Sick of Britain & Consumerism

Anonymous

Every weekday morning, the number 4 bus arrives at the bus stop. The same people waiting for it. The same people getting on and off it. The same people already seated. It stops at the station. The same people get off it there and get on it and it sets off again finishing its journey at the University where almost everyone gets off it. Some get off before this and enter huge faceless buildings dedicated to our consumer culture... insurance, banks, telesales...
Routine and conformity. Everyday. Rain, sun, sleet, snow. When you stop at a particular stop and wonder why someone you have never spoken isn't waiting for the bus... that's how famiilar routine is!

"Do you Reginald Iolanthe Perrin take British Rail Southern Region for your awful dreaded life..."
This is exactly the experience I have working at a Tesco Express store in Trowbridge. Most of the people live close the store but every time i work its half the time the same people coming in at the same time buying the same stuff! The other thing I don't like is all them young mothers or fathers buying tons of s**t for their kids (ie sweets!) and have their baskets full of it! This I also find with chavs (who also try to buy fags!) which just shows me the state of consumerism we are in now! It's time to ban junk food advertising so the kids of the future don't get f***ing brainwashed by adverts and then eating the stuff, therefore making them obese!
cdd
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I tell you, it's unnerving when employees predict what you'll want!
Corin
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CDD wrote:I tell you, it's unnerving when employees predict what you'll want!
Just shows you how good the advertizing conditioning (also known as brainwashing) has become.

And do you want large fries with that?
Feynman: "String theorists do not make predictions, they make excuses."
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