Trivial things you don't understand/mildly annoy you

[Reg Smeeton]

 I remember the 50's before the advent of supermarkets.

Shopping consisted of a trip to specialist shops, Eric Lane's for meat, Wilf Castle's for bread and lardy, Wallis's for fish and Berry's for fruit and veg. For things like tea Lipton's and cleaning/hygiene products Timothy White's and Boots.

The Co-Op, in Groundwell Road, happily then as now handy for odds and sods. The town centre was an altogether different place, to now. Civilised.

[4D]

I remember when tills use to have the big typewriter style keys and each item was keyed in. Your goods were slid back into a big well area behind the teller, then a beam was slid across to trap your shopping so you could pack whilst they served the next person. They use to have a massive pile of boxes so that you could help yourself to pack if you didn't have carrier bags.

[horlock07]

We're going through the same. Make friends with a few electricians and ask about. Sadly both electricians who our electrician said could do it had stopped after one got caught and lost his job and the other threw in the towel as he wanted to keep his job.

Will see what we can do - to be honest in regulation terms if the meter is OK in a bathroom it can stay where it is, have a slight problem as a relative works for ENWL so probably would not want to put a sparky in that position. Whats a complete pisser is spoke to a mate who is a sparky still based back in the Shire and he says to get it done down there is a couple of hundred quid tops....

[Chubbs]

Staying on the subject of checkouts. When the person behind you starts unloading their shopping before you have finished...

Also, when the cashier starts scanning your shopping before you finish unpacking, leaving a massive pile of shopping at the other end which you have to rush to pack.

[Reg Smeeton]

I remember when tills use to have the big typewriter style keys and each item was keyed in. Your goods were slid back into a big well area behind the teller, then a beam was slid across to trap your shopping so you could pack whilst they served the next person. They use to have a massive pile of boxes so that you could help yourself to pack if you didn't have carrier bags.

I used to like it when there was a system of compressed air tubes wreathing some shops, whereby money and notes etc could be put into a container and then shot up to the office, where clerks could keep a careful handle on the smooth running of the operation.

[4D]

They could also do with having a wet sponge at the checkout to aid the opening of the carrier bags 

[chalkies_shorts]

They could also do with having a wet sponge at the checkout to aid the opening of the carrier bags 

I suppose it would give Luke Williams something to do

[4D]

I used to like it when there was a system of compressed air tubes wreathing some shops, whereby money and notes etc could be put into a container and then shot up to the office, where clerks could keep a careful handle on the smooth running of the operation.

Like C&A

[Flashheart]

I tend not to encounter such problems as I avoid shopping like the plague.

I win!

[pauld]

It was all so much better before the advent of these so-called "shops" and their lazy "convenience". Back in medieval times, my grandad used to grow his own pigs then carry them one by one up to the Corn Market where he'd barter them for a sharp axe or some woad to dye cloth with. Never had a problem with express checkouts and the like. Although we did all used to die of starvation and disease quite a lot. Swings and roundabouts.

[Chubbs]

Im currently in Geneva for a couple of days and fuck me is it expensive.
Luckily i can expense my meals and travel else i'd be looking for somewhere to sell a kidney.

[Wilf Shergold]

It was all so much better before the advent of these so-called "shops" and their lazy "convenience". Back in medieval times, my grandad used to grow his own pigs then carry them one by one up to the Corn Market where he'd barter them for a sharp axe or some woad to dye cloth with. Never had a problem with express checkouts and the like. Although we did all used to die of starvation and disease quite a lot. Swings and roundabouts.

Swings and roundabouts? Bloody toff. We had to make do with mud and weevils.

[horlock07]

I used to like it when there was a system of compressed air tubes wreathing some shops, whereby money and notes etc could be put into a container and then shot up to the office, where clerks could keep a careful handle on the smooth running of the operation.

Lots of modern supermarkets still have these from the tills

[horlock07]

Im currently in Geneva for a couple of days and fuck me is it expensive.
Luckily i can expense my meals and travel else i'd be looking for somewhere to sell a kidney.

We went there for a stag night and fucking hell it was pricey, and to be honest a bit shit.

Went into one strip joint and the bloke behind the bar looked at my mates and said 'you might want to look at the drinks list first lads', it was hugely expensive and we left without having a drink. (note I missed all this as I went straight to the bog on the way in and thus had a big dump in the plushest toilets ever without the expense of actually buying a drink - result!)

[Chubbs]

We went there for a stag night and fucking hell it was pricey, and to be honest a bit shit.

Went into one strip joint and the bloke behind the bar looked at my mates and said 'you might want to look at the drinks list first lads', it was hugely expensive and we left without having a drink. (note I missed all this as I went straight to the bog on the way in and thus had a big dump in the plushest toilets ever without the expense of actually buying a drink - result!)

In the hotel, a can of beer is around 8/9 quid. Reminds be of being in Paris.

And your right about it being a bit shit... I took a tram into the center, got off, looked around for 5 minutes and got straight back on, back to the hotel to watch the footy.