As for what I bought today...well as it happens what I bought today and what I obtained from the shops I visited today...there is a difference between the two, due to certain un/fortunate (depending on who's point of view) circumstances.
Went to get some strong formic acid (they changed the brand, this stuff is now 54% rather than ~30%ish ), so I lucked in there, grabbed about 4-5 bottles just to be on the safe side in case they've changed the brand, got rid of it off the shelves, banned it entirely or some other nanny-ing stalinist statist bullfuckingshit.
Got 3 packs of paramol, waiting for me to get a few more so I have enough to make a certain reaction with triphenylphosphonium bromide in view of ripping off that annoying methyl ether group on DHC, to both demethylate it in high yield AND esterify it to mostly (94-95% or so) yield of (6-monoacetoxy)dihydromorphine both at the same time, again in great yields, the 5% ending up AFAIK as dihydroheroin).
Got a 5 pack of double choc chip giant cookies, 2 tins of 'original'cafe creme cigars, two bottles of fever tree tonic water with elderflower flavouring, plus a 70cl bottle of gin going on sale.
2 rolls of duct tape, some dextromethorphan cough mixture, couple of huge cartons of orange juice with the bits in it.
And a macdonalds (2 plain double cheeseburgers plus two mango and somethingorother flavour frozen smoothies.)
And what else...well, I was GOING to buy 2 packs of super strength valerian extract, but I dropped my e-fag at the till. Accidentally put the two packs, worth together near 15 quid, straight into my shopping bag with my e-fag.
Oopsie. Looks like I went shopLIFTing, not just shoppING. Oh well. I'm not going back up there in this damnable heat just togive my money away. If I went to do that and go pay they'd likely grass me up to the filth, and we all know what THEY think of me.
And return the items? I'd still be roasting in the heat. Sorry. No thanks. ~£15 of free stuff? yes, yes please.
If the store didn't want that to happen they'd install superconducting magnets underneath the floors and place slices of pyrolytic graphite under all their items so they float in mid-air if dropped.
Granted it'd take thousands of pound of cryogenic equipment at LEAST, not including consumables for the cryo system, probably hundreds of thousands inc. refrigerant gases. But at least people wouldn't accidentally shoplift 2 packs of valerian tablets.
