New - The things that really annoy you

[UKYankieWWFC]

Wash your mouth out Ray! Realtor? Ffs!

Honestly, I forgot what they are called
Selling housing website people? Lol

 

[UKYankieWWFC]

Ignore him mate, he's one step away from typing 'y'all', and then all hope is lost

I've been here a while but never say y'all.
Primary reason, I sound like a tit when I do!

 

[Derby Wolf]

Retail food waste of perfectly good food.

We've had these new ready meals at work which are pricey at £6.50 a pop and are blocked from being reduced when they're coming up to expiry.

I'm going to have to chuck a load of them tonight and after checking we've chucked each one which has come into store, nobody is buying them. Nearly £300 worth in 10 days.

COL crisis and kids going hungry and we're throwing food out by the bagload for no reason. Really fucking winds me up.

 

[lemonjelly]

Honestly, I forgot what they are called
Selling housing website people? Lol

the fact that you can't recall an estate agent is also exceptionally worrying!
PM me and let me now how long you're here!

 

[The Bear]

Retail food waste of perfectly good food.

We've had these new ready meals at work which are pricey at £6.50 a pop and are blocked from being reduced when they're coming up to expiry.

I'm going to have to chuck a load of them tonight and after checking we've chucked each one which has come into store, nobody is buying them. Nearly £300 worth in 10 days.

COL crisis and kids going hungry and we're throwing food out by the bagload for no reason. Really fucking winds me up.

Yeah it's bloody annoying. Lots of food outlets now sign up for a scheme called Too Good To Go, where you order a food package on their app for a couple of quid and you get stuff that is going to be thrown out or not used.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yeah it's bloody annoying. Lots of food outlets now sign up for a scheme called Too Good To Go, where you order a food package on their app for a couple of quid and you get stuff that is going to be thrown out or not used.

I've got that app but never used it. Having read reviews, it's a complete lucky dip what you get. You could say it's worth the gamble given a limited spend but your £4 or whatever might end up getting you a load of crap you're never going to use. I'm not sure I want to walk a couple of miles to Penn Co-Op (for example) and end up with three loaves I don't want or need, some pastries I don't like and an indifferent ready meal. You can of course hit the jackpot, but it seems to be rare.

If you have restaurants on there local to you that seems to be a better bet.

 

[sycophantia]

Our local supermarkets send all their 'spare' food to a organisation call 'Food Share and Save' they then sell it on a Monday morning for 2 quid a big bag full to anyone that wants/needs it.

 

[pagey]

Couldn't they sort something with supplier to donate to local charities on expiry date? I knew someone in The Haven and they used to get a few free meals a week from similar donations.

 

[Tony Towner]

Retail food waste of perfectly good food.

We've had these new ready meals at work which are pricey at £6.50 a pop and are blocked from being reduced when they're coming up to expiry.

I'm going to have to chuck a load of them tonight and after checking we've chucked each one which has come into store, nobody is buying them. Nearly £300 worth in 10 days.

COL crisis and kids going hungry and we're throwing food out by the bagload for no reason. Really fucking winds me up.

I thought all major supermarkets had a relationship with FareShare? Perhaps that doesn't apply to chilled goods? Anyway nick us a couple and I'll shove you a fiver. Shall we say the back of the shop at 6 ?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Couldn't they sort something with supplier to donate to local charities on expiry date? I knew someone in The Haven and they used to get a few free meals a week from similar donations.

I know Co-Op Codsall used to do similar.

But this seems to be a complete bar on these specific meals (based on their original price point) from what Mike is saying. Which is stupid of course.

 

[The Bear]

I've got that app but never used it. Having read reviews, it's a complete lucky dip what you get. You could say it's worth the gamble given a limited spend but your £4 or whatever might end up getting you a load of crap you're never going to use. I'm not sure I want to walk a couple of miles to Penn Co-Op (for example) and end up with three loaves I don't want or need, some pastries I don't like and an indifferent ready meal. You can of course hit the jackpot, but it seems to be rare.

If you have restaurants on there local to you that seems to be a better bet.

I did notice that Subway often just sell empty sub rolls.

I've seen a few fast food places that give out full meals. Bit of a lucky dip what you get though as you say.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

They don't advertise what's there as far as I know, from supermarkets at least?

At the minute I can get a £10 RRP bag from Co-Op for £3.30. But there's no information on there about what it is, bar it being at least 3 items.

The Westacres pub however are basically saying I could pick up some Christmas dinner leftovers at 9pm for £3.25 (RRP £9.75).

 

[Wolftone]

....I'm not sure I want to walk a couple of miles to Penn Co-Op (for example) and end up with three loaves..

Add a few fish and you've got enough to feed around 5,000 or so..

 

[EpsomWolf]

Looking for some arbitrary guidance on a couple of annoying things guys…

1) went out this morning in the dry, just home it’s pissing down. Postman has put the post under the windscreen wiper of the car in the driveway! Needless to say everything is saturated, particularly annoyed an important document is soaked to more or less tissue paper. The bloody letterbox is probably only 20ft from the car.

2) a skip lorry dropping off at a renovation a few doors away has (to be fair it is a tight spot) made a right mess of a grass verge. The neighbours attempt to repair it, then he does the same again on the next load. Other neighbours asked the guy previously if he could put some boards down but his replies were along the lines of “I don’t give a fuck”.

So, very much torn as these are of course first world problems, and… really don’t want to turn into a grumpy git so I’ll gladly take both barrels if getting things out of proportion.

Gut feelings are to have a fairly polite word with the postie next time I see him/her (seems to be a different one every day anyway) and as for the verge, complain to the council. Bit nervous about that as that’s something the curtain twitchers do and I hate the thought of turning into one of those, but I dunno, doesn’t feel like it should be just left either.

What do you reckon?

 

[lemonjelly]

on the 2nd one, I'd just let it go tbh. grass grows back, and it seems the neighbour has made their own attempt (albeit unsuccessful) repair. Lorry drivers are very much of the not giving a fuck about anyone else mentality. the sheer amount of times I see haulage drivers blocking roads/drives/access and being overwhelmingly blatant about not giving a fuck, and sometimes trying hard to be as inconvenient and cause as much disruption as possible.

on the postie one, I don't see how what they have done is acceptable tbh.

 

[sycophantia]

I'd probably just bite the bullet with the verge thing, suspect doing summat about it would ve more stressful than just letting it go. Obviously this is if it doesn't turn into a weekly episode.
As for the postman, definitely have a quiet word in the first instance.
I'm lucky, we generally get one of two postman all the time and they're superb.

 

[Kenny]

Chuck a bucket of water at the postie. Only solution
Presume he is a temp postie that appear at this time of the year and their main aim is to do their round as quickly as possible.

The verge one, not a lot you can do there just grumble to yourself and heavily tut whenever you walk by the verge

 

[Del Woppio]

Yeah that verge thing is a bit 'old man shouts at clouds' tbf, but your postie wants fucking with a big a stick for that.

 

[sycophantia]

If the lorry thing keeps happening, what about stingers?

 

[Del Woppio]

Nettles won't stop him. He's in a lorry