Anyone think
after reading this

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8224062.stm

that it might be nice to end sunday trading? Why not go back to the olden days when it was better.

The law was actually to allow small shops to open all day, and limit the opening of the large shops. The reality is the opposite happened and mainly the big shops open. Big shops of course, are evil and should be stopped.

I think things should be nicer.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:32, 47 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Fuck that,
I want to be able to buy stuff on a Sunday from whatever shop I want.
I'm pissed off my bank isn't open on a sunday.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:33, Reply)

Says Neal:
On my way home from church I drive past a shopping centre that is always busy. It makes me sad that so many people fill their day in this way.
Fuck off Neal. No one tells me what to do, you sack of shit.
( thealternativefact, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:37, Reply)

what a sanctimonious cunt
he needs his face kicked off
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:38, Reply)

I'll volunteer to do it
stupid cock end
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:40, Reply)

Oh he fucking does alright.
He's all full of pious crap, but I bet it's only a matter of time before he's caught in an onanistic act beside the fish counter in Asda on Sunday afternoon.
( thealternativefact, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:41, Reply)

I'm prett sure I saw him doing that last weekend
but he clocked me looking and quickly ordered a filleted Sea Bass
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:43, Reply)

Dirty bastard!

( thealternativefact, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:44, Reply)

yeah
actually now i've read the whole thing, i agree with you. Although Tesco's need stopping. Before they smother the world in lowest common denominator, slightly rancid meat.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:37, Reply)

^this
so very much

it's just another day, and having to work in a business park far from anything I need during the week means I want some flexibility at the weekend if I need to go and buy something
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:37, Reply)

Nah
Sundays are boring enough as it is, even with the multitude of distraction surrounding me. I find shopping then a bit more relaxed as well.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:37, Reply)

Still pisses me off that I can't always
Buy alcohol at three in the morning.
( Cawl, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:39, Reply)

I KNOW!
How fucking ridiculous is it that laws brought in to stop workers in bomb factorys during the war turning up hungover are still stopping me get drunk at 5am.

Cunts the lot of them.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:41, Reply)

in america
you can get anything at any time which is lovely. I remember once buying a nice steak and chips at 5am in Vegas. Also, i killed a woman.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:44, Reply)

With a dildo?

( Cawl, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:46, Reply)

Yes
But she thought it was my cock
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:48, Reply)

With poor banter

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:49, Reply)

haha

(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:50, Reply)

Damn...
You got me.
( Cawl, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:54, Reply)

By the time I get home from work all the shops are closed
If we didn't do our shopping a Sunday I don't know when we would be able to. I think Tesco should be open all day on Sunday so I don't have to fight with everyone trying to fit their shopping in to 6 hours opening.
( Peej, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:42, Reply)

They should get deliveries every day too
so that when I go on a sunday they haven't just got the shit leftovers from Saturdays mob of mouth breathing council house tennants.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:43, Reply)

also
retired people shouldn't be allowed to go to the supermarket at the weekend
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:44, Reply)

Or women with buggies that they use as fucking weapons.

( thealternativefact, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:45, Reply)

Women with buggies
shouldn't be allowed anywhere. Letting some gurning retard spunk his geordie wallpaper paste into your greasy snatch does not give you the right to push in front of me or walk slowly when I'm trying to get to the bread counter.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:48, Reply)

What about men with buggies?
I don't mind women with buggies but I hate two women with buggies as they insist on walking side by side blocking up the whole fucking world! ARGH!
( Peej, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:50, Reply)

ANYONE WITH A BUGGY OR NEAR A BUGGY SHOULD BE SHOT DEAD.

( thealternativefact, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:51, Reply)

I think a buggie is better than letting my insane 18 month old toddle about

( Peej, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:53, Reply)

Oh PeeJ
This is no place for tolerance, you know.
( thealternativefact, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:55, Reply)

Tollerate my insane daughter at your peril :P

( Peej, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:56, Reply)

Maybe if you and your "wife" weren't such appaling parents
your "child" wouldn't be so incapable as to need pushing everywhere in a big plastic ankle crusher.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:57, Reply)

i have a buggy
and i enjoy deliberately catching peoples ankles. Also, they're great for pushing through crowds. I am very important and so is my child so we should generally have right of way. People without children are probably dangerous paedophiles.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:59, Reply)

Your "child" is just a shaved lamb carcass wrapped in blankets
and you only push your pram around because it's a great cover for your violent sex attacks against pregnant women.

I know you.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 17:01, Reply)

this is the funniest thing I've read all day
And I now have a mental image stuck in my head that's causing me to officelol repeatedly, so I think I'd better go home.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 27 Aug 2009, 17:06, Reply)

I just officelolzed very loudly indeed
and will now send myself home in disgrace.
( thealternativefact, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 17:07, Reply)

you people are great
I've just finished cobbling together loads of work in a stressed out manner, and I return to all this :-D
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 17:09, Reply)

What I want to know is when they stopped being called pushchairs
and started being called buggys?

I am a dreadful snob and I think of buggy as being a really common word for pushchair but now it seams to be common parlance.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 27 Aug 2009, 17:00, Reply)

You're a disgusting snob
and should be ashamed of yourself. And you call yourself a teacher. You're just a big ball of prejudice on legs waiting for the next poor kid to come into your classroom so you can denigrate them and shatter their dreams.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 17:02, Reply)

I am a snob
and I am not ashamed.

I just have standards.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 27 Aug 2009, 17:06, Reply)

Al is a standard.
He is the standard for sick filth - worse than Al and you'll be skinned and dried on the roof of the local church.
( thealternativefact, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 17:12, Reply)

Slightly after...
...'kids' became an acceptable substitute for 'children' rather than referring to baby goats.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:25, Reply)

Or on the road
In the mornings or evenings.
( Cawl, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:47, Reply)

I dont care
sundays are only there to make saturdays awesome
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:45, Reply)

I think Sunday trading is a good thing
We've had it for a long time in Scotland.

However, I do think that old people and the unemployed should only be allowed in Tesco and the like during normal office hours, say 9-5 Mon-Fri and perhaps a brief period on Saturday mornings. Then the rest of us could get stuff more quickly at the weekends.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:46, Reply)

Yeah and black people 5-7pm
the chinese 7-9
etc
etc
worse than hitler
etc.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:47, Reply)

i dont think
black people shop. Do they? Well i never.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:52, Reply)

Do you remember Sundays before Sunday trading?
Shit on a stick they were dull.

As Douglas Adams said in 'Life the Universe and Everything':

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you’ve taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 27 Aug 2009, 16:52, Reply)

I liked Sundays then, but I also like being able to go to the shop whenever I like
On Sundays we used to go for walks, laugh at the shops with their shutters down, watch Poltergeist, watch Simon & Garfunkel Live in Central Park (on video, not actually IN Central Park) and then have a 'party'. These parties consisted of small sandwiches, jugs of orange squash, party rings and cream slices. As we got older, we also had cold meats and salad. They were not real parties.

The above is why I'm 'not right' in the head.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 17:25, Reply)

I remember when B3TA
was all fields.....
(knackerz is skinning up, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 4:25, Reply)