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13 November, 2022
Wayne’s World
G’DAY Tropicairnsians, When you go to your local supermarket have you noticed what occupies the bottom shelf?
No, well you are not the only one that never really looks down there as it is the shops’ third cutlery drawer from the average punter’s kitchen, you know, that place where you chuck things that will never probably see the light of day.
Well, the bottom shelves are where supermarkets allocate products that they deem to be future deleted stock. Why am I bringing up such a subject? Because just recently I was feeling a bit peckish and thought of going home to watch a bit of 7Plus with a nice cuppa and bikkies. So this little peanut went shopping for a packet of the ever-popular Arnott’s Assorted Family Favourites!
Well bugger me dead, I searched everywhere for these once-staple-Aussie-icons. Getting all flustered I finally flagged down one of the team members only to be told that these bikkies are being, slowly but surely, removed from stock and the last stage before oblivion is the bottom shelf.
And sure enough, my eyes followed her pointed finger and there on the bottom dust collecting shelf looking thoroughly neglected, were the once-foundon-every-kitchen-table packets of the-best-ever crumble-in-yagob-and-all-over-the-floor multi flavoured bikkies.
Not missing a beat, I snatched up a couple of packets and scooted out the door, then some thoughts became realization that this is how all the great products of old become never-seen-again distant history by these giant supermarket chains to make us buy what they want the community to consume.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like feeling that we are sheep being herded in for shearing, buying what we are guided to purchase, not truly deciding for ourselves anymore.
Now while talking about being brainwashed, let’s travel overseas to that great garbage dump called the USA, and I know this sounds harsh, but come on, this country seems to celebrate the killing of their innocent citizens by gun fire as long as they don’t lose their right to carry arms, even intimidating voting by men armed to the hilt at favoured polling stations of the opposition party.
These men belong to organizations believing that a certain election was stolen from the orange-faced Oompa Loompa, whom we have come to realize is the fake news king. Yes, anything anyone says, thinks, does or writes, that goes against this orange-faced Oompa Loompa is fake news, up to and including climate change and the pandemic which killed a million Americans.
Some of his other rants are that Scotland should not build wind farms because he does not want to look at them while playing on his golf course. He believes that all citizens should carry a gun - that way they would feel safe, and that violent gangs like those called The Proud Boys are good healthy law-abiding groups that deem disabled people losers.
Hope y’all think harder next time.
Smiling is living.
Wayne.
