OT bags

In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
I use those red/white or blue/white woven plastic "laundry" bags for
shopping (13w x 15h x 7"d). Much better than the tiddly pleated
bottom construction supermarket bags or most of the "bags for life".
These are proper "box" construction made from stiffish material that
stands up on it's own. Got half a dozen off ebay a good few years
back all are still going strong.


Surprised you didn't just nick a few from costume. Or swap for a couple of
radio mic batteries. ;-)

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On 21/12/2013 11:19, Huge wrote:
On 2013-12-20, Capitol wrote:


D I boycott, as much as I can, self service checkouts
and pay at pump.

Me too. I point out when invited to go to a self service till, that if
I wanted to work as a checkout operator, I'd apply for the job and get paid!

Hear, hear!


Are you sure you're not Andy Hall reincarnated?

brightside S9 wrote:

Yep, there is one of those around where I live. All fresh meat and offal
is put on the same wooden chopping board without any cleaning as you go
during the day. The butcher will then go on to serve someone else with
sliced cooked ham or cut cheese without washing hands in between.
That's terrible. Report him. At my butchers you have to buy all your
cooked stuff, then say you've finished so he washes his hands and moves
to the other part of the shop, then you tell him what raw meat you want.

Hmmm. So he then serves the next customer with cooked ham or cheese,
THEN he washes his hands before moving to other part of shop to cut /
serve raw meat.

No all the staff wash their hands at any change from raw to cooked. They
try to stick to one or the other, so if there are two or more on the
counter you will often be served by different people for raw and cooked.

Bill

On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 12:52:50 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

I use those red/white or blue/white woven plastic "laundry" bags
for
shopping (13w x 15h x 7"d). Much better than the tiddly pleated
bottom construction supermarket bags or most of the "bags for
life".
These are proper "box" construction made from stiffish material
that
stands up on it's own. Got half a dozen off ebay a good few years
back all are still going strong.

Surprised you didn't just nick a few from costume. Or swap for a couple
of radio mic batteries. ;-)

B-) I can't say I've ever noticed cozzy with them but I doubt they'd
have them as small as the above, the true laundry ones are more like
1/4 tonne dumpy bags...

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Cheers
Dave.

On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 11:10:36 -0000, harryagain wrote:

I hear there's something new coming out where it's done on the shelf as
you pick it up.

Tesco Carlisle has just installed a rack full of handheld scanners so
you can scan as you shop. It's not new, been around for at least 15
years in various supermarkets but has never really caught on.

I havn't played with it yet, strikes me that juggling the goods and
scanner to find the barcode is too much hassle. There is a socket to
take the handle of the scanner on the trolly push bar but you still
have to find the bar code. You also have to weigh out loose stuff,
bag it and stick a bar coded label on. Now if the trollies had a
proper scanner, scales and big display like the checkouts/self
service ones it might be better.

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Cheers
Dave.

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:56:44 -0000, "harryagain"

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"alan" wrote in message
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On 20/12/2013 14:55, Bill Wright wrote:
tim...... wrote:

so do I, but it still comes wrapped up in compulsory plastic trays

The Plastic Tray (Compulsory Use for Meat) Act does not apply to
Yorkshire. Here the butcher gets a big chunk of meat on his block and
the customer indicates where he should wield his chopper. The portion
of
meat is then put into a bag.



Yep, there is one of those around where I live. All fresh meat and offal
is put on the same wooden chopping board without any cleaning as you go
during the day. The butcher will then go on to serve someone else with
sliced cooked ham or cut cheese without washing hands in between.

Pretty naugty that.
I remember when they did away with wood chopping boards and substituted
"hygenic"plastic.
It was ten times worse then the wood which has bacteriocidal properties.


wood helps to propagate bacteria.

Bollix. You are a half wit.
You have the same idea as the idiots that devised plastic chopping boards.
Like all living materials, wood has defence mechanisms, some of which remain
after death.
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/5-2-2006-95011.asp

"alan" wrote in message
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On 20/12/2013 17:57, Adrian wrote:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:53:07 +0000, alan wrote:

Yep, there is one of those around where I live. All fresh meat and offal
is put on the same wooden chopping board without any cleaning as you go
during the day.

The offal in question will, of course, be perfectly fit for human
consumption - else it wouldn't be in that part of his shop in the first
place.

It's more that the eat/offal will be kept chilled while waiting to be
sold. The wooden board will be at room temperature for, say, 8hours still
with the blood/juices from the first cut of the day.

There may well be some bacteria on/in fresh meat, impossible to avoid.
But there are defence mechanisms against bacteria still operative in fresh
meat so they don't multiply much.
This is why you can "hang" meat.

However cooking meat destroys these mechanisms so any bacteria multiply
rpaidly.
Hence it is important to keep fresh meat way from cooked meat.
Also to keep cooked meats refrigerated.

"John Williamson" wrote in message
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On 21/12/2013 11:04, harryagain wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote:-

Not forgetting that you love compulsory charges (FITs, grants for
electric
cars) that everyone else pays and which you trouser ...

Voluntary does not= compulsary.

But I am not breaking the law.


No, you're just using it to swindle the rest of us.

You could be said to be swindling people if you use a free bus pass by that
measure.
Or send your kids to "free" school.

Swindling is illegal.
Swindling is done surrupticiously.
Don't you know the difference beween right and wrong?

It's called subsidising.
Governments use subsidies to promote certain policies.
For example, nuclear power.
Coal mining.


You're not very clever are you?

On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:00:57 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

I think it is the duty of all right-thinking people to do all they can
to subvert and sabotage all greeny-influenced legislation.

I, for one, support the right of all peoples to think whatever they like.
However silly.


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On 22/12/2013 09:38, Wymsey wrote:
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:00:57 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

I think it is the duty of all right-thinking people to do all they can
to subvert and sabotage all greeny-influenced legislation.

I, for one, support the right of all peoples to think whatever they like.
However silly.


Ditto, with the limit that they don't try too hard to convert me to
their way of thinking, or get their methods made compulsory.

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John.