Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

[RizzoTheRat]

popeyewhite said:

GroundEffect said:

Missing the e in trolley.

Also who gets alcohol on EVERY supermarket trip?!

I was thinking that as well. Some do I suppose.
Recently I've noticed just how much alcohol some people buy per week from the supermarket. Two people in particular seem to shop at the same time as me, one middle aged lady with a trolley full of wine (once was attractive but excess booze has seen to that), and a bloke who gets through 3 bottles of spirits a week I think (red face, very skinny legs and looks aged prematurely, like his liver), struck me as a bit sad.

There's quite a few students live near my local supermarket so there's usually at least a couple of lads either buying an entire crate of beer, or returning a crate full of empties

[Milkyway]

I don’t bag until I get to the car... which I regret if it’s ping down with rain.
( Usually Thursday mornings... around ten)

PS: My Asda doesn’t sell the red steradents for Milkyway Sr... forcing me to have to walk around the corner to the Pharmacy.

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 30th March 10:29

[popeyewhite]

said:

I don’t bag until I get to the car... which I regret if it’s pcensoreding down with rain.

That's another level of misery. See also having to use a wet trolley because it's been left in the rain, and exiting with a full trolley the contents of which are drenched by the time you get to your car. Taking a large, old, golfing umbrella shopping makes me feel smug, but the vivid 'Benson & Hedges' logo draws attention

[Milkyway]

popeyewhite said:

said:

I don’t bag until I get to the car... which I regret if it’s pcensoreding down with rain.

That's another level of misery. See also having to use a wet trolley because it's been left in the rain, and exiting with a full trolley the contents of which are drenched by the time you get to your car. Taking a large, old, golfing umbrella shopping makes me feel smug, but the vivid 'Benson & Hedges' logo draws attention

That umbrella must be a right nuisance as you go around the store...especially at the checkout.

[Sycamore]

People over the age of 30 trying to use self checkouts.
You're just not capable of it.
I recently watched someone put their clubcard into the card reader

[captain_cynic]

Sycamore said:

People over the age of 30 trying to use self checkouts.
You're just not capable of it.
I recently watched someone put their clubcard into the card reader

I'm the wrong side of 40 and manage just fine.

In fact I prefer self service check outs because of all the luddites clogging up staffed checkouts wasting time bleating about how bad the self service checkouts are to some poor check out operator who just wants them to shut up and move on with their lives.

[SteveStrange]

Milkyway said:

I don’t bag until I get to the car... which I regret if it’s ping down with rain.
( Usually Thursday mornings... around ten)

PS: My Asda doesn’t sell the red steradents for Milkyway Sr... forcing me to have to walk around the corner to the Pharmacy.

Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 30th March 10:29

Asda? Take thyself off to the Council thread.

[Dermot O'Logical]

FiF said:

Whilst the rest of you are whining about the elderly in supermarkets may I point out the WAGs in Waitrose, dolled up as if for a night out on the town, standing or rather posing artfully in the middle of the aisle while they slowly study at great distance various products. Clearly they will have abandoned their trolley without a thought to other shoppers who may have limited time to complete their shop. Or is it just our Waitrose who seem to have an excess of selfish posing Milfy Wags.

On the issue of those who are slow, I'll nominate Mrs FiF. Stuff me she's irritating, having scanned the product the amount of time spent blocking others while she farts about packing it away in the multitude of bags, especially the cool bags for chilled, one for fresh meat, one for cooked, one for dairy etc, not to mention the one for frozen. On my own, ten minutes flat, maybe 15 if it's really busy and a big shop.

Just out of curiosity, which branch of Waitrose is this?

Asking for a friend, obviously.

[Zumbruk]

Trying to find decent G9 LED bulbs online among the mountains of wánquán shì lèsè no-name Middle Kingdom tat.

[Pit Pony]

21st Century Man said:

That seemingly every truck on the M1 today was "Delivering Sustainable Solutions".

Stategies and logistics.

https://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/achtung-bono-2005/as...


Asparagus Next Left
We’ve just been performing a guerrilla gig
In the middle of another group’s guerrilla gig
Well surely that’s the ultimate guerrilla gig
But still they cried like girls

Road signs on our country lanes
May not be what they seem
“Asparagus Next Left” – who says?
I’ve been upstream
Going down there for plum tomatoes
That’s not a good idea
For “Horse Manure 200 Yards”
Read bottomless perdition

When the club-versus-country dispute arose
Small children were trampled in the exodus
We all knew someone at primary school
Who had a very powerful magnet

“This-a-way For New Potatoes”
An arrow points innocently
Dirt track to a darker place
That’s what it says to me
“Last Chance For Hanging Baskets”
They’re even giving you clues!
“Fresh Broad Beans and Aubergines”
Euphemisms, Audrey, euphemisms!

Whatever happened to the plumber’s van?
The humble, amateur Transit van?
Vans have become ridiculous
With their strategies and logistics

“Veer Left For Marmalade!”
I don’t think so Joe
And why are the “Tractors Turning”?
We really ought to know
So stay alert on the minor roads
Remember Phyllis Triggs
Oooh! Rhubarb! Lets go!
She’s still not been accounted for

[FiF]

Dermot O'Logical said:

Just out of curiosity, which branch of Waitrose is this?

Asking for a friend, obviously.

Droitwich, though Worcester affected to a lesser extent.

[jimmytheone]

captain.scarlet said:

One of my favourite clips satirising this very issue!

Edited by captain.scarlet on Thursday 30th March 00:09

Directly from that video - people doing interviews whilst driving AND NOT LOOKING AT WHERE THEY'RE fkING GOING.
They should be prosecuted.
Rarely, if ever, does someone doing an interview from the drivers seat add anything that couldn't be done via voiceover or from passenger seat.

STOP IT!

[Milkyway]

So that’s what McKenzie is up to now.

[LunarOne]

Americans who think that people called Craig should be referred to as "Kregg". I haven't noticed them pronouncing "jail" as "jell" though...

[Zumbruk]

jimmytheone said:

Directly from that video - people doing interviews whilst driving AND NOT LOOKING AT WHERE THEY'RE fkING GOING.
They should be prosecuted.
Rarely, if ever, does someone doing an interview from the drivers seat add anything that couldn't be done via voiceover or from passenger seat.

STOP IT!

The car is usually on a trailer. Don't forget - nothing on the telly is as it appears.

[matchmaker]

Self scan checkouts today. Student scans contents of trolley, puts in bagging area. Once she'd finished she pays, them proceeds to bag all her shopping. 65 year old old fart beside her (me) scans contents of trolley, puts in bag in bagging area, pays, puts bag in trolley, leaves.

Student was still packing her bag when I left, despite the fact that I'd arrived at the checkout after her.

[Mercdriver]

Student does not include common sense only intelligence, allegedly.

I have seen students at gliding club nearly killing themselves because they did not follow the instructors instructions, he nearly had a heart attack as he watched them.

Been a bit cautious about students ever since

[FiF]

matchmaker said:

Self scan checkouts today. Student scans contents of trolley, puts in bagging area. Once she'd finished she pays, them proceeds to bag all her shopping. 65 year old old fart beside her (me) scans contents of trolley, puts in bag in bagging area, pays, puts bag in trolley, leaves.

Student was still packing her bag when I left, despite the fact that I'd arrived at the checkout after her.

Sympathise with this. Mind you if it's like our Co-Op where you have to wait for your empty bag in the bagging area to be approved by a non existent member of staff then the student approach is the quickest.

[Red9zero]

FiF said:

Sympathise with this. Mind you if it's like our Co-Op where you have to wait for your empty bag in the bagging area to be approved by a non existent member of staff then the student approach is the quickest.

Same with our local Co-Op. I don't normally buy much in there, so it only takes a few seconds longer.

[yellowjack]

FiF said:

matchmaker said:

Self scan checkouts today. Student scans contents of trolley, puts in bagging area. Once she'd finished she pays, them proceeds to bag all her shopping. 65 year old old fart beside her (me) scans contents of trolley, puts in bag in bagging area, pays, puts bag in trolley, leaves.

Student was still packing her bag when I left, despite the fact that I'd arrived at the checkout after her.

Sympathise with this. Mind you if it's like our Co-Op where you have to wait for your empty bag in the bagging area to be approved by a non existent member of staff then the student approach is the quickest.

Student's approach is normally my approach too. Too many times I've placed two very ordinary durable hessian style shopping bags in the TROLLEY self scan bagging area in my local Tesco, only for it to basically accuse me of shoplifting, then make me wait ages before a member of the self scan team notices the MASSIVE BLINKING RED LIGHT above my "till". Today I made the mistake of thinking that because it was quiet I'd swiftly get my shopping bags authorised. She smiled at me, I smiled pleadingly back across the length of the self scan area, then she turned, squeezed through the tensa-barrier to the basket bagging area to deal with a customer on the far side of the barrier while two of her useless male coleagues who were ALREADY STANDING in that area continued their chat. Eventually she, rather apologetically, made her way to me and swiped her card to let the bagging commence, but hey? I'm going back to scanning everything first, then bagging up as a separate operation from now on. Why? Because it's QUICKER FOR EVERYONE, especially for me.

Also, while I waited for my bags to be checked, I got to wondering. Tesco Clubcard is a data harvesting tool, yes? So why the blue blazes has it not, by now, learned that I always bring the SAME TWO BAGS shopping with me, and they WEIGH THE SAME, give or take a handful of grams if they're wet (they weren't today). I could understand it if I brought extra bags (and therefore weight), but if it's the same bags, same weight, same Clubcard holder, then why not just pre-authorise those bags to make EVERYBODY'S life easier. Me, the self scan staff, and anyone queueing behind me. Slicker, quicker,, easier is what they CLAIM to be seeking, and allowing heavier shopping bags without a check would speed things up a fair bit. Until then, scan, then pay,THEN bag is the sensible way forward to avoid taking up staff time AND an annoying wait before I can scan my shopping...