start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

I am generally pro the no more free plastic bags thing but it does make the checkout more awkward and items more likely to go missing when you have to cram all your shopping in whatever bag you happen to have with you, e.g. a work rucksack with lots of different sections and full of work items for smaller groceries to hide under.

(Also shop plastic bags used to be perfect for bin bags and it's annoying how much more expensive smaller or not-black bin bags are than the big black bin liners. In a small flat with an open-plan kitchen/living area, you don't really get to build up a whole big sackful of rubbish before it starts to smell, plus we can't use black bags for recycling or they refuse to take it in case it's misplaced landfill.)

Further supermarket grumbling: on several occasions I've bought something at the supermarket on the way home from work specifically because it appears to be reduced (on a special offer shelf with big special offer signs underneath) and then got home, looked at the receipt and found that I paid more than I thought the price was.

I assume I probably read the shelf wrong on at least some of those occasions, but it is getting quite annoying. I really need to remember to check the receipt while I'm still in the shop instead of walking a mile home first.

the local sainsburys has updated their till software and it's a bit odd. doesn't give you the 'use own bags?' option and it's hard to know how to handle that (maybe it zeroes the bagging area scales when it scans the first item). it also spreads the list of scanned items out on the screen in an arc like a pack of cards, rather than just showing you a readable list.

got flagged for an age-check today as well, for a box of paracetamol...

Does look like I didn't get charged for the chillies today but they were one of the main things i went out to get I think.
& chocolate last week may have been down to something turning up on the outside wrapper of the cheese in my shopping . looked like a tomato seed splat or something but may have caused enough distraction that checkout girl didn't complete my shop. & I hadn't been paying attention to what was and wasn't already processed. Don't remember anything like that today though.

that was not among them, i was just being irrationally silly. soz like

believable though

& chocolate last week may have been down to something turning up on the outside wrapper of the cheese in my shopping . looked like a tomato seed splat or something but may have caused enough distraction that checkout girl didn't complete my shop. & I hadn't been paying attention to what was and wasn't already processed.
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probably only noticed the whatever on the cheese because the checkout girl was making something out of it. Cheese itself was in a thick rind thing. So wiping it off would have sufficed.
Not a big fan of the trolleys that LIDL Is using now instead of shopping baskets, seem to be a lot harder to navigate and may get things like tomato splat in the bottom of them without one being able to notice. These are medium sized plastic baskets on wheels rather than the full size wire things. I was much happier with the initial plastic baskets that LIDL introduced and had been happy enough picking up an empty box from one of the shelves to use as an ersatz basket before they went so bourgeois as to actually start having specifically designated baskets.

Companies (or individuals) who design digital fonts referring to themselves as "type foundries".

on several occasions I've bought something at the supermarket on the way home from work specifically because it appears to be reduced (on a special offer shelf with big special offer signs underneath) and then got home, looked at the receipt and found that I paid more than I thought the price was.

Apologies for The Sun link:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2836966/bbc-secret-shopper-finds-two-thirds-of-tesco-customers-overcharged-by-expired-deals/

there's an 'offer expires' date on all the price labels. it's small, but it's there.

(oh, the article says as much)

((carry on))

Yes, I should look for the offer expiry dates next time.

I've def seen them on labels in the Co-Op and Tesco here (never spotted an expired offer, but the labels are useful for questions like "will this big box of something heavy still be on offer when I have less to carry?") but not in the offending Waitrose, where they rotate the offers displays often enough that you might expect them to be current.

(I know, Waitrose being surprisingly expensive non-shocker)

Frequently taht writing is in such small writing you need to pretty much lift the tag up to your yes to see it, than work out how to put the tag back into the display.

& thinking of trolleys I assume that at least LIDL's smaller ones are sized so taht you're tempted to keep putting things into them whereas the smaller wire baskets had a point were they would be filled. Cos otherwise tehy just seem to be more hassle than they're worth, can't be carried easily and take up some floorspace as they're moved around the shop so you're always having to intentionally avoid other shoppers as they move around the store. I think that was less of an issue with the smaller baskets since people took up less space. Also doesn't help that people are leaving the restocking palette/trolleys taking up aisle space that you also need to navigate around.

Now the local LIDL has decided to stop having prices prominently displayed on markers that are suspended from teh ceiling for some reason. So you need to look around for prices, I'm still finding myself automatically looking in the space taht they used to be displayed and finding empty space.

Tesco is the worst. I'm so glad I am not forced by location to shop there (or ASDA).

Waitrose do monthly and weekly offers: weeklies always start on a Wednesday and I'm pretty sure monthlies start on the first Wednesday of the month. I shop there and at Sainsbury's (with an occasional foray into M&S).

If I need something in bulk (and that something is usually bigger boxes of Yorkshire Tea) I visit an offers aggregator like mysupermarket and strike when it's on offer at shops close to home. Also useful for the other two things I only buy on offer: really posh vanilla extract or Sainsbury's own chorizo.

people that I'm casual friends with who post open invites on FB like "I'm going to <location> at <time>, everyone feel free to join me if you like!", cos if it's a tempting offer then I have to think to myself "do I know this person well enough to just drop in on them or will they be like 'oh, right, YOU'". usually I won't bother if it's someone I haven't hugged in the last 3 months

though humorously enough, I did that one time, and one of my best friends from 7th grade, who I added on FB a few months prior and I hadn't seen in like TWENTY YEARS, showed up.

that was one of the most amazingly random things ever.

FB friend keeps posting photos of new lipstick colors in *extreme closeup* & it makes me IA bcz she doesnt wear lipliner & it's all ragged looking & i cant aaaargh

If it wasnt a closeup i wouldnt care

Does anything happen between the hours of 5am and 6am that isn't "twisting around in bed reliving all terrible moments in one's life and ascribing all blame for those moments on oneself"

I mean, I saw somebody jogging that one time but I thought generally that was a 6am-7am activity

There's a longtime furniture store in our little downtown over here that is apparently selling off inventory and possibly closing up shop at some point in the future. I say possibly because the sandwich board on the sidewalk reads: "GOING OUT FOR BUSINESS." This makes me irrationally angry. And then I thought, what if they're not going out OF business, that this fucking sign is some sort of bait to get you in and to ask about the wording and they have some clever explanation prepared? That thought made me even angrier!

They're going all out for business!

People who refract all their political ideas/views through Harry Potter metaphors are not grown up enough to be discussing politics

Ppl who say "so long story short" but do not summarize anything that follows so it's just a two-part long story

People who whisper on the bus. It's fucking creepy.

"Hey...wait'll you see my diiiiiiiiiiick"

Whenever a site (or an ilxor) links to some tweet all "!!!" and I end up clicking on it and waiting for the Twitter app to load and then find out it's just some more worthless snark.

The people who, the second that a thing goes out of print, sell their used copies of the thing at a 10,000% markup are parasites, and I hope all of their belongings melt into an amorphous lump of slag.

they might list it at 10,000% markup, but many of em don't sell the thing

Right? They just inflate the price across the board and create a holding pattern for the now-unsaleable high-demand item in question.

and what is this thing anyway, I mean I don't really think I need it

Banana Splits on 45

guy brings up three records that total $18 and says "can you do any better..."

i wanted to say: yes, actually, let's make it $20 and that way i do better.

but i just told him no. we can't do better. and it made me irrationally angry.

When people tell you they're dropping by in 10 minutes. A little more notice for fuck sake?

hah yeah i hate that, esp cos they often time it when you're in the shower so you're toweling off and hearing knocking and wondering why (if they texted yo uthat is)

LOL yeah. It's just bad etiquette

i say no. fuck it. i object to anyone who thinks it's acceptable to invade my personal space with fuck-all notice. if they made the decision without even bothering to check first, and my refusal puts them out, they can suck it up.

Yeah, that's pretty much my perspective. Thankfully, the people in my life respect my need for a heads up.

"Great, but you might need to wait on the porch for a while because I'll be masturbating."

i solve this particular dilemma by never having people over.

but what if they called to say they're 10 minutes away and you missed the call 11 minutes ago

just do what I do every time someone knocks on the front door if they're not selling Girl Scout cookies: turn off all the lights and pretend I'm not home

I have a fake conversation with two characters

"Look man, the moon is full, I should be changing - what's wrong?"
'Be patient - your transformation will be complete soon. All will be revealed.'

what if they say they will be over in 10 minutes and then show up 3 hours later without contacting you. that's worse, right?

Let's be real you're not busy, folks. And you could use the company.

Love yis an all but

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Last time we hosted Thanksgiving we told everyone to come over around 2pm. Sister-in-law said she'd probably arrive a little early in hopes of avoiding traffic. Sure, fine. Thanksgiving I jump out of bed in a panic when our doorbell is ringing at 7am. There's SIL, all smiles, reports the roads were clear. Wife later sees a text on her phone that had come through at 6am, "On my way!"

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*slam door closed*

Kushner, a onetime New York Democrat, and Bannon, a hard-right nationalist, have clashed as Kushner has told people that Bannon’s desire to deconstruct the government, is hurting the president.

That last comma is fucking infuriating.