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MrLongbeard wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 4:18 pm Self scanning as you shop is soooooooooooo much easier / more convenient and takes a whole lot less time than dealing with people on tills

What is HUGELY frustrating here is if the checkout person knows the customer. They will continue their chat long after the transaction has finished and anyone queueing can just go fuck themselves. This is normal practice in all retail establishments here !

Potter wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 7:53 am

Jody wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:57 am
What is HUGELY frustrating here is if the checkout person knows the customer. They will continue their chat long after the transaction has finished and anyone queueing can just go fuck themselves. This is normal practice in all retail establishments here !

That's the thing that I miss, popping down the shop for a paper and talking to the person behind the counter for twenty minutes.

One thing I notice is how uninterested shop assistants are in the UK, over here as soon as you see an assistant they wish you good morning or good afternoon, whereas the best you get in the UK is a disinterested grunt.

Would you do that even if it meant other customers just had to wait while you had a chat?

Jody wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 8:49 am

Potter wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 7:53 am

Jody wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:57 am
What is HUGELY frustrating here is if the checkout person knows the customer. They will continue their chat long after the transaction has finished and anyone queueing can just go fuck themselves. This is normal practice in all retail establishments here !

That's the thing that I miss, popping down the shop for a paper and talking to the person behind the counter for twenty minutes.

One thing I notice is how uninterested shop assistants are in the UK, over here as soon as you see an assistant they wish you good morning or good afternoon, whereas the best you get in the UK is a disinterested grunt.

Would you do that even if it meant other customers just had to wait while you had a chat?

Nah. They only disinterestedly grunt in every shop in the UK.

(In my village shop the till would be unmanned...the boss would be out the back showing me his new MV. ).

I'm not massively into shop chat but the missus is in spades.
So I guess that's balance of sorts.

Jody wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 8:49 am

Potter wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 7:53 am

Jody wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:57 am
What is HUGELY frustrating here is if the checkout person knows the customer. They will continue their chat long after the transaction has finished and anyone queueing can just go fuck themselves. This is normal practice in all retail establishments here !

That's the thing that I miss, popping down the shop for a paper and talking to the person behind the counter for twenty minutes.

One thing I notice is how uninterested shop assistants are in the UK, over here as soon as you see an assistant they wish you good morning or good afternoon, whereas the best you get in the UK is a disinterested grunt.

Would you do that even if it meant other customers just had to wait while you had a chat?

I chat in the shops up here at the moment (FA else to do!!) but, when another customer comes to the till, I move out of the way so my friend can serve them and then continue chatting after.

Probably do more chat than normal cos I'm trying to get to know the people up here before they all leave for the interseason (and I've not been able to talk to them before now!!), but I do move away so other people can get their shopping!!!

Potter wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 7:53 am

Jody wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:57 am
What is HUGELY frustrating here is if the checkout person knows the customer. They will continue their chat long after the transaction has finished and anyone queueing can just go fuck themselves. This is normal practice in all retail establishments here !

That's the thing that I miss, popping down the shop for a paper and talking to the person behind the counter for twenty minutes.

One thing I notice is how uninterested shop assistants are in the UK, over here as soon as you see an assistant they wish you good morning or good afternoon, whereas the best you get in the UK is a disinterested grunt.

Bloody good, I'm out shopping, I know what I want and don't need asking every 2 minutes if I need help or upselling anything let alone give a shit about their opinion on the weather or Mr's Miggins cat

Surely it depends massively on the type of shop.

I'm not expecting the guys in Tesco to greet me, but every time I've been to a vaguely specialist shop (running shoes and bike gear spring to mind) I've been offered help almost straight away.

Yes, even in the shitty UK!

Stupid folk

I walk Elvis around the hills behind the house most days and know all the paths and trails.
When I see folk looking bemused I always stop to offer advice. Usually gratefully received.

This morning I saw a couple, mid 70s, looking at a map where the path leaves the road.
Once again I asked if they were OK. They said they were going all the way up the volcano and taking a path that I knew was bad.
Despite me offering a better route, they were adamant they'd do it their way coz a guy in the pub told them it was OK.
I smiled and went on my way. They'll need to turn back about 3/4 of the way up and find another way up.

It's 28c right now and gonna get hotter.

Hmmm.

Yorick wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 11:31 am Stupid folk

Hmmm.

A few years ago I was with friends, walking along the Wayfarers Way.

Some trail riders came along. I went to have a chat with one, but he decided to charge off and spray me with gravel.

I was going to tell him about the nails that someone had scattered across the track.

Potter wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 11:43 am

MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 10:57 am
Bloody good, I'm out shopping, I know what I want and don't need asking every 2 minutes if I need help or upselling anything let alone give a shit about their opinion on the weather or Mr's Miggins cat

I don't like being badgered in shops, but I do like good old fashioned politeness and greetings.

E.g. if I go for a walk and pass anyone whilst I'm out, whether sitting on a park bench or just walking past me, then they get a smile and a greeting.
I especially like when our local vicar (in the UK) who lives near us passes me, I never tire of saying "Morning Vicar"
I've caught some people unawares and they look at me funny, they're obviously not used to being wished a good morning by a stranger walking past.

Here it's almost mandatory, it's always the customary greeting if you're close enough to speak to someone, whether you know them or not.

It is weird here. You can walk past people but rarely say anything to each other, unless you're dog walking. All dog walkers acknowledge each other and even stop and chat?

Potter wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 11:43 am

MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 10:57 am
Bloody good, I'm out shopping, I know what I want and don't need asking every 2 minutes if I need help or upselling anything let alone give a shit about their opinion on the weather or Mr's Miggins cat

I don't like being badgered in shops, but I do like good old fashioned politeness and greetings.

E.g. if I go for a walk and pass anyone whilst I'm out, whether sitting on a park bench or just walking past me, then they get a smile and a greeting.
I especially like when our local vicar (in the UK) who lives near us passes me, I never tire of saying "Morning Vicar"
I've caught some people unawares and they look at me funny, they're obviously not used to being wished a good morning by a stranger walking past.

Here it's almost mandatory, it's always the customary greeting if you're close enough to speak to someone, whether you know them or not.

You might like it here; outside the Pale, you often get pedestrians acknowledging you: when you're driving!

Folk still say morning here when passing but not in the afternoon for some reason. Got a couple of Brazilian elderly women in the next street who are unrelated to each other but they are well cheery all the time and always say Morning/Afternoon with big warm smiles on there face

I work in Gharlies in Aber two or three days a week...on the tills. (Charlies is a hardware/country store...bit of everything). I am always pleasent to customers...if the queue is ok I will chat, about anything, but if someone is in a hurry, so be it. Since october when I started, I have only had three or four grumpy customers...even when I bugger up and have to start all over again....

Potter wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 11:43 am
I don't like being badgered in shops, but I do like good old fashioned politeness and greetings.

E.g. if I go for a walk and pass anyone whilst I'm out, whether sitting on a park bench or just walking past me, then they get a smile and a greeting.
I especially like when our local vicar (in the UK) who lives near us passes me, I never tire of saying "Morning Vicar"
I've caught some people unawares and they look at me funny, they're obviously not used to being wished a good morning by a stranger walking past.

Here it's almost mandatory, it's always the customary greeting if you're close enough to speak to someone, whether you know them or not.

Its a bit like that here, even in the winter when the place is mostly tourists. When I first came here I did get funny looks from the locals as I was this weird english bird that said Bonjour very badly to everyone; I also waved at the people I recognised like the bus drivers and snow plough drivers This was pre pink hair but they still thought I was weird, from the reactions

Once I learnt that 'salut' is the more friendly/less formal version of Bonjour (sort of like 'Hiya' instead of 'Good Morning' - not exactly, but similar ish), I use that (not in meetings etc, but in resort I figure it's a holiday place, so less formal!!). Thing is, people still looked at me funny and then I found out that 'singing' salut in a very friendly happy voice is not the French way

I still do it and just accept that all think I'm a bit weird

But I quite enjoy the confusion on some peoples' faces because I do look like a brit (no self respecting French woman would have pink hair FFS!!) and then I sing out Saloooo as a greeting. Love it

Potter wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 11:43 am

MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 10:57 am
Bloody good, I'm out shopping, I know what I want and don't need asking every 2 minutes if I need help or upselling anything let alone give a shit about their opinion on the weather or Mr's Miggins cat

I especially like when our local vicar (in the UK) who lives near us passes me, I never tire of saying "Morning Vicar"

Why thank you very much! Top of the morning to you as well!

1; The ham fisted monkeys that fitted the wheels to my daughter car last time around, FFS they don't need to be on there that sodding tight

2; The fucking bodge merchant that drilled out the front disc retainer screws on same bloody car.

3; And a while later the bastard that didn't drill the rears out too although to be fair the discs looked like they were originals, so a dab of neversneeze was applied to help the next poor bastard out, coz it ain't gonna be me.

4; Mini / BMW, come on guys, if you want me to change the brake wear sensor have the connection somewhere accessible whilst doing a brake job

MrLongbeard wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 5:22 pm 1; The ham fisted monkeys that fitted the wheels to my daughter car last time around, FFS they don't need to be on there that sodding tight

2; The fucking bodge merchant that drilled out the front disc retainer screws on same bloody car.

3; And a while later the bastard that didn't drill the rears out too although to be fair the discs looked like they were originals, so a dab of neversneeze was applied to help the next poor bastard out, coz it ain't gonna be me.

4; Mini / BMW, come on guys, if you want me to change the brake wear sensor have the connection somewhere accessible whilst doing a brake job

Yep and me ....



It's from where the windscreen wiper motor comes through the shutter panel below the windscreen.
My brothers garage repainted around the window a while ago and knowing what his painter is like he definatley would have taken all the linkage off to paint.

I'll be doing some more research today, but the little I did yesterday suggests the only way to buy that part is to buy a whole assembly. £90 for a grubby looking used one!

My brother has since fallen out with me and most of our brothers (there's 6 of us). He won't pay me for work I did for him last year so the chances of him paying for this are zero

My nephew's diet....

He's 11 and, shall we say, slightly corpulent. We had the family around for dinner on Sunday, full roast turkey, spuds, creamed leeks, cauli-cheese, broccoli, beans, etc. etc. Plenty to choose from, whatever your taste. It was a help yourself job as there were a fair few of us. Net result, his plate consisted of three slices of turkey, which he ate then went and stuffed an Easter egg.
Unfortunately, his tends to be typical of his nutritional intake these days. If there's something he doesn't like, he refuses to eat it, so his mum cooks him a frozen pizza, beans on toast or suchlike, which is then covered in ketchup and usually followed by cake or biscuits. If there's something new on offer, he refuses to try it and gets cooked another frozen pizza, etc. He's always been a fussy eater, but it's getting to the point now where a few of us in the family are worried about it. I'm told, not that I requested such information, that he has a dump once a week on average and it ain't pretty in there afterwards, by all accounts.
His exercise level is practically zero, even though he holds a brown belt in karate (go figure). I've gone to watch him previously when he goes for a new ranking and at one point I thought he was doing tai-chi, such was the lack of speed in the kata. .

His mum seems quite laid back about the whole situation, making light of it, and although the wife has had a gentle conversation around his weight, it's not our place to criticise.

gremlin wrote: Tue Apr 19, 2022 1:21 pm My nephew's diet....

My nephew is 15. White toast with the crusts cut off for breakfast, then it's either margarita pizza, plain pasta or the cheapest chicken nuggets available. His vegetable intake is oven chips. I have no idea how he's still alive.

We had words at Christmas when he emerged from his bedroom to go to the toilet, glued to his phone he had no idea I was there. He walked into the bathroom, pissed on the toilet seat and the floor then went back to his room, never looked up once from his phone.

My eldest had a terrible diet (and no amount of persuasion would change it) as a kid and was a bit of (let's be frank) a lardarse as a result. By rights children, with all that energy and growing to do, should be as thin as whippets. I recall in desperation us going to the GP about it and was told, rather too sarcastically I thought, that children in the UK didn't die of malnutrition any more. This was before Boris and food banks of course, where you were automatically adjudged a bad parent rather than a victim of government policy AND a bad parent. You could probably get struck off for that sort of attitude now.

But, having said that, as an adult my eldest eats like a normal, balanced hooman these days and isn't a fatty - so maybe it's me that should be less judgemental of twatty, unhelpful GPs.