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Party Boat
Nov 1, 2007

where did that other dog come from

who is he


Looke posted:

What’s the correct course of action if you block someone’s toilet with a massive turd? Asking for a friend

try to throw the poo out of the window, fail, then become stuck trying to retrieve it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296

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Dr. Cool Aids
Jul 6, 2009

Looke posted:

What’s the correct course of action if you block someone’s toilet with a massive turd? Asking for a friend

Ask where they keep their poop knife

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



Looke blocked a strange loo
what a tough situation
best get his hand in

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

fist it down the pipe

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




I heard a kettle of boiled water will melt poop

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting
just act really pleased with yourself

theyll realise its essentially a blessing

Dr. Cool Aids
Jul 6, 2009
And on the opposite side, boiled poop makes water undrinkable

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



Party Boat posted:

try to throw the poo out of the window, fail, then become stuck trying to retrieve it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296

from the better times

e: this in the most read
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56721078

lmao even the gams care more about Eastenders than an old oval office

Ratjaculation fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Apr 13, 2021

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

that's what happens when you get hopped up on cheeky nandos

Steakandchips
Apr 30, 2009

Pistol_Pete posted:

I'd have really liked to do a few years in London, if London housing costs weren't so utterly hosed.

Then I could be one of those London expats who are always starting their sentences with: "When I was living in London..."

I annoyed the customer service lady at Waitrose Stirling a few weeks ago:

I get to Waitrose, put my face mask on, walk in to the entrance and try to checkout one of the Quick Check handsets so I can place my groceries in my bag as I shop.
I swipe the myWaitrose card and the Quick Check kiosk beep boops and says no. I swipe again and it says ok and unlocks the handset but the handset doesn't want to come out.
I ask the customer service lady to help, she types on her keyboard and fixes the issue and hands me a handset.
Me: "Waitrose Canary Wharf has the contact-less Quick Check kiosks that don't need you to swipe the myWaitrose card; those kiosks work better and are far less prone to failure. Can you get one of those here in Stirling?"
Her: *harrumph*, we don't have as much money as Waitrose Canary Wharf!
Me: It's the same company?

I then sent the customer service team an email about it (but didn't mention the reaction of the customer service lady, I don't want her getting told off).

The same thing happened again 2 weeks later (without the customer service lady interaction), and I emailed the customer service team again.

Good news! They responded and we should be getting the contact-less Wharf-sort of Quick Check kiosks by June!

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting
maybe theyll put a plaque on it acknowledging your contribution?

Steakandchips
Apr 30, 2009

I hope so. I like to think I'm doing my bit to improve our community.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
that lady is going to sabotage them until they put the old ones back in

Red Oktober
May 24, 2006

wiggly eyes!



When I was working at Tesco in Durham, the self-service checkouts were just becoming a thing, and I was surprised/concerned about the incredible excitement of the staff about them because "It'll make it all much easier / take some of the pressure off staff / etc."

Oh no honey, that's not what corporate is going to do at all. They're just going to get rid of a load of us.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting
the local waitrose here is a ballache with having to put a pound in the car park machine and claim it back in the shop. a total faff infact i think you lose out by 20p. ridiculous.

Gasmask
Apr 27, 2003

And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee
lol imagine using a handset. Hello little caveman beeping and bopping away with your remote that other people have licked.

I use my phone in Sainsbury’s like a civilised person

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



NotJustANumber99 posted:

maybe theyll put a plaque on it acknowledging your contribution?

Gasmask
Apr 27, 2003

And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee
Also lol at expecting the poor drone woman to give a flying poo poo

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



Steakandchips shopping
avocado card problem
now thats bourgeoisie

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

just shoplift. it's a victimless crime

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler

Gasmask posted:

lol imagine using a handset. Hello little caveman beeping and bopping away with your remote that other people have licked.

I use my phone in Sainsbury’s like a civilised person

I've seen a couple of really long holdups at my local supermarkets recently and both times have been people helplessly waving their phones at the card reader and wailing: "The app isn't working! I know I topped it up already!!"

Hmm, yes cashier, I'd like to pay for my groceries with my loving phone please.

Looke
Aug 2, 2013

the sainsburys smartshop app is actually a piece of poo poo and i've had to make a new account just to get it to work

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

Steakandchips posted:

I annoyed the customer service lady at Waitrose Stirling a few weeks ago:

I get to Waitrose, put my face mask on, walk in to the entrance and try to checkout one of the Quick Check handsets so I can place my groceries in my bag as I shop.
I swipe the myWaitrose card and the Quick Check kiosk beep boops and says no. I swipe again and it says ok and unlocks the handset but the handset doesn't want to come out.
I ask the customer service lady to help, she types on her keyboard and fixes the issue and hands me a handset.
Me: "Waitrose Canary Wharf has the contact-less Quick Check kiosks that don't need you to swipe the myWaitrose card; those kiosks work better and are far less prone to failure. Can you get one of those here in Stirling?"
Her: *harrumph*, we don't have as much money as Waitrose Canary Wharf!
Me: It's the same company?

I then sent the customer service team an email about it (but didn't mention the reaction of the customer service lady, I don't want her getting told off).

The same thing happened again 2 weeks later (without the customer service lady interaction), and I emailed the customer service team again.

Good news! They responded and we should be getting the contact-less Wharf-sort of Quick Check kiosks by June!

Most chain store branches have individual budgets based on their turnover.

They're going to fire that lady to pay for your beep-boop contactless shopping experience.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
my first choice is a proper checkout with the conveyor belt and the person to have a chit chat with, except the angry bloke in asda who has blue hair and is very angry at all times. not a chitchatter

mrpwase
Apr 21, 2010

I HAVE GREAT AVATAR IDEAS
For the Many, Not the Few


My asda has a bloke on the checkouts that is 120 years old and moves at the pace of a snail, it's a very relaxing checkout experience

Dr. Cool Aids
Jul 6, 2009
My nearest shop on foot is a co-op and the main cashier is a middle aged woman so actively furious at life that I avoid the human contact if I can.

She also gave a helpless "it's out of my hands" shrug through the window when they rigged the automatic door to be exit only during pandemic heights. Literally nobody in the store, a queue of maybe 6 people outside, and she was stumped by the idea she might have to let someone in

Marmaduke!
May 19, 2009

Why would it do that!?
I'll be very disappointed if steakandchips doesn't get a custom title describing their karen-ness

Steakandchips
Apr 30, 2009

crispix posted:

that lady is going to sabotage them until they put the old ones back in

I hope not...

NotJustANumber99 posted:

the local waitrose here is a ballache with having to put a pound in the car park machine and claim it back in the shop. a total faff infact i think you lose out by 20p. ridiculous.

WTF. I have never heard of Waitrose pay-for-parking. Absurd pain in the rear end, the reclamation faffage. Write to the customer service team.


Gasmask posted:

lol imagine using a handset. Hello little caveman beeping and bopping away with your remote that other people have licked.

I use my phone in Sainsbury’s like a civilised person

The Waitrose Quick Check app works fine, and I use it when the handsets are not available, but the handsets are just easier and faster to use. Also Waitrose sanitise each handset with isopropyl alcohol before putting them back in the kiosks.


Gasmask posted:

Also lol at expecting the poor drone woman to give a flying poo poo

Well that's why I specifically made a point of not complaining about her :) .


Looke posted:

the sainsburys smartshop app is actually a piece of poo poo and i've had to make a new account just to get it to work

Use the handsets. Unfortunately, they are "swipe release" as well via the Nectar card.


Clyde Radcliffe posted:

Most chain store branches have individual budgets based on their turnover.

They're going to fire that lady to pay for your beep-boop contactless shopping experience.

I hope she doesn't get sacked, I made sure to not say anything negative about her, nor did I identify her in any way.


Marmaduke! posted:

I'll be very disappointed if steakandchips doesn't get a custom title describing their karen-ness

I didn't have anything bad to say about that lady and I was not mean to her at all! All I did was ask about the handset kiosks. Surely asking questions politely to the customer service staff is not verboten?

Steakandchips fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Apr 13, 2021

Looke
Aug 2, 2013

Yeah I've resorted to using the scanners now, ours don't swipe to release anymore you just pick one and scan your nectar card with it.

freelop
Apr 28, 2013

Where we're going, we won't need fries to see



Love to pay to do someone else's job

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

The nearest Tesco has a cordon across the end of every aisle leading to the checkouts, except the very end aisle. The idea being that everyone queues up there and a staff member directs people to the nearest free checkout.

On Sunday as I was leaving, I saw a family trying to skip the queue by getting their kids to lift up the rope cordon so they could push their trolley underneath. The girl who was directing customers politely directed them to join the queue, so they just shoved the trolley straight into her and almost sent her flying. Security were straight over and tried to escort them out of the store. Cue shouts of "free country", "I know my rights" and "never shopping here again".

Needless to say, not a mask among the lot of them.

CancerCakes
Jan 10, 2006

Red Oktober posted:

When I was working at Tesco in Durham, the self-service checkouts were just becoming a thing, and I was surprised/concerned about the incredible excitement of the staff about them because "It'll make it all much easier / take some of the pressure off staff / etc."

Oh no honey, that's not what corporate is going to do at all. They're just going to get rid of a load of us.

Big Tesco or Tes-co met-ro

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009
The old fella at my co-op asks me what I think of the news on the front page of the paper while I'm buying the paper. I don't know, that's why I'm buying a paper to find out about it

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009
It's me, I'm the last person alive under 50 who buys a newspaper

Skarsnik
Oct 21, 2008

I...AM...RUUUDE!




Steakandchips posted:

I annoyed the customer service lady at Waitrose Stirling a few weeks ago:

I get to Waitrose, put my face mask on, walk in to the entrance and try to checkout one of the Quick Check handsets so I can place my groceries in my bag as I shop.
I swipe the myWaitrose card and the Quick Check kiosk beep boops and says no. I swipe again and it says ok and unlocks the handset but the handset doesn't want to come out.
I ask the customer service lady to help, she types on her keyboard and fixes the issue and hands me a handset.
Me: "Waitrose Canary Wharf has the contact-less Quick Check kiosks that don't need you to swipe the myWaitrose card; those kiosks work better and are far less prone to failure. Can you get one of those here in Stirling?"
Her: *harrumph*, we don't have as much money as Waitrose Canary Wharf!
Me: It's the same company?

I then sent the customer service team an email about it (but didn't mention the reaction of the customer service lady, I don't want her getting told off).

The same thing happened again 2 weeks later (without the customer service lady interaction), and I emailed the customer service team again.

Good news! They responded and we should be getting the contact-less Wharf-sort of Quick Check kiosks by June!

is this a post on Nextdoor or am I missing something

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



Self checkout crew checking in

This 55" TV is actually £3 worth of onions

Steakandchips
Apr 30, 2009

Skarsnik posted:

is this a post on Nextdoor or am I missing something

What's Nextdoor?

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



the sex ghost posted:

It's me, I'm the last person alive under 50 who buys a newspaper

Genuine concern about the state of sex arse economy isn't a bad thing OP

:sexarse:

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009

Steakandchips posted:

What's Nextdoor?

I dunno what's nextdoor with you

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Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



Rattys new TV
payed at a self checkout till
its all allium

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