Posted on 17 April, 2008 by Gee
The peeps at the extinct Bad Gas website did what no-one else has been bored enough to do and collected photos of pound shop signs. Here’s a selection (all following text and pictures courtsey of © Bad Gas 2003-2007)
The pound coin; the word “pound”; the £ symbol. They stimulate a Pavlovian buying reflex in poor [...]
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Posted on 8 November, 2007 by Gee
It seemed like suitable punishment for my lapse on Day 3 to find the worst possible meal in the pound shop. I had my pick of at least a dozen horrors-on-a-plate but one appealed to me least. Beef curry: chopped and shaped beef with soya mince, vegetables and rice in a cardboard box. Let me [...]
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Posted on 7 November, 2007 by Gee
You know how it is. You go into the pound shop for your usual tin of meat and come out with a novella by 19th Century American writer Henry James.
There were three books to choose from. A guide to French B&Bs (the 2003 edition naturally), a history of BBC Radio 4’s the Today program and The Europeans by Henry [...]
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