Idiots at the till

[kowalski655]

natedog73 said:

Mc Donalds ...cant see this has been brought up

you queue as standard with a massive menu in clear view above the tills.
Instead of the F**k wit making use of this time by reading and deciding on forth coming purchase they wait till its there turn, approach and lean on the counter and indulge in a performance for the next 5 mins going over the varying permutations of meal deals, dips, sides with the poor bod serving.
FFS just get on with it! you impress no one taking your kids out for sunday dinner there.

As the opposite to this, my local cinema that have screens showing film times,menus,and offers,flicking through different pages on the screens, so just as you try to read all of one,it flicks to the next,so you have to either wait for it to come round again,or pick the server's "brains" on best deals,film times etc. So it takes twice as long

[steveo3002]

airports- most people have been standing around for ages waiting to get on the plane and sit down , so why not wait until several hundred people need to get past you and pull all your bag apart in the aisle and re arrange it

same with customs forms , youve sat on the plane bored for hours on end so why not wait until youre in the line at the customs to start filling it out

Edited by steveo3002 on Wednesday 27th May 12:20

[The Mad Monk]

R_U_LOCAL said:

About 50% of people will mark their ballot papers, point to the big black ballot box marked "BALLOT BOX" and ask "do I put them in here?"

Yes.

A further 25% will go on to ask "both in the same box?"

Yes. (Can you see another box? There's no other bloody box)

Well, we had two different boxes at my local polling station. Is that because I live in a posh area? Is it just poor people who have only one box?

[shakotan]

The Mad Monk said:

R_U_LOCAL said:

About 50% of people will mark their ballot papers, point to the big black ballot box marked "BALLOT BOX" and ask "do I put them in here?"

Yes.

A further 25% will go on to ask "both in the same box?"

Yes. (Can you see another box? There's no other bloody box)

Well, we had two different boxes at my local polling station. Is that because I live in a posh area? Is it just poor people who have only one box?

Ditto.

[Mart-1]

Idiots at tills:

People who don't stack their baskets properly, on the assumption that it's the responsibility of the next person to correct their incompetence or laziness

[DannyScene]

shakotan said:

The Mad Monk said:

R_U_LOCAL said:

About 50% of people will mark their ballot papers, point to the big black ballot box marked "BALLOT BOX" and ask "do I put them in here?"

Yes.

A further 25% will go on to ask "both in the same box?"

Yes. (Can you see another box? There's no other bloody box)

Well, we had two different boxes at my local polling station. Is that because I live in a posh area? Is it just poor people who have only one box?

Ditto.

Yep same

Fancy only having one box pahh peasants

[R_U_LOCAL]

DannyScene said:

shakotan said:

The Mad Monk said:

R_U_LOCAL said:

About 50% of people will mark their ballot papers, point to the big black ballot box marked "BALLOT BOX" and ask "do I put them in here?"

Yes.

A further 25% will go on to ask "both in the same box?"

Yes. (Can you see another box? There's no other bloody box)

Well, we had two different boxes at my local polling station. Is that because I live in a posh area? Is it just poor people who have only one box?

Ditto.

Yep same

Fancy only having one box pahh peasants

One box for local election ballot papers and one box for parliamentary ballot papers.

It depends on how the count is run. In my council the ballot papers were different colours so they went in one box and were were sorted before the count.

Still, my point is still valid - why ask "both in the same box?" When there's only one box?

[stuart313]

steveo3002 said:

airports- most people have been standing around for ages waiting to get on the plane and sit down , so why not wait until several hundred people need to get past you and pull all your bag apart in the aisle and re arrange it

same with customs forms , youve sat on the plane board for hours on end so why not wait until youre in the line at the customs to start filling it out

Apart from Ryanair and hand luggage when its just a bag of clothes I have never taken a carry on bag onto a plane, not even long haul to America. Just what is so important in those bags that they have to spend 5 minutes rummaging round in them the second they get to their seat with their lard ass blocking the isle, I don't get it.

[Fartgalen]

stuart313 said:

steveo3002 said:

airports- most people have been standing around for ages waiting to get on the plane and sit down , so why not wait until several hundred people need to get past you and pull all your bag apart in the aisle and re arrange it

same with customs forms , youve sat on the plane board for hours on end so why not wait until youre in the line at the customs to start filling it out

Apart from Ryanair and hand luggage when its just a bag of clothes I have never taken a carry on bag onto a plane, not even long haul to America. Just what is so important in those bags that they have to spend 5 minutes rummaging round in them the second they get to their seat with their lard ass blocking the isle, I don't get it.

The ones that bug me are the poeple that have a half hour conversation at the check-in desk. How hard can it be ? Show passport. Give booking number &/or destination. Weigh check-in bag (if needed). Get boarding card. Go.
Then there's the security gate. Half an hour stood in a queue and you still haven't understood the message given in 'x' amount of languages that you need to take out computers, take off jackets, etc etc.
At least with an increasing number of airlines these days you can check in at a machine when you don't have check-in baggage. Well you can check-in at a machine most times anyway but you still need to queue to hand over checked in bags.
Whilst I'm at it. Does anyone else wonder why, on return to Stansted, there's a bloody escalator up to passport control that allows one person on at a time ? You have to queue to get into a bloody queue !!

[DannyScene]

R_U_LOCAL said:

DannyScene said:

shakotan said:

The Mad Monk said:

R_U_LOCAL said:

About 50% of people will mark their ballot papers, point to the big black ballot box marked "BALLOT BOX" and ask "do I put them in here?"

Yes.

A further 25% will go on to ask "both in the same box?"

Yes. (Can you see another box? There's no other bloody box)

Well, we had two different boxes at my local polling station. Is that because I live in a posh area? Is it just poor people who have only one box?

Ditto.

Yep same

Fancy only having one box pahh peasants

One box for local election ballot papers and one box for parliamentary ballot papers.

It depends on how the count is run. In my council the ballot papers were different colours so they went in one box and were were sorted before the count.

Still, my point is still valid - why ask "both in the same box?" When there's only one box?

Perhaps they saw the 2 papers and assumed there would be 2 boxes?

I probably would've asked as well in case I hadn't seen the other box elsewhere in the room or something

[jkh112]

R_U_LOCAL said:

Still, my point is still valid - why ask "both in the same box?" When there's only one box?

I asked that at my polling station. The question was a sarcastic way of expressing my displeasure that I do not live in an area affluent enough to provide two boxes.

[Shaolin]

When the plane lands, why does it become a race for some to be the first off, or at least leave as soon as possible?

I could understand it if you got away quicker, but we all know we're going to have to stand in some immigration queue for ages and then wait for the luggage to arrive, which gets put on the belt in no order whatsoever, usually at least 10 mins and commonly up to half an hour later.


....and... standing right next to the luggage carousel doesn't make yours come any faster, but it does it make you in the way of those whose luggage has arrived and because you won't shift your fking arse to one side or heaven forfend, backwards for a second or two, makes it more unpleasant for everyone.

Shaolin Air will have compulsory lessons in arrivals etiquette before anyone is allowed to fly.

[jkh112]

Shaolin said:

When the plane lands, why does it become a race for some to be the first off, or at least leave as soon as possible?

I could understand it if you got away quicker, but we all know we're going to have to stand in some immigration queue for ages and then wait for the luggage to arrive, which gets put on the belt in no order whatsoever, usually at least 10 mins and commonly up to half an hour later.


....and... standing right next to the luggage carousel doesn't make yours come any faster, but it does it make you in the way of those whose luggage has arrived and because you won't shift your fking arse to one side or heaven forfend, backwards for a second or two, makes it more unpleasant for everyone.

Shaolin Air will have compulsory lessons in arrivals etiquette before anyone is allowed to fly.

Will they still be allowed to clap when the plane lands?

[NRS]

Shaolin said:

When the plane lands, why does it become a race for some to be the first off, or at least leave as soon as possible?

I could understand it if you got away quicker, but we all know we're going to have to stand in some immigration queue for ages and then wait for the luggage to arrive, which gets put on the belt in no order whatsoever, usually at least 10 mins and commonly up to half an hour later.

Well, if you're further down the immigration queue you will get out quicker, and quite a few people will only have hand luggage and so can leave quickly. The other thing can be people shopping in duty free - some people rush out to buy their stuff and time it with picking up their luggage.

Overall they're better than the people near the front who spend 1/2 minute getting their luggage down blocking the people behind them from leaving.

[Shaolin]

jkh112 said:

Will they still be allowed to clap when the plane lands?

No, not even jazz hands.

(That's jAzz by the way)

[condor]

R_U_LOCAL said:

Not so much idiots at the till, but at the polling station. Bear with me...

It's all very British and civilised and we always manage to stay polite and answer every single question, no matter how stupid, but if they ever added one extra hour to a polling day I think I'll stop volunteering.

You're not a volunteer, you are actually paid quite a decent amount for your long day at the polling station.
I was to be a poll clerk for my council, but instead of the nice places I delivered the poll cards to and did the canvass registration work for earlier in the year. I was allocated a 'rough' area some distance from where I lived, with no parking. The nice areas having gone to long serving local authority workers who presumably also thought they were 'volunteering'.

[jkh112]

Shaolin said:

jkh112 said:

Will they still be allowed to clap when the plane lands?

No, not even jazz hands.

(That's jAzz by the way)

I nearly spat out a mouthful of drink when I read your reply. The image of a plane full of people all doing jazz hands in silence made me laugh.

[stuart313]

What is jazz hands, sounds like something Al Jolson would do.

[Shaolin]

stuart313 said:

What is jazz hands, sounds like something Al Jolson would do.

Exactly.

Imagine some wobbling going on too:

[R_U_LOCAL]

condor said:

R_U_LOCAL said:

Not so much idiots at the till, but at the polling station. Bear with me...

It's all very British and civilised and we always manage to stay polite and answer every single question, no matter how stupid, but if they ever added one extra hour to a polling day I think I'll stop volunteering.

You're not a volunteer, you are actually paid quite a decent amount for your long day at the polling station.
I was to be a poll clerk for my council, but instead of the nice places I delivered the poll cards to and did the canvass registration work for earlier in the year. I was allocated a 'rough' area some distance from where I lived, with no parking. The nice areas having gone to long serving local authority workers who presumably also thought they were 'volunteering'.

If it makes you feel any better, just to keep things a little PH, my fee will be used to pay for the sill repair on my MX5 and an MOT if there's anything left.

Thanks, council tax payers!