Pet Peeves

[Eoin McLove]

There was a Neo-Nazi march in Melbourne at the weekend (actual Neo Nazis, not people who want to go to metal gigs) and they were doing themselves and their mummies very proud indeed.

Just saw this, seems like the best place to put it. I've no idea who yer man is, just a very funny front page 

Yeah he's been on the news the past couple of days. A prime gimp.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Power cuts in the middle of a boss fight.

[91/30]

Away from home for work and went to a charity shop to pick up a new training shirt, grabbed one from the XL rack, brand new, $4...grand....you beauty....
Got back to the room and tried it on, tight as fu k on me, looked at the tag, it's definitely XL, flipped the tag 'Made in Thailand'

[StoutAndAle]

Away from home for work and went to a charity shop to pick up a new training shirt, grabbed one from the XL rack, brand new, $4...grand....you beauty....
Got back to the room and tried it on, tight as fu k on me, looked at the tag, it's definitely XL, flipped the tag 'Made in Thailand'

Frustrating. Happened to me in France. I'm an XXL (or XL if I'm being really good).

Spotted a shirt in a shop - picked up a XXL/Relaxed Fit. Tried it on and nearly took out the seams like The Incredible Hulk.

"I have it in a 5XL - which should fit!" said the sales assistant - en Francais - from across the shop. Cue head turns and looks from around the shop.

I don't speak French. I nodded back at yer man and give him a thumbs up.

My wife, who speaks French fluently, arrived at my side at told me what the lad had said.

J'étais morto. And, of course, more morto when I then I had to try on the shirt that was presented to me before I could get the fuck out of the shop.

[The Heretic]

Stated sizes aren't worth a fuck anymore unless you try it on, that's why I can't buy any clothes online, I'm an XXL but I've seen XL and XXXL fit perfectly as well where an XXL doesn't

[Ducky]

Yeah bought two cheapy Penny's tops for the gym recently. A dark blue one and an olive one. Both Medium. The blue one is a bit too snug. Olive one is perfect fit. 'Sake.

[Eoin McLove]

Tshirt sizes are so fucked. Every order is a gamble.

[Carnage]

If it's Gildan it's dependable, FOTL forget about it.

I got rightly fucked buying a Behemoth T-shirt from them directly a few years ago. I'm a fat cunt so usually buy 3XL, got one from them at that size and it was skintight. Contacted them and they were OK with exchanging at my expense; I thought OK as they had the old size chart thing going on - total fiction - so I switched it for 5XL as the 3XL was not for me. As you'd expect it's like a tent, but no way would they change it again. And the exchange cost me €8 each way.

This was a long time ago, when T-shirts were around €20, this cost me €40+ then, probably €60+ nowadays.

[son of the Morrigan]

Yeah, Gildan are grand.
A few I got lately though have a puckidgy type thing on the shoulders that annoys the fuck out of me.
It seems to settle itself out after a few washes though.
I'm a six foot two lanky prick and size medium, so it could be just that I lack the shoulders to stretch them out.
In fairness I suppose its impossible to make a tee shirt to fit all body types.

[Eoin McLove]

I was doing the shopping in Aldi and I had my bunch of bags for life with me because I'm a good citizen who cares about the environment, and have bought a heap of bags for life... from fucking Aldi! At their prompt. To be a good fucking citizen!

I am at the self service check out scanning my stuff and a member of staff comes up and asks to look in my empty bags. I said yeah man,  go for it. But I felt like asking him if there was a problem. Did he think I had stolen something? Maybe he should call the police to interrogate me. I'm only in there every mother fucking week spending a couple of hundred dollars! Obviously he's just a poor dickhead following instructions from shit management and the last thing he needs is a sexy, middle-aged, disgruntled Irishman (did I mention sexy*?) offloading decades of personal trauma and PTSD from that time he served in Nam into his poor little face. My ire is focused at the shit policy that is the norm in retail in Australia of assuming that everyone who enters your premises is a hardened criminal. I might be hard, but...

* very sexy

[Mower Liberation Front]

I was doing the shopping in Aldi and I had my bunch of bags for life with me because I'm a good citizen who cares about the environment, and have bought a heap of bags for life... from fucking Aldi! At their prompt. To be a good fucking citizen!

I am at the self service check out scanning my stuff and a member of staff comes up and asks to look in my empty bags. I said yeah man,  go for it. But I felt like asking him if there was a problem. Did he think I had stolen something? Maybe he should call the police to interrogate me. I'm only in there every mother fucking week spending a couple of hundred dollars! Obviously he's just a poor dickhead following instructions from shit management and the last thing he needs is a sexy, middle-aged, disgruntled Irishman (did I mention sexy*?) offloading decades of personal trauma and PTSD from that time he served in Nam into his poor little face. My ire is focused at the shit policy that is the norm in retail in Australia of assuming that everyone who enters your premises is a hardened criminal. I might be hard, but...

* very sexy

The thing is, you keep hearing that Australians are all descended from convicts.

But what about all the prison wardens they sent down there along with the convicts, to keep them under control? Guess their descendants are still running the show.

[Eoin McLove]

Very valid point.

[Anvil]

Maybe he was thought you looked suspect as you looked so sexy dressed like those not so sexy neo-nazi/anfita folk?

[Eoin McLove]

Was it the heels and Bermuda shorts combo, do you think?

[son of the Morrigan]

Why have self service check outs if ya don't trust your customers to fucking serve themselves? Not even the really sexy customers? Is there even any point in being really really sexy anymore?