Last weekend we got our first IKEA here in San Diego. Well, good, BUT, I heard an announcer on the radio say that people camped out overnight to get into the store on opening day and that checkout lines took 3 or 4 hours to get through at some points.
What were they thinking? There’s an IKEA in Tustin; you can get there in an hour and a half or less. They could have gone there and back 4 or 5 times and not had to battle the crowds.
What makes people do this? It’s just a STORE, ferchrissakes. You’re getting a particle board bookcase, not a personal blessing from the Pope.
Mmmm, I like this.
Europe is in the throws of a petrol [that’s gas to uuuuuuu]- [and that’s a lot of u] - crisis. The lorry drivers have spat their dummies and thrown their toys out of their prams. So what did the Great British public do? They rushed to the supermarkets and bought up all the bread. So then we have a food crisis, and a lot of houses with freezers full of frozen loaf. The loaves will eventually get eaten I’m sure, but why do people do these things? They should use their loaf more… [I don’t think the puns THAT bad] :rolleyes:
Okay, so it sounds like what he’s saying is that the truck drivers threw a fit about the high gas prices. Probably threatened to stop delivering so everyone went out and bought bread. They did the same thing here. Now I get it.
Not sure about the biscuit, but I am a septic who moved to Blighty about 5 years ago. Its cockney rhyming slang, where you use (usually) a two word phrase that rhymes with one word, then you drop the second word. In this case, septic is from septic tank, which rhymes with yank, as in American.