$8.10 per week might be a lot for him.Lucks a fortune, and fortune favours the tight arse
Nobet Pays never has anymore than $5 on a horse. Consider that !
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Little things that annoy you....
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Nobet Pays never has anymore than $5 on a horse. Consider that !
the other day, I strayed into some uncharted territory in woolies,
and came across a large section of
'washable underpants'
packaged with smiling confident people who looked like George Clooney and a white Marcia Langton.
I had a mild jolt of panic, like a welding flash in my navel,
and thought
'well what the *smile* have I been wearing for 50 years?'
and came across a large section of
'washable underpants'
packaged with smiling confident people who looked like George Clooney and a white Marcia Langton.
I had a mild jolt of panic, like a welding flash in my navel,
and thought
'well what the *smile* have I been wearing for 50 years?'
Tell us you were shopping at the adult nappy section without telling us you were shopping at the adult nappy section.
So............. Where do we read your review?
'I got these washable underpants for Christmas in 1975 and they never let me down once. I'd wear them for a week or so, until I could smell them, and then mum would wash them, and id just do it all over again. I really love the vibrant Ernie and Burt print. ***** '
Thanks eZyT, had a *smile* ordinary day at work today n definitely needed your thoughts n insight on life.
had two in two days; both related to corporate distain for customer, in different measures
although one wasn't really little.
1. shopping at Woolworths, have for 20 years. I dont use robots, I talk to the checkout people, I take my trolley back.
im sampling a few grapes and security collars me and says 'dont eat the produce with out paying please'
I go 'everyone knows your allowed to have a few grapes and cherries mate, where have you been?'
record profits. senate enquiry. bob Katter and Andrew Wilkie dressing up as pigs, coming for them.
and they go after a bloke eating 20c worth of grapes?
bye bye Woolworths. back to the fruit shop and butcher for this brazen thief.
2. I usually use bank statements to light the fire, but I took a random look and got a shock at my mortgage rate 8.12%!!!!
I phone StGeorge and say 'whats the go with the 8.2%?'
'that does seem high sir, I can do 6.45%'
'well that instant 1.65% drop is great, thanks, but what about the $100 a week you've been loyalty taxing me the last couple of years, can you refund that?'
'sorry sir, we encourage our customers to review their banking regularly'
' yeah and Pol Pot would have encouraged people to take off their glasses'
'excuse me sir?'
'see ya'
cynical *smile*.
take half a day to phone your bank, your telco, your power provider, your insurer and ask for a better deal.
they're making $billions on people like me who hate paperwork and listening to Greensleeves on the phone
they are crooked *smile*, all of them.
although one wasn't really little.
1. shopping at Woolworths, have for 20 years. I dont use robots, I talk to the checkout people, I take my trolley back.
im sampling a few grapes and security collars me and says 'dont eat the produce with out paying please'
I go 'everyone knows your allowed to have a few grapes and cherries mate, where have you been?'
record profits. senate enquiry. bob Katter and Andrew Wilkie dressing up as pigs, coming for them.
and they go after a bloke eating 20c worth of grapes?
bye bye Woolworths. back to the fruit shop and butcher for this brazen thief.
2. I usually use bank statements to light the fire, but I took a random look and got a shock at my mortgage rate 8.12%!!!!
I phone StGeorge and say 'whats the go with the 8.2%?'
'that does seem high sir, I can do 6.45%'
'well that instant 1.65% drop is great, thanks, but what about the $100 a week you've been loyalty taxing me the last couple of years, can you refund that?'
'sorry sir, we encourage our customers to review their banking regularly'
' yeah and Pol Pot would have encouraged people to take off their glasses'
'excuse me sir?'
'see ya'
cynical *smile*.
take half a day to phone your bank, your telco, your power provider, your insurer and ask for a better deal.
they're making $billions on people like me who hate paperwork and listening to Greensleeves on the phone
they are crooked *smile*, all of them.
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So true and so *smile*. Yet I guarantee we will see another banking ad saying how much they care about their customers....
Never eaten the produce in store although often seen people doing it. Surely a taste test is OK, they love advertising how plump and tasty and fresh their stuff is why wouldn't they support some taste testing?
ive always eaten grapes and cherries shopping. its an unwritten rule of supermarket shopping I thought?
next time I'll say 'yeah just taking it home to regurgitate for the kids mate'
Go there one more time, use the self check out and put everything through as potatoes.
they have vegetable recognising robots now that sends out an arm to electrocute your testicles
I might empty the rotten apples and squishy bananas out of the 'free fruit for kids'
and fill it with mangoes and lychees and blueberries.
as one final act of defiance.
something has to give with this prolonged and consistent corporate trend towards
lowering service/raising profit margins/treating the customer as saleable data.
the last Woolworths CEO left when the kitchen got a bit hot with a $20m bonus!
thats over one billion grapes.
whose the thief?
Yep, the wife always checks the grapes to make sure they're ok for the 4yr old Granddaughter, she doesn't like the "sour ones". Why buy something that won't get eaten.
As for insurance companies, received my home & contents renewal notice the other day, $25 /mth they wanted to hike it. I haven't had a claim for 30 yrs. So I asked them how come its gone up so much, well "the area you live blah blah blah" I said I've lived here for over 40 years haven't had a claim for over 30 & you want to raise my premium by so much.
I tried " Compare the market" website, what a waste of time that was. ALL of their suggestions were more than $700/ yr higher. So did my own research & finally found a company that was marginally higher my current policy for the same cover (for next year) that was offered by my current insurer.
It does pay to look around when renewing insurers, energy companies etc. etc.
GIO executive looks a senator in the eye and says
'with increasing climate uncertainty and natural disasters, we have record claims'
then they double their record profit.
how's that work?
until a few crooked CEO's brains leak out on a filthy floor, or their colons perforated by a toilet brush, in prison.
nothings gonna change.
senate inquiries, royal commissions, ACCC, ICAC have to throw the book and strip proceeds of crime and throw some of these crooked *smile* in a proper heavy slammer,
the worse thing that ever happens to them is they have to hold a press conference and say
'I want to spend more time with family" and collect a cheque for $20m
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Funny this has come up. I went to my nearby Woolworths for the first time in 12 months this morning. (Switched to Aldi a couple of k’s further away. Figure they are a cheaper and lesser evil.)
Anyway, I’m going through Woolworths today and I simply can not believe the prices. Box of crumbed fish that was $9 12 months ago. Now it’s $12. Salmon…$32 a kg ….now $42 a kg. Everything had gone up it appeared 25% the last 12 months. But at least I got the pleasure of having to check out and pack everything myself because they were too tight to put any checkout operators on.
Spent twice as much as I usually do at Aldi for about 2/3 the produce and goods.
The corporate greed in Australia is completely out of control. Woolworths, Coles, Qantas, the criminal banks, oil companies (how the fc are we paying $1.85 a litre when the price of crude oil has dropped significantly the last 12 months?), energy companies, Foxtel, privatised infrastructure operators eg Transurban and on and on and on.
It is simply out of control.
Anyway, I’m going through Woolworths today and I simply can not believe the prices. Box of crumbed fish that was $9 12 months ago. Now it’s $12. Salmon…$32 a kg ….now $42 a kg. Everything had gone up it appeared 25% the last 12 months. But at least I got the pleasure of having to check out and pack everything myself because they were too tight to put any checkout operators on.
Spent twice as much as I usually do at Aldi for about 2/3 the produce and goods.
The corporate greed in Australia is completely out of control. Woolworths, Coles, Qantas, the criminal banks, oil companies (how the fc are we paying $1.85 a litre when the price of crude oil has dropped significantly the last 12 months?), energy companies, Foxtel, privatised infrastructure operators eg Transurban and on and on and on.
It is simply out of control.
Seeing as they end up bailing out the scum anyway, the federal government should open its own not for profit bank, insurance company and supermarket chain. Nationalise all essential industries. There might be votes in that these days.
On the flip side, the superannuation funds are doing ok thanks to the corporate profits.
