Being filmed like a criminal.

suki1964

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

Thankyou for noting that your not strong enough to be running let alone doing 3 laps of Regent’s Park (long route) at sub 6 minute mile pace. Could I thus surmise that your experience of hydrating for such a run is also not something you have experience of? Right with that out of the way.

I usually carry a small rucksac for my MacBook Pro and a bentobox so yes I also take an aluminium water bottle because there are times when I feel thirsty and there are no readily available water sources ie the tube. I personally prefer to drink a small amount when I’m thirsty rather than gulp down huge amounts in the morning or evening when I’m at home. Also like you I don’t wish to pay 85p for 500ml when I’m out unless I absolutely must (maybe 3/4 times a year).

As regards coffee I agree.... if I’m going to pay £3/4 for a coffee I want to enjoy it not walking around with it in a paper cup. Same goes with food.

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.

That is so out of order

Our generation wore cotton or wool, there was no lycra when we grew up ( plastic)

We bought our milk of the milkman, returned the bottles. our pop gave us money back when we returned the bottles - no plastic

Our takeaway which was fish and chips really did come in newspapers. Our burgers we ate in, on a plate with knives and forks

Deli counter, meat and cheese was wrapped in grease proof , same as the butchers and fishmongers, then wrapped in paper

Fruit, veg and salad, all bought loose

Eggs, you took your empty box/tray back for a refill

Clothes were homemade, wool was taken from jumpers that were bought second hand from jumble sales , unpicked, washed and re knitted

Christmas decorations - all hand made from paper

Our food didn't have a few thousand air miles, it was mostly locally grown, or at least from the UK. Things like grapefruits and oranges were expensive and not every day foods. We ate runner beans in the summer, not Kenyan dwarf beans all year round and strawberries came into season the last week of June and were finished by August

And I could go on and on and on

Your generation are PLAYING at saving the earth. Bet you won't be going without whatever it is you want. Bet you won't be walking around with a 5 year old phone, bet you don't buy your clothes from charity shops

And I know you won't because Ive read your posts here for years. You feel you are entitled to the best and you ensure we all know about it


Don't you dare say our generation "destroyed the Planet" Look at what Jackies and my generation grow up with and then look at what your generation and those who come after expect as just normal every day living


Think how many air miles your £4 coffee is costing this planet, But please don't choke on it

Pollycat

suki1964 wrote: »

That is so out of order

Our generation wore cotton or wool, there was no lycra when we grew up ( plastic)

We bought our milk of the milkman, returned the bottles. our pop gave us money back when we returned the bottles - no plastic

Our takeaway which was fish and chips really did come in newspapers. Our burgers we ate in, on a plate with knives and forks

Deli counter, meat and cheese was wrapped in grease proof , same as the butchers and fishmongers, then wrapped in paper

Fruit, veg and salad, all bought loose

Eggs, you took your empty box/tray back for a refill

Clothes were homemade, wool was taken from jumpers that were bought second hand from jumble sales , unpicked, washed and re knitted

Christmas decorations - all hand made from paper

Our food didn't have a few thousand air miles, it was mostly locally grown, or at least from the UK. Things like grapefruits and oranges were expensive and not every day foods. We ate runner beans in the summer, not Kenyan dwarf beans all year round and strawberries came into season the last week of June and were finished by August

And I could go on and on and on

Your generation are PLAYING at saving the earth. Bet you won't be going without whatever it is you want. Bet you won't be walking around with a 5 year old phone, bet you don't buy your clothes from charity shops

And I know you won't because Ive read your posts here for years. You feel you are entitled to the best and you ensure we all know about it


Don't you dare say our generation "destroyed the Planet" Look at what Jackies and my generation grow up with and then look at what your generation and those who come after expect as just normal every day living


Think how many air miles your £4 coffee is costing this planet, But please don't choke on it

WOW!
Just WOW!
Go, Suki, go. :T :dance:

ETA:
I can't see why the OP is making such a big deal out of this either.

suki1964

Pollycat wrote: »

WOW!
Just WOW!
Go, Suki, go. :T :dance:

ETA:
I can't see why the OP is making such a big deal out of this either.

Aw sod it Polly

Hes really riled me

Posts on money saving boards all the time how he eats the best of everything, buys the best of everything, whinges that because he doesn't know how to sort his phone settings hes being watched by big brother and now hes being filmed " like a criminal"

And then to have the audacity to say it is our generation who have wrecked the planet???

Man is living in cloud cockoo or is indeed as I always felt a WUM

Now I know our Jackie is a national treasure on here, but its not really me jumping to her defence, Im jumping to all our defences, yours, monnagrans, all those names that escape me who spend our lives make doing and mending, not so much as we cant afford to buy, but cant see why we NEED to BUY new, those of us who choose to shop locally and in season, those of us who charity shop because we cant see the need to rape this world of ours of more to make more needless carp that we can really manage quite well without

Oh and I won't mention his hissy fit at a "new thermomix" on eBay which is in fact an unwanted pressie so isn't actually "new and sealed"

unrecordings

Mind those yellow tickets the mods like to hand out on demand

If we're going to turn this into Xmas Eastenders, then at least give me time to get some popcorn flown in before I turn into Mr Agreeable:
http://www.mr-agreeable.net/2007/06/24/more-highly-colourful-language-from-mr-agreeable

theoretica

I read an article about how self service checkouts were being cheated when they were new- people put things through as loose carrots, because they are usually the cheapest weighed item and then the weight in the bagging area matches up. Apparently some shops were 'selling' far more carrots than they stocked! If this system puts fraudsters off even trying I am not against it, its no worse than a mirror and the existing more discrete cameras.

ivyleaf

Thank you Suki :T

suki1964

unrecordings wrote: »

Mind those yellow tickets the mods like to hand out on demand

If we're going to turn this into Xmas Eastenders, then at least give me time to get some popcorn flown in before I turn into Mr Agreeable:
http://www.mr-agreeable.net/2007/06/24/more-highly-colourful-language-from-mr-agreeable

Ive been permanently banned once already ( long story ) and Ive bitten my tongue since

But sometimes, you know, sometimes you cant sit back and be insulted ( indirectly this time)

Theres a lot of threads Im involved in where people are struggling to find their next meal, when youngsters are thinking they have no option but to declare bankruptcy before they have even left home, where someone is struggling to come to terms with the lose of their life partners, a child. The reasons why these forums came about, for help and support for those in need

Not a place for middle class twits to come along to rub our noses in it and then insult us

unrecordings

theoretica wrote: »

I read an article about how self service checkouts were being cheated when they were new- people put things through as loose carrots, because they are usually the cheapest weighed item and then the weight in the bagging area matches up. Apparently some shops were 'selling' far more carrots than they stocked! If this system puts fraudsters off even trying I am not against it, its no worse than a mirror and the existing more discrete cameras.

...and the salient point, if you did have a problem with it you'd simply shop elsewhere. I regularly get followed round our local Waitrose, because frankly I do look like a drug addict even on my best days, but it doesn't bother me, because of course I'm 'protected' by CCTV (and I don't nick stuff)

unrecordings

suki1964 wrote: »

But sometimes, you know, sometimes you cant sit back and be insulted ( indirectly this time)

Not a place for middle class twits to come along to rub our noses in it and then insult us

Completely understood. Like the analogy of, if you don't like it shop somewhere else, I'm finding it increasingly insulting of MSE to protect the trolls and yellow sticker those who stand up to them. I'll no longer post outside of select sub forums these days, and I only settled in OS because I've been pretty much housebound since July, couldn't really face another 'if I can get outside tomorrow' post in the Greenfingered forum, and the prepping for brexit thread was (and still is) so well mannered. I don't even bother posting replies a lot of time now for fear of some troll parachuting into a thread and forcing me to react. I say fear, more restraint, despite the keppra, despite the steroids, despite the inner Mr Ageeable borne of over thirty years of dealing with !!!!wits.

VfM4meplse

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

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.

By implication it's okay for shrinkage to occur at the till? None of its right, all it does is push prices up for the consumer.