Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Mussels]

Asda shoppers are 100% the worst as they also need to dick about with the ASDA fucking app first.

Heh heh, and come time to do the xmas food / booze shop it'll give me £100+ off my bill

Yes, but you'll have to elbow through the pajama-clad-at-4pm-mums and mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging unwashed to get it.

Or maybe that's just the ASDA at Swanley.

It's a few years since I've been there but that is a special Asda in a special town. That's where I heard a woman shouting "Porsche, Mercedes, come here!"

[MrLongbeard]

Asda shoppers are 100% the worst as they also need to dick about with the ASDA fucking app first.

Heh heh, and come time to do the xmas food / booze shop it'll give me £100+ off my bill

Yes, but you'll have to elbow through the pajama-clad-at-4pm-mums and mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging unwashed to get it.

Or maybe that's just the ASDA at Swanley.

God no, I'm in and out way too early to run that gauntlet

[Felix]

Asda shoppers are 100% the worst as they also need to dick about with the ASDA fucking app first.

Heh heh, and come time to do the xmas food / booze shop it'll give me £100+ off my bill

Think i have that in my Tesco clubcard. Yip real card that i can flash under the scanner while paying with cash. Good old never fails cash and fuck you plastic card what will end up in landfill in a few years

[Noggin]

The cheque is finally being phased out.

It boils my piss that we're not doing the same in the UK. Seriously? Cheques in 2023?

It BMP that, to get my Dad and Grandads' military records, I have to ask a friend in the uk to print off the forms I'll email him then send a cheque with those forms, cos, I have no UK bank or cheque book and the relevant department will only accept cheques, not online payments

[Felix]

Yes, but you'll have to elbow through the pajama-clad-at-4pm-mums and mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging unwashed to get it.

Or maybe that's just the ASDA at Swanley.

No i can use two. Edinburgh and Dunbar and they also have the strangest of customers. If they only had a cafe at the door you could sit and people watch all day laughing your head off. Unfortunately my local Tesco dont sell Gluten Free beer so i need to venture into the sess pit

I do enjoy pissing folk off in the car park though. I started a trend here when i parked the wifes FOX

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[Felix]

Same shop taking up four spaces with my van

[Taipan]

Most of our local car parks fine you if you're not correctly parked between the lines!

[KungFooBob]

We're out for the night visiting friends and I'm having to involuntarily park like a twat, I haven't found a car parking space built recently that is large enough to park our old school Range Rover without it encroaching into the spaces around it, and sometimes it sticks out into the road because it's too long.

I'm sure it's "space management" (i.e. making as many spaces as possible in a smaller space as possible) and not because cars are getting smaller, in fact most cars are bigger because of crumple zones.

And don't get me started on the use of space in new build houses, my mum has some houses built at the top of her street and they're all £500k+ and they barely have enough space for two small cars to park. New build estates have gardens smaller than most living rooms and driveways for just one car.

Pah, my saloon car is 19mm longer than your Chelsea tractor :p

[Mr. Dazzle]

I'm sure it's "space management" (i.e. making as many spaces as possible in a smaller space as possible) and not because cars are getting smaller, in fact most cars are bigger because of crumple zones.

I'd have guessed it's more of a case that spaces haven't been updated since about 1979 but cars have got loads bigger.

Having said that, the new build car parks here have massive spaces along with foot wide white lines, presumably so your modern fat knacker doesn't have to squeeze though a narrow door opening.

[mangocrazy]

It was immediately obvious the first time I visited that the car parking spaces at Costco were way more generously-sized than those at Tesco...

[Felix]

It was immediately obvious the first time I visited that the car parking spaces at Costco were way more generously-sized than those at Tesco...

I was in Morrisons down Hawick at the weekend and noticed the spaces were a lot larger than out local Tesco, Asda stores.

[gremlin]

A dodgy debit on my Barclays bank account from Deliveroo.

Never used them, so called the bank who instantly cancelled my card and refunded me, so fair play.

Not sure how my card details were obtained as I'm pretty canny, but such is life. Annoying, but hey ho.

Got my new card on Monday, this morning I see another debit for Deliveroo for around £30. FFS.

Called Barclays again who were pretty good but equally as baffled as it's a new card and I'd only got around to adding it to Amazon for the Kindle and putting it on Wallet.
New card cancelled and another one on the way. Bizarre.

If it happens again I'll raise a complaint then they'll need to do a bit more investigation, even if it is for a piddly amount.

[Saga Lout]

Unnecessarily precise estimates. Here's the latest one, this is from Royal Mail:

Email received yesterday evening:

"Delivery is due: Friday, 24 November 2023*
"Between 09:52am and 12:52pm*"

I noticed the asterisks so I scrolled down to the small print

"*Please be aware any time or date shown is not a guarantee."

Why not say "between about 9:30am and 1:00pm, which is what they mean? If they arrived at 9:50 I'm sure they wouldn't sit outside for two minutes until they were officially allowed to deliver my parcel, or would they?

And another email sent this morning at 10:09 telling me they still expected to deliver the parcel between 09:52am and 12:52pm.

[Mr. Dazzle]

A dodgy debit on my Barclays bank account from Deliveroo.

Never used them, so called the bank who instantly cancelled my card and refunded me, so fair play.

Not sure how my card details were obtained as I'm pretty canny, but such is life. Annoying, but hey ho.

Got my new card on Monday, this morning I see another debit for Deliveroo for around £30. FFS.

Called Barclays again who were pretty good but equally as baffled as it's a new card and I'd only got around to adding it to Amazon for the Kindle and putting it on Wallet.
New card cancelled and another one on the way. Bizarre.

If it happens again I'll raise a complaint then they'll need to do a bit more investigation, even if it is for a piddly amount.

You don't have an unexplained pile of empty take away boxes and mysterious tiredness all the time, do you?

[Noggin]

A dodgy debit on my Barclays bank account from Deliveroo.

Never used them, so called the bank who instantly cancelled my card and refunded me, so fair play.

Not sure how my card details were obtained as I'm pretty canny, but such is life. Annoying, but hey ho.

Got my new card on Monday, this morning I see another debit for Deliveroo for around £30. FFS.

Called Barclays again who were pretty good but equally as baffled as it's a new card and I'd only got around to adding it to Amazon for the Kindle and putting it on Wallet.
New card cancelled and another one on the way. Bizarre.

If it happens again I'll raise a complaint then they'll need to do a bit more investigation, even if it is for a piddly amount.

Don't suppose there's any chance it's to do with 'Wallet' thingy is it?

I'm too wary of the wallet thing to actually add a card to it! But then, I always have a card with me (my phone case is an actual wallet!) so I prefer to use that. And when I did buy something online the other day, a comment here reminded me that Revolut do a one use 'card', so I used that as comments about the Temu site had me a bit wary!!

[gremlin]

A dodgy debit on my Barclays bank account from Deliveroo.

Never used them, so called the bank who instantly cancelled my card and refunded me, so fair play.

Not sure how my card details were obtained as I'm pretty canny, but such is life. Annoying, but hey ho.

Got my new card on Monday, this morning I see another debit for Deliveroo for around £30. FFS.

Called Barclays again who were pretty good but equally as baffled as it's a new card and I'd only got around to adding it to Amazon for the Kindle and putting it on Wallet.
New card cancelled and another one on the way. Bizarre.

If it happens again I'll raise a complaint then they'll need to do a bit more investigation, even if it is for a piddly amount.

Don't suppose there's any chance it's to do with 'Wallet' thingy is it?

I'm too wary of the wallet thing to actually add a card to it! But then, I always have a card with me (my phone case is an actual wallet!) so I prefer to use that. And when I did buy something online the other day, a comment here reminded me that Revolut do a one use 'card', so I used that as comments about the Temu site had me a bit wary!!

That was the conversation I had with Barclays. He was no fraud expert, but did ask if the Wallet could have been compromised via my phone. Not sure how this could have happened but not beyond the realms of possibility, I suppose. Either way, the new card isn't going on there, as I can use the Barclays app to make payments via my phone.

One thing the bloke did say, which I have to say isn't a bad shout, was to freeze the card in the app when not in use, then unfreeze it when you use it. A bit of a PITA, but not a bad security measure.

[Yambo]

Got my new card on Monday, this morning I see another debit for Deliveroo for around £30. FFS.

. . . even if it is for a piddly amount.

If £30 is a piddly amount I'd say you're grossly overpaid.

[gremlin]

Got my new card on Monday, this morning I see another debit for Deliveroo for around £30. FFS.

. . . even if it is for a piddly amount.

If £30 is a piddly amount I'd say you're grossly overpaid.

That charge has been levelled against me a fair few times before, with just cause I'd argue.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Got my new card on Monday, this morning I see another debit for Deliveroo for around £30. FFS.

. . . even if it is for a piddly amount.

If £30 is a piddly amount I'd say you're grossly overpaid.

He's probably overpaid even after Tax TBF.

[Noggin]

I appear to have upset a muscle over/around some ribs in my side. Again!! FFS!

Very occasionally I'm pleased I do live alone! Even if I only had a cat here, the reactions to some of the noises I'm making when I move would be embarrassing! Bloody glad there's no humans up here to hear!!