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How thick are some people?

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notedbiscuits · 16/06/2024 11:29

About a quarter of a mile from my home there is a McDs which is closed a few days ago for a refurbishment til around 8th August (I think). It’s off a major roundabout. Drive on the roundabout a few times a week.

Despite the whole area fenced off, most of the external walls have gone, signs with reopening date with another McDs postcode (there’s one nearer), car park taken up by portacabins and old ventilation bits etc - people are still trying to enter McDs! This is even from the side of the roundabout where you can see the building is just a shell.

How people are going to cope with McDs closed for 7.5 weeks with the schools breaking up on the second week of July.

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bringmorewashing · 17/06/2024 19:09

It's not surprising at all. I've worked in various jobs that involve dealing with the public all of my adult life and have always found the amount of people who seem to lack very basic comprehension and reasoning skills (not to mention manners!) astounding.

salcombebabe · 17/06/2024 18:45

Loub55 · 16/06/2024 15:58

I'm wondering if you live in my town OP 😁

My local Maccys is also closed as its being extended (off a large roundabout in a retail park, near a dual carriageway that leads to motorway).

I haven't noticed people trying to get in, but it is definitely obvious it is not open and building work is happening!! 😂

@Loub55 I think you and I live in the same town 🤣

sabbii · 17/06/2024 18:43

McDs is the gift that keeps giving, still remember the anger and hate during Covid.

Fbearsmum · 17/06/2024 18:34

notedbiscuits · 16/06/2024 13:06

That’s where I live. It varies from county to county.

When I was a kid, the schools broke up for summer end June/early July as back then factories closed for a fortnight from the first Monday in July. Went back to school the Tuesday/Wednesday before Aug BH then had BHM and Tuesday off. Now kids here go back to school Tuesday or Wednesday after the Aug BH.

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I miss potters, childhood memories of the sentinel being sold in Barmouth heaven forbid my grandparents had ro miss reading the hatched, matched and dispatched!

Fbearsmum · 17/06/2024 18:31

Meir park by any chance?

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 17/06/2024 17:46

In answer to your title: very.
in answer to bad driving: I’m registered sight impaired and cannot drive due to this and I’m pretty sure I see better than some of the muppets on the road

HighOnMaiden · 17/06/2024 15:56

Cloclo93 · 17/06/2024 14:37

Odd treat? It's full of rubbish anyone who eats healthy or clean wouldn't put that crap into there bodies.
Ooohhh getting a little power trip calling out a spelling mistake, yes I'm dyslexic but you still understood what I said

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😂

Cloclo93 · 17/06/2024 14:37

HighOnMaiden · 16/06/2024 21:40

You realise it's perfectly possibly to have a healthy diet and the odd treat, yes?
Also, slightly ironic that you seem to think people who eat McDonalds are thick whilst simultaneously failing to spell 'they're' correctly.

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Odd treat? It's full of rubbish anyone who eats healthy or clean wouldn't put that crap into there bodies.
Ooohhh getting a little power trip calling out a spelling mistake, yes I'm dyslexic but you still understood what I said

Lola2024 · 17/06/2024 09:40

It is the McDonalds equivalent of the Walking Dead!

Auburngal · 17/06/2024 09:37

Currently at the doctors about my eyes.

When patients names come up on the screen, with room number to visit, most of them look confused even though there are signs on both floors telling which direction the room is.

Even when you check in, receptionists say “please take a seat up/downstairs” and still get at least one person sitting in the waiting area on the wrong floor “Where’s room 5?” “It’s downstairs mate” another patient replies….

WiddlinDiddlin · 16/06/2024 23:09

BucketBouquet · 16/06/2024 23:03

I can then miss-spell even very simple words.

You misspelled “misspell” 🤭🙈

I know. But I don't like 'misspell' it feels funny in my brain. And Mumsnet is neither my editor or my employer so I don't really care either.

BucketBouquet · 16/06/2024 23:03

I can then miss-spell even very simple words.

You misspelled “misspell” 🤭🙈

toomuchcardboard · 16/06/2024 22:50

notedbiscuits · 16/06/2024 17:38

The elderly did. There was a clear correlation between age of voter and likelihood to vote Brexit. Some studies suggest that voting ages should be in line with jury service ages (18-75).

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As an older person who, along with my husband (and many of my friends of the same age, 70-ish), voted to stay in the EU I wonder if it was the around 60 and younger age group who voted to leave. There was a referendum in 1975 about staying in the EEC (as it was then) and we over 65s who were then just old enough to vote were amongst the over 2 to 1 majority in favour of staying in. The UK had to work very hard to join and while the EU isn't perfect we know we are a lot better in than out.
People have short memories. I can't understand why, as the election approaches, people aren't asking themselves how any other political party would have coped with the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis? I expect all parties would have been just as overwhelmed as the Tories were, and left in the same or worse economic position.

HighOnMaiden · 16/06/2024 22:39

KenAdams · 16/06/2024 22:27

Got to be

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not necessarily, this is perfectly describing one in Staffordshire too…

KenAdams · 16/06/2024 22:27

SickofSoup · 16/06/2024 17:59

I think you’re in Leicestershire near me OP as I’ve seen this madness at the McDonald’s too 😂

Got to be

NotSmallButFunSize · 16/06/2024 22:27

Ponoka7 · 16/06/2024 13:56

The one's around me are from the 17th July. It depends on if they are religious and have days off for that.

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We break up on Jul 9th

LovelyBitOfSquirrrel · 16/06/2024 22:10

Leicester?

LovelyBitOfSquirrrel · 16/06/2024 22:09

I must live down the road from you as I know exactly which one you’re talking about!

JudgeJ · 16/06/2024 22:06

Newtoallthis2023 · 16/06/2024 16:25

Are you in G.Y by any chance?

That would explain a lot!

DaemonMoon · 16/06/2024 21:53

Cosycover · 16/06/2024 11:40

English schools break up the second week of July? I thought it was end of July?

How do you not understand schools in England do not break up at the same time?

WiddlinDiddlin · 16/06/2024 21:47

There's often other reasons than simply 'they're thick'!

People on auto-pilot who therefore do not see new signs or that a building is being renovated because they are not expecting to see that, they're focused on the road, on driving the car etc... is that really 'thick'?

People who don't know the difference between 'they're' and 'there' (and presumably 'their') ... is that 'thick'...? Or are their fingers on auto-pilot, typing one thing when the brain says another (I do this often, and generally catch it but that is after all what proof-reading is for!).

I can generally spell, but when I am doing some sort of painting/drawing or even signwriting, I am concentrating on forming the shapes of the letters, controlling a paintbrush or pen, I can then miss-spell even very simple words. I don't think that's down to being thick, I think my concentration is simply on something else.

HighOnMaiden · 16/06/2024 21:40

Cloclo93 · 16/06/2024 21:34

Says it all really if there eating that crap

You realise it's perfectly possibly to have a healthy diet and the odd treat, yes?
Also, slightly ironic that you seem to think people who eat McDonalds are thick whilst simultaneously failing to spell 'they're' correctly.

Cloclo93 · 16/06/2024 21:34

Says it all really if there eating that crap

palmroyale · 16/06/2024 21:32

I come across some very thick customers at my work. My clients are not UK based and one actually thought the UK and Australia were the same place

BiscuityBoyle · 16/06/2024 21:20

ScamanthaBrick · 16/06/2024 18:06

What did people used to do wrong with hydrogen peroxide solution? I’ve used it for over 20 years and never had an issue, the warnings on the label are pretty straightforward Confused

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I’ve managed to get it in my eye in error a couple of times.
I used to work for D&A and Vision Express teaching people how to use contact lenses.

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