Wanky things! Wanky things everywhere...

Splendide, that was nice - you will tell people about how sweet they were and then others will go along too.
why cant other places be like this?

I do not know what 'shutters sole' should have been.
Possibly shittery sole. Sounds accurate

Buying free range eggs or locally, ethically sourced meat from your local butcher isn't wanky so why is drinking coffee from your local coffee shop wanky?

It isn't. Twatting on about it to anyone who didn't back away fast enough will listen is wanky though.

It's what makes you want to carefully Aeropress in front of them, then subtly switcheroo and give them supermarket own brand instant 😈 to listen to them wanky-twat on about single origin beans.

DB is a bit of a coffee twat but never initiates a conversation about it.

oh dear, i think they will have to change their ways at that place then!
most people need to know the price first. Helps with the 'bliss' of drinking it all.

Also once in Pret I'd had a really horrible day with my grumpy just turned 1 year old trying to get him to sleep by pushing around in the rain. Went into Pret, ordered a coffee, cake and a babycinno realised I'd forgotten my purse and (slightly tearfully) asked if they minded if I just used the loo to change the baby. They gave me the order for free. I have a really glowy feeling about it all.

downtime. redesigned
we are the place you go when you want to switch off. when you’ve stopped trying to change the world. when you’ve put your feet up.

a deep respect for heritage and a love for the new. our design sensibilities derive from a universal aesthetic, steeped in heritage. when you use our products, you experience something timeless.

This wankery is selling slippers.
This is just part of the ludicrous marketing that I am ashamed to say I bought into.
My slippers are not downtime reinvented. They are shit and annoying. The stupid colour contrast rubber/silicon shutters sole comes off the front of one slipper constantly leaving me to flap around like a lame penguin trying to flip it back on again.
And the beauty in simplicity crap? The slippers look as though I nicked them from my frugal wartime grandad. There is no beauty or quality that shines through.

They are shit. And cost me around £80 if I remember. I was hoping for lovely comfortable, attractive and practical slippers. I curse the fucking things every time I put the bastards on.

See the picture? I do not look like that. Usually I am limping around trying to flap the sole back on.
*Wankery!
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*AndShesGone Thu 23-Feb-17 11:30:46

Someone put a leaflet through my door asking if they could 'curate my collections, everything from socks to books'.

I reckon they were a de-clutterer hmm but could have been a choosy burglar for all I know*

LOVE THIS

Why thank you highinthesky

ArcheryAnnie I didn't order anything, it was absolutely packed with people though. I think they were after souls actually

a carefully curated collection of tat mass produced homeware

"great vocals"

Great singing. Just say: singing!!!

I'm nodding along to most of this thread but I love babbycinnos - a free warm milk for my toddler. Brilliant!

The80sweregreat I don't know, I tried to find out the price but apparently it would "ruin the experience of bliss and contentment" and they would subtly present me with the bill at the ends, then I'd know . I walked out, I figured my schreeches of horror over the bound to be ridiculous price would do more to ruin my bliss and contentment. I do wonder how the staff actually come out with this stuff without cringing.

I once observed 'cheese theatre'. It was in a hotel and I had what I thought was going to be a normal meal, but it was the kind where what was described as a chicken pie and mash was actually half a chicken breast with a cheese straw balanced on top of it surrounded by the merest smear of mash. I have a comparitively small appetite and I think it was one of the few times that I have actually had room for pudding after a meal out.

The bloke on the next table had the 'cheese theatre'. Poor bloke had to sit there while the cheese sommelier gave him a potted history of about 15 different cheeses on a trolley, after which he was allowed to pick three to eat.

I don't drink much coffee at all, but if I do, it's instant at home, and a soya latte at a cafe. (I have bought real coffee to make at home, but whatever I buy and however I make it, I don't like it as much as I like the instant.)

I once even saw a job advert headed with the question, "Are you passionate about potatoes?"

No, no I'm not. And all you passionate lot would do well to calm the fuck down.

MumBod

Business speak wankery - 'reaching out' as in thanks for the email address I'll reach out to them. Always have an office wankery rage when I get one of those...

Architect designed houses, surely they've all been designed by an architect at some stage - wankery!

I was laughing at this thread until worras deconstructed spag bol, now I just feel raaaaggggeee!
I would not be a happy girl if I'd paid to go out to eat and was presented with separate Tupperware jars of food like that!

Oh I love that McDs ad!! Genius. Maccy D's coffee is actually pretty good.

Another thing I hate is the word "artisanal". Because all I see is the word anal.

LoupGarou so what did you order, and were they prepared to wait while you sold a kidney to pay for it?

Argh, quote fail.

*Where is that thread from last year about coffee where people (including me) expressed mild surprise that INSTANT coffee was still the most popular hmm

I'm still surprised by that as I know no one who drinks instant.

I think Starbucks and costa are fine compared to fucking mellow birds which I spent the 70's/80's drinking.*

Ah, you haven't had Carte Noir - no other instant comes close, and it is better than some non-instant Coffee's.

The only one slight drawback (with a tiny bit of guilt) it is made by the bastards that are Mondelez (a division of Kraft foods).

LoupGarou that has to take the prize for wankiness. No, make that second - first goes to the customers that actually buy that BS.

loup, how much was the coffee?

Nouvelle cuisine. And anything on Masterchef, definitely wanky.

I can't remember what it was called, erased for ever but I was in a clothes shop in Covent Garden recently that only sold clothes in ONE SIZE. Utterly, utterly ridiculous.