Room 101

[DevonDeathTrip 2,305]

Self-service tills. I spent too much valuable time paffing about in Morrisons earlier trying to pay for about five items. For unknown reasons the (bloody annoying) voice from the machine instructed me to wait for assistance, which took forever to arrive as the harassed assistant in question was trying to help every other hapless victim of the crap technology.

 

My understanding of shoplifting law is that you are guilty of the offence if you leave the store with goods and without offering payment. Therefore I can't help wondering if I would be within my legal rights to just walk out with my shopping and use the defence that I was offering payment, but Morrisons are seemingly incapable of accepting it?

[Handrejka 1,861]

Self-service tills. I spent too much valuable time paffing about in Morrisons earlier trying to pay for about five items. For unknown reasons the (bloody annoying) voice from the machine instructed me to wait for assistance, which took forever to arrive as the harassed assistant in question was trying to help every other hapless victim of the crap technology.

 

My understanding of shoplifting law is that you are guilty of the offence if you leave the store with goods and without offering payment. Therefore I can't help wondering if I would be within my legal rights to just walk out with my shopping and use the defence that I was offering payment, but Morrisons are seemingly incapable of accepting it?

Funnily enough this happened to me yesterday. My card was declined twice at the self service till. The second time it happened I hadn't realised and walked off. The assistants are quick enough then let me tell you.

 

They marched me back to the till and watched me pay, could have been worse though I guess.

[time 8,172]

Self-service tills. I spent too much valuable time paffing about in Morrisons earlier trying to pay for about five items. For unknown reasons the (bloody annoying) voice from the machine instructed me to wait for assistance, which took forever to arrive as the harassed assistant in question was trying to help every other hapless victim of the crap technology.

 

My understanding of shoplifting law is that you are guilty of the offence if you leave the store with goods and without offering payment. Therefore I can't help wondering if I would be within my legal rights to just walk out with my shopping and use the defence that I was offering payment, but Morrisons are seemingly incapable of accepting it?

Agreed. See also my post from a few years ago!

[Deathray 2,939]

 

 

Self-service tills. I spent too much valuable time paffing about in Morrisons earlier trying to pay for about five items. For unknown reasons the (bloody annoying) voice from the machine instructed me to wait for assistance, which took forever to arrive as the harassed assistant in question was trying to help every other hapless victim of the crap technology.

 

My understanding of shoplifting law is that you are guilty of the offence if you leave the store with goods and without offering payment. Therefore I can't help wondering if I would be within my legal rights to just walk out with my shopping and use the defence that I was offering payment, but Morrisons are seemingly incapable of accepting it?

Agreed. See also my post from a few years ago!

This would only be viable if absolutely no counters that are manned were open.

[Toast 15,362]

I like the scan-as-you-go ones, where I arrive at the checkout with everything already packed at my leisure, and all I have to do is pay.

[Bibliogryphon 9,049]

For those of you in the US who are looking forward to the latest series of Dancing with the Stars it looks like Vanilla Ice will be taking part. He has certainly been a frequent DDP pick in years gone by so we look forward to updates that he has put all that bad living behind him.

[Youwanticewiththat 611]

For those of you in the US who are looking forward to the latest series of Dancing with the Stars it looks like Vanilla Ice will be taking part. He has certainly been a frequent DDP pick in years gone by so we look forward to updates that he has put all that bad living behind him.

Liking a little joke (part II).. that's when The Reaper starts honing his scythe.

[Toast 15,362]

Twats who insist on answering forum posts when they can't help.

 

I've asked on a genealogy forum if someone can look up a marriage for me in a parish register or another resource.

I said it's not in the GRO index, and may have been left off through a clerical error (there are plenty of examples of this).

I said there's no reason why the two parties wouldn't have married (no previous marriages, over 21, respectable backgrounds etc)

 

Some fool replies that he can't find it in the GRO index.

And it's his opinion that no marriage took place.

 

 

It's particularly annoying because I posted this on the appropriate county page, where there are likely to be folk who have access to the PRs. It's specialist. But the forum is infested with these do-gooder types who try and answer everything.

[charon 4,941]

Twats who insist on answering forum posts when they can't help.

 

I've asked on a genealogy forum if someone can look up a marriage for me in a parish register or another resource.

I said it's not in the GRO index, and may have been left off through a clerical error (there are plenty of examples of this).

I said there's no reason why the two parties wouldn't have married (no previous marriages, over 21, respectable backgrounds etc)

 

Some fool replies that he can't find it in the GRO index.

And it's his opinion that no marriage took place.

 

 

It's particularly annoying because I posted this on the appropriate county page, where there are likely to be folk who have access to the PRs. It's specialist. But the forum is infested with these do-gooder types who try and answer everything.

Sorry, ain't got a clue about that shit.

[Toast 15,362]

 

Twats who insist on answering forum posts when they can't help.

 

I've asked on a genealogy forum if someone can look up a marriage for me in a parish register or another resource.

I said it's not in the GRO index, and may have been left off through a clerical error (there are plenty of examples of this).

I said there's no reason why the two parties wouldn't have married (no previous marriages, over 21, respectable backgrounds etc)

 

Some fool replies that he can't find it in the GRO index.

And it's his opinion that no marriage took place.

 

 

It's particularly annoying because I posted this on the appropriate county page, where there are likely to be folk who have access to the PRs. It's specialist. But the forum is infested with these do-gooder types who try and answer everything.

Sorry, ain't got a clue about that shit.

 

 

[CarolAnn 925]

Twats who insist on answering forum posts when they can't help.

 

I've asked on a genealogy forum if someone can look up a marriage for me in a parish register or another resource.

I said it's not in the GRO index, and may have been left off through a clerical error (there are plenty of examples of this).

I said there's no reason why the two parties wouldn't have married (no previous marriages, over 21, respectable backgrounds etc)

 

Some fool replies that he can't find it in the GRO index.

And it's his opinion that no marriage took place.

 

 

It's particularly annoying because I posted this on the appropriate county page, where there are likely to be folk who have access to the PRs. It's specialist. But the forum is infested with these do-gooder types who try and answer everything.

 

My personal favorite is people who answer review questions on sites like Amazon with "Sorry, haven't tried it" or "Have no idea, don't have it."

[Paul Bearer 5,842]

My personal favorite is people who answer review questions on sites like Amazon with "Sorry, haven't tried it" or "Have no idea, don't have it."

 

I left a similar message on Amazon. I was supposed to get something dilivered on the 1st, but still hasn't been delivered yet. I simply said I hadn't tried it yet as it hasn't been delivered. Was I wrong to do that?

[Deathray 2,939]

You've heard the one about the Corrie archives before, haven't you? About how ITV are fucking sitting on the vast majority of them because they can't be arsed to do a bit of research (to sort out copyright issues) and a bit of transfer of medium work? (which they've probably already done for preservation reasons, if they've got ten brain cells between them).

 

With the abysmally awful CS tonight, I'm starting to hope it gets cancelled so they actually start viewing the archives as a cash cow and make them available from the beginning.

[msc 18,019]

Kids!

 

Well, not all kids. Specific kids. Specifically, the kids who decided to set the flat above us on fire last week. Long story short, I work from home (pays low but I get to spend time with the wean) which as just as well, as last Friday morning I could suddenly smell smoke. Went to check the front door - it's a close, there's usually someone burning toast - only to be face to face with a wall of smoke. I grabbed the wean, and darted outside, while the wife called 999. I then went back into try and get the neighbours (we've got newborns in the close) and got bloody smoke inhalation, but luckily the Polish lass with the newborn heard me and got out OK, and our neighbour on the top floor was actually trapped by the fire/smoke inhalation and the firemen had to save her. The smoke was apparently fucking toxic, so if I hadn't noticed something was up - wife was in, but she's got no sense of smell - her and the wean, not to mention the upstairs neighbour, would have been fucked. Scary to think about, really.

 

Anyhow, I avoided getting chucked in the hospital to be monitored for "smoke inhalation" and our internet has now been fixed after the fire melted the fucking cables.

 

Everyone - us, the wean, the other weans, and the neighbours dog - are all fine. But still, fucking kids.

[Paul Bearer 5,842]

Kids!

 

Well, not all kids. Specific kids. Specifically, the kids who decided to set the flat above us on fire last week. Long story short, I work from home (pays low but I get to spend time with the wean) which as just as well, as last Friday morning I could suddenly smell smoke. Went to check the front door - it's a close, there's usually someone burning toast - only to be face to face with a wall of smoke. I grabbed the wean, and darted outside, while the wife called 999. I then went back into try and get the neighbours (we've got newborns in the close) and got bloody smoke inhalation, but luckily the Polish lass with the newborn heard me and got out OK, and our neighbour on the top floor was actually trapped by the fire/smoke inhalation and the firemen had to save her. The smoke was apparently fucking toxic, so if I hadn't noticed something was up - wife was in, but she's got no sense of smell - her and the wean, not to mention the upstairs neighbour, would have been fucked. Scary to think about, really.

 

Anyhow, I avoided getting chucked in the hospital to be monitored for "smoke inhalation" and our internet has now been fixed after the fire melted the fucking cables.

 

Everyone - us, the wean, the other weans, and the neighbours dog - are all fine. But still, fucking kids.

Wee bastards. Glad you're all ok.

[YoungWillz 19,846]

Good to hear you and the folks are fine. Why everyone doesn't live in detached manor houses in this, the fifth largest economy in the world, I don't know.

[rockhopper penguin 2,264]

Good to hear you and the folks are fine. Why everyone doesn't live in detached manor houses in this, the fifth largest economy in the world, I don't know.

Because the people in the detached Manor Houses have got all the money.

[msc 18,019]

Good to hear you and the folks are fine. Why everyone doesn't live in detached manor houses in this, the fifth largest economy in the world, I don't know.

 

Saving up for one, just need to live another century or seven at the current economic growth rate.

[Death Impends 7,582]

Yikes, little cretins. Glad everyone was unharmed.

[Toast 15,362]

Just noticed that the swear filter f uckery extended to my signature.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

Just noticed that the swear filter f uckery extended to my signature.

There is a solution but it seems no one wants to follow it through.

https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8967-warning-deathlist-downtime/page-2#entry275259

[msc 18,019]

 

Just noticed that the swear filter f uckery extended to my signature.

There is a solution but it seems no one wants to follow it through.

https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8967-warning-deathlist-downtime/page-2#entry275259

 

 

It can be changed by Admin, right? So that's three people: Paul, Magere (MIA) and Grim.

 

As one of those is the on-site admin currently, and you posted that solution a while ago, and there has been no change, then one might surmise that the admin, as it were, are perfectly happy with the swear filter existing.

 

The YouTube video thing is more annoying.

[CarolAnn 925]

Kids!

 

Well, not all kids. Specific kids. Specifically, the kids who decided to set the flat above us on fire last week. *snip* The smoke was apparently effing toxic...

 

Meth lab?

[Deathray 2,939]

Got to love Student Finance. Spend half an hour on the phone to some dingbat and they can't resolve your problem. Ring back, speak to a different advisor and the issues resolved in less than a minute?

[Bluejay 8]

Kids!

 

Well, not all kids. Specific kids. Specifically, the kids who decided to set the flat above us on fire last week. Long story short, I work from home (pays low but I get to spend time with the wean) which as just as well, as last Friday morning I could suddenly smell smoke. Went to check the front door - it's a close, there's usually someone burning toast - only to be face to face with a wall of smoke. I grabbed the wean, and darted outside, while the wife called 999. I then went back into try and get the neighbours (we've got newborns in the close) and got bloody smoke inhalation, but luckily the Polish lass with the newborn heard me and got out OK, and our neighbour on the top floor was actually trapped by the fire/smoke inhalation and the firemen had to save her. The smoke was apparently effing toxic, so if I hadn't noticed something was up - wife was in, but she's got no sense of smell - her and the wean, not to mention the upstairs neighbour, would have been fucked. Scary to think about, really.

 

Anyhow, I avoided getting chucked in the hospital to be monitored for "smoke inhalation" and our internet has now been fixed after the fire melted the effing cables.

 

Everyone - us, the wean, the other weans, and the neighbours dog - are all fine. But still, effing kids.

Little @♢!#%&$☆ - at least you're all okay.