...to think it uncouth for an adult to be swigging from a large carton of Tropicana at the checkout.

[LIZS]

Woman in queue behind us (very short queue by most people's standards, just one in front and her behind me) was unloading her trolley and had opened one of her several 1 1/2 or 2l cartons of Tropicana and was swigging away, replaced cap and placed it on the conveyor. There is a coffee shop in the store so she could have stopped for a drink before shopping or once through the checkout.

I wish they sold them when I had to rug my horse......... so yes you should be ashamed you should by a nice Rambo one your poor horse think of his/her street cred!!!!

Ah yes, well, maybe I spelt your name wrong.

Pointydog. I probably should hve done, the queue was that long, due to only 1 till being open and them not taking cards...

Hillary - My horse has no cred - he's a galumphing ginger idiot (17.1 clydesdale cross) who costs a fortune to rug, so I'm quite happy to stick him in some quality yet cheapo german make I've never heard of, esp. as his MO is to tear down all his rugs from the back of his stable and make a nest in them... I did buy him a Rambo (and a bleedin' expensive Thermatex!) when I first got him, in a fit of PFHishness, but after the first bout of nesting, it was just too damn depressing to carry on down that route!

It was quite funny though to see the shoppers in our local Lidl rummaging through the bins of horsewhips... what were they going to do with them??

Hmmm fiofio... I was going to mention something about the typical clientele there but didn't want to kick off a 'only psychos shop at Lidl' fight...

I always drink like a slag as I go round smarket, get so thirsty, I also EAT very occasionally but try to be discreet and always pay for the food!
It is a little gross of me. I may have to rethink this now.
My mother always told us it was very common to eat, drink or smoke in public, in the street anywhere other than a proper table!

batters I've just choked on my wine.

pmsl at moondogs 3 course meal.

My proudest parenting moment was my children asking for olives in the supermarket, instead of sweets.

"being a man and insisting on sitting with your legs wide open on the train because you think your penis is too big to allow you to make room for another passenger"

Batters, my sister and her friend had an excrutiating train journey home once. A man sitting opposite them had his legs open the whole way and his dick was sticking out. They had to pretend they were laughing at jokes.

Batters and Blu, I am crawling around on the kitchen floor clutching my aching sides whilst simultaneously trying to wipe my streaming eyes. What in the name of all that's holy are you two on!!!!

I know, Batters and her snorting woman now has me doubled up and eyes watering with laughter.

Snorting? For an hour? In a park near me?

I was going to make a "im surprised anyone who shops in Lidl has a horse...the blankets are probably for cider drinkers to huddle in doorways under" comment (and duck)

Lol at the thought of brief encounter (with cartons)

Well quite, Contentious, and Lidl in Brixton? How many will be needing horse blankets, withery things and fetlocky things? All manner of horse kit. And whips.

My friend rented a flat in bristol that was colder than the coldest depths of coldland. She had a thermometer that was always on the 'you are going to die of cold' gauge.
She had no heating and had to sleep under a horse blanket under a duvet, and very warm it was too.

Nah, my horse lives in a posh, leafy area, I live in 'the gutter' (well, that's what Nigel Benn called Ilford in an interview once - he grew up around the corner from where I live!) so that I can afford to keep a horse....

I'm always astonished at the number of people who don't ride yet seem to have whips hanging around their houses... or maybe I just move in odd circles?

contentiouscat, horse blankets in lidl are big around here, in south germany, which is a very posh area and everyone shops at lidl!

You pair of S London loons have just made me weep with laughter . The Lidl in Catford had all the lights off the lat time I ventured in. I am sure artillery is selling better over there than the horse blankets were.
Am also PMSL at Club Tropicana. Those were the days

im sorry blondelle only just seen this thre
ad but i have given my dcs things to eat in the trolley whilst going round the supermarket im sorry but if my dcs are hungry due to being stuck in trafic or really busy supermarket then they get somethinng to eat and it gets paid for at the checkout i think feeding your children when they are hungry is more important than what people think maybe thats just me being uncouth though and putting the dcs before other people.

tjacksonpfc the original poster was discussing an adult drinking from a 2 litre bottle - not feeding small children around the supermarket which is altogether a different scenario

I've often opened a drink at the cash desk if I've been really thirsty or needed to take those nerofen like NOW! I couln't give a flying fig if anyone thinks it's 'uncouth'. And anyway, it's so not uncouth. What would be uncooth is me baring my arse to you and saying 'kiss this bitch' if you had objected to me having a drink from a carton of juice!

Well...I really can't see your issue wiht it LIZS? What are you objecting too?
I mean, aslong as she went on to pay for it, it's not a problem???Is it????

Blondelle...My Boss does it & I can assure you she's from a very nice family!

Boredom causes children hanging around ripping off wing mirrors not eaing a packet of crisps in the Supermarket fgs!