Being filmed like a criminal.

General_Grant

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

People also never felt the need to protect children from second hand smoke or drenching there vegetables in DDT........ your point is??

The point being made by the consultant urologist was that people used not to carry water around with them every hour of the day and now many do and are continually topping up - and are developing continence problems as a result.

honeythewitch

We used to have access to water all the time up until the 1970s, when they took away all the drinking fountains that used to be in the streets.
They should bring them back.

Mistral001

A camera in the ceiling with a monitor in a back office is something that we just do not think about, but a camera and monitor a few feet away from us could be considered an invasion of personal space by many.

I have not come across the cameras, but I would probably shop elsewhere if they were installed in my local supermarket.

Mr_Singleton

Wraithlady wrote: »

Given his snide dig about JackieO's apparent fitness level

Nope.... more a response to a passive/aggressive post along the lines of " if don't do X so why the hell should anyone else?"

If a pilot of a 747 Jumbo says they need to walk 100 steps every 2 hours then I'm not going to question that if my only experience is sitting in the passenger compartment.

Mr_Singleton

General_Grant wrote: »

people used not to carry water around with them every hour of the day and now many do and are continually topping up - and are developing continence problems as a result.

By very definition the reason people go to a Urologist is because they have a problem. Whereas I'm not saying that nobody drinks too much water all the stats I can find show that the vast majority of people don't drink enough.

I aim for around 1.5ltrs a day depending on what Im doing. Spreading that out over a day is much more pleasant than chugging it at breakfast and dinner.

Mr_Singleton

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Oh meeoow...! Can't our JackieO express a view without being attacked for it?

I too am expressing a view which goes something like if you don't do it fine but don't wag a disapproving finger at those that do.

VfM4meplse wrote: »

It's the stores' prerogative to do this. We've had high trust for a long time; when there is only one SA to deal with all the queries at the self-service tills, I can imagine a decoy distraction could mean that a lot of stuff just walks out of the shop by this means. I really don't have a problem with this and still don't understand why anyone would, unless they have something to hide?

The supermarkets make huge saving by using self-service tills if they then choose to understaff them thats there choice. Again I suspect the vast majority of shoplifting goes on on the shop rather than the self service tills.

monnagran

Mr S you are an example to us all. Healthy in mind and body. Clear thinking and logical. Altruistic in pointing out the dangers of modern living inflicted by previous generations and nobly being put right by you and your school friends.

I am in awe. Also ever so 'umble. (Hitches sackcloth around shoulders and rubs in another handful of ashes)
As one of the delinquent generation that has caused all this trouble, I must apologise most sincerely.

In my defence I must offer that when I was a child I was a bit busy dodging bombs, doodlebugs and incendaries. My journey to school was impeded by the Mickey Mouse gas mask in its little box and the necessity of looking out for stray tanks and overhead enemy planes. My school playground offered an inadequate shelter and a large open water tank for the purpose of dowsing the aforementioned incendaries.
Just imagine....I don't think that they ever did a risk assessment for the water tank. We could all have drowned at playtime.

I was well used to being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night and rushed down to the coal cellar as the planes drowned overhead and the bombs dropped around us.

I even had all the childhood illnesses, whooping cough, measles, mumps, chickenpox et al, because my parents generation, the f e c k less lot, hadn't the forethought to have invented all the vaccines that your generation has thoughtfully provided for us.

Indeed, we did not spend much of our time fretting about how much water we drank or what sort of container it should be carried in. The only pictures we ever saw of ourselves were grainy, black and white, brownie box camera efforts. If we had ever seen ourselves on film, and coloured to boot, we would have been in heaven.

You have opened my eyes Mr S honey. I now realise how wrong we all were. We have indeed made a huge mess of your world and thank goodness there are people like you to point out the evil of our ways.

Mea culpa, Mr S. Mea culpa.

Norman_Castle

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

Lastly most of your argument against water is related to cost rather than the plastic bottle it comes in ie the environment. Now that definitely is a generational thing as your generation has spent its time ‘destroying’ the environment whereas mine is trying or at least trying to start cleaning it up.

Your generation needs to try harder.

I went to Glastonbury 30 years ago, it didn't look like this.
An aluminium water bottle is virtuous consumerism.

GreyQueen

Unless one is subsisting on dry crackers, a goodly amount of water is consumed with foodstuffs, thus reducing the amount of water one 'needs' to drink.

Athletic exercise was invented as a way of training young men to be warriors in the ancient world. In relatively modern times it was a way of distracting boys and young men from the pleasures of the flesh - with variable results.

One is led to wonder if Mr Singleton and his peers are limbering up to ready themselves for taking their place in the phalanx? Or distracting themselves from torrid, unmanageable emotions?

Ne'mind, earnest exertions are always entertaining to passers-by. Literally, in my case, as I dawdle my pushbike past runners on the shared cycle/ pedestrian/ running paths each weekend.:rotfl:

suki1964

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

But that’s the thing. Looking up at the ceiling there are 20+ CCTV cameras so the point of the screen isn’t to collect evidence of a potential crime it’s solely there to make people uncomfortable.

I also suspect that the vast majority of shoplifting is happening in the shop where people are stuffing things under their clothes rather than at the checkouts. What next? A security guard following you around 3 feet behind you watching everything you do?

But it doesn't make ME feel uncomfortable because IM not doing anything wrong

Why is it bothering you so much?