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I called a 'Brexit Wanker' in Aldi and I have questions.

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TitsalinaBumSquash · 01/02/2019 08:41

I was restocking my store cupboard yesterday in Aldi as I do once every 3-4 months.
A man and woman were going through the checkout next to me and one turned to the other, gestured to my shopping and said "oh another Brexit Wanker!" Laughing to themselves as they left.

The person behind my till looked as bemused as I was, what is a Brexit Wanker? I assume they thought I was panic buying food but seriously... I don't recognise people anymore.

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TitsalinaBumSquash · 01/02/2019 08:42

Sorry title is wrong - should be 'I got called a 'Brexit Wanker.'

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Bitchywaitress · 01/02/2019 08:44

They sound like utter wankers. I was restocking my store cupboard earlier this week and I’m definitely not prepping for anything!

PatPhoenix · 01/02/2019 08:50

They would thoroughly benefit from reading Daniel Kahneman's 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'. I'm reading it at the moment (very very slowly) and it's great. Trying to think in his terms, without his intellect, they have trained their System 1 thinking to react to everything through a divisive political prism. They have allowed their more complex System 2 thinking to get weak. So instead of thinking, 'hmm, there's a person buying a lot of food, what reasons could there be for that?' to which there are lots of possible answers, they allowed their System 1 thinking to just go 'stockpiling' and acted, unpleasantly, based on that.

Or, before I read this book, I would have said they were nasty, rude and a bit thick.

Bluelonerose · 01/02/2019 08:50

I've never heard of one either Confused

Is it if you bulk buy? Or if you prep? Confused

flameycakes · 01/02/2019 08:52

I'd have told them to go fech themselves x

Ellie56 · 01/02/2019 08:56

You should have responded, "Oh, another rude twat!"

OnTheHop · 01/02/2019 08:59

Or “actually I have 17 children to feed”

bellinisurge · 01/02/2019 09:55

What a lovely person they are hope they fucking starve.
Just at Aldi. Perfectly nice people. Did my usual of sneaking a couple of extras in to my normal shop which I have been doing for months.

coffeewonder · 01/02/2019 09:59

Really they are Brexit wankers - a pair of wankers who use Brexit as an excuse to inflict their vileness on other people.

Tanith · 01/02/2019 10:11

Tell them you're a childminder. My food shopping always raises eyebrows.

Talkstotrees · 01/02/2019 12:38

The ‘Brexit Wankers’ are the ones who belittle and scoff. It’s got sod all to do with them what you’re buying and why.

I hate what this country is becoming. Sad

Apileofballyhoo · 01/02/2019 13:40

Fucking hell.

MrsTerryPratcett · 01/02/2019 15:10

Really they are Brexit wankers

So true.

Racecardriver · 01/02/2019 15:13

Well that was rude. I don’t see how prepping (I know you weren’t but if you were) would make you a wanker. There really isn’t anything wanky about bulk buying food. I occasionally go to Lidl and buy a a large quantity of cheap non perishable items. It’s not worth the trip otherwise.

oldwhyno · 01/02/2019 15:15

Is it like a Bus Wanker? Grin

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TitsalinaBumSquash · 01/02/2019 17:06

I forgot I'd written this thread!

I didn't get time to reply they said it as they were walking out the shop - they're the sort that packed straight into bags as it was scanned through heathens.

I live in a town that thinks it's awfully well to do (it's not) and usually there's a nice bunch in Aldi, no idea where this pair came from.

The only thing I'll consider stockpiling is DS's medication because he has this pesky quirk where he needs it to stay alive. Wink

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TitsalinaBumSquash · 01/02/2019 18:47

I don't think I'm quite at the point of hearing voices yet, and I forgot as I wrote it in the car and then as I hit post I received a phone call that lead to a long and emotional day. I'm perfectly sane but thanks for the 'concern.'

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ourkidmolly · 01/02/2019 19:41

@TheCounter
That is a very weird and unnecessary post.

Nomdejeur · 01/02/2019 19:49

Gosh that’s really weird, I was in Lidl today and I was only picking up the bare minimum as I’d already done my big shop, and there was a guy with a trolley full of pasta and rice. He took one look at my meagre haulage, said I must be a stupid beleaver and don’t I know a famine is coming. They are all out in force this week ay?

halfwitpicker · 01/02/2019 19:51

Where do these people all live to be openly verbally abused?!

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coppercolouredtop · 01/02/2019 19:59

i shop at aldi a bit now and i realised the other day that there is an 'aldi uniform' where i go - it made me smile as i fitted in lovely, in my parka, black skinny jeans and uggs. couldnt tell me apart from anyone else in there. Grin

id forgotten the pound for my trolly though so was playing basket jenga....

SwedishEdith · 01/02/2019 20:01

Oh, I'm inspired to go to both Aldi and Lidl this weekend now. I often buy a whole tray of Aldi tinned tomatoes because Giorgio Locatelli said they were the best in a blind taste test.

SwedishEdith · 01/02/2019 20:03

*PatPhoenix" - I keep meaning to read that book. But is that not just another way of describing unconscious bias?

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