I didn't think
I then went by the Pound Shop (the posher Stratford residents hate that we now have one) and had a mini internal rage when I saw the wrapping goodies I could have had for much less.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:06, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I was aghast to be told that Winchester has one now.
There are two housing estates for the peasantry though, I suppose, but still...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:08, Reply)

I love The Works
3 books for a fiver? You can't go wrong.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:10, Reply)

Unless they're shit books.
Then it's not really worth it.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:11, Reply)

well yeah but that's the risk you take
last time I played book roulette with my friend in Waterstones I got Hunter S Thompson, but he got a fiction with a baby shoe on the front about some woman's struggle with a still born or something dreadful like that. He refused to buy it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:14, Reply)

I got the missus an excellent Jewish cookbook from there once for £3.
The irony that it was (a) bought as a Christmas present, and (b) about £27 cheaper than it should have been is not lost on me...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:17, Reply)

Unless...
you can build a fort out of them.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:21, Reply)

that's true of anything though really

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:26, Reply)

True enough
though books - particularly hardbacks - tend to make better building materials than, say, cats.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:27, Reply)

Unless you glue the cats together first.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:28, Reply)

Ah, nobody mentioned adhesives!
For 'twas with the advent of Araldite that cat and glue did take the place of the artful skill of building a solid dry-book wall.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:36, Reply)

Never heard of it - I was talking about a pound shop.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:13, Reply)

oh whoops, I missed Labs' interjection and thought you were replying to me.
You'd hate The Works too though.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:20, Reply)

Oh I dunno.
You can get some half decent looking Nazi reference porn in there.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:23, Reply)

*gets on train to impoverished north*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:29, Reply)

They have them in the south, too I think.
Save your train fare. You'll never get through due to all the snow anyway.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:31, Reply)

The uptight locals here are always whinging about something that threatens to 'destroy' Stratford
First it was the lap dancing club (you wouldn't know it was one until you got inside), then the sex shop (again, tastefully done, but it didn't last long as the council kept upping the fees) and now they rag on about the Pound Shop.
It doesn't help that about 1/5 of the shop spaces are empty because the rent is far too high for small independent shops.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:11, Reply)

MK doesn't.
we're a bit too upmarket.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:44, Reply)

maybe The Works took one look and was all "well fuck that"

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:46, Reply)