I've figured out why I hate supermarket self-service tills so VERY much
It's not the ridiculous way they are laid out, so that there's no proper queue, and fuckers can push in front of me (although that does rankle)
It's not the fact that the supermarkets dress them up as a great efficiency, and try to imply that they save time and improve my customer experience (it doesn't). Despite it being a transparent cost saving exercise.
It's not even that the fucking things don't EVER work properly.

It's the fucking voice. Cashpoints don't have an artificially cheerful voice patronsing the fuck out of you, nor do parking meters or any other automated system. The cheery cunty voice is clearly meant to put me at my ease while the machine fails to work, but I'm only too aware of the hypocrisy of it. The machine isn't friendly and helpful. It's a machine, it doesn't even know I'm there. I don't want to be patronised by a machine.

I much rather being served by a surly greasy suicidal teenager, because at least their contempt for me and all mankind is genuine emotion, not some digitised facsimile.

CUNTS!
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 20:14, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I wholeheartedly agree mit you, mein freund
but earlier today I was using one of those self-service machines, and the darn thing broke, wouldn't accept my payment at all.
A lovely asian girl came over to offer assistance, told me the machine was broken and took me to the customer service desk to pay for my shopping at a knock-down price for the inconvenience.

Half price Linda McCartney burgers FTW!
(Bret Mong Keys Eggs has wet his weapon, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 20:19, Reply)

your name is purple, but i don't recognise it, and your profile is no help
who the fuck are you, and why did you change your name?
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 20:21, Reply)

I was Mister Ectomy before
I've only changed my name temporarily for what I just posted on QOTW
(Bret Mong Keys Eggs has wet his weapon, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 20:23, Reply)

ah, OK

( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 20:33, Reply)

The one I used in M&S earlier was fine. You must be doing it wrong!

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 20:29, Reply)

I still hate them, even when they work properly

( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 20:32, Reply)

I like the personal touch at checkout too.
Even when it's an OAP who wants to know my life story and scans things through slowly like it might explode or a care in the community chappie who thinks that he's in with a chance.
( girlinthehole, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 20:45, Reply)

They don't have them
in any of the Waitrose near me, so I've never seen one of these abominations, let alone used one.

Don't fancy the idea of them though.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 24 Jun 2010, 21:02, Reply)