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Gggrrrm arrgh

TheCatWoman

It's done it again, I start a search on Amazon and find it's taken me back to a previous but related search WHY, WHY, does it do this? How dare this supposedly unthinking pile of offal, think that it knows what I want, when I've told it something different? It's like an abusive relationship! I feel like it's gaslighting me.

A major supermarket tried to rip me off earlier too, it had an alleged special offer 4 for £5, and despite having lables confirming this on the shelf, it didnt' at the till, so I challenged them and a supervisor had to go and check and she came back equally confused, but put my stuff through at 4 for £5 as the signage was so unclear and confusing. It feels like a deliberate attempt to get people to buy more than they would if it wasn't on offer, this supermarket has form for this, which is why I always check to make sure. Ggggrrrrr.

I did buy a pretty bush half price in another shop, about the same as the money I saved on the other stuff.

What's made you Ggrr and arrgh lately?

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  • Things which no longer come with step by step instructions and if you can't work it out have to look it up on the internet. It was so much easier to have a drawer with instruction booklets.

  • in reply to Homebird

    Elfilis, Could you ask her what there is to like about him? Stick your fingers in your ears and sing la-la-la loudly when she replies!

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    I'm not a fan of instruction booklets or "the destructions" as they're called in this house. It would be alright if they were written by people with a good understanding of the language they were originally written in and the one they're translating it too. Often, it seems that what you have is a translation of a translation and all real meaning is lost. 

    I think this goes along with the "extra screw" that seems to come with every flatpack!

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Or in my case once a missing screw so I had a nearly complete futon and had to go back to the shop for them to order another, or the flat pack unit half built in my small bedroom as they sent 2 left sides.

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