Yeah I find it wrong when you see some families getting £26,000 on benefits whereas there is someone working 50 hours a week and taking home only £20,000 for his family, this is completely wrong. I know this new benefit cap is being trialed but this still means that a family can receive up to something around £26,000 a year but it all depends on how many children they have which brings me onto another things that annoys me which is how you can have like 10 children and claim benefits for all of them, I think if you choose to have that many children you need to support them and not just have them for the benefits.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-22343962 Oh well as the expression goes " **** happens " nb ... sorry for the bad language - but sometimes it just seems appropriate.
HOADIE Your description is a much more 'cleaner' one - but given where the chap ended up, I feel my more graphic description is just a bit more appropriate...... anyway - one thing is certain - the burglar didn't make a 'clean getwaway'
You just knew it had to be a woman ' driver ' [video=youtube;tf4TIWECZ30]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4TIWECZ30&feature=player_embedded[/video] what gets me is why did the driver of the black car park so close to the tree - surely the driver must have known that the car might end up being blocked in ? ---- oh I see why --- it too was a woman ! apologies ladies -but sometimes you just ask for it !
Nearly 15 minutes to park a car Also had to laugh at the car that moved out of a much bigger space near the end a few spaces down after she had parked!
She'd never have gone for that space - had trouble reversing a feet feet let alone the distance of a couple of car lengths. I have a female friend who will only turn left at road junctions because she's too afraid to go right.
What's even more worrying is you see mum's on the school runs driving 4x4's, it's like a licence to drive a killing machine if they cannot even manage the basic's of sticking a medium sized car in a gap!
Today some tosser took a trolley into the self service area in my local supermarket, not only taking ages to scan and pack but having the trolley causing a significant blockage... are some peeps born arseholes or do they practice really hard?
BSG the D.I.Y tills are designed to take 'shallow' trollies - but not the deep ones. I often use a shallow trolley in the self service area. I reckon I can scan and bag each item in the blink of an eye. ( trust me I don't want to be in the damned supermarket any longer than necessary )
As this is the moany git thread and one for a touch of sarcasm, I feel the need before my medication to mention the government latest u-turn... The idea of cigarettes being forced to changed to plain packaging is taking a u-turn. Reason? Because according to the powers that be sources it will lead to increased smuggling I have to give to that lot in Westminster, they begger belief at times
brb will you please send me a private message before you post anything in my thread. I am in charge of quality control - and I would not want you to be embarrassed by the sub standard level of your sarcasm. Your previous post has deeply offended grumpygit. You have inappropriatly used of part of his username in your libellous description of this thread- he has tried to complain through his local councillor - but after yesterday's election grumpygit didn't realise that he had a 'party' called 'General Apathy' - let alone that it had won ( 25% of the electorate voted ). Anyway I have another Tale of Supermarket Woe - but I will leave that for a short while, as we're already down on our membership numbers ( by at least 1).
Following on from the recent UKIP success in the County Council elections, I ask a question why have we never been allowed a vote on Europe? My suspicious mind tells me it might be because there is hope that within the passing of time and generations, that they will have cleansed our minds that will think and know no differently then to follow like a pied piper the men in grey suits from Brussels. I have had many a debate, am I English, am I British, to that it matters not. However, I never was asked or agreed to a one state think tank. I never agreed to my British passport being changed for some fancy red one showing the one state symbol as in a move for some future supremacy. Even in that same passing of time, I had to change my driving licence to show that one dominance symbol, as my years of travel, now required me to have ID of such a nature in this same passing of time that I earlier mentioned, this to enable me to continue my freedom of movement and purchase without hindrance or inconvenience in the world. While talking of travels you could once see the exchanging of drachma's and peseta's a nation's identity, where products were cheap in possibly struggling economy's to be replaced by a Euro and finally bring about those same nation's blight. The normal counter shout for such individuality can be heard echoing, racist or ignorant, even debated by some history lesson. I find that just as offensive as not being given a democratic right to vote on it. I do not wish to fly the EU flag but it is as though my body has been branded by it, whether I choose it or not. Parties in Westminster will now have to change their outlook but let it be remembered those same people in power are only begrudgingly doing so to secure their own self greed and governance. Let the revolution begin.
brb - what has your post got to do with people who can't drive or supermarketrage ? Cameron now says that if he wins the next General Election the country will be givven a vote on Europe - too late ! We should never have joined the 'Common Market'. We've been paying in millions every day, whilst all the time our ability to govern what happens in this country is removed from our control. I will stop at this point - as I could go on about politics and bloody politicians for much longer than anything to do with motorists or shop assistants - and I wouldn't be able to offer anything remotely funny about politics.
Well it is supermarket rage in a way. I thought even you would see that link. It's like the politicians have obtained a trolley without a pound coin, filled it up with all their own delights and then when it has served its purpose they abandon it in the middle of no where. Then it either gets thrown on the scrap heap or gets collected by some van that then reflects the cost of its travels on to you the tax payer. In fact there are many likenesses like supermarkets, its all about how you position that point of sale but beforehand you need to create the packaging that will not really match the product inside. However, when it comes to the human race and with the use of media marketing you can promote any piece of rubbish. Although the supermarkets give you slightly more choice than the EU because you can pay in three currencies rather than two, Euros, Sterling or Dollars. Think about it...
brb I thought you realised that supermarketrage/woe was my domain ! As you have tried to enter into this area, I'd like to give you a reminder of the standard required. You made reference in the post above to payment in various forms - well that leads me nicely to my latest tale of supermarket misery... trying to pay for my groceries ... and wearing out 4 members of staff in the process !!!! ( that's one exclamation mark for each of them ) I had gone to the supermarket when it was nice and quiet. I used a shallow trolley (BSG) and when 'done' went to the D.I.Y. tills........ nobody else was using them ! I proceeded to scan my items and bag them in the blink of an eye (BSG. When I had scanned all my items I scanned my loyalty card. The machine told me that my card had been accepted. All I now needed to do was pay with my credit card - but the till 'froze' and just kept buffering. I was patient for about a minute - but the machine just laughed at me...... And this is when the fun started. I called the till assistant. He was spotty faced lad who looked about 14 ( I know they're supposed to be 18 because of age related products ). I showed him the till ( still going around in circles - a bit like my threads !) He didn't know what to do to rectify the situation. He thought I might have to rescan everything at another till. I said That's not going to happen. " If you don't know what to do, may I ask that you get somebody who does." He stood there looking at my machine - I think that he was going into a trance whilst looking at the buffering wheel. I 'woke' him and again asked for him to summon a more competent member of staff. He went away and returned with an 'older' lady. Now I don't know if the lad had bothered to expain the situation to his colleague - but I was asked " What's the problem ?" I explained and pointed to the screen which was still buffering. It was again suggested that I rescan my goods at another till - this time a 'normal' till. I pointed out that THIS had happened to me once before. On that occasion I relented - but was less than amused when I had to join the back of a long queue ! Now I was not about to be subjected to the same nonsense. I pointed out that all that was necessary was for the 'TOTAL' figure to be put through another till and my credit card to be processed. I refused to acceed to their nonsense. I said that the only reason why I was being asked to go through another till was so that their stock reduction could be recorded. I said that, as my loyalty card had been accepted, these details were already recorded in the system - so " Just take my credit card and process the total at another till ." The 'older' woman walked away ! ( I think it was her tea break .) Afew moments later an even 'older' woman ( no, not me ) arrived on scene. There had been another breakdown in communication between all the memebers of staff that it was my misfortune to meet that day - this latest colleague also was unaware of the details of my predicament. ( which I think was choosing the wrong shop .) I relayed the situation - and pointed to the till whose never ending circling was keeping pace with me. Remarkably I was given the same advice for a third time... " go to another till ." I don't know how I managed to remain calm - I even allowed myself to laugh - at another member of staff as he struggled with his loyalty card at the till next to me.......... anyway I was not going to comply with their nonsense. I said that all I wanted to do was to pay for my shopping and go home. I said that I was not prepared to rescan anything. I would leave all my goods ( nicely bagged up in the trolley ) and go to their main competitor for my shopping and would communicate with their customer services department if I ever got home.... The latest staff member also went away, to be replaced by a yet even older woman ( still not me ) - the duty manager. It was still down to me to tell her my position ( nearly on my knees .) She said that the suggestion that I rescan anything was ridiculous. She took me to another till. She gave me a huge discount as a gesture of goodwill and processed my credit card. There - brb that's how you do supermarket drama
alwaysright - now I begin to understand when we go to away matches, why no steward ever searches us, despite there being queues which we don't join and no steward ever moves us from areas we are not allowed to stand (AFC Wimbledon) - I used to think it was our ageing years, but it has dawned on me they are scared of us. In fact you have demonstrated you are indeed a very calm customer, despite the supermarket employee's thinking your a complete ****** (fill in the blanks). That calmness is demonstrated in that if I was faced with just the beginning of your dilema's I would generally self combust within 30 seconds, I certainly would not have entertained four separate members of staff without someone having to die. I just generally stand back these days and let her indoors deal with it all. Then when things kick off I just stand and stare. Although I tend to watch the reaction of the other half first. If she starts to go red, now that is a rare occurrence but jeez trust me that if she does start to glow even I do a runner
brb I'd like to think that my patience and resilience is as a result of my professional training - but I think it's more to do with having to suffer so much following The Gills, that anything else is quite trivial. The real annoyance to me in situations such as supermarket/roundaboutrage is disappointment in my expectation of somebody using*** any commonsense. ***( Not using )
THE CURSE STRIKES AGAIN Thanks to Albert Einstein I can plead insanity ! One of his famous quotes is his definition of insanity; " Doing the same thing over & over again & expecting different results "! I would like to adjust the definition by suggesting that it should read " Doing the same WRONG thing etc. In my case the wrong thing is repeatedly using the D.I.Y tills at supermarkets & expecting them to work. Today I took my elderly mother to get some groceries at her local supermarket ( 50 miles from MY local supermarket ! ). When it came to pay I went to the D.I.Y tills ( I will not be beaten by a machine. ) Unbeknown to me the Duty Manageress was present at these tills. 'Like a lamb to the slaughter,' she beckoned me to a till from which she was removing an 'out of order' sign. She proudly boasted " It's working again." I replied " We'll see for how long." You'll already know where this is going - but please humour - read on. After scanning everything and bagging the shopping, the till 'froze' up at the point of payment. I had to call the till assistant. We went through the same rigmarole as last week - " "Go to another till & rescan everything ". I wouldn't mind so much if the motto of the supermarket wasn't Every little helps ! - did you like what I did there ? I relayed my 'experience' of last week, and I gave them the name of the duty manager of MY local supermarket - to verify the event. I think that this unsettled the 2nd of 3 members of staff who handled my so called 'self service / staffless' transaction. She thought that I was being rude. I was puzzled by this accusation, as I remained very calm & fairly quiet in my deliberations. I asked her to qualify the accusation. She quickly changed the claim to say that I appeared upset. I told her that she was correct - but in view of the consecutive & frustrating experiences, I was entitled to be upset - but, quietly & politely pointed out that it didn't mean that I was being rude ! I will admit that the totally unjustified accusation that my behaviour was in any way offensive did offend me more than any malfunction by the damned till - but I remained of a sober disposition, because all I wanted to do was to pay for the shopping. The duty manageress then arrived on scene and ushered me to the customer services desk. Now, call me rude if you like - but I couldn't help myself from reminding the duty manageress of my 'Prophecy' about the (non)reliability of the till a few minutes earlier. Anyway I was permitted to pay for my mother's shopping without having to rescan anything. Einstein might be correct to call me insane - after all, I do follow The Gills - but I will not budge when I know that I'm alwaysright.
