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Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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viktorvaughn said:
True! Tremendous vision from the Robert Dyas employee in retrospect.
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This afternoon in Oxford:

Me: Have you soldering irons?
Robert Days employee: What's a soldering iron?

Oh never mind, they're this incredibly obscure kind of tool no-one in a hardware shop could possibly be expected to have heard of.

Edit: should add that I missed out the word 'got' when typing the above, I don't generally going around talking to people in shops like it's 1841.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Mr. Tea said:
This afternoon in Oxford:

Me: Have you soldering irons?
Robert Days employee: What's a soldering iron?

Oh never mind, they're this incredibly obscure kind of tool no-one in a hardware shop could possibly be expected to have heard of.

Edit: should add that I missed out the word 'got' when typing the above, I don't generally going around talking to people in shops like it's 1841.
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Come clean. What you actually said: "Forsooth, hast thou not soldering irons, thou cream-faced loon?!"
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
thinking about it, I'm surprised "Going around talking to people in shops like it's 1841" hasn't been a parody Saturday Night Live song yet
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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baboon2004 said:
thinking about it, I'm surprised "Going around talking to people in shops like it's 1841" hasn't been a parody Saturday Night Live song yet
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And plenty of manufacturers and retailers are colluding in a vaguely repellant fetishization of the past, I mean isn't there a general sense that things were 'better' in Ye Goode Olde Days in a continuum that runs from Poundbury to Hovis adverts to Mumford & Sons to steampunk wallies to the sodding English Provender Company? As if anyone's used the word 'provender' in earnest since about 1750. IT'S 2013, PEOPLE, GET WITH THE FUCKING PROGRAMME.
 
Slothrop

Slothrop

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Mr. Tea said:
And plenty of manufacturers and retailers are colluding in a vaguely repellant fetishization of the past, I mean isn't there a general sense that things were 'better' in Ye Goode Olde Days in a continuum that runs from Poundbury to Hovis adverts to Mumford & Sons to steampunk wallies to the sodding English Provender Company? As if anyone's used the word 'provender' in earnest since about 1750. IT'S 2013, PEOPLE, GET WITH THE FUCKING PROGRAMME.
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Futurist / cyberpunk condiments seems like a well of untapped potential.
 
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Mr. Tea

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Slothrop said:
Futurist / cyberpunk condiments seems like a well of untapped potential.
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God, you can just imagine "Branston's teamed up with William Gibson to create...", can't you?

I reckon Heston would be the man for this, he totally owns wacky (post)modernist food right now.
 
Leo

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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
The reaction to Kanye's Zane Lowe interview. Yes, it was a mad and egocentric performance, but white rock stars are congratulated for such behaviour. How dare black people be arrogant or make records to get money!

Made me soooo mad.
 
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zhao

there are no accidents
People who, when you begin speaking to them, immediately, before hearing what you have to say, squint their eyes and make an annoyed scrunched up face, as if to receive some horrible, pain-in-the-ass news. What if i'm about to inform them that they won the lottery? With a look like that i might just be like "oh nevermind" and keep the information to my self lol.
 
Slothrop

Slothrop

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Small, hipsterish businesses - pubs, cafes, that sort of thing - that are constantly active on Facebook and Twitter but can't scrape together a minimally useful website with opening times etc.
 
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IdleRich

IdleRich

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"People who, when you begin speaking to them, immediately, before hearing what you have to say, squint their eyes and make an annoyed scrunched up face, as if to receive some horrible, pain-in-the-ass news. What if i'm about to inform them that they won the lottery? With a look like that i might just be like "oh nevermind" and keep the information to my self lol."
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Do you get that a lot then? Not something I've ever really noticed but I'll keep my eyes peeled for it in future.
 
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