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Today I needed some 9v batteries. My other half - the shining light of my life - told me she was going shopping and asked if I needed anything. I looked on the supermarket website and found a pack of 4 9v batteries which would fit my needs admirably. I showed her the picture and wrote down on her list the precise description.
She went off on foot and after about 2 hours returned with a bag of shopping. I asked her if she got the batteries and she dug down into her bag and produced........a pack of 4 9v batteries.
That is today's news.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Shock! Horror! Woman shops for right product!
Have I accidentally fallen into a Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror episode? 
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Hmmm, my wife always takes the wrong Zinc type batteries instead of Alkaline, thinking about ordering a pack online now 
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In this part of the world, it's all but impossible to buy zinc-carbon batteries, unless you actually seek them out in someplace like a "99 Cent" store.*
* A wildly disorganized store attempting to give the impression the very low quality imports it sells are a bargain.
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We Dutch like that kind of stores, you know the sayings "A Dutch treat", "are you going Dutch on me" etc. 
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... Dutch oven ... (all about sharing the treat)
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as I said... sharing the 'treat'
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Ah but what you did not see is herself trying to pick the best pack of 4 9v batteries off the rack. I find this behaviour astonishing, a woman will spend 3 minutes deciding which pack to take, not fresh fruit but packaged goods - weird and annoying.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Not quite the least tame end (9)
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
modified 31-Oct-18 9:08am.
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Stalemate?
This space for rent
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Bingo! 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I went back six days in time
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Oh I assumed you had gone one day forward in your time machine but six days back sounds more impressive. 
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What does it mean that a used Amazon Lambda AWS long-sleeved t-shirt, size L, is on sale for 80 baht (about US$ 2.40) in a used-clothes shop in a smaller local market (not on the tourist maps) in Chiang Mai, Thailand:
1. they have found me, and this is a warning ?
2. an ex-employee of the company is in hiding here, to escape persecution, or prosecution, after being photographed at a Trump rally wearing a MAGA hat ?
3. the wife left him and his cold land of unsmiling obese people and spiceless food, and returned home, taking his favorite t-shirts as revenge ?
4. it is an omen of the future of Amazon whose interpretation will require me to return to the US, and live in rain-soaked sunless Seattle where my income would only allow for a tent on the street, or jail for vagrancy ?
Or ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: a tent on the street
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
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Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
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And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you!
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OriginalGriff wrote: tuppence a month
That's where you got spoiled.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I'm afraid it is all of the above Bill, all of the above.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Quote: The Bachelor Stone power lets you play Skyrim freely, without any interruption from pesky wenches.
I have that one!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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What you need is the Bosskey Stone power ... 
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