Well, with another Australian summer coming up, it was time to buy some new clothes, and as my mobile phone died last month, found myself having to try out new phones.
Anyway, this meant that I was frequently hanging around shopping centres conducting business over the last few weeks, and to be honest, it was as boring as shit - I generally hate shopping, but sometimes when things don't work and clothes whear out, it's time to get some retail therapy.
But as any looner knows, there is that somewhat reluctant quick trip to the department store, conspicuously trying to go through the toys section, looking for the inflatables. Well you know with the Australian summer coming up, the temptation was just too raw to resist.
Well about a week ago in a shopping centre in South Sydney, I found myself in the kids section of Big W, walking briskly toward the inflatable section if I could find it, and within moments, there they were.
Going past the boring as hell stock standard inflatable mats, my first stop seemed to be this intex inflatable ring
So looking around, I made sure there was no store staff and personnel to ask me what I was up to, but then again if they were, it wasn't exactly illegal what I was doing. I just wanted to open up the packages to see exactly what I was going to put down my hard earned cash for.
So the time came to pull the intex ring off the shelf, and with the strength of my hand, ripped through the top of the box, and uugghhhh!, it was the crappy matt finish canvas shit. The box went back on to the shelf, and on to the next thing.
It was an intex translucent whale. Again it was time to crack the box, and see what good or bad was inside that baby. Rip, the lid flipped, and wow. Very soft blue shiny translucent PVC; now almost on the verge of buying a few. So pulled it out and unfurled it, but some matt white printing on the bottom just couldn't break the deal for me, so it went back. Don't know what happened to the photos of these blue translucent whales, but I may have second thoughts about getting a few next week. From memory they were 1.8 meters long, which is about six foot in American money.
Right next to it was a silver whale, but from the box I could see straight away that it was that heavy matt vinyl, so I didn't bother wasting my time with it. It looked the same size.
This next one got me roaring straight away, the sense of this one being completely glossy and shiny already gave that strong glowing feeling within the body.
The box flew off the shelf, and rip, and yeah, the bottom was white and nice and shiny, but upon unfurling this baby which I did fantasize on taking to bed, the top printing gave the mat a complete matt finish.
This was definitely very disappointing, as the connotation was the idea of taking a huge piece of inflatable candy to bed, but ul well, such is life.
The next one that caught my eye was this inflatable surf board.
Like the inflatable ice cream, there was an immediate sense of anticipation, fueling my curiosity for opening it up. They were two colours with this one, so I went ahead and opened the blue and red one.
Unboxing of inflatable surf board
Inflatable surfboard unpacked
Oh wow, that glossy white backing has me pumping straight away, with the thing in my hand, I was already getting hard. Unbelievably no store personnel had come to ask what I was doing. Upon unfurling this one, the top portion of the surf board was kind of a semi gloss finish. This is still worth thinking about. Taking this to bed while laying naked with this thing on top of my body, that thought does excite me. Looking at the picture though, it doesn't seem to have much thickage from the bottom to the top, like an inflatable thong / flip flop, so whether I still want to buy this one is still up for some further pondering.
The camera seemed to have gone off randomly with this one, but this for me is just a total utter turn off, so passed this one straight away. Looks like some inflatable play centre.
That concludes my visit to South Sydney from two weeks ago. About three days ago it was off to a shopping centre in North Sydney for getting some new summer clothes, and on the way out it was a quick dash to Kmart.
But as this has already been a long post, I'll get straight to the point of these. The inflatable beach beds, crocodiles, and whale floats from Kmart are all absolute garbage. Upon opening all packages, the material felt like a heavy canvas, like camping tents with a matt finish. So looks like Kmart is a no go this summer for looners like me.
Inflatable crocodile from Kmart
Double beach bed from Kmart
Inflatable whale float from Kmart
I also checked Target, but like Kmart, all there inflatables were made of canvas. So for this Australian summer, a pretty (again) ordinary selection of inflatables to choose from.
Anyway, this meant that I was frequently hanging around shopping centres conducting business over the last few weeks, and to be honest, it was as boring as shit - I generally hate shopping, but sometimes when things don't work and clothes whear out, it's time to get some retail therapy.
But as any looner knows, there is that somewhat reluctant quick trip to the department store, conspicuously trying to go through the toys section, looking for the inflatables. Well you know with the Australian summer coming up, the temptation was just too raw to resist.
Well about a week ago in a shopping centre in South Sydney, I found myself in the kids section of Big W, walking briskly toward the inflatable section if I could find it, and within moments, there they were.
Going past the boring as hell stock standard inflatable mats, my first stop seemed to be this intex inflatable ring
So looking around, I made sure there was no store staff and personnel to ask me what I was up to, but then again if they were, it wasn't exactly illegal what I was doing. I just wanted to open up the packages to see exactly what I was going to put down my hard earned cash for.
So the time came to pull the intex ring off the shelf, and with the strength of my hand, ripped through the top of the box, and uugghhhh!, it was the crappy matt finish canvas shit. The box went back on to the shelf, and on to the next thing.
It was an intex translucent whale. Again it was time to crack the box, and see what good or bad was inside that baby. Rip, the lid flipped, and wow. Very soft blue shiny translucent PVC; now almost on the verge of buying a few. So pulled it out and unfurled it, but some matt white printing on the bottom just couldn't break the deal for me, so it went back. Don't know what happened to the photos of these blue translucent whales, but I may have second thoughts about getting a few next week. From memory they were 1.8 meters long, which is about six foot in American money.
Right next to it was a silver whale, but from the box I could see straight away that it was that heavy matt vinyl, so I didn't bother wasting my time with it. It looked the same size.
This next one got me roaring straight away, the sense of this one being completely glossy and shiny already gave that strong glowing feeling within the body.
The box flew off the shelf, and rip, and yeah, the bottom was white and nice and shiny, but upon unfurling this baby which I did fantasize on taking to bed, the top printing gave the mat a complete matt finish.
This was definitely very disappointing, as the connotation was the idea of taking a huge piece of inflatable candy to bed, but ul well, such is life.
The next one that caught my eye was this inflatable surf board.
Like the inflatable ice cream, there was an immediate sense of anticipation, fueling my curiosity for opening it up. They were two colours with this one, so I went ahead and opened the blue and red one.
Unboxing of inflatable surf board
Inflatable surfboard unpacked
Oh wow, that glossy white backing has me pumping straight away, with the thing in my hand, I was already getting hard. Unbelievably no store personnel had come to ask what I was doing. Upon unfurling this one, the top portion of the surf board was kind of a semi gloss finish. This is still worth thinking about. Taking this to bed while laying naked with this thing on top of my body, that thought does excite me. Looking at the picture though, it doesn't seem to have much thickage from the bottom to the top, like an inflatable thong / flip flop, so whether I still want to buy this one is still up for some further pondering.
The camera seemed to have gone off randomly with this one, but this for me is just a total utter turn off, so passed this one straight away. Looks like some inflatable play centre.
That concludes my visit to South Sydney from two weeks ago. About three days ago it was off to a shopping centre in North Sydney for getting some new summer clothes, and on the way out it was a quick dash to Kmart.
But as this has already been a long post, I'll get straight to the point of these. The inflatable beach beds, crocodiles, and whale floats from Kmart are all absolute garbage. Upon opening all packages, the material felt like a heavy canvas, like camping tents with a matt finish. So looks like Kmart is a no go this summer for looners like me.
Inflatable crocodile from Kmart
Double beach bed from Kmart
Inflatable whale float from Kmart
I also checked Target, but like Kmart, all there inflatables were made of canvas. So for this Australian summer, a pretty (again) ordinary selection of inflatables to choose from.
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