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.

Markies? Picky bits? What are they?

But that aside have we really got to the stage where grown adults can't decide if they can to a shop/take away

Yep.

Why would you ask on here, if I wanted something from a shop I would just get it, it wouldn't enter my head to post on here

And yep. I have never understood this. Why does the opinion of random people on the internet make a difference to your decision making?

I went to m and s for picky bits yesterday. I also got some stuff we needed like milk and bread. It's no big deal. Who cares what you call it or what you buy. Nice treats are all we have just now. Go for it.

@LaMarschallin

My poshest (I know, just my opinion) and richest (pretty sure that's true) friend calls it Marks and Expensive.

I'm more a "Marks" or "M 'n' S" person.

Never heard of "picky bits" before MN.
DDs used to call all the bits and pieces put out for supper on Christmas Day a "smorgasbord".

You know that smorgasbord is an actual word

@FirewomanSam

OP hasn’t been to to a shop since the beginning of December! How many of you laying into her can say the same?!

Yet the people driving off to have thier Instagram picnic getting turned back by the police is end of the world, new police state, call the statzi!

Op i want some food from a differnt shop "noooo you murdering scum you can only shop in one place now!!!!!"

Imagine the snobby arseholes on here heard even a tenth of the words we use up here. They windna ken fit ti dee wi thimsels.

I'm still confused. Can someone make it clear; Marks and Spencer or McDonald's?

You know that smorgasbord is an actual word

Yes.

Sorry, what's your point?

Am awa ti Markies fir ma messages.

@Meepmeeep
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My DD15 sent KWAM in a text, txt speak for ken whit a mean 🤣🤣🤣

The type where you hold the rapier by the point and hit people over the head with the handle.

Sounds good. Will it be enough to deal all the 🤮 comments and emojis being posted by those with such exorbitant sensibilities on this thread?

YABU just for saying "Markies" and "picky bits"

All the people saying they feel physically ill at the thought of ‘picky bits’, why the fuck would you open and read a thread with that in the title then?

Aaaand I think it’s time for me to put the phone down because for some reason this thread is making me so angry.

Do you mean Marksies? Not Markies

Well you’d better not pop into Dottie P’s on the way back!

[quote HerMammy]@Meepmeeep
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My DD15 sent KWAM in a text, txt speak for ken whit a mean 🤣🤣🤣[/quote]
Na, should be KFAM. Ken FIT a mean 🤣🤣

@Meepmeeep

Imagine the snobby arseholes on here heard even a tenth of the words we use up here. They windna ken fit ti dee wi thimsels.

Wouldn’t know what to do with ourselves in Scotland? Because one or two English words give us the creeps? Eh what?

@JayDot500

I'm still confused. Can someone make it clear; Marks and Spencer or McDonald's?

Having read the OP why on earth would you think it was McDonald's?

You go and get your picky bits OP, after all, life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain .

You know that smorgasbord is an actual word

Yes.

Sorry, what's your point?

Oh! Was it the inverted commas?
Not really sure why I put those in.

Blimey! How did a thread about canapés descend into such madness?

[quote AldiAisleofCrap]@Agirlnamedsam

1325 deaths yesterday but as you are fed up then obviously your “picky bits” take priority!
news.sky.com/story/covid-19-uk-records-highest-ever-daily-coronavirus-deaths-at-1-325-fatalities-12182575[/quote]
Yeah we should all just starve and not go in any shops. Humans can survive days/maybe even weeks without food! People are so selfish for eating!!

M&S or Marks and Sparks in my world down South. Go, get the wonder food. No ones going to rifle through your basket and make you put it back on the shelves. Enjoy

@LaMarschallin

You know that smorgasbord is an actual word

Yes.

Sorry, what's your point?

You'd put it in quotes, that normally suggests that it's in some way not a correct word. You accurately described a smorgasbord, I'm sure you can appreciate my confusion.

Definitely not a generic Scottish term - I have never heard it been referred to as Markies. Plain old boring M&S here

And we would call it nibbly bits rather than picky bits.