Mechanical Things That Aren't Even Necessary!

I am going to the big Tescos later this pm tho. It's v near my work.

Last year I got an electric vegetable chopper for Christmas which I've never used because I have, like, A KNIFE!

I suppose you could say that many mechanical things aren't necessary, but they do make life easier, i.e. using a washing machine -vs- trampling laundry clean in a bath full of soapy water. (I have done this, btw).

I have enough of those for all of the BBC newsreaders and the complete cast of Hollyoaks.

I have enough of those for all of the BBC newsreaders and the complete cast of Hollyoaks.

You're still talking about masturbation, right?

name me one person who's died or even GOT ILL thru using one, CJ!

Er, thec whole point of the rolling system is to provide you with a clean part of the towel. And they're washed after the whole roll is used.

*actual usage of word meaning water being drawn from bit of something to another

Though maybe capillary action is more appropriate.

That said, have you ever known anyone to actually get sick off using public toilets? Outside of, like, Quincy episodes?

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I've been trying to think of mechanical things I'd get rid of and can't come up with any. I love mechanical things though; they are fascinating, I like to take them apart and see how they do what they do.

Not as funny as him complaining to the manager in Morrisons for them stacking the frozen food too high in the freezers.

I like the conveyor belts. The stores I go to don't have them, and you have to push your cart off to the cashier side and then wander back to the customer side. Then the cashier has to reach into the cart and get the items when I could've done that five minutes ago had there been a belt!

Skaggs-Albertsons have these cool lazy susans that you put your produce on, and the cashier can just spin 'em around at his or her own leisure.

I think an electric can-opener is more trouble than the manual kind.

i.e. It hasn't been my profession to sack groceries since 1986.

I will totally rep for the hand dryers in Chinaskis in Glasgow, btw. They had some futuristic woohoo name like Excelerator or something, and the force would knock your hands to the ground if you were a weakling. They would be brilliant for when you needed to wash your hair in work after being a skanky stop-out.

Automated sanitary bins also rule.

(I could totally do with electric windows in my car on cold mornings as running windows up and down is the best condensation-clearer ever and it's a pain in the arse to have to lean over and do it manually)

I like self-checkout lines, but I'm a detail-oriented micromanaging egomaniac, convinced that I can do everything better than a Wal-Mart team member, even (especially) the bagging.

Do you not just do your own bagging in America? Do you have to tip the baggers?

instead of conveyor belts there should be a robotic arm that takes everything out of the basket and scans the items and the cashier can just, like, update you on the weather and what's going on in celeb news.

Alisa alludes to something else I hate about self-service checkouts: PLEASE PLACE ITEM IN BAG when said item is a 20lb bag of dogfood. Or when I'm using self-serve for the "speediness" of it all, and it insists on me placing my purchased inkpen into its own bag.

I've never tipped baggers though like Sam, I've never had anyone carry my groceries for me out to the parking lot. When I was in Mexico, I was shocked to see children bagging the groceries and yes, you were obliged to tip them. When I asked my hosts how the grocery store got around child labor laws, he told me that they weren't really employed by the store; they were paid solely by tips.

My rant, from other thread:

You know what computery thing I really hate? The self-service scanner checkout in our local Tesco. Scan something, it tells you to put the item in a bag, you put it in a bag, its stupid fucking voice goes "unexpected item in bagging area" really loudly, then you remove the (surely expected, since you've just scanned it) item and it goes off on one at you for not scanning it and placing it in a bag, even though you did that and it shouted at you for doing so! Also, when your bag's full and you take it away to start putting other stuff into a second carrier bag, it shouts at you for removing the bag, then starts again with its "unexpected item in bagging area" shite if you put it back. FUCK OFF, MACHINE. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO MAKE SHOPPING EASIER!
Grrrrrrr.

-- ailsa_xx (ailsa.watso...) (webmail), February 12th, 2007 3:16 PM. (ailsa_xx) (link)

There's a guy who does this kinda thing on Haight St. in the summer, but with a gutted TV and a bunch of puppets and props.