The stupidity of modern Britain confirmed....
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On Saturday, I had the utter stupidity of modern Britain confirmed.
Browsing the poundshop at the local shopping centre, looking to see if anything was worth a pound, a woman approached one of the shelf stackers and came out with what could only be described at the single most dumb question I have ever heard in my life.
"How much is this".
This threw me. Utter disbelief. Put simply, I couldn't believe that ANYONE could be this f
king dumb, bordering on braindead. Stupidity personified.
It's a fking poundshop. Everything is a pound, except the stuff that is sold as a quantity for a pound. Either way, one single item is no more than a pound. It is about as simple as it gets. Round figures. One pound. Everything is the same price. Hence there is no price tags under or on every item. Because it is a pound. Stuff that is two/three/four for £1 is clearly marked. The shop is called 'PoundShop' There are 6 foot banners all over the shop saying 'Everything is a pound'. How there can be ANY confusion is beyond me...
The poor shelf stacker just took a sharp intake of breath and announced in a thoroughly resigned manner 'a pound'. Stupid shopper looked absolutely baffled like there must have been a mistake and hobbled off towards the till all excited. What they were expecting it to be is beyond me.
'How often do you get asked that' I sniggered to the girl as I passed. 'At least once an hour' she replied, barely able to scrape a smile in the process having evidently grown thoroughly bored of stupid people and been ground down by the same old stupid question.
This just typifies the scale of the problem we have on our hands in this country for me. Grown people, adults, people who should have been through enough education to get them through life, yet can't even use the three brain cells they were endowed with to think before opening their cake hole and wasting oxygen.
Staggering.
Browsing the poundshop at the local shopping centre, looking to see if anything was worth a pound, a woman approached one of the shelf stackers and came out with what could only be described at the single most dumb question I have ever heard in my life.
"How much is this".
This threw me. Utter disbelief. Put simply, I couldn't believe that ANYONE could be this f
king dumb, bordering on braindead. Stupidity personified.It's a f
king poundshop. Everything is a pound, except the stuff that is sold as a quantity for a pound. Either way, one single item is no more than a pound. It is about as simple as it gets. Round figures. One pound. Everything is the same price. Hence there is no price tags under or on every item. Because it is a pound. Stuff that is two/three/four for £1 is clearly marked. The shop is called 'PoundShop' There are 6 foot banners all over the shop saying 'Everything is a pound'. How there can be ANY confusion is beyond me...The poor shelf stacker just took a sharp intake of breath and announced in a thoroughly resigned manner 'a pound'. Stupid shopper looked absolutely baffled like there must have been a mistake and hobbled off towards the till all excited. What they were expecting it to be is beyond me.
'How often do you get asked that' I sniggered to the girl as I passed. 'At least once an hour' she replied, barely able to scrape a smile in the process having evidently grown thoroughly bored of stupid people and been ground down by the same old stupid question.
This just typifies the scale of the problem we have on our hands in this country for me. Grown people, adults, people who should have been through enough education to get them through life, yet can't even use the three brain cells they were endowed with to think before opening their cake hole and wasting oxygen.
Staggering.
Edited by bazking69 on Monday 12th April 10:57
Edited by bazking69 on Monday 12th April 11:02
soad said:
But i would presume some of the people shopping there (i'm not hating) are a bit thick - you know chavs and the like...
HTH
Granted, but it is a stupid thing for even a stupid person to come out with. It was said with total seriousness too, without an inkling that it could be that obvious..HTH
bazking69 said:
Granted, but it is a stupid thing for even a stupid person to come out with. It was said with total seriousness too, without an inkling that it could be that obvious..
Perhaps she never shopped there before - who knows?And how on earth did you quote me before i actually posted?
PH a little buggy this morning it seems...
Good post, lots of anger in there which is good to read
I hate people who come into our office & the 1st thing they say is "Am I in the right place?"
"For fking what? If you want to report a fire/buy a car/book in some brain surgery/search through some brochures for ideas about where to go on holiday then no, you're not. Tell me what you fking want first"
I hate stupid people, I really do
I hate people who come into our office & the 1st thing they say is "Am I in the right place?"
"For f
king what? If you want to report a fire/buy a car/book in some brain surgery/search through some brochures for ideas about where to go on holiday then no, you're not. Tell me what you fking want first"I hate stupid people, I really do
308mate said:
You went to the pound shop and were geniunely surprised that encountered a mouth-breathing dullard?
Do you recoil in amazement at finding sick people in Hospitals?
Do you recoil in amazement at finding sick people in Hospitals?
THat was my thoughts. If a core sample of pound shop shoppers is a good indicator for 'modern Britain' then its time to pack
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