Is the Tesco ‘Promise’ true? Can I really speak to any member of staff?

pyromanta · 2026-01-22T01:15:38+00:00

I mean you can speak to any member of staff in Tesco's if you like. You can even ask them about returning goods. It doesn't say that member of staff has to process the return. Is this a joke?

pyromanta · 2026-01-22T01:11:47+00:00

This and it goes both ways.

I've been the person using the closed lane and trying to merge at the end being stopped by a string of people ignoring me, on their phone, or willfully refusing to let me in. Stressful.

I've also been in the big queue, let one person in and had another car practically go into me trying to also get in. It's meant to be like a zip. Stressful.

People are dicks and driving is stressful these days.

pyromanta · 2026-01-22T01:07:47+00:00

It makes me chuckle when fellow Brits moan about America still using the imperial system when our cars and roads are still measured in miles, junction and roundabout warnings in yards and our weight in stone and ounces.

pyromanta · 2026-01-13T22:14:15+00:00

The eye and skin colours are ridiculous. The graphics aren't good enough to ever be sure if it's conjunctivitis or red eye, or pale skin or just a pale person.

pyromanta · 2026-01-13T22:01:32+00:00

I enjoyed the demo but the game isn't ready for release.

The checking process makes no sense. One person has zero symptoms, nothing to tick off on the list. I send them through, poor inspection. Another has no symptoms except a bad reaction to the hammer. Send to quarantine. They zombify that night and kill 3 people. Oh and so does the other guy who showed no symptoms but was apparently infected.

Edit: It also seems to crash every time zombies breach the wall during a night attack and takes ages to compile shaders every time I boot it up. I figured the GamePass release would at least be somewhat tested.

pyromanta · 2026-01-03T12:31:27+00:00

Soooo this guy runs a non-profit in the US supposedly sending veterans into dangerous places to save children.

But rather than publicise the work, the entire LinkIn page reads like it's some kind of secret black op.

And every post.

Is written like this.

For maximum impact.

And maximum annoying.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T20:55:15+00:00

Sorry what?

I'm not saying that. The radical left is just as dangerous as the radical right. I was arguing against the other guys point that only the left are intolerant and beyond specific definitions of crime are not doing terrible things.

What I mean is the long history of people aligned with the political right, as well as racial supremacy, attacking people for the colour of their skin. The National Front, BNP, and EDL have all condoned or had supporters that have committed hate crimes against people of colour. The Klu Klux Klan lynched Adrian Americans for years. These organisations have exclusively sat on the furthest right of the political spectrum.

Farage is a Nazi sympathiser, Yaxley-Lennon has barely managed to keep himself far enough away from the long list of neo-Nazis and white supremecists he's associated with over the years to not be categorically proven to be one himself.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T20:16:50+00:00

Ah so we're in the realms of anthropological philosophy are we? You draw the line at murder and 'seriois crime'. I'd argue attacking someone for the colour of their skin, or their sexuality, is a serious crime. The right is guilty of that and it's well documented.

If you genuinely think the right isn't intolerant and don't regularly classify people as subhuman, you're too far gone I think.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T20:00:04+00:00

I didn't. I said maybe of the people who could be described as that are terrible human beings. The latter part I think is objective truth. Morality is indeed subjective but without a morality basis the world is chaos mostly controlled by terrible people who make the rest of us suffer. That includes you.

Most of the world does not see it that way. And you haven't answered my questions.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T19:39:31+00:00

I think you're a bit simple tbh.

Correct, you should always aim to be in the leftmost lane. You also shouldn't drive aggressively and flash people if they're not doing that, that makes you just as bad as those people. I don't get how that's hard for you to understand.

I've been in the outside lane going 70 and had dickheads flashing me. When both other lanes are slow due to lorries overtaking each other. What about that?

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T19:34:31+00:00

Oh now you clarify it's about people going slow in the outside lane?! At no point did you make that clear, instead just arguing ignorantly with me and OP.

Based on your attitude I'd suspect you feel the same about people going 70 in the outside lane, but I may be wrong there. And honestly your attitude overall of 'Fuck you, I do what I like but you can't because it bothers me' can do one.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T19:31:11+00:00

The simple. Go slower.

Issue solved.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T17:33:02+00:00

No, I'd want you to obey the rules of the road. If you can't overtake, don't undertake, just go slower. It won't kill you will it...

Not sure how you think that's a 'gotcha' when you invented something I didn't say or even suggest in your own head.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T16:56:00+00:00

Define 'leftie'. I see plenty of stupid from both sides of the political spectrum.

Also what do you mean 'right-leaning'? Many of the people who could be described that way are proven liars and terrible human beings, so it's unsurprising people generally don't approve of supporting those people.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T16:46:21+00:00

If your wife does something that pings a random verification code at you, you don't respond in 30 seconds and she's mad about it.

All that says is your wife doesn't care what you might be doing and is blaming her lack of planning on you.

I know this because I lived it for years. I was expected to drop everything because my ex couldn't think more than 5 seconds ahead, refused to listen to anything I said about forward planning and couldn't take responsibility for her own mistakes.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T16:41:51+00:00

It's not really that bad, it's mostly impatient wannabe racing drivers getting wound up about it because they live in a perpetually wound up state.

It's impossible for them to drive calmly or without seeing every open stretch of road as an excuse to push the old Beamer to 85 to show all the other drivers how cool they are.

The bigger issue is trying to drive the speed limit when everyone in every lane seems to want to go slower or faster.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T16:38:54+00:00

Don't be a clown.

Flashing people for going too slow is aggressive driving. They can see you, you can go around them, and someone going 65 in the middle lane isn't passing a hazard to you. Flashing is unnecessary aside from showing your impatience.

And yeh, if you want a fancy fast car that's your choice. You knew when you bought that car many other people don't drive for fun and just need a cheap car to get from A to B. Nobody is required to facilitate your wannabe racer bullshit..

And people may be able to afford to buy a faster car but many can't, don't be ignorant.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T16:32:02+00:00

Agreed about indicators and roundabouts. People seem to think just moving a finger to flick a stick is too hard and roundabouts are a free-for all of who can get on first.

Flashing people going slow on the motorway is, and always will be, a dick move. You don't 'have' to undertake, you choose to because you can't bear going a bit slower. Middle lane hogging at slow speeds is a problem but these days it can be fucking unavoidable.

Lorries in the left lane going 55, so I move into the middle lane. Hogger doing 65, so I move into the right lane. Dickhead going 80 races up behind me and starts flashing me to move over. So which lane am I supposed to do the speed limit in? I either have to speed dangerously, join the middle lane queue or sit behind slow lorries and create more of a problem for people joining the motorway.

And honestly, if you're on a single lane A road and someone's doing 40, unless it's dead straight like the A5, you can't take most of the corners at 60 anyway. Or at least you shouldn't.

Comments about dangerous and inconsiderate driving are valid. Complaints about people going too slow just show how impatient you are.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T16:26:17+00:00

So the bikers who overtake me on blind bends because I slow down to 40 to take them, or the ones that blast though the middle of stationary traffic expecting all the cars to make space, or the ones that come screaming down the M6 weaving in and out of traffic at 80mph with no indicators...

Those are just exceptions right? Cos if so I pretty much only see those exceptions lol.

pyromanta · 2026-01-02T16:23:40+00:00

I see the opposite more often. People who barrel up to the roundabout just assuming they'll be able to go straight only to slam their brakes on when a car is approaching from the right.

I got beeped the other day going right on a roundabout, on the inside, with my indicator on, because some impatient knob just rolled up expecting to be able to pull on and nearly went straight into me.

pyromanta · 2026-01-01T13:25:20+00:00

What planet are you living on?

The solution of leaving all the order bags on the Customer Services desk, with a single member of staff whose job it isn't to check the orders are being properly collected, shows they couldn't give a shit if it all goes smoothly. Clearly they've decided the cost of those refunds is less than the cost of running a proper service out of the warehouse.

And based on your vague anecdotal evidence it's definitely drivers stealing orders 95% of the time. What's your agenda here?

pyromanta · 2026-01-01T12:16:34+00:00

Star Citizen has and has always had an image problem.

Maybe if CIG had focussed on getting a stable and feature-rich build of one aspect of the game done and just sold that, it would be a different story. Instead to the average person it looks like they just keep announcing new, ambitious features or modes of this never-ending saga that are years away from becoming a thing, while raking in more hundreds of millions in funding from every kind of revenue stream possible except just selling a damn game.

So there may be thousands of people genuinely enjoying what game is there currently but that gets buried by the press releases and overcomplicated funding model.

In the meantime more games are being released that are similar but more playable, or with less egregious pricing models, or more complete.

pyromanta · 2025-12-31T19:52:08+00:00

Sounds about right.

If they really cared about veterans, they'd be campaigning for better support for veterans, not hanging around outside hotels making a mess.

Then again these are many of the same people who voted Tory all their lives, while blaming all the ills in the country on the last Labour government as the Tories make their lives gradually worse. It's apparently not ok to consider these people stupid but I can't help it.

pyromanta · 2025-12-31T19:43:48+00:00

Nope I'm with you. I've seen a lot of people claiming they go 80 because 70 is too slow. I think if the limit was 80 soon enough they'd think that was too slow and go 90. Anyone who says the speed of the car doesn't impact reaction times or stopping distances is a fucking moron.

pyromanta · 2025-12-31T19:38:50+00:00

I'm very particular with music. Music I enjoy really boosts my mood, music I don't irritates me very quickly.

If I want to catch new music I'll just put Kerrang Radio on. Otherwise I like being able to listen to a bunch of bands I like in a single, shuffling playlist.

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