon-uk]

I require higher caliber jokes than whatever passed as a joke when you learned how to make them when entertainment was only pushing hoops with sticks or live puppet shows out of the back of horse drawn carts

Don't forget ball in a cup. Its a ball attached to a string attached to a cup! Hours of fun for all the family.

 

[Darth Ender]

Don't forget ball in a cup. Its a ball attached to a string attached to a cup! Hours of fun for all the family.

ball in cup... how could i forget. almost as much fun as ball attached to paddle.

 

[nemolomen]

ball in cup... how could i forget. almost as much fun as ball attached to paddle.

 

[Red Anders]

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Always at its most fun when you absolutely twatted it at something and the elastic snapped. Ideally something indoors, breakable and highly valuable.

 

[LeoBartlet]

ball in cup... how could i forget. almost as much fun as ball attached to paddle.

Yes well if you stopped biting the other inmates you'd be allowed to play real sports.

 

[Bottom Hat]

LOL shamed myself there then, Sainsburys is my usual go-to supermarket.

It's not like I'm short of choice either, I have a Sainsburys, an Asda, an Aldi, a Morrisons and two Tescos (including a massive Tesco Extra) within 5 minutes drive of my house. It's crap for any other shopping here but supermarkets are well covered. By contrast the nearest Waitrose was seven miles away, it was tiny and it closed a couple of years ago. Closest one now is 15 miles away and after that they're 20+. Keeping us riff raff out.

You posh sod!

Always at its most fun when you absolutely twatted it at something and the elastic snapped. Ideally something indoors, breakable and highly valuable.

A sibling would cover all of the above!

 

[Bottom Hat]

Yes well if you stopped biting the other inmates you'd be allowed to play real sports.

Especially where he bites them. When the nurses stop it though, he's content with window licking.

 

[LeoBartlet]

You posh sod!

He's slumming it now as his regular shop was Fortnum and Mason. Lockdown ended that sadly as they'd never heard of Manchester and refused to home deliver.

 

[nemolomen]

Always at its most fun when you absolutely twatted it at something and the elastic snapped. Ideally something indoors, breakable and highly valuable.

Mom always said, "Don't play ball in the house"...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiSpL_dsCxw

 

[nemolomen]

 

[Red Anders]

He's slumming it now as his regular shop was Fortnum and Mason. Lockdown ended that sadly as they'd never heard of Manchester and refused to home deliver.

The hilarious thing here is he's actually being kind to me by not revealing that my favourite is actually M&S but I can't be bothered doing the 15 mile round trip to Manchester very often to go there, plus it's a pain in the arxe to do it by car (city centre is pedestrianised) and I can't carry enough stuff by hand these days to make it worthwhile on public transport - I have to walk up a massive hill to get home from the tram stop and I just don't have the stamina now to do that with four or five bags of shopping. Been seriously considering getting an old biddy trolley since I'm way past caring what I look like with one lol.

 

[LeoBartlet]

The hilarious thing here is he's actually being kind to me by not revealing that my favourite is actually M&S but I can't be bothered doing the 15 mile round trip to Manchester very often to go there, plus it's a pain in the arxe to do it by car (city centre is pedestrianised) and I can't carry enough stuff by hand these days to make it worthwhile - I have to walk up a massive hill to get home from the tram stop and I just don't have the stamina now to do that with four or five bags of shopping. Been seriously considering getting an old biddy trolley since I'm way past caring what I look like with one lol.

Has your mum finally retired the Reliant Robin of trolleys that cause you some issues last year?

 

[Red Anders]

Has your mum finally retired the Reliant Robin of trolleys that cause you some issues last year?

I retired that one. On the tip.

That time I ended up carrying the thing back from Manchester with a bust wheel, like a massive shopping bag, because it was that or literally have to dump half the stuff I'd bought nearly killed me. I mean the whole point is I can't deadlift the equivalent of five bags of shopping so no way were we having a repeat of that palaver.

 

[LeoBartlet]

I retired that one. On the tip.

That time I ended up carrying the thing back from Manchester with a bust wheel, like a massive shopping bag, because it was that or literally have to dump half the stuff I'd bought nearly killed me. I mean the whole point is I can't deadlift the equivalent of five bags of shopping so no way were we having a repeat of that palaver.

I remember it well lol

 

[Red Anders]

I remember it well lol

I'd probably do better these days, healthwise I tend to forget that I was at my lowest ebb when that happened and have actually improved since then. In fact I've just decided, I'm going to go for an M&S stock-up this weekend.

 

[LeoBartlet]

I'd probably do better these days, healthwise I tend to forget that I was at my lowest ebb when that happened and have actually improved since then.

Oh, yea it was pure madness at the time but with lockdown and everything you were out of options because your two-ton bag of basmati wasn't going to last forever.

 

[Darth Ender]

 

[xzanfr]

I'd probably do better these days, healthwise I tend to forget that I was at my lowest ebb when that happened and have actually improved since then. In fact I've just decided, I'm going to go for an M&S stock-up this weekend.

I recommend M&S veggie chorizo puppies.
We had them tonight with stir fried veg, stuffed in a pita with loads of chilli sauce, delicious.