Buying cat food at supermarkets and person on till asks if I have cats. One day I shall say no, I just have an addiction to Whiskas
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Or tell them you just use it as bait? ;-)
J.
Buying cat food at supermarkets and person on till asks if I have cats. One day I shall say no, I just have an addiction to Whiskas
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Way back when First Direct were still good, their staff were based in Leeds. As part of security I was asked for my town of birth and a 10 min conversation on the merits (or lack of) of Nelson followed.Internet banking is the way forward!![]()
I have often responded to people saying the above 'not unless you have unfeasibly long arms'I hate nothing and no-one, of course, but I disapprove of the following:
1. "Can I get a skinny latte (or whatever is being ordered)?
I quite like this. Many years ago we moved from Central London to a small market town. I was regularly cashing huge cheques to pay our builders.
My sis told me once that she arrived at the checkout and caught a fellow shopper gawping at her trolley, which contained about a dozen cans of Whiskas and four two litre bottles of cider. Embarrassed, the woman blurted out 'lucky cat'. My sis gave her a conspiratorial look..."What makes you think I have a cat?"Buying cat food at supermarkets and person on till asks if I have cats. One day I shall say no, I just have an addiction to Whiskas
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Edinburgh airport, although lots of others are guilty too. You have to walk 4 miles to go 10' - there's no one about (see photo taken earlier), move the fugging barrier!
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You know those things just clip in and out yeah?
I would have thought flogging for a first offence. One must never appear vindictive or disproportionate.This might sound petty... but it winds me up.
Even on the BBC one hears the middle word of fine-toothed comb being stressed, as though it were a fine-tooth comb.
That would be a comb for one's fine teeth, or without the hyphen perhaps a fine comb for one's teeth. It is neither of those. It is a comb with fine teeth: a fine-toothed comb.
Further to which, one also hears the expressions 'to get one's own back' and 'off one's own bat' being mixed and miss-matched. "I did it off my own back".
There is no need for any of this. If I were in power, these would be capital offences. I see no point in light sentences for such crimes.
You really don't need to work there to unclip a barrier and walk through it. Try it, I dare you.Yeah, I don't work there though.