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Post by Cartman on Sept 1, 2020 19:39:32 GMT
The current top 40. I do occasionally watch it on one of the MTV music channels just to keep a bit up to date with what's in the chsrts, and to be fair, it's sometimes ok. But last Sunday it was atrocious. Full of this rap/hip hop type stuff I really can't stand, out of the whole 40, there was just one I thought was ok, by Ava Max (she also did Sweet but Psycho) and the couple of singers I do know, Lady Gaga, Ariane Grande and Taylor Swift, who can occasionally be relied on to come up with something at least listenable to, had very poor offerings.
I think it was worse than the previous low point of the mid/late 80s
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Sept 1, 2020 20:34:34 GMT
To be completely honest, I wouldn't know what was in the top 40! I would like to nominate people using self-service checkouts who have no idea of how to do so. When I worked in a city, I would go to the Salisbury's next to where I worked to get food and pretty much daily there would be someone in the self-service area who didn't want to queue to be served by a human but would then expect a member of staff to do the self-service bit for her. This also happens where my husband works. Just
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Post by Sam Tyler on Sept 1, 2020 21:07:36 GMT
To be completely honest, I wouldn't know what was in the top 40! I would like to nominate people using self-service checkouts who have no idea of how to do so. When I worked in a city, I would go to the Salisbury's next to where I worked to get food and pretty much daily there would be someone in the self-service area who didn't want to queue to be served by a human but would then expect a member of staff to do the self-service bit for her. This also happens where my husband works. Just Top 40? Do they still do a run down? I suppose it is mostly based on downloads nowadays. Like Alex I'll nominate people at checkouts but this time people who insist on using their mobiles while at the checkout and are oblivious to all going on around them. It is when they clamp the phone between shoulder and ear and try to pack the shopping into a bag rather than call off and ring back. They ignore the cashier which is plain rude and then delay the other shoppers when trying to juggle payment, packing, and the phone. Our eldest daughter worked for Sainsbury's on the checkout as a Saturday job from school. She hated such people and would deliberately ring all shopping through as fast as she could but not offer to pack their bags for them just to get them flustered as they'd try to pack sometimes one-handed. Sam.
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Sept 1, 2020 21:34:47 GMT
Good on her. I used to work in a shop and yes, begrudgingly, I just carried on when I served them on their phones, but let's just say it wasn't quite service with a smile.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Sept 3, 2020 18:28:32 GMT
What about when the person serving you at the checkout makes no attempt to put the items you've bought within your reach? They take things out of the basket & place it at a chimpanzee's arms length, I'm sure they do it deliberarely. To think that supermarkets used to have people who packed your shopping into cardboard boxes. And what happened to all the older people working in shops, nine times out of ten it's a kid serving you where I live & it's usually 'alright pal', very seldom 'hello Sir'.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Sept 3, 2020 19:51:40 GMT
.... nine times out of ten it's a kid serving you where I live & it's usually 'alright pal', very seldom 'hello Sir'. That's as bad as "Alright Guys!". Last week I took my mother shopping as my father wasn't feeling too good. She's badly visually impaired with only some peripheral vision so needs someone to accompany her. When we got to the checkout the bellend at the checkout asked "Did you get everything you needed today Guys?". I would have liked to put him straight but my mother, who was clearly used to him as she's a regular at the shop, just replied in the affirmative with a polite "Thank you!" at the end. Why are people addressing women as 'Guys' and what is so wrong with Sir and Madam???? Sam.
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Post by John Steed on Sept 3, 2020 19:59:37 GMT
A woman checkout operator in Tesco the other week called me "Matey"
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Post by Sam Tyler on Sept 3, 2020 20:17:53 GMT
A woman checkout operator in Tesco the other week called me "Matey" Steed That's nothing compared to what you will be called at the next meet! Sam.
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Post by Three Litre on Sept 3, 2020 20:20:20 GMT
A woman checkout operator in Tesco the other week called me "Matey" Steed You sure it was a woman?
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Post by John Steed on Sept 3, 2020 20:20:54 GMT
A woman checkout operator in Tesco the other week called me "Matey" Steed That's nothing compared to what you will be called at the next meet! Sam. Or what you've been called at previous meets Steed
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