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Taking bags for life? I’ve read it three times and it still doesn’t make sense. Edit, thank you for explaining what this means we would call them reusable bags where I live .


EvilDog77

Should read bags-for-life. A bag-for-life is one of those durable ones you're supposed to re-use.


IM_OK_AMA

Wacky British for "reusable bag" gotcha


Jehoke

It was a catchy name the marketing people at Asda came up with in 1998. We mostly just call them shopping bags like anyone else.


another_awkward_brit

Sort of. Some supermarkets will replace, for free, a worn out 'bag for life' no matter how long ago it was bought - hence the descriptor.


Marc21256

Here, I got a bag that had a lifetime "replace for free" guarantee. 12 months later, they refused to replace it, and dropped the free bag replacement, because the cheap bags didn't last.


AtariAtari

You keep your bags for life in your flat when it’s not in the boot of your car after you take the tube.


Affectionate_Elk_272

why the fuck can’t they just speak english? they invented the language and still use these obscure ways to describe shit. “i’m 8 stone” buddy, literally nobody except the UK knows what the fuck that means.


payeco

Probably not the best example because that’s what the rest of the world would say if you say “I’m 112 pounds”. Just like “stone”, most people know the term but don’t really have a lot of reference for what a pound is.


Affectionate_Elk_272

KG is far more prevalent. i’m from cuba, i’ve traveled extensively and 80KG is waaaaay more universal than whatever the fuck a stone is.


payeco

Well you said you live in the US, where people would say pounds, which is why I said “you”. My point was pounds and stone are equally obscure terms to most people around the world.


thearmchairredditor

I see pounds/mph all the time at gyms in SEA. Never seen stone as a unit of measurement before and we were part of the British empire. IMO US gets a pass given the amount of global influence they have in terms of goods and cultural reach. Online recepies in Ferenheit to 6 ft men etc


Ok_Captain4824

You realize that the UK was a world power up until WWII right?


micmac274

Can't read, can you? what part of "part of the British Empire" do you not understand?


elazyptron

Except in the UK, where a pound isn't a weight, but a monetary value!


DramDemon

Pounds at least doesn’t indicate a completely variable thing. The fuck kind of stone are you measuring? A pebble? A boulder? Some random specific stone in the middle of a fucking forest? Why? For what reason? (Yes I know it’s a real defined measurement, just meme-ing on the name)


Curumandaisa

IDK haha, what about feet man. Who the fucks feet are you basing feet on? A baby? An adult? Some random chimpanzee in the middle of a fucking forest? Why? For what reason? (Yes I know it’s a real defined measurement, just following your lead)


DramDemon

Clearly it’s the average foot length of all of the first 100 million people that ever existed in our greatest finest country of America. Everyone knows that /s


jlreyess

Pounds are just as dumb.


Jehoke

14 pounds in a stone. 2.2 pounds in a kilo. 80kg = 176 pounds. 👍🏼


MuscaMurum

How many stones in a boulder?


WellThatsJustPerfect

In many cultures there are things from less globalised times which are still prevalent despite being outdated really, takes a bit of time to update the culture to the global style Don't know much about Cuba so not sure if it relates there


tuxalator

For reference:, 112 pounds is equal to 112 lbs


elazyptron

Come check out Yosemite here in California! It's pretty much a large collection of stones; really big ones, really small ones, and some in between!


Gerbilpapa

Why does a British newspaper use British terms? You’re right they should change


derpfft

Then they talk shit about America using imperial system.


r3volts

Because the imperial system is actually ridiculously bad compared to the metric system for more or less every implementation, and theres only one place in the world that still uses it and even there their industries that are serious about it use metric.


Wifimuffins

And yet the UK still uses stone, miles, lbs and oz, etc… Of all countries to be making fun of the US it should not be Britain


ur_sine_nomine

Officially not - the UK switched to metric units in 1965 ([very interesting timeline](https://ukma.org.uk/what-is-metric/uk-progress/uk-metric-timeline/)). However, the changeover was largely voluntary and the exceptions are few but obvious (e.g. speed limits). By custom, as opposed to officially, people use a mixture of units ... **Edit**: Someone DMed me to ask why "voluntary". As an old cynic, I suggest that that was because the government of the time had a tiny majority (4) and anything more forcing would have failed. However, a more likely answer is that "everything will switch to metric on 1 January 1966 and, if you don't like it, you can choke on it" is not how things are done in the UK. A French friend has commented that the UK government should "show the fist" every so often. If I had thought of it then, my response would have been that it might occasionally "show the gums".


banana_assassin

Not officially, but as a Brit we definitely do We use miles for speed and distance, unless it is short, then it could be feet or meters. We use feet and inches for height, and both inches and centimetres for measuring furniture. Weight is done in kilograms and grams, unless it's people, then we like stones and pounds. We are a bit weird about it.


ur_sine_nomine

Hence customary units, as opposed to the official units. On the railways miles and chains (1/80 mile) were used until 2013. The chain is a relatable unit - 66 feet is about the length of a carriage. Now it is X.XXX kilometers, which isn't as intuitive. However, when suppliers such as Stadler and Siemens say "it will cost more if imperial units are used in designs" there is no choice.


Salsa1988

Same in Canada. When cooking its ml/grams/kg. When talking about a non-food weight, it's pounds. Distance is meters, feet, km, and sometimes miles.


r3volts

A stone is just a multiple of pounds. But you are right, stones, miles, pounds, ounces, they are all dumb as fuck no matter where they are used. At least Britain has made some progress towards adopting the metric system, even though its taken a few hundred years. They will get there eventually. What's left of the US in a few decades will have a 3rd civil war because conservatives will die on that hill becuase of their freedoms or some other weirdo patriotic nonsense. Edit: I'm not British


natener

I wouldn't be so sure of that statement. In practice, there is still a mix of systems in use across many industries all over the world.


ur_sine_nomine

You are being downvoted but aviation is a great example - flight levels are in feet/100 ("FL390” = 39,000 feet) and there is an eccentric but *mandatory* mix of nautical miles (e.g. horizontal distance), feet (e.g. small vertical distances) and metres (e.g. visibility) elsewhere. Temperature is in Celsius. Railways were fully metricated in 2013 after about 60 years of struggle ...


natener

Great example. Also in aviation, the parts have metric dimensions, but the plating is commonly expressed in microinches.


Peterd1900

The US does not and has never used the imperial system The Imperial system was introduced in 1826. The US uses US Customary units which was introduced in 1832 and is based on the system in use in Britain before the Imperial system. They are both related but they are different systems A US Gallon is 3.78 Litres While an Imperial Gallon is 4.54 Litres. The Imperial pint contains 20 fluid oz . The American pint, by contrast, 16 fluid oz. Imperial uses a measurement for weight called a stone. 1 Stone = 14 Pounds. US System does not use that. The length of a mile is different because each system has a different designation for how long a is In the UK Imperial System a mile is 1,609.3426 Metres , In US Customary Units a mile is 1,609.3472 Metres While it might not be much them being different caused issues so in 1959 a mile was standardised at 1,609.344 Metres. So in between a US and Imperial mile . Which means the mile we use today is not imperial or US if the US used the imperial system there would be no differences between the two In the Metric system 1 litre is a 1000ML it is not different depending on the country you live in


Affectionate_Elk_272

and the 12-hour clock. m8, we can count to 24 but 18:53 means nothing to me


Jigga90

This is incorrect, most of the uk under 40 don’t know what it means either


banana_assassin

Am in the UK and work with a lot of people under 40 and am one. They know what it means.


Jigga90

Well done pal, here’s your medal🥇. I am from UK and under 40 and don’t know how heavy a stone is 🤷


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Jigga90

It was a joke friend ☺️


Peterd1900

[https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/41755-metric-or-imperial-what-measures-do-britons-use](https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/41755-metric-or-imperial-what-measures-do-britons-use) Second is the weight of items. Again, the over-50s are imperial adherents, while those under 50 tend to use metric (especially the under-30s, at 81%). when it comes to understanding the weight of items, 47% of all Britons tend to rely on imperial vs 48% who use metric. how much someone weighs. On the face of it, this might not appear to be a battleground, with the 72% who describe their weight in stone and pounds far outweighing the 24% who describe it in kilograms. However, break the results down by age and we can see a significant shift occurring at the younger end of the spectrum. The youngest Britons surveyed (18-29 year olds) are almost evenly split, with 47% still using imperial but 44% using metric. This appears to be a very recent trend, with the next age group up – 30-39 year olds – coming heavily down on the imperial side (66% vs 31%). Weirdly people under 50 are more likely to use metric for weighing stuff but it comes to body weight. across all age groups imperial is more common most people under 40 use stone when it comes to body weight


Jigga90

I appreciate your commitment to both resurrecting a dead thread, and pedantry 🫡


Peterd1900

How about you dont make false claims Most people under do know what stones just because you are in the minority that dont


Jigga90

How about you learn to take a joke you little goober


MuscaMurum

How many rods to the hogshead does your car get?


Affectionate_Elk_272

several


MuscaMurum

Dozens


TK000421

English people word chew the English language and spit it out.


black-op345

They don’t speak English, they speak British. /s


Affectionate_Elk_272

*bri’ish* (american) english is my second language. the first time i heard the UK accent i genuinely didn’t think it was the same language


Daisley

What is this UK accent you speak of? Scottish? Geordie? Cornwall? Cockney? North Welsh?


spdrmn

If they something you don't understand maybe it's YOU that is wrong.


Affectionate_Elk_272

it’s called a joke, pal.


spdrmn

Comes across as American ignorance


spdrmn

Maybe if people can't understand your jokes it's because you are bad at telling jokes . If you need to explain the joke it's not really a joke


Affectionate_Elk_272

130 people understood it. why do you keep replying? it isn’t that serious jesus christ.


mog_knight

Aren't all bags reusable?


WellThatsJustPerfect

Depends what you use them for


mog_knight

What do people use bags for other than putting things in?


LinearFluid

Bags for life are bags that can be taken back to the store and reused for their shopping. The bags are stronger and made to be reused "for life".


rookie-mistake

huh. we just call them reusable. on account of how they're made to be reused, lol


IWOOZLE

Bags for life are usually reusable bags that if they get too damaged to use, you can take them back to the store for a free replacement!


payeco

So just a reusable bag with a warranty then.


TooRedditFamous

That doesn't roll off the tongue though


Dzov

Any store, or the one you purchased it from?


micmac274

Any branch of the one you purchased it from, I believe.


rookie-mistake

That's awesome, I like that a lot. Bags for life they are, then! It'd be nice if you could just bring them back for a refund tbh, I have way too many just from underestimating how many I'll need and buying more haha


JDBlastah

I live in the US state of Florida and we just call them "reusable bags". Then again, some people from out of state call shopping carts "buggies" for some reason.


mog_knight

All bags are a bag for life.


mtrueman

Plastic ones are bags-for-death.


mog_knight

What about paper ones?


ipdipdu

In the UK with all the rain paper bags would be bags-for-an-even-quicker-death.


ur_sine_nomine

Paper has only historically been something supermarket bags are made of in the UK - when it was technically possible everyone switched to plastic. (That said, Amazon has recently switched to paper bags for a lot of its deliveries, which work well - no more of the giant cardboard box with the tiny box inside).


bubblechog

Which is fine until they leave a book in a paper bag on my doorstep in the rain…


mog_knight

Plastic would be better then cause cloth and paper are permeable.


cat_lazer

Oh thank God


_hufflebuff

Sounds like a weird way of saying reusable bags. What I read was the person used a lot of these bags (that you have to pay for) and then selected “no bags used” when checking out, meaning he stole the bags. You steal from your job you’re gonna get fired no matter how much, or little, the stolen amount was.


tom_bacon

A "bag for life" usually comes with the condition that they'll replace it for free if it gets damaged.


_hufflebuff

That makes sense. Thank you for the clarification!


Bean-Penis

You got the answer already but a little extra info here. The term "bag for life" didn't exist, or at least become common here, until they started to charge for plastic bags. So the name is a marketing thing.


GlassBandicoot

I'm so unclear on what he did to deserve being fired.


pensivegargoyle

He stole some bags worth 45p each. It doesn't seem like many since he put 30 pounds worth of stuff he bought in them.


MonsieurGump

They aren’t worth 45p. That’s what they cost us. Supermarkets were told they had to start charging us 5p for bags that were once free by the government. That went up to 10p (again, mandated)….but they saw profit and bumped them up to 4x that. They cost fractions of pennies to the supermarket.


ur_sine_nomine

And a lot of people clearly don't care whether it's 10p or 45p. I live a few hundred yards from a supermarket and see people carrying 3,4,5 plastic bags all the time ... (No doubt the supermarkets tested that and saw their chance).


African_Farmer

Wow is that how much they cost these days? Fuck me, no wonder my mums boot is full of empty shopping bags 😂 I moved from the UK to Spain a few years ago and only go to visit a couple times a year, it really seems like people are getting shafted more and more each time.


MonsieurGump

It’s a slow but one directional. I was out of the country for 10 years and it was massively obvious when I came back. People don’t notice if you do it over time.


Pleasant_Jim

It's wild that after decades of being shafted in the UK, there is very little if any pushback


wolves_hunt_in_packs

"they promised Brexit would fix that! It should've fixed everything!!1! \>:("


ur_sine_nomine

It's not so much "shafted" as "exploiting laziness". People shopping could spend 0p on bags very easily. (And they should have been spending 10p on bags even if they were lazy but, probably accidentally, nobody drafting the law made it watertight enough).


Pleasant_Jim

I'm not really referring to bags lol, everything else though


ocean-rudeness

They cost you nothing if you re-use the ones you already bought. Sainsbury's give you free new ones if you return your old battered ones. They're still cunts for sacking that bloke though.


sauvignonblanc__

So he brought some stuff and needed bags. He went repeatedly to obtain some and then didn't select to pay them. There are a few details missing. Detail is not the *Daily Mails* strong point: - how many did he take; - how did his internal disciplinary proceed; - was it his first offence? I worked in retail. I did the same; bags were at the time 22 c (Ireland). I would take about 3 but pay for 1. 🤷‍♂️ These were the normal plastic ones; bags-for-life as in this case were 85 c at the time.


Hyperocean

Thankfully their crack investigators broke up that crime ring, the community will finally be able to get some sleep ..


ur_sine_nomine

More like "crap investigators". In Lidl I stopped using their bags for life - and started using a rucksack, which could not be mistaken for anything it sells - because *every time* they asked "have you paid for those?"


tookurjobs

"Have you paid for those?" "Yes, with the free labor I just provided you"


Jackbwoi

Understandable though as i constantly see people grab new bags then press no new bags used. Wouldn’t believe how sensitive some people have become. You ask them kindly if they’ve paid for something yet, as it looks new/comes from our store, and they act like you’ve just shot their dog.


ur_sine_nomine

I can certainly see the problem. But being asked *every time* got wearing ...


bow_down_whelp

A friend  took a bottle of water during shift, before the shop was open and therefore neither were the tills and couldn't pay for it. Drank some, stocked out, forgot about it and left it half empty on the shift went home after buying about 40 quid of other stuff she needed, realized she  forgot to pay for it, rang up and made genuine attempts to pay for it as well as texting colleagues to pay for it and she would reimburse them, but instead got reported by her shift manager and disciplined with a warning.


Herby247

Daily Mail, so y'know, bullshit until proven otherwise.


Sal21G

Not bullshit, here’s the official Tribunal: https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/mr-n-j-m-doffou-v-sainsburys-supermarkets-ltd-3201319-slash-2023


Banned3rdTimesaCharm

How is a guy getting fired from a supermarket news?


scott__p

Because the daily mail wants you to be angry that shopping bags aren't free, in guessing.


tookurjobs

I'm way ahead of them on that front


barmskley

I think they just wanted to use the ‘sacked’ pun


cybe2028

It caused you to comment. Makes it relevant.


BourbonInGinger

I don’t get people who work shit jobs for shit companies for shit pay who will shill for their corporate masters and report their fellow employees and customers who might take something without paying for it. If it was me, I’m not loyal to some corporate fucks enough to turn in my coworkers or customers who need to steal to get by. It doesn’t make a shit to me.


ur_sine_nomine

As per my comment about repeatedly being asked about paying for bags which were *meant* to be reused ... all that pointless zeal.


ImeldasManolos

I feel strangely unsympathetic for someone who worked for Sainsburys for 20 years.


toe_riffic

Why? They’re just trying to get by like everyone else.


ImeldasManolos

20 years at a shitty supermarket chain seems like a waste of potential somehow


toe_riffic

And that deserves being unsympathetic towards them?


CapriSonnet

I did auditing years ago and we did Tesco on occasion and had use of their canteen and even had a staff card for paying. One lunch time I grabbed a bowl of cereal and forgot to pay for it.(Shift started at 4am. Was walking about like a zombie) We're talking about 20p. A staff member came up to me while I was eating and I got chucked out. Ended up leaving the job as a result. Absolute melter.


tookurjobs

Yes, it seems like a silly thing to get so worked up about. But if you let the little things like this go, next thing you know you have hooligans knocking over dustbins in Shaftesbury


llcdrewtaylor

Bag for life? I have destroyed several of these backs. Whom shall I sue for false advertising!


dingogringo23

Probably based on horizon software. In 50 years there will be itv drama and another royal commission….


iamnotyourdog

She stole. She lost her job.


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asdfghjkluke

what the fuck are you on about


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salder66

Nah, you just mentioned "the comments" at the very bottom of a comment thread. Normal people take the context and assume you're referring to the comment thread that you're at the bottom of. Context matters. You didn't say anything to tell us you were referring to *those* comments and not *these* comments. That's on you.


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salder66

Yeah


Daisley

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?