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If he didn’t stop then he may well have been in a rush.
If he didn’t he would. He wasn’t.
Dual price fining - Leave it on the shelf.
Minimum card payments.
Now I get it makes sense for a small business as each card payment incurs a fixed cost.
Popped into a bakery/cafe today. Coffee and a pie came to £6, very reasonable. Minimum card payment was £7. I had cash on me but only a £20. Person working there asked if I had anything smaller or a spare pound coin. They seemed a pit peeved off when I said, sorry no, that's all I have.
I don't carry shrapnel any more. It's either card/phone or the emergency note.
If you can only accept cash payment below a certain amount, make sure you have a reasonable size float.
Minimum card payments.
Now I get it makes sense for a small business as each card payment incurs a fixed cost.
I'm becoming increasingly intolerant of this nonsense.
"It costs us 10p to process transactions under £5." Fine, add 10p onto the price of a bag of chips then, you're quids in when someone pays cash. I'd rather pay more than **** about with coins.
@cougar that photo of the recycling, have my family started living with you, if so good luck
People that park right next to junctions that then make pulling out a game of Russian roulette, but with cars.
****ing arseholes.
Self-service tills. I generally avoid using them, I prefer to have a human serve me, just for the interaction with staff, although sometimes the wait time means using self-service for quickness.
Except when the poor design means it takes far longer to pay for shopping than queuing, as happened a week or so ago. The Tesco supermarket in town has six, and only one manned till was operating, so I put my bag on the bagging area and tried scanning my goods. Deary, deary me, how anyone could design something that’s so hopelessly inefficient is quite beyond me. I think it took over twenty minutes to scan ten items, it would randomly make mistakes, ask for an assistant, say I’d removed items that I’d just scanned and put in my bag, and the assistant was having to deal with other customers, including another member of staff who seemed to be having more issues than I was!
The really annoying thing is that Tesco is closing that store, I think partly because the whole precinct is likely to be redesigned and redeveloped, so they’re moving into part of the old Wilco store as a Tesco Express, with only self-service checkout; I think it’s going to end in tears, some of them mine!
The thing is, it really doesn’t have to be this difficult, Wilco’s had self-service which I used all the time, it consisted of a screen, a hand-scanner on a cable, and an area to put your bag. All you had to do was take each item from the basket, scan the barcode, put the item in the bag. How much simpler can it get? No nagging by a stupid machine that there’s an unidentified item in the bagging area, or failure to recognise that items have been scanned and an assistant is needed. K.I.S.S - Keep It Simple Stupid should be an absolute requirement for any public facing electronic system, the Wilco’s system exemplified that, over the years I used it, I never had a problem with it, and I shopped there every week.
I’m not looking forward to the new store opening, although hopefully if the system causes as much chaos as the existing ones, and customers bitch about it to management, they might pay attention. I’ll certainly be communicating my disappointment and frustration to their management via social media.
Got a view blocker on my exit to a main road - high sided van. I now go a long way round to avoid using the junction.
The trend for bloaters has not helped - it is not just vans anymore but Hyundai type cars that have the metal right up high.
And as for those *****s that pull up beside you at a junction and block your vision so you miss the gaps, especially when you are turning left. Hope your next flat is on a sleety night.
People on OS Maps who are logging rides as off-road when they are almost entirely on road, albeit smaller lanes.
I'm looking for nice little mtb rides to do in unfamiliar areas and all I keep getting is road rides that are listed as off road.
Blummin gravelists innit
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@cougar that photo of the recycling, have my family started living with you, if so good luck
The other party trick is to put stuff on top of the bin. So either I have to remove it from the bin lid in order to open the bin to put it into the bin, or I don't notice and it all skitters off down the back when I open the bin. Like, if putting things in the bin is a trauma - and I get that you might be otherwise busy - why not just put it on the worktop above rather than actively generating extra work?
Calling Tesco “Tescos” or, even worse, “Tesco’s”.
A certain family member who puts random batteries found around the house into our good batteries container. Now I have no idea which are usable.
A certain family member who puts random batteries found around the house into our good batteries container. Now I have no idea which are usable.
I fixed this issue by having a "good batteries" container, and an actual Known Good batteries container which I've hidden.
Good batteries should be in the original packaging you animals.
The problem there is you take two batteries out of a 4x blister pack and then someone else comes along and refills it with half-dead ones from last year's Christmas fairy lights.
Hence why I maintain my own stash, and also why I control the Dead Batteries recycling bag so that I can retrieve all the "flat" rechargeable batteries which invariably end up getting tossed in there.
Bunch of savages in this town.
Photographers at the olympics asking athletes to bite their medals.
Bunch of savages in this town.
I'm not supposed to be here today.
Pre-tipping. As in, you order a coffee and pay, and it asks you to tip before the coffee is made or given to you. I don't know if the coffee or the service is good yet. All you've done is enter my order on the screen. It's a fee to stop someone ****ing up your coffee on purpose. IMO
Racist c* and weak leaders bullying soldiers and damaging the reputation of so many who are simply fing excellent humans.
Also the 'never saw it in my day' or the 'it's just banter' veterans.
****ing **** off you ****ing ****s. And when you get there, **** off a little further until you **** right off.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84jzex9vk8o
The concept of serving cookie dough as a pudding in and of itself. It's just crap. Even the inventor of the cookie foresaw this mistake born of laziness and tried to nip it in the bud by naming the cookie after the cooking process. But no, idiot people lapped it up when some dickhead CEO brainstorming for a TED talk saw a way of cutting corners and maximising profits four the pudding industry. Same with pizza doughballs, white, stodge gtfoh.
I don't know whether I'm more disproportionately cross that
a/ sirromj wrote GTFOH and I think it should be GTFOOH
b/ sirromj wrote GTFOH and I'm cross that they think 'outta' is acceptable
c/ that either of those options has even made me cross at all
😉
DHL..
No knock on the door, no missed delivery note through the letter box, just an email saying 'delivery refused', contact retailer to rearrange delivery... No way to rearrange with DHL directly...
People who overtake cyclists by going onto the wrong side of the road on blind corners.
Two this morning.
Yes, being well over on the other side of the road was lovely an all, but we’d both have been ****ed if something had come the other way.
And don’t get me started on the overtake when I was doing 29mph in a 30…. Must… Be… In… Front… Of… The… Cyclist…
I don't know whether I was more disproportionately cross that the restaurant I went in the other day made me order via the website....or the fact that after complaining about to my wife she said it was a great idea and that I was a luddite.....or the fact she was right and it was really easy, we could see how much we were spending and we didn't have that awful wait for the bill when you just want to leave! I think I was cross about all three. Disproportionately.
It did also have pre-tipping. That just made us both laugh - surely no one is going to do that? I'm doing the ordering etc so I'll basically just tip myself thanks!
EDIT Forgot, one more thing made me DC on that restaurant visit. We ordered a cocktail for my 19 yr old daughter who looks about 15 fair enough - so when it arrived she was asked for iD - she has her driving license, her passport(s) and a bus pass on her massive hi-res iphone screen but none of these were acceptable, had to be an original. Why? You show me a Gen Z that carries a wallet these days and also whats the difference between the original and a perfect photo? So she was refused the drink. So we ordered a non alchoholic mocktail. This was refused also as you needed ID as it had 'traces of alcohol' in it!!!!! Worlds gone maaaaad.
Why? You show me a Gen Z that carries a wallet these days and also whats the difference between the original and a perfect photo?
Because a photo can be edited.
Back in the 90s I think every 5/6th former I knew had a fake ID.
The tossers with parking assist that can park in very tight spots and sit within 18" of your bumper blocking you in
It always tends to be big black SUV of some kind and you can't get out without 20 cuts
I’m not supposed to be here today.
I'm glad that didn't go to waste.
the ‘it’s just banter’ veterans.
I despise this. "Banter" is a luxury you afford your friends. Those going "come on mate, it's only banter," it's not banter, it's bullying.
The concept of serving cookie dough as a pudding in and of itself.
Someone posted on Facebook the other day, a photo of a menu offering "baked chocolate chip cookie dough." The world's gone mad, what you've got there is a "cookie."
So we ordered a non alchoholic mocktail. This was refused also as you needed ID as it had ‘traces of alcohol’ in it!!!!!
I had this in Tesco ages back. Buying alcohol-free beer, got refused because it was late at night and Licensing laws. I argued, that's silly, it's alcohol free. The checkout assistant said exactly that, there will be traces of alcohol in it. So I asked about the tomato & vodka pasta sauce she'd happily already scanned, she went "I'll get the manager," I declined.
I suspect what actually happened was some sort of product categorisation, Computer Says No because it's in the same aisle as the regular beer. I wonder if something similar happened to you, it's classified as an "adult drink"? Or maybe they just thought (incorrectly IMO) that you were taking the piss in trying to exploit a loophole.
Worlds gone maaaaad.
Ha, I swear I wrote that in the above post before I read this!
Back in the 90s I think every 5/6th former I knew had a fake ID
We made our fake ID in the local library when we were 12. Weirder was that we didn't get asked for ID in Lincolnshire.
As for trace alcohol. Remember Top Deck Shandy? Anyone could buy that from a newsagent.
You show me a Gen Z that carries a wallet these days and also whats the difference between the original and a perfect photo?
Both my kids have phone cases with a card slot in the back where their DL sits, i've got the pov spec version and my DL sits inside my phone case and the back of my phone.
Which leads to another DisCross - when the assistant in Tescoes (!) just presses the Clearly Over 25 button without even looking at you or playing the game.
Re being age-checked for Non- and low-alcohol drinks, many supermarkets and outlets have a policy to do this. It's because the packaging and the displays are more or less identical to the real thing, so age-checking skirts the thorny issue of "gateway to intemperance" and encouraging sales of alcohol to youngsters.
As for the law, well, anything with an ABV of 2% or less is not considered to be alcoholic so can be consumed freely by children of any age. I rather suspect that the "traces of alcohol" excuse given re the mocktail was because the person serving was unaware of the actual policy so made it up. I used to buy my children proper shandies in pubs, but always asked the staff for a "child-friendly" version. It was very rare that I had to explain how to make a kid's shandy.
As for trace alcohol. Remember Top Deck Shandy? Anyone could buy that from a newsagent.
QED
I don't think she made it up at all. She was incredibly apologetic and very nice about it and the way she said it led me to believe it had happened several times before. Clearly it made no sense as firstly, our daughter was her parents at a restaurant eating food, not buying alchopops in the Tesco local and also it was a bit of shame as we were celebrating something she had achieved and it put a bit of a downer on it that she couldn't even have a fancy alchohol free cocktail. Irony is she is almost 20 and hardly ever drinks so thats why she didn't realise she needed the original ID. She is autistic and doesn't go out much so she was crushed but it wasn't the waitresses fault but the way modern life takes the agency away from parents and those serving.
She was having a meal yes? Would they ID her for a 1/2 pint of beer, cider or perry or a small glass of wine?
Also, my fake ID was a colour copy of the back page of my passport with some strategically rearranged numbers and some rudimentary blending. Worked every time.
Mushy peas tins are so small. Why?
Mushy peas tins are so small. Why?
Protection of the ozone layer act 1988.
The tossers with parking assist that can park in very tight spots and sit within 18″ of your bumper blocking you in
That’s just parking, isn’t it ?
People sitting in a metered space in London and not actually parked, on a break or whatever in a private hire car., when my van is too tall for the underground car park.
So I have to park in another dimension and lug 50kg of kit across town because there’s no bloody loading bay.
That’s annoying.
The way one or two forum members frequently plug their creative endeavor or online content disproportionately bugs me. I wonder if I liked the product I wouldn't be so irked.
My neighbour who no matter how busy or quiet our road is parks her little van four inches from the bumper of the car in front even if the bays are empty at the time, I've never ever seen her take anything out the back of it either so no excuse. The other week a woman had someone park four inches from her other bumper too, both cars had loads of room at the other end, somehow she got her car out, I imagine it was a bit touchy feely tho.
We get a lot of that in our road too, parking can be pretty tight as we live just by the hospital, some folk just park bang in the middle of two spots too, grinds my gears.
It's always small cars that take up the most room too. Some $%^&ing Honda Jazz taking up a space I could've got a Superb and a Granada into.
That’s just parking, isn’t it ?
Indeed. I learned to parallel park out of necessity, long before either parking assists were a thing or before it was a part of the test. The rear camera is useful I'll confess, but having the car warbling away like R2D2 on crystal meth when you're trying to concentrate is usually more of a distraction than a help.
Actually, that's a Disproportionally Cross in itself. If the car is blarting away to itself because it's seen a blade of grass on the horizon, there's a Shut The **** Up button. Great. Except, if you take it out of reverse and then re-engage it as one might do when (as a wildly random example) trying to park, the bastarding thing switches itself straight back on again.
tomato & vodka pasta sauce
Just needed to revisit this to wrinkle my nose up and ask why it exists. Vodka tastes of precisely nothing!