My sister bought a tape in Whsmiths.
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
My sister bought a tape in Whsmiths.
(Telling everyone within earshot this in 1996 after finishing the Shadows of the Empire book and being asked to leave the WHSmiths)
May 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
(Telling everyone within earshot this in 1996 after finishing the Shadows of the Empire book and being asked to leave the WHSmiths)
80s WHSmiths worker here, sorry to disappoint, but none of us gave a shit that you were typing "10 PRINT "WHSMITH ARE SHIT", 20 GOTO 10" on the display-model ZX Spectrum's and running away. We were more bothered about when time lunch was.
February 25, 2026 at 11:20 PM
80s WHSmiths worker here, sorry to disappoint, but none of us gave a shit that you were typing "10 PRINT "WHSMITH ARE SHIT", 20 GOTO 10" on the display-model ZX Spectrum's and running away. We were more bothered about when time lunch was.
Compare and contrast to the reaction in my hometown of Sevenoaks to having to wait thirty seconds in WHSmiths.
June 27, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Compare and contrast to the reaction in my hometown of Sevenoaks to having to wait thirty seconds in WHSmiths.
shuffling around WHsmiths, yelling HOW MUCH at a bag with 3 crisps in it
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
shuffling around WHsmiths, yelling HOW MUCH at a bag with 3 crisps in it
I stopped there a while back, I thought I might try the trans bathroom out. Turned out to be a disabled toilet that I would have go to WHSmiths to ask for the key to. Fuck that on so many levels
June 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I stopped there a while back, I thought I might try the trans bathroom out. Turned out to be a disabled toilet that I would have go to WHSmiths to ask for the key to. Fuck that on so many levels
It's telling in a lot of this they never engage with any sort of institutional or political theory beyond the sorts of books you see at airport WHSmiths.
The big picture flaw in the piece is that PO doesn't care enough about policy or indeed ideas. (This is v clear in the worked examples.) So the 'why is this central government's business anyway?' question never occurs, it's just 'how dare this get in my grid' ranting.
January 2, 2026 at 10:56 AM
It's telling in a lot of this they never engage with any sort of institutional or political theory beyond the sorts of books you see at airport WHSmiths.
September 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
they running this like it's an expose bro they sold it in whsmiths
June 9, 2026 at 6:17 AM
they running this like it's an expose bro they sold it in whsmiths
Replicate yourself in the comfort of your own home, with the new VIC-20 cloning cassette tape. See the results in minutes! Only £9.99 at Boots, WHSmiths, and Martins the Newsagents.
February 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Replicate yourself in the comfort of your own home, with the new VIC-20 cloning cassette tape. See the results in minutes! Only £9.99 at Boots, WHSmiths, and Martins the Newsagents.
Just had to take out a mortgage to grab a drink an snack from WHSmiths for the train to Cardiff 😮💨
February 24, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Just had to take out a mortgage to grab a drink an snack from WHSmiths for the train to Cardiff 😮💨
Look on the bright side, that opening shot has a WHSmiths in it, so at least we'll be able to buy an overpriced pack of pencils and a bar of chocolate together while the country falls apart.
September 7, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Look on the bright side, that opening shot has a WHSmiths in it, so at least we'll be able to buy an overpriced pack of pencils and a bar of chocolate together while the country falls apart.
Things I have learned today at the airport:
• WHSmiths will sell you 750ml of basic Buxton tapwater for a mere THREE POUNDS EIGHTY NINE the venal wankers
• Celine Dion perfume somehow exists
• ditto high heeled Crocs, why
• WHSmiths will sell you 750ml of basic Buxton tapwater for a mere THREE POUNDS EIGHTY NINE the venal wankers
• Celine Dion perfume somehow exists
• ditto high heeled Crocs, why
October 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Things I have learned today at the airport:
• WHSmiths will sell you 750ml of basic Buxton tapwater for a mere THREE POUNDS EIGHTY NINE the venal wankers
• Celine Dion perfume somehow exists
• ditto high heeled Crocs, why
• WHSmiths will sell you 750ml of basic Buxton tapwater for a mere THREE POUNDS EIGHTY NINE the venal wankers
• Celine Dion perfume somehow exists
• ditto high heeled Crocs, why
Self checkout machine in WHSmiths just yelled at a man "THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING" and he responded, in a warm brogue, "Aye, and I'll see yourself soon."
March 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Self checkout machine in WHSmiths just yelled at a man "THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING" and he responded, in a warm brogue, "Aye, and I'll see yourself soon."
hospital WHSmiths checkouts advertising/offering Klarna payment
country is cooked
country is cooked
October 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
hospital WHSmiths checkouts advertising/offering Klarna payment
country is cooked
country is cooked
We’re not saying Lee Anderson is basic, but he’s just been spotted popping in to WHSmiths to get a biro to sign the government epetition.
November 25, 2024 at 7:57 AM
We’re not saying Lee Anderson is basic, but he’s just been spotted popping in to WHSmiths to get a biro to sign the government epetition.
Having missed out on my free SJ breakfast, I’ve instead stocked myself up from the Pressbyrån on Sundsvall station, an institution whose founding principle seems to be: ‘What if WHSmiths on stations were - and hear me out before you completely dismiss the idea, guys - good.’ #Schengen200
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Having missed out on my free SJ breakfast, I’ve instead stocked myself up from the Pressbyrån on Sundsvall station, an institution whose founding principle seems to be: ‘What if WHSmiths on stations were - and hear me out before you completely dismiss the idea, guys - good.’ #Schengen200
I remember hot footing to WHSmiths to buy this on the day it was released
16 November 1979 Friday after school
Spent most of Saturday re playing it it was a marked change for the Jam
16 November 1979 Friday after school
Spent most of Saturday re playing it it was a marked change for the Jam
February 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I remember hot footing to WHSmiths to buy this on the day it was released
16 November 1979 Friday after school
Spent most of Saturday re playing it it was a marked change for the Jam
16 November 1979 Friday after school
Spent most of Saturday re playing it it was a marked change for the Jam
White Dwarf 74, February 1986. Frank Brunner
(My first issue, bought from WHSmiths in Dudley on a freezing cold Saturday afternoon).
#oldhammer
(My first issue, bought from WHSmiths in Dudley on a freezing cold Saturday afternoon).
#oldhammer
November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
White Dwarf 74, February 1986. Frank Brunner
(My first issue, bought from WHSmiths in Dudley on a freezing cold Saturday afternoon).
#oldhammer
(My first issue, bought from WHSmiths in Dudley on a freezing cold Saturday afternoon).
#oldhammer
And yet WHSmiths is STILL THERE.
September 11, 2023 at 7:39 AM
And yet WHSmiths is STILL THERE.
If the internet didn't exist, and the world of publishing was in rude health, and WHSmiths hadn't just gone bust, I can absolutely imagine a magazine called "Which Bluetooth Speaker", a very thick, 250-page tome, featuring hundreds upon hundreds of Bluetooth speakers, published weekly, if not daily
April 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
If the internet didn't exist, and the world of publishing was in rude health, and WHSmiths hadn't just gone bust, I can absolutely imagine a magazine called "Which Bluetooth Speaker", a very thick, 250-page tome, featuring hundreds upon hundreds of Bluetooth speakers, published weekly, if not daily
Your WHSmiths rebrand name is your first two initials and your surname
March 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Your WHSmiths rebrand name is your first two initials and your surname
I got prog 500 from WHSmiths in Droitwich. Missed a few and then started on prog 520
September 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I got prog 500 from WHSmiths in Droitwich. Missed a few and then started on prog 520