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As someone who works in a shop this does my head in. Apparently the customers see it as bad customer service when i tell them to put it back where they got it from…
I know what you mean, it's really annoying!
As someone who works in a shop this does my head in. Apparently the customers see it as bad customer service when i tell them to put it back where they got it from…
I notice that the people calling for alcohol to be banned at sports events don't appear to be the people who actually attend such events.
And, for some of them, that is because the results of (excessive) alcohol consumption is why they don’t attend the events.
I notice that the people calling for alcohol to be banned at sports events don't appear to be the people who actually attend such events.
And, for some of them, that is because the results of (excessive) alcohol consumption is why they don’t attend the events.
Incidentally, I feel the same about the latter as I do about charter trains with certain types of locos on them. Far too often you'll come across the 'enthusiast' coaches full of people drinking heavily in the early morning, but then they're fast asleep on the way back. What a way to enjoy a charter train!
Oh and I do go to some sporting events. I've been to a few recently, what with the Commonwealth Games being on. Two of those events were athletics at the Alexander Stadium, and yes even at 10am people were on the beers. Considering how expensive beer/wine/etc was, in the middle of a cost of living crisis, I'm amazed they had the funds to do that! Thankfully, the tea/coffee drinkers outnumbered the boozers by a large margin, and it was a nice atmosphere. Compare that to the opening ceremony where people were drinking heavily all the way through, which made for a much less pleasant atmosphere.
Maybe it's just me, but I really don't think there's a need for consuming alcohol at a sporting event. If you're there to watch and enjoy the team's performance, then surely being sober is better? Granted, I appreciate most people can enjoy a couple of beers and be sensible afterwards, but I stand stubbornly by my view.
I also don't agree with things like 'we won the match' or whatever, unless the individual saying it is actually a part of the team then it's certainly not the correct use of words! I appreciate the enthusiasm and passion behind it, of course, as the speaker is displaying pride in the team's result (or not if their team of choice lost!) which is certainly no bad thing.
Now that I agree with - if only because it means such tours tend to run out by the time I like a beer in the afternoon.
Personally, I think it enhances the experience - eventhough I don't tend to go to the bigger sporting events anyway.
As a response to some of the previous posts (and I may have already "banned" this previously), people who dislike football so much that they make it a personality trait. You're welcome to not like it, my best friend has zero interest in the sport but we have plenty of other shared interests. It isn't a badge of honour though. You should define yourself by what you DO like, not what you don't.
I've got next-to no interest in video gaming, but (other than this sentence) the only way you'll find out is to ask me.
People who when they change their mind about buying a refrigerated or frozen item at a supermarket just dump it on a random unrefrigerated shelf.
As someone who works in a shop this does my head in. Apparently the customers see it as bad customer service when i tell them to put it back where they got it from…
Are you sure you mean kb. I had a Casio QV-10. No card (serial transfer), but 2 Mb storage.It's not like the old days of limited capacity 256kb memory cards in early digital cameras
I meant what I typed. Depends how far back you go I suppose!Are you sure you mean kb. I had a Casio QV-10. No card (serial transfer), but 2 Mb storage.
Casio QV-10 is about as far back as you can go - for consumer products.I meant what I typed. Depends how far back you go I suppose!
Early digital cameras that used removable storage were often supplied with very small cards, such as 256kb ones. Anyway, those details aren't really relevant to the point I was making which was "if you want to sell something on Ebay you need to make it look good. Don't take photos in darkened rooms; and if you aren't happy with the photos you've taken you are allowed to try again and take some that aren't awful".Casio QV-10 is about as far back as you can go - for consumer products.
My postie collects my outgoing mail if I leave it in my letter-box.For less than £1 extra they will!
Thank god, how many types of toothpaste does their need to be. Just looked at Colgates range they have 64 types of toothpaste!!!, add a size for each one to that you may have over 200 too choose from just them. Add all the other brands and you could have a whole supermarket just for toothpaste.One thing I have noticed about toothpaste is that the range is much smaller than it used to be, and that supermarket own brands (unlike in just about every other type of product) are pretty much nonexistent. I've long wondered why.
Especially frozen bags of peas they don't open unless you run a knife down it anyway and the slider thing is usually open anyway, it wont close after.I would ban so-called resealable packs. Do they seal? Maybe at the tenth attempt. And then you can't get them open again!
A clothes peg does the job just fine.
Thing is though the obsessive types that do the groundhopping stuff are usually trainspotters and real ale CAMRA fanatics. Some of the groundhoppers really have little interest in the game their main goal is ticking the ground off, collecting tickets, badges and a program and a teamsheet. Some are known to leave after 20 minutes to head off too tick another ground off.Ooh goody, people who don't like football, happy days! I have been to one or two in my time, I remember going to watch Swansea play at The Vetch (their old ground) which shows how long ago that was, went with some uni friends so it was more a social thing. Can't remember any others, so it either didn't happen again or I have locked away the memory. Seen too many matches on TV, although that was for vastly different reasons that would take forever to explain!
It's not my thing at all, and quite frankly I suspect most people only go to the matches or whatever to have an excuse to get drunk. Poor souls, nothing better to do with their existences other than to get drunk and act like idiots. While wearing their football team shirts with bellies bigger than the goal at either end of the field!
Which leads me onto what I'd ban if I had the power:
Alcohol consumption at sports events. Whether this is athletics, swimming, football, whatever it is, the consumption of alcohol would be banned. No sale of it on the grounds, and bags checked for alcohol on the way in.
Shops fault for putting the same items in different parts of the shop. You go around the drinks isles and only find the warm bottles of pop, you want a water, but then as you near the till there it is in a fridge 200 meters away from where you picked up the warm one, I'm doing the shop a favour by putting it in the fridge for you.As someone who works in a shop this does my head in. Apparently the customers see it as bad customer service when i tell them to put it back where they got it from…
The cricket fans are like this ''How did Kent get on today?''. Me ''don't know, did you see the Liverpool game?'', Cricket Fan.'' I don't like football, so don't care''. I hate Cricket but a simple ''no'' would have been more polite. Is it jealousy that one sport completely dominates all others to the point Cricket gets forgotten by SKY Sports in August.As a response to some of the previous posts (and I may have already "banned" this previously), people who dislike football so much that they make it a personality trait. You're welcome to not like it, my best friend has zero interest in the sport but we have plenty of other shared interests. It isn't a badge of honour though. You should define yourself by what you DO like, not what you don't.
I've got next-to no interest in video gaming, but (other than this sentence) the only way you'll find out is to ask me.
It's not like the old days of limited capacity 256kb memory cards in early digital cameras- you can take loads on your phone and just use the best ones.
The earliest digital cameras I can recall are ones that used a 1440kB floppy disk as storage. I'm guessing that these 256kB ones would have been PCMCIA cards (more commonly found in laptops)?Early digital cameras that used removable storage were often supplied with very small cards, such as 256kb ones
Can we ban newspapers from lifting stories from forums like Mumsnet and Reddit, and then presenting them as news.
If you did that you would put a lot of shallow rags out of business. Actually, that is not a bad idea...
I'm slightly surprised the forums that often get trawled don't enforce their copyright.
TOCs who describe their passengers as "customers". I don't particularly know why, I know I have no justification for it whatsoever, but it still annoys me, and I still dislike it.
Are you sure you mean kb. I had a Casio QV-10. No card (serial transfer), but 2 Mb storage.
I meant what I typed. Depends how far back you go I suppose!
Casio QV-10 is about as far back as you can go - for consumer products.
Early digital cameras that used removable storage were often supplied with very small cards, such as 256kb ones. Anyway, those details aren't really relevant to the point I was making which was "if you want to sell something on Ebay you need to make it look good. Don't take photos in darkened rooms; and if you aren't happy with the photos you've taken you are allowed to try again and take some that aren't awful".
Consider this a "mea culpa" post, I was in fact having a brain-fart and when challenged on it, doubled down instead of questioning myself!The earliest digital cameras I can recall are ones that used a 1440kB floppy disk as storage. I'm guessing that these 256kB ones would have been PCMCIA cards (more commonly found in laptops)?
I'm a Kent supporter in exile in Cornwall. I have little interest in football, and detest rugby, but I've never known anyone throw into a conversation with me how Kent have done, but some feel impelled to tell me 'United won, but Chelsea lost' or 'Wales slaughtered France in Cardiff' when, frankly. it's as much as I can do to grunt in reply. I wouldn't dream of telling them Kent had just won the County Championship, in the unlikely event of that happening.throw into The cricket fans are like this ''How did Kent get on today?''. Me ''don't know, did you see the Liverpool game?'', Cricket Fan.'' I don't like football, so don't care''. I hate Cricket but a simple ''no'' would have been more polite. Is it jealousy that one sport completely dominates all others to the point Cricket gets forgotten by SKY Sports in August.
Has, of course, happened a few times before, but not since 1978.I wouldn't dream of telling them Kent had just won the County Championship, in the unlikely event of that happening.