so yes, i would agree this is not the (singularly) most exciting purchase i have ever made and duly gone done showcased it here. but here is where we are, look you see. and where this is would be that, as the title more or less alludes to, i have procured (bought) some tissues.
not just any tissues, by the way, but Batman ones. well, packets of tissues which have images and what have you of that celebrated character on them. i shall (of course) speculate on exactly how that makes them what kind of tissues as this goes on, most probably.
why did i purchase some new tissues? as in, why tissues as such, without delving into the specifics of type. perhaps this is stating the obvious, but i was in need of some for my current stockpile of small packets of them moves ever closer to being depleted. it is with some sadness that one of the packets Mum gave me on my New Zealand odyssey has now been finished. knowing usually you can get ten packets of 10 (ten) tissues for an agreeable price (usually £1 flat) off the tops i went, where i found these, but also only eight (8) packs of 10 (ten) for that very same price.
my use for tissues? especially a "compact" packet designed to take around as you are out and about? fairly (or reasonably) conventional, i suppose. at the time of writing it is (very much) the time of sniffles, where autumn rushes to be winter, with the treacherous wind causing many a runny nose desperately in need of being wiped. rain (and ultimately snow) comes with this, so it's also quite handy to have someone to clean ones spectacles (glasses) with, so as to see. basically there's a couple of good reasons to have some tissues with you and not all that much in the way of an argument against having some with you.
i cannot, at the (great) risk of being condemned as "not a proper fan", immediately recall any instance where Batman made extensive, important or prominent use of tissues. this i put forward as a sort of kind of philosophical question in regards of are they really "Batman tissues" or are they not just tissues which happen to have Batman on them. maybe there was a tissues related incident in one episode of the much loved 60s series starring Adam West as Batman, but i can't think of it. doubtful that there was any significant tissue action in any of the 80s to present day films, but i am happy to be corrected. nothing at all about Tim Burton says "tissues", though. and for all his renowned, celebrated p!ssing about, one would be hard pressed to consider any moment in any film where Christopher Nolan kicks off and insisted that tissues were crucial to any particular scene.
good question, that. well, it is a good question if you were asking why, in this packet, i only got eight packets instead of the standard, conventional ten. yes, each pack has ten (10) tissues in, but usually it would be ten packs of ten, not eight of ten as is here. shrinkonomics is my "most likely" guess, which is that thing where they reduce the quantity (and sometimes quality) of an item so as to still be able to sell it for the same price in the face of rising production (and distribution) costs. other than that, yet possibly related, is that maybe they had to reduce the number of tissue packets so as to be able to afford the licensing costs for Batman yet still sell the product for £1. which begs the question exactly how many more tissues than usual they planned to sell purely because of the pictures on the packets.
do i have any tissue stories? not really. i can recall an interview with Charlie Watts (i think it was in Q magazine) where he got asked all sorts of arbitrary questions. rather surprised he indulged it. anyway, i can only recall (or remember) two of them. they asked him who the last person he punched was, which he replied that he certainly wasn't going to tell them that and intimated that they may get the answer quite soon if they asked any more questions of that nature. also they asked what he had in his pockets and he said some tissues, qualifying it with "anything else would ruin the line of your suit". not entirely sure what that means, but it has stuck with me.
right, pretty sure that's all i can possibly write (or tell) on this subject. in truth i didn't think i would have as much to say about it as i somehow found. there is very little likelihood of me documenting any actual use i make of these tissues, unless it is something really spectacular. although if that happened then i would reasonably expect it to be on the news anyway.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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