Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by JD001

Jeez, any hat that's not a Bowler hat is a cowboy hat to a Brit.

If you look up the real history you will find that the bowler hat was much more common in the old west than the "cowboy" hat as we know it today.
The "10 gallon" cowboy hat that everybody knows is more of a Hollywood invention than something that was actually warn back then.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by JD001

What's a 'Walmart'?

A bigger, shabbier Woolworths.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by JD001

Jeez, any hat that's not a Bowler hat is a cowboy hat to a Brit.

But that is a bowler... He's a classy hillbilly after all.

Originally Posted by JD001

What's a 'Walmart'?

A little store founded by that great American hero, Sam Walton.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

@JD001 that would be an ASDA store to you I believe. WalMart owns those stores in the UK.

Asda, horrible shopping experience.. Tesco for me, unless I'm feeling posh then Waitrose..

[ScoobsMcGee]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

A bigger, shabbier Woolworths.

Also acceptable: A less pretentious Target.

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

A bigger, shabbier Woolworths.

You still have Woolworths??

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by JD001

You still have Woolworths??

No. It was destroyed by Walmart!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

Also acceptable: A less pretentious Target.

We don't have them anymore either. They lasted about two years after destroying Zellers.
Woolco, Zellers, Sears, Hudson Bay, Towers, Woolworths all either gone or a shadow of their former glory with Walmart coming to Canda.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by JD001

Asda, horrible shopping experience.. Tesco for me, unless I'm feeling posh then Waitrose..

Yep, you now know what shopping at WalMart feels like well except , since Asda is primarily grocery (as I recall), imagine a building where a typical Asda takes up about a 1/3 of the building and the other 150,000 sqft was everything from clothing to auto parts to (in the one near me) a full blown medical clinic. That's WalMart.

Unusually poor shopping experience, itty bitty prices that make up for it.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Spuds

But that is a bowler... He's a classy hillbilly after all.

Or a droog







Oh great now I have Singing In the Rain stuck in my head.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

No. It was destroyed by Walmart!

I miss Woolworth's lunch counters. I used to eat at one every Thursday with my Grandmother during the summers I spent on their farm (fortunately after they were desegregated). It's probably why I like Waffle House, reminds me of those days with my Grandmother.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Yep, you now know what shopping at WalMart feels like well except , since Asda is primarily grocery (as I recall), imagine a building where a typical Asda takes up about a 1/3 of the building and the other 150,000 sqft was everything from clothing to auto parts to (in the one near me) a full blown medical clinic. That's WalMart.

Unusually poor shopping experience, itty bitty prices that make up for it.

At least there you get the prices. Since they pretty much have a monopoly here the prices are not all that great.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Yep, you now know what shopping at WalMart feels like well except , since Asda is primarily grocery (as I recall), imagine a building where a typical Asda takes up about a 1/3 of the building and the other 150,000 sqft was everything from clothing to auto parts to (in the one near me) a full blown medical clinic. That's WalMart.

Unusually poor shopping experience, itty bitty prices that make up for it.

And Walmart bingo of course!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I miss Woolworth's lunch counters. I used to eat at one every Thursday with my Grandmother during the summers I spent on their farm (fortunately after they were desegregated). It's probably why I like Waffle House, reminds me of those days with my Grandmother.

I did the same thing only no farm was involved. Until I was about 10 my grandparents would get me every Saturday morning. We would go downtown to Woolworths and have lunch at the counter and window shop. On my birthdays or special occations they would let me go to the hobby department and pick out a cheap kit then we would go back to their house and build it (in about 20 minutes).