"croissant-munching, latte-sipping": instances of misconceived media-class self-loathing ITT

The people least likely to say "you go first" in Lidl when they've got a month's shopping & you've got six apples & a paper are the ones with spending £100+ on kale, blueberries and beansprouts etc

— John Harris (@johnharris1969) November 15, 2022

ah that famously elitist food, vegetables

you can get a huge bag of kale for less than a quid and I've heard it derided by a sophisticated foodie as "basically cattle-feed". Anyway I like it in soups and macaroni cheese so stick your apples up your arrisehole and what kind of a dick goes into Lidl to buy a newspaper.

man john harris is fumin eh

Shocking that someone trying to feed a family on a budget won’t make way for a posh journo cunt giving it the “ee I only eat apples and paper me”

It's fun when he shows you what a peevish little runt he is rather than hiding behind a bunch of northern pensioner sock puppets

Very, very strange tweet from JH. Deserves to stand in infamy.

Personally I would never spend £100 in a supermarket (might do with an online order) but people who do are presumably feeding a family for a week - as poster Wins says.

So JH is opposed to people feeding a family, if they eat fruit and vegetables.

Though JH has probably also written columns saying things like "part of the problem is diet - how can we get more working-class communities eating healthily and increasing their life chances?".

So he should not be opposed to any family eating fruit and vegetables.

It's an unusually bad take even from him.

Also: surely the truth about who "goes first" in a queue is - whoever is first in the queue. Most of the time this is simple, not a matter of debate.

queueing a bit longer is priced in at Lidl, there are less checkouts than other supermarkets. Everyone knows this.

Well, it is nice and polite when someone with hundreds of items in their trolly offers to let me, with only my TV Choice and low fat Olive spread in my basket, go ahead of them in the queue, and this has happened to me quite often in my local Lidl. But it's not a source of tweet-grievance when it doesn't happen.

Now I know why I don't shop at Lidl, in case I bump in to John Harris

https://i.imgur.com/gfeK24A.jpg

who to believe

doesnt he live on the england-wales border, he shd go to a SPAR and shut up

the second first obv

The Govan Lidl, my local, doesn't have self-checkout (yet). Perhaps Lidls on the England-Wales border are also without (yet).

I've never seen a self-checkout in a Lidl albeit ime of 3 branches in w yorkshire

my nearest has self-checkout, it's still a queue

The only time I use a cashier at Lidl is when I have a 12kg bag of working dog kibble in my cart and there’s no way I’d want or be able to hoik it onto the packing area sensor.

Are blueberries a thing we’re supposed to hate? Blueberries? It’s just… weird.

Wait, what?

they're sort of foreign and delicate. I guess blackberries would be the more acceptable british proletarian choice, if any fruit is acceptable

kale is sort of frilly and lacey so clearly not appropriate for the working man who likes his cabbage straight

Funk-loving blueberry-eating southerners

Twitter search function still works.

He's done this a number of times pic.twitter.com/naSahNNDU8

— j (@jrc1921) November 16, 2022

lol at that Twitter

you've no right to be taking up queuing space in Lidl buying blackberries when they're growing for free in the good old British hedgerows!

the idea of judging someone buying alcohol-free beer. like, give it a second’s thought, man.

the whole thing is literal entitlement: he should get to jump the queue because he’s better than them.

"alcohol free Becks perhaps a giveaway"

oh do expand John please

lol same thought same moment Tracer

it's the authentic tone of New Labour tbfttl

A bag of crisps and a lemon!?!? Lidl should introduce a minimum purchase policy to keep the cunt out of their stores.

someone should introduce the lad to the concept of corner shops, no????

The tweet is weird but the repetition is deranged. Like he's not even perfecting a joke. At least Adrian Chiles has the good grace to write a column once.

john i need some batteries can you go to B&Q for me

Lidl has no self-checkout.

Yrs, from the England/Wales border.

Lidl Checkout Truthers for Justice

My local Lidl had self checkouts, but they removed them as when someone had something with a reduced sticker it wouldn’t scan and so had to drag one of the cashiers away from the till.

My local Lidl has more self checkouts than any other supermarket in the area - more state of the art checkouts too.

I go to that Lidl a few times a month.

a state-of-the-art checkout is where the queue is automatically sorted and reoorganised for numbers of items in yr basket

makes sense to prioritise customers who are spending more. if you're just buying crisps and a lemon, eh you can wait all day pal

if he had any brains he'd eat the lemon in the store and not pay

and if he had the plums he'd eat the crisps too

I can still remember when supermarkets had checkout lines for people with only a few items (typically the limit was something like 10 or 15 items). Of course there were scofflaws but at least you could glower righteously at them.

Those still exist!

we have those here, and you best believe I'm glowering

The more I think about JH's tweets the more awful they seem.

His attack on someone for drinking low-alcohol beer is vile.

this piece got mentioned a few times in the replies:

lmfao, you threw a tantrum and chucked all your groceries into the garden because your breadwinner girlfriend didn’t like some fancy cheesehttps://t.co/FizZ1WLG2D pic.twitter.com/dEJuYsbZfk

— ਜੀਵਨ ਰਾਏ🔻 (@jeevanrai) November 16, 2022

This is like a 'croissant-eating elitists' AI gone rampant https://t.co/7Jm7xlgWII

— We Dont Talk About The Weather (@WDTATW_Podcast) November 16, 2022

I am walking/biking distance from four grocery stores; four more are a short drive away. At almost all of them, limited-items "express" lanes are the only ones that are handicapped accessible. By USian law, they must be staffed. Because if there is only one cash register open it must be the accessible one.

Unfortunately there is nothing that says any other checkout lanes need to be staffed. And mostly, they aren't. The situation in my area for the last decade has been acres of lovely glossy well-stocked grocery stores each of which has eight or nine gleaming cash registers. Most of the time seven or eight of them sit unused, because there is precisely one (1) cashier.

To make it even more fun, the only person who can resolve problems with self-checkout is also the person who is that single non-robotic cashier. AND for still more fun, a purchase involving an age-restricted product has required direct intervention from that one (1) employee.

So on a Friday evening when I and every other middle-aged geezer in my neighborhood are trying to go through self-checkout with a bottle of wine, an employee must come by and literally scan the barcode of my driver's license to allow me to purchase that evening's middling Pinot Grigio.

Yes, Safeway, thank you for instituting a business process to determine that I am not, in fact, I am a 19-year-old teenager in a business suit who has grey hair and bifocals with two preteen children and a mortgage and an aging Honda sedan. Good and necessary law enforcement going on.

Stores will blame a "labor shortage" but we know that "labor shortage" is a euphemism for corporate greed, of course. The solution of hiring more people and paying them adequately apparently has yet to occur to the industry. But that is a topic for another day.

FWIW if I am buying two things and someone else is buying 50 things, you know what I do? Wait my fucking turn, like every other sane human. You are not special because you only want an apple and a newspaper.

The blazing row about Y-Fenni cheese was not really about Y-Fenni cheese.

"FWIW if I am buying two things and someone else is buying 50 things, you know what I do? Wait my fucking turn, like every other sane human. You are not special because you only want an apple and a newspaper."

Poster Puffin is correct.

It's such common sense!

"The tweet is weird but the repetition is deranged. Like he's not even perfecting a joke. At least Adrian Chiles has the good grace to write a column once."

This was such a good post from poster Tatum. So accurate.

The thing I can't get my head round is ... for an ordinary civilian to do what JH has done, repeatedly publishing statements about discontent with shoppers at a local shop, would be bad and stupid enough. But JH is a well-known journalist whose whole career relies on some idea of his credibility. And these ridiculous posts just keep damaging it further.

he has twitter to vent on now, so he doesn't have to flounce out of the shop and throw his basket into a flowerbed