":to those who find this note"

all that needed was a "hark" or "harken" at the beginning of the text.

It's worth seeing the letter that was left by Lord Sainsbury.

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speaking of Saino's:"How I got banned from Sainsbury's" classic british copypasta.

Yesterday I was at my local Sainsbury's buying a large bag of Winalot dog food and was in the checkout queue when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

I told her, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Winalot Diet again. (This admission made shoppers and some of the staff turn around attention to my story; as the story went on, quite a crowd formed.)

I added that I probably shouldn’t start the diet again, because I ended up in hospital last time, but I'd lost 2 stone by the time I woke up in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Winalot nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again.

Horrified, she asked me if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me . I told her no, I was put into intensive care after being hit by a car. The accident happened when I was in the middle of the road during a good old-fashioned session of me licking my own balls.
posted by lalochezia at 11:11 AM on August 28 [9 favorites]

This guy was a Knight of the Garter.
posted by praemunire at 11:21 AM on August 28

I believe that's what's known as a shagging dog story
posted by chavenet at 11:21 AM on August 28 [1 favorite]

Being silently at war with some piece of interior design is quite the British upper class thing.

(See also: Downton Abbey, To Say Nothing Of The Dog, the life of Oscar Wilde)
posted by ocschwar at 11:54 AM on August 28 [1 favorite]

> It's worth seeing the letter that was left by Lord Sainsbury.

i like how they SCREAM CONSTANTLY AT FUTURE PEASANTS. just like my own relatives
posted by ver at 12:29 PM on August 28 [3 favorites]

Can I just say how funny it is that the president of Sainsbury’s was Lord Sainsbury?? Like off I go to buy aliments from Duke Kroger. Clipping coupons for the Earl of Safeway
posted by theodolite at 1:29 PM on August 28 [1 favorite]

Can I just say how funny it is that the president of Sainsbury’s was Lord Sainsbury?? Like off I go to buy aliments from Duke Kroger. Clipping coupons for the Earl of Safeway

Looks like it was a life peerage. So more like if someone elevated Mr Kroger (or more accurately, his wealthy grandson who was politically active and spent lots of money on charity) to be a lord-for-life.
posted by gentlyepigrams at 2:05 PM on August 28 [3 favorites]

There was a little trend in the 1980s for museums in the UK to have a postmodernist extension; the Tate (the original Tate, now Tate Britain) has a shiny bullshit area on the side that's mostly stairs. A few years later CADCAM programs became widely available and wiped out the entire trend, and you got stuff like the Bilbao Guggenheim, but for a short period people who could draw a lot of windows and stairs had a very productive time.
posted by The River Ivel at 2:12 PM on August 28 [1 favorite]

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