Latest moan from you and me - 2016

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  1. ARMANDII

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    I must admit that all the shops I use have very friendly staff, my Doctor's Surgery, which I rarely use, treats everyone as part of a family, and my last experience of NHS Staff was beyond praise.:dunno::snork:
     
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      They shut down our B and Q's superstore and this is the new building,what do you think it is going to be,now we have to travel 7 miles one way or 5 miles the other way through 3 traffic ridden towns to our nearest one:lunapic 130165696578242 5:

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        Not a moan, really, just a pathetic bleat....
        All this 'we're helping people to stay in their own homes instead of putting them into (now) non-existent care homes'. Um, how does that work when you get to the screaming, abusive and violent stage? That's the patient, by the way, not the carer :snork:. Although I can see how the carers might get there too! I wonder how many of these politicians and health Trust top bods have ever had to physically manage an obstreperous, demented 110kg female?
         
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          Good morning all my friends I will tell you then,its going to be the largest 24 hour Gym so that we can go and get fit 24/7:lunapic 130165696578242 5:
           
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            You don't need to go to that Gym to get fit, just walk to the other B&Q stores and you will soon be fit as a fiddle and it's free :whistle::heehee:
             
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              That reminds me of when they closed one of our local cinemas (only a few minute's walk from us) and built the first ten pin bowling alley in the U.K. on the site. That was almost 57 years ago but I remember it clearly. I was there every day for the first ten days as it was free :) (just like the Ten Commandments - if they're free I'll have ten please! :snork:).

              They made a hit song that included a reference to it and made it the title song of a West End show and it became a big hit for Max Bygraves. It was very timely as the bowling alley opened on January the 20th and the show opened on the 11th of February.

              Who remembers it?

               
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                Good morning @shiney my friend I remember it well,I was Max Bygraves warm up act:lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                 
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                  Been out in the car and boy there's lots of drivers NOT cleaning there windscreens,lights and number plates :mad::nonofinger:

                  Please clean your windscreen,lights and numbers plates, it could save your life or £100 pound fine, if there were some police out there to fine you

                  Don't forget, LED bulbs don't warm up enough to melt the frost on your light lens
                   
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                    I am as fit as a fiddle @Jiffy well physically anyway,mentally well thats another post:heehee:@ and why walk when I can fly;)
                     
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                      Lots of moans..

                      I decided to go back on faceache (facebook).. (mistake number one) and sell some electricals on their market place.. (second mistake) then adding people who you are selling too as friends (BIG mistake).. answering stupid bloody questions about the items your selling (HUMONGOUS mistake).. my head is seriously hurting.

                      Painting one house and then painting all the walls in another..

                      Also Christmas decorations, they started going up around the 12th Nov and then have had a new decoration added each day or a window rearranged (with only one new decoration). What the hell!? It's like a weird type of advent calender?! These said decorations will be down on the 27th Dec, I can guarantee it. :scratch: :doh: (Not my house, I'm sure you can guess who's I moan about them often enough)

                      Oh and putting your trees in a shed except one which went in a bucket of water... only to forget it and have it frozen stuck in said bucket!! :wallbanging:
                       
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                        One of the local towns where we go used to go shopping has introduced charges for the last few on street parking spaces that used to be free, and very handy being only 2 mins from Wilkos plus outside a few charity shops. The council have now totally eliminated all free parking and the effect of this has been to cause gridlock in a town centre retail park offering 2 hours free parking to customers, but the occupants of most cars stream off to town centre shops and on the way cause long tailbacks on their route by constantly using a controlled pedestrian crossing causing traffick to back up all the way to a rounabout and block other roads.. With extra Xmas shoppers it's become a complete nightmare even midweek.

                        Will now be driving a few extra miles to other towns with free parking near their Wilkos plus able to actually find somwhere to park at their Wickes, Argos, B&M, etc.
                         
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                          I don't go into towns during the Christmas maniacs' shopping extravaganza! :rasp:
                           
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                            I went to Sainsbury's the other day (car park half empty :rolleyespink:) and had some vouchers to use that gave bonus points. Two of the vouchers were rejected by their computer. An enormous total of 130 points worth :heehee:

                            One was for 'by Sainsbury's gold roast coffee' and the other was for 'oriental sauces or pastes'. The supervisor, called by the cashier, said that the coffee I had taken was decaffeinated and the paste (Rendang paste) was from the speciality display on the back wall and was not included. I didn't argue as there was, by now, a queue behind me but emailed customer services when I got home. :old: :snork:

                            In brief, my comments were:-

                            "I realise that some people may say that the coffee voucher only shows a non-decaf coffee jar but you only show pictures as examples – as you would not, with most of your promotions, be able to fit everything within the promotion onto the voucher. Particularly in the case of the oriental offer. There was plenty of room on the voucher to say it excludes decaffeinated.

                            The jar of coffee quite clearly displays ‘gold roast by Sainsbury’s’ exactly as your voucher specifies.

                            The jar of paste is Malaysian so is S.E. Asian. If you are trying to restrict the definition strictly to the Orient then Malaysia may not be included. If that is so then the coconut milk that you show on your voucher is, also, not Oriental as it comes from Thailand in S.E. Asia and they both share the same peninsula."

                            They handled it well and sent me 800 points :blue thumb:. I then told them how their voucher department should have worded the vouchers :lunapic 130165696578242 5:

                            Nowadays little victories are sufficient. :biggrin:
                             
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                              [QUOTE="shiney, post: 1055406, member: 1458"don't go into towns during the Christmas maniacs' shopping extravaganza![/QUOTE]

                              Do you have a Sainsburys in your village for local people?

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                              • Kandy

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                                Went to Tescos early this morning to get a lot of our xmas stuff and was delighted at how empty the shop was:yes:

                                Anyway,did the shop and spent a fortune and even managed to get some pigs in blankets this year.:yes: (They had sold out two weeks before xmas last year so made sure we got them as soon as we spotted them this year:snorky:)

                                Got round to the scanner till and used all the vouchers that we had saved up through the year (£52) so that has paid for the turkey crown,pigs in blankets,mince pies, Baileys for Mr Kandy etc:snorky:

                                As I was waiting for Mr Kandy to fold up the long till receipt a voice behind me spoke in my ear and I turned round to see a young lady aged 40ish informing me she was reversing out of the till and went bleep bleep bleep,like the lorries do when they are reserving in the street.Anyway I apologised for holding her up and moved my heavy trolley out of the way so she could back out and move off before us.We had the last laugh though because as she walked through the electronic barrier to leave the tills the alarm sounded so she had to reverse again back to the tills (no bleep bleep bleep this time:snorky:) and we overheard the till lady ask her if she had any razor blades,meat etc and needed to go through the whole of her trolley:biggrin:

                                That will teach her to bleep,bleep,bleep at me:lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                                 
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