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When people say they will hoover up, when in fact they do not own a hoover, hoover is a brand name belonging to hoover nothing else, what they really mean is that they will vacuum up.

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Supermarket checkout signage stating: Eight Items Or Less

With the checkout assistant sat there with no customers so you try to go through with a few over the eight and you get "sorry sir eight items or less only through this checkout". Angry

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laserman16 wrote:

6th.replicant wrote:

Supermarket checkout signage stating: Eight Items Or Less

With the checkout assistant sat there with no customers so you try to go through with a few over the eight and you get "sorry sir eight items or less only through this checkout". Angry

Muppets.

I don't have a problem with that, sometimes i go to the supermarket & purchase just a few items, but sometimes i wonder is when you buy four cans of lager as a four pack is that one item or four. puzzled

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simonlewis wrote:

laserman16 wrote:

6th.replicant wrote:

Supermarket checkout signage stating: Eight Items Or Less

With the checkout assistant sat there with no customers so you try to go through with a few over the eight and you get "sorry sir eight items or less only through this checkout". Angry

Muppets.

I don't have a problem with that, sometimes i go to the supermarket & purchase just a few items, but sometimes i wonder is when you buy four cans of lager as a four pack is that one item or four. puzzled

You might be testing their intelligence just a bit to far with that one...................................

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simonlewis wrote:

laserman16 wrote:

6th.replicant wrote:

Supermarket checkout signage stating: Eight Items Or Less

With the checkout assistant sat there with no customers so you try to go through with a few over the eight and you get "sorry sir eight items or less only through this checkout". Angry

Muppets.

I don't have a problem with that, sometimes i go to the supermarket & purchase just a few items, but sometimes i wonder is when you buy four cans of lager as a four pack is that one item or four. puzzled

Clickety  excellent!

And apologies, I should've clarified, my ire is re grammar - ie, it should be 'fewer' not 'less'. (Props to the honourable exception - Waitrose.)  shifty

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simonlewis wrote:
When people say they will hoover up, when in fact they do not own a hoover, hoover is a brand name belonging to hoover nothing else, what they really mean is that they will vacuum up.

Petrol was originally a registered trade name for a nit removal solvent. So when motor cars were invented  and people started using the same solvent as a fuel, the name stuck.

What do you want us to call it? Motor spirit?

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Probably why the yanks call it gas.

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...the ignorant idiot tailgating me just now  Angry

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overuse of the word controversial   and controversy  In what seems every news item.

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I don't mind people getting their laptop or iPad out to watch a film on the train. But please - wear some headphones!!

 

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James Corden

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simonlewis wrote:

When people say they will hoover up, when in fact they do not own a hoover, hoover is a brand name belonging to hoover nothing else, what they really mean is that they will vacuum up.

 

And afterwards drink coffe from their thermos ...... ooops. Vacuum flask. With music blaring over the Tannoy ... oops, loudspeakers.

 

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Predictive bloody text.

My spelling was always pretty good bar the odd mistake, but since my first iPad purchase, that's gone downhill! 

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Diamond Joe wrote:

...the ignorant idiot tailgating me just now  Angry

 

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