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4 hours ago, beko1987 said:

My sainsburys local is shit for this. Even with doing the above, waiting for the till to give the all clear it's usually 3 or 4 items in before it shits itself and forgets all it's tallied up weights. Heaven forbid you buy a greetings card or other weightless item. 

I take sainsburys bags for life now so at least when it happens and I get a sarky comment from the assistant I can blame their own bags. 

Doesn't help that it's either self serve or the fag counter at our place. I've walked out mid scan before when I've been in a bad mood/time crunch and waiting 5 minutes for assistance. 

I've started declining the shop floor persons request for me to use the self serve now, as do many others which results in them flapping when the queue is at the back of the store. Equally it works the other way and I can skip the queue and go through the self serve if I'm buying things I know will weigh fine. 

The other layer of complication to the above is when I'm paying cash, they only have 3 of the tills set up for it so again, the person they put in place to manage the till queues flaps around waiting for a cash till to be free once they understand why I won't use one of the other ones and keep sending people behind me round to a card till, doing a better job than the staff usually 🙄

The self check outs at our local Asda are so bad they have more people standing there waiting to help than they have on the other tills, where there are always queues.

Our local Lidl removed the self check outs I suspect because they don’t have the staff to sort out similar  problems. 

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4 hours ago, richardmorris said:

A high % of the cars disappearing off the track are x1/9s.

 

Most the ‘Ring videos I’ve watched have either Golf GTis understeering into the barriers or BMW pseudo M3s oversteering into them. 

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Always found the Asda ones to be shite but they have been better the last couple of times.  Never a problem with the Aldi and Morrisons self checkouts although I do prefer to use the manned tills wherever I go.  Haven't seen any in Lidl yet although that is my preferred shop.

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2 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Most the ‘Ring videos I’ve watched have either Golf GTis understeering into the barriers or BMW pseudo M3s oversteering into them. 

That’s why this one is different. Getting your multimillion £ gullwing or 300sl on the grass is a bit more expensive.

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9 hours ago, beko1987 said:

My sainsburys local is shit for this. Even with doing the above, waiting for the till to give the all clear it's usually 3 or 4 items in before it shits itself and forgets all it's tallied up weights. Heaven forbid you buy a greetings card or other weightless item. 

I take sainsburys bags for life now so at least when it happens and I get a sarky comment from the assistant I can blame their own bags. 

Doesn't help that it's either self serve or the fag counter at our place. I've walked out mid scan before when I've been in a bad mood/time crunch and waiting 5 minutes for assistance. 

I've started declining the shop floor persons request for me to use the self serve now, as do many others which results in them flapping when the queue is at the back of the store. Equally it works the other way and I can skip the queue and go through the self serve if I'm buying things I know will weigh fine. 

The other layer of complication to the above is when I'm paying cash, they only have 3 of the tills set up for it so again, the person they put in place to manage the till queues flaps around waiting for a cash till to be free once they understand why I won't use one of the other ones and keep sending people behind me round to a card till, doing a better job than the staff usually 🙄

Use the manned checkouts, people want jobs. Complain if long queues, you are the customer

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Got the keys for the new house today so that’s a big grin

felt like a blast from the past

ive just lit a pilot light on a boiler!

been a good while since I’ve done that

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On 30/10/2024 at 13:14, richardmorris said:

A high % of the cars disappearing off the track are x1/9s.

 

They seem to be pretty good at changing sides. Not sure about the surrendering part though.

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Hazel's looking out the window service reports somebody doesn't like CND parking his pikey truck blocking in the street.

CND spotted with 4 flat tyres this morning. Bonus lol's that he attempted to flag down a passing police car that obviously ignored him. Bit of a stretch expecting full on CSI investigation of where his air went.

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On 30/10/2024 at 19:35, richardmorris said:

That’s why this one is different. Getting your multimillion £ gullwing or 300sl on the grass is a bit more expensive.

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That video left me wondering if anyone can actually drive. It all looks very slow compared to driving around the inner ring road in Manchester in the rush hour. 

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1 hour ago, New POD said:

That video left me wondering if anyone can actually drive. It all looks very slow compared to driving around the inner ring road in Manchester in the rush hour. 

With that corner I suspect it’s the sudden change left to right that catches people out. My car will do that ok, but it’s been laser aligned and has good tyres. I’ve only done castle coombe though, not Nurburgring.

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I turned a corner today , not only off my patch but in another time ....   at least the modern cars gave the game away 

I believe the cheapest house in the area is about £ 1.2 million     ....     Thornton Hough 

they also had a red phone box ...

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I ordered a bottle of wine, I wanted two but didn't want the cheap shit tonight so only got one for reasons of economy. 

About half an hour after it arrived my neighbour came to the door with another bottle.

Smashing.

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1 hour ago, reb said:

I ordered a bottle of wine, I wanted two but didn't want the cheap shit tonight so only got one for reasons of economy. 

About half an hour after it arrived my neighbour came to the door with another bottle.

Smashing.

Are they trying to get you smashed for some reason? 🙂

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I Must say

i can’t believe how quiet it is at the new house on a night, neighbours all nice too 

such a nice surprise honestly

especially given I’ve moved 2 miles down the road and now live in a place called Horden, which is famous for apparently being beyond horrible (it isn’t) 

im happy here, I’ll say that much 

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2 hours ago, reb said:

I ordered a bottle of wine, I wanted two but didn't want the cheap shit tonight so only got one for reasons of economy. 

About half an hour after it arrived my neighbour came to the door with another bottle.

Smashing.

True bevvy merchants drink wine boxes.

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20 minutes ago, maxxo said:

I Must say

i can’t believe how quiet it is at the new house on a night, neighbours all nice too 

such a nice surprise honestly

especially given I’ve moved 2 miles down the road and now live in a place called Horden, which is famous for apparently being beyond horrible (it isn’t) 

im happy here, I’ll say that much 

I'll come and nail an air-conditioning unit to an external wall just for fun!

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4 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I'll come and nail an air-conditioning unit to an external wall just for fun!

Actually there is a noise I can hear

every 20 seconds there’s a singular drip from the valve in the water tank above the bed in the loft

I must admit I wouldn’t really like an air conditioning unit 

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17 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

True bevvy merchants drink wine boxes.

I drink sparkly shit, I don't think it comes in boxes because the bag inside would inflate

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I'm not fussy, prosecco is as good as champagne after the first glass. Or there's cava if you want the full noughties hen party experience.

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1 hour ago, reb said:

I drink sparkly shit, I don't think it comes in boxes because the bag inside would inflate

I'm with ya on that. The only sparkly shit I drink is lambic. Beer. Bottles have concave bottom. Real wine cork. Sparkly. The framboise is hops/barley/raspberries. Tastes better than it sounds.

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4 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

I'm not fussy, prosecco is as good as champagne after the first glass. Or there's cava if you want the full noughties hen party experience.

Cava is better than Prosecco. It’s made the same way as champagne without the snob badge.

Cava is Skoda Octavia vRS, Prosecco is Fiat 500.

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