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Little acts of rebellion

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crochetmonkey74 · 11/05/2024 17:42

Sitting in a lovely but overpriced coffee shop today with a friend, and after discussing how overpriced it is, she confessed that when she goes to an overpriced coffee shop, and she thinks it isn't fair, she takes a toilet roll as a little payback. It just really made me laugh. Do any of you have any little acts of rebellion like this? I don't think I have any but I must do.

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crochetmonkey74 · 12/05/2024 22:16

WittiestUsernameEver · 12/05/2024 20:34

Jealousy darling? I suppose you summer in Sorrento or somewhere similarly distasteful...

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KitchenSinkLlama · 12/05/2024 20:36

Every coffee shop I have been into has a price list. If you don't like the cost go somewhere else. Stealing is wrong and not funny.

CoffeeCantata · 12/05/2024 20:34

No, I don't agree with stealing things!

I live in the countryside and it annoys me that some people sort of annexe the grass verge outside their boundary and mow it so that it looks like lawn. I prefer these areas (which are not private property) to be left with the wildflowers growing.

So when I'm out for a walk I always make a point of walking across them to make the point that they are part of the road, not part of that cheeky so-and-so's garden.

WittiestUsernameEver · 12/05/2024 20:34

crochetmonkey74 · 12/05/2024 16:57

Seville?
How common 😁

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Jealousy darling? I suppose you summer in Sorrento or somewhere similarly distasteful...

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crochetmonkey74 · 12/05/2024 20:04

SookieImHorny · 12/05/2024 19:57

Christ if you don't agree with the thread.... leave!

Just wanted to eat my dinner reading something light-hearted.

Weird on here sometimes innit?
I do appreciate the lighthearted posters on here , despite the sanctimonious crew.

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crochetmonkey74 · 12/05/2024 20:03

PenguinLord · 12/05/2024 19:26

Im sure lots of people do petty stupid things like that and feel very smug about it, whether they are men or women. Not sure why you feel like you need to defend the said friend with such conviction, despite them being not being the sharpest tool. Is it a reverse and you were actually writing about yourself?

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You've got me banged to rights. Well done for being so intelligent and having me figured out. Lord, I just wish I wasn't so intellectually challenged like my friend and more clever like what you are

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SookieImHorny · 12/05/2024 19:57

Christ if you don't agree with the thread.... leave!

Just wanted to eat my dinner reading something light-hearted.

AllTheAll · 12/05/2024 19:45

LakeTiticaca · 11/05/2024 21:33

I went in insert supermarket name a couple of weeks back. Used scan and shop. Filled 2 large bags. Went to complete the purchase, pointed the scanner at the machine and stood there for ages waiting for it to load. It wouldn't load so I alerted the assistant. She strolled over, faffed about for a few minutes, called another assistant over who announced that they have been having issues with scan and shop for a couple of weeks and I would have to rescan all my shopping again. No apology, just walked away. So one by one, I took my items out of my bags and scanned them. Part way through the second bag I got fed up and just paid for what I had scanned , repacked the stuff and buggered off. I got about 10 quids of stuff for free. I'm not sorry, don't care if its theft. If they had known about the issues for 2 weeks they should have got the IT engineers to fix it

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PenguinLord · 12/05/2024 19:26

crochetmonkey74 · 12/05/2024 19:16

You labouring this one point and fixating on it, despite the common sense knowledge that people often end up in overpriced places or places put their prices up without you realising is a much greater sign of being an idiot than my friend.
Also don't forget the man on the thread who did the same, he's an idiot too , I'm sure you just forgot to mention him

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Im sure lots of people do petty stupid things like that and feel very smug about it, whether they are men or women. Not sure why you feel like you need to defend the said friend with such conviction, despite them being not being the sharpest tool. Is it a reverse and you were actually writing about yourself?

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crochetmonkey74 · 12/05/2024 19:16

PenguinLord · 12/05/2024 18:20

She can't read menus or realise how much something costs unti lafter she pays for it, surely that is not a sign of advanced intelligence 😂

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You labouring this one point and fixating on it, despite the common sense knowledge that people often end up in overpriced places or places put their prices up without you realising is a much greater sign of being an idiot than my friend.
Also don't forget the man on the thread who did the same, he's an idiot too , I'm sure you just forgot to mention him

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cerisepanther73 · 12/05/2024 19:09

Costa Starbucks big Corporations and Tories Big Money ones Mps are hypocritical thieving fxckers ...

cerisepanther73 · 12/05/2024 19:06

Interesting in May day 🤔 quite often there are protests in London to raise awareness and complain about this kind of corporate greed ect...
@crochetmonkey74

cerisepanther73 · 12/05/2024 19:04

@crochetmonkey74

Starbucks Costas and Google other giant money making over priced products corporations are Masters in disguise at shafting The tax man or used to be, when the tax man wised up ect,

I am thinking 🤔 of off certain high bracket individuals and corporations with off shore accounts in far away places too
Dodgyness

Theiving bastards the lot of them

Remember the current Prime minister wife is as rich or richer than the Queen and got away with paying minimum of tax

Nice

And you all pearl clutching about @crochetmonkey74 friend in Costa with toilet 🚻 roll she has nicked...
😂 L.o.l

JudgeJ · 12/05/2024 18:54

With many of the responses today I hesitated before posting this one! Eons ago, about 60 years (!), a group of us had Summer jobs in a mill that was used by one of the shopping catalogues and we were on the packing line, orders would be sent in by post (honest), one department would pick the orders and they came to us on a conveyor belt for packing. There were often a few address labels and when the company decided on the Wednesday that they wouldn't need us after Friday we had fun with the extra labels, sending stuff to the wrong people. A retired Colonel got some cheap, red lacey underwear for example. The returns department would have been very busy that month.

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 12/05/2024 18:49

I was talking about little acts of rebellion with a member of slt last week (our school is going all Micheala about uniform) and we both said that everyone does something rebellious. We both said that was a good thing,but you had to judge it carefully. She has a haircut that looks very staid but she has a radical undercut. She loves it that me, an older member of staff, has multiple ear piercings and wears a very subtle feminist piece of jewellery.(my hair covers my ears and my jewellery is hidden by clothes.)

PassingStranger · 12/05/2024 18:26

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This has been deleted by MNHQ for breaking our Talk Guidelines - previously banned poster.

Not only that, she wouldn't like if she had a business and so.eone stole from her.

PenguinLord · 12/05/2024 18:20

crochetmonkey74 · 12/05/2024 09:26

She's not an idiot despite the many people on here determined to make that the story. She's had a petty outrage and done a silly response. Remember @KarlaKKs lovely old dad is also an idiot then, so don't forget to call him one too

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She can't read menus or realise how much something costs unti lafter she pays for it, surely that is not a sign of advanced intelligence 😂

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crochetmonkey74 · 12/05/2024 16:57

WittiestUsernameEver · 12/05/2024 15:35

I know them well, it's how I've furnished the Summer home in Seville.

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Seville?
How common 😁

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WittiestUsernameEver · 12/05/2024 15:35

crochetmonkey74 · 12/05/2024 09:27

Love the stealth boast that you know a posh hotel and what it has in the lobby 😉

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I know them well, it's how I've furnished the Summer home in Seville.

KarlaKK · 12/05/2024 15:35

I mean I love the bookmark being moved haha

KarlaKK · 12/05/2024 15:34

Love this

KarlaKK · 12/05/2024 15:33

The dirty sock sandwich is next level. Wish I'd thought of that.

MavisPennies · 12/05/2024 15:16

For those concerned about coffee shops, I have been known to leave behind hand soaps in my local one. Just the ones I got for Xmas that I wasn't too keen on.

AndSoFinally · 12/05/2024 11:37

My DP always has a book on his bedside table. He reads about a chapter every night. When he annoys me, I move his book mark. During a particularly irksome phase, I remember him telling me he was enjoying the storyline, but didn't like the way the author kept jumping around between the past, present and future, and was quite repetitive. I did feel mild guilt at ruining his opinion of the book/author, but otherwise felt it was completely justified 😂

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crochetmonkey74 · 12/05/2024 09:27

WittiestUsernameEver · 12/05/2024 09:18

Make sure you go to multiple expensive hotels though... Because obviously you haven't learned not to go to them, clearly your outrage wasn't enough when you took the display cabinet from The Royal Season's in London last week...

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Love the stealth boast that you know a posh hotel and what it has in the lobby 😉

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