Fucking Jobsworth [word removed by MNHQ]

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Fucking, bastarding jobsworth [word removed by MNHQ] at ASDA pharmacy refused to sell me a large (6 treatment) bottle of nit treatment, but I could buy three smaller (2 treatment) bottles.

Just because they are twatfaced "computer-says-no", no common sense, jobsworth twonks.

DS6 scratchy head last night. I suspected bedtime stalling tactics said I'd check properly the following day. DS10 scrubbing his head with brush this morning - asked what's wrong he said his hair itches. DD11 then pipes up that her hair has been itching too.

Three school aged children plus 1 baby means not loads of time in the morning. Not time to go through hair with a fine toothed comb (literally). Quick flick thro their hair to check they are not riddled and reassuring them it is no reason to stay off school.

I said I'd get treatment today, check with a nit comb afterschool and treat then if needed. But oh no. I cannot buy nit treatment without first confirming I had actually physically seen a headlice that day.

I should have just fucking lied to the sourfaced jobsworth behind the counter.

Twat.

Actually the twats are those who use the nit treatment stuff as a preventative and encourage resistance to the active ingredients. If it wasn't for these twats then sensible but busy Mums like me could but big-family-sized nit treatment and have it in the cupboard ready for when it is needed. And be trusted to only use it when it is needed.

Twats the lot a ya!

Maybe she was trying to save you money but wasnt' allowed to say so. My DD has a condition she gets from time to time and there is a medication she can buy over the counter if she doesn't get a severe attack. The same med is available in a different wrapper and nearly twice the price but has exactly the same ingredients (I checked and got pharmacist to check). You can only buy the cheaper one if you confirm you have a precise diagnosis,a helpful pharmacist told me to make sure I asked for that one. Don't ask why an intelligent 26 year old needs her mum to go to the pharmacist for her. Mug, me? And I pay.

Actually not to derail too much but I'm another one who is genuinely surprised at "moron" being a bad word - I've always used it as freely as "idiot" or "twit" or "berk" ... All of which are probably very offensive too.

Is this commonly known and have I been shocking people all this time? (Serious question!)

You can just use mild shampoo to kill headlice. Lather up and leave it on for 5 minutes. Time it. They suffocate. Then rinse, and comb through with a nit comb. It also loosens the glue that holds the eggs to the hair and they come out really easily.
Repeat every 3 days for 2 weeks.

No chemicals, no stress, no mayonnaise or other bizzare treatments.

"idiot", "moron" and "imbecile" are all old words for describing various states of mental insufficiency.
"cretin" is a name for someone suffering from cretinism, a developmental condition that arises from congenital lack of thyroid hormone - characterised by stunted growth, over large head and neck and mental insufficiency.

"Berk" isn't polite either (although I used it freely as a teen, not realising where it came from!) as it's a contraction for the "Berkshire hunt" which is rhyming slang for cunt.

Twit is ok as far as I know

op do check the baby's hair too. My dd (pfb) got nits from her (school going) cousins when she was 4 months old. She had very fine blonde hair and I spent about 3 hours removing any visible traces (little dark brown specs) after using the hedrin treatment. Bed linen was washed at 50 degrees, pillows and bed hoovered, toys (not suitable for machine washing or containing batteries ) put in a sealed plastic bag for a month and I sterilised hair brushes/combs. I understood the true meaning of the saying 'stop nit picking' after that . I still itch at the mention of nits. The only things worse than nits are bed bugs (a place I worked at, had to be fumigated to get rid of bedbugs) and scabies (my neighbour's got them when we were kids). You may need a few after having to check and treat four children for nits, it is tedious. I would alert the school so they can send out a note for everyone to check their dc''s hair. If you don't or if some parents don't treat the nits, your dc may keep getting them back.

Thumbwitches are you telling me we can't say cunt anymore?

No no, of course not, Tortoise!
Just that if you say berk to someone in RL, the might take offence if they know the derivation. I was answering Kacie up there :)

Cunt away.

Ok so if we want to insult someone (mildly) we can use the word twit, maybe berk, but definitely not idiot. I'm starting to lose the will to live! I already filtered out swear words due to living with a toddler, but this is ridiculous!

Is wally still ok?

'Cretin' is used in that John Cleese spec savers advert, I was surprised they got away with it.

KacieB

Berk is cockney rhyming slang.

Berkeley Hunt = C*

Always mildly amusing when someone calls someone a Berk thinking they are calling them a fool/idiot.

Well actually some of these rules are questionable. If you are allowed 60 tablets and want to buy 2 x packs of 30, but they want you to buy 3 x packs of 20, one has to question what is going on?