United Kingdom chat thread V3: We still miss our empire
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Yeah Dominos is a total rip even with offers, my parents always went with local takeaways when I was younger so I never even had a Dominos until I met my GF 7 years ago cause its basically the only place in her town that doesn't look disgusting inside and even now I don't get all the rage with it cause the price just puts a massive downer on it.
What I will give them though is that delivery time is always great, sometimes we have literally had them in 15 mins, and I have always found they are very consistent so if you are in a place where you don't know the locals its at least a reliable choice.
Then again as of late we have just preferred getting pizza counter pizzas from Sainsburys/Asda, its like £5 for a 14" and they are really good, and while you are in store you can just buy any extra toppings to go on them, frozen chips/wedges, drinks, any other oven snacks and it still comes out substantially cheaper than buying two large Dominos with a side.
[QUOTE=prinner;52573286]One time I ordered some onion rings from a kebab shop, they just got a bag of frozen onion rings they had obviously bought from the budgens next door, dumped them in the deep fat frier and charged me £5
Never felt so mugged off in my life[/QUOTE]
Tbf this is basically most takeaways in a nutshell, if you go down to a cash and carry you can see all of the stuff the Chinese takeaways buy premade or things like the bulk sausages/chips/whatever else most places use.
My favourite is when takeaways offer a slice of cake for like £3.50 and its literally a slice of a cheapest of the cheap cake in a styrofoam burger box.
dominos deals are all wank. two for tuesdays? buy one get one £1, the >£20 >£30 >£40 discount deals? the prices always work out the fucking same. always. it doesn't make a damn difference if you get two for tuesdays or pay £40 and get 40% off, the bottom line will always be ~£25 and you get the same exact amount of stuff (two large pizzas and two sides). i'm ashamed to admit I once spent 45 minutes calculating all this shit when I was really angry at how expensive dominos was, and since then I've not ordered out of dumb spite
their pizza is really good though, the dough is the best pizza dough I've had, better than pizza hut.
[QUOTE=loopoo;52573608]their pizza is really good though, the dough is the best pizza dough I've had, better than pizza hut.[/QUOTE]
I honestly prefer Pizza Hut, although I rarely go because I end up spending over £30 in there because drinks and stuff. At least at Dominos I'll spend £21 for 2 large pizzas, and I can then eat it in the comfort of my own home. Then I'm away from screaming children being allowed to run around the restaurant and sneeze on my food/the salad bar, whilst their parents drink overpriced glasses of Pizza Hut wine.
Dominoes is a rip off and everyone knows it. But the pizza is bang. I don't think I ever had it before about 5 years ago, the only takeaway my parents ever bought was chippy.
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Haven't stepped foot in a pizza hut in years
21 chicken wings for £12 at Dominos tbh
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Gonna fly away with them or what.
[QUOTE=loopoo;52572667]what pizza is it? dr oetker ristorante is awesome pizza and it's cheap as fuck[/QUOTE]
Co-op do good pizza to but it's pretty expensive. Tesco is expensive and shit.
Our local Indian actually hand-made the pizza in front of you. Tastes pretty good too.
[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;52567926]How many though? And I'm guessing they're actual 30min [I]breaks[/I] and not "10min rush out doors, 10mins cram food and tobacco in mouth-hole, 10min rush back in" too.[/QUOTE]
Yeah we get walking time to and from the place where our break is, so for example at Bedford we have to have 46 minutes between trains - 1 minute to turn the train off, 5 minutes walking time to the depot, 30 minute break, 5 minutes walking time back to the station and 5 minutes to set the train up.
We only get one break.
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[QUOTE=loopoo;52568106]How do you manage that if you're a smoker? Having a cig in one 30 minute window during an almost 10hr shift seems really hard. When I realised how tight they are with break times, I genuinely considered nicotine patches / gum, else I'd be frothing at the mouth 3 hours into my shift.
Seeing how terrible the working conditions are in warehouses, I genuinely don't know why people don't do apprenticeships, instead of staying in a soul-destroying job like that (I spoke to a fair few people there, and they'd been there for years with barely any promotion prospects). I've been to companies like Siemens and Caterpillar, and things are run so much nicer there, and you can start as an apprentice, and as long as you pass and work hard, you've got a guaranteed job offer with the company once you finish your apprenticeship.
I bucked up and applied for retail positions. Having seen how tough warehouse guys have it, I figured dealing with the occasional shitter of a customer balances out the slightly more humane working conditions. Will ask during the interview (if I get one) if they have any night shifts going, cause tbh spending 8 hours at night stacking shelves in a supermarket seems like my kind of jam, and the 25% premium on my hourly rate is definitely a boon. Gonna go see if my local Waterstones has any job vacancies as well. I have no idea what the job entails. Probably lots of book stacking, and helping customers out with book recommendations? Waterstones seems to have a much healthier work ethic, every time I walk into one, the employees don't have that typical thousand yard stare, and actually seem genuinely happy.[/QUOTE]
I'm not a smoker so it doesn't affect me, but some drivers are naughty and smoke in the cab. You do get time between trains to have a smoke sometimes, but this isn't a break and it's not time you're entitled to so if the train is late and you have to leave straight away again, no smoke time.
[QUOTE=Bengley;52575268]Yeah we get walking time to and from the place where our break is, so for example at Bedford we have to have 46 minutes between trains - 1 minute to turn the train off, 5 minutes walking time to the depot, 30 minute break, 5 minutes walking time back to the station and 5 minutes to set the train up.
We only get one break.
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I'm not a smoker so it doesn't affect me, but some drivers are naughty and smoke in the cab. You do get time between trains to have a smoke sometimes, but this isn't a break and it's not time you're entitled to so if the train is late and you have to leave straight away again, no smoke time.[/QUOTE]
You could also just quit smoking
try telling that to a smoker
[QUOTE=PyroCF;52575287]You could also just quit smoking[/QUOTE]
have you told other people this? I think you're onto something. start printing out pamphlets saying "smokers, you know you can quit, right?"
[QUOTE=loopoo;52575481]have you told other people this? I think you're onto something. start printing out pamphlets saying "smokers, you know you can quit, right?"[/QUOTE]
It's more in relation to if smoking really affects your job like that then it's probably a good time to think about quitting :v:
It wasn't meant to be an epic zinger, just a genuine case for someone to stop.
Best thing to do is not start in the first place, I can't really believe people start smoking now that we know all of the negative health effects etc
[QUOTE=Bengley;52575507]Best thing to do is not start in the first place, I can't really believe people start smoking now that we know all of the negative health effects etc[/QUOTE]
people are 100% right when they say it sneaks up on you. I never thought I'd start, I hated everything about smoking. but uni stress, especially around exam time, had me smoking a few here and there when friends would offer, and I even bought a small 10 pack.
this was 3 years ago and I remember realising I was fucked when my pack ran out and I started clawing at the walls after a few hours.
You think it'll be fun, 10 years down the line you're still at it
I'm having a fag right now
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And the ecigs are shit. They either don't hit the spot, or you lose it and in desperation buy a pack
I've had people come into work, asking for 'the most popular cigs'. ID show's they've just turned 18, so I guess they're just trying them because they can.
[QUOTE=Doozle;52575560]You think it'll be fun, 10 years down the line you're still at it
I'm having a fag right now
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And the ecigs are shit. They either don't hit the spot, or you lose it and in desperation buy a pack[/QUOTE]
ecigs do work. I quit about a year and a half ago thanks to them (for about 3 months) and it made it real easy, but exams kicked up again and the only problem with ecigs is they work so differently from cigs. cigs are instant and it sorts the craving out so much faster (and there's tonnes of other shit in it that give you the good feeling). best way I can describe ecigs is that you gotta constantly keep topped up, cause they don't hit you as fast. if I go 4 hours without hitting the ecig, I'll be chain vaping it to top up again and it can be a bit shit. morning's are hardest, and if I'm busy in lectures for a few hours, it can be rough coming out and trying to sort the craving out. plus, I always feel like a massive nob using them in public, even the discreet ones.
Mate when I had the ecigs I was constantly puffing on em. To the point where you'd get that weird nicotine mouth tingle (like you do from gum).
While I'd have a couple of cigs every few hours on mu break, with the ecigs I'd be under the table, in my jumper, going out the room just to puff it. Basically anywhere u didn't think I'd get ccaugh. And i'd still fancy a cig
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Unrelated but what is the emoji for poonani?
Asking for a friend...
[QUOTE=Thechuz1337;52575594]I've had people come into work, asking for 'the most popular cigs'. ID show's they've just turned 18, so I guess they're just trying them because they can.[/QUOTE]
:disappoint:
yeah a lot of people think ecigs are a cure-all miracle device that'll perfectly replace cigs, but the first week or so is rough cause you're getting used to how differently they act, and they don't have all the other stuff in tobacco that you're also addicted to. but once you get over that initial hurdle, you're not puffing on them 24/7. and you can get rid of a lot of that by just buying the strongest juice, or making your own with ridiculously high nic content.
I got my dad off cigs (two pack a day marlboro red smoker) for about a month and a half by making him some high nic juice, but then he started complaining about side effects which were a result of quitting smoking, but he was convinced they were from ecigs (mouth ulcers, dry skin, chapped lips) but I think he secretly just wanted to go back to cigs without disappointing me.
I'ma stop talking about ecigs now cause I feel like a jehovah's witness of ecigs, or an ecig vegan. just bums me out when I see people who wanna quit but have had shitty experiences with ecigs that stops them from quitting.
I've seen it happen in reverse. Girl started vaping because it was popular and is now a 5 a day smoker.
don't try that 'i've got the 1p' bullshit after i've clearly already handled your money ya fuckin awkward old coots
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also who the fuck pays for a £52.43 food shop [I]entirely[/I] in change??
you haters are just mad you can't puff pure clouds lmao
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[QUOTE=geogzm;52575976]don't try that 'i've got the 1p' bullshit after i've clearly already handled your money ya fuckin awkward old coots[/QUOTE]
I fucking hate that, it ruins my carefully thought out routine
This is why you've got to be one of those social smokers. Works a treat provided you've got the willpower to stick to it.
I've always believed it's a mind over matter thing until you let the matter take over; Then you're fucked. Been doing the on/off thing since Feb last year, and I've got a whole stack that my folks brought back from Spain back in June. Been out a few times the past couple of months and with only one and a half packets gone, it was well worth the savings (£200 as opposed to £400).
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They'll easily last me until the end of the year, even longer. I have to admit if I could do it full time I would because I love it a lot but yeah health, money, smell and all that bollocks.
It's a moderation thing, like almost anything else really.
Tbf I was a social smoker, the trouble was I was always socialising
[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;52575030]Co-op do good pizza to but it's pretty expensive. Tesco is expensive and shit.[/QUOTE]
Co-op pizza is trash man. It's like the only pizza I refuse to eat. Asdas and Salisburys have great pre-made pizza at the stalls.
a social smoker who has gone through a pack and a half the past couple of months, but buys £200 worth of cigs just to social smoke is pretty bizarro. you'll be smoking stale packs of cigs all the time, how is that even enjoyable?
They're all individually vacuum packed. I can't imagine they'd go off after being in storage, then shipped, stored again and in the back of corner shop stock rooms for ages, only to last no more than a few days once they go over the counter into your hands. I'd had fewer packets sealed up for 6 months once and they're still fresh af once opened.
Worst case is I'll sell them to a few mates who do smoke regularly. I'm sure people wouldn't mind slightly stale Marlboro Gold's for £3 a pack. :v:
I used to buy them when they were Lights
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