John F Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Customer service is based on real people and their desires. People actually want a huge choice yet are sometimes not intelligent enough to read a menu. That's why they get pestered so much to upgrade their meals, and quite often it works. I saw a person and tried to advise them about their uncontrollable debt and threats from every angle wanting to be paid. Left plenty of advice and leaflets about being responsible with debt etc. I went to see him a week later to be asked if I wanted a coffee from the extremely extravagant coffee machine he'd bought that very week as he saw the one similar in my office! Only my office had a steam steriliser for surgical instruments! McDonalds is healthier by far than Greggs. Mystery meat is much less appealing than 100% beef! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Flyer Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Think you all need this establishment: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ramsay-Fraser Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 It's your life, Percy and, naturally, you're entitled to eat whatever you fancy but personally there is nothing on this earth that would tempt me to eat a Greggs sausage roll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 There is Greggs in Sudbury. I believe that it is down at the bottom of MarketHill Mind you, I do have my weaknesses.Chocolate Eclairs.They bring back memories of sitting in the NAAFI after lunch. I could go on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Martin Harris - Moderator Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Surely all modellers frequent McDonalds - where else do you get your epoxy stirrers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GONZO Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 A 1d slice of bread and dripping, with a good sprinkle of salt, on my way home from the swimming baths - now your talking. Thanks for putting me onto the film 'Falling Down', some how it passed me by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Davis Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Posted by Peter Miller on 21/10/2016 08:34:10: I am proud to say that I have never been in a Macdonalds or any similar establishment. Being a bit of a superannuated-hippy-pinko, I have only once been a MacDonalds where I had a cheeseburger. I was served by a man who was later convicted of murder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich too Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Posted by Percy Verance on 21/10/2016 13:35:44: The problem there for me though Rich is that I don't normally want to eat as much as a burger in a bun with lettuce etc in the middle of the day, hence the occasional visit (one, maybe twice per week) to my nearest Greggs for a single sausage roll. I only work in the mornings until 12, so I don't want to feel over-full during the afternoon, particularly if I'm on the go flying or gardening etc. Fair enough, I've got friends that won't eat there, but given the amount of fast and processed food these days, McD's really isn't so bad for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich too Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Posted by Martin Harris on 21/10/2016 14:24:55: Surely all modellers frequent McDonalds - where else do you get your epoxy stirrers? good call Falling Down is a brilliant film, I've seen it many times. It's good for stress relief! Edited By Rich2 on 21/10/2016 17:54:53 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Davis Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Posted by Martin Harris on 21/10/2016 14:24:55: Surely all modellers frequent McDonalds - where else do you get your epoxy stirrers? Broken propellers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Hargreaves - Moderator Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Posted by Martin Harris on 21/10/2016 14:24:55: Surely all modellers frequent McDonalds - where else do you get your epoxy stirrers? Starbucks..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bob Cotsford Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Posted by Steve Hargreaves - Moderator on 21/10/2016 17:57:30: Posted by Martin Harris on 21/10/2016 14:24:55: Surely all modellers frequent McDonalds - where else do you get your epoxy stirrers? Starbucks..... Steve, you must be on too high a salary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff S Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 I've bough something a McDonald's three times. Once in London about 30 years ago out of curiosity. Once in Kendal on New Year's Day because we were cycling and it was the only cafe open. Once in Orange, France, because we'd used their toilets to change out of our cycling kit and felt guilty so bought some chips (we were waiting for the bike bus to come home). I stir my epoxy with a screwdriver and wipe it clean with a piece of kitchen towel. I mix it on any piece of scrap cardboard. Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ian Jones Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 I completely empathise with BEB's and the other similar stories and such experiences do rub me up the wrong way but there's other side of the coin too; being downsold. Big household/electrical goods shop, staff waiting to help as soon as you get through the door: Staff: "Hello sir, how are you today", Me: "Fine". (actually I'm not so good today, thanks for reminding me) Staff: "How may I help you" Me: "I want a NAS box" Staff: "What's it for" (hmm, raising my suspicions) Me: "Network storage" Staff: "No we just do electrical stuff, wilkinsons do lots of boxes" (suspicion confirmed) Me: "Show me your hard disc drives" Staff: "What's it for" (hmm) Me: "I would just like to see what hard disc drives you have please" (yes perhaps a little tension in my voice) Staff (at the display of hard disc drives): "That's all we have at the moment" Me: "That's okay, I'll have one of these with NAS on the box" Similar thing happened at a well known multi chain hardware/DIY shop: Me to staff: "where's the polycarbonate sheet", Staff (slowly with some uncertainty): "oh, we don't have any of that, sounds like specialist stuff" Me (apologetically): "Sorry I meant plastic glazing, like you would have in green house" Staff: "erm no, try a garden centre" Me: "okay thanks, oh what about some aluminium strip" Staff: "What's it for" .() Me: "Holding poly plastic glazing in place" Staff: "Yes , try garden centre for that sort of stuff . So I decided to have a look around and after a little while found myself looking at some metal sheet which was also on my shopping list, it was next to the lengths of aluminium strip and polycarbonate sheet . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 9 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Posted by Geoff Sleath on 21/10/2016 20:19:56: I stir my epoxy with a screwdriver and wipe it clean with a piece of kitchen towel. sacrilege a screwdriver is not a stirrer, chisel, paint pot opener or a hammer. It is for turning screws right tool for the right job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Posted by Geoff Sleath on 21/10/2016 20:19:56: I stir my epoxy with a screwdriver and wipe it clean with a piece of kitchen towel. I mix it on any piece of scrap cardboard. Geoff That is what my scrap balsa and spruce is for. Why buy something extra froma shop I don't want to go into to get a stirrer. Of course people who build ARTFs will just have to save the scrap from their last crash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Jones Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Posted by Peter Miller on 21/10/2016 21:37:24: Posted by Geoff Sleath on 21/10/2016 20:19:56: I stir my epoxy with a screwdriver and wipe it clean with a piece of kitchen towel. I mix it on any piece of scrap cardboard. Geoff That is what my scrap balsa and spruce is for. Why buy something extra froma shop I don't want to go into to get a stirrer. Of course people who build ARTFs will just have to save the scrap from their last crash or at last find a use for all those old magazine cover discs and CDs promoting AOL, hmm and quite a few newer CDs too come to think of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator Posted October 21, 2016 Author Share Posted October 21, 2016 Posted by Martin Harris on 21/10/2016 14:24:55: Surely all modellers frequent McDonalds - where else do you get your epoxy stirrers? My question precisely Martin! I had our children trained - any time they went into McD they were to pick up half a dozen coffee stirrers. I even have a model with a McD coffee stirrer in a fuselage repair! BEB PS, see Peter - even better. Get someone else to go into the shop to buy something you don't want in order to get a stirer. PPS Don't have scrap balsa - though I do build - I do have a box of "remainder balsa" I haven't found a specific use for yet though,....too good for stiring epoxy - you can use McD coffee stirrers that someone gets for you for that! Edited By Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator on 21/10/2016 22:23:48 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Dav 2 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Well, BEB certainly stirred-up some responses here. What type of stick did he use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich too Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Posted by Peter Miller on 21/10/2016 21:37:24: Posted by Geoff Sleath on 21/10/2016 20:19:56: I stir my epoxy with a screwdriver and wipe it clean with a piece of kitchen towel. I mix it on any piece of scrap cardboard. Geoff That is what my scrap balsa and spruce is for. Why buy something extra froma shop I don't want to go into to get a stirrer. Of course people who build ARTFs will just have to save the scrap from their last crash You don't pay for them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich too Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Plastic pots from curry house, and baked beans - briiliant for mixing epoxy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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