Miscellaneous Questions Not Worth Starting A Thread For

[kidney]

Can someone tell me what the phrases ' Love you to pieces' and 'Love you to the moon and back' mean and where they originated please?

[Grinch]

Can someone tell me what the phrases ' Love you to pieces' and 'Love you to the moon and back' mean and where they originated please?

Second one was a 90s savage garden song, or so ive been told.

[Guest]

Can someone tell me what the phrases ' Love you to pieces' and 'Love you to the moon and back' mean and where they originated please?

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007_February_14

 

This website gives some references for early uses of the term 'to pieces'

[Guest]

No-one has ever explained to me where all those 5 pences go

 

They are supposed to go to charidee.

[Anny Road]

They are supposed to go to charidee.

There is no legal requirement for them to do anything and in England I think it only applies to those with 250+ employees. 

[halewood pete]

Where are the thirty nine steps?

[Lee909]

What's with the 'do you want your receipt?' question that seems to have crept in when you're paying for things? Why wouldnt I want a record of what I had just bought from you in case I need to return said purchase for any reason or some security lurch thinks I might be doing a runner with a packet of caramel wafers?

Hey

Less of the degrading of security

We are not all jobsworth,wannbe policemen.

[Guest]

There is no legal requirement for them to do anything and in England I think it only applies to those with 250+ employees. 

 

Not as far as I'm aware, companies with more than 250 employees are obliged to charge for a bag provided. With less than this they are not obliged to charge for them. If bags are charged for the money legally should be going to charidee, whether it does or not is another matter.

 

As an example, I went into HMV to buy some music and they asked if I wanted a bag. I said yes and 5p was added to the bill. I went into a local independent music store and bought some music and they asked if I wanted a bag. I said yes and they put the music in the bag after I had paid for the music so no charge. Again some stores with less than 250 employees may well be charging for bags but they shouldn't be as they are almost certainly not giving it to charidee.

[Champ]

Not as far as I'm aware, companies with more than 250 employees are obliged to charge for a bag provided. With less than this they are not obliged to charge for them. If bags are charged for the money legally should be going to charidee, whether it does or not is another matter.

 

As an example, I went into HMV to buy some music and they asked if I wanted a bag. I said yes and 5p was added to the bill. I went into a local independent music store and bought some music and they asked if I wanted a bag. I said yes and they put the music in the bag after I had paid for the music so no charge. Again some stores with less than 250 employees may well be charging for bags but they shouldn't be as they are almost certainly not giving it to charidee.

 

Different rules in Scotland, mister

[Tony Moanero]

Different rules in Scotland, mister

What are the rules there?

[Alan Sex]

No Scot is giving up the 5p in his pocket that shines like the sun after being polished in there for the last 30 years or so.

[Mook]

People up here fight to the death over 5p.

 

When I say 'people', I mean me.

[Champ]

What are the rules there?

Pretty much a blanket 5p charge for any bag, plastic or otherwise, no matter what size of establishment

[Furmedge]

Pretty much a blanket 5p charge for any bag, plastic or otherwise, no matter what size of establishment

So people just carry Buckfast out in the open now?

[Guest]

Pretty much a blanket 5p charge for any bag, plastic or otherwise, no matter what size of establishment

Can you not just take your own bags in, maybe even sell them back?

[Tony Moanero]

I just wear a massive pair of y-fronts, like Felix and his amazing underpants, and shove my shopping down the front of them.

[Guest]

I just wear a massive pair of y-fronts, like Felix and his amazing underpants, and shove my shopping down the front of them.

That's dedication to refuse paying 5p for a plastic bag. Hopefully you don't buy too many frozen products.

[halewood pete]

What's with the 'do you want your receipt?' question that seems to have crept in when you're paying for things? Why wouldnt I want a record of what I had just bought from you in case I need to return said purchase for any reason or some security lurch thinks I might be doing a runner with a packet of caramel wafers?

Apparently it's to save till roll paper.some companies ask their staff to ask the customer if they want a receipt or not for purchases under£20.

[halewood pete]

What's with the 'do you want your receipt?' question that seems to have crept in when you're paying for things? Why wouldnt I want a record of what I had just bought from you in case I need to return said purchase for any reason or some security lurch thinks I might be doing a runner with a packet of caramel wafers?

Apparently it's to save till roll paper.some companies ask their staff to ask the customer if they want a receipt or not for purchases under£20.

[Ne Moe Imya]

Sound. 

 

That till roll paper money, that's big savings right there.

[Evelyn Tentions]

Apparently it's to save till roll paper.some companies ask their staff to ask the customer if they want a receipt or not for purchases under£20.

They do that in one of the supermarket chains in Aus.

I always take one because

a: they don't want to give me one and

b: it's difficult to return something without a receipt. This is possibly as valid a reason as the "save paper" excuse which is good PR People can't take stuff back.

[PestiRed]

What can I do with the fourteen circular pound coins in my currency jar? Currency exchange only takes notes, as do banks with foreign currency

 

And are the banknotes that I've had for six years now worthless too? (£5, £10, £20)

[Tony Moanero]

What can I do with the fourteen circular pound coins in my currency jar? Currency exchange only takes notes, as do banks with foreign currency

 

And are the banknotes that I've had for six years now worthless too? (£5, £10, £20)

The old paper £5 notes are legal tender until May this year. Your £10 and £20 notes are still ok. Plastic £10 notes will be issued this summer, with plastic £20 notes to follow in 2020.

[PestiRed]

The old paper £5 notes are legal tender until May this year. Your £10 and £20 notes are still ok. Plastic £10 notes will be issued this summer, with plastic £20 notes to follow in 2020.

Should cash in the notes, shame that they are worth about 20% less than when I got them but I have zero plans to visit the UK for a few years

[VladimirIlyich]

Where are the thirty nine steps?

They were at the Old Wembley.