Mother stopped buying DVD because she was with her underage children. More UK, PC

 

1. Drew, this is a lovely film.  With Judi Dench and Maggie Smith on top form it could hardly be anything else.  It’s been a few years since my wife and I saw it, but I can’t remember anything even remotely risque apart from one rear view of the young man as seen by one of the old ladies.  Just goes to confirm that the Morrisons cashier was a total pillock.

   Posted by formernavalperson       04/08/2009  at  05:56 PM  



2. Didn’t we have something like this happen recently with the refusal to sell a bottle of wine to a mother who had her 17 year old daughter with her, and the store manager/owner said the store was indeed wrong the next day?

   My answer to this little problem is the same now as then:  Leave the ENTIRE cart of groceries right there, and tell them that they obviously don’t want your business, so you’ll give it to one of their competitors.

   They can apologize, and you can accept the apology, but your business should still remain elsewhere.  Stupidity needs to start costing the stupid.  If not their lives, then their cash.

   Posted by Argentium G. Tiger       04/08/2009  at  06:44 PM  



3. If you read the ratings cert. it is for the preview, not the film, assuring that it can be played before the movie or on TV… another way the MPAA is maintaining control of what gets released (damn censors).
   Still.. they had to assure themselves that she was ‘of age’ to see the movie? With an 8 year old son in tow?
   I call bullshit.

   Bill

   Posted by Doctor DETH       04/08/2009  at  08:18 PM  



4. Stupidity needs to start costing the stupid.  If not their lives, then their cash.

   PERFECT!

   This seems to have become a country of little snoops and tattlers.
   And you should see the looks sometimes from some cashiers when you ask for extra plastic bags. They can’t say anything really insulting but you can see attitude.
   Anyway, one cashier tried to suggest to us that plastic was evil (my word) and said something about how long plastic remained. Some sort of mini lecture on being green.

   We asked her if she ever noticed the wording on the bags of the store she was working for.
   Blank stare. I pointed out the words ... This bag 100% bio-degradable.
   Red flush to face.

   Posted by peiper       04/09/2009  at  06:42 AM  

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