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manxcat

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  1. Oh, yes, that reminds me of when I used buses on a regular basis and had a saver ticket. No acknowledgement whatsover when I showed by ticket most of the time. Except occasionally after walking past them as if I'm invisible, they would shout "Oiiiiiii!!!!!! come back, I need to see it", so I walk back with everyone on the bus gawping and the bus driver makes a kind of grunt of disappointment when he sees it's not out of date. Oh the joys of bus travel, I miss it so much. Not
  2. What harm have the cannabis slobs ever done to me? Well, unfortunately I lived next door to some once. They might be happy to live in squalor with overflowing bins and rubbish all over their back yard but I wasn't too happy when we got rats because of this. Then there's the smell of pot travelling through the walls. No one believes this unless it's happened to them but in old houses smells can travel through adjoining properties in the tiny holes in old bricks and cavities in the walls. And it's wasn't just the odd whiff now and again, it made it smell like we were the potheads to anyone visiting the house.
  3. Yeah, it's probably a good idea to disguise cards in a brown envelope. HSBC have started sending out bank cards in disguised envelopes now. It's so crap that we have to resort to this nowadays.
  4. Yes most are slobs. There's always going to be an exception to prove the rule like you but 9 times out of 10 they are slobs. My friend's younger brother ended up like that after starting smoking weed when he was about 12. This is a really bright kid but he ended up dropping out of uni 3 times because he got caught up in this lifestyle.
  5. The issue is not with store detectives doing their job, it's when it becomes intrusive it's problem. Like obviously hovering a few feet from you and following you around. Fair enough, you can say if you've nothing to hide it's not a big deal, but a lot of customers will not feel comfortable with this. Shops employ security people to stop shoplifting and therefore prevent losses which are then recouped by charging customers higher prices. But equally they are going lose out by putting customers off coming into their shops by employing store detectives/security guards that can't do their job discreetly.
  6. Well good for you but the ones I've known of have always been slobs.
  7. I don't know if cannabis leads to psychosis or personality disorder. Probably only in individuals already suffering from or susceptible to mental health problems. But regular cannabis users are nearly always basically slobs that sit around drinking endless cans of lager, eating endless mountains of pizza and kebab and look like dirty, chavvy tramps. Great lifestyle.
  8. The problem though is that certain people in your position become over zealous to the point of scaring off real customers. Personally I don't go back to stores for repeat business if I've been followed round by some silly chuff in their "security personnel". I go to a store that uses more sophisticated security precautions.
  9. Special Delivery is fine for sending anything really urgent/valuable. It's non-valuable and non urgent stuff I've had go missing. It's just an inconvinience really but it's happening so much lately!
  10. If you are referring to my post no, it wasn't within the last fortnight because I very rarely use that store now due to strongly objecting to being followed around in a store where I am spending £50 - £70 on a regular basis. If I'm being CCTVed elsewhere - fine - I've nothing to hide. But I do find being followed around very intimidating - it's not a very pleasant shopping experience don't you think?. And no I don't wear a shellsuit, have a mohican, multiple piercings or tattoos or anything else to make be stand out as "suspicious" or "unusual". Not that that necessarily means anything; I once saw a TV programme about a woman that was a professional shoplifter, targeting M&S in particular. She looked and acted exactly like your average, middle aged, middle class M&S customer. Which is exactly why she was so successful! If you "get a feeling" about people you should follow, you must be getting a the wrong feeling about a heck of a lot of people because I've known several law abiding people complaining about the same thing!
  11. Should employers give smokers a smoke room or a least a shelter outdoors. I don't smoke but I know colleagues that do and now they aren't allowed in smoke in the grounds of the workplace they stand in the street to blow smoke a passers by and chuck their fag ends in the street because there's no bin. Wouldn't it be better to give them a smoking room to shut themselves in? Or a shelter out of way in a corner outside somewhere with ashtrays/bin? They can't smoke around the entrances anymore but it's no better having to walk past them congregating in the street is it?
  12. Anyone else had their post going missing lately? I've had a lot of things go missing in the last few months. I reported them missing but all you get is a book of stamps - great:mad: It's not like its all really valuable or urgent mail that needs to go special delivery before anyone says I should have done that. Its just a complete pain having to sort out things that should have arrived in post.
  13. Yes. But maybe worse are the SNIFFERS. Come on own up whoever you are!! When I used a bus on a regular basis there was always someone with an uncontrollable sniff leaving you sitting in fear of catching some vile ailment. And of course one sniffer sets up a chain reaction and before you know it nearly the whole bus is sniffing. ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
  14. But if they are as hamfisted at this as they often are they can end up putting good customers like me coming back and spending more money because they object to being hovered over by a jumped up idiot in a peaked cap.
  15. I wonder if this is the same jumped up pillock in a peaked cap that lurks in Waitrose now. He must have seen me pay for trolley loads of goods in there several times but still thinks I might be so skint I'd nick a bottle of two quid shower gel:loopy:
  16. I've found it's cheaper to run a small car. The bus prices are ridiculous considering how pathetic the services are. I never use a bus apart on the occasional night out.
  17. I'm not sure where you get the idea that all students are studying for high ranking professions. There are lots of degrees such as "Media Studies" on which very few of the students graduating will end up in employment relevant to their degree. In fact very many will end up in jobs which can and are done by people that left school at 16. I'm not saying these degrees are worthless but you have to get into perspective what they will actually qualify students for. But whatever a student is studying there is no excuse for OTT "high jinks". You wouldn't say mugging is OK because it's not as bad as murder would you? Likewise throwing water bombs at innocent passers by isn't acceptable just because it's not as bad as stealing cars or mugging. As other people have said some of these "high jinks" are not harmless. Would you want your elderly mother to be pelted with a water bomb?
  18. Hmmm.. well whatever training it is it's obviously not much good in many cases. I've sometimes felt like saying "while you've been wasting your time following me round and putting me off shopping in your employers store, any real shoplifters will have been helping themselves".
  19. Yes, that happened to me in the same store. It was a few years ago now but it's horrible being followed around being made to feel like a criminal. I think it was because I was taking my time choosing hair products (maybe customers are only allowed a certain amount of time to browse before they are seen as suspicious:huh:). I actually found it quite insulting that I was taken for someone who steals £2 bottles of shampoo and hairspray so I didn't do bother doing any shopping in there for quite a while. I don't think store detectives can be very well trained as I've known this happen to lots of people.
  20. It is a year round problem in certain areas. But before any students on here start squealing "it's not just students!!!", I would agree that no it's not. The problem is areas of multiple occupancy housing where of course there are a lot of students but there are a fair number of non students in these areas as well who are often just as much to blame. The lack of bins is definately an issue but having once lived sandwiched between a student house and another non-student multiple occupany house I've seen theres another side to this i.e. they can't be arsed to put their bins in and out so it piles up to the point of being unmanagable and a magnet of rats etc. Also it's too much effort to bag it up properly so it's left loose to blow around everywhere. I guess if you don't own the property, it was a bit of dump when you moved in and you're only going to stay there a few months it doesn't really matter:| .
  21. You are still not getting the point are you? So we're all lazy, not just fat people now? It's downright obvious that nowadays there is an abundance of food (especially of the junk variety) and less physical activity due to cars etc. But this change has happened over a relatively short time scale and we are only now starting to feel the problems it has created. So we need to proactive and positive to make people healthier and more active. Banging on that "fat people must be lazy" and "they only have themselves to blame" is not constructive or accurate and stigmatises overweight people.
  22. And??? I stand by my statement that you are making ill considered and over simplistic judgements. Don't you ever think WHY there is an obesity problem now? Have people suddenly got lazy and ill disciplined for no apparent reason?
  23. I'm not overweight (or a smoker for that matter). I just don't like sweeping, simplistic statements on complex issues. Sorry to those who got bored with this though
  24. You know to be honest I don't really have much personal interest in either smoking or obesity. I just marvel that in this day and age there are so many people as ill educated as you that fail to see the full picture in issues like these. Would you say that a person that eats huge amounts without exercising but remains thin is any less lazy/irresponsible/undisciplined than someone who gets fat? There are people like this and they are clogging up their arteries just like a fat person but they won't be stigmatised because they are thin. And they won't be criticised by the likes of you will they? With the smoking thing I was trying to show how some people are likely to have a stronger addiction than others so it's harder to give up (**NOTE - NOT AN EXCUSE not to give up or win sympathy/attention**).
  25. Were you by any chance a bully at school? Was it OK to bully because it made the victims "stronger people" prepared to stand up for themselves? Maybe thats so sometimes but it's a fine line between that and someones life being made a misery. I am not into a nanny culture at all. I'm into a culture that sits between that the bullying one you support. And I did not (how many times do I have to repeat this... ) say it's OK for someone to be fat because they can't help cravings. Read my other posts, I can't be bothered repeating them.
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