To want to go to Markies for picky bits

[Agirlnamedsam]

I’ve not been in a shop since the beginning of December. Been wfh and only been out to go to the park with DS or go for a walk.

We have been using Tesco click and collect, but I want to go to Markies and get some picky bits / afternoon tea for lunch tomorrow.

DH thinks I’m being a bit silly as it’s not necessary travel: and that we should be avoiding shops. He’s happy for us to get something delivered or to collect something. But I’m just a bit fed up and want to go and select some nice bits and pieces.

What are "pickie bits"?

Genuine question.

@Meowandthen

If there is plenty of food in the house it is not essential. People just thinking of themselves is the problem in the UK. Your risk your family and shop family whenever you go out. This is not a joke but those don’t take it seriously are the arseholes. Look up what really happens when someone is on a ventilator.

Sorry this doesn’t make sense - you are just rambling!

I don’t see an issue if you want to go to Marks or any other shop and buy food
It is certainly not illegal

@Agirlnamedsam

Thanks to all of you who answered the question; whether i was unreasonable to purchase consumables from messrs marks and Spencer’s. On balance I won’t go just in the off chance I catch it (unlikely to spread it as we have all been at home with very little contact with others)

For all of you slagging me off for saying Markies and picky bits: I hope you’re next shite is a hedgehog

Yer next shite is a hedgehog.... I'm saving that 🤣🤣🤣

People know your talking about Mark’s and Spencer OP they’re being purposely obtuse. I live in Scotland, I’ve never known it to be anything other than Markies 🤷‍♀️. Ignore these numpties.

Marksies in Belfast!

@Meowandthen

If there is plenty of food in the house it is not essential. People just thinking of themselves is the problem in the UK. Your risk your family and shop family whenever you go out. This is not a joke but those don’t take it seriously are the arseholes. Look up what really happens when someone is on a ventilator.

You do know hardly anyone’s put on a ventilator any more? I don’t know what’s worse here - the hyperbole or the snobbishness.

Jesus christ what the fuck is this thread?

@instastus. Step away from the gin.

People being selfish and thoughtless is the problem.

@Meowandthen - doing Dry Jan so no gin here, not sure about you though 😅

Perfectly sober. Denying people are on ventilators is plain stupid,

Where do I deny that people are on ventilators?? You obviously need it spelling out so it’s your sentence ‘Your risk your family and shop family whenever you go out’ makes no sense 😅

I’m in NE scotland as well and lots of words get changed in the local dialect by adding on ..ie at the end. Mannie, roadie, wifie, chippie, Markies. Depends on where you are in the NE.

Go and get yourself some picky bits from Markies and enjoy them! We used to say we would have a ‘picky tea’.

@skyrain ‘go to Markies on the busie ‘ Ah Grandma I can hear you now😂😂😂

‘You do know hardly anyone’s put on a ventilator any more?’

Sounds a lot like denial to me. Tell me, which ICU do you work in?

YABU purely for saying “picky bits”.

@Doublefaced - I think you are conflating my post with that of vinyldetective! I think you and meowface need to read more carefully 🤓

I thought this thread would’ve been a nice thread all about lovely M&S food but it’s just bonkers

People have gotten a bit hysterical meanwhile OP is sat in front of the tele enjoying her pickie bits 😂

THey're open - you're allowed.

@PoptartPoptart

You have had your shopping delivered so you have food. YABU to then go out and get more. Either get your shopping delivered and be happy with what you’ve ordered OR go to the shops in person so you can pick and choose nicer things. You’ve taken up a delivery slot (that perhaps someone else wanted but couldn’t get) and now you will go out unnecessarily just because you ‘fancy’ some picky bits. It’s quite selfish really. Just choose one or the other - either have a delivery so you don’t have to go out or let someone else have that slot (so they don’t have to go out) and physically go to the shops yourself. It’s a pandemic. You have food. What part of ‘essential travel only’ and ‘stay at home’ do you not understand!?

I've got a Tesco delivery tomorrow, same as I have every Sunday.

I also have two sale orders from M and S that I ordered on Christmas Eve, and which have arrived in store in the last few days, so I will be going to collect them tomorrow, otherwise they will be returned. I will have a quick scoot around and pick up a newspaper and possibly a couple of other things whilst I'm there.

I thought to the OP was a satire on twee MN-isms. I stand corrected.

but I still think picky bits are usually found up your nose

Really no one ever has an essential need to go to M and S. I doubt many do their whole weeks shopping there. Yet it is open so be careful and get your luxury bits!

@Doublefaced

‘You do know hardly anyone’s put on a ventilator any more?’

Sounds a lot like denial to me. Tell me, which ICU do you work in?

My stepdaughter works in an ICU in the midlands. Ventilators are no longer seen as the optimum treatment for covid patients.

Flipping heck, this thread is nuts! I’m glad I know normal people in real life who don’t take the piss out of how each other speak.

OP - mask up, sanitise and keep your distance when in there. That’s all you need to worry about. I go to M&S once a week to shop for me and mum. Tend to go around 6.30pm on a Friday as figure that’s when lots of people are winding down from the week/sitting down to family dinner etc. It tends to be fairly quiet at my nearest branch and no problems (apart from some git having left/dropped a large plastic spider in the middle of an aisle!).

Out of interest, what is the MN-approved term in place of picky bits?