h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't care whether Jen forgives Brad or not.

Another Jen can't decide whether to stay with Ben.

In either case, they'll both change their minds within ten days, and the mags will publicize that as well.

What else is there to look at while I wait?

Some scientific magazine with Nemo hiding in some anemone fronds. Hey, let's anthropomorphize the fronds by giving them cute names and a mission as spies for aliens from another dimension. They can't just be anemones, 'cause that's too dull to sell magazines!

I remember with fondness the days when Kourtney was bemoaning the fact that she wasn't really a Kardashian. Hey, sweety, I'm not a Kardashian either -- thank heavens! Also gratifying is the fact that none of these people will ever be in this checkout line!

Wa'al on that last line...

Lucky dog!!!

Nemo is Latin for nobody.

The rare times have shopped at a supermarket and have to wait in a checkout queue, the only thing I notice are boxes of tempting confectionery and itunes and similar items on the desk out. The newspapers are sold separately from the main supermarket and the magazines and DVD's have their own aisle. The only things that I would be interested in looking at with magazines is anything to do would be the DVD film section.

There's candy on the ride side of the aisle. They have all temptations covered. ;-_)

Is the 'ride side of the aisle' the one where the kid passengers in the carts hang out? It's a good way to get them to add to the checkout purchases.

I enjoy standing behind people with toddlers in the checkout line - free entertainment.

Cruel

but funny

I meant "right," not" ride. I try to keep my stuff a safe distance away from the toddlers.

Sweets at the checkout were forbidden long ago in Germany. The magazines are almost all cookery-based and all the other stuff is just 'useful' little things like batteries, fold-away shopping bags, mini deodorants... A local paper had a very amusing column on this very subject (in dialect) just last weekend.

The cooking mags are fine with me. It's not hard to get hungry waiting in a long line.

'Ride-side' is a term we use in woodland conservation. A 'ride' is a managed path through a wood, and to manage the ride side means to cut back any overgrown trees and vegetation which encroach it.

Not that this has anything to do with supermarket checkouts.

Except in Walmart when you're too near the gardening department...

That's good to know, thanks!

When I see some of the rubbish on the covers of the magazines and "you MUST read this" stuff at the check-out? It really could use some pruning.

"When I see some of the rubbish on the covers of the magazines and "you MUST read this" stuff at the check-out? It really could use some pruning." [Rev Nick]

I would take a machete to it .

Take, for example, the "OK" magazine cover that has Prince Harry getting ready to propose to his girl friend. Unless she's deaf, illiterate and friendless [which I doubt], she's going to be aware of what it says on that cover. I don't know how stupid one has to be in order to fail to realize that it's not a secret in any sense of the word, but I hazard a guess that if one really *is* that stupid, reading the cover at all will be too difficult.

We are doomed

We've been doomed for years, but that hasn't stopped us from thinking we had a chance.

I vote this ^ quote of the day

I'll second that!

Thanks.

I meant it seriously, though. Assailing Trump for not believing in global warming is like arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Nature may still have some surprises -- our forecasters are dealing with a complex problem for which they don't have right tools -- but surprises can just as often be bad as good.

People in "developing" countries distrust efforts to tame warming on the grounds that they need more resources with which to industrialize. More fossil fuels, etc. Throw in some European or Asian mossbacks in close political races, and whatever chance at consensus there might be are gone.

If there's a bright side, southeastern Massachusetts may become warm enough for armadillos to live there.