Lemonade the price of champagne??

Recession, what recession?

Sometimes I marvel at the sheer brass neck and amazing gullibility of the human race.

There is not a lot to add. The Tesco own brand lemonade is cheaper than mineral water and the Schweppes mini can is £6 for 2lts worth.

Now then, a very decent Cava can be had for about the same from Robin Greatorex if you are lucky enough to live in his catchment area.

So I want to set up a spy camera at the local Tesco and see who buys the 44p/150ml can, follow them home, and sell them Tower Bridge.

Can we really smell that bad?

I once tried to work out the biggest non-intuitive product selection in the Tesco online shopping catalogue. It was air fresheners. It was at that moment that I realised that UK society was probably finished. The present list has 208 entries.

OK, something like "beer" has some 400 entries, but that covers all the variants of packaging and pack sizes, which is hardly surprising. Despite suspicions that the market had gone potty, there are remarkably few variants of mineral water listed - fewer than 30.

A classy nose clip for £6

But air fresheners are a pointless contrivance of marketing if ever there was. They are a remarkably costly solution that has been invented to address a problem that can fixed by opening the window or washing your socks more than once a month.

If you really can't handle the environment in which you exist, then the simpler answer is to get a nose clip. If a 10p clothes peg is too downmarket, then Mikes Diving will sell you the state of the art device alongside, designed in an air tunnel, for £6 

And then I looked at the goggle image search for nose clips and.there are pages and pages of pages... what the ....

Never mind UK society, this must surely herald the end of civilisation as we know it.

Please someone, tell there is something more significant with which to measure the human condition than air fresheners and nose clips?