M&S REFUSE ALCOHOL AND PORK SALES, AND NIGELLA'S NEW ASSISTANTS.

THE GRILLOS.

Nigella Lawson was said to be disappointed but unsurprised that the Grillo sisters were found not guilty of fraudulently spending £685k on credit cards owned by the TV cook and ex her husband the Scott’s Restaurant Strangler. Miss Lawson said her experience as a witness was deeply disturbing and she has been maliciously vilified. But on the upside it did give her the chance to swan into court haughtily with her nose in the air to show that there were no traces of any white powder lurking up there in the old septum area.

After hearing the verdict Francesca Grillo said “there is a God” in Italian, adding “but there’s not a Goddess, not a Domestic one anyway, anymore” also in Italian. I wonder what she means by that.

Perhaps that Miss Lawson’s life wasn’t the big bucket of treacly sweet perfection that she’s built a career on. A shame for all those woman who saw her as a role model and aspired to be her, and it turned out the women who wanted be her have a better home life than she has. Ironic eh? Nigella probably has same life they do, but at least I suppose she has it in a millionaires surroundings.

The verdict was great news for the Grillo sisters, and even better news for the Peru Two because if the regular cocaine use allegations made against Miss Lawson are true they’ll be able to get job as her personal assistants when they get out. Like who’d have thought that writing handling 11.5kg on a CV would have been a plus. The Peru Two were wondering what their job prospects would be when got out. Now they know their futures could be very rosy.

ABBEY DANCER

Abbey Clancy, which is actually spelt Abbey, won Strictly Come Dancing for dancing marginally better than your drunken auntie as a family wedding. Just a well for her that the judge based their scores on dancing and not on accents that sound like nails being dragged down a blackboard. UKIP weren’t happy and Nigel Farage singled out Abbey’s dancing partner Aljaz Skorjanec saying “he proves why we must have stricter border controls because he’s over here stealing a British ballroom dancer’s job”.

This particular final had the lowest TV ratings for four years though. This has been put down to A. It’s dancing” and B.People are getting a bit fed up with all the completely insincere all the contestants love each other stuff, when everyone knows that celebrities all bitch about each other all the time.

All the finalists are apparently going on a live Strictly Come Dancing tour in February and March, which begs the question. Don’t any of these people have real jobs to go to.Or is being a celebrity their job?. Who pays them for that?

The BBC may be paying them in this case, but who pays them for celebing otherwise?. Is there some sort of fund funded by idiots which allows celebs to live their lives like celebs?

The BBC reported when Abbey (maybe she’s name after the road) Clancy won she ran into the arms of her husband Peter Crouch and said she could not wait to be with her two year old daughter. Just for a few weeks though before she goes off on tours for 2 months.

ALCOHOL AND PORK

Marks and Spencer’s has told Muslim staff that they can refuse to serve shoppers who are buying alcohol or pork. Instead shoppers will be asked to use special Christians only tills. They are easy to spot as they have a big flashing crucifix above them. In contrast to M&S Sainsburys have told its staff that there is no reason why their staff can’t handle such produce even if they don’t consume them. Similarly Sainsbury have told their Scottish staff that there is no reason why their staff can’t handle vegetable and fruit even if they have no idea what they are.

Meanwhile Adsa have chosen not to let its Muslim staff operate the tills which seems the most sensible solution, especially when a customer has just piled all their shopping on the conveyor belt and hidden under the pile is a packet of Danish Bacon and a bottle of wine which is only discovered half way through the buying process. How do M&S handle that situation? Awkward, and one really angry customer who will have to queue twice.

On the other hand if someone wants a job but doesn’t really want to work a Muslim could apply for a job in a off licence and once they had secured the position they could tell the employer “I’m sorry by it’s against my religion to sell alcohol, so I’ll just stand over there reading the paper”.

How far could this go with employer bending over backwards to sensitivities? Will they allow vegan staff to refuse to serve anyone buying meat, or staff who don’t like old people refusing to serve them Ralgex or Werther’s Originals, or some who is raging alcoholic refusing to serve anyone buying soft drinks because soft drinks are for wimps.

And there was that case of an HMV customer who had to go to the back of another queue because the assistants religious beliefs forbade her from selling him a Peppa Pig DVD.

The point is and because it’s a religious point everyone has to stay frosty, is that if someone applies for a job they know what that job entails and playing the religious card once they have the job is a bit on the “oh now, you’re complaining” front. It would be different is you really didn’t have any religious affiliations prior to landing the job, but a few days into the job you just happened to be passing a hate preacher in the street and his preaching radicalised you, and suddenly you can’t even look at someone who is buying a can of lager and a packet or pork scratchings. Then you may have a slight point because how were you to know that you were going to end up incredibly pedantic and religiously picky, other than that, M&S should really have a much better recruitment process with Human Resources pointing out at the interview “Sorry if you can’t do the job, you’re not getting the job”.

At the end of the day no one should impose their religious beliefs on others, especially at Xmas.  The bottom line is; we’ll respect your religion but not its taboos. Plus it’s a bit Piggist. I don’t know if that’s a thing, but it probably is as everything is an “Ist” these days. The pigs aren’t happy over being called unclean and as the Director of the Pig Equality Commission said “We are not unclean; we practically live in the laundrette”.

Shopping is a secular experience, not a religious one.

TESCO'S MAD MAX FRUIT AND VEG AISLE, AND OLDER SHOPPERS MISS THE BARGAINS

THE CARROT FIGHTERS

Tesco have had to draft in extra security to control shoppers fighting over cut price fruit and veg.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526191/Fight-breaks-cut-price-fruit-veg-Tesco-forced-lay-extra-security-staff-deal-bargain-hunters.html

Some have even been injured and were rushed to hospital to have carrots and cucumbers and other such marginally pointed vegetable removed from where the sun doesn’t shine. The situation is somewhat different in Scotland where people are injured in the Tesco vegetable aisle in the stampede to get away from such strange and alien looking objects.

It’s a bit strange that shoppers could end up in court on assault charges because they wanted to save 10p on Brussel Sprouts and someone got between them and their 10p off vegetables.

If Tesco shoppers should be fighting over anything it should be the latest must have, have to have, and if I don’t get it my kids Xmas will be ruined – toy.

Unless of course there are some odd kids out there who indeed want discounted fruit or veg as a Xmas present.

This leads me to believe that the parents have misunderstood the request and when their child told them that they wanted an Apple and an Orange they actually meant an Apple Ipad and an Orange Smart Phone.

BARGAIN MISSERS

Research has found that older shoppers are missing the bargains.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526163/Older-shoppers-miss-best-buys-Research-finds-young-best-picking-bargains.html

Apparently the older we get the worse we are at spotting bargains. This is maybe why the Liberal MP Ming Campbell on average spends £93 for a packet of cornflakes. And it also explains why when you ask a member of B&Q’s staff for a cheap screwdriver they return with the most expensive one they can find. Well they are all very old aren’t they? Yes, and it’s an absolute nuisance that every B&Q store in the country closes from 3pm to 4pm to allow their staff to watch Countdown. They were also going to close from 12.15pm to 1pm to let their staff watch Bargain Hunt but that was just too much for shoppers to bear.

MING, NOT VERY GOOD SHOPPER

In tests older people failed miserably when it came to picking out a bargain whereas younger people passed with flying colours.

Could be that it’s harder for older people to work out what kilos and grams are on packaging. But for younger people, kilos and grams thanks to the drugs culture are second nature to them.

A case in point being the Peru Two, younger people know exactly the weight of the cocaine they were trying to smuggle out of Peru. But older people were asking “11.5kg of cocaine, is that a lot, and what’s cocaine?”

                            

                             2p Off

In the run up to Xmas Asda and Tesco are cutting their petrol prices by 2p a litre.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-2525269/Asda-Tesco-announce-petrol-price-cuts-tomorrow-time-Christmas.html.

Wow, what a saving. That’s like a whopping saving of almost a whole £1 on a car with a 50 litre tank.

Santa must be over the moon because his reindeer are petrol driven and as he goes round the world delivering gifts that’s a huge saving for him, but for the rest of us, it’s a swear word £1.

Remember when petrol went up to 80p a litre and there were lorry blockades and protests and panic buying. Not panic buying of petrol, but panic buying of bread. I don’t know why but whenever any sort of industrial action takes place people buy as many loaves as they can.

I could see the point of that if Kingsmil or Hovis staff were going on strike, but the threat of petrol shortages?. Unless of course these people have cars that run on bread and they are keeping that fact secret from every other motorist.

Asda and Tesco are heralding the 2p off like it’s the coming of the Messiah which is a bit insensitive in multi racial, multi religion Britain.

Both supermarkets are plugging their 2p off by saying if Joseph and Mary had travelled from Nazareth to Bethlehem by car they’d have saved £1.60 off normal prices. And if they’d taken the car the Baby Jesus would not have had to be born in stable, he could have been born in the back seat of the car. They stopped short of saying that this was maybe where the Baby Jesus was conceived because that could have been considered blasphemy.

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