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  • I've put this in the sex ed thread cos I know that WW will read it, and I know he'll be amused at my aggravation!
    He's an example of total male dickheadedness...
    I was at Tesco this af, buying a mere 4 items, and found myself at a checkout where the woman behind the conveyor belt clearly was best friends with the customer in front and was bloody well nattering away and passing items over the ping machine slower than a comatose slug. I was getting pretty fidgety and thinking of switching lanes ( ha ha! You should see me behind the wheel!). Just as I'm about to move, another assistant comes up behind and announces that she is going to open another checkout. The dickhead behind me ( a snooty looking chap in his 60s), immediately pounced over me and took my place- he had a full trolley. Now....I would ALWAYS allow anyone who only had 4 bloody items in their basket to go in front of me, and technically ( if such social rules exist?) it was my right to go first. I couldn't resist muttering loud enough for him to hear " huh! Male chauvinist pig!". I bet he had assumed I was a foreigner.
    You'll be placed to know, I went to the self service checkout ( see, I do do some technology!) flung my items so fast over the laser beam that they nearly flew out the window, got out of there in five seconds flat and was off before that twit even had time to blink. I should have mooned at him.
  • Aaaargh!!! Second line should read " here's an example....". WW, you're not an example of total male dickheadedness. You're the perfect gent. :x
  • Ha! I figured that out, Kat, though, I must say, my first reaction was, "What!!!?!?!".  I was so sure I had gotten over any, well most, dick-headedness by now ... then again, there's probably more than 101 that I annoy people...
    Post edited by Whickwithy at 2016-07-25 15:37:41
  • Kat. I heartedly reccomend Scan and Shop, even for 4 items in Tesco. Never had to wait, you bag as you shop and it's what all superior humans do!
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • Self service at supermarkets. I hate them. Bloody machine always shames me shouting at me "place your items in the bag" when I have placed items in said bag. I shouted at one in Morrisons once when I couldn't scan my booze and nearly had a melt down until the assistant helped me. Then there was the long unnecessary debate with the assistant about it's not self service if a paid worker still had to do the job for me. An unpleasant experience and 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back ~X(
  • No, scan and shop Hells, not self check out. You pick up a scanner at the start, you wander through the store picking items, scanning them and putting them in your own bag and then you go to a special set of tills and pay. As the Meerkats say, Simples!
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • I'm a mere Kat and I say that sounds like a conspiracy! Have you considered UT that
    A) that machine is part of the technocracy that is going to bring about mass unemployment for spotty teenage boys, who when you ask ' excuse me, can you point me to the bicarbonate of soda?" Reply with " er...is that a drink?"
    B) that said machine is stealing info on you and your shopping habits as well as the text msg s etc on your phone, the contents of your wallet, the contents of your underpants ( desperately trying to swerve this discussion back into this thread lane)?
    C) that it's yet another example of mindless zombie humans staring at a screen? They deserve to walk into each other like Pacman- zapping barracuda - gobbled by the deli counter
    D) that Pokemon Go is going to be installed on said device and hordes of screaming shoppers will be descending on the pet food aisle, there'll be a mass crush and the likes of me will be left away in terror
    E) that computers can't be trusted...full stop?

    I don't even know why I'm ranting. We don't have such crappy technology in the Land Of Cabbage, never heard of it.
  • Of course you do. All larger Tesco's have it. Thoroughly recommend it as it saves a lot of time and you have to spend less time among the great unwashed,
    Remember, in the land with no cabbages, the man with one cabbage is king ( or Queen of course Mistress Kat).
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • Yeah self scan. You can wander round and scan items like Tesco value bread but then walk out with 40 inch TV as they are so bloody gormless they don't stop you when the alarm goes off but just moan about the alarm going off - so I'm told :-))
  • I take the needle off the Technics and put it in my vein
  • Check out www.vitacio.com, a herbal products company that specialises in " on trend" " beauty" and health supplements. Porn labels and a promise of a tighter vagina and a firmer, larger, " Latino" breasts and bum!
    There are some desperate, paranoid suckers out there.
  • Product tested by Trump and his f£&@y- grabbers lol!
  • So they're advertising '50 shades darker' BS everywhere. If it were two women I could totally be down with it, then I could actually look forward to the sex scenes. Someone did a study of men and women watching porn and women were turned on by all kinds of porn, while men only got aroused by porn focusing on their own sexual orientation. I guess women are naturally fluid.
    Post edited by Ponygurl at 2017-02-12 16:11:31
    U R I E L
    What is done in the dark will always come to light
  • Interesting. Count me out on any bestiality though.
  • Why does everyone want to go to the dark side on here?! I just mean like straight men watching gay male porn wouldn't have a sexual response..where as straight women watching lesbian porn would, etc. A woman can watch porn outside of her sexual orientation and still get turned on. It is pretty interesting.
    U R I E L
    What is done in the dark will always come to light

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