Ignorant pig - part 2

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http://newsthump.com/2013/07/03/if-...ost-office-queue-public-tells-edward-snowden/

 

[Frood42]

... getting on buses talking on mobiles and then fumble around their bags with one hand holding up the bus...

That is a bit of a niggle for me, especially in London where we have Oyster cards, so no fiddling with change...
Get you Oyster card out before you get on the bus... you have been standing waiting to get on the bus long enough...

 

[martint235]

One thing I've noticed from the comments left on newspapers' websites is just how bad grammar and spelling have become in this country. It's also very evident in posts on CC unfortunately. I thought we had a better educated class of pleb.

 

[Frood42]

... M&S food shop in Mootown, my mum worked there and a wealth codger reversed her car into a bollard, she complained that it shouldnt have been there and they not only paid for the car repair but gave her £500 in vouncher, now if it had been a pleb they would have been laughed out of the shop...

Well, customer retention is important....

 

[Leodis]

One thing I've noticed from the comments left on newspapers' websites is just how bad grammar and spelling have become in this country. It's also very evident in posts on CC unfortunately. I thought we had a better educated class of pleb.

U thought rwong sonny jim

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Or those bastards that wait until everything's been rung through the till then produce a huge wad of fuggin money-off vouchers that take an age to go through and it transpires, after half an hour, that most are for stuff they haven't bought or the vouchers have expired, you can't move tills because you've got all your groceries on the conveyor and 300 people waiting behind you tutting loudly. Shoot 'em and stamp on their mobiles if they've got one.

 

[Canrider]

Having peered here http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/1...ford_Sainsbury___s_checkout_mobile_phone_ban/

Apparently she had

That's crap, I would have walked and left my stuff on the conveyor. (I also would have said hello to the cashier, not been on the phone in the first place, and know the Sainsbury's CSR script to the point of being able to pre-empt it.)

I'd like to see an explanation from any of the several who claimed it, as to how being on the phone is ruder than yakking to someone else in the queue while ignoring the cashier.

 

[ColinJ]

Good on the checkout lady.

Mobile phones are getting to be a bane (mine is very, very rarely used).
This is up there with people who use their mobile in the cinema, the light from the phone screen is very, very irritating when you are trying to watch a film.

I have had somebody in front of me giving the person on the other phone a very loud and very detailed description of the plot of the film!

 

[tyred]

M&S food shop in Mootown, my mum worked there and a wealth codger reversed her car into a bollard, she complained that it shouldnt have been there and they not only paid for the car repair but gave her £500 in vouncher, now if it had been a pleb they would have been laughed out of the shop.

Personally, I would have pointed her in the direction of the local motor factors and told her to invest in a rear view mirror.

 

[Frood42]

I'd like to see an explanation from any of the several who claimed it, as to how being on the phone is ruder than yakking to someone else in the queue while ignoring the cashier.

If I was 'yakking' with someone else in the queue, when it came my turn to be served by the 'cashier' I would have finished the conversation and given my attention to the 'cashier' and my shopping, and I would have also gotten my friend who was with me to help with the packing (assuming they were not a complete stranger).

It really is not that hard to do...

 

[Canrider]

If I was 'yakking' with someone else in the queue, when it came my turn to be served by the 'cashier' I would have finished the conversation and given my attention to the 'cashier' and my shopping, and I would have also gotten my friend who was with me to help with the packing (assuming they were not a complete stranger).

It really is not that hard to do...

That's not what I asked, read my question again.

 

[Frood42]

I'd like to see an explanation from any of the several who claimed it, as to how being on the phone is ruder than yakking to someone else in the queue while ignoring the cashier.

That's not what I asked, read my question again.

I understood your question.
I was giving MY opinion.
Ignoring the cashier, whether you are on the phone, or speaking to someone else I would consider rude.
I will always give a small acknowledgement in the way of "Hello" at least, even if I am having a crap day.

A "hello", "please" and "thank you" cost nothing, but London seems to be one of the places where I have noticed a lack of these three words being spoken because too many people are up their own... I will stop there, because I have also meet some very nice people here.

 

[Markymark]

There is a different level of distant concentration required when talking on the mobile as opposed to talking with someone next to you as evident in mobile phone use (including hands free) when driving. It's not dangerous when in a shop but the lack of investment in dealing with another human being is rude.

 

[Fnaar]

I live in a nice middle-class town, and I am continually annoyed by people who are TOO BLOODY POLITE.
It really irritates me, and I long for some real unthoughtful rudeness in my life.
When driving, at junctions, people will give way to others when it is plainly their right of way. This leads to feckin' traffic confusion and heightens the risk of accidents (this is for real, not me leading up to a punchline, btw).
I've also developed the ability to simper, which worries me.

 

[MontyVeda]

Looking at the Telegraph and Daily Fail and I am nicely surprised that the polls are all highly in favour of this woman being very rude.

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it must be very heart warming to know that most daily mail readers are on your side... have a mars bar!