35 Funny Memes For Those Who Are In Need Of Their Daily Dose Of Laughter

And I always thought hidden comments were because they had bad words in them.

She is available to ear scritches and belly rubs

Hear hear!

Or someone having to try 5 cards to find one with room on it.

Of course, if you're a good citizen you sort out your bank card and loyalty card after unloading whilst waiting for the person in front to pay. Don't ever be the person to fumble around assorted loyalty cards and then ask "what shop is this again?". 🤦🏻‍♀️

Oldies still use cheques, in that uniquely French way of handing over a blank signed cheque that the till prints upon and the casier briefly flashes in front of the person before putting it into the till. The tedious slow part isn't finding and signing the cheque, or even the origami necessary to detach it from the cheque box (in France it's often along the top which is way more bother than it's worth). No, the tediously slow part is printing the check which must be done by a little dot matrix printer, but because the cheque goes in sideways (left edge first) it can't print normally, the till has to make a bitmap and send that to the printer line by line and it is every bit as fast and noisy as such printers were in the 80s. When you ask for a copy of a receipt for guarantee purposes, if the shop doesn't try to fob you off with that dumb thermal till roll, you'll get one printed on the dot matrix and it can spew out a page of receipt print in the time it takes to print a cheque.

Zero chance I'm putting an app like that on my phone. It's bad enough Google and my bank collect all sorts of telemetry, I'm not up for sharing with random supermarkets as well. That's why I've resisted getting a Lidl loyalty card, as it's an app these days. Nope, nope, nope. (hmm, maybe I could put their app on my older phone that I just watch videos on, and take a *screenshot* of the loyalty card code with me? I wonder if that would work? 🤔)

I just spent way too long wondering what a "hands canner" was.

My local Leclerc here in France has a scanner like the one you sent a picture of. It seems pretty reliable. I had one that kept crashing, I took it to the info desk and they gave me another. Most stuff scans. If it doesn't, just put it aside and tell them at the end and they'll sort it out. I had to go through the till (unload and check) a few times, but with a perfect score each time the system trusts me and it's been quite a while since the last time they checked me. To moggiemoo - you will need the security check a few times at the start. Depending on the shop, that could be five to ten times, and if you mess up at all it'll reset. Essentially the system is verifying that it can trust you. Once it does, you'll only get a security check every now and then. I had one in the spring, the one before was around Christmas 2023. Otherwise, I just go right through the checkout. It helps to read how many items the scanner thinks you have, then physically count them before going to checkout.

I stopped using them a year or more ago. Things won't scan, things scan and show you something other than what you scanned, takes 10 minutes to remove something you scanned then decided you didn't want after all, scanner crashes when you get to a checkout, you have a security check every bloody time you use the f*****g thing. Yeah, I'll pass.

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Hey Bees, I have a fun activity for you!

Oh, Mel! That's my husband! One of the first few times he cooked we ended up with two fire engines arriving because he 'set the kitchen stove on fire'.