Room 101.

[trevskoda]

People with anal fixations...

On the hole thats a bit of a bold statment.

 

[mark61]

Yeah, do yourself a favour and have the blooming thing sewn up

 

[liz]

Self service checkouts and being forced to use them by an employee who could be on a proper checkout.

In defence of assistant, forced to do this by management or the fat cats , they are watched, listened to and monitored. I was at Halifax bank where I worked for 25 years and they are now all closing down..Not staff fault so smile

 

[caledonia]

In defence of assistant, forced to do this by management or the fat cats , they are watched, listened to and monitored. I was at Halifax bank where I worked for 25 years and they are now all closing down..Not staff fault so smile

When the staff are patronising you and muttering under their breath I’d rather tell them to ram it than smile

 

[Pudsey Bear]

In defence of assistant, forced to do this by management or the fat cats , they are watched, listened to and monitored. I was at Halifax bank where I worked for 25 years and they are now all closing down..Not staff fault so smile

Two banks shut their doors here last year, very sad as this is a prosperous up and coming town, the new retail parks need banking.

 

[barryd]

Two banks shut their doors here last year, very sad as this is a prosperous up and coming town, the new retail parks need banking.

I can't remember the last time I was in an actual bank to actually do any banking. I bet its 20 years ago.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Not many banks on the moon where you live though to be fair.

We have a HSBC and a Nat West left, but three years ago we had all the major banks in town.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

I’d put ALL the banks in 101 and do away with the whole bunch of blummin’ pirates!

 

[barryd]

Not many banks on the moon where you live though to be fair.

We have a HSBC and a Nat West left, but three years ago we had all the major banks in town.

But I can't imagine why I would ever need to go in one if there were. There are banks in Barney and Richmond. Least I think there are.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Not often granted, but it is much easier to speak to person in front of you than get lost in a sea of random numbers to press.

 

[barryd]

Unnecessary signs!

 

[mariesnowgoose]

But I can't imagine why I would ever need to go in one if there were. There are banks in Barney and Richmond. Least I think there are.

Yeah, but you were never a small trader where actual cash can actually be very important, and not just for the usual accusations of “tax avoidance” either, before anyone piles in!

I guess more people in that situation are stashing it under their mattresses or getting themselves home safes.

“Cashing up” and nipping to the local bank to deposit the surplus for safekeeping, or getting enough “coinage” for change, has got to be a bit of a nightmare now when all your local bank branches have disappeared - and who knows what the new owner of our once great Post Office is planning to do with the remaining PO branches that operate as “proxy” bank branches in future?

I regularly come across quite a few small traders (of all kinds!) who have traded only in cash since the pandemic. They appear to have good reasons to do so.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Unnecessary signs!

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Might have been me doing my enemas for radiotherapy last month

 

[colinm]

But I can't imagine why I would ever need to go in one if there were. There are banks in Barney and Richmond. Least I think there are.

We have to 'look after' a relatives banking, back in the day when he could go into a bank it was easier, now we do most online for him, but being too honest for our own good sometimes we need to take him into the mobile bank when it turns up, can be a PITA.

 

[Pauljenny]

Crotcheted toilet roll covers

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Crotcheted toilet roll covers

Blinkin ‘eck, Paul! When did any of us last see one of those?!!!

Produced by crochet-mad maiden aunts and all those Mrs Buckets back in my childhood, I seem to remember

But you’re right, one of the oddest (and totally useless) things ever created

 

[guerdeval]

Unnecessary signs!

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Actually that sign is very necessary, I cite an incident in a Heathrow toilet witnessed first hand by myself, a sight still burned into my brain but it was a washbasin not a WC so much,much wors

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Actually that sign is very necessary, I cite an incident in a Heathrow toilet witnessed first hand by myself, a sight still burned into my brain but it was a washbasin not a WC so much,much wors

Not really.

 

[Pauljenny]

Expensive beer in plastic glasses

 

[guerdeval]

Not really.

Yup, afraid so