The bowling club I am a member of does this to stock up on soft drinks and bottled water when it is on special.
Do you ever walk around the supermarket looking in peoples trollys?
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@midnightrider , I want your hot white bread, butter and jam and all. And I want it right now, never mind the carbs! And no offence, @DaftThoughts !
The old style "crusty" bread rolls, butter, with ham and mustard on it, would be my choice.
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I hope no-one judges my character going off my shopping trolley; it's always full of carbs! Maybe if I filled it with butter and bacon then I'd be a better human?
If you're judging someone based on what is (or isn't) in their shopping trolley, then you're pretty sad.
If you're judging someone based on what is (or isn't) in their shopping trolley, then you're pretty sad.
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Two things seem to run through my head:
- on seeing trollies full of bread, pasta, ready meals, snacks and crisps, i think 'Goodness, i wouldn't be up and functioning on that lot! Your bodies must be indestructable!'
- on seeing my own trolly, i think 'Haha! I bet they are all thinking 'No wonder she's fat. She's killing herself with cheese and butter and red meat. Oh, and who eats veg like that? I don't even know what some of them are. She must have pet rabbits or something. No one eats that much greenery, it is unnatural.'
- on seeing trollies full of bread, pasta, ready meals, snacks and crisps, i think 'Goodness, i wouldn't be up and functioning on that lot! Your bodies must be indestructable!'
- on seeing my own trolly, i think 'Haha! I bet they are all thinking 'No wonder she's fat. She's killing herself with cheese and butter and red meat. Oh, and who eats veg like that? I don't even know what some of them are. She must have pet rabbits or something. No one eats that much greenery, it is unnatural.'
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What if your just judging the trolly?
Then thinking who it's intended for?
And the consequences.
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Riddle?
No. Not that hard to undersand.
Just looking at the long trerm view of going the way we are.
No. Not that hard to undersand.
Just looking at the long trerm view of going the way we are.
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This thread is doing my head in. People judging people for judging other people? Isn't that a tad hypocritical?
Reminds me of a saying from when I was a kid: Let him who is without sin cast the first stone...
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I wasn't going to comment on this thread, I came off the site and have been trying to distract myself.
However, I have just become angry and slightly disillusioned. 'How shallow' was my first thought. That became 'what snobbery'. Seemingly inteligent people who know how hard it is to avoid the mistakes that before dx we (or the majority of us) were making now judging people who for whatever reason fill their trolleys with what *we* deem to be ****.
Some of you contributing to this thread may remember a post put up a couple of months ago by a young lass who was very upset after an incident in a supermarket where a stranger had taken out an item from her trolley and told her she shouldn't be eating that stuff. The lass was mortified, the item, crisps if my memory serves, were for her child. Would we applaud that man? Would we wish to be more like him?
Where does your judgement stop? At what is in a trolley, the clothes on someone's back, the car driven or the salary earned? This 'Foodism' is not attractive, it's not conducive and it's not fair.
However, I have just become angry and slightly disillusioned. 'How shallow' was my first thought. That became 'what snobbery'. Seemingly inteligent people who know how hard it is to avoid the mistakes that before dx we (or the majority of us) were making now judging people who for whatever reason fill their trolleys with what *we* deem to be ****.
Some of you contributing to this thread may remember a post put up a couple of months ago by a young lass who was very upset after an incident in a supermarket where a stranger had taken out an item from her trolley and told her she shouldn't be eating that stuff. The lass was mortified, the item, crisps if my memory serves, were for her child. Would we applaud that man? Would we wish to be more like him?
Where does your judgement stop? At what is in a trolley, the clothes on someone's back, the car driven or the salary earned? This 'Foodism' is not attractive, it's not conducive and it's not fair.
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People judging other people by the contents of their trolley need to get a life IMHO.
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Yes it must work both ways and people wonder why we buy what we do.
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I did not see that thread but how absolutely awful that someone could do that to a perfect stranger.
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A story to lighten the heart !
A man in super market checkout queue the lady behind noticing a large bag of dog food said "On have you got a doggy then" Man replied that he was on a winalot diet "On did it work " ? said lady "yes until I was taken to hospital " "Oh no was it because of the dog food " asked the lady "No I stepped off the curb to sniff the bottom of an Irish setter and was hit by a truck !!!!"
A man in super market checkout queue the lady behind noticing a large bag of dog food said "On have you got a doggy then" Man replied that he was on a winalot diet "On did it work " ? said lady "yes until I was taken to hospital " "Oh no was it because of the dog food " asked the lady "No I stepped off the curb to sniff the bottom of an Irish setter and was hit by a truck !!!!"
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Who are we to say what other people should not be buying everyone is entitled to buy what they want without some thinking what they do is right for everyone else . I do not think those who judge others would be happy to be judged them selves on what they have in their trolley like a lot of saturated fat stuff which many would say is not good and they should not feed their families on it.
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I wouldn't mind a stranger asking why I was buying what I had in my trolly to be honest.
I'd be glad of the opportunity to explain things and also get the chance to give then some useful information that could help them further down the road.
Like Tony Blair once said, "Education, Education, Education".
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On the few occasions now that i ever get to actually shop for real rather than online I'm too busy working out what's got to go into my trolley to worry about what might go into other peoples... But I have to admit when I was a regular shopper I was sometimes completely intrigued by the strange selection that the person in front of me at the checkout had in theirs...
And sometimes now I actually look at the strange selection that happen to be my online shopping at times, and wonder if my delivery driver ever wonders what this dozy old woman is actually going to EAT this week....
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And sometimes now I actually look at the strange selection that happen to be my online shopping at times, and wonder if my delivery driver ever wonders what this dozy old woman is actually going to EAT this week....
I bet you'd never have sussed me as one, then!... And I'm afraid I stereotype the mousy librarian with the lasagne for one and a half bottle of wine...
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