Barclays seen it’s a**e with Post Office cash withdrawals

Ergates

bertiewhite wrote: »

I hear the phrase quite often and take it to mean that "one is not happy"

In which part of the country is that?

Chino

johndavid29c wrote: »

but any natural Brit will understand.

This one didn't.

johndavid29c wrote: »

They have nothing better to do than pick holes in posts

It's not about trying to pick holes, it's about trying to understand the gibberish that some people write on these forums. If others can't understand what a poster has written, it's a waste both of the poster's time in writing the post and a reader's time in reading the post. As this thread has demonstrated.

oldagetraveller

" Apparently it's from Manchester - though I've family from Manchester and I've *never* heard that expression before."
I'm from Manchester originally and it was used quite regularly. Probably not used any more and as a result "family" have never heard it.
"He saw his a r s e", i.e. somewhat annoyed about something.
As a result, I fully understood what the o.p. was saying. Certainly not gibberish to me.

It's now trendy to refer to a four legged animal rather than the proper Queen's English version! Hopefully some of the more ill informed individuals have now learned something from north of Watford?

JuicyJesus

"Oh no," thinks Barclays, "unprofitable customers that cost us money we'll never make back in transaction fees won't use us any more and will instead incur those costs with other banks." Crying, it muses: "Our a*se has been well and truly seen here."

JustAnotherSaver

I don’t know whether people are just being bloody awkward here because OP said it’s instead of its, but as I type that on my phone it tries to autocorrect it to it’s each time.

Or whether these people genuinely haven’t heard the term to have seen ones back end.

If it’s the former it doesn’t surprise me as people just love to be difficult it seems.

If it’s the latter then I’m confused as I’m sure these will be the same people who harp on (is that another phrase you haven’t heard?????!) about using ‘the search function’. Well perhaps try Google for the phrase and see what it returns instead of making a big song & dance about it.

For the record I hear the phrase frequently. I’m sure there’s some southern phrases I’ve never heard of before. Big deal.

Uxb1

As a born and bred southerner I too had no idea what the OP's original phrase meant.
Anyway to get back to the subject.....
Barclays clearly feel that the amount they pay in transaction fees to the Post Office each time for letting their customer take out cash from the PO for free is not worth anything in terms of customer retention etc and it's simply not worth the aggro anymore.
Those Barclays customers who rarely use cash anymore will not be bothered.
Those who are outraged will move to another bank and quite possibly Barclays will be better off not having to deal with them anymore.

It it odd then when a legacy bank breaks the established way of things people are outraged but when it's a Challenger Bank (say becomes app only) then it's them being modern and moving with the times and how we bank today and its all no problem.
As I've said on here prior - its all been seen before when ATM's and bank cash cards were introduced in the 1970's and the facility to write a cheque to "pay cash" and present it at the bank teller/clerk for them to hand over the notes was withdrawn: now how outrageous was that!!
To be honest in today's increasingly cashless society I've no idea why people have a need to regularly withdraw cash from their account anyway.

Fingerbobs

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Or whether these people genuinely haven’t heard the term to have seen ones back end.

I've genuinely never heard it before in my life, and has absolutely no clue what it meant until I Googled it, and found out it was a Northern colloquialism.

The problem for me was that, instead of explaining it, the OP just repeated it replacing "a**e" with "rear end" which didn't help at all.

TREVORCOLMAN

bertiewhite wrote: »

I hear the phrase quite often and take it to mean that "one is not happy"

I thought that just applied to Bunny?

:rotfl:

Vortigern

johndavid29c wrote: »

Op nothing wrong with your English. Its not the queens granted but any natural Brit will understand. Same few faces looking to derail threads rather thwn be helpful. They have nothing better to do than pick holes in posts

!!! wrote: »

It’s*
Queen’s*
Than*

Quod Erat Demonstrandum

JustAnotherSaver

Fingerbobs wrote: »

I've genuinely never heard it before in my life, and has absolutely no clue what it meant until I Googled it, and found out it was a Northern colloquialism.

From personal experience I know people here are very very very VERY quick to jump on anyone who dares to ask a question & respond with "WHY DON'T YOU SEARCH".


At least you're one of those who stuck with that viewpoint & actually did a search instead of waving your arms around demanding attention.


My wife being from another country, i hear different phrases all the time, even 15+ years in. I just ask what they mean. Usually i can figure out depending on how they're used. I don't start crying over them because i've never heard them before.