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BTW I spent 2 years learning Welsh a long time ago. A truly lovely language. Wish I'd kept it up. I guess the French are coming to the end of the holiday season and getting a bit tired of tourists.
| lambert.the.farmer Member Since: 11 Apr 2012 Location: harrogate Posts: 2006   
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Is 41 and 3/4 too young to be of the opinion that the world is very nearly entirely full of imbeciles, present company excepted, and that the only sensible thing to do is build a proper big palisade round the farm and become wholly self sufficient? Rhubarb and custard let fly with their secret weapon.
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30th Aug 2016 5:52am |
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| Grenadier Member Since: 23 Jul 2014 Location: The foot of Mont Blanc... Posts: 5859  
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1. Idiots. Obviously
2. "Attached elements", Part 1. Why do wives insist on bringing husbands with no supermarket sense just to push the trolley, when all they do is wander listlessly and block aisles. And argue. 3. "Attached elements", Part 2. Kids. Why oh why is a child needed in a supermarket, let alone two, three, four or more? Rushing round like feral dogs from one sweetie aisle to the next. 4. People who insist on paying with coppers, usually those with bad eyesight. 5. Teens. Teens don't eat, so why are they there? 6. Men who don't usually do shopping, sent on behalf of their wives. Pointless exercise. 7. People who think they can use the '10 Item' aisle with 14 items and think no one will notice. 8. Tourists. Why can't they shop at home where they know where everything is rather than descending on my supermarket at the end of my working day, invariably with kids, husbands and teens, just to create mayhem when all I want is a punnet of pigeon heart tomatoes. 9. People who have never scanned anything in their lives trying the scan-it-yourself aisle for the first time with a full trolley. 10. People who feel they can use a disabled parking spot (whether or not we feel there are too many) just because they leave someone in the car. 11. There's bound to be more.... Most of the above, by the way, stands for people using a fast food restaurant and who don't choose what they want until they actually get to the counter, rather than during the ten minutes they had before in the queue.  Monsieur Le Grenadier
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30th Aug 2016 5:24pm |
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| Huttopia Member Since: 23 Feb 2016 Location: West Midlands Posts: 1977 
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Lambert the Farmer, as someone hitting 42 next month I'm on the same page. Its unlikely that tolerance will increase with age either.....
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30th Aug 2016 5:35pm |
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| Grenadier Member Since: 23 Jul 2014 Location: The foot of Mont Blanc... Posts: 5859
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^^^
Huttopia, I'm 43 and tolerance for fellow humans (as you can see from my previous post) was lost long ago. I regularly ask Mrs Grenadier, indeed as recently as the weekend, what the point of most humans is as I genuinely can't see it...  Monsieur Le Grenadier
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30th Aug 2016 5:50pm |
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| lambert.the.farmer Member Since: 11 Apr 2012 Location: harrogate Posts: 2006
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Actually I lied because I am 42 in October but anyway. I'm thinking that the palisade ought to be the kind of thing that would make the builders of the great wall of China think that their efforts lacked ambition, the kind of thing that when you look at it says 'go away and leave me alone ' . And what happened to bring this on, well i have a pioneer head unit that is compatible with android. It has an associated app to download which is great except for the minor issue of when you connect the hu and the droid it won't let you use it as a hands free solution? Sweet Lord what is the point of connecting the car to the phone if not to be hands free and legal. The rest of the world just amaze the will to live right out of my soul. Rhubarb and custard let fly with their secret weapon.
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30th Aug 2016 7:40pm |
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| Huttopia Member Since: 23 Feb 2016 Location: West Midlands Posts: 1977
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^^^
Stick with it. I've got a Bury kit in my golf. It took me a month of arsing about with every conceivable setting on the kit / head unit to get it to work properly. The instructions were chuff all use so it was trial and error. It reminded me of trying to connect an early HP / Compaq tablet to a Nokia 6210 over gprs (in 2003) to pick up uc email. Days of tweaking followed by the unbridled joy of actually getting it to work, all for an email saying Test 1! Rock and roll. |
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30th Aug 2016 7:59pm |
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| Muddybigdog Member Since: 11 Apr 2014 Location: Suffolk Posts: 1025 
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@Grenadier 100% agree on supermarkets, now made even worse with numpties walking around sipping crap coffee trying to push an over loaded trolley with one hand,WTF is that all about, how many decades have millions of shoppers shopped without having to have a beverage whilst shopping. Jumped ship to reliability - Mitsubishi L200
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30th Aug 2016 8:44pm |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897 
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I'm 73. My wife and I do the supermarket shop between us in about 10 minutes flat. We do parallel isles, each one knowing what we want.
Why, then, do we always get the till where the staff's about to change, the till roll's about to expire, the person infront has (a) an article that won't scan. (b) a leaking packet of something (c) a box with a broken egg (d) has to rush off to get the thing they forgot. They the spend ages carefully packing and repacking their purchases in their bags, spend ages finding their loyalty and credit cards in the bottom of their handbags and find it necessary to have a long chat with the checkout staff. Total time in shop add another 30 minutes!!!  |
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31st Aug 2016 1:48am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17479 
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^^^^ And then the person in fornt produces about 150 coupons for various stores and products that they've collected, each of which has to be scanned individually to see if it can be used. Ten minutes later they realise that, yes, they still need to pay the balance so then start looking for cash or card to pay, when they could have used the ten minutes of coupon fiddling to do this!
I hate going to supermarkets. Actually I hate going where there are other people! |
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31st Aug 2016 9:53am |
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| Ramsay Member Since: 30 Sep 2015 Location: Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway Posts: 629  
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Which is why I like the self scan stuff. I can get round quickly packing as I go. Then checkout speed is up to me. As a bonus I can usually get out without having to talk to anybody. 1995 Defender 110 CSW
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31st Aug 2016 11:17am |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897
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Most checkout staff are nice people trying to earn a living.
Using self checkouts is threatening their jobs. No-one pays me to scan my own purchases. If I received discount for doing the work myself I may consider it. 'til then, I'll help keep someone else in a job. |
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31st Aug 2016 11:29am |
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| shaggydog Member Since: 12 Aug 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 3347 
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I'm not bothered really by the queue in supermarkets, I usually do it at 9pm so it's fairly quiet and if it gets busy the manager is fairly good at calling extra people out to jump on tills.
What bothers me is the conveniences store/petrol station. All I want to do is nip in, grab £80 of diesel then nip out again and I'm stuck behind 3 people all doing their weeks shop- none of who bought fuel! Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197 Self confessed mileage hunter  |
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31st Aug 2016 12:26pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3525 
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This is why I have taken a liking for the pay at the pump filling stations. Credit/debit card in the pump, PIN number and £100 of fuel without the need to queue behind the family with six kids all trying to decide which chocolate bar they would like.
I am under no illusions that the filling station is getting more income from the groceries than my few quid of diesel thus we see Marks and Spencer food outlets breeding like the preverbial rabbits next to BP petrol stations everywhere. And I am not adverse to two for a tenner either |
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31st Aug 2016 12:34pm |
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| Ramsay Member Since: 30 Sep 2015 Location: Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway Posts: 629
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If check out staff didn't keep trying to pack my eggs under the washing powder I might agree with you. There is plenty of more useful things they can be doing in the store. 1995 Defender 110 CSW 1971 SIIA Lightweight |
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31st Aug 2016 12:52pm |
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