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What's the craic with women at Checkouts?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭keu


    Get over your oppression buzz.

    why dont you go back and read the rest of the thread.
    you only like women when they are giving you what you want. seems to be the same with most of the responses here. ( a blowjob)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Dr. Loon


    keu wrote:
    k, now the facts, so as not to presume its sexist, men are wan kers. the dirty lying sleezy bit is a generalisation, but no worse than the generalisations that have been attached to the "whats the craic with women at the checkouts."


    Seriously though. What IS the craic with women at checkouts?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,639 ✭✭✭Iago


    my 2c, I'm not sexist in any way but I have noticed similar trends in shops, cinemas, getting on the bus etc. and it does predominantly seem to be women who hold things up. I've often asked myself why they do it and whether or not it irritates them if someone else does it, it's definitely not all women by any means but as I say in the majority of cases I've witnessed it was women, maybe as high as an 80/20 split.

    The point is well made that in shops it is predominantly women and as such you are more likely to see delays from women, but I think it runs deeper than that. Maybe it's genetics or the subconcious, maybe they have better things to be worrying about than calculating the cost of their groceries. Perhaps they're working on what they're doing later on or running over some problem from work that's bugging them or even contemplating a solution for world hunger..........all very reasonable and admirable even, I just wish they wouldn't do it in front of me :D

    on the other hand I don't have any worthwhile thoughts or ideas so I can simply concentrate on having my money ready to pay for my groceries


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭Going Demented


    Its just that women and men do things differently..

    Example of an ATM machine..

    A lady will go up to a ATM machine and read the onscreen instructions carefully and firmly press the each button in slow motion.

    A man just bang through each screen without thinking.

    Ok I'm female and not annoys me more than ANYONE at the ATM machine taken an eternity checking their balance, pressing the buttons as slow as possible, and whatever else they do at the machine that takes them so long. I don't think it's just women that do that cause there was a guy in front of me yesterday taking forever and i was getting soaked to the skin. The "beeping" for him to take out the card last ages until he finally removed it. Now i dunno about anyone else but i know when i request the amount of money i require and that no i dont want a receipt that my card is going to come out so i'm ready and waiting with my little fingers to remove the card and 2 seconds later move my hand down to remove the money. Some women can and do fly through the ATM process and some men take ages, and again, some don't.

    Regarding the express shopping checkout. I hate that crap the original poster talked about. I find it just as frustrating hense now i go to the off license section of my local supervalu to pay for my little items and have no que and can be in and out while the person at the express checkout is still sorting out all the coppers they have to pay with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Dr. Loon


    keu wrote:
    Get over your oppression buzz.

    why dont you go back and read the rest of the thread.
    you only like women when they are giving you what you want. seems to be the same with most of the responses here. ( a blowjob)

    Ah ha ha. It seems to me you're bitter. Every single response of yours has been insulting or vicious in some way. I've read the whole thread. It appears you haven't. You only post quick responses to snap at someone.

    I'm sticking you on ignore. You're probably not a woman anyway.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    Jesus, yeah. It's an ATM, not a cafe. Get in quickly, get out quickly. I have it down to a fine art. No one wants to be standing around while you check your balance or you take your time to think about how much money you want.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭keu


    oh..look. here's the craic with women at the checkout.
    they stupid dumb ass biatches.
    OK?

    For future reference, next time I go to any store with a male clerk I'm going to dither for ages. or if there is a man behind me at the atm, I'm going to go through the process three times, while he hums and haws.

    *evil feminazi grin*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,510 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Basically the backlash you're experiencing is aimed towards the femnazi's of the same bent as Ivanna Bacik, who have forgotten (or ignored) the basic tenets of feminism: equality. Some time in the early 80's this got abandoned in favour of becoming an -anti-male philosophy as opposed to being one about equality (this would be around the time that feminist groups started to kick out their male members, of which there were quite a sizable minority). Women have, by and large, achieved economic parity with men. Personally speaking, my boss is a woman, her boss is a woman and I have no problems with that whatsoever, both are competent in their jobs and to be frank, one is possibly the best business-person I've ever known. So, what's left for the feminist movement to do? Women have the same rights as men (arguably more if you take family law into this argument), get paid the same salaries for the same jobs, the same access to education etc. etc. etc. The jobs done. (in the western world at least)

    Add to this, the penchant a certain section of Irish women have adopted towards mimicking the "dizzy blonde" so loved by Americans. Why any intelligent person would want to be perceived as being stupid is beyond me, perhaps it's a testament to the effects of the media, but that's another issue. These type of women attract the scorn of almost everyone who doesn't behave in this way.

    Unfortunately, some people (mostly men and myself included at times if I'm honest) are starting to perceive these two groups to be the majority of females and hence make generalisations concerning them that in no way reflect the "average" Irish woman. I can understand why this pisses you off but try to understand the feeling of frustration that these posts are being made from.

    Condescending remarks like "little boys, who obviously don't get a second glance from women" are just as unfair and discriminatory as the comments that are riling you. When on one side we have the femnazi's complaining that because we're men, we're inherantly wife-beating, adulterous scum. On the other we have the airheaded consumerism and vanity of the SATC clones who expect all men to have Louis Walshe's money, Brad Pitt's physique and no ambition bigger in live than to pamper her as much as possible.

    Both are immensely frustrating bunches of people and both are so loud that unfortunately (but understandably to a certsin degree in my opinion), many men are becoming quite mysoginistic. Personally, I love women. It's just a shame there's so few worthwhile one's left in the middle.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭keu


    Ah ha ha. It seems to me you're bitter. Every single response of yours has been insulting or vicious in some way. I've read the whole thread. It appears you haven't. You only post quick responses to snap at someone.

    I'm sticking you on ignore. You're probably not a woman anyway.

    :rolleyes:

    oh please dont put me on ignore.....


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,964 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    What's the craic with stoners shopping? Great big piles of food and seemingly no rush to get it paid for. Oh it's all a great laugh when you're traipsing around, not a red cent on you, trolley full of marshmallows and weedkiller and the cut o' ye!
    But who has to go puttin' all that crap back on the shelves when you finally leave the premises, eh?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭Havelock


    Wonderfully insightful for After Hours Sleepy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭keu


    Women have the same rights as men
    in all fairness, I don't think I've ever had to fight for womens rights, it's not something I spend my time thinking about.
    But c'mon man, look at the responses by posters like dr Loon.
    I don't have to tolerate that kinda crap. (whether i'm male or female)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,964 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    keu wrote:
    in all fairness, I don't think I've ever had to fight for womens rights, it's not something I spend my time thinking about.
    But c'mon man, look at the responses by posters like dr Loon.
    I don't have to tolerate that kinda crap. (whether i'm male or female)

    You should go off in a huff, that'll learn 'em.
    Maybe go shopping, take your mind off things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Dr. Loon


    keu wrote:
    in all fairness, I don't think I've ever had to fight for womens rights, it's not something I spend my time thinking about.
    But c'mon man, look at the responses by posters like dr Loon.
    I don't have to tolerate that kinda crap. (whether i'm male or female)

    My reponses such as?

    Askin why every one of your responses is evil and vicious and insulting?????
    Expressing how I dislike anyone that's slow at a checkout/ATM. Not just women?

    Nothing wrong with my posts at all... and you never answered why every post of yours is insulting?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    I think it's unfortunate that women (or men pretending to be women in some cases) like lisa c, climaxer and keu give people the impression we're all like this.

    It's friday, have a Crunchie. Take it easy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    keu wrote:
    in all fairness, I don't think I've ever had to fight for womens rights, it's not something I spend my time thinking about.
    But c'mon man, look at the responses by posters like dr Loon.
    I don't have to tolerate that kinda crap. (whether i'm male or female)
    For christ sake it's after hours! People post all kinds of crap here. It's toungue-in-cheek stuff.
    I hate big purple monkeys, I think they're all lazy sods. So what.
    What? :confused: ...now I've confused my feeble male brain.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭whosurpaddy


    keu wrote:
    Get over your oppression buzz.

    why dont you go back and read the rest of the thread.
    you only like women when they are giving you what you want. seems to be the same with most of the responses here. ( a blowjob)


    oh for gods sake, where did this come from? no one has mentioned sex the entire thread, do you bring it up because you've no other argument per chance? this is the look at me syndrome all over again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭whosurpaddy


    koneko wrote:
    I think it's unfortunate that women (or men pretending to be women in some cases) like lisa c, climaxer and keu give people the impression we're all like this.

    It's friday, have a Crunchie. Take it easy.


    once again, koneko is the (female)voice of reason. i really must to your positive rep points.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭keu


    You should go off in a huff, that'll learn 'em.

    i have three choices.
    opt a. go off in a huff
    opt b. say how i feel
    opt c. laugh and say oh you guys are so cute and funny.

    I opted for c originally, this keeps the boys happy.
    Then god forbid I said how I felt, this makes the boys uneasy, and attracts rampant agressive attitudes, and i was declared a feminazi, looking for female rights.

    I'll just go off in a huff now.
    might go shopping.

    see..I'm undoubtedly female.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭Going Demented


    Bejaysus Relax!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭keu


    I think it's unfortunate that women (or men pretending to be women in some cases) like lisa c, climaxer and keu give people the impression we're all like this.


    are you trying to grow balls?
    Your the kind of woman who sucks up to any man that will give her any attention.
    (lesbian)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Sweet - shes off.
    Now, back to having fun....




    ,,,boobies!



    <edit>I stand corrected - she's still here. This is still a fun-free zone people </edit>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    Lol, discussion not going your way, so you start insulting people?

    Please. If you can't make a valid point and start insulting and running off in a huff then yes, imho that makes the rest of us look bad. I don't even know why I'm replying, you'll probably just reply with something like "you're stupid I hate you, haha"

    OH NO, I'M DISAGREEING WITH YOU, I MUST BE A MAN! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    keu wrote:
    Your the kind of woman who sucks up to any man that will give her any attention.
    (lesbian)
    Interesting. Surly a lesbian wouldn't suck a man. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭whosurpaddy


    keu wrote:
    I think it's unfortunate that women (or men pretending to be women in some cases) like lisa c, climaxer and keu give people the impression we're all like this.


    are you trying to grow balls?
    Your the kind of woman who sucks up to any man that will give her any attention.
    (lesbian)


    tbh if your just going to start insulting everyone who replies your asking to be banned.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Dr. Loon


    keu wrote:
    I think it's unfortunate that women (or men pretending to be women in some cases) like lisa c, climaxer and keu give people the impression we're all like this.


    are you trying to grow balls?
    Your the kind of woman who sucks up to any man that will give her any attention.
    (lesbian)

    Seriously now. Why is every single reply of yours an insult?
    It's not worth arguing with you, 'cos you fail to understand reason and proper debate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,607 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Havelock wrote:
    Wonderfully insightful for After Hours Sleepy
    Agreed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭keu


    I'm only being as facetious as the men here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Weren't you supposed to be leaving in a huff???


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Dr. Loon


    keu wrote:
    I'm only being as facetious as the men here.

    You reckon?

    Your facetiousness has a decidely angry tone to it. Is it supposed to be like, I'm joking, but I'm serious, but I can pass it off as a joke and pretend I wasn't serious, but I am serious?!?!

    Brain confussled. Need a blow job.


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