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BobClay

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That's it, Black Friday is over … HOORAY … all done and dusted, no more consigning dozens of emails to randomised electronic obscurity each day … no more corporate persecution, no more overheating of the PC's CPU …. at last life can return to normal. :haw::lol::cool:

(Opens Email: … :eek: … AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH !!!!! :o )
 
littleme

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Skill points x 100,00000 to the Gentleman that helped me out with some trolleys this morning, you were an absolute star - restores your faith in human nature... :dance:
 
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BobClay said:
That's it, Black Friday is over … HOORAY … all done and dusted, no more consigning dozens of emails to randomised electronic obscurity each day … no more corporate persecution, no more overheating of the PC's CPU …. at last life can return to normal. :haw::lol::cool:

(Opens Email: … :eek: … AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH !!!!! :o )
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It's Cyber Monday on Monday :P
 
staffordjas

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I've tried so many times to 'unsubscribe' to emails that I never requested in the first place. But still been bombarded with Black Friday emails ( and most other days) from every Tom,Dick & Harry.

Super pissed off the other day whilst painting the house. Kept breaking off, thinking it might be son or hubby with urgent messages, only to find yet another unwanted email Black Friday offer.

And the 25% off ,on Friday only, was a joke from M & Co ...I'd got 40% and 50% off in store the day before! :D
 
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staffordjas said:
I've tried so many times to 'unsubscribe' to emails that I never requested in the first place. But still been bombarded with Black Friday emails ( and most other days) from every Tom,Dick & Harry.

Super pissed off the other day whilst painting the house. Kept breaking off, thinking it might be son or hubby with urgent messages, only to find yet another unwanted email Black Friday offer.

And the 25% off ,on Friday only, was a joke from M & Co ...I'd got 40% and 50% off in store the day before! :D
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If you use Gmail switch to the Gmail app, enable categories and set it to only notify you for “Primary” mail. Then you don’t get notifications for every single promotional email that comes through. Might have to set it up on a PC though, not sure

Primary usually ends up being stuff like emails directly from other people (ie not automated ones)
 
staffordjas

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Paid for £2 bird seed in B&M with a £1 coin, a 50 pence, 20p, 10p, and four 5 pences . The girl looked at it, looked at it again, rang it in, still looked at it , then decided she couldn't count it so looked to see if I looked as though it was the correct money, not enough, or needed change. Then put it in the till , as she handed me the receipt, still not quite convinced she had the right money :roll:
 
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staffordjas said:
Paid for £2 bird seed in B&M with a £1 coin, a 50 pence, 20p, 10p, and four 5 pences . The girl looked at it, looked at it again, rang it in, still looked at it , then decided she couldn't count it so looked to see if I looked as though it was the correct money, not enough, or needed change. Then put it in the till , as she handed me the receipt, still not quite convinced she had the right money :roll:
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Go in again and get another bag with 1,920 farthings.
 
BobClay

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I used to go in the Prince of Wales pub in Littleworth a lot some years ago, and one time I had a joke American 5 dollar bill I'd brought back from some trip to sea with instead of a President (I think it's supposed to be Lincoln on that bill) there was a picture of Linda Lovelace in all her glory, although nothing obscene I should add. That dates this a bit, and if you don't know who Linda Lovelace was, you might NOT want to look it up. As a joke I bought a beer in the lounge, and passed this note across to the barmaid. She took it, put it in the till and gave change for a fiver !!!!
Now it's the wrong shape, the wrong colour, and doesn't look anything like a Brit fiver. I had to call her back and explain the joke and pay properly and to my horror she examined the joke note closely having retrieved it and gave me a look that would wither neutronium, for me it was welcome to cockroachville … :eek:

Did that joke ever backfire …. :gonk::urgh:
 
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staffordjas said:
Paid for £2 bird seed in B&M with a £1 coin, a 50 pence, 20p, 10p, and four 5 pences . The girl looked at it, looked at it again, rang it in, still looked at it , then decided she couldn't count it so looked to see if I looked as though it was the correct money, not enough, or needed change. Then put it in the till , as she handed me the receipt, still not quite convinced she had the right money :roll:
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I often do something similar in a certain notorious fast food chain when the bill comes to £x and 99p and after they've cashed it through ask them if they want the penny.

Invariably the answer is yes please and then they can't work out what the change should be nor why they've now got an extra penny in the change.
 
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Thehooperman said:
I often do something similar in a certain notorious fast food chain when the bill comes to £x and 99p and after they've cashed it through ask them if they want the penny.

Invariably the answer is yes please and then they can't work out what the change should be nor why they've now got an extra penny in the change.
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When I worked in a bakery, incharge of youngsters, people would quite often offer the odd pence to save getting lots of change back. (Helped us as well, to save running out of change) . One youngster always gave them a handful of change back , as well as the extra they had just given, as she couldn't work it out . :roll:
 
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Dont forget 1p and 2p coins are only legal tender up to 20p, we always tried paying bus fares in pennies just to annoy the conductor
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Anyone know if there's a similar limit on the self-service tills in supermarkets? I've often thought I should turn up with some bags of 1p and 2p coins and spend five minutes feeding them in. Never yet plucked up the courage.

ETA One thing I have done is, say I've had to pay 76p, rather than put in a £1 coin and get 24p change, put in 26p in small change and then a £1 coin so that I get a 50p piece as change.
 
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littleme

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Mikinton said:
Anyone know if there's a similar limit on the self-service tills in supermarkets? I've often thought I should turn up with some bags of 1p and 2p coins and spend five minutes feeding them in. Never yet plucked up the courage.

ETA One thing I have done is, say I've had to pay 76p, rather than put in a £1 coin and get 24p change, put in 26p in small change and then a £1 coin so that I get a 50p piece as change.
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No limit, just don't shove them all in at once or it will jam. Best way to get rid of small change...
 
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Mikinton said:
Anyone know if there's a similar limit on the self-service tills in supermarkets? I've often thought I should turn up with some bags of 1p and 2p coins and spend five minutes feeding them in. Never yet plucked up the courage.

ETA One thing I have done is, say I've had to pay 76p, rather than put in a £1 coin and get 24p change, put in 26p in small change and then a £1 coin so that I get a 50p piece as change.
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Whenever I try that I just get loads of small change back. It seems that the machines don't like carrying change either as it fills them up.
 
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