Just for a laugh
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steve1
Western Thunderer
PhilH
Western Thunderer
Quote: "There’s a special kind of people you only see at Walmart. These weird folks are known as “People of Walmart” or “Walmartians”. They can be easily identified by their questionable wardrobe choices, some Walmartians are known to engage in peculiar activities, such as riding around on motorized carts while eating a bucket of fried chicken and blasting country music from their boombox, others may be found attempting to haggle with the self-checkout machine over the price of a bottle of Coke."
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alastairq
Western Thunderer
Then there are the Lidlputians.....
A vastly different breed of supermarket shopper, compared to M&Sessians, or Tescolites...
Lidlputians have learnt from experience,to always grab more of an item than they currently need, because it may not be in stock for the next six visits.
[I do that with their Guatemalan ground coffee....my favourite....on account of the fact that Lidlputians have discovered that their namesake store actually doesn't put out single item trays of stock, but seek to exasperate the average Lidlputian by only putting out multi-tems stock trays.
Lidlputians obviously have large stock cupboards at home...]
A vastly different breed of supermarket shopper, compared to M&Sessians, or Tescolites...
Lidlputians have learnt from experience,to always grab more of an item than they currently need, because it may not be in stock for the next six visits.
[I do that with their Guatemalan ground coffee....my favourite....on account of the fact that Lidlputians have discovered that their namesake store actually doesn't put out single item trays of stock, but seek to exasperate the average Lidlputian by only putting out multi-tems stock trays.
Lidlputians obviously have large stock cupboards at home...]
Richard Gawler
Western Thunderer
Do not - REPEAT DO NOT - look it up.....
He means it. I looked it up and I shouldn't.
I mean, we had a customer who used a thing resembling a ST as a face mask during the covid. But this is worse. Quite frightening really
It doesn't belong on Just for a Laugh but I will never be the person I was to explain why.
PhilMortimer
Active Member
Currently living in the States and very occasionally frequenting said emporium (mainly for the novelty value!), I'm afraid to say that at times its all true!Quote: "There’s a special kind of people you only see at Walmart. These weird folks are known as “People of Walmart” or “Walmartians”. They can be easily identified by their questionable wardrobe choices, some Walmartians are known to engage in peculiar activities, such as riding around on motorized carts while eating a bucket of fried chicken and blasting country music from their boombox, others may be found attempting to haggle with the self-checkout machine over the price of a bottle of Coke."
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Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
My wife ran off with the milkman, watching them drive off into the sunset in his milk float it was the worst two hours of my life ! 
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
My wife ran off with the milkman, watching them drive off into the sunset in his milk float it was the worst two hours of my life !
People used to joke about offspring being the milkman's son/daughter.
My birth certificate actually says 'Dairyman' as my father's profession. He had a milk round at the time, he even had bottles printed with his name on them but sadly, to my knowledge, none of them survived. Milkmen are another dying breed.
My brother and I do not look alike. I have always said we came from different milkmen!
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
We have milk delivered in good old fashioned glass bottles, don't like stuff in plastic !, although living out in the sticks, as they say, the milkman has a diesel Ford Transit float, electric just wouldn't be man enough.
oldravendale
Western Thunderer
Same for us, Col, in deepest, darkest Bucks. We get our deliveries twice a week, though - no longer daily. Our milkman also supplies bread, eggs and garden compost. 
In his "spare" time he fits windows.
In his "spare" time he fits windows.
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
My dad's were pretty much the same albeit it with black text in the same style as the half pint bottle on the left. It's good that yours survived.
I was sure that my mother had retained a half pint bottle but I didn't come across it when we cleared out the house but perhaps one of my brothers/sister has it.
Tim Watson
Western Thunderer
We had similar bottles in our dairy. I recollect the little cardboard tops that I think had a tab in the middle to help open them.
Tim
Jordan
Mid-Western Thunderer
Apart from awful Sterilised Milk, in a different shaped bottle. My Great-grandmother used to have it; one of my memories of her in the early 70s. I wish I'd been older, to really appreciate meeting a genuine Victorian lady.