Wednesday, 29 January 2025

COCKEYED

 I listened to a National Radio report today on the traffic hassles in the Hutt Valley with the opening of a Popeyes fried chicken outlet

QUEUES BLOCK ROAD

Yes, many, many idiots have been queuing up to buy this shit:


As if there aren't already enough food retail chains selling unhealthy takeaway food.


The irony, to me, is that Popeye as in the cartoon was famous for promoting spinach as a health and strengthening food.


I didn't see spinach being used in the offerings in the menu I looked at.


It never fails to amaze me that so many people can get all excited about this kind of rubbish but can't be arsed to vote in national or local elections, volunteer for charity groups, pick up rubbish and litter and generally take an interest in the society they live in. No, in their cockeyed thinking way they pile into their cars and race along to yet another poison factory as if their life depended on it. Well, it does in a way and best to stay away.




15 comments:

Richard (of RBB) said...

Actually, I think this shop is talking about lots of Popeyes. Otherwise it would be called Popeye's.

THE CURMUDGEON said...

Go and read some American literature if you're looking for bad grammar to complain about.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the advert. K and I have been wondering about the prices. It's a bit blurry but was that bucket $60? Phew, KFC won't have nothing to worry about.

Richard (of RBB) said...

Hey, I'm just about to go out to get us Popeye for dinner. Do you know what the queue is like? Robert was evidently going too, but he mistook cue for queue and is stuck waiting outside a snooker parlour. "I'll have the mild chicken please." "Hey, sir, please leave Jimmy alone. He's just a bit shy. Go play snooker with someone else."

THE CURMUDGEON said...

Well, at least that bad grammar will keep Richard busy complaining about it.

THE CURMUDGEON said...

I cannot imagine you, Richard, eating crap like that.

Richard (of RBB) said...

Okay, I never eat where they have little knowledge of grammar. Or where noone can play the violin.

THE CURMUDGEON said...

Noone? Do you mean Peter Noone?
I didn't know that he played violin. I did know that he was lead singer in Herman's Hermits and that his nickname was Herman.

Rob said...

K is shouting Pizza Supreme from Pizza Hut Hutt tonight, is that allowed in the McD household?

THE CURMUDGEON said...

No, we will never eat Pizza Hut shit. We make our own pizzas at home.

re the Popeye menu image, if you click on it it will come clear.

Richard (of RBB) said...

Nothing new here. Though I suppose that the hair is growing back. New hair.

Rob said...

Actually in the end I didn't have pizza. I remembered I had a piece of rump steak in the fridge.

There was a boy that lost his rabbit. His father said "Don't worry son, it'll be in the vegetable garden". He knew hare.

Rob said...

The same boy later asked his father how he came to be. The father replied "Well son, you are a good Catholic boy and you have read the Bible; after we were married your mother and I got together and I knew her!"

THE CURMUDGEON said...

You hum it son, we'll play it.

THE CURMUDGEON said...

I suspected that you read the Bible to find the dirty bits.