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Old 07-12-2016, 14:43
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The responses make it worth the read - particularly liked this one:

Dear Tesco, I also bought a £1 bag of Tesco 'alphabet' potato shapes and was furious to discover that they did not contain commas, full stops and umlauts, not to mention mathematical signs. To say I am incandescent with rage and have an overbearing sense of entitlement is an understatement. I shall be writing to my MP or sitting on the sofa watching Jeremy Kyle, whichever is the easiest. Suffice to say I shall never, *EVER* be shopping at Tesco ever again. Yours. P.S. When do you start discounting the Christmas stuff so I can pop in for a bargain?"

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put these letters in order: YUOR A SUTPID WASET OF SPAEC"
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Old 07-12-2016, 14:49
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Dear Tesco, I also bought a £1 bag of Tesco 'alphabet' potato shapes and was furious to discover that they did not contain commas, full stops and umlauts, not to mention mathematical signs. To say I am incandescent with rage and have an overbearing sense of entitlement is an understatement. I shall be writing to my MP or sitting on the sofa watching Jeremy Kyle, whichever is the easiest. Suffice to say I shall never, *EVER* be shopping at Tesco ever again. Yours. P.S. When do you start discounting the Christmas stuff so I can pop in for a bargain?"

On that I have seen ones with Numbers with math signs.
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Old 07-12-2016, 14:50
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I'm Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski and you can't imagine how heartbreaking my childhood was.
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Old 07-12-2016, 14:51
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" Nichola Hart complained to Tesco, furious at being let down by the supermarket. The 30-year-old mum of two had bought a bag of alphabet potato shapes in order to teach her son Logan to spell, so she was livid when she discovered that there were no Ls or Os in the bag, so she was forced to write 'ICGAN'. http://money.aol.co.uk/2016/12/07/hi...3D333750083_uk

A letter to her MP is in order surely. Stupid woman.
Christ on a bike. If that's the only thing this woman has to worry about in her life.......
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Old 07-12-2016, 14:56
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One of the funnier "complaints" I've come across between a "customer" and Sainsbury's https://twitter.com/sainsburys/statu...rc=twsrc%5Etfw
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:02
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So the bag contained no L's or O's? It's no laughing matter.
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:06
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One of my favourites

" bushmaster80

put these letters in order: YUOR A SUTPID WASET OF SPAEC"
I must say I do like the YRONI there


So the bag contained no L's or O's? It's no laughing matter.
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:08
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It's the fault of all these immigrant potato pickers, who don't speak English
On a positive note she could enter next years I'm A Celeb, and probably win
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:09
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She could have bought full size waffles and made the missing letters easily out of them. Much easier once grilled rather than still frozen. No initiative these days.
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:11
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She could have bought full size waffles and made the missing letters easily out of them. Much easier once grilled rather than still frozen. No initiative these days.
That has the beginnings of a Viz Top Tip!
Save money on expensive alphabet shaped spuds (etc)
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:21
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"I'm sorry Logan. We can't do spelling today, so instead I'm going to teach you what it's like to have an idiot for a mother".
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:32
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I remember the joys of Alphabetti Spaghetti, it always seemed like the tins with an F didn't contain a U.
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:33
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I remember the joys of Alphabetti Spaghetti, it always seemed like the tins with an F didn't contain a U.
They weren't F's, they were broken E's.
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:34
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She could teach him how to spell 'stupid' instead, she'd have letters for that.
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:40
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They weren't F's, they were broken E's.
That makes sense, kids would only want half of one instead of a full dose.
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Old 07-12-2016, 15:47
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I remember that episode of Batman where they found a cry for help by pouring alphabet soup into the Bat Computer. Luckily they had the Alphabet Soup Bat Container with them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isHbsbS-D2g
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:00
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One of the funnier "complaints" I've come across between a "customer" and Sainsbury's https://twitter.com/sainsburys/statu...rc=twsrc%5Etfw
puntastic! Kudos to 'David'.
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:06
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That may not been all she does but everything helps when teaching them.

It has been used as a trick before the kids don't realise they are learning.
Yes but surely no one actually relies on them to have all the letters needed. That's the bit that's off.
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:07
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Why doesn't she try alphabetti spaghetti? Do they still make that though?
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:09
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Why doesn't she try alphabetti spaghetti? Do they still make that though?
Yes, but even that's not guaranteed. I opened a tin once and it was all O's ! I couldn't believe it.
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:33
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Yes, but even that's not guaranteed. I opened a tin once and it was all O's ! I couldn't believe it.
Lol. You bought spaghetti hoops by mistake!
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:39
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Lol. You bought spaghetti hoops by mistake!
Yeah, you missed the badoom tish at the bottom of his post
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:39
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to get alphabet letters in all of your food then just give your kid an LSD trip before dinner
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:42
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I definitely see a market for edible Scrabble.
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Old 07-12-2016, 16:46
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To be fair that does sound like an extremely traumatising experience.

I once had a kit kat...it was all chocolate. It took 3 Months of therapy to get over that food catastrophe.
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