Reply With QuoteWhy folk want to search out watch shops when on holiday.
It is tedious enough on most UK crap high streets.
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Husband is ‘allowed’ to rack up points on the account, but the free coffees are solely for the wife to get?Originally Posted by Onelasttime
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Why folk want to search out watch shops when on holiday.
It is tedious enough on most UK crap high streets.
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Better than another bloody church or castle.
Why people using contactless on their phone on the London Underground wait right until they are at the barrier before unlocking their phone, navigating to the Google payments app, having 3 stabs at getting their thumbprint recognised by the phone to unlock the app and then having a ham fisted attempt at scanning. All at rush hour. And usually the culprits are the fairer sex.
How about a bit of forward planning please! Make sure your phone is out and unlocked, app is unlocked and just awaiting the phone to be scanned on the reader BEFORE you get to the barrier.....
Amateur ................ I take a screenshot before going to the station and just switch the phone on.
At least on iPhone you can set an express card for apple pay for public transport. No face ID needed and apparently even works when your phone is out of battery.
I think that's the general London selfishness thing...they know they aren't ready, they could quite easily step to one side, get their phone/card out before blocking the barrier but it's much easier for them to walk to the barrier, block it whilst everyone waits for them but they are first.
I see it as the visitors, the regulars are well versed.
Those at the gate unprepared get my feedback loudly.
It is not rocket science is it.
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True...same people that like to congregate at the entrance to platforms and wont move down carriages away from the doors.
This is the same person who arrives at the supermarket cashier, diligently stacks all their shopping, bags it slowly and then it comes as a complete surprise to them that they need to pay for it. The sequence above ensues. Rinse and repeat for any retail environment.
The visitor fear of getting trapped in the middle of a tube lol. Backpacks being worn also highlights them a good distance away.
Same people at airport security who are taken aback about liquids, electronics and belts after many many signs and announcements advising them. Dullards
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Also the ones who jump off the carriage as soon as the doors open and then stand there in the way of everyone else while they work out which way to walk for the exit.
I assume you've never been a stranger at a railway or bus station?
Can`t believe the intolerance being expressed on this thread.
Go to Covent Garden on a Saturday and get a coffee for 30 mins outside and just watch the people wander around. Hard not to get wound up by it. As bad as weekend drivers or retired people who chose 10am on a Saturday to go to the supermarket clogging the aisles and loaded up the till at one item every 27 seconds.
But I would take that ten times over vs being sat next to Americans at a half decent restaurant. The chef could put a dead cat on your plate and it wouldnt ruin your meal the way American tourists can and somehow always do.
Maybe some of you would be better off staying in, less stressful!
Some seriously ageist attitudes on here, don't forget you'll get old yourselves eventually.
If you really need that extra 30 seconds then it's probably a good idea to set off earlier!
What cranks my rod even more is people who think they should be in front of everyone else. Guy in supermarket this week trying to push us aside 'do you mind if I have a look at those?'. 'Yes I do because we were here first and we're looking at them'. Look on his face was priceless.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Most of this isn’t intolerance or anything to do with age, most of the inconsiderate people on the tube in my experience are probably younger than 40. Even if you are a stranger to a station, moving out the way of a platform entrance or moving away from the busy doors towards the empty middle of the carriage is common sense. In fact, most of the platform entrances now have a hashed yellow box around them as a reminder. I’ve seen people still block the area unnecessarily.
Hell is too many other people, in too small a space, all at the same time*. Covent Gdn, like tourists, nearly always best avoided.
Echo this at airports....the knobbers who stand so close to the luggage carousel for their cases like they're gonna explode if they miss them. And what about that "1 metre" line that suggests we'll ALL be able to see and step up when the time is right to lift it off.
A-holes !! 😡
What a stupid reply.
Of course I have been to unfamiliar stations.
I just have the thoughtfulness (self awareness) to step out of the way to let others pass while I orientate myself, rather than jump off the carriage first and stand right outside the doors getting in everyone else's way.
Gotta love tourists . Spain really loves them at the moment judging by the demonstrations going on.
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Why nappy sacks are 95p for 150 yet dog poo bags are £1.20 for 150.
Last nice meal we had before the baby was the Wolsey and we were sat next to four American girls roughly 25-30 years old. Torture.
They do the cut up a few pieces, put the knife down, swap the fork to their other hand & shovel the food in thing?
Because the latter have to be biodegradable, whereas the nappy ones don't?
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
More about obnoxiously loud conversations where every sentence ends in I KNO RITE! With the weird high pitch thing making statements sound like questions.
In that case it was three slim decent looking girls and then one girl the same size as me talking about her love life the entire time. Really back to the front.
Use nappy sacks for the dog mess. I alwayys used to.
Yes, they’ve got to biodegrade on a bush.
I like that as you can dismember them with your case as you pull it off
Minimum target should be a ruptured cruciate.
There’s one thing you can’t stand, and that’s intolerance! :-D
So there's a fireworks event near me on the banks of the Thames where some of the proceeds are going to be spent on cleaning up the Thames locally and helping river creatures thrive.
So in order to do that we're going to have a bunch of fireworks detritus land in the river and pollute it, plus scare the bejeezus out of the aforementioned river creatures.
Makes sense. Not.
My best mates Yank wife does this.
I have known her years and it still stuns me every time.
That said he can’t use a knife and fork either.
They were made for each other.
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It is such a strange thing to see, isn’t it!
Also the using a knife as a pulling device, moving the food away from the fork vs using it as a cutting device.
I'm idly wondering if this is some now unrecalled throwback from the iconic time of westwards expansion, those early pioneering days... keep one hand free for their side arm, in case raiders or injuns come over yonder hill...
Or might it be to demonstrate they're different to Europeans, having thrown off their colonial masters, they reject old colonial ways, even table manners?
Upon the first occasion of dining in the home of the In laws, a home cooked meal, the MIL chided the FIL, ´´slow down you´re shovelling your food in, look how nicely Passenger is eating...¨ his reply ´´I´m an American, I´ve got things to do´´...
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Oh my, last year heading back from Madeira a woman had a big whiny argument with the security about a bottle of Madeira wine. Cost about €10. She went on and ont. After she went finally through, her husband was next having the same argument about the same sort of bottle. Only he was hammered and the argument was even more stupid. If you went through security you came past a alcohol shop which sold the same bottles. It was insane.
And just in case there are no bushes in the immediate vicinity, a Nissan will easily oblige....
My brother does this. Fork in right hand with elbow on table, either wafting it around as he talks or chasing food around the plate with it. Then trying to cut food up with the edge of the fork! Aaaaarrrggghhhh.....
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
My commute takes me around half of the M25…I’ll never understand why so many people are happy to sit in lanes 2 and 3 even when there is no traffic on the inside lanes. It’s so annoying that if I don’t want to risk an undertaking manoeuvre, I’ve got to move from lane 1 to lane 3 or 4 then back to 1 again.
Are they oblivious, or do they just not care? We seem to be gradually adopting a US “pick a lane and drive in it” style.
Any four lane stretch of motorway in the UK really seems to flummox the majority of drivers. Bizarre.
The knobbers who used to drive in the middle lane now amble along in the 3rd lane. Crackers !!!
It’s possibly the same people that join the motorway at 40mph.
Quite a few times I’ve been driving at 70mph in the ‘slow’ lane, overtaking the middlers.
I used to regularly do M4, M25 and off at St Albans. I see the M25 as lawless and will just stick to my speed in the inside lane. If I happen to pass the other lanes and undertake I see it as me just carrying on with my current speed.
I’m not jumping in and out of lanes trying to make progress, but neither am I going to hammer on the brakes to stay behind traffic in another lane.
Weird part about daily commutes is you start to know which lane to be in at which point do the journey to avoid the traffic. Day in, day out, always the same places.
People eating in offices (eg yogurt) and have finished it but keep tapping away with their spoon , almost as if they will discover more hidden yoghurt. FFS it’s finished. It’s over. Hybrid working is a saviour.
Why Microsoft seem to make everything so unfathomably and unnecessarily complicated.
I thought switching from a 'MS365 Home' package to a more expensive 'Business' subscription would be an improvement, but after 36 hrs without access to any of my email accounts, numerous login conflicts to deal with, and completely non-existent support, I really just wish I hadn't bothered at all.
Well that is 2 days of my life I will never get back.
Why everyone hasn't got a Mac.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Why the nurofen syringes are so premium or why the calpol syringes are so bad.
How stereotypes can be so vicious yet so accurate.
At the GP this morning and a big fat blonde girl comes in with the typical grey tracksuit white trainers combo with her belly out, a thousand keys in one hand in yapping into her phone with the other hand, more foundation than the high rise I grew up in and knob length eyelashes.
Stunk of cigarettes and chewing gum and the second she sat down she opens a can of red bull.
Whatever you’re here for I don’t think I the dr will be the one to cure you.
Nobody on this forum has the faintest idea what you are on about...
Genuine LOL.Nobody on this forum has the faintest idea what you are on about...
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