Deeply Filled Mortician

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:54:00 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>"The Reid" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected].. .
>> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:20:50 +0000,
>> [email protected] (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of
>> the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
>>
>>>handing over a
>>>loyalty card (I refuse to use them)
>>
>> takes about one second and they send me quite reasonable amounts of
>> money in return for knowing what I buy, seems a good deal to me.
>> --
>
>There was a case here in the US. A man was at the supermarket, slipped on
>some spilled milk and fell. He was hurt and sued the store. They used his
>buying records (obtained because he had a "loyalty" card) to demonstrate he
>bought quantities of liquor, beer, etc., so therefore likely slipped because
>he was drunk.

That sounds a bit far fetched to me. How could they establish he was
drunk just from his purchasing habits, and that he fell because of
this?
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Martin

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:55:51 +0100, Deeply Filled Mortician
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:38:45 +0100, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:37:16 +0100, Deeply Filled Mortician
    >><deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
    >>>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:36:54 +0100, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>>On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:33:56 +0100, Deeply Filled Mortician
    >>>><deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
    >>>>>On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:27:32 +0100, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>>>>On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:01:50 +0000, [email protected] (David
    >>>>>>Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
    >>>>>>>Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>>>>>> >Another good idea. This all got me thinking though, how many UK people
    >>>>>>>> >travel abroad and worry about theft,
    >>>>>>>>
    >>>>>>>> I worry more about theft when I visit the UK than when I'm "abroad".
    >>>>>>>Maybe you're paranoid. I don't really worry about it anywhere.
    >>>>>>but we are all paranoid on rte. :-)
    >>>>>>If you have ever been burgled, you never feel quite the same afterwards.
    >>>>>It's mostly in your mind, like rape.
    >>>>Is that the voice of experience?
    >>>Not personal experience at least.
    >>>>Most of the contents of our house disappeared forever, including the carpets.
    >>>Didn't you have insurance?
    >>Of course, financially we did well out of all four burglaries, but a lot of
    >>stuff was irreplaceable. We still occasionally look for things and realise that
    >>they were stolen too.
    >Four burglaries! Was it all in the same house?

Yes, all in three or four years and then never any more since.

The local police can hardly be described as shit hot. I think every corner house
in our street was burgled several times.

They caught one bunch of kids with some of the stuff that we had had stolen
about 3 months after they stole it. The police phoned to ask if we wanted the
kids to be prosecuted. Since trials are rarely reported in NL we never found out
if they were.
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Martin

Tim C .

>>There was a case here in the US. A man was at the supermarket, slipped on
>>some spilled milk and fell. He was hurt and sued the store. They used his
>>buying records (obtained because he had a "loyalty" card) to demonstrate he
>>bought quantities of liquor, beer, etc., so therefore likely slipped because
>>he was drunk.
>
>That sounds a bit far fetched to me. How could they establish he was
>drunk just from his purchasing habits, and that he fell because of
>this?


Guilty until proven innocent.
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Tim C.

The Reid

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:55:51 +0100, Deeply Filled Mortician
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >>Of course, financially we did well out of all four burglaries, but a lot of
    >>stuff was irreplaceable. We still occasionally look for things and realise that
    >>they were stolen too.
    >Four burglaries! Was it all in the same house?

burglers often come back.
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The Reid

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:54:00 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote:

>There was a case here in the US. A man was at the supermarket, slipped on
>some spilled milk and fell. He was hurt and sued the store. They used his
>buying records (obtained because he had a "loyalty" card) to demonstrate he
>bought quantities of liquor, beer, etc., so therefore likely slipped because
>he was drunk.

sounds like the press making stuff up to me

>I refuse to have one of those cards.

paranoia IMHO
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Mike Reid
"Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity" Don Cupitt (theologian)
"Christmas is the christianisation of the solstice" M.Reid(self appointed expert)
"http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/happyxmas.htm"

Tim C .

Following up to The Reid <[email protected]> :

>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:54:00 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>There was a case here in the US. A man was at the supermarket, slipped on
>>some spilled milk and fell. He was hurt and sued the store. They used his
>>buying records (obtained because he had a "loyalty" card) to demonstrate he
>>bought quantities of liquor, beer, etc., so therefore likely slipped because
>>he was drunk.
>
>sounds like the press making stuff up to me
>
>>I refuse to have one of those cards.
>
>paranoia IMHO


...Ooh, I'll not be 'aving any one of those newfangled telephone things ...
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Tim C.

David Horne

Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:

> Following up to The Reid <[email protected]> :
>
> >On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:54:00 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>There was a case here in the US. A man was at the supermarket, slipped on
> >>some spilled milk and fell. He was hurt and sued the store. They used his
> >>buying records (obtained because he had a "loyalty" card) to demonstrate he
> >>bought quantities of liquor, beer, etc., so therefore likely slipped because
> >>he was drunk.
> >
> >sounds like the press making stuff up to me
> >
> >>I refuse to have one of those cards.
> >
> >paranoia IMHO
>
>
> ...Ooh, I'll not be 'aving any one of those newfangled telephone things ...

I won't, apparently. I just answered the phone to Adrian, from "cool
mobiles". I told him to **** off, and hung up. Yes, it _is_ his fault
for working for a company based abroad that cold calls people on the TPS
register.

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Tim C .

Following up to [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) :

>Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Following up to The Reid <[email protected]> :
>>
>> >On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:54:00 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >>There was a case here in the US. A man was at the supermarket, slipped on
>> >>some spilled milk and fell. He was hurt and sued the store. They used his
>> >>buying records (obtained because he had a "loyalty" card) to demonstrate he
>> >>bought quantities of liquor, beer, etc., so therefore likely slipped because
>> >>he was drunk.
>> >
>> >sounds like the press making stuff up to me
>> >
>> >>I refuse to have one of those cards.
>> >
>> >paranoia IMHO
>>
>>
>> ...Ooh, I'll not be 'aving any one of those newfangled telephone things ...
>
>I won't, apparently. I just answered the phone to Adrian, from "cool
>mobiles". I told him to **** off, and hung up. Yes, it _is_ his fault
>for working for a company based abroad that cold calls people on the TPS
>register.


I meant the old wind-up phones, not a "cool mobile" ;-)
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Tim C.

David Horne

Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:

> Following up to [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
> chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) :
[]
> >I won't, apparently. I just answered the phone to Adrian, from "cool
> >mobiles". I told him to **** off, and hung up. Yes, it _is_ his fault
> >for working for a company based abroad that cold calls people on the TPS
> >register.
>
>
> I meant the old wind-up phones, not a "cool mobile" ;-)

My mobile phone operates in pounds, shillings and pence.

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-Martin

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:03:57 +0100, Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:

>Following up to [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
>chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) :
>
>>Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Following up to The Reid <[email protected]> :
>>>
>>> >On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:54:00 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>There was a case here in the US. A man was at the supermarket, slipped on
>>> >>some spilled milk and fell. He was hurt and sued the store. They used his
>>> >>buying records (obtained because he had a "loyalty" card) to demonstrate he
>>> >>bought quantities of liquor, beer, etc., so therefore likely slipped because
>>> >>he was drunk.
>>> >
>>> >sounds like the press making stuff up to me
>>> >
>>> >>I refuse to have one of those cards.
>>> >
>>> >paranoia IMHO
>>>
>>>
>>> ...Ooh, I'll not be 'aving any one of those newfangled telephone things ...
>>
>>I won't, apparently. I just answered the phone to Adrian, from "cool
>>mobiles". I told him to **** off, and hung up. Yes, it _is_ his fault
>>for working for a company based abroad that cold calls people on the TPS
>>register.
>
>
>I meant the old wind-up phones, not a "cool mobile" ;-)

Yesterday, I answered the phone to a screaming distorted near incoherent mobile
phone woman, who said she had been waiting for me to deliver firewood all day.
She wanted to know if I had any intention of visiting her today. After careful
thought, I told her "NO!" and put the phone down.

I miss the calls from the woman with the sick pussy, who thought I was the vet.
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Martin

Tim C .

Following up to [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) :

>Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Following up to [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
>> chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) :
>[]
>> >I won't, apparently. I just answered the phone to Adrian, from "cool
>> >mobiles". I told him to **** off, and hung up. Yes, it _is_ his fault
>> >for working for a company based abroad that cold calls people on the TPS
>> >register.
>>
>>
>> I meant the old wind-up phones, not a "cool mobile" ;-)
>
>My mobile phone operates in pounds, shillings and pence.

That's more like it!
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Tim C.

Tim C .

Following up to Martin <[email protected]> :

>She wanted to know if I had any intention of visiting her today. After careful
>thought, I told her "NO!" and put the phone down.

LOL! I bet you felt really smug after that, for actually thinking of
something great to say when it happened, and not 1/2 an hour later. :-)
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Tim C.

-Martin

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:54:23 +0100, Tim C. <[email protected]> wrote:

>Following up to Martin <[email protected]> :
>
>>She wanted to know if I had any intention of visiting her today. After careful
>>thought, I told her "NO!" and put the phone down.
>
>LOL! I bet you felt really smug after that, for actually thinking of
>something great to say when it happened, and not 1/2 an hour later. :-)

I probably saved her waiting for the rest of the day for a man, who had no
intention of turning up.
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Martin

Gregory Morrow

The Reid wrote:

    > On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:54:00 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >There was a case here in the US. A man was at the supermarket, slipped on
    > >some spilled milk and fell. He was hurt and sued the store. They used his
    > >buying records (obtained because he had a "loyalty" card) to demonstrate he
    > >bought quantities of liquor, beer, etc., so therefore likely slipped because
    > >he was drunk.
    > sounds like the press making stuff up to me


Nope, this case got lots of publicity when it happened...



    > >I refuse to have one of those cards.
    >
    > paranoia IMHO


Go here:

http://www.nocards.org


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Greg

Gregory Morrow

The Reid wrote:

    > On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:32:19 +0000,
    > [email protected] (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of
    > the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
    > >> takes about one second and they send me quite reasonable amounts of
    > >> money in return for knowing what I buy, seems a good deal to me.
    > >
    > >Absolutely not. They're not trying to figure out your buying pattern
    > >because they're your friends.
    > I never thought they were.
    > >They're trying to figure out which
    > >products they can push up in value.
    > you mean price?
    > All you are telling them is that customer a bought x, y and z rather
    > than knowing x, y and z were bought. They pay me to know this.
    > Will Tosco use this info to increase prices, that doesn't seem to be
    > their game?


The cards *do* push up prices, and often very considerably (surveys,
etc. have been done in both the US and the UK documenting such).

It's a shell game basically...

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Greg