There Was An Attempt To Buy Instant Coffee
Specifically, in a London branch of Sainsbury’s:
Coffee in case in Sainsburys store in London
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— London & UK Street News (@CrimeLdn) September 13, 2025
It does, I think, capture the absurdity of where we are.
For those blissfully unfamiliar with the phenomenon above and how it came to be, broader context can be found here. Along with some telling contortions from our progressive betters.
And from which, this:
We will lock up the product, but not the thief. And utopia will surely follow.
Ms [Martha] Gill is not alone, of course. According to her Guardian colleague Owen Jones, expecting persistent shoplifters to face consequences for their actions is now among “the worst instincts of the electorate.” Because shoplifters are “traumatised,” apparently. The real victims of the drama.
At which point, a thought occurs. If repeated thieving is so high-minded and so easily excused, perhaps Ms Gill and Mr Jones would be good enough to publish their home addresses, the whereabouts of any valuables, and the times at which they’re likely to be out, or at least preoccupied or unconscious.
Or do our betters only disdain other people’s property?
See also, the Progressive Retail Experience series, a recurring feature of Fridays here, and whose entries currently number 666.
Consider this an open thread. Pick a subject, any subject.
If you don’t lock up the thief, everything starts to look like a prison.
Now they can shoplift crap coffee and a plastic box.
I think that bears repeating.
I believe they’ve been dubbed diversity boxes.
[ Slurps mug of Waitrose No.1 Sumatra Mandheling. ]
Look at the bright side, the guy was prevented from buying instant coffee which is an abomination only fit for use while you are riding out a nuclear catastrophe or the like.
Somewhat tangentially related:
Perhaps they could even be visited by “diverse individuals” who will do them the extra courtesy of making them unconscious.
But remember, theft is protest. According to our betters.
This,
Made me think of this.
[ Slurps mug of Waitrose No.1 Sumatra Mandheling. ]
-Hey waitaminit! YOU run a BAR – what’s wrong with what’s on tap, that you gotta’ drink COFFEE?
Or, whatever-the-fr1g “Waitrose #1 Sumatra Mandheling” is…
Many have asked.
We’re still waiting for the lab results.
‘Man overboard’ is offensive term, says Royal Yachting Association.
The people who want us to lock up coffee to prevent theft….are the same exact people who would be screeching with fury at the suggestion that young girls might try avoiding getting totally drunk and walking around streets late nights wearing a mini skirt on their own, to reduce chances of something bad happening
In case the Left insists that they are not responsible for snipers:
2 attempts on Trump
a bernie-bro shot up a congressional baseball game, wounding one (could have been much worse)
Rand Paul assauted by neighbor, ribs broken
Rand Paul and other repubs surrounded and threatened outside capitol
During 2020 campaign Antifa attacked those leaving Trump rallies
BLM riots cost billions and dozens died entirely because mayors/governors would not act
2 jews assassinated by Free Palestine nut
Enrichment fatigue is a thing.
A prison without wardens or guards.
The law is a ass, the legislators supply the hole.
It keeps moving, you see. Makes it difficult.
By the time you’ve got their preferred nonsense sorted they’ll have drowned.
This century is shaping up to be an extended exercise in shoveling sand into society’s gears.
“How hypnotized would you have to be?”
“literally hitler”: Hitler came to power by assassinating 7000 of the opposition party in the night of the long knives. He instigated pograms against Jews (kristalknaht sp?) before even starting the final solution.
If you ask a leftist what specifically Trump has done that is like that, you will not get a coherent answer. “he is erasing trans people” because denying access to locker rooms and sports is just like genocide, you see. He is racist–based on closing the border. They claim concentration camps are coming soon. It is nutty talk all the way down, based on nothing.
From that post:
Two years later we’re finding out…
Not very. All one has to do is move through the last half century just accepting whatever is put in front of you. Don’t question things yourself. The professional classes exist in these bubbles because even many who were raised with conservative values were willing to go along, or at best ignore the impact of the brainwashing going on around them. A similar explanation for why religious people have gone along with much of this. It’s easier to outsource these moral analyses to others. Leaves more time to focus on school or work or whatever else. Thinking for oneself is a very, very hard thing to do when you recognize that you are swimming in oceans of propaganda. Very hard to keep your head above water without drowning in one side or the other’s BS.
And a similar problem with raising children. Conservative parents have been way too trusting of others, not just the public schools but now the private ones and, again, the churches, in spending time to understand their children. I was not surprised in the least to learn that Charlie Kirk’s assassin’s parents were Republican.
I expect the grim absurdity to increase before it diminishes. If indeed it does.
A tad late. They are claiming concentration camps are happening now. Alligator Alcatraz is, without a doubt…in their eyes anyway..,100% a concentration camp. Which it kinda actually is by literal definition but not by the definition people carry in their heads. Which is how some brainwashing works.
A while ago, I found myself reluctantly having a conversation with someone about politics – a thing I almost never do, in person, with people I don’t know well – and they were something close to scandalised by my not despising Mr Trump. My position on this point had, as so often, simply been assumed in advance. Vehement, if ignorant, hostility being the only conceivable position, it seemed.
They were, needless to say, similarly scandalised by my description of Mr Trump as a necessary and belated course correction. And more scandalised still by my subsequent elaboration regarding a desire to avert what appears to be civilisational decay on so many fronts, from crime and policing to energy policy, economics, and of course massive, indiscriminate immigration.
In terms of perceptions, or the perceptions one is allowed to acknowledge, we seemed to exist in entirely different worlds. An odd experience.
Oh, there are wardens and guards, but they are chiefly to control people like us.
To make all of society a prison: every leftist’s most ardent wish.
Ah, but perception is reality. Just ask a psychiatrist, psychologist, HR rep…or pastor, priest, professor…well just about anyone. Well any of the good and smaaaaart people anyway. Funny how we got here.
Well, again, the experience was odd, despite the fact that I certainly don’t assume that any random gathering of people around me will share my political views. But evidently others do. To a degree that can leave them non-plussed when encountering polite, if firm, demurral. In a conversation they started but seemingly came to regret – and for which they were, frankly, ill-equipped.
What amused me at the time, and more so afterwards, was the fact that the more I offered reasons for my positions – again, in a measured and civil way – the greater the apparent scandal. As if knowing why you think whatever it is you think were uncommon or superfluous. As if it simply wasn’t done.
Again, it’s odd to bump into opinions that aren’t actually load-bearing, but which seem to function instead as a kind of social jewellery.
Question asked:
Answers on a postcard, please.
Exactly. Perhaps I previously related the experience at the last project I worked on for A Major Defense Contractor, how my younger cubemate, just out of college, would ask me genuinely curious questions, usually about money or economics, etc. He was a nice kid from whom I got the impression that his family, from Ceylon, was fairly conservative but he had picked up a lot of BS in college. Stuff which I sensed he didn’t really believe but was looking for perspectives from someone other than his parents…and I surmised also an overbearing older sister. Anyway, every once in a while I would say something to him, answer some question he had, usually something quite innocuous, that would upset the guy in the next cube. And around the corner he would come. Now a polite conversation between my young colleague and…that guy…turned into a more sharp discussion that usually ended with that guy stomping off like some middle school girl, likely to complain to somebody. When I was let go from that job the people that I actually worked with were shocked. The guy I was working closest with at the time with refused to believe it and insisted that I was pulling his leg. Was kinda funny looking back. People kept stopping by my cube offering condolences. Some were rather surprised how cool I was with it.
How thoughtful. That way they won’t have to suffer the pain of watching their belongings leaving their home.
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Back to the Future.
Solzhenitsyn described how criminals, people who actually committed crimes like murder and theft and robbery and assault, were put in charge of the other prisoners in the gulag.
and yet, in California, a law was passed that made it ILLEGAL for any city/county government to require ID to vote.
Answers on a postcard, please.
Required NPC programming thought lest one have to admit the killer was not a straight, white, conservative, male.
Phrasing.
Instalanche!
Toilet’s backed up again.
[ Looks at Muldoon. ]
“Islamophonia is persistent and must be stopped”
Curious terminology, but yes, if it sounds like Islam, let’s get rid of it.
Seems to happen every time that Driscoll fellow stops by.
It seems sane.
Nurse suspended for telling a doctor it’s wrong to celebrate murder.
It’s time to publicize the names of the doctor and the people who run the hospital. Ruin them.
I found myself pondering how tales of demonic possession came to be.
I offer a modest proposal. All US law enforcement officers shall be issued cricket bats with ‘Terry v. Ohio’ carved into them. If, during a traffic stop, an individual claiming to have any connection whatsoever to criminology or the legal profession utters the phrase ‘probable cause,’ any officer in earshot is authorized to put that individual over the hood of the squad car and deliver three brisk swats with the bat to said individual’s bottom.
Schizophrenia is 6 to 10 times more common in black people. Combine that with lower average IQ, a culture of shiftlessness and paranoia, and look what you get.
Is there a way to work “Thank you sir, may I have another” into the routine?
“How hypnotized would you have to be?”
Most of them have done nothing to shelter in place or curtail their exposure.
Either they don’t really think they are under threat – they are just going along with fashion as their class has done since WWII (at least)
Or they are profoundly ignorant of history
Or both. Ignorance certainly makes eat easier to repeat these whopper-lies.