Hail Thee,

> Regularly I have a conflict when there are ten different programmes I want to watch,
> which leaves me in a right pickle.

There is a scientifically engineered solution available for your pickle. There are television sets that can turn the screen into a sortof mosaic display, showing a multitude of different channels all at the same time in admittedly somewhat reduced size. So alll you need is good eyes and a broad mind.

Ok, there is a commercial (consumer oriented) alternative, which basically consists of buying like 12 TV-Sets and arranging them in matix fashion. This might also make for a nice wall decoration !

> This extends throughout. In my local supermarket you can get over ten varieties of plum tomatoes ...

Take the chopped variant with as little sauce as possible !

> There is now an "organic" variety of everything you could possibly want - from cheese to toilet roll

WHAT in heavens name is a organic variety of toilet paper ??? Now that something I've never seen or heard before. What organic components do they put into the toilet paper (before use!) and how does this enhance the product quality or usability ?

> Even worse is the range of flavours and colours you can get. A whole aisle for jams and preserves?
> A whole aisle for tea and coffee? Please!

Well, I generally like the aisle concept. You can just cart past the aisles containing uninteresting things like tea. Preserves is easy: just get a strawberry one and lets the others grow mold and become increasingly organic.

> Unfortunately, I'm running a losing battle. I don't see why hundreds of thousands of people pay
> twice the price just to have something cut in two - but they do.

Twice as much ? Are you sure about this ? In our local supermarket we can get tins of half peaches at practically the same price as tins of sliced peaches. The sliced ones might be about 10% more expensive, but is does safe you a lot of (sticky) slicing when you have to put them on a cake.

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Stephan