Head, Brick Wall, Tesco, Sewing Machines, Tea, Nepal.

[Augustus]

Try and buy Mrs Wu a birthday present.

Find right one. Site says 'availability - IN STOCK' . Phone up. 'Not in stock'. But now you're on the phone, buy this one instead...Look up 'this one'

Hang up. Go look. User unfriendly site makes this a half our test of mental agility and patience.

Accept not mentally capable or digitally patient enough. Phone up again.

Oh, try this one then...But I want the one that says it's in stock. You can't say that if it's not, it's misleading.

"would you put that in writing to the 'web guy'?

Nope, can't be arsed. Going to Tesco to buy one there. Tell your web guy that for me when you next see him.

Go to tesco.com.

See attached pic for next step.

Why is modern automated technologically advanced life so bloody impossible?

Am now going to have a cup of green tea, read Dirtrag, imagine Nepal. Forget.

 

[silverclaws]

I tell you what, bypass modern technology and all it's screw ups and get an old hand cranked Singer sewing machine, I got one recently from a charity shop, £25 all in, and it is a magnificent piece of engineering, of course I took it apart to see what was inside, but it is now back together and working. Out of interest I dated it to 1914 and it is one of millions made and used the world over.

But as to machines and technology, they are man's latest slaves, fired by the need to find something else to do the work so man can do less. So systems are created under the banner of efficiency and streamlining only for it to all turn to crap when the illogical human mind gets involved. It is like trying to combine analogue with digital, something always goes missing somewhere and over sampling, guessing basically is no substitute for the real thing.

To me, the mental picture is a positive and negative sine wave with a digital step superimposed on it, never quite following the curve.

We are analogue creatures, not machines, so much of this digital systems is not there yet, if it ever gets there, or in some minds we have to evolve into the digital mind.

 

[marin man]

Dont shop at shitty tescos ....period :twisted:

 

[silverclaws]

Don't shop at supermarkets !

They are controlling the market, and there us, and the producers.

If you still have a High street or Fore street with the shops of old, support it for when it's gone a monopoly will be in control and we will buy what they want us to buy and with that, crap at high cost.

Want decent priced, decent quantity food stuffs, follow the immigrants, Asians and such, they know the best places and the food is usually fresh ad not sprayed with wax or preservative like the supermarket does.