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Today...

16.57 GMT

Tesco petrol station closed. Unsurprising.

Padlocks on the 24 hour card pumps. Surprising.

Asda petrol station closed. Unsurprising.

Padlocks on the 24 hour card pumps. Surprising and very annoying.

Nearest open petrol station - 32 miles away.

Did i miss the punch line?

It's a bit late, but I've still got 25 minutes left...

Merry Christmas to all the regulars (pint glass slammed on the table with simultaneous spitting out of beer to any strangers that might be looking).

This year's presents of note are:

A Microwave (that's a hint from my parents to complete my move back to Plymouth if ever there was one lol)
Mission Impossible season 1 boxset
The Simpsons Movie DVD
Bullseye interactive DVD Game (classic Jim Bowen/Tony Green version)

When all the little trinkets are counted, not too bad a haul for being 25 in less than 2 months.

What day will they be closed next year then?

Jamez wrote:Today...

16.57 GMT

Tesco petrol station closed. Unsurprising.

Padlocks on the 24 hour card pumps. Surprising.

Asda petrol station closed. Unsurprising.

Padlocks on the 24 hour card pumps. Surprising and very annoying.

Nearest open petrol station - 32 miles away.

What is this supposed to mean? You're cross because workers are at home celebrating Christmas? You couldn't have filled your car the day before?

Good grief.

EDIT: I read again. Card payment processing still requires staff at the other end, so its still "good grief".

Not everyone spends Christmas day at home celebrating with their loved ones. There are many, perhaps thousands, of semi-attractive and emotionally fragile young women on Bebo. Young women whose low threshold for shagging random strangers needs to be taken advantage of. Who do you think's going to give them the rogering they need? The government? Pah!

People like Jamez provide a much-needed service to these folks and HOW, DAMN IT GAVIN, is he supposed to get around all of the semi-attractive, emotionally frail, young, Bebo-using women in the Cardiff area if he has to take a 64-mile round trip to get the fuel for his Passion Wagon?!

Oh purlease.

My promiscuous days are at an end. Seriously. And I certainly don't trawl websites like Bebo looking for a quickie!

Yesterday I wanted to head over to the mountains with the woofdawg, but even the 24hr card pumps were padlocked and roped off.

And what Gavin said about needing people at the other end to process card payments... it's bollocks. I can make as many payments on plastic on bank holidays just the same as any other day. It's just supermarkets being cunts by stopping people from getting fuel.

You couldn't have bought petrol the day before? Or did you not realise it was Christmas?

Happy Humbug Season everybody.

Filled up Boxing morning at Tesco Sandbanks and it was still only 99.9p a litre for unleaded, 98.9p if you count the 1% off for the Clubcard.

Typical bloody Sandbanks though, most expensive houses in the world, all best part of ten million quid a go, but the cheapest petrol I've seen for weeks.

Oh, and I didn't have to swipe the pump or anything; there was a nice human being to deal with in the kiosk.

Jamez wrote:And what Gavin said about needing people at the other end to process card payments... it's bollocks. I can make as many payments on plastic on bank holidays just the same as any other day. It's just supermarkets being cunts by stopping people from getting fuel.

Humans are still required to do things like stolen card hotlists and floor-limit excess clearances, so don't tell me it's bollocks. People get double-time or days in lieu to keep bank holidays operational, Christmas is much more difficult to ethically force people to volunteer for work.

I guarantee that there will be millions of uncleared Christmas-day internet sales which have been processing all day today.

The fact remains that you should have thought ahead, but instead you'd rather scream "cunts" at other people and blame them for deliberately ruining your life.

Nick, Petrol has been back down to 99.9 in Dundee for a week now. Although being at home in el borders notice its closer to 105 here