Weymouth Sainsbury's store plans unveiled (From Dorset Echo)

ManOnTheSilverMounta
in wrote:
do "local people from the UK." actually want to work?

You slightly racist rant about immigration assumes that "local" people want to work, rather than sit at home and watch has in the attic whilst claiming benefits.

IDONTKNOWIFITISTRRUE wrote:
monkeydog It is close enough to Morrisons, but what a fag it is going to be going back and forth doing price comparisons before actually picking up the goods you need. I suspect that Sainsburys will easily be able to reduce their checkout queuing times compared to Morrisons (:o))

annotator1 wrote:
The more, the better. Competition is a good way of driving prices down.

annotator1 wrote:
The more, the better. Competition is a good way of driving prices down.

ksmain wrote:
While it is good news for jobs, I cant honestly see where they are going to get business from. Sainsburys arent exactly cheap and given the lack of money around ...

Merlin of Britain wrote:
Great series - and very depressing - thankfully, I'm a vegetarian. So would everyone else be, if they saw the utter HORROR and SHEER BRUTALITY that is everyday life for much farm livestock, and ALL creatures going through the abbatoirs. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "HUMANE SLAUGHTER"..!! I knew it was bad, but joined Facebook last year and realise I didn't know a FRACTION of what it's all about. As for your Prawns, I FIRMLY believe that when we chimps go down to the sea, we should take NOTHING but photographs and leave NOTHING but gentle ripples in the water..!!

Artstudent wrote:
How come I can comment on this story but not on the one about the potential destruction of the fleet to provide another road for the rich to get richer?

Merlin of Britain wrote:
People in the Junited Kingdom and Junited States of Amerika should remember what Paul & Anne Ehrlich said, back in the 1970s:

"When you hear a politician say that economics must come before Ecology - you're listening to an idiot..!!"

ksmain wrote:

Merlin of Britain wrote:
Great series - and very depressing - thankfully, I'm a vegetarian. So would everyone else be, if they saw the utter HORROR and SHEER BRUTALITY that is everyday life for much farm livestock, and ALL creatures going through the abbatoirs. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "HUMANE SLAUGHTER"..!! I knew it was bad, but joined Facebook last year and realise I didn't know a FRACTION of what it's all about. As for your Prawns, I FIRMLY believe that when we chimps go down to the sea, we should take NOTHING but photographs and leave NOTHING but gentle ripples in the water..!!

I'm not and no program would turn me into one.

Remember, a lot of these animals wouldnt be about if they werent bred for food. And,if they werent they would always be prey for something.

Merlin of Britain wrote:
The way Weymouth's growing (and growth is a very bad word to me - and virtually the ONLY one politicians know..!!) and losing all its charms, I'm not surprised that so many LOCAL people want to ship out..!! Despite Mr CaMORON's recent statement that 'business are not the bad guys', the fact remains it's THEM who are destroying everything of beauty or worth on the planet, which is why my term for them, with a nod of acknowledgement to Mr Cobbett is 'The Great Slime'. I frequently ask on Facebook WHY politicians are forever pandering to The Great Slime, and the replies always mention money and backhanders - funny, that..!! A special friend in Pretoria said it's as if The Great Slime were spoilt kids, forever demanding "I want, I want, I want!!" She said what's needed is a stern parent figure to tell them "No, No, NO..!!!!"

monkeydog wrote:

ksmain wrote:

Merlin of Britain wrote:
Great series - and very depressing - thankfully, I'm a vegetarian. So would everyone else be, if they saw the utter HORROR and SHEER BRUTALITY that is everyday life for much farm livestock, and ALL creatures going through the abbatoirs. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "HUMANE SLAUGHTER"..!! I knew it was bad, but joined Facebook last year and realise I didn't know a FRACTION of what it's all about. As for your Prawns, I FIRMLY believe that when we chimps go down to the sea, we should take NOTHING but photographs and leave NOTHING but gentle ripples in the water..!!

I'm not and no program would turn me into one.

Remember, a lot of these animals wouldnt be about if they werent bred for food. And,if they werent they would always be prey for something.

Vegetarianism is an emotional and complex issue. This sort of statement is remarkably trite, ignorant and unhelpful.

JamesYoung wrote:

monkeydog wrote:

ksmain wrote:

Merlin of Britain wrote:
Great series - and very depressing - thankfully, I'm a vegetarian. So would everyone else be, if they saw the utter HORROR and SHEER BRUTALITY that is everyday life for much farm livestock, and ALL creatures going through the abbatoirs. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "HUMANE SLAUGHTER"..!! I knew it was bad, but joined Facebook last year and realise I didn't know a FRACTION of what it's all about. As for your Prawns, I FIRMLY believe that when we chimps go down to the sea, we should take NOTHING but photographs and leave NOTHING but gentle ripples in the water..!!

I'm not and no program would turn me into one.

Remember, a lot of these animals wouldnt be about if they werent bred for food. And,if they werent they would always be prey for something.

Vegetarianism is an emotional and complex issue. This sort of statement is remarkably trite, ignorant and unhelpful.

Nonetheless, it is also a fact that humans are predators. The decline in our health and growth of diseases such as cancer and heart disease have increased as we have moved away from natural whole foods - including healthy animal fats - and towards unhealthy vegetable oil, trans fats, simple carbohydrates and sugar laden foods. If humans were meant to be vegetarian, they wouldn't need supplements. So while none of us condone the poor treatment of farm animals, particularly in intensive rearing, to suggest that vegetarianism is the answer ignores several million years of human evolution.

IDONTKNOWIFITISTRRUE wrote:
I wish that this talk about the apparent merits of not eating meat would stop - what have these rants got to do with the opening of a Sainsburys store?

Caption Sensible wrote:
With the way this area of town is growing into a business/commercial hub, and its close proximity to the park and ride, is it not time to lobby for a railway station in the area?

dave.flowers wrote:
Brilliant, yet another supermarket for Weymouth, HELLO we are here in your county town of Dorchester, we have Tesco's, Lidls, Iceland, Coop and a very small Waitrose,
We are needing supermarkets not Weymouth.

SILVERMAN wrote:

Caption Sensible wrote: With the way this area of town is growing into a business/commercial hub, and its close proximity to the park and ride, is it not time to lobby for a railway station in the area?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...........

Merlin of Britain wrote:
Oh dear - are we still on the vegetarians versus the murderers bit..?? Re the palm oil - I pointed out to my Facebook following that we arrogant, aberrant chimpanzee vermin NEVER give back a single inch we have stolen from The Others (those other 10 million known species who ALSO call planet Earth home), so, even if everyone on the planet boycotted anything containing palm oil, the Slime who destroyed the rainforest would simply come up with some other crop. The ONLY answer is to flatline anyone found clearing forests or other habitats AND those financing our planet's destruction. Given the race of the former and the religion (so-called) of the latter, I do not think the Natural World would mourn their loss..!! As for our local situation, the land once in the charge of the Miller farming family has largely been trashed, courtesy of Weymouth Council, for the convenience of The Great Slime ("business"). As a child, I enjoyed, as did many others living in the Beaumont, Weymouth Bay and Haywards Avenues area, exploring this whole section including Two-Mile Copse and all the fields that lay between that woodland and the end of the built-up area marked by Hetherly Road and St Andrews Avenue. There were fields in the Manor Road area nearby, where one could practice archery or, for the less demanding/imaginativ e, play with balls, and all manner of intriguing little nooks and corners - including "Ma Miller's" Donkey field - where a NORMAL child could be with Nature. Where are the children to go now - or doesn't THAT matter, either..??

Merlin of Britain wrote:
I'm quite sure I have no idea as to whom you are referring, but MY IQ is exactly the equal of Carol Vordermann - midway between Very Superior Intellect and Genius (I checked it once myself with MENSA tests, and a professional also tested it and arrived at the same conclusion.) I wonder how many books each of my pathetic Weymouth critics owns and reads - probably fewer than 10, I shouldn't wonder. I have more than three times that number, just on American Indians, about twice that number on Ancient Greece and the Minoans, probably 60 on birds, dozens on the beautiful country we used to have around 1900, before population levels went through the roof, several dozen on military subjects and training manuals, and scores more on mammals, reptiles, flora, marine life, insects, scorpions, art, antiques and ethics and philosophy (YOU'VE probably never heard of Peter Singer..!!), so why would any intelligent person be desirous of 'going out more'..?? To listen to a bunch of unread dingbats in a bar who know diddley-squat about ANYTHING..?? I think not, indeed - at least many of my friends on FB are intelligent, rational, THINKING and well-informed. THEY, at least, can see what others apparently cannot - that time INVARIABLY proves me right. Which is why I AM the Merlin .... But I see that my Wisdom is wasted on such dullards as are to be found patronising these comments threads. And besides, I have wielded the pen for long enough now, and find myself wearying of it. What was it one of your poets, Thomas Gray said in verse 14 of his Elegy..??
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air." .... Says it all, really..!!

Merlin of Britain wrote:
I'm quite sure I have no idea as to whom you are referring, but MY IQ is exactly the equal of Carol Vordermann - midway between Very Superior Intellect and Genius (I checked it once myself with MENSA tests, and a professional also tested it and arrived at the same conclusion.) I wonder how many books each of my pathetic Weymouth critics owns and reads - probably fewer than 10, I shouldn't wonder. I have more than three times that number, just on American Indians, about twice that number on Ancient Greece and the Minoans, probably 60 on birds, dozens on the beautiful country we used to have around 1900, before population levels went through the roof, several dozen on military subjects and training manuals, and scores more on mammals, reptiles, flora, marine life, insects, scorpions, art, antiques and ethics and philosophy (YOU'VE probably never heard of Peter Singer..!!), so why would any intelligent person be desirous of 'going out more'..?? To listen to a bunch of unread dingbats in a bar who know diddley-squat about ANYTHING..?? I think not, indeed - at least many of my friends on FB are intelligent, rational, THINKING and well-informed. THEY, at least, can see what others apparently cannot - that time INVARIABLY proves me right. Which is why I AM the Merlin .... But I see that my Wisdom is wasted on such dullards as are to be found patronising these comments threads. And besides, I have wielded the pen for long enough now, and find myself wearying of it. What was it one of your poets, Thomas Gray said in verse 14 of his Elegy..??
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air." .... Says it all, really..!!

portlandboi wrote:
SAINSBURYS ARE A MILLION TIMES BETTER THAN ASDA/TESCO/MORRISONS HAPPPY HAPPPY DAYZ

Merlin of Britain wrote:
From time to time I see comments on Facebook to the effect that if we really WERE predators, we'd have fangs like Lions..!! An interesting thought. Males are also slammed from time to time for this weird macho attitude that a meal MUST include meat - as if you'd end up a totally weedy wimp if you didn't eat other living beings. I usually remind such people of that almost -extinct (thanks to the chinee..!!) animal - the Elephant..!! No-one's ever accused THEM of being weak..!! But the REAL argument against us being predators is one of the balance of Nature. Predators are ALWAYS outnumbered hundreds to one by their prey - thousands upon thousands of Wildebeeste and Zebras to a couple of score or so of Lions on the African plains..

Merlin of Britain wrote:
I'm quite sure I have no idea as to whom you are referring, but MY IQ is exactly the equal of Carol Vordermann - midway between Very Superior Intellect and Genius (I checked it once myself with MENSA tests, and a professional also tested it and arrived at the same conclusion.) I wonder how many books each of my pathetic Weymouth critics owns and reads - probably fewer than 10, I shouldn't wonder. I have more than three times that number, just on American Indians, about twice that number on Ancient Greece and the Minoans, probably 60 on birds, dozens on the beautiful country we used to have around 1900, before population levels went through the roof, several dozen on military subjects and training manuals, and scores more on mammals, reptiles, flora, marine life, insects, scorpions, art, antiques and ethics and philosophy (YOU'VE probably never heard of Peter Singer..!!), so why would any intelligent person be desirous of 'going out more'..?? To listen to a bunch of unread dingbats in a bar who know diddley-squat about ANYTHING..?? I think not, indeed - at least many of my friends on FB are intelligent, rational, THINKING and well-informed. THEY, at least, can see what others apparently cannot - that time INVARIABLY proves me right. Which is why I AM the Merlin .... But I see that my Wisdom is wasted on such dullards as are to be found patronising these comments threads. And besides, I have wielded the pen for long enough now, and find myself wearying of it. What was it one of your poets, Thomas Gray said in verse 14 of his Elegy..??
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air." .... Says it all, really..!!

Merlin of Britain wrote:
Anyone curious about real philosophy could probably do no better than to read "Practical Ethics" by Peter Singer. It's required reading on some University courses, and Singer is of world renown as an ethicist. His beautifully-crafted arguments are inspiring, instructive and a justification for those with fully-functional brains to take some pride in being of the species Homo SAPIENS, rather than the sadly more numerous subspecies I named last year: Homo horribilis ignoramus..

Jello Biafra wrote:
And the calf that you carve with a smile
Is MURDER
And the turkey you festively slice
Is MURDER
Do you know how animals die ?


Kitchen aromas aren't very homely
It's not "comforting", cheery or kind
It's sizzling blood and the unholy stench
Of MURDER


It's not "natural", "normal" or kind
The flesh you so fancifully fry
The meat in your mouth
As you savour the flavour
Of MURDER

Merlin of Britain wrote:
By "Them sort of people", are we to understand you mean people who are well-educated and learned and therefore think things through from a well-informed standpoint..?? And as for future cures, I don't think anencephaly (no brain present) is likely to be rectified anytime soon. As for trisomy, my dictionary defines the condition as "having one chromosome of the set represented three times in an otherwise diploid organism, cell, et ketera.." We all know the effects of just having ONE extra chromosome - what was known, somewhat unkindly to ethnic Mongols - as mongolism. I am no MD, but trisomy 18 sounds considerably worse even than that..!!

monkeydog wrote:
This is too good to miss.
ksmain - the word ends in pocrisy.
jmc1 - you are confusing academic achievement with intelligence. Very often they are incompatible.
Merlin - great rant. Singer should be compulsory reading for infants as they are the only people with open minds receptive to new ideas. If they can't read, audio books should be used.

Jello Biafra wrote:
And the calf that you carve with a smile Is MURDER And the turkey you festively slice Is MURDER Do you know how animals die ? Kitchen aromas aren't very homely It's not "comforting", cheery or kind It's sizzling blood and the unholy stench Of MURDER It's not "natural", "normal" or kind The flesh you so fancifully fry The meat in your mouth As you savour the flavour Of MURDER

Evidently Chickentown wrote:

Jello Biafra wrote: And the calf that you carve with a smile Is MURDER And the turkey you festively slice Is MURDER Do you know how animals die ? Kitchen aromas aren't very homely It's not "comforting", cheery or kind It's sizzling blood and the unholy stench Of MURDER It's not "natural", "normal" or kind The flesh you so fancifully fry The meat in your mouth As you savour the flavour Of MURDER

Brilliant. I love The Smiths. But I love a good steak too...

monkeydog wrote:
This is too good to miss.
ksmain - the word ends in pocrisy.
jmc1 - you are confusing academic achievement with intelligence. Very often they are incompatible.
Merlin - great rant. Singer should be compulsory reading for infants as they are the only people with open minds receptive to new ideas. If they can't read, audio books should be used.

Merlin of Britain wrote:
In answer to question above, no, so far I have not posted anything under any other 'handle'. Secondly, what I said in an earlier post was not meant to imply that I have at ANY time belonged to MENSA - I haven't, although several people I've met have said I ought to consider joining, but I'm not really interested. Life's too short, and I now have only a little over --- months to go..
@ ksmain: I have a vastly different approach to hominid life than Prof. Singer - my view is that our vermin species has lost the right to be dignified with the term 'Animal'. It seems rather a shame to say this, given that probably at least .001% of us do not deserve it, but total annihilation of our species from the face of the Earth would be a REAL blessing to the planet. Many people I know call hominids (REAL Human Beings, you will recall, were murdered, swindled, robbed and raped in North Amerika by The Great Slime from Europe) by a variety of names, none of which are complimentary: cancer, pestilence, virus, scum, infestation.. but I expect you will get the general drift.