Latest moan from you and me - 2016

Plus, 20% VAT

 

Hi again FC

I have actually complained to Amazon on Feedback regarding the ridiculously large sizing of some packaging and that it is a total waste of environmental resources.

Well done Santander (Totto here) ... we have used them for donkey's years with absolutely no problems! We transfer our UK money from the London office at no cost and the staff at our small bank here always greet us with a handshake .. just like in the UK!!!

PS If you checked the addresses from where your deliveries originated, you may find they came from all parts. Mine have been from Wales, Scotland Germany, Holland ... etc ...

I read Amazon is opening a massive warehouse soon in the UK with 1000 job opportunities.

 

They have a mahoosive one in Swansea. Another one in the UK would be great!

 

no VAT as i was doing it offshore
Forgot that

 

Ah! So it is *you* that the latest news is all about, huh?
(*Shh!* "Panama Tax Haven" )

 

Talking about rudeness, I was in a café today and two women came in and started to eat a bag of crisps. The waitress told them they were only allowed to eat food bought on the premises, but they started to argue, saying they were going to buy a meal anyway.
But that was the shop's rule and it was written on a notice at the counter.
Anyway, the argument went on and they said they'd leave. The waitress told them not to come in again if they were going to bring food bought somewhere else with them, and one of them said "Don't worry luv, I won't come here again, and if I do I'll push your face into that frying pan !!!"

 

I haven't got a smart phone or ipad, and I don't want them.
I am proud of how old fashioned I am
I have got a very cheap and simple mobile, which I keep in the car incase it breaks down ... and it is kept switched OFF until needed. I don't want to be pestered wherever I go ...

The other day a girl walked right into Beryl's wheelchair as we were going through a local town
She did say 'sorry' ... but then carried on walking while fiddling with her phone

I'm glad I'm old fashioned and that's how I intend to remain

 

At lease you had a good laff then Shiney, i do like wacthing people
Speaking off moblies, i was speaking to a person that teachies people to drive and he said that a lot of people don't speack in the car when he's teaching them he said he was going to tell them what to do by TEXT

 

Ah!, if you can't beat them you mite as well join them!
If it's good e..nuff for them, it's good e...nuff for me
Don't do as i do, but do as i say ...........please

 

Mobile phones at dinner tables it drives me bonkers, it makes me so cross I could scream! I love the fact that you refuse to move for someone texting @shiney keep it up & I think you should step on a phone given the chance! I do use my smart phone & I do think they are a very good tool BUT not at the dinner table, NOT during a conversation with others & certainly NOT whilst driving....don't even let me start on that!

@Michael Hewett, what an awful situation you witnessed in the cafe, isn't it a shame that so many people seem to have lost respect & manners for other people?

 

Respect and manners work both ways

 

I would like to say it is only the youth of today who have no manners or respect but I'm not sure on that 1 at all.
When I and my brothers were young in the 50s we were taught to give up our seats on the bus, tube etc to elderly/infirm/ even female passengers. We were taught to hold doors for our elders and not barge. Please and thank you were the norm and "People who ask don't get". The opposite appears true today, "He who shouts the loudest.......
From memory there seemed to be a definite change in people's attitdude at the beginning of the sixties so much so that my parents got annoyed with people not thanking us for giving up seats, holding door etc that they told us not to go out of our way to be polite. I still try to be polite when interacting with other people and when I'm driving but more often than not my politeness is taken as a weakness so I then respond accordingly and join the f everybody else brigade!

 

Smart phones are great, I'm only just getting into them in my 30s after resisting for a good chunk of time.. dyslexia makes you even more reluctant to try new tech because it makes the learning of it that bit harder! However, I'm finding having a couple of wee games to play on the train nice, being able to text my international friends at no cost is wonderful, and the map app' is very useful in towns and cities I've never been to!

BUT, I do agree that you have to know when to use it. Out at the dinner table, or in a restaurant, or hanging out with family = verboten, unless by agreement!