Questions of human nature

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

It's do-gooders like you who put the cart cowboys out of work. A lot of them are special needs people (that's short bus to you) who are glad to get this work. I hope you are happy shaving down their hours.
bitch.

Cart Cowboy always tips his hat and smiles at me. "Thanks ma'am, it's citizens like yourself that give hope to citizens like...myself."

[limey]

While we're grousing about supermarkets, why are their car parks always sloped so that your trolley (= cart) rolls away from you while you're trying to get your shopping (=groceries) into the boot (=trunk) of your car.

[glatt]

We used to have minor issues with the toothpaste, but you know what? You can buy a tube for each of you. It doesn't go bad. It doesn't cost more. You're each still using the same amount, and you can do it however you want.

I got my own tube of toothpaste just because the door to my side of the medicine cabinet swings to the left, and it's easier for me to take the toothpaste with my right hand from my side. My wife uses the same brand, and on her side of the cabinet, the door swings to the right and she's a lefty. It's just slightly less awkward for each of us to grab our own toothpaste.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I'm a card-carrying member of the Cart Corral Citizens Coalition for Careful and Correct Concentrated Control of Cart Cubbies.

Wanna see my card?

Si, si, senorita

[infinite monkey]

Oh, and why do we say 'nother'?

As in "that's a whole nother ballgame"? Nother isn't a word. People use it as a liller (not a word either) version of another, I guess...BUT:

You wouldn't say "a whole another ballgame"

It's a whole OTHER ballgame.

So there.

Thanks for playing along at home. Now I must go stab someone in the aorta. BRB.

[Nirvana]

Aldi's 25 cent grocery carts that give you back your quarter if you place the cart back in the cart corral and hook the chain to the cart in front. All the cart Nazi's shop there {I kid }

[infinite monkey]

I get the concept of Aldi's and I know you can save money...but for one thing I am NOT buying meat there. Some friends of mine do. It might not be any different than meat anywhere else but it's like buying steak at Odd Lots, imho.

Also, I'm weird about buying brands I'm used to...local or not. Instead of Ohio Otto's Green Beans you might see Washington Wally's Green Beans. Wally won't get my money. I'm weird like that.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Oh, and why do we say 'nother'?

As in "that's a whole nother ballgame"? Nother isn't a word. People use it as a liller (not a word either) version of another, I guess...BUT:

You wouldn't say "a whole another ballgame"

It's a whole OTHER ballgame.

So there.

Thanks for playing along at home. Now I must go stab someone in the aorta. BRB.

That's a completely different ballgame.

[infinite monkey]

That's a horse of a different color. That horse is some nother color.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by limey

While we're grousing about supermarkets, why are their car parks always sloped so that your trolley (= cart) rolls away from you while you're trying to get your shopping (=groceries) into the boot (=trunk) of your car.

so the rain drains away and you can unload your cart without standing in a lake.

turn your cart perpendicular to the slope.

[infinite monkey]

Don't look at me: I didn't nominate his membership in C C C C for C and C C C of C C.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Oh, and why do we say 'nother'?

As in "that's a whole nother ballgame"? Nother isn't a word. People use it as a liller (not a word either) version of another, I guess...BUT:

You wouldn't say "a whole another ballgame"

It's a whole OTHER ballgame.

So there.

Thanks for playing along at home. Now I must go stab someone in the aorta. BRB.

You have to think about where that 'whole' is.

It isn't 'A whole [a]nother ball game'.

It's: 'A-whole-nother ball game'. The word 'whole' is inserted into the word 'another' in between the 'a' and 'nother'

Bit like saying abso-fucking-lutely.

[infinite monkey]

Ahhhh...could be. At the very least, it let's one get an a-whole in there, which also works.

Doesn't quite have the ZING of abso-fucking-lutely, though. It just sounds kind of dumb.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by glatt

I got my own tube of toothpaste just because the door to my side of the medicine cabinet swings to the left, and it's easier for me to take the toothpaste with my right hand from my side. My wife uses the same brand, and on her side of the cabinet, the door swings to the right and she's a lefty. It's just slightly less awkward for each of us to grab our own toothpaste.

I'd just squirt a little extra on the counter for Pete.

[Aliantha]

The best way to make money out of those coin slot carts is to troll the shopping centre for carts that people couldn't be bothered taking back just for 25 cents. Take 4 back and you have a whole dollar!