The grumpy thread

[puddlethumper]

Self service checkout machines piss me right off especially in Asbo and B(arsted)Q. If the bill is so many £s and 21p for example the change will be along the lines of 3x20p, 3x5p, and 4x1p. Its always the smallest shrapnel shit that fills ya pocket or wallet and you end up with a limp or big muskles from the weight. I've never had a 50p and 10ps are very rare and they keep telling me to do things after I've dun em. I hate being told what to do.

[jakebullet]

I haz been to see the endocrinologist man. Barrel of laughs being interrogated as to exactly how I fail to service Kinky Girl. He then says my pituitary gland is prolly fucked, and have this magic testosterone gel.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

^impressively mundane whinge that one, 10/10

 

*****EDIT: I mean the one about the coins

[Bobthebeard]

Self service checkout machines piss me right off especially in Asbo and B(arsted)Q. If the bill is so many £s and 21p for example the change will be along the lines of 3x20p, 3x5p, and 4x1p. Its always the smallest shrapnel shit that fills ya pocket or wallet and you end up with a limp or big muskles from the weight. I've never had a 50p and 10ps are very rare and they keep telling me to do things after I've dun em. I hate being told what to do.

Go to an actual checkout and use a card?

Non valid grump for a variety of reasons.

[gordonbennet]

I hate self service checkouts, taking peoples jobs away and another nail in the coffin of simple human contact, which might not be a problem for us now (i avoid people like the plague anyhow) but some old uns that bit of human contact at the shop might be the only people they get to speak to some weeks.

[strangeangel]

Self service checkout machines piss me right off especially in Asbo and B(arsted)Q. If the bill is so many £s and 21p for example the change will be along the lines of 3x20p, 3x5p, and 4x1p. Its always the smallest shrapnel shit that fills ya pocket or wallet and you end up with a limp or big muskles from the weight. I've never had a 50p and 10ps are very rare and they keep telling me to do things after I've dun em. I hate being told what to do.

 

Works the other way round for me - I only use those if I have a large pocketful of shrapnel to get rid of.

[Richard]

Vending machines tend to do the same thing, again that works both ways.

[omegod]

Got home to find the pricks who look after our estate have wet tarred the path outside my house, completely across the frontage ! 10,000,000 yards of gaffa tape cordoning it off ............How the fuck am I supposed to get over the wet 6 ft span ??? 

 

I can do all sorts of really clever stuff but I can't bastard levitate !!!!!!!!!!

[Timewaster]

Bloody B and Bastard Q don't even have proper tills any more.

Just a whole row of self service checkouts that aren't sensitive enough to recognise small parts so you stand there for ages being told to place the item in the bagging area while a spotty tattooed yoof attendant ignores your plight.

[Cheggers]

I have an irrational dislike of the use of alternative/ "funny" names for things & places - Asbo instead of Asda, Twatter instead of Twitter, Faceache/ Farcebook/ Faecesbook...I could go on.

 

Why, just why??

[Mally]

Got home to find the pricks who look after our estate have wet tarred the path outside my house, completely across the frontage ! 10,000,000 yards of gaffa tape cordoning it off ............How the fuck am I supposed to get over the wet 6 ft span ??? 

 

I can do all sorts of really clever stuff but I can't bastard levitate !!!!!!!!!!

 

Is it dry yet?

[strangeangel]

Bloody B and Bastard Q don't even have proper tills any more.

 

Wow, I didn't realise any retailer had got rid of attended checkouts completely. I usually use Wickes for that sort of thing, but I shall give B&Q the swerve altogether from now on then.

[Cheggers]

I don't think it's all B&Q's, my local one still has a couple of human till operators.

 

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[Pillock]

I've seen B&Q have been putting in self serve, they're absolutely fine. Makes it quicker to just buy and leave without the chit chat.

Are you sure there were no real checkouts? I went into one where the self serve was one side the staff office and the regular ones the other, but B&Q probably sell more stuff you can't put through a self serve than any other store (cut to measure chain and wood, heavy products, mixed paint.... all that jazz) so that would be odd if they've scrapped the old checkouts.

 

+1 on the odd names. I gave up trying to work out what ASBO was. 

[scaryoldcortina]

They went one better with my local B&Q - they closed it down entirely. Nearest is now an extra 10 miles, so I've been going to Travis Perkins instead.

[Tamworthbay]

I have an irrational dislike of the use of alternative/ "funny" names for things & places - Asbo instead of Asda, Twatter instead of Twitter, Faceache/ Farcebook/ Faecesbook...I could go on.

Why, just why??

Usually because they describe the sort of people that use them or the effects they have on people who use them, they are also used by those of us who know that the multiple occurrence of their names can cause them to be bumped up search results and want no part in the promotion of such shite, hence why I always use the term facefuck

[Supernaut]

Seeing as we're all having a go at the way each other talk / type.

 

"Hence why"

 

FUCK OFF.

[omegod]

Is it dry yet?

 

Nope, nor is it dry on my lovely boots 

[EssDeeWon]

I hate self service checkouts, taking peoples jobs away and another nail in the coffin of simple human contact, which might not be a problem for us now (i avoid people like the plague anyhow) but some old uns that bit of human contact at the shop might be the only people they get to speak to some weeks.

 

Agreed to a certain extent but there are two convenience stores near me. A Co-Op and a Sainsbury's Local.  The co-op is a fuckin nightmare, just normal tills but only ever one or two fuckers serving, so a pint of milk can mean a ten minute queue. The sainsburys local has three self service tills as well as a couple of people serving, never had to queue in there once.

 

Guess which one I always go to?  Despite the co-op being slightly closer.

[Cheggers]

Usually because they describe the sort of people that use them or the effects they have on people who use them, they are also used by those of us who know that the multiple occurrence of their names can cause them to be bumped up search results and want no part in the promotion of such shite, hence why I always use the term facefuck

I can't see a few mentions of Facebook on Autoshite having too much impact on their Google ranking

 

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[Tamworthbay]

I can't see a few mentions of Facebook on Autoshite having too much impact on their Google ranking

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A few mentions? Worldwide, its millions in a day. If everyone boycotts it can make a big difference to a company. It's for a totally different reason but look at the success of the BDS activity in support of Palestine, by people actively linking names of companies to the crimes/ immoral activities they were linked to on a range of social media it meant that negative reports appeared high up search rankings.

 

It works both ways and companies love free advertising.

[Cheggers]

I get your point when it comes to terrorist organisations, but so what if Facebook gets millions of mentions, it's one of the world's most recognisable brands. The idea of not using their real name to keep them off the front page of Google sounds a bit "tin foil hat" to me.

 

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[gordonbennet]

Agreed to a certain extent but there are two convenience stores near me. A Co-Op and a Sainsbury's Local.  The co-op is a fuckin nightmare, just normal tills but only ever one or two fuckers serving, so a pint of milk can mean a ten minute queue. The sainsburys local has three self service tills as well as a couple of people serving, never had to queue in there once.

 

Guess which one I always go to?  Despite the co-op being slightly closer.

 

For some reason the coop is on a self destruct course,  alienating customers is about par for the course.

Pity i really liked the coop, we had a proper supermarket round the corner with coop furniture store and travel agents instore, gone cos always more staff than customers, now an Asda and its bloody teeming with customers.

[Tamworthbay]

I get your point when it comes to terrorist organisations, but so what if Facebook gets millions of mentions, it's one of the world's most recognisable brands. The idea of not using their real name to keep them off the front page of Google sounds a bit "tin foil hat" to me.

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To disagree with globalisation and the control of media by a tiny number of companies is tin foil hat? And BDS wasn't aimed at traditional terrorist organisation, they are legal companies but involved in illegal/ immoral activities in Palestine, e.g Hewlett Packard and Group 4.

 

There are a hell of a lot of people who fundamentally disagree with the way many large multinationals operate so why would they give free advertising however large or small?

 

Or perhaps it's just an internet conspiracy to piss you off by using facefuck and twatter.............

[DodgeRover]

Twattish delivery drivers, coming home with no1 daughter and there's a 7.5ton wagon delivering and blocking the dead end road halfway down, the only spaces to back into are someone's driveways so decide to wait in the road until he's finished unloading (which I have no idea how long is going to take because communicating is too much for them both) then block someone else's access once they finish so they can back out.

Driver starts waving his arms and shaking his head between every box. Anyway as soon as they start to pull the roller shutter down I reverse up and get out of the way, apparently this isn't good enough as at this point my daughter asks why the man is still going off.

At this point I loose my cool drive out of the space up behind him and have a go verbally, drivers mate intervenes politely and I reverse back up and leave the road clear. At this point driver decides to drive forward to the end of the road, now we have every week grab wagons bin wagons other curtain side 7.5 tonners all reverse up and down the road and turn around at the end. Someone is parked awkwardly and he hits a neighbours car deciding to turn around anyway,

 

Oh FFS now I feel bad for having a go, 2 seconds communication or using some observation would have prevented all this.

God only knows what will happen if they get a delivery on one of the tighter streets.

Is it a good idea to speak to the company involved? I don't particularly want to get the bloke in more trouble but communication ain't difficult.

[Cavcraft]

Seemingly a homeless couple settled round here somewhere in a tent, minding their own business and just trying to get by.

They went out for a while, came back and some shitbags destroyed the tent and all the contents and kicked it round the place.

I'm not entirely sure karma actually exists, but if it does the twats who did this will get a fucking good shoeing one night and end up on the streets themselves.

[Cheggers]

To disagree with globalisation and the control of media by a tiny number of companies is tin foil hat? And BDS wasn't aimed at traditional terrorist organisation, they are legal companies but involved in illegal/ immoral activities in Palestine, e.g Hewlett Packard and Group 4.

 

There are a hell of a lot of people who fundamentally disagree with the way many large multinationals operate so why would they give free advertising however large or small?

 

Or perhaps it's just an internet conspiracy to piss you off by using facefuck and twatter.............

I'm just a simple, old-fashioned capitalist, so let's agree to disagree like gentlemen.

 

PS: I suspect most users of Facefuck and Twatter on here don't do it for reasons of social conscience

 

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[EssDeeWon]

Seemingly a homeless couple settled round here somewhere in a tent, minding their own business and just trying to get by.

They went out for a while, came back and some shitbags destroyed the tent and all the contents and kicked it round the place.

I'm not entirely sure karma actually exists, but if it does the twats who did this will get a fucking good shoeing one night and end up on the streets themselves.

 

FFS that really is sad.  The sort of people that would do that are the sort of people I wouldn't mind running over!

[richardmorris]

For some reason the coop is on a self destruct course,  alienating customers is about par for the course.

Pity i really liked the coop, we had a proper supermarket round the corner with coop furniture store and travel agents instore, gone cos always more staff than customers, now an Asda and its bloody teeming with customers.

Our family has boycotted the coop since 1982. My granddad bought a new suit there for his retirement do on the next weekend. He died of a massive heart attack the day after suit was bought without wearing it (aged 61). My grandmother wished to return suit and buy a black dress and coat for the funeral but they wouldn't hear of it. Within their right, but not good on the service front.

 

As an aside, she also had a bit of a fight to get the carriage clock for his retirement gift as he technically hadn't completed forty years as he died a week short. I think if it hadn't already been at the engravers then we'd never have seen it.

 

Anyway, I've bored enough for one night having had far too much to Drink on a Monday. That's the problem with starting at 6am. You're all done by 9pm!

[Tamworthbay]

Seemingly a homeless couple settled round here somewhere in a tent, minding their own business and just trying to get by.

They went out for a while, came back and some shitbags destroyed the tent and all the contents and kicked it round the place.

I'm not entirely sure karma actually exists, but if it does the twats who did this will get a fucking good shoeing one night and end up on the streets themselves.

Fucking arseholes, I have a really good tent or two, two or four man ones. If they need one, let me know and I'll get it sent up to you.