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Post by chrisc on Jan 8, 2012 19:14:41 GMT
 Or is it just my imagination? |
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Post by chrisc on Jan 9, 2012 3:59:00 GMT
Is it too bright, too mundane, too...  |
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Post by rasbury on Jan 9, 2012 4:08:00 GMT
Don't really know what to say except that it's very Blue.As far as shopping cart photo's a Friend of mine has a book which is a field guide to abandoned shopping carts.Also has another one of photo's of sad chairs.
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Post by chrisc on Jan 9, 2012 4:49:02 GMT
All I can add is the sun was especially brutal. I was going to shoot with the polarizer but thought it would be closer to reality to leave it off and go with whatever nature wanted to challenge me with.
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Post by robmarshall on Jan 9, 2012 7:37:52 GMT
If you want extraordinary then check out my avatar! I thought Americans were so sorted on this sort of thing (supermarkets). I'm afraid this won't do at all. Over here we have carts for single mothers, carts for the elderly, carts for the non-abled, carts for short people, carts for big people who like to slump their frontal bits onto the cart, carts for single mothers with twins, carts for OCDs like me who insist that the wheels don't lock, carts for the unemployed (that's most people), carts for people who voted for the coalition (the wheels fall off). And that's before you even get to the 27,000 product lines, including 18 types of bran-flakes. Then, of course, there's the car-parking spaces... don't let me start on that...  Personally, and I'm not alone here, I do all my supermarket shopping on-line at TESCO and a nice boy brings it in a van. Takes it into the kitchen, has a chat about carts, then goes. Perfect! |
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Post by chrisc on Jan 9, 2012 11:11:16 GMT
have you checked your blood-sugar this morning? ;D
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Post by robmarshall on Jan 9, 2012 14:45:32 GMT
have you checked your blood-sugar this morning? ;D Actually, I had a starvation blood sugar level test last week at my GP's surgery. It was about 5.0, which is very ordinary. Not extraordinary at all.  |
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Post by Barry on Jan 9, 2012 17:59:04 GMT
So do these trolleys have some sort of roof welded to them, as I'm trying to work out what that poorly welded upright on each trolley is for.
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Post by chrisc on Jan 9, 2012 18:00:18 GMT
I don't know for sure, but these must have been defective as the ones on the other side seem to have a blue plastic sheathing on them.
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Post by rasbury on Jan 9, 2012 18:03:30 GMT
I also noticed that if these were usable,the next person to grab the one in front was going to be miffed >:(as it was straped to the next one in line.
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Post by chrisc on Jan 9, 2012 18:19:43 GMT
They were all strapped together...but a good cart person would have those puppies disappeared in no time. I will be surprised if they are still there next weekend.
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Post by robmarshall on Jan 9, 2012 18:31:44 GMT
I'm trying to work out what that poorly welded upright on each trolley is for. Silly billy - it's to fly the American flag... |
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Post by Barry on Jan 9, 2012 18:44:31 GMT
Silly billy - it's to fly the American flag... Or is it the antenna for the SatNav. |
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Post by The Wirefox on Jan 9, 2012 22:38:14 GMT
Yep Tesco online is the saviour and you get the element of surprise with the substitutes. Quite how a large bag of marshmallows translates to a fun size pack of tampons in the mind of the retail operative is beyond my ability for lateral thinking...needless to say the cocoa that evening was undrinkable.
It did occur to me that the uprights on these US trolleys may be for overhead motive power...a bit like bumper cars. I don't now about you but regardless of careful selection of wonky wheels I never bump into the mini skirted buxom blonde...no it's always a hairy a***d Nutter with a trolley full of high protein supplements and scrag end for his pit bull terrier. The thing I miss least about supermarkets is Albert and Doris who hog the cheese shelf deliberating over whether two lots of 2ozs of economy Edam is betted value than one 4oz pack. They even have a list...so what's the problem...just effing shift and let me get at the Cathedral City for God sakes. A close second are the Liberal Democrats who use their iPhone bar code scanner to compare prices with Aldi ....take the protective covers of the seats of your Audi...sell it and then you would not have to worry about saving 2 pence on a own brand box of All Bran.
Needless to say I am not endowed with the patience for supermarket shopping
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Post by Barry on Jan 9, 2012 22:43:50 GMT
Yep Tesco online is the saviour and you get the element of surprise with the substitutes. Quite how a large bag of marshmallows translates to a fun size pack of tampons in the mind of the retail operative is beyond my ability for lateral thinking...needless to say the cocoa that evening was undrinkable. ;D ;D ;D We have yet to try this delivery service. |
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