SPAM random annoying things

[DaGaffer]

Forgot my father's birthday because I was busy being a father myself

I rely heavily on my Mum making the effort with us rather than the other way around. Which is bad. One of my biggest regrets is my Dad never got to see my kids (10 years gone this October) so I should be encouraging my kids to talk to Mum every day. As it is if I remember to Skype her once a week I'm doing well.

 

[Raven]

I live next door to my mum and might not see or speak to her for a week sometimes.

 

[caLLous]

Something (rodent sized, probably) died in my garage and I can't find it.

 

[Jupitus]

Something (rodent sized, probably) died in my garage and I can't find it.

Don't worry everyone, I'm here, safe and sound!! *waves*

 

[Lakih]

Uhoh... I think @Jupitus might have been hacked...

 

[Job]

Using the self service till in a packed Tesco Express, the machine locks up and the cashier stops serving the queue to quiz you like a naughty schoolboy from 20ft away, so you've got a 20 person audience and shes barking, like you broke it.
Controlling urge to tell her to fuck herself, when female manager comes over and says ' shall we start over sir?'.
Accusing me of incompetence with an autotill.
Its got my four quid , wont recognise them and won't give them back.
She actually half closed her eyes and shook her head.
She punches in her code and out they come, 'There you go, try again.'
Which was code for do it properly this time idiot.

 

[DaGaffer]

Using the self service till in a packed Tesco Express, the machine locks up and the cashier stops serving the queue to quiz you like a naughty schoolboy from 20ft away, so you've got a 20 person audience and shes barking, like you broke it.
Controlling urge to tell her to fuck herself, when female manager comes over and says ' shall we start over sir?'.
Accusing me of incompetence with an autotill.
Its got my four quid , wont recognise them and won't give them back.
She actually half closed her eyes and shook her head.
She punches in her code and out they come, 'There you go, try again.'
Which was code for do it properly this time idiot.

Tesco self-service tills do seem to be a bit...eccentric in their programming; if you try to buy bread roll; you have to go through the selection for an individual item every time; if you buy a pretzel, it gives you an option to select a quantity. Gets confused if you put a debit card in the reader before selecting pay by card as well.

 

[Edmond]

Cough *user error* cough

 

[Tom]

"Unexpected item in bagg" FUCK OFF

I never use them.

 

[Syri]

The new ones at Morrisons are the best. half the time, it acts as if you've already bagged the first item straight after scanning it, so you put it down just as it starts saying "surprising item in bagging area"... surprising item? it's my shopping!

 

[Raven]

I like them in our local co-op, when they work, which is perhaps once a week.

Great technology but they all need some serious engineering done on them.

 

[Job]

These new long range BT Fon routers, my phone keeps logging on to them, even in the middle of a car park, and you have to disconnect to use 4G.

 

[Job]

AND I have just found out that Sugar Puffs are no more, after dwindiling sales because of sugar in the name, they changed the name to Honey monster puffs and are flying off the shelves...sheeple doing their stuff.

 

[Raven]

These new long range BT Fon routers, my phone keeps logging on to them, even in the middle of a car park, and you have to disconnect to use 4G.

User error. Disable auto connect to <BT shit>

 

[Scouse]

AND I have just found out that Sugar Puffs are no more, after dwindiling sales because of sugar in the name, they changed the name to Honey monster puffs and are flying off the shelves...sheeple doing their stuff.

Corporate greed, marketing and lack of regulation. When parents actively attempt to make better health choices big companies employ marketers to sell their unregulated unhealthy products to children.

I'm with Bill Hicks:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvp97SMZc6M

 

[DaGaffer]

Corporate greed, marketing and lack of regulation. When parents actively attempt to make better health choices big companies employ marketers to sell their unregulated unhealthy products to children.

I'm with Bill Hicks:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvp97SMZc6M

Pah. Caveat Emptor. The content of a cereal box is written on the side of the box. Don't blame marketers if people are too moronic to read it and parents are too weak to say no to their spawn.

 

[Job]

User error. Disable auto connect to <BT shit>

how do you do that on Android?

 

[Raven]

Wifi settings. Select the wifi source (more settings or whatever) untick the box that says autoconnect.

 

[Scouse]

Pah. Caveat Emptor. The content of a cereal box is written on the side of the box. Don't blame marketers if people are too moronic to read it and parents are too weak to say no to their spawn.

Disagree. They'd made their choice so marketeers have amended the product to take this into account. As human animals we make the vast majority of our decisions on a subconscious level (not to do so would mean we couldn't function) so when sugar, for example, has seeped into the public consciousness as "bad" we avoid it. Marketing is about getting people to buy even against that basic impulse and why a it's a multibillion dollar industry with vast amounts poured into reasearch into new methods of making us buy.

The issue is way more complex than self-control. But you already know that.

 

[DaGaffer]

Disagree. They'd made their choice so marketeers have amended the product to take this into account. As human animals we make the vast majority of our decisions on a subconscious level (not to do so would mean we couldn't function) so when sugar, for example, has seeped into the public consciousness as "bad" we avoid it. Marketing is about getting people to buy even against that basic impulse and why a it's a multibillion dollar industry with vast amounts poured into reasearch into new methods of making us buy.

The issue is way more complex than self-control. But you already know that.

So? The information is still on the side of the box and "Honey Monster" has been associated with Sugar Puffs for literally decades; certainly back to the childhoods of all of the idiots buying these things for their kids. This is not exactly a subtle rebrand. The bottom line here is that almost everyone who buys these products knows exactly what they are, and ultimately they just don't care.

 

[Bodhi]

Hadn't you heard? Personal responsibility as a concept went out about 15 years ago - now we're all at the mercy of the big evil corporations, and anything bad that happens isn't our fault, no siree bob. It's because we're all human animals with no free will, or some other pretentious shite.

 

[Tom]

The bottom line here is that almost everyone who buys these products knows exactly what they are, and ultimately they just don't care.

I don't think they do. There exists some startling ignorance on food and what it contains. I wouldn't mind betting that many people still think that cereal is a solid, nutritious healthy breakfast, when in reality the vast majority of it is sugar-laden crap. The Europeans don't seem to relish cereals as we do - they eat what people have eaten across Europe, for centuries - meat, cheese, bread, butter. And funnily enough, before cereals came along, that's exactly what the British ate too. Protein, fats and carbohydrates are what most people need to stay "full" before dinner. Cereals offer only one of those groups.

 

[Raven]

Shit out of a box does yeah. Only idiots eat shit out of a box though.

Think of it as Darwinism. If only the health service didn't enable them so much though.

 

[Scouse]

Only the uneducated eat shit out of a box though.

Fixed.

It's why there's so much cereal eating amongst Brexiters.

But seriously, I know Raven and Bodhi would like to paint this as a black-and-white issue - but it's clearly not. Yes, self discipline is absolutely part of it - but time pressure, education, how you've been brought up (which isn't your own fault), very clever marketing (there's a science to making people buy things that hundreds of billions are spent on - and they don't spend that money for no reason), cultural issues etc. etc.

It's not Darwinism. It's an obeseogenic environment that we're not evolved to live in healthily.

Rather than banning things - I'm a freedom lover after all and don't like sugar taxes, for example - regulation over what can be sold labelled as "food" and what can be sold as "other" needs to happen IMO.

Cereal would come under "other".

 

[Gwadien]

This week we have a @Raven and @Bodhi tag team versus @Scouse on the topic of cereal.

Yes, I'm cerealious.

 

[Raven]

I've had him on ignore for about a month. Far nicer place now.

I imagine his opinion is that everyone should agree with his opinion regardless, I don't need to read his drivel to know that.

 

[Scouse]

Oh thank fuck for that. Auto-disagree is now off and I can have sensible discussions with people!

 

[Gwadien]

That's not a nice thing to say about his mum @Scouse !

 

[fettoken]

Fixed.

It's why there's so much cereal eating amongst Brexiters.

But seriously, I know Raven and Bodhi would like to paint this as a black-and-white issue - but it's clearly not. Yes, self discipline is absolutely part of it - but time pressure, education, how you've been brought up (which isn't your own fault), very clever marketing (there's a science to making people buy things that hundreds of billions are spent on - and they don't spend that money for no reason), cultural issues etc. etc.

It's not Darwinism. It's an obeseogenic environment that we're not evolved to live in healthily.

Rather than banning things - I'm a freedom lover after all and don't like sugar taxes, for example - regulation over what can be sold labelled as "food" and what can be sold as "other" needs to happen IMO.

Cereal would come under "other".

I'm thinking more along the lines of you arguing with yourself again, since @DaGaffer already pointed out the obvious. Time to move along?
Also, Jerry Seinfeld eat's (ate) cereal.

 

[fettoken]

Oh you bunch of special needs children that ignores each other. Come on!!