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Shopper asked for proof of age to buy Asda teaspoons
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | Tuesday, May 5, 2009 | Aislinn Simpson

Posted on 05/07/2009 7:16:22 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon

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To: Momaw Nadon

It’s England, that’s why. No explanation needed .....


41 posted on 05/07/2009 8:13:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: potlatch

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LOL!

A “Knork”

Handy tool!

The wider, thicker knife edge could be a bit more tapered for steak, etc


42 posted on 05/07/2009 8:14:54 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hey kids! Let's elect a confessed cokehead! . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: cva66snipe

Find a hometown everything. Old school doesn’t card anything after they know you.


43 posted on 05/07/2009 8:15:14 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: potlatch

Yeah, plastic forks stink on road trips, that’s when I wish I would’ve thought to bring a real fork.

Sporks are special though. They are like a spoon with a serrated edge on the tip so they don’t break off like a flimsy plastic fork. I tell you, they are deadly, LOL.

We’re never without wooden toothpicks. They have to be the round kind. If anyone watched ‘My Name is Earl’ last week they know toothpicks can be dangerous too. Randy was pretty upset. “Some people just want to pick their teeth.” :)


44 posted on 05/07/2009 8:16:05 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: Momaw Nadon
Ah, this must be the reason: Spoon Used to Subdue Robber
45 posted on 05/07/2009 8:17:19 PM PDT by FourPeas (I am the pink flamingo on the great lawn of life.)
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To: devolve

Lol, I never forgot about your Knorks, just forgot the K!!


46 posted on 05/07/2009 8:18:07 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: mplsconservative
[Sporks]

Ahaaa! I got what you mean now! When you first wrote I thought you meant plastic toothpicks, lol.

Yes, I've seen what you are talking about.

Toothpicks are handy for many things in cooking too. When the grandkids are here, the chili dogs with the toothpicks DON'T have onion, lol.

47 posted on 05/07/2009 8:24:18 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: eyedigress
Find a hometown everything. Old school doesn’t card anything after they know you.

I'm doing that more and more. I wish some chains like Food City, Ingles, and Krogers, would drop the blasted discount cards though. That too is a huge invasion of privacy and actually back door carding. That is if someone is naive enough to put their real name and address on the form to get the card. As for me I'm known as shoppers Elmer J Fudd, Gomez Addams, & Herman Munster. :>} No ones questioned it yet.

48 posted on 05/07/2009 8:24:20 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgement? Which one say ye?)
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To: cva66snipe
I am going to have to get a card for one BArack Obama ☺
49 posted on 05/07/2009 8:26:30 PM PDT by mylife (Obama will be a river to his people, and chains to those who aren't.)
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To: cva66snipe

And they won’t. I go to FC from time to time and they have a card attached to the keyboard. Just tell em’ to swipe it. Same with the others also. I use local hardware stores and local vice stores. I seldom show an ID. :^)


50 posted on 05/07/2009 8:29:29 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Momaw Nadon

“Peter McCarthy, the Asda Halifax store manager, said he was unaware of the spoon ID rule. He said: “The customer will have been asked for age identification by the assistant when prompted by the till. I’m not aware of an age restriction for spoons. “

Check the register to see if it does indeed trigger a check ID when the spoons are scanned. If not 10:1 the cashier was a guy and the spoon buyer was a good looking woman. Convenient way for a stalker perv to get a lady’s address.


51 posted on 05/07/2009 8:34:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: mplsconservative

>>They are like a spoon with a serrated edge on the tip so they don’t break off like a flimsy plastic fork.

That is called a runcible spoon.


52 posted on 05/07/2009 8:36:09 PM PDT by oblomov (Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - Mencken)
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To: oblomov

When it’s plastic, it’s a spork. :)


53 posted on 05/07/2009 8:55:11 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: eyedigress
I use local hardware stores and local vice stores. I seldom show an ID. :^)

That's exceptionally important at the local vice store.

54 posted on 05/07/2009 8:58:01 PM PDT by Erasmus (Barack Hussein Obama: America's toast!)
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To: Erasmus

My beer and tobacco store will match any local price. That’s Priceless!


55 posted on 05/07/2009 9:01:57 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: oblomov
They dined on mince, and slices of quince
Which they ate with a runcible spoon.

"The Owl & the Pussy-Cat", Edward Lear, 1871

56 posted on 05/07/2009 9:02:18 PM PDT by Erasmus (Barack Hussein Obama: America's toast!)
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To: potlatch

OOh, You reminded me of something with toothpicks and hotdogs. Split an Oscar Meyer hotdog down the middle, though not quite all the way through, insert a couple of slices of Velveeta, wrap with bacon and anchor with toothpicks. Broil until the bacon is crisp and the cheese has a few blackened and bubbly bits. Love ‘em!

Tell the grandkids, no onions, just good.


57 posted on 05/07/2009 9:09:51 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: manapua
Almost as stupid: some places in the USA will card people attempting to purchase lighters.

Target carded us when buying lighters and another time for a video game. We are old coots in our 50's.

58 posted on 05/07/2009 9:22:30 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot (I saw manbearpig and all I got was this lousy tagline.)
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To: Momaw Nadon

Wow, death by teaspoon.

Who needs guns now?

I once got carded to get into an R or NC-17 movie, can’t remember which rating.


59 posted on 05/07/2009 10:03:49 PM PDT by wastedyears (Iron Maiden's gonna get ya, no matter how far!)
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To: Momaw Nadon
Breaking update to this story!

British police uncover arensenal!


60 posted on 05/07/2009 10:12:14 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just.")
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