To think DP is being hugely unreasonable?

[TheCunnyFunt]

We do our weekly shop together, I managed to do the shopping separator game once before he got wise and now puts the separator thing on the belt before I can get to it, and if I do manage to get to it before he does he just turns it back the wrong right way :(

For those that aren't aware, the game goes like this-
Put your shopping on the belt and put the separator like this-> shopping -- shopping.
Instead of like this-> shopping | shopping
And watch the face(s) of the person/people behind you as they give you weird looks.

I should LTB shouldn't I?

DISCUSTING
Wasting all the good folk's time.

I might have to make my own triangular MN branded divider to use on future supermarket trips so that it can't be turned round by the person behind me well it can but it won't get any smaller

Hahaha! Yes! We'll round up all the po-faced Mumsnetters who play instruments and force them into our tribute band. Serves them right. #LIGHTHEARTED #TONGUE-IN-CHEEK #Very-much-against-slavery-and-also-don't-like-Joy-Division-much

SomeSort... the concept wasn't exactly complicated. I think everybody gets it. Some just don't think it's funny, a bit like the 'yoni' craze and like myriad others. It really doesn't need an explanation - longwinded, or at all.

I thought lottie's suggestion to put the divider askew was more twitch-worthy and therefore funny, rather than just plain annoying. But, what do I know?

In future, no need to put 'lighthearted' in the title, put 'conveyor divider' or somesuch and I won't even open the thread... how's that?

Icimoi what on earth are you on about? Are you quite mad? OF COURSE it is better to arrange your shopping on the conveyor before you pay for it. All tins together, then bagged. All frozen together, then bagged. All toiletries together, then bagged. And so on, and so on. How can it be easier to do it after it's gone through the checkout? It just keeps coming at you really fast and if you get help from check out staff they put things in the WRONG bags.

I play this game with other people's separators - straighten them up before I place my shopping and get a "WTF are you doing?" look!

Round here it is not uncommon for people to try to move your shopping down the belt if they think it's taking up too much room, or nudge you with their trolley.

Nope, too lazy.

"I'd think you were very special indeed and probably medicated for it"

That's highly offensive.

This game isn't.

That was.

I now think you are extremely ignorant and haven't been raised right.

*ChaosTrulyReigns Thu 04-Sep-14 15:01:23
I think you've got to be a special sort of person to get woubd up by it, tbh. *

Take it up with the gaffer of this amusement-fest then, Hurricane and, if you think my post is offensive, then report it.

Has anyone said "entitled" yet.

OP you sound very entitled. How could you even consider taking up an inch more than someone else might?

This has to be the funniest example of cats bumming on a thread ever.

Shopping dividers. Who knew?

Having a bad day Lying?

Nope, Keema, I've had a lovely day. I just don't like 'cliquery' and double-standards much.

Doing it the OP's way might stop the customer behind squashing their shopping tightly up against yours. I don't want my tomatoes or raspberries squashed, thank you. They are at the end of my shopping because they'll be the last things to go in the bags.

I saw that. I thought it was off but I thought yours was horrific. I can't be arsed reporting it. Say what you want, I just think you're an ignorant dick now, as you think making light of disabilities is funny.

Cliquery? I'm loving this thread and no one would accuse me of being in a clique. I don't have any friends on MN. [sad sack]

Owuh - I was enjoying this thread - it seems to have been hijacked now

Only, smells!

runs off

[hurt]

Is there a prize for most pointless argument ever had on Mumsnet? If not, there ought to be. I imagine in years to come people will still identify themselves by which side of the great divider debate they occupied.

Cliquery and double standards? This just gets better and better.

I have no idea who TheCunnyFunt, who started this thread is. I like Chaos, but can guarantee that my nose has never been near her arse.

Folk getting tetchy on a thread about a supermarket shopping divider is GOLD

I've never been in a clique before, even one that you get to be in by having read a MN thread! How exciting

Lying, your comment does leave a rather nasty taste in the mouth and your use of special is very clearly intended to be offensive about disability/mental health in a way that Chaos's is not.

I believe it was my nose that was being referred to as being brown Keema.
I call it lightly dusted with very attractive freckles myself.

Hang on a minute. I really did not realise that "special sort of person" was an off thing to say. I apologise if anyone took it as offensive, I certainly didn't mean it to be. i thought it was aolng the lines of daft sap.

Hurricane, No, I don't make light of disabilities. I don't think they're amusing or funny in any way.

I used the word 'special' in terms of the behaviour of entitled people who think their every antic is amusing. I would think they've possibly been drinking or taking some kind of substance if I noticed them. I certainly wouldn't think they were disabled.

It has nothing to do with disability, absolutely nothing. I wasn't going to let your accusation of that stand unchallenged. Beyond that, I don't care what you think.

Oh. Cross posts.

entitled people

Thank you gods of Mumsnet for this thread.