As bought in the local 24/7 shop. One of the other packets actually had a sticker on it (no word of a lie) which read “Buying British preserves British jobs”. This used to be the nation that invented the steam engine, penicillin, the computer and the mobile phone. British bags for British bins! Is this really what we’ve come to?
Not with a bang but with a whimper, eh?
I sometimes feel that I should be proud to be British and in truth, I can still find things to be proud of (the courage and professionalism of our troops for one; whatever the reason that our ‘government’ sent them to Afghanistan and Iraq and whatever motives various Islamofascists ascribe to our soldiers, the individual soldiers are just normal men and women who are trying to do their best in difficult circumstances).
Then I remember just what they’re up against – not just opponents such as the Taliban, but against the politicians who are supposed to value their lives, but who’re willing to send them into battle without even the basic equipment that they need to do the job. I’m sure that package of skis we heard about recently came in really handy, once they’d expended their supply of five bullets.
So, am I proud of Britain? Not so much, unfortunately. It’s even more depressing that there is a whole new generation that might never know any Britain other than the nanny-state financial basket case that we are now.
I weep not just for what has been lost, but for what many people will have never known…
Interesting this!
When plastic bags first came on the scene in the Elder Scrobs household, early sixties, my mother actually bought two large ones (about 12″ x8″), and two small ones (about half the size).
She used these over and over again, and washed them each time!
They lasted for ages and I’m still here…
There is a chap not far from here who has done very well making the bags you describe; good luck to him I say!
(‘Second Life’ Scrobs – love it…;0))
Well they look bloody marvellous! The bags sold in my locak Sainsburys and Tesco are utter shite that tear when something heavier than a feather and blunter than a pat of butter is thrown in. BIG BRITISH REFUSE SACKS that do the bloody job! Yes please! However it can’t be long before some green tree hugging carbon offset fuckwit manages to destroy even this industry.
Having just endured that pompous little fuckpig, John Bercow, on the Today programme I am in a foul mood. And he’ll be made a Lord if he gets voted out after the next General Election – no wonder he’s smug.
That all said, sorry you’ve not enjoyed the snow. I have – out in the wilds of Kent and it has really fucked up my daily routine and work since Friday…YOU’RE the lucky one!
Merry Xmas and I look forward to enjoying your musings and fumings in 2010!
“Is this really what we’ve come to?”
Blue, I fear it is rather worse.
Us tabloid readers have been saying this for years -that we can’t rely on the service sector alone; alas we were ignored, sneered at, dismissed as thickos, nutters and nasties. The consensus on many issues among ‘right wing’ tabloid readers is being proven right and yet is still being ignored.
My IQ was measured by the NHS last week btw – 124. Prolly higher than the average broad sheet reader.
The reason I don’t read broad sheets ? Simple really. It’s inconsiderate for the passenger sitting next to me on the train. I expect my EQ (Empathetic Quotient) is higher than the average broad sheet reader too.
Yep.
Come on you have to hand it to them, who would have thought of selling dispossable burkhas on a roll?
Always look on the bright side, Blue. We have a wealth of things, like illegal immigrants, to export.
A most appropiate emblem for not so Great Britain Blue…
A Bin Bag…
The dumping ground for all the illegal and itinerants that festoon our once mighty nation.
How many Bin Bags would be required to throw the inept NuLab Government ‘machine’ in and dump it in the bottom of the ocean?
My heart beats with joy at such a thought !
Merry Christmas and every good wish for 2010 Blue.x
Di.xx
With all those free charity collection bags coming through your letterbox – why are you buying bin bags?
Somebody has to make the bin bags …. Having said that you’re right, we need some other products to be proud of. Is Aston Martin still British ?