Room 101

[Al ears]

Unless his car needed some weird additive or was the wrong rating of fuel I find this very implausible......
The supermarkets get their fuel from major fuel refineries and this might include Shell.....

Plus you seem to be promoting Shell.
Room 101 is about things you want to get rid of....

 

[WayneKerr]

Most MPG and least damage to your car. I always use Shell.

How did this happen? I was in a garage and a guy pulled up with a fault with his car. The owner said he knew what the problem was; the guy used supermarket fuel. The driver confirmed he did. The part was £300+VAT with labour on top. The owner of the garage told him to use Shell in future. Much cheaper than repairing the car!

Sounds like the beginning of a cable thread 🙂

 

[Al ears]

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and supermarket fuel!

Simply trying to keep a thread on track.
It's quite difficult to do these days as you must know as you've been here long enough.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

People who brandish price tags on forums. Vulgar.

 

[WayneKerr]

People who brandish price tags on forums. Vulgar.

Got anyone particular in mind 🤣 I might be guilty of that myself 🙂 My only defence is that I seldom pay full-RRP.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Got anyone particular in mind 🤣 I might be guilty of that myself 🙂 My only defence is that I seldom pay full-RRP.

Certainly not you. I'm thinking of people who probably seldom participate, but when they do the loud clang of a price tag being dropped can be heard reverberating. Hey, but that's just me - other opinions are available.

 

[WayneKerr]

Certainly not you. I'm thinking of people who probably seldom participate, but when they do the loud clang of a price tag being dropped can be heard reverberating. Hey, but that's just me - other opinions are available.

🤣

 

[Al ears]

Certainly not you. I'm thinking of people who probably seldom participate, but when they do the loud clang of a price tag being dropped can be heard reverberating. Hey, but that's just me - other opinions are available.

i think I might know just the chap....🙂

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Now I didn't necessarily say it was here...

 

[Al ears]

Now I didn't necessarily say it was here...

Well I don't visit many other forums, and it's certainly applicable on this one..... 🙂

 

[Gray]

Hey, but that's just me

Not just you, don't worry.
The bloke is from planet Naive, part of a distant galaxy.

 

[Gray]

...his thread title demonstrates the naivity.
(Stupid rather than bad, is the best I can say for him).

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Amazon.fr. Bought the French version of The Man Who Wasn't There on blu ray as there's no UK release. When viewing in English, the subtitles cannot be turned off. Very irritating. Posted this as my review and Amazon.fr rejected it. I cannot say what I really think as rules forbid...

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

The combination of Sainsbury's and Tyrrell's crisps - asking £2.75 for a larger bag of the latter's chili crisps. They were an essential item as far as I was concerned (bought whenever possible in periodic half price deals), but if that sticks I'm going to reluctantly have to seek an inferior alternative.

They are on offer at the moment. Offer used to be half price, now it's £2 against £2.75, a 50% increase, give or take. Will just have to fill my boots when they are on offer.

Not that they do my flavour, but the same bags are £2.90 in the local Co-op. Eek. Still, they are doing four tins of Heinz tomato soup for £3.50 at the moment, so boot-filling called for here too.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Similarly, vegetarians and vegans have no right to tell meat eaters what they should and shouldn't eat, in their holier than thou way.

Missed this before. I've been a veggie my entire adult life, and have no view whatever on what others eat. Our kids were raised as omnivores - one still is and the other's vegan. They made their own calls - something that's difficult to do if you are raised avoiding something.

Preachiness can be a very unattractive trait, but I think it's inaccurate to assume that all who avoid meat have it.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Preachiness can be a very unattractive trait, but I think it's inaccurate to assume that all who avoid meat have it.

I don't but, we all know that some do and, that some of those people push it very hard, because they think being vegan, makes them better than other people.

On the other hand, my step daughter is a "nearly vegan" and she is definitely not preachy.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

makes them better than other people.

I'd suggest this is true of any 'moral' stance, from politics to faith to whatever. Nothing special about diet.

I recall years ago at another forum seeing someone express the view that he hated vegetarians. Seemed (and still seems) odd to hate someone for something they choose not to do. Turns out he meant preachy vegetarians, which is another thing. I think that sometimes we object more to preachy vegetarians than preachers of other kinds because humans struggle to rationalise our attitudes and actions towards animals. There's a fascinating book called 'Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat', which is about trying to rationalise how we think about these relationships. The author is definitely not pushing vegetarianism.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

I'd suggest this is true of any 'moral' stance, from politics to faith to whatever. Nothing special about diet.

You're probably right there.

 

[jjbomber]

, because they think being vegan, makes them better than other people.

As a carnivore, I have no great desire to make beef into the shape of potatoes or carrots!

 

[plastic penguin]

The menus and holding systems that many companies have when you call up - I don't wish to be directed to the website for GDPR purposes, nor do I care how much you tell me my call is important to you*. If it was, someone could answer it. (I ring when things are important for the same reason I sometimes use letters - emails etc don't seem to be treated with the same gravitas or urgency.)

* Had one the other day which said that my call was important, but no-one was free right now so I should call back later - after which it went dead. Can't tell you how important that made me feel!

What really gets up 'ooter is you wait ten minutes while they go through 30 different options:

"Press one for sheep walking. Press two for cat leads" blah blah blah...

At the end they say "press 10 to speak to an operator". You press 10 and a automated voice says, "sorry, no one is available to take your call. Please try again later."

😡

 

[Gray]

What really gets up 'ooter is you wait ten minutes while they go through 30 different options

Infinitely worse for those of us not on call plans, forced into making the odd chargeable call.
What really gets me then, is a speedy pickup of the call .....only to be routed to many minutes of their internal ring tone - that I'm paying for.
I don't care how long before they answer the initial call - just wish they'd do it when they're ready to talk🤬

 

[plastic penguin]

Infinitely worse for those of us not on call plans, forced into making the odd chargeable call.
What really gets me then, is a speedy pickup of the call .....only to be routed to many minutes of their internal ring tone - that I'm paying for.
I don't care how long before they answer the initial call - just wish they'd do it when they're ready to talk🤬

That's the other pain. Paying while no one picks the phone up.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

My village has those speed cameras that are set up just to flag up your speed, and they've been migrating around its different roads for a good few months now. One presently sits outside a children's nursery, on a road with pubs, shops, some very narrow pavements (where very old buildings sit very close to the road). It's also on the crest of a hill, and with curvature, so visibility isn't great. An understandable thirty zone.

Didn't stop some dullard setting it off at 40 in today's snow and slush...

 

[Gray]

Didn't stop some dullard setting it off at 40 in today's snow and slush...

One of those ****s you'd be happy to see wrapped round a tree.

That might sound harsh readers, but you know you think the same.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

One of those ****s you'd be happy to see wrapped round a tree.

That might sound harsh readers, but you know you think the same.

As long as they don't hit someone else, before the tree stops them...