the general fecking public

[Busyman]

Customer: Hi there, could you tell me how much this is please?
Me: $18.00 dollars
Customer: Oh, but it says its 17.99 (no joke, it was an old asian lady)

Do you lot do the same as the merkins, and whack on a load of tax on top of the price on the ticket, at the till?

Cos that really pisses me off

What, $1.80 is a load?

[Tempestv]

Do you lot do the same as the merkins, and whack on a load of tax on top of the price on the ticket, at the till?

Cos that really pisses me off

I agree- which is why I'm quite glad to say that there is no sales tax in Montana. I think Montana, Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, and Oregon are the only states that don't have sales tax. also if I go to Idaho, or Washington, I just have to show my Montana drivers license and I get out of paying sales tax.

[j2k4]

Aye, and if you asked the artist, he would probably tell you the blender signifies the U.S., and the goldfish embodies the mid-east/Africa/any other 3rd-world country.

You may, even if slightly paranoid, have a point there.

Although I wonder what significance is held with "the goldfish embodies the mid-east/Africa/any other 3rd-world" when an American in raising it makes an error in calling that fish a goldfish

Okay, tetra, or whatever.

[j2k4]

Privately funded art hanging in a public space I find more legitimate in any case, and will be generally more recognizable as genuine "art"; that is to say that it's qualities as art will be more readily discernable to those who view it...all this owing to the greater responsibility felt by the patrons who contract for such pieces.

They know art, and know good art is worth their patronage.

Publically-funded art is another bucket of slop altogether, and much more of a needle-in-a-haystack proposition.

Thanks for the explanation, and must agree with you but the reason why publically funded art is sloppy is because the "jurors" who choose the piece are a "slop" put together of everything and generally aim to please the masses hence nothing of interest will come out of it other than a coca cola commercial + santa

Which is precisely my point; you recall the old joke...A camel is a horse designed by committee?

Just so.

[Agrajag]

Me, standing at the till in a bookshop, many moons ago.

Customer - Can you tell me where the shampoo is.

Me - Next door, in Boots.

Customer - Thanks, I'll go there.

Fade to blind man walking out of bookshop.

True story.

[DorisInsinuate]

I'm quite impressed that he managed to get to within a door's distance of his destination.

[Agrajag]

As was I.

[DorisInsinuate]

Did he not even have a guide dog?

How do you make a guide dog walk to Boots anyway?

[Agrajag]

Did he not even have a guide dog?

How do you make a guide dog walk to Boots anyway?

That's easy, you say "Hoi, dug, Boots, now".

Well I imagine that would work.

[DorisInsinuate]

If you can make the dog figure out the directions to Boots you might as well give it a fiver and tell him to pick up some milk on the way back.