Dying
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Supermarkets.
Morrison's isn't that cheap anymore, I think a shop there costs us the same if not more than sainsbury. Good wine selection with good prices for us commoners though. We do sainsbury's and save up our nectar points for a big splash at Xmas, it's a nice little bonus.Jobs.
We owned a hardware store so I was at it early. Delivering pamphlets around the whole of Eastbourne, I'd get dropped at Point Howard and left to walk back via every property. I then got to move on to delivering accounts by bike, as well as filling up all the turps/meths/linseed oil bottles of varying sizes. Before eventually properly working there, doing the previous days cashing up. Stocktaking at a family hardware store is the fucken worst. Last year of school I was a ghost buster at a local school before leaving school to hit the bright lights of pumping gas.Haircuts.
My hairdresser is from Essex. No fake honkers.He's basically the Turkish version of Russell Kane but is a very good mate...he even understands bogan and we're going to see Airbourne next week. Plus you'd all be disappointed in me if I didn't have a friend called Mustafa.
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@taniwharugby said in Aging:
my first job was a paper run, delivering free papers and advertising material to houses, and where we lived was ficking hilly, I reckon a good month would be about $120...
Pay must have gone up from when I did it. My route was also hilly and one street connected two steep hills. An old lady would patiently wait outside her house perfectly situated in the middle which meant I couldn't use momentum gained down one hill to climb up the other. Hard work on a BMX.
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Anyway, on topic, getting old is no fun. I’ve gone from having a phenomenal memory to remembering that I despise the Blues but not why. Things I can probably look forward to in the near future are being weak as piss, saggy skin, humongous sized ears, some form of cancer, dementia and a lingering death. Going on previous efforts I’ll probably never see the ABs win another World Cup. Thank fuck I’m not bald.
I now have more hair growing out my ears than on the top of my head
But in fairness baldness is no longer an issue, men finally figured out that the comb over didn't work and the shaved head is almost fashionable these days.
You wish. More like a stunning resemblance to Dan Cole:
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@antipodean the number of papers/pamphlets I had, meant half the time I had too much to use my BMX, she was a walking job with a canvas carrier pack that my mother made specially!
I did say that was a good month, which was usually around Christmas time and as I got paid by the number of mailboxes on my run x by number of mailers...
BUt then because it was the free paper and supermarket, hammer hardware, mitre 10 and DEKA mailers, people didnt wait for it, and if it didnt turn up, didnt call the moan about it cos half the time didnt know they were supposed to get them....the perfect crime.
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@antipodean said in Aging:
Anyway, on topic, getting old is no fun. I’ve gone from having a phenomenal memory to remembering that I despise the Blues but not why. Things I can probably look forward to in the near future are being weak as piss, saggy skin, humongous sized ears, some form of cancer, dementia and a lingering death. Going on previous efforts I’ll probably never see the ABs win another World Cup. Thank fuck I’m not bald.
I now have more hair growing out my ears than on the top of my head
But in fairness baldness is no longer an issue, men finally figured out that the comb over didn't work and the shaved head is almost fashionable these days.You wish. More like a stunning resemblance to Dan Cole:
It's a close race. I've got Cole's ears but pretty much Bruce's everything else in the bald old guy department
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I'm going to ramp up the angry old man stakes.
AMERICAN SPELLINGS
Looking at you @booboo
Aging FFS
Right - back to supermarkets....
Apologies. I'm on board with anti-Seppo spelling. A typo. I will do better next time.
Just don't start me on apostrophe's.
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Something that annoys me is all the fucken parents dropping their kids off at school, when I was a kid we either walked, cycled or caught the bus. No way my folks were going to waste petrol driving me when I could get there on my own for free.
It gets dangerous as around here. SUVs shittily parked all over the show and darting around trying to fit into gaps. You're allowed to park facing the wrong way over here too which makes it even more hazardous.
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@Catogrande well played Cato.
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I was born to read this thread. I've been called a grumpy old man for around 27 years now, which is quite impressive given that I'm 42.
After 12 years of shitty expensive HK supermarkets, I still think the UK ones are phenomenal - for all of selection, price & value for money. My only gripe is the ridiculous use of plastic to wrap things which don't need to be wrapped. It is moving in the right direction though. The closest to us is a Waitrose, although all others are also pretty close. It is dominated by old people tho, and it seems as part of Waitrose training you go through some course on how to tolerate them and even chat to them if you are operating the checkout. The people that work there are great - friendly & helpful. Maybe they view me as aged? I guess my grey hair and grumpy demeanour would indicate that.
We have massive Sainsbury's and Tesco nearby which we often go to as well. I'll leave the other places for the pikeys. We went to Morrison's once and as we were perusing the onions and garlic a womany near us told her roughtly 5 year old son to stop being a little fluffybunny and quit fucking crying. Decided maybe it wasn't for us.
One thing I would like to see more of (and maybe Brexit will manufacture this) is "local" aisles. And by local, I don't mean British, I mean Surrey / South UK. Obviously you can go to farmers markets etc for the super fresh stuff ( and we often do), but sometimes time just doesn't allow it. Veges from the garden that morning are far superior to those picked, packaged and processed over the presiding few days.
I was disappointed in NZ super markets last time I was home, although I think it was because we'd just been to Sydney, where they do it absolutely spot on. It just felt like the veges / meat / seafood was just fresher and tastier. With the downside of it also being very expensive. I'm back for Xmas though, so will be able to do a real like for like comparison and then report back - I do expect this to be the highlight of many people's years, and hope you guys can contain yourself with the anticipation of this article.
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@MajorRage said in Aging:
although I think it was because we'd just been to Sydney, where they do it absolutely spot on. It just felt like the veges / meat / seafood was just fresher and tastier
Can you tell me the name of this mystical supermarket in Sydney?
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@MajorRage said in Aging:
although I think it was because we'd just been to Sydney, where they do it absolutely spot on. It just felt like the veges / meat / seafood was just fresher and tastier
Can you tell me the name of this mystical supermarket in Sydney?
I think it was Coles, but not 100% sure. The thing I like is the supermarket with the butcher, green grocer and the fishmonger right outside it.
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@MajorRage said in Aging:
@MajorRage said in Aging:
although I think it was because we'd just been to Sydney, where they do it absolutely spot on. It just felt like the veges / meat / seafood was just fresher and tastier
Can you tell me the name of this mystical supermarket in Sydney?
I think it was Coles, but not 100% sure. The thing I like is the supermarket with the butcher, green grocer and the fishmonger right outside it.
Ah so it wasn't the supermarket but the 'independents'. - they're not outside all Coles
. Coles is just a general supermarket, no better or worse than Countdown or PaknSave - except chicken is crazy cheap over here. -
So this is a grumpy old man thread to complain about even grumpier old men?
I'm in.
Me too.
Can I just add my hatred of the term 'You got this'.
Ok Boomer
Apparently just Gen X according to some.
Don't know what's worse.
Talk about art immitating life, just had same conversation with my sister!
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@MajorRage said in Aging:
@MajorRage said in Aging:
although I think it was because we'd just been to Sydney, where they do it absolutely spot on. It just felt like the veges / meat / seafood was just fresher and tastier
Can you tell me the name of this mystical supermarket in Sydney?
I think it was Coles, but not 100% sure. The thing I like is the supermarket with the butcher, green grocer and the fishmonger right outside it.
Ah so it wasn't the supermarket but the 'independents'. - they're not outside all Coles
. Coles is just a general supermarket, no better or worse than Countdown or PaknSave - except chicken is crazy cheap over here.Not quite the point ... although the outside stuff is independent and thus by nature, more expensive and better, it does raise the standards of whats for sale inside the supermarket in my view.
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Supermarket pain seems to be amplified when in the UK. At least in NZ the staff usually at least try to be helpful.
I very quickly learned that most of the pain could be removed using an online supermarket. Lucky for us the distribution centre was not far so if you booked an early morning delivery slot 99% of the time you were first delivery and didn't have to wonder when they were turning up.
Found I spent less as well as you don't trawl the aisles or make impulse purchases as easy. Just check and adjust your usual items and hit go.I couldn't believe the cost in London last year for a cart full of groceries and booze. When the price came up I exclaimed "Really?!?" and the checkout operator thought I was saying it was expensive.
It's sooooo much cheaper than a cart full in NZ.
really depends on what you buy and/or the quality level you are happy with. Some items I used to do a double take on how expensive they were. Some were same price in £s as $s.
Of course there is also no such thing as seasonal pricing on fruit and veg. You pay the same all year and the supermarkets source it from cheap suppliers around the world. I tend to buy seasonally in NZ and don't waste money on buying stuff in scarce supply.
The other thing is the availability of what would be an imported or boutique product in NZ at a high price whereby in the UK you can get it cheap e.g. fish mozzarella or real Parmesan. Then again something like a tasty cheddar is equiv of $16 for a kg block.
Food prices in general are kept down a lot by being part of a massive EU market. One of the reasons I couldn't understand why anyone would vote Brexit. The local products are higher priced than the EU imported for sure.As I said, a cart of groceries, generally speaking, not specifically.
Heaps cheaper in London than NZ.... generally
What is a 'general' cart of groceries though?
Buying the cheapest in the UK is cheaper than NZ, I agree. I could go to Lidl and fill a trolley full of shite for under a £100. Even buying the cheapest shite at Pak'N'Save would be well over that.
Heaps cheaper though? Nah, not for me and I am the shopper in our house and currently working out prices etc and adjusting back to things here.Two Saturdays ago, a Vicks inhaler, sixpack of small Coke Zero cans and packet of Ibuprofen in New World Warkworth was $23! Was shocked!
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@No-Quarter said in Aging:
I'm going to ramp up the angry old man stakes.
AMERICAN SPELLINGS
Looking at you @booboo
Aging FFS
Right - back to supermarkets....
Also, people mixing up brought and bought.
I have a friend who hates this as well, I'm always telling him everything I 'brought' from the shops.
Maybe you bought it and then brought it home?
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@taniwharugby said in Aging:
my first job was a paper run, delivering free papers and advertising material to houses, and where we lived was ficking hilly, I reckon a good month would be about $120...
For some of the advertising mailers, if we got a big lot on a friday, i'd have to do some on Saturday there were that many...or, I'd accidentally throw a whole heap down a steep banks where the chances of them being found were minimal.
Christ! In 1975 I was on $6 a week delivering the Herald.
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Anyway, on topic, getting old is no fun. I’ve gone from having a phenomenal memory to remembering that I despise the Blues but not why. Things I can probably look forward to in the near future are being weak as piss, saggy skin, humongous sized ears, some form of cancer, dementia and a lingering death. Going on previous efforts I’ll probably never see the ABs win another World Cup. Thank fuck I’m not bald.
As a Blues fan memory detrioration can only be a blessing!
