Another annoyance from the same lidl supermarket yesterday. Somebody had dropped what looked like yoghurt on the floor and people were walking through it. So I looked for a staff member before I went to the checkout till. Couldn't see one which is annoying enough in itself. I had to walk the length of the store to get to the till and didn't see anyone.Told the checkout guy who I thought might relay the message through his headset. Didn't seem to. I asked if he was going to be able to tell anybody about it. So there was probably a growing sticky patch up where carts and feet had gone through this slop.Yuck
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 11:17 (six years ago) link
My UK supermarket gripe is that the cashiers in Aldi scan things much more quickly than anyone can pack them. I have figured out that the only thing you can do is load them back into the trolley and pack them afterwards, but nobody will tell you this.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
the only thing you can do is load them back into the trolley and pack them afterwards
Eh, that's what you're supposed to do! The deal with ALDI and LIDL is that they have fewer staff and so longer queues, but between canny line hopping as tills open and close and the amazing speed of the cashiers, you get out much quicker than you'd expect. People who go into these places thinking they can just stand around packing before paying like in other places drive their fellow customers up the wall. You slap all your shopping back into the trolley/basket and take it to the ledge across from the tills to finish off.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link
IIRC Lidl forces you to pack them afterwards is by having a very short, almost non-existent extension of the conveyer belt for after your products are scanned. The more expensive the supermarket, the longer the extension of the belt after the till, so you can pack in with ease. This is a luxury you pay for.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
My UK supermarket gripe is that the cashiers in Aldi scan things much more quickly than anyone can pack them.this is legit stressful
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:07 (six years ago) link
jesus folks some grips get them
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:13 (six years ago) link
aisle two for grips, sir.
This pissed up idiot that used to live around the corner from me, went into the Savile Town Asda with a friend after they had a skinful one night, got into an argument with him and slashed his throat - leaving him with a 6 inch laceration. That's what you really call giving in to anger in a supermarket setting!
― calzino, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:22 (six years ago) link
jesus folks some grips get themlet’s see how long YOU last at the arse end of an aldi tornado
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:24 (six years ago) link
it’s like being drowned in a hail of bullets, except the bullets are near-perfect renditions of well-known pasta sauces and wafer biscuits
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:25 (six years ago) link
if you aint up for the challenge of racing the deadeyed checkpoint checkout guard then the posher shops for gran is usually only a bus away soldier
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:09 (six years ago) link
Subtle protests of divide and conquer.Customers should rise and overthrow these stupid processes innit?Form a co-op like.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
xp signs cost money!
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
i regret to inform you that your haiku needs work
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
threads called things like 'new spiritualized album'
― koogs, Thursday, 20 September 2018 08:47 (six years ago) link
ha ha
we are all in a permanent state of not really remembering the last Spiritualized album though
― Mighty Seething Bat (sic), Thursday, 20 September 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
All sound the same :P
― Ross, Thursday, 20 September 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
People whistling or beeping at you - drives me nuts. My boss does this
― Ross, Thursday, 20 September 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
Facebook inserting 7 second ads into the middle of 30 second videos
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 20 September 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
The warning on my phone's lockscreen saying i'm 'dangerously low on space' like it might spontaneously combust if i don't delete something.
― Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 10:01 (six years ago) link
"@threadreaderapp please unroll thread"
― goole, Friday, 28 September 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
People who start a sentence with the phrase "the reality is..."
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 29 September 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
ending a phrase/headline with "AF"
― omar little, Saturday, 29 September 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
IAAF
― pplains, Saturday, 29 September 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
The United States Air Force is frequently abbreviated as US...
― Romantic koolmoedee (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 September 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
AS FUCK DOT MIL
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
http://afthunderbirds.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/110403-F-KA253-155.jpg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 September 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
My grandfather served in the Air Force.
I live within ten minutes of an AFB.
I even wore my freebie Air Force t-shirt today.
All that to say, I don't think the United States Air Force is AF about anything.
― pplains, Sunday, 30 September 2018 05:49 (six years ago) link
OTMAF
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 September 2018 05:55 (six years ago) link
"here's something i wrote abt xxx in yyy: url""here's a thing* i wrote abt xxx in yyy: url" *(or piece or article or essay or feature or whatever) ^^^all more or less fine
"here's me on xxx in yyy: url"getting annoying
"me on xxx in yyy: url"teeth-gnashingly bad
― mark s, Sunday, 30 September 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
Roommates.com has "af" on every other page
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 30 September 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/W4LoPKt.png
― pplains, Sunday, 30 September 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
"here's something i wrote abt xxx in yyy: url""here's a thing* i wrote abt xxx in yyy: url" *(or piece or article or essay or feature or whatever)^^^all more or less fine
"I wrote a thing. [shortened url with no context]"
"My bit on Topic. [url]"
― Ah, the minty egg bits (sic), Sunday, 30 September 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
when a biopic is made and people focus heavily on whether the actor has been made to look sufficiently identical to the real person, as though it were a lookalike contest rather than a film
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
That "dun-dun-dun-DUUN" Insta-story superzoom noise can fuck off.
― stet, Thursday, 11 October 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
People who take selfies or videos in cars.
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
extra anger for people who use the selfie in a car as their profile pic.
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
“in international news, america america america america america”every single time
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 19 October 2018 08:28 (five years ago) link
America is to the world as Trump is to America
― President Keyes, Friday, 19 October 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link
everyone is sick of trump/america.
― Yerac, Friday, 19 October 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
i'm giving them a few more weeks
― President Keyes, Friday, 19 October 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
People who forward emails/meeting invites to people who were already on the initial email/meeting invite.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 October 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
People who get really into CrossFit and/or weightlifting and then suddenly start *exclusively* posting workout vids and pics to instagram (taken by their trainer or new workout bud I guess??) like I’m not going to unfollow. (ok I’m not going to unfollow because friendz, and also I kinda did/do this re: kid pics so I am also terrible and ok with being unfollowed because of that, but still gaaahhh!)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
yes! or just endless stats or maps of their run route & time etc m
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
I need a stat counter posted on fb of all the pasta I eat. Maybe that will hold me accountable.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
haha I’d look forward to seeing a daily pasta counter instastory tbh omg route tracker pics on social media = technology for technology’s sake + pride
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
people who bring up a subject, then curtly tell you they "don'tw ant to discuss it anymore" when you actually take them up on talking about it
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 November 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
my family does that all the time. "hey isn't <insert neo-nazi here> fantastic?" (one probing question later) "hurr durr i don't want to talk about politics"
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 3 November 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
I must have mentioned this before. It's almost a given.
But the dependence people put on their GPS systems drives me up a fucking wall. My kid's karate studio moved to a bigger location. Before the first class on Saturday, a few of the parents harangued the instructor because their GPS told them to turn 100 yards too late. "And then it tried to get me to go all the way through Boyle Park!" One parent was slightly upset because they arrived 20 minutes late, thanks to the GPS. I remember her proclaiming at her first class at the old place, "It told me to get on the interstate!"
I'm just an old country boy from the sticks who learned to drive on a manual transmission and instinctively learned to know where I was going before I left the fucking house. The new address of the dojo has been emailed and plastered on flyers and drilled into our heads. How did no one think, Huh, wonder where this place might be? I'll look it up on Google Maps/Apple Maps/Bing Maps/OpenStreetMap/Mapquest/Delorme USA.
How do you just hop into the driver's seat and just go, "OK, Computer. Tell us where we'll go today!" Wheee.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
i hate that too!worst road trip of my life was my friend offering to drive to a resort for a work function - she said she knew where it was etc. and then learning halfway there that she had no CLUE where it was but that she’d “figure it out” and there was no cell service for google maps or anything while we’re flying down the i-5 ... all the while I’m like you’re the DRIVER surely it’s your job to work this out before you get in the cockadoodie car you guileless twit ... or at least ask a passenger to navigate & help figure out the route ahead of time. Stressful AF! thumbs down to all of that nonsense
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 November 2018 04:40 (five years ago) link