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rubbish!!

I occasionally pontificate on matters I don't really understand. Just trying to prove I'm not as thick as a braying donkey. Doubtful result, according to our local aggressive donkey as he tries to bite my hand.

You too near The Donkey Sanctuary, Dermie? :-D

If there is one thing in modern life I cannot stand it is supermarket auto check out systems. It is the job of the supermarket to check out the stuff and put it in bags (which we now have to provide ourselves ) not mine. The second thing that drives me nuts is queing in spermarkets.

For those reasons and others ( squalling kids in Tesco, too many zimmerframes in JS ) I usually use Waitrose who have the common sense to pull staff off other tasks and put them on the checkout when busy. They also offer pre-scan if you like that and wil deliver stuff that you may want to eat as opposed to what looks like stuff rescued from the bins. We buy way more than half our food from markets and independent shops anyway and they def have no plans for automation.

In the US supermarkets bring yr bags out to the car and stow them in the trunk for you!

For those that care the attempts of Walmart, JS Sports, Tesco and others to do away with checkout staff are not going well.

OTOH the automation of some services and semi-skilled white collar work is going like a train (lit.). Given the high proportion of the UK work force with mortgage and family commitments the govt might do well to wonder what these people will be doing in ten years time.

Two hundred years ago there was a social and industrial revolution as cottage industry gave way to the mill. It is happening again this time with smart automation. If the Maybot and Gove flog the UK to US bigbiz it will happen a lot sooner and lend real meaning to the phrase "hard exit".
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"me nuts is queing in spermarkets"

well I never knew you could get sperm in supermarkets!! :-D

by the way - it's "queuing"


Edit - Rollo - I see you have edited your posting :-D :-D

there r limits to what is possible with two thumbs and a smartphone while waiting for a train and drinking brandy alexanders

your interpretation of the common phrase "xxx is driving me nuts" is so unusual that poss. you should get some advice.

Advice needed on the spelling of queuing too (not Ann who was C & Ping) lolol ;-)

It really doesn't matter where you shop, idiots are not filtered by ratio relating to the esteem in which you hold a particular chain on the ladder of 'quality'.

I dislike queuing, boring! I also don't use a self service checkout, the technology cannot cope with anything 'out of the norm', simple weight differences or price reductions invoke that awful electronic voice asking for an assistant.

Oh for the days of the village shop, complete with hissing gas lamps, cheese cut and wrapped for you, ham sliced, thinly or otherwise, as you liked it and a few chairs to sit down and have a gossip whilst waiting for your turn. Yes that was still happening in Great Chesterford in the 1970s. Not so much choice of course but I ate healthily lolol.

Even in Wales in the early 1990s it was the same enjoyable chat,shop, chat, shop, routine. Family businesses still being run profitably until that mega business Tesco bought a row of houses and flattened them to build a cold, heartless profit making outpost.

The grumpy one in the Valleys



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oooo-er!

hmm - now which aisle would have the sperm? the aisle with baby items? :-D :-D

or the whale aisle ;-)

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I want to know what is at the end of the queue in the spermarket!! :-0

Edit: had to come back to misspell supermarket :-(

Also, why does queuing in the spermarket drive his nuts?
Do nuts drive? What mechanism/action involved in queuing would force his nuts to drive? :-S

hmm - nuts/sperm - there is a connection there!! and which came first, the nut or the sperm? :-S :-S :-D

every sperm is sacred!!! dontchaknow!

'Every bright person I know is ignorant on certain matters'.

Absolutely, Dermot. :-S

I went to the Doctor's the other day and he said,

"Good Heavens, you've got a steering wheel down the front of your pants!"

"I know", I replied, "It's driving me nuts"

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yeah the most dangerous nut in a car is the one holding the steering wheel

:-D :-D :-D :-D nice one Allan!!