@ExtremeFootbal4 Is it? I mean, I can’t say I hate the guy, don’t even know him, however, he is pretty arrogant with some of his public actions and then there is his moral decision making which means, unless you are a Chelsea fan, he’s not exactly likeable.
Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.
The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.
The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.
Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.
"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.
It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.
"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.
I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.
In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.
And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.
You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.
The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.
I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.
Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.
"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.
Discipline is a journey.
The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.
They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.
Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.
@custard71 I don’t disagree with you at all and as it goes, I’d never vote Reform. However, name me a politician that gives a fuck about you and your life? Every single one of them is out of touch, they earn too much even without the brown envelopes. Politicians are crooks, full stop.
Does anyone know a Paul Dobson on here? ST holder, South stand, row 25 & stands next to me, I believe he’s from the birches head area.
Stoke fan through & through, religiously never misses a home game but I haven’t seen him now for 3 games and want to know he’s ok. Thanks
@AndyWoodturner The supplier does set the terms though, they want to buy from you, they buy using your terms. Allow them to walk over you and they will abuse you, worse case, never pay you.