Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[snackhead]

I went in that reopened Woolies/discount store yesterday. Weird assortment of stuff, with a fantastically large array of the world's most horrible rugs and cushions. And a lot of remote control helicopters for some reason.

I'll admit to an awe-inspired snigger at two of the most wonderfully awful rugs I've ever seen. Think artificial tiger and lion hides, but as if drawn by a small child with crayons and no sense of proportion. More like an cartoon tiger, squashed flat by a cement roller and boasting a shocked 'up the arse' face. Yours for a bargain tenner

Bring back Robills

 

[slcr]

Rug tourists?

Yes.

 

[twistedAM]

Yes.

Relocated from Josephine Avenue

Did I just write that?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Were you buying alcoholic drinks? Did you have any heavy items?

It's a nasty cost cutting measure of no benefit to customers.

2 litre jug of milk, some muffins and various other bits and bobs. Why?

 

[editor]

2 litre jug of milk, some muffins and various other bits and bobs. Why?

If you're buying booze you have to hang about for someone to approve the purchase. It's stupid and fiddly.

 

[teuchter]

If you're buying booze you have to hang about for someone to approve the purchase. It's stupid and fiddly.

If you're buying booze or whatnot, then you just use the humans, surely.

They've had it in the green park branch for a while now, and sometimes i use it, sometimes not, depending what i'm getting and how long the queues are. It's a bit better organised there though, because there are separate queues for humans and robots.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

If you're buying booze you have to hang about for someone to approve the purchase. It's stupid and fiddly.

oh, I never buy booze so don't have that problem

How stupid

You obviously don't look 18

 

[lang rabbie]

Bring back Robills

Can we set up an e-petition on the petitions.number10.gov.uk website

 

[quimcunx]

Can we set up an e-petition on the petitions.number10.gov.uk website

I miss Robills. I was halfway through buying some very cheap pictures for the frames when they shut so have never completed my project.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Anyone know what happened on Brixton Hill this morning?

3 police vans, 3 ambulance cars and an empty bus.

Naturally the police had to park in two lanes thus causing traffic gridlock

 

[teuchter]

Anyone know what happened on Brixton Hill this morning?

3 police vans, 3 ambulance cars and an empty bus.

Naturally the police had to park in two lanes thus causing traffic gridlock

I saw quite a few shady types knocking about on Brixton Hill this morning.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I saw quite a few shady types knocking about on Brixton Hill this morning.

Well I couldn't see anything except an empty bus and all the emergency vehicles. Maybe there was a fight on the bus?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I saw quite a few shady types knocking about on Brixton Hill this morning.

but that's not particularly unusual is it?

 

[quimcunx]

I saw quite a few shady types knocking about on Brixton Hill this morning.

but that's not particularly unusual is it?

I'll wager you two and kanda have sat on the same bus loads of times eyeing each other up suspiciously.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'll wager you two and kanda have sat on the same bus loads of times eyeing each other up suspiciously.

Please describe Kanda to me so that I may eye him up suspiciously next time I see someone that could be him

same for teuchter

 

[Kanda]

Anyone know what happened on Brixton Hill this morning?

3 police vans, 3 ambulance cars and an empty bus.

Naturally the police had to park in two lanes thus causing traffic gridlock

they parked the vehicles in the two lanes to protect the body that was lying in the middle of them.

Looked like an RTA, quite a bad one as they used vans and cars to shield peoples view.

 

[shakespearegirl]

We used the Sainsburys auto till things last night. Didn't work for us or anyone else in the time we were there..

We tried to get into the be served by a person line, but were ordered back to the auto till.

The poor girl manning them was nearly in tears, must have been a very long day.

 

[Crispy]

It's got to be the worst job in the store, and I have all sympathy for anyone who has to do it. I've got the machines figured out now and the trick is not to give it anything complicated, or alcoholic. So ok for a handful of items, but I go to a person for anything more.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's got to be the worst job in the store, and I have all sympathy for anyone who has to do it. I've got the machines figured out now and the trick is not to give it anything complicated, or alcoholic. So ok for a handful of items, but I go to a person for anything more.

I had absolutely no trouble, but I didn't have alcohol, but I did buy stuff from the bakery, but it was simple

Maybe it's because I'm used to using the M&S ones

 

[billythefish]

They've got auto tills in B&Q, Wandsworth too now. I tried to scan the four brackets I had bought and it kept telling me to remove things from the packing area. The attendant had to reset the machine which then did exactly the same thing. He came over again, scanned one bracket, then told it he had finished and prompted me for my card.

Sweet: One bracket for the price of four.

It must be SO easy to nick stuff with this system.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

they parked the vehicles in the two lanes to protect the body that was lying in the middle of them.

Looked like an RTA, quite a bad one as they used vans and cars to shield peoples view.

ah right, fair enough

 

[tarannau]

It's got to be the worst job in the store, and I have all sympathy for anyone who has to do it. I've got the machines figured out now and the trick is not to give it anything complicated, or alcoholic. So ok for a handful of items, but I go to a person for anything more.

If you think those scenes are bad, you should have gone in the HSBC after the great big snow event. Not one cashier booth was open, meaning that I had to queue up in the first of two massive lines, one to pay in cash to a machine, the other cheques into a machine.

Nothing really worked and they seemed to have 7 people to help feed notes into the machine repeatedly, carefully unfolding everything and uncreasing in the vain hope that the machine would read them properly. It was an absolute shambles. The manager didn't take kindly to the suggestion that it was asinine to have 7 staff to help people slowly uncrease the notes and perhaps one of them should go behind the counter. I'm pleased to say that I started a minor heckle marathon from a feisty Brixton crowd and that a till was open within 15 minutes, even if he was a graceless shitbag about it.

 

[teuchter]

the trick is not to give it anything complicated, or alcoholic.

I find that in many situations the same applies to humans.

 

[Crispy]

It must be SO easy to nick stuff with this system.

To buy an expensive, but light object, bring along a heavy object, plus a barcode for a cheap object that weighs the same as your expensive object + your phony object combined?

 

[quimcunx]

I find that in many situations the same applies to humans.

 

[Pip]

I got into a big argument in the Covent Garden Tescos when the lady accused me of trying to nick Krispy Kremes by telling the machine they were normal doughnuts (I wasn't! They weren't!), so shan't be using them.

Possibly the low point of my life, that

 

[snowy_again]

Has anyone lost a maroon ladies mountain bike?

Got offered one in the street this morning (Dalberg / Barnwell Road, Herne Hill) at 8.30am, which is a novel time to be trying to sell cycling goods. I politely declined and then wondered why I didn't do anything else about it.

 

[ovaltina]

There's a rug emporium at the back and a mysterious screened-off area in the middle.

I need a cheap rug. Will have a look this afternoon.

 

[quimcunx]

I think I may have thought the 2 or 3 rugs I saw were the rug emporium and that the screened off middle bit was as far back as I could get.

I'll have to check.

 

[teuchter]

There are definitely more than two or three rugs.