Harlequin wrote: I was wondering how one could identify a person's source of income by their appearance or behaviour on the street.
H. (who has lived on benefits for most of his life)
Source of income? The way the majority of these people (and I know a few of them) get their income is from mugging people (then promptly selling their ill-gotten gains down the nearest Cash Converters) and selling drugs. It's usually the same people who get shitfaced and start attacking people on that road every weekend.
Ah. Again, I thought that benefit fraud was a defining characteristic of the chav.
TheDuke wrote:As for their behaviour, violence if the first option for the truly stupid. Wouldn't you agree?
I usually would not agree. Stupid people may choose a great many options of first resort. Conversely, some intelligent people (including at least one Llamasoftie) might consider non-violence to be a stupid first option.
TheDuke wrote:As for you being on benefits most of your life, I'm sure you have your reasons, and it isn't my business. Just checked your site. Nice doggie, BTW
She was indeed. I suppose that I should get around to updating my site some day.
People - specifically my dad - who use their mobiles in non-sociable ways
For example yesterday he had it glued to his ear, nattering away all the way through a supermarket
Him: "Blah blah blah (half a pound of that please) blah blah blah"
Assistant: "£1.60?" .
Him: ..... (blah blah)....
Assistant: "Sir, £1.60?"
Him: .... (blah blah)
Me: *nudge* "£1.60 OK?!"
Him: "Oh... yeah" *grabs it and walks off*
Cue lots of not really paying attention to where he's going or what he's doing or who he's walking into (and you wonder why mobile phones shouldn't be used when driving? He can't even drive a shopping trolley because he's concentrating so hard on the conversation?)
Same sort of routine at the checkout
On to the pub, he's still nattering - throws a couple of coins my way. OK so I'm clairvoyant... let's hope you like 'this' ale that I'm choosing for you!
Continue for most of the duration in the pub (I grab a newspaper)
Ely wrote:I reckon cashiers in Shops should be allowed to refuse to serve someone till they get off the bloody phone, it's seriously bloody rude if you ask me!
Conversely it's annoying to be queueing up at a till, get to the front, then a phone rings next to the cashier and they proceed to totally ignore you while they deal with whoever is on the phone.
Ely wrote:I reckon cashiers in Shops should be allowed to refuse to serve someone till they get off the bloody phone, it's seriously bloody rude if you ask me!
Conversly I think I should have the right to just stroll out of the shop without paying for my pint of milk, when the shop keeper is nattering away on the phone. Just holding out you hand without looking at me or telling me how much I owe is pretty fucking rude.
Edit: yak beat me to it. Used the word conversly too.
Because fucking marketing cunts would never call a spade anything other than a Deluxe Easi-Shift Earth Movement Solution.
Ely wrote:I reckon cashiers in Shops should be allowed to refuse to serve someone till they get off the bloody phone, it's seriously bloody rude if you ask me!
Conversely it's annoying to be queueing up at a till, get to the front, then a phone rings next to the cashier and they proceed to totally ignore you while they deal with whoever is on the phone.
Yes yes, bad form that. Same goes for people who answer the bloody objects when talking to you.
*ring ring* 'scuse me while I get that, might be important
"Oh hi mum, yeah..."
Marius wrote:Have you ever experienced walking behind someone, usually older people, when they suddenly either stop dead in their tracks or slow down to a crawl? This usually happens when I enter a shop behind some old fossil. They have the tencency to come to a dead stop to have a look around right after they pass the entrance, which of course makes it impossible to pass them, since it's the only bottleneck in the shop.
Also, sometimes when I walk behind someone and want to pass them, they manage to suddenly change direction, so that they once again are blocking my progress. If I try to pass them on the other side, they will of course change direction once more. This can drive me absolutely crazy at times, and I get the feeling that some higher power is testing my patience.
I wrote a short story based on this particular annoyance some years ago entitled Driftwalkers.
laptoplover wrote:DVDs of series that don't contain a play all button. I don't want to put a DVD in and then interact with the menu every 20 minutes!
DVD menus period.
Reminds me (seeing as I have no idea of your nationality):
Brits who say "<blah blah> period" without realising what they are saying, just because Yanks say it on TV.
Well I don't know about 'the Yanks', but we Brits know for a fact that we're referring to the female 'cycle'. 'Merkins confuse this with 'full stop', presumably because that's what happens to your sex life during it.
