/lit/ - Literature

>>8931925
who cares

>>8931947
I care

>>8931947
Me.

>>8931949
>>8931955
>being this poor

>>8931957
>reading the guardian
>not being poor

I saw this. He takes off the entrance fee off the price of the book, which is cool.

When I worked as a bookseller, I used to get pretty annoyed by people too. Mostly those asking if bags cost 5p.

Yes, the cost 5p. They cost 5p everywhere, lad.

>>8931973
actually there are many exceptions to the rule. e.g. paper bags or if the company has less than 250 employees

although a retailer is always allowed to charge for a bag if they want to

>>8931925
>He added: “I say what I think, I don’t butter my parsnips.”

Is this the most British thing anyone has ever said?

>>8931973
>Yes, the cost 5p. They cost 5p everywhere, lad.
You pay for bags in the UK? Do you pay for napkins at restaurants too?

>>8931925
Fooking northerners

>>8931973
It only costs 5p in the big brand shops. No corner shops charge for bags.

>>8932071
It's a way for the government to try and limit plastic bag waste. Doesn't really work from my experience. I'll gladly pay the 5p, because what's 5p after all? It's nothing.

Heh, yorkshire

>>8932071
It goes to charity, and it a relatively new law.

>>8932068
Ee bah gum

>>8931925
Did they say why he asked for the fee ?
Is it possible he had issues with antisocial behavior ?

>>8931925
>Bloom

>>8932105
>Doesn't really work from my experience. I'll gladly pay the 5p, because what's 5p after all? It's nothing.

Yeah thats why you don't judge things from your "experience", if you look at the statistics it was tremendously successful you fucking mong

>>8933193
>Bloom, who runs Bloomindales

>He explained his policy of asking customers for 50p was a way of finding out whether they were serious or not, and that he did not actually take the money.

>>8933204
I personally haven't seen it working. It's a stupid fucking law.

>>8933253
And I haven't personally seen coca-cola adverts working but they don't pump billions into them for a laugh.
Shut the fuck up

>>8933287
Buddy, I am so close to lodging a complaint about rudeness on your ass right about now.

>>8933312
Sorry sir, we can only take complaints from those who paid the 50p bag fee. I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to leave.

>>8932071
Ive lived in London and you'll be lucky to get napkins in a restaurant at all. There is not a bathroom in the entire city with paper towels.

>>8933253
Are you seriously using anecdote to argue the increase/ decrease in the usage of plastic bags before and after a law, and its application to an entire country?

Holy... I want more...

>>8933375
Yes and we drink toilet water to save money too.

>>8932071
quite a lot of western europe has similar laws.
20 states in the US have at least partial plastic bag bans

>>8933253
Only because bags are still so easily accessible. Here in France it's a bloody pain the arse to get plastic bags as you often have to go somewhere else in the shop or ask the person at the till specifically (they always look at me weirdly) if I can have one of those long life bags. They also can cost up to 1 euro here.

Basically if you go shopping and you don't have pic related you are a cuck.

I'm sometimes butthurt that this country really goes out of its way to annoy the fuck out of you and make little things in life inconvenient but hey, if it reduces carbon emissions why the fuck not.

>>8931973
>Yes, the cost 5p. They cost 5p everywhere, lad.
So by bookseller you mean on the tills in Waterstones last year.

>>8933792
Americans don't like it because this is what most consider Art
https://youtu.be/Qssvnjj5Moo

Oh a piece of litter how beatiful. I hope it flies into someone's windscreen and strangles a fish or something.