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Is there anything more humbling than seeing yourself in the self-checkout camera?

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RitzyMcFitzy · 23/08/2023 11:32

I sashay out of the house feeling like Margot Robbie and then an hour later catch sight of myself in one of those cameras looking like a bewildered goblin.

I get that theft is clearly a big issue at the self-checkouts, but couldn’t they have considered how detrimental this is to my ego?

Rude.

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RitzyMcFitzy · 23/08/2023 15:21

Beenhereforever1978 · 23/08/2023 15:12

Same! Although Asda seems to be a recurrent theme.

Which is a shame because I go there specifically for their delightful and reasonably priced BBQ ribs, not to be reminded of how many chins I have collected.

What's the collective noun for chins?

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maybe a ripple of chins, or an undulation of chins?

who wants to be faced with chins when buying delightful and reasonably priced BBQ ribs? There's no humanity left in the world. Sad

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Gnomegarden32 · 23/08/2023 15:22

They make me look like Gollum

PickAChew · 23/08/2023 15:24

Is it only me who waves at myself, then?

Gnomegarden32 · 23/08/2023 15:24

I step out with what I like to think of as a 'porcelain complexion' only to find I look on the verge of collapse

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 23/08/2023 15:35

This is a complete revelation to me. Self checkout cameras? Who knew? Certainly not me. I’m sure my local Tesco doesn’t have them but maybe I’m just not observant. In fact I don’t think I’ve seen them in any supermarket I’ve been in.

ShitMermaid · 23/08/2023 15:36

HelpMeGetThrough · 23/08/2023 11:42

Same feeling when I switch to camera on my phone and the "selfie" one is always on.

Caught a look at myself this morning and was looking as rough as a badgers backside.

I did that and thought ‘what the hell is that?!’ before I realised it was my ugly mug.

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RitzyMcFitzy · 23/08/2023 15:48

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 23/08/2023 15:35

This is a complete revelation to me. Self checkout cameras? Who knew? Certainly not me. I’m sure my local Tesco doesn’t have them but maybe I’m just not observant. In fact I don’t think I’ve seen them in any supermarket I’ve been in.

Count yourself lucky. As long as self-checkout cameras are absent from your life you won't yet have taken on your true goblin form,

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Beenhereforever1978 · 23/08/2023 15:59

RitzyMcFitzy · 23/08/2023 15:21

maybe a ripple of chins, or an undulation of chins?

who wants to be faced with chins when buying delightful and reasonably priced BBQ ribs? There's no humanity left in the world. Sad

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A wibble?

I know, it severely lessens my delight.

mathanxiety · 23/08/2023 16:03

I didn't know who I was looking at in the camera yesterday. Yikes, twas bad.

OldTinHat · 23/08/2023 16:06

Beeinalily · 23/08/2023 12:59

I don't think the one in our Asda works properly, there seems to be a picture of a bonkers old woman on it...

It must be just a generic picture because my Asda has the same one! Is she very fat with a crazed look and mouthing insults at the checkout machine??

Ringsender2 · 23/08/2023 16:08

Reliably horrific! 😅

RabbitsRock · 23/08/2023 16:10

God yes it’s awful! Same at work when we clock in - I swear I have 8 chins!

TheBewilderedGoblin · 23/08/2023 16:11

And why do they need a camera on me anyway? Nobody else will impersonate me to pay for my shopping.

Wishihadanalgorithm · 23/08/2023 16:15

It’s not quite as bad as when you sat in the hairdresser’s with wet hair and a towel on your head.

I hate it. I always make sure I don’t make up well but inevitably end up looking like I belong in a zoo or worse!

Ringsender2 · 23/08/2023 16:24

HelpMeGetThrough · 23/08/2023 11:42

Same feeling when I switch to camera on my phone and the "selfie" one is always on.

Caught a look at myself this morning and was looking as rough as a badgers backside.

It's always from below the chin too. Love those chins.

Ringsender2 · 23/08/2023 16:27

AreThereSomewhereIslands · 23/08/2023 14:53

A couple of years ago, my laptop's antivirus program offered to show me what a hacker would see if they took control of my device's webcam right there and then...

There was a familiar-looking stout, grey-haired woman sitting in a shabby armchair, surrounded by stacks of books, magazines and general junk. She tilted her head slightly in a very characteristic way and I recognised her instantly and joyfully as my Granny.

Then I remembered my Granny had died in 1980, and the woman on the screen looked as startled by this as I did, and I realised...Sad

I hooted at this! Thanks so much for the laugh

BodegaSushi · 23/08/2023 16:29

The worst was a camera that caught me parking in a red box outside of the permitted hours (thought it was allowed in BH) and they included a wide angle photo with me next to my car. I looked like a yeti. I was more offended by the photo than the charge 🙈

BodegaSushi · 23/08/2023 16:29

Theborder · 23/08/2023 11:38

Yeah, when you’ve just had your hair washed and then you’re sent back to your seat in the salon. Sweet lord.

HUMBLING

Soozikinzii · 23/08/2023 16:31

Completely feel your pain . Can actually make myself jump! So disappointed when feeling not too bad about myself :)

maddiemookins16mum · 23/08/2023 16:37

I started a Teams meeting first today so had the dubious pleasure of seeing myself for three minutes, I resemble a menopausal Jaberwocky, the sun was also glinting off of my moustache and I could see a nostril hair you could knit a scarf with.

LubaLuca · 23/08/2023 16:42

It's like they have an ageing filter on them. Maybe it's so you daren't sneak anything through in case that's the image that will end up on Crimewatch. Me, but 20 years older with 20 more chins nicking a Kitkat Chunky.

CornedBeef451 · 23/08/2023 16:52

The side mirrors at Specsavers!

They are so incredibly unflattering. I'm hoping it's the lightning as I look my normal, albeit scruffy self in mirrors further up the corridor, but in the ones by the fitting desks I look distinctly troll like.

I now just ignore them.

UneFoisAuChalet · 23/08/2023 16:53

Theborder · 23/08/2023 11:38

Yeah, when you’ve just had your hair washed and then you’re sent back to your seat in the salon. Sweet lord.

😂 there is no horror like it!!

onwardsup4 · 23/08/2023 18:04

Beeinalily · 23/08/2023 12:59

I don't think the one in our Asda works properly, there seems to be a picture of a bonkers old woman on it...

Ha same at mine too !

roundcork · 23/08/2023 18:07

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