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As many of you will remember, the 'pet peeves' was good ol' SR rant, with everyone venting their annoyances. On the internet. Score.
Well anyway.. for those of you who have no idea what it's about, you basically list the things that get on your nerves, with a little rant about why under each.
Yet now, it's basically just anything that annoys you really
Warning.. this could be a long, long rant
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People who say 'me' when talking about going somewhere
I realise, this sounds a bit strange, but what I mean is the people who talk about who's gonna be somewhere they've been talking about, when you both know you're going.. then when you ask who else is they say "me, etc". Gah!
We was
It's we were. It's really not that hard. Plain and simple.
You know what I mean?
I'm sure everyone's said or heard it a good few times in their life, when people feel the need to qualify what they've just said with 'know what I mean?', when it's totally unecessary. Blargh!
Dog crap
Come on, pick it up! How hard can it possbily be to just bend down and scoop it up.. or simply just make sure your dog doesn't lay a ten pounder right in the middle of the pavement, usually somewhere in the dark where it can't be seen. Best of all, it's next to impossible not to stand in it, then, the grip on your shoes that's been wearing for the last three years and is almost non-existent suddenly becomes flypaper for little chunks of dog dump.
Saturday Night tv
Let's be honest, it's one of the nights of the week that people would be more than happy to sit down to a little tv about the time you come in from work, or as you stagger home in a paralytic state.. yet all that's ever on is 'Ant and Dec's grab yourself a brain' or the after-midnight slot of quiz shows, that are simply moneygrabbing and pathetic.
Leering O.A.Ps
Maybe leering is too harsh a word, yet, you only have to walk past a pensioner these days for them to give you a look you'd expect Jack the Ripper to get as he walks down the road in a trail of blood, clutching a severed head.. or simply one filled with hatred. When I say walk past I don't mean swaggering past in the escaped-convict look, I mean walking past casually, maybe even giving a slight nod or smile that quickly dies on your lips.
People are never there when you want them to be
I don't mean this in the 'boo-hoo I need a shoulder to cry on' sense, more that whenever you actually need to speak to someone about something you're doing, you almost always never see them.. yet when you don't really care if a person's around or not.. there they are! all the time!
Now that's what I call Music!
Well, it's what I call awful. I hate the chart music, and it's completely beyond me why they felt the need to release more than one 'album' of this in the first place =|
Car Alarms
It's 2am. You're just drifting off to sleep. Outside in the lane and ant coughs and... BEEEEEP! BEEEEEEP! BEEEEEP! on the ten second mark, every ten seconds, for the next few hours. Arrrrgh!
Chewing Gum
There's almost nothing I like about the stuff, and genuinely can't stand the appeal of little strips of plastic coated in sugar. Having said that, I've never even had a piece in my mouth in my life. I get put off mainly by the smell of it.. warm on people's breath is horrible, and the disgusting, sticky little balls that get everywhere. Usually in your hair or all over your shoes.
Mayonnaise
Why the hell does it have to be in everything?! It doesn't mind things together, it just looks and tastes horrible, dribbling all over your clean clothes out the side of a sandwich. Hellman's makes it? Hellman's ruins it.
iTunes
It's about the worst music transferring programme imaginable, half the point of an MP3 player to remove some of the space from your pc, and yet should you want to delete anything from iTunes, the next time you try and add something else the thing that isn't there anymore will be deleted. It wouldn't bother me so much if it was only music, yet films to take me days to download - that I then want off my hardrive - are gone forever.
Age ratings
Thanks BBFC for attempting to protect our children from films they'll only watch with their parents anyway. It just seems to me that preventing people from buying alcohol and cigarettes is fair enough, but stopping people who are seventeen from buying eighteen related films and especially games is just pedantic.
DVD Boxsets
I like the amount of watching time you get out of a boxset, as compared to a film, yet the prices are too high for starters. Now sale prices on things like the American Dad boxset aren't too bad, only £9 for a boxset, but then that's only for a half series! Then there's things like the Simpsons which have only managed to release up to the now ancient Series Eight, yet charge in excess of £30 a set. Finally there's a popular, reasonably long-running series of Malcolm in the Middle which has yet to release any boxsets!
'Deals' and Catches
You've all been suckered in and annoyed by them I'm sure, yet they never stop getting on my nerves. You always seem to see a great deal which then either has so much small print that it's not a deal anymore, or is only available if you subscribe to something that then prevents you from quitting it.
The way the Simpsons went south
Let's be honest, until about Series Nine the Simpsons was brilliant, but then ended up with random endings to episodes that seemed to stem from nowhere, or too many series-specific jokes that aren't funny to those who don't watch 'em.
Stereotypical English 'toffs'
In almost every Hollywood film, English people are portrayed as rich stuck-up members of the 'upper class', rather than the normal people you would see around. We always seem to gain a part as a villain or a whiney, annoying character that you can't wait to die.
WHSmith
They over price everything, the DVDs are about three times the cost that they are anywhere else, the range of CDs is pretty poor and relatively expensive, and even the stationery they're good for seems quite pricey.
The cinema
It's extortion that the price of entry is over a fiver, let alone having to shell out more than £3 even for a small popcorn. I understand and quite like the mentality that to upgrade between sizes is only a matter of pence, yet, I think that should be between medium and large, with small about half the price.
Being PC
I hate the way that everything ever said on tv, in the media, or even in schools now has to be politically correct with people screaming 'racism' at every comment and even the extreme of changing the word 'brainstorm' to 'mindmap' as it might be deemed offensive to epileptics =|
Socks
You never seem to have enough. They usually contrast to the clothes you're wearing. You wear them inside out and don't notice. They quickly wear through or get unwashably dirty.
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And that's how for now, kids
Well anyway.. for those of you who have no idea what it's about, you basically list the things that get on your nerves, with a little rant about why under each.
Yet now, it's basically just anything that annoys you really
Warning.. this could be a long, long rant
*
People who say 'me' when talking about going somewhere
I realise, this sounds a bit strange, but what I mean is the people who talk about who's gonna be somewhere they've been talking about, when you both know you're going.. then when you ask who else is they say "me, etc". Gah!
We was
It's we were. It's really not that hard. Plain and simple.
You know what I mean?
I'm sure everyone's said or heard it a good few times in their life, when people feel the need to qualify what they've just said with 'know what I mean?', when it's totally unecessary. Blargh!
Dog crap
Come on, pick it up! How hard can it possbily be to just bend down and scoop it up.. or simply just make sure your dog doesn't lay a ten pounder right in the middle of the pavement, usually somewhere in the dark where it can't be seen. Best of all, it's next to impossible not to stand in it, then, the grip on your shoes that's been wearing for the last three years and is almost non-existent suddenly becomes flypaper for little chunks of dog dump.
Saturday Night tv
Let's be honest, it's one of the nights of the week that people would be more than happy to sit down to a little tv about the time you come in from work, or as you stagger home in a paralytic state.. yet all that's ever on is 'Ant and Dec's grab yourself a brain' or the after-midnight slot of quiz shows, that are simply moneygrabbing and pathetic.
Leering O.A.Ps
Maybe leering is too harsh a word, yet, you only have to walk past a pensioner these days for them to give you a look you'd expect Jack the Ripper to get as he walks down the road in a trail of blood, clutching a severed head.. or simply one filled with hatred. When I say walk past I don't mean swaggering past in the escaped-convict look, I mean walking past casually, maybe even giving a slight nod or smile that quickly dies on your lips.
People are never there when you want them to be
I don't mean this in the 'boo-hoo I need a shoulder to cry on' sense, more that whenever you actually need to speak to someone about something you're doing, you almost always never see them.. yet when you don't really care if a person's around or not.. there they are! all the time!
Now that's what I call Music!
Well, it's what I call awful. I hate the chart music, and it's completely beyond me why they felt the need to release more than one 'album' of this in the first place =|
Car Alarms
It's 2am. You're just drifting off to sleep. Outside in the lane and ant coughs and... BEEEEEP! BEEEEEEP! BEEEEEP! on the ten second mark, every ten seconds, for the next few hours. Arrrrgh!
Chewing Gum
There's almost nothing I like about the stuff, and genuinely can't stand the appeal of little strips of plastic coated in sugar. Having said that, I've never even had a piece in my mouth in my life. I get put off mainly by the smell of it.. warm on people's breath is horrible, and the disgusting, sticky little balls that get everywhere. Usually in your hair or all over your shoes.
Mayonnaise
Why the hell does it have to be in everything?! It doesn't mind things together, it just looks and tastes horrible, dribbling all over your clean clothes out the side of a sandwich. Hellman's makes it? Hellman's ruins it.
iTunes
It's about the worst music transferring programme imaginable, half the point of an MP3 player to remove some of the space from your pc, and yet should you want to delete anything from iTunes, the next time you try and add something else the thing that isn't there anymore will be deleted. It wouldn't bother me so much if it was only music, yet films to take me days to download - that I then want off my hardrive - are gone forever.
Age ratings
Thanks BBFC for attempting to protect our children from films they'll only watch with their parents anyway. It just seems to me that preventing people from buying alcohol and cigarettes is fair enough, but stopping people who are seventeen from buying eighteen related films and especially games is just pedantic.
DVD Boxsets
I like the amount of watching time you get out of a boxset, as compared to a film, yet the prices are too high for starters. Now sale prices on things like the American Dad boxset aren't too bad, only £9 for a boxset, but then that's only for a half series! Then there's things like the Simpsons which have only managed to release up to the now ancient Series Eight, yet charge in excess of £30 a set. Finally there's a popular, reasonably long-running series of Malcolm in the Middle which has yet to release any boxsets!
'Deals' and Catches
You've all been suckered in and annoyed by them I'm sure, yet they never stop getting on my nerves. You always seem to see a great deal which then either has so much small print that it's not a deal anymore, or is only available if you subscribe to something that then prevents you from quitting it.
The way the Simpsons went south
Let's be honest, until about Series Nine the Simpsons was brilliant, but then ended up with random endings to episodes that seemed to stem from nowhere, or too many series-specific jokes that aren't funny to those who don't watch 'em.
Stereotypical English 'toffs'
In almost every Hollywood film, English people are portrayed as rich stuck-up members of the 'upper class', rather than the normal people you would see around. We always seem to gain a part as a villain or a whiney, annoying character that you can't wait to die.
WHSmith
They over price everything, the DVDs are about three times the cost that they are anywhere else, the range of CDs is pretty poor and relatively expensive, and even the stationery they're good for seems quite pricey.
The cinema
It's extortion that the price of entry is over a fiver, let alone having to shell out more than £3 even for a small popcorn. I understand and quite like the mentality that to upgrade between sizes is only a matter of pence, yet, I think that should be between medium and large, with small about half the price.
Being PC
I hate the way that everything ever said on tv, in the media, or even in schools now has to be politically correct with people screaming 'racism' at every comment and even the extreme of changing the word 'brainstorm' to 'mindmap' as it might be deemed offensive to epileptics =|
Socks
You never seem to have enough. They usually contrast to the clothes you're wearing. You wear them inside out and don't notice. They quickly wear through or get unwashably dirty.
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And that's how for now, kids
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Smedlos wrote:
> Cyclists who ignore red lights and just ride on straight through
> :(
Cyclists period. They think the Highway Code doesn't apply to them because their vehicle doesn't have an engine.
Also, I can't remember if I mentioned these in my list of pet peeves earlier in this topic, but these are the pet peeves which I encountered today:
- OAP racers (yes, an old woman speeding past me as I waited to pull onto the main road from m dad's shop)
- People who think you can see them in a van with no rear-view mirror when they tailgate you (an old man was right behind me, and i couldn't see him. I was on a narrow bridge and had to give way to a lorry which refused to let me through, so I had to reverse off the bridge, didn't see him because he was in the blind spot directly behind me, and I hit him. Not hard enough to do any damage though and he didn't seem at all bothered. The lorry driver then told me how close he was before I started reversing)
- Being hungry
- Double parkers
- Double parkers
- Double parkers, two of which were both old people. They would pull up in front of me, they could see I was waiting to see what they did, waiting for it to be safe to drive through, then they park slap-bang in front of me. These two occurances happened at different tiimes. It wasn't a gang-up.
It's time the media learned who the real inconsiderate hazards were on the road. It's not the boy racers - they don't come out until night time, when it's safer to drive faster because no-one's around.
Or that's how it is in my village anyway.
> Cyclists who ignore red lights and just ride on straight through
> :(
Cyclists period. They think the Highway Code doesn't apply to them because their vehicle doesn't have an engine.
Also, I can't remember if I mentioned these in my list of pet peeves earlier in this topic, but these are the pet peeves which I encountered today:
- OAP racers (yes, an old woman speeding past me as I waited to pull onto the main road from m dad's shop)
- People who think you can see them in a van with no rear-view mirror when they tailgate you (an old man was right behind me, and i couldn't see him. I was on a narrow bridge and had to give way to a lorry which refused to let me through, so I had to reverse off the bridge, didn't see him because he was in the blind spot directly behind me, and I hit him. Not hard enough to do any damage though and he didn't seem at all bothered. The lorry driver then told me how close he was before I started reversing)
- Being hungry
- Double parkers
- Double parkers
- Double parkers, two of which were both old people. They would pull up in front of me, they could see I was waiting to see what they did, waiting for it to be safe to drive through, then they park slap-bang in front of me. These two occurances happened at different tiimes. It wasn't a gang-up.
It's time the media learned who the real inconsiderate hazards were on the road. It's not the boy racers - they don't come out until night time, when it's safer to drive faster because no-one's around.
Or that's how it is in my village anyway.
Cyclists who ignore red lights and just ride on straight through :(
People who are for abortion. It's mah body! You shouldn't have had sex then!
I've got to agree on the point about drivers not indicating for pedestrians, I have to almost run the gauntlet some mornings going to school; lazy, moronic and above all, dangerous. I was once almost run over by one of my school's art teachers, who not only failed to indicate but was speeding. He wasn't impressed by my 15 year-old self telling him he should have slowed down and indicated!
Kids shouting "Emo!" at me. I have long brown hair and dress in the good ol' Metalhead tradition of denim and leather; it's incredibly irritating to be associated with the latest pathetic fad by a bunch of ignorant, moronic chav kids.
Fanta. Why do Coca-Cola deem it necessary to sell different flavours abroad than in thre UK? Why not sell a wider variety? Fanta Latina or Fanta Greenz I never once saw on sale in the UK, and they were damn nice to boot.
Computers in my School. I study ICT, and although I'm not a brilliant student I still have to use computers quite a bit, and whilst i'm waiting for the slow heaps of junk to load, I'll discover that some kids have damaged USB ports, so I may not be able to save anything and continue with it at home particularly easily. And Add/Remove Hardware has been disabled, so I have to wait for a computer to shut down before removing said USB flash Drive, that is if I've managed to insert it in the first place.
Deeply conservative American politicians. The more liberal wing of the Republicans, I have few problems with (Guiliani, Ah-nold, Gingrich etc), but the ones who seem to think that abortion and stem cell research are pure evil when being able to own several large firearms is perfectly ok do sicken me. Lobbying and religion: doing no good for US politics since god-knows-when.
Kids shouting "Emo!" at me. I have long brown hair and dress in the good ol' Metalhead tradition of denim and leather; it's incredibly irritating to be associated with the latest pathetic fad by a bunch of ignorant, moronic chav kids.
Fanta. Why do Coca-Cola deem it necessary to sell different flavours abroad than in thre UK? Why not sell a wider variety? Fanta Latina or Fanta Greenz I never once saw on sale in the UK, and they were damn nice to boot.
Computers in my School. I study ICT, and although I'm not a brilliant student I still have to use computers quite a bit, and whilst i'm waiting for the slow heaps of junk to load, I'll discover that some kids have damaged USB ports, so I may not be able to save anything and continue with it at home particularly easily. And Add/Remove Hardware has been disabled, so I have to wait for a computer to shut down before removing said USB flash Drive, that is if I've managed to insert it in the first place.
Deeply conservative American politicians. The more liberal wing of the Republicans, I have few problems with (Guiliani, Ah-nold, Gingrich etc), but the ones who seem to think that abortion and stem cell research are pure evil when being able to own several large firearms is perfectly ok do sicken me. Lobbying and religion: doing no good for US politics since god-knows-when.
Hedfix wrote:
> Places that put sauce on things even if you request that they
> don't.
Let me just add to this. Fast-food joints who used to salt your chips but wont anymore because some fat c**kface sued them for making him fat.
> Motorists who don't bother to signal for pedestrians. Oh i'm
> supposed to psychicly know you were going to turn left?
I nearly got run over a couple of years ago because of this. The stupid thing is if i'd slapped her like she deserved, i would have been arrested. The flip-side of this now is that unless i'm certain a car isn't turning i wont cross the road. This then leaves me standing around feeling like a pillock when they drive past.
> Christmas jumpers. Infact all festivity/easter themed jumpers
> and the fools who wear them.
I went out shopping on Christmas eve in a big red santa hat. You can suck on my christmas balls.
> Republican nutjobs.
You mean there's any other kind?
> The notion that fame somehow means a famous person is better
> than someone else.
This is a real irritant to me. I'm a pretty quiet guy, i dont like talking and as such i sort of expect other people to be the same or to at least not try and force a reply out of me. Yet EVERY SINGLE SODDING DAY i have to put up celebrity gossip from my sister, she expects me to have something to say on the matter and wont leave until i have at least acknowledged what she's talking about. I dont know how many times i've told her i couldn't give a toss about what Jordan or some other nobody is up to and yet she still feels the need to come and tell me it all. Why?
> Soaps - see above.
> News companies that own both politically right and left papers.
> There's something not right about that.
I think i'll just stick this under scummy red-top tabloids
> People who say 'Have a nice day' without meaning it.
This comes under "So what, you want me to reply?" Do not talk to me unless you have something worth saying. Everytime i hear those words it always makes me feel i'm selling my soul to the corporate devil and i walk out with the determination never to go back.
> People who use 'LOL' and 'ROFL' in actual verbal conversations.
14 months ago an ex-girlfriend did that. I just glared at her.
> Little yappy dogs.
They never bloody shut up. Get a real dog!
> People who don't pick up after their dogs, dogs peeing on
> things... infact dogs in general. Dogs are scum and should be
> classed as vermin unless they have a practical use and aren't
> just living trinkets/fashion items.
Hedfix
> The kind of society that's happy to let it's waitresses scrape
> together a living based upon tips rather than a fixed salary.
I agree entirely but thats possibly because i dont tip unless necessary. I dont see the justification in paying for a meal and then having to pay extra on top. Just raise the price of the food instead.
> Headless chickens running about over-politicising every decision
> so as not to offend anyone in the known universe.
Basically people who stir up problems that dont exist.
> "Woman awarded damages because coffee cup was not labelled
> 'hot'".
Women awarded damages because they were turned down for work theyre not physically built for. Sexual descrimination my a**e
> Gardening and the sense that things must be tamed and that nice
> natural things can be improved by human-interference.
I have a love-hate thing with gardening. I love it when i'm actually doing it but i hate it when i'm not. Difficult to find the motivation to get on with it.
> Human arrogance (see entire post)
My own arrogance. I'm one of the most stubborn, pig-headed, know-it-alls you'd ever know and i'll never admit to being wrong about anything that matters to me.
> Websites who can't accept that "Gay-bye" (sic) is a
> jokey term made by posters on the site and is not designed to be
> offensive to homosexuals.
In-jokes that i've never quite understood. They come across as elitist and poncey.
> People who put 'Nuff said' as if their post is the definitive
> article and cannot be questioned in any way, shape or form.
I'll trump that with "Woteva!" How are you supposed to argue with that!?
Grrrrrrrrrrraggggggggggh!
> Places that put sauce on things even if you request that they
> don't.
Let me just add to this. Fast-food joints who used to salt your chips but wont anymore because some fat c**kface sued them for making him fat.
> Motorists who don't bother to signal for pedestrians. Oh i'm
> supposed to psychicly know you were going to turn left?
I nearly got run over a couple of years ago because of this. The stupid thing is if i'd slapped her like she deserved, i would have been arrested. The flip-side of this now is that unless i'm certain a car isn't turning i wont cross the road. This then leaves me standing around feeling like a pillock when they drive past.
> Christmas jumpers. Infact all festivity/easter themed jumpers
> and the fools who wear them.
I went out shopping on Christmas eve in a big red santa hat. You can suck on my christmas balls.
> Republican nutjobs.
You mean there's any other kind?
> The notion that fame somehow means a famous person is better
> than someone else.
This is a real irritant to me. I'm a pretty quiet guy, i dont like talking and as such i sort of expect other people to be the same or to at least not try and force a reply out of me. Yet EVERY SINGLE SODDING DAY i have to put up celebrity gossip from my sister, she expects me to have something to say on the matter and wont leave until i have at least acknowledged what she's talking about. I dont know how many times i've told her i couldn't give a toss about what Jordan or some other nobody is up to and yet she still feels the need to come and tell me it all. Why?
> Soaps - see above.
> News companies that own both politically right and left papers.
> There's something not right about that.
I think i'll just stick this under scummy red-top tabloids
> People who say 'Have a nice day' without meaning it.
This comes under "So what, you want me to reply?" Do not talk to me unless you have something worth saying. Everytime i hear those words it always makes me feel i'm selling my soul to the corporate devil and i walk out with the determination never to go back.
> People who use 'LOL' and 'ROFL' in actual verbal conversations.
14 months ago an ex-girlfriend did that. I just glared at her.
> Little yappy dogs.
They never bloody shut up. Get a real dog!
> People who don't pick up after their dogs, dogs peeing on
> things... infact dogs in general. Dogs are scum and should be
> classed as vermin unless they have a practical use and aren't
> just living trinkets/fashion items.
Hedfix
> The kind of society that's happy to let it's waitresses scrape
> together a living based upon tips rather than a fixed salary.
I agree entirely but thats possibly because i dont tip unless necessary. I dont see the justification in paying for a meal and then having to pay extra on top. Just raise the price of the food instead.
> Headless chickens running about over-politicising every decision
> so as not to offend anyone in the known universe.
Basically people who stir up problems that dont exist.
> "Woman awarded damages because coffee cup was not labelled
> 'hot'".
Women awarded damages because they were turned down for work theyre not physically built for. Sexual descrimination my a**e
> Gardening and the sense that things must be tamed and that nice
> natural things can be improved by human-interference.
I have a love-hate thing with gardening. I love it when i'm actually doing it but i hate it when i'm not. Difficult to find the motivation to get on with it.
> Human arrogance (see entire post)
My own arrogance. I'm one of the most stubborn, pig-headed, know-it-alls you'd ever know and i'll never admit to being wrong about anything that matters to me.
> Websites who can't accept that "Gay-bye" (sic) is a
> jokey term made by posters on the site and is not designed to be
> offensive to homosexuals.
In-jokes that i've never quite understood. They come across as elitist and poncey.
> People who put 'Nuff said' as if their post is the definitive
> article and cannot be questioned in any way, shape or form.
I'll trump that with "Woteva!" How are you supposed to argue with that!?
Grrrrrrrrrrraggggggggggh!
Slow Walking Tourists
Yes i understand you're impressed by the big white wheel and the big clock and want to take pictures but i've seen it more times than i care to remember and i'm trying to get somewhere, so can you please not stop dead in front of me when you're walking, otherwise i will be forced to put on my steel-toe capped boots and kick your ankles.
Yes i understand you're impressed by the big white wheel and the big clock and want to take pictures but i've seen it more times than i care to remember and i'm trying to get somewhere, so can you please not stop dead in front of me when you're walking, otherwise i will be forced to put on my steel-toe capped boots and kick your ankles.
Not sure if someone has said this already...but when you are trying to become a member of a site and they take ages sending a conformation email when your trying yo buy something!!!
Blue Bolt [the Sainsbury's version of RedBull]
When you go into Sainsburys looking to buy a 26p can of the stuff, considering you've been there many a time to get a litre bottle! (which costs 99p)
So, instead of the usual hassle of finding the big bottle, you go for the smaller can. Again a tried and tested option. Once again you go to pay at Customer Service, which has been a much used method of quick, easy, payment.
But wait! As part of the new 'labelling' scheme... Sainsbury's and ASDA have both decided that things like alcohol, niccotine etc can only be sold to people over 21 (well, with proof of 18+ identity)
Not this woman at Sainsbury's! No, for her Blue Bolt contains 'stimulants', which it does, and so restrict the sale of the product. Ok, I see the point there, so little kids don't get all over-hyped on the caffeine. But when I ask what the age limit is, to be told "I can't sell it to you if you're under 21" is possibly the most stupid thing I've ever heard.
Surely I could just whack out the ID saying I'm 17, which should be fine in the situation, to buy a product not restricted by age limit to any great extent. But of course not. Not in Sainsbury's. These days they seem to have decided the age limit is ACTUALLY 21, not that that's the age you should take as a guideline in asking for ID. Or maybe Blue Bolt is the one thing you become legally entitled to on your 21st? Long after niccotine, legalised sex, driving, alcohol, voting...
When you go into Sainsburys looking to buy a 26p can of the stuff, considering you've been there many a time to get a litre bottle! (which costs 99p)
So, instead of the usual hassle of finding the big bottle, you go for the smaller can. Again a tried and tested option. Once again you go to pay at Customer Service, which has been a much used method of quick, easy, payment.
But wait! As part of the new 'labelling' scheme... Sainsbury's and ASDA have both decided that things like alcohol, niccotine etc can only be sold to people over 21 (well, with proof of 18+ identity)
Not this woman at Sainsbury's! No, for her Blue Bolt contains 'stimulants', which it does, and so restrict the sale of the product. Ok, I see the point there, so little kids don't get all over-hyped on the caffeine. But when I ask what the age limit is, to be told "I can't sell it to you if you're under 21" is possibly the most stupid thing I've ever heard.
Surely I could just whack out the ID saying I'm 17, which should be fine in the situation, to buy a product not restricted by age limit to any great extent. But of course not. Not in Sainsbury's. These days they seem to have decided the age limit is ACTUALLY 21, not that that's the age you should take as a guideline in asking for ID. Or maybe Blue Bolt is the one thing you become legally entitled to on your 21st? Long after niccotine, legalised sex, driving, alcohol, voting...
Oh yeah, and Jade Goody.
Christ Hedfix, your posts really are quality.
"Prawned".
Christ Hedfix, your posts really are quality.
"Prawned".
I find Kawada and Alfonse annoying.
Ah the Trifecta of annoyingness is complete soon we shall rule the known world and discover just how Jade Goody keeps her annoyingness up so high day after day.
Ah the Trifecta of annoyingness is complete soon we shall rule the known world and discover just how Jade Goody keeps her annoyingness up so high day after day.
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