Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

[captain_cynic]

Lemming Train said:

Toyoda said:

The fact that a supermarket is restricting the sale of 'energy drinks' is hardly something that should annoy you beyond reason, especially when it just applies to kids and not the powerfully built PH company directors. Other EU countries have restricted the sale of these sorts of idiot drinks on and off over the years so I'm surprised it's taken the British nanny state so long to catch up.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/...

It 'annoyed me beyond reason' that some kid getting a sandwich and drink was being prevented from doing so because of some stupid nanny state law that a) achieves absolutely nothing and b) affects a drink that isn't even an energy drink. Mountain Dew has been around for as long as I can remember and it was often the preferred drink to 7up and Sprite back in the 90s and earlier as it tastes a lot better (imo). For reasons I can't remember it disappeared off the shelves for a long time but has recently made a bit of a come back. I have since noted that there are also 'energy' versions of it, so it would appear that Tesco have just blanket banned all varieties instead of applying some common sense.

But still, if caffeine is the issue then why aren't kids banned from buying cups of coffee and jars of same? Won't someone.. anyone think of the poor children?????????!!11 /s

Most kids don't like the taste of coffee, its far to bitter for them where as energy drinks are sweetened and specifically marketed at kids.

BTW, kids aren't restricted from getting a "drink", they're restricted from energy drinks. They can still get coke, mountain dew or whatever sugar laden crap they want (otherwise the 10p sweet drink tax is completely pointless).

Whilst I don't agree with the restriction (kind of pointless, not like kids have any difficulty buying things they're not meant to) I see the rationale behind it and it's hardly anything to get all hot and bothered over. If you're using the old "nanny state" trope, you're not thinking rationally anyway.

[nonsequitur]

The Brummie said:

Roofless Toothless said:

The Brummie said:

Sainsbury’s are now required to manually approve all energy drink sales to every single customer.

Me included.

And I’m 60 on Saturday! It’s fking ridiculous.

Oh, worse than that, the new auto checkouts also need every single bottle of beer or wine 'approved' by a member of staff. A loud recorded voice bleats out "approval needed" multiple times if you turn up at the checkout with a half dozen bottles of wine of wine or beer.

I complained at the indignity (I'm nearly 70) to them, and pointed out that it was the age of the customer that needed approving, not each bloody bottle, so why not get the system to just call out once, but alI got was a blank uncomprehending stare in reply.

It’s all bks isn’t it?

Can’t have this. Can’t have that. It might be bad for your health. Blah blah blah.

What next? Approval needed for bacon because, let’s face it, too much bacon is also bad for you according to the experts.

I believe that getting out of bed in the morning is now considered a risk.

[Shakermaker]

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[captain_cynic]

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[Shakermaker]

captain_cynic said:

So to get around it kids only have to pop to any unbranded offie, probably the same kind of fine, upstanding establishment that will sell booze and smokes without asking for ID.

As I said, a bit pointless as kids have no trouble getting things they're not legally permitted to have, let alone legal things that are voluntarily restricted by large supermarkets. However it still gets the knickers of the Daily Mail crowd into a twist.

Exactly.

Anyway, my "annoyed beyond reason" is that at no time in the past 18 months have the big TV screens at Oxford Services on the M40 been in full working order.

Its my regular rest stop on a work trip, and to sit with a coffee you want to be able to watch the big screens, but invariably at least 2 of them are not working, and never have I seen it with all of them in order.

[yellowjack]

carguy45 said:

MartG said:

People who use the word 'phase' when they mean 'faze'

Vocabulary warriors :P ( )

...and smilie Fascists.

[yellowjack]

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[Clockwork Cupcake]

yellowjack said:

carguy45 said:

MartG said:

People who use the word 'phase' when they mean 'faze'

Vocabulary warriors :P ( )

...and smilie Fascists.

And angry Alliteration Authoritarians

[Cotty]

The Brummie said:

Sainsbury’s are now required to manually approve all energy drink sales to every single customer.

Me included.

And I’m 60 on Saturday! It’s fking ridiculous.

This used to piss me off when I use to buy alcohol in the supermarket. The checkout girl would be too young to be allowed to gauge some ones age so they would have to ask for a supervisor. Grey hared old lady in front of me got ID’d for a bottle of wine

[V8mate]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

yellowjack said:

carguy45 said:

MartG said:

People who use the word 'phase' when they mean 'faze'

Vocabulary warriors :P ( )

...and smilie Fascists.

And angry Alliteration Authoritarians

Ooooh! I want to be an angry alliteration authoritarian! A frowning, four-star, phonetic, fk fascist!

I bloody hate smilie fascists! People who think that adding a smilie in any way pardons their rudeness.

[yellowjack]

V8mate said:

I bloody hate smilie fascists! People who think that adding a smilie in any way pardons their rudeness.

Up yours!

[V8mate]

yellowjack said:

V8mate said:

I bloody hate smilie fascists! People who think that adding a smilie in any way pardons their rudeness.

Up yours!

[popeyewhite]

Cotty said:

The Brummie said:

Sainsbury’s are now required to manually approve all energy drink sales to every single customer.

Me included.

And I’m 60 on Saturday! It’s fking ridiculous.

This used to piss me off when I use to buy alcohol in the supermarket. The checkout girl would be too young to be allowed to gauge some ones age so they would have to ask for a supervisor. Grey hared old lady in front of me got ID’d for a bottle of wine

Obese checkout girl with pierced nose:
"Hi, do you need authorisation"
"No, I'm legally entitled to buy this beer, can you get this till to stop wasting my time please."

[Frank7]

MartG said:

carguy45 said:

Salesmen going for the chummy/pally approach followed by the hard sell and trying to convince you that they're doing you a massive favour. Maybe it doesn't phase other people who deal with them but after 22 years in my role I find it very cliched and almost embarrassing now. Was massively refreshing to deal with a guy the other day who cut straight to the chase and didn't try to be my new BFF.

People who use the word 'phase' when they mean 'faze'

Oh Christ, I’m glad you said that, I wanted SO MUCH to do it myself, but I’m still in the sin-bin for getting The Drifters songs confused.
While I’m here, can I add that the habit of people posting in Travellers thread, in calling those scum scamps and cheeky chappies, as if they were naughty children, annoys me.

[V8mate]

Frank7 said:

Oh Christ, I’m glad you said that, I wanted SO MUCH to do it myself, but I’m still in the sin-bin for getting The Drifters songs confused.
While I’m here, can I add that the habit of people posting in Travellers thread, in calling those scum scamps and cheeky chappies, as if they were naughty children, annoys me.

It's irony, Frank.

They are mimicking the people who deny that travellers are an anti-social, law-breaking underclass.

[robemcdonald]

Scottish money is completely pointless.

I attended a funeral in Scotland on Monday and got some cash at an ATM in the airport. I realised my mistake too late. I should have remembered from previous business visits, but it had been 10 years or so. Upon my return to England I was left with the currency equivalent of leprocy.
No one would take the Scottish notes despite my attempts to explain its legal tender. I ended up going into town and paying it into the bank and getting out some “proper” money.

[Frank7]

V8mate said:

It's irony, Frank.

They are mimicking the people who deny that travellers are an anti-social, law-breaking underclass.

Thanks V8, I did get that, but it still winds me up more than perhaps it should, it puts me in mind of a situation where a kid with little spatial awareness, breaks an expensive vase, and its mother says, “Oh, he didn’t do it on purpose, he’s only an accident prone child, love him, come here, mummy’ll give you a cuddle.”

[V8mate]

Frank7 said:

V8mate said:

It's irony, Frank.

They are mimicking the people who deny that travellers are an anti-social, law-breaking underclass.

Thanks V8, I did get that, but it still winds me up more than perhaps it should, it puts me in mind of a situation where a kid with little spatial awareness, breaks an expensive vase, and its mother says, “Oh, he didn’t do it on purpose, he’s only an accident prone child, love him, come here, mummy’ll give you a cuddle.”

And that is exactly what the SJWs do. The PHers are taking the mickey though, not joining forces with them.

[Frank7]

robemcdonald said:

Scottish money is completely pointless.

I attended a funeral in Scotland on Monday and got some cash at an ATM in the airport. I realised my mistake too late. I should have remembered from previous business visits, but it had been 10 years or so. Upon my return to England I was left with the currency equivalent of leprocy.
No one would take the Scottish notes despite my attempts to explain its legal tender. I ended up going into town and paying it into the bank and getting out some “proper” money.

While I understand, and completely sympathise with you, I wonder if it’s perhaps regional.
As a London taxi driver, I used to take them all day long, the £5s, £10s, and £20s, no singles, and no denomination above £20, last thing I’d want is a hooky £50.
When people said, “Will you take Scottish notes?” I’d say, “I’d like a big sack of them.”
I never had any trouble unloading them, they took them in Waitrose and Tesco, any filling station if I got diesel, in Selfridges or John Lewis, local pubs in Bermondsey.
The one time anyone jibbed, was an Asian guy in a garage in Maida Vale, I put in £45 worth of diesel, and gave him 2x English £20s and a Scots £5.
He said, “Can’t take that £5.”
I lied “Then you’d better suck £5 worth out, that’s all I’ve got.”
He took it.

[Legmaster]

robemcdonald said:

No one would take the Scottish notes despite my attempts to explain its legal tender.

The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street disagrees with you