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    A New Menace...

    ...after car alarms, annoying ring tones and traffic lights with escorts it would appear that there is a new menace stalking the landscape.

    Just the utterance of these few words I am sure will have the red mist descending on the good people of CUK so, brace yourselves, for I'm going to say it;

    UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA

    I have just spent 20 minutes in Tesco and was subjected to this irksome advisory on no less than 4 occasions and each one of these occasions requiring the involvement of a member of staff. I'd have been better off joining the regular queue despite the fact there were 50 people in it! I can only be thankful that I don't indulge in the consumption of alcoholic beverages otherwise I'd have had to have waited for yet another intervention.

    While I'm on the subject, I was further delayed when one of my carrier bags disintegrated. Why oh why can't they MAKE THE BAGS A LITTLE THICKER? I'm as green as the next man and would normally use my own bags but this was a spur of the moment trip. I actually used to like that thick paper shopping bags furnished by Safeway a few years Bach. They were strong and , most importantly, biodegradable. I seem to recall they also had a system involving cardboard boxes at one time which worked well.

    Anyway, I digress, anyone else find these self service checkout becoming the bane if their lives? It any other of life's little irritations you'd like to share?

    #2
    There's another thread for 'little things that annoy you....' somewhere here.

    PS - why is your spelling always so odd? Bach?
    Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
    +5 Xeno Cool Points

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      #3
      Originally posted by gricerboy View Post
      ...after car alarms, annoying ring tones and traffic lights with escorts it would appear that there is a new menace stalking the landscape.

      Just the utterance of these few words I am sure will have the red mist descending on the good people of CUK so, brace yourselves, for I'm going to say it;

      UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA

      I have just spent 20 minutes in Tesco and was subjected to this irksome advisory on no less than 4 occasions and each one of these occasions requiring the involvement of a member of staff. I'd have been better off joining the regular queue despite the fact there were 50 people in it! I can only be thankful that I don't indulge in the consumption of alcoholic beverages otherwise I'd have had to have waited for yet another intervention.

      While I'm on the subject, I was further delayed when one of my carrier bags disintegrated. Why oh why can't they MAKE THE BAGS A LITTLE THICKER? I'm as green as the next man and would normally use my own bags but this was a spur of the moment trip. I actually used to like that thick paper shopping bags furnished by Safeway a few years Bach. They were strong and , most importantly, biodegradable. I seem to recall they also had a system involving cardboard boxes at one time which worked well.

      Anyway, I digress, anyone else find these self service checkout becoming the bane if their lives? It any other of life's little irritations you'd like to share?
      What, like you?

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        #4
        Originally posted by MaryPoppins View Post
        PS - why is your spelling always so odd? Bach?
        He's actually using this rubbish to transmit coded messages to a terrorist cell. That particular misspelling probably means 'We strike at dawn! Death to the Infidels!" or some such

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          #5
          Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
          He's actually using this rubbish to transmit coded messages to a terrorist cell. That particular misspelling probably means 'We strike at dawn! Death to the Infidels!" or some such

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            #6
            Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
            He's actually using this rubbish to transmit coded messages to a terrorist cell. That particular misspelling probably means 'We strike at dawn! Death to the Infidels!" or some such
            You know, I THOUGHT that was what it was.
            Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
            +5 Xeno Cool Points

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              #7
              Never used 'em as there is always a long queue of confused-looking old dears at them.
              +50 Xeno Geek Points
              Come back Toolpusher, scotspine, Voodooflux. Pogle
              As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF

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                #8
                Originally posted by gricerboy
                It any other of life's little irritations you'd like to share?
                double threads
                And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                  double threads
                  WMTTS... I'll merge the threads. When I work out how to do it, that is.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by realityhack View Post
                    WMTTS... I'll merge the threads. When I work out how to do it, that is.
                    Ask someone technical to help you. I think you've got away with winging the mod thing so far.
                    What happens in General, stays in General.
                    You know what they say about assumptions!

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