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By *nnCee OP   Woman
28 weeks ago

East of Eden, West of Hell

Just at work and overheard an adult member of the facilities team say to another that they'd found half a catering bag of teabags which had "run out" - i.e. the Best Before date has passed. (Not that long passed, either).

Unless they were years old, it's a blinking tea bag, it'll still be grand.

The other day, a lady in a supermarket asked me if some reduced bread rolls would still be OK to eat the next day...

What ridiculous crap have you overheard recently?

(Please tell me its not just stuff which happens around me!)

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By *hunky GentMan
28 weeks ago

Maldon and Peterborough

Someone said I wasn't sexy -

Pffft.

Me - not sexy.

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By *he love catsCouple
28 weeks ago

South Wales

I would use them, although there could be rules at a place of work which forbids it, maybe they would lose a bit of flavour but that's it.

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By *immyinreadingMan
28 weeks ago

henley on thames


"I would use them, although there could be rules at a place of work which forbids it, maybe they would lose a bit of flavour but that's it."

Yes there are probably rules about teabagging in the workplace

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

I’ll be the first to say it .. there’s a difference between ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates.

The former is advisory the latter is to prevent potential adverse degradation consequences.

So many people think they mean the same thing!

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By *weet and SpiceCouple
28 weeks ago

Around the Midlands

That "it's coming home" (don't hate me all you die hard football fans!!)

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By *immyinreadingMan
28 weeks ago

henley on thames


"I’ll be the first to say it .. there’s a difference between ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates.

The former is advisory the latter is to prevent potential adverse degradation consequences.

So many people think they mean the same thing! "

Yeah, but tea bags aren’t going to suddenly become rancid.

The bigger question is how they ever got near their nest before / use by dates … tea drinkers must not have been drinking enough, or clocking up rookie numbers .

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By *mf123Man
28 weeks ago

with one foot out the door

Tbags cant run

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By *ot to giggleWoman
28 weeks ago

Coventry

reminds me of one of the times i left my kid at home, she ransacked the freezer for some chicken nuggets and proceeded to throw all the 'out of date' stuff in the bin - i had been buying the reduced fresh produce from the local shop and freezing it

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago


"Someone said I wasn't sexy -

Pffft.

Me - not sexy. "

How very dare they Mr CG! Remember.. you are just as sexy as everyone else on here

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By *aomilatteCouple
28 weeks ago

Midlands

Politicians sounding very much like sales people, saying how they're going to make our lives so much better and they're so much better than the other political party.

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

A couple looked at my profile. I was curious to see what they were like, so had a quick peek, to discover that the female frequently has 24-hr boob jobs! Wtf? Apparently it's a thing!?! Erm, no thanks

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By *antasdeerideMan
28 weeks ago

winfrith

Alcaraz being so much better than Cerendulo it's so close you can't separate them .

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By *hunky GentMan
28 weeks ago

Maldon and Peterborough


"Someone said I wasn't sexy -

Pffft.

Me - not sexy.

How very dare they Mr CG! Remember.. you are just as sexy as everyone else on here "

I'm soooo sext that I have to be this big to fit all the sexiness in.

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By *ittlebirdWoman
28 weeks ago

The Big Smoke

The tea bags will eventually make your tea taste stale but that’s normally because they’ve not been in an airtight container rather than how old they are OP.

Trust me I’m a good developer

Ps. Most ridiculous thing I hear at work is you have to come to work to get paid. Utterly crazy to me

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By *ad NannaWoman
28 weeks ago

East London

I had to throw some tea bags away quite recently because they tasted weird after being in the cupboard for so long.

You have to smell everything before eating and drinking it.

I once had a McDees server ask me if I wanted cheese on my cheeseburger

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By *ivemealadybonerWoman
28 weeks ago

somewhere

Not overheard but was asked recently, now I work in a cheaper hotel, a posh couple came in and obviously wasn't used to slumming it, they asked for a wake up call (I can't agree to that, I'm not night shift), they asked if we could call the room when they needed waking up, do we have a water fountain (I mean, really it would be useful but I've seen the state of the water tanks and I wouldn't go near them with a barge pole) and then they were looking for a trolley for their stuff...they were half way to their room already with their stuff. Honestly the stuff I get asked lol.

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By *ovetosuck30Man
28 weeks ago

Rossendale

At work we got a call from a different building (same company) and we were asked if the 40 ft trailer we sent them was maybe a little shorter than the others as the last couple of pallets wouldn't fit on properly.

??????????????

Explained they were all the same size and his problem wasn't the trailer but the numpties that were loading it.

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By *nnCee OP   Woman
28 weeks ago

East of Eden, West of Hell


"I would use them, although there could be rules at a place of work which forbids it, maybe they would lose a bit of flavour but that's it.

Yes there are probably rules about teabagging in the workplace "

Well played, sir. Well played

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By *nnCee OP   Woman
28 weeks ago

East of Eden, West of Hell


"reminds me of one of the times i left my kid at home, she ransacked the freezer for some chicken nuggets and proceeded to throw all the 'out of date' stuff in the bin - i had been buying the reduced fresh produce from the local shop and freezing it"

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Noooooooooo!!!!!

(Cry)

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By *nnCee OP   Woman
28 weeks ago

East of Eden, West of Hell


"I’ll be the first to say it .. there’s a difference between ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates.

The former is advisory the latter is to prevent potential adverse degradation consequences.

So many people think they mean the same thing!

Yeah, but tea bags aren’t going to suddenly become rancid.

The bigger question is how they ever got near their nest before / use by dates … tea drinkers must not have been drinking enough, or clocking up rookie numbers . "

.

Because the very same people are incapable of rotating stock, or allowing the tea bag jar to run down, before topping up with new ones.

PG Tips have switched from their pyramid bags, to the old square ones which the majority of other manufacturers use.

The bottom 1/2 of the tea bag jars have the older bags, the new ones have been piled in on top...

(facepalm)

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By *ongAndThick123Man
28 weeks ago

Leeds

One that grinds my gears is when a person asks for an example of something, so you tell them a direct example from your own experience and then they dismiss it by responding “do you have any evidence other than your anecdote?”

Winds me up endlessly and you’d be surprised how often it happens.

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By *ot to giggleWoman
28 weeks ago

Coventry


"reminds me of one of the times i left my kid at home, she ransacked the freezer for some chicken nuggets and proceeded to throw all the 'out of date' stuff in the bin - i had been buying the reduced fresh produce from the local shop and freezing it

.

Noooooooooo!!!!!

(Cry)"

she rang me up at work to say there was no food in the freezer and it was all out of date

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago


"One that grinds my gears is when a person asks for an example of something, so you tell them a direct example from your own experience and then they dismiss it by responding “do you have any evidence other than your anecdote?”

Winds me up endlessly and you’d be surprised how often it happens.

"

It's like that in here quite often, you'll give an example of something from experience and you get 'I don't care for anecdotes, I tend to prefer peer reviewed studies' or some other complete toss pot response.

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By *nnCee OP   Woman
28 weeks ago

East of Eden, West of Hell


"reminds me of one of the times i left my kid at home, she ransacked the freezer for some chicken nuggets and proceeded to throw all the 'out of date' stuff in the bin - i had been buying the reduced fresh produce from the local shop and freezing it

.

Noooooooooo!!!!!

(Cry)

she rang me up at work to say there was no food in the freezer and it was all out of date "

Oh crap!!

My friend's freezer broke down a while back. She lost all of her yellow sticker treasures. She was heart broken

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By *ickyKlungespeareMan
28 weeks ago

St Leonards

Well, I said I was off FAB for the night, but this one is at my expense.

I'd had a great day in London with an ex, we were shattered, heading back to the hotel, and KFC was singing our names.

I walked up to the counter in my most convincingly manly and commanding way, and said:

"Your 10 piece bucket. How many pieces are in that please?"

My ex gulped like a fish (can he be this stupid?), and the KFC employee quickly recalled Day 2 of customer handling - "Let them realise their own stupidity before engaging".

It was special.

Night night xxxx

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By *nnCee OP   Woman
28 weeks ago

East of Eden, West of Hell


"Well, I said I was off FAB for the night, but this one is at my expense.

I'd had a great day in London with an ex, we were shattered, heading back to the hotel, and KFC was singing our names.

I walked up to the counter in my most convincingly manly and commanding way, and said:

"Your 10 piece bucket. How many pieces are in that please?"

My ex gulped like a fish (can he be this stupid?), and the KFC employee quickly recalled Day 2 of customer handling - "Let them realise their own stupidity before engaging".

It was special.

Night night xxxx"

Oh Nicky.

You were obviously tired after a busy day...

Let's hope they popped an extra piece in, just for you x

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago


"A couple looked at my profile. I was curious to see what they were like, so had a quick peek, to discover that the female frequently has 24-hr boob jobs! Wtf? Apparently it's a thing!?! Erm, no thanks "

Ok, no one else seems inquisitive, but what is a 24 hour boob job?

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By *immyinreadingMan
28 weeks ago

henley on thames


"I would use them, although there could be rules at a place of work which forbids it, maybe they would lose a bit of flavour but that's it.

Yes there are probably rules about teabagging in the workplace

Well played, sir. Well played"

Ah thanks!

The health and safety posters about tea-bagging safely would be fantastic though.

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago


"A couple looked at my profile. I was curious to see what they were like, so had a quick peek, to discover that the female frequently has 24-hr boob jobs! Wtf? Apparently it's a thing!?! Erm, no thanks

Ok, no one else seems inquisitive, but what is a 24 hour boob job?"

Something your average 'mild mannered janitor' wouldn't be getting

(Think its something like saline injections to cause temporary swelling of breast tissue?)

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