dopey shop assistants

PaulieC

I was just in Curry's in Carrickmines and on my way out I was passing the camera counter. As I was approaching the counter, I could see the assistant getting agitated with a camera he had. I didn't get a close enough look, but it was Nikon, probably a D40/x. Anyway, there was a female customer standing at the other side of the counter and she was saying to him 'It won't fit!'.
Of course I had to get a closer look, so I got as close to them as possible without looking like I was having a nosey and I could see what was going on - he was trying to fit a Canon kit lens on the Nikon!! and he wouldn't accept the customers advice that it wouldn't fit, he was determind that it would fit. He struggled with it for a while, but I was too embarassed to see how it ended up. Not sure if he made a sale after that...

rymus

you should have slapped him upside the head. End of story.

PaulieC

nah, he was already flustered from dealing with a yummy mummy and trying to shoehorn a canon into a nikon. I think that's punishment enough for him.

rymus

you shouldnt use the words "yummy mummy" and "shoehorn" in the same sentence.. Not this close to lunchtime anyway...

PaulieC

Not to get too off-topic, but I think you're confusing 'yummy mummy' with MILF. There is a difference you know

rymus

hmm.. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter!

Anyway, back on topic before the topic nazi's arrive.

Cabaal

Lets hope he didn't damage her camera....I#m sure its happened

thebaz

was she a real yummy mummy ??

Oriel

Cabaal wrote:

Lets hope he didn't damage her camera....I#m sure its happened

Exactly, who cares about the lens.
What's the difference between a yummy mummy and a MILF?

rymus

I demand photo evidence!

mikeanywhere

Should have gone up and asked to make sure the card was in the right slot as the wrong one causes the lens to stick!!

*then sat and watched for a bit longer*

PaulieC

mikeanywhere wrote:

Should have gone up and asked to make sure the card was in the right slot as the wrong one causes the lens to stick!!

*then sat and watched for a bit longer*

yeah, I should have done that, but I was cringing for him...

Anyway, back to the important stuff - yummy mummies vs. MILFs

The difference between the two is this:

A Yummy Mummy is a kind of self appointed title. To be a yummy mummy, you don't actually have to be yummy. Once you have a few quid and an SUV/High end MPV and you are a member of any of the following: Tennis Club, Book Club, Voluntary Charity organisation etc. etc ad nauseum. You don't have to look after your own children coz you have a Filipino nanny and you have a cleaner. Basically you just have to think that you are yummy, but you are most likely not.

On the other hand, a MILF is a mum that everyone else thinks is hot and WLF. A MILF has likely got much less lofty ideas about her station and is all the more attractive for it.

I think that's the difference anyway - wikipedia was kind of sketchy, so I had to fill in some bits....

rymus

bah... now that the situation has been cleared up, I'm opposed to the idea of yummy mummies. Damn opposed! Damn damn opposed! MILF FTW

ThOnda

Thank's for explaining. What a colourful and ritch language is the English!

PaulieC

absolutely, MILFs (or should that be MILVES ?) all the way. Now, back on topic....

I took a picture once. I liked it.

thebaz

cambo_gueno wrote:

A Yummy Mummy is a kind of self appointed title. To be a yummy mummy, you don't actually have to be yummy. Once you have a few quid and an SUV/High end MPV and you are a member of any of the following: Tennis Club, Book Club, Voluntary Charity organisation etc. etc ad nauseum. You don't have to look after your own children coz you have a Filipino nanny and you have a cleaner. Basically you just have to think that you are yummy, but you are most likely not.

...

i thought the whole point was that they were yummy ??

rymus

ah but surely the yummyness would have to be verified by an independent party first. We can just have any ol hatchetface strutting around proclaiming that they're 'yummy'. Society would fall. Nations would go to war. Mingers would get away with horrid, unimaginable liberties.

Trogdor

rymus wrote:

ah but surely the yummyness would have to be verified by an independent party first. We can just have any ol hatchetface strutting around proclaiming that they're 'yummy'. Society would fall. Nations would go to war. Mingers would get away with horrid, unimaginable liberties.

Lol, this whole thread cracked me up:D

5uspect

rymus wrote:

ah but surely the yummyness would have to be verified by an independent party first. We can just have any ol hatchetface strutting around proclaiming that they're 'yummy'. Society would fall. Nations would go to war. Mingers would get away with horrid, unimaginable liberties.

And thats why they invented the camera.

leinsterman

I think Curry's specialise in hiring only muppets ... and as far as I can remember from shopping for kitchen appliances last year that particular store is probably a showcase for muppetry ... the veritable Fozzy Bear and Gonzo rolled into one so to speak of Curry's stores ...

I tried to Google or Wiki MILF for a definition but my work filter gave me the following result -

over zealous search filter wrote:

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Now I have to wait until I go home to find out ... you ruined my day!! ... or maybe looking more positively ... I have something to look forward to now!!

rymus

leinsterman wrote:

I tried to Google or Wiki MILF for a definition but my work filter gave me the following result -

Expect an email from your friendly systems admin tomorrow morning

leinsterman

rymus wrote:

Expect an email from your friendly systems admin tomorrow morning

Well I hope he or she can explain Milf to me!!!

sineadw

Might I interject? 'Yummy Mummy' is what a MILF is called in polite company when said polite company wants to get into MILF's knickers.

Fajitas!

Speaking from experience? :rolleyes:

sineadw

lol.. ahem..

Calina

According to some rubbish program on MTV, Pamela Anderson is the ultimate MILF. I wouldn't be the best judge of whether she is or not.

I worried for the future of mankind when I heard that. I guess that makes Britney a yummy mummy then.

Both hard to photograph well though. It'd be like the Eiffel Tower. Every angle has been done a million times before.

minikin

neither anderson not spears are milf or yummy mummies, let's knock this on the head right away!

Fajitas!

Agreeing with Minikin.

I'd ride neither of them to battle.

But back on topic, there's some rightly useless camera shop assistants out there. Have had many a cringworthy experience. I usually just have to walk out of the shop.

Calina

Well like I said, I wouldn't have a clue. I'm just not in to the whole concept. Sandy/jools/sinead, why don't we go and get trashed while the boys argue out the toss on this front?

minikin

mmmm... thrashed.... *wipes drool from chin*

Fenster

I worked in Currys for eight years, so I really shouldn't be the one to badmouth them, but this is something that did happen all the time. Just remember that they're not photographers...

elven

Calina wrote:

Sandy/jools/sinead, why don't we go and get trashed while the boys argue out the toss on this front?

Argue out the toss?

You're treading on thin ice, in this thread

I think there's veritable sport to be had, ripping the mince out of muppet type camera salespeople...

rymus

wait hold on there now just a wee second... polite company? wtf or where the f is that?

trilo

Calina wrote:

Well like I said, I wouldn't have a clue. I'm just not in to the whole concept. Sandy/jools/sinead, why don't we go and get trashed while the boys argue out the toss on this front?

I'd happily do that...or we could always go and drool over this....


Oh the hotness if there ever was one.

rymus

you're BANNED!




****!!!!

magicbastarder

i have never darkened the door of the camera centre on grafton street since being asked by a shop assistant there, "what's neopan?"

i also once killed a sale in there; a couple looking at telescopes. the chap was feeding them bull****, so i stuck my nosey head in and told them to get advice from astronomy ireland.

Cabaal

leinsterman wrote:

Well I hope he or she can explain Milf to me!!!

haha, that should be a interesting conversation with your sys admin

Cabaal

Fenster wrote:

I worked in Currys for eight years, so I really shouldn't be the one to badmouth them, but this is something that did happen all the time. Just remember that they're not photographers...

This is true and its a sad thing that companys have sales reps that are like this,

You have people selling PC's that don't know a monkeys about them when you ask them a question, its as pointless as a car sales person not knowing the spec of the car.

Hell I've gone into PC World and questioned them regarding stuff and they never know, ok I've done this many years ago when I was very bored but still thats not the point

magicbastarder wrote:

i also once killed a sale in there; a couple looking at telescopes. the chap was feeding them bull****, so i stuck my nosey head in and told them to get advice from astronomy ireland.

ROFL

DaireQuinlan

magicbastarder wrote:

i have never darkened the door of the camera centre on grafton street since being asked by a shop assistant there, "what's neopan?"

i also once killed a sale in there; a couple looking at telescopes. the chap was feeding them bull****, so i stuck my nosey head in and told them to get advice from astronomy ireland.

Hah. I went in there one day having exhausted all the other stores in the city centre looking for Kodak Portra 800. I asked if they had Kodak Portra and the girl behind the counter immediately said no, that model wasn't being sold anymore, but that they had an exciting range of other new kodak digital P&S cameras available. I told her it was -ahem- a film, and she said oh no no no, we don't stock film. Despite the fact that she was standing right in front of a shelf of ... film ...

Calina

trilo wrote:

I'd happily do that...or we could always go and drool over this....


Oh the hotness if there ever was one.

yeah, he's kinda hot. Tell you what, we could go and take fantastic photographs of him, convert them to black and white, and then get trashed and then have a wrestling match over who gets to take him home.

I reckon we'd get good money for charging admission to the wrestling match, we could split the proceeds and buy a couple of L lenses each. The loser could have Matt Damon after a photo session.

Calina

elven wrote:

Argue out the toss?

You're treading on thin ice, in this thread

I think there's veritable sport to be had, ripping the mince out of muppet type camera salespeople...

I'm better when it comes to hifi sales people.

Advising friend on stereo to buy. He likes techno rubbish. I recommend that he ensures he has some sort of superbass on the system he eventually buys.

"Does this have superbass?" Friend asks.
"Well, I'm not absolutely sure, but if you buy it, the instruction booklet will tell you if it's one of the features on the system". assistant replies.

and

"We'd like to here the sound out of this system here" (does have some sort of an extra bass button).
(switches it on, feeds in rotten hip hop CD, sound is awful).
"Uhem, only one of the speakers is plugged in" I say.
"Oh yeah. Well, sorry about that". Assistant replies.

Argghhh.

magicbastarder

speaking of hi-fi, i also killed a sale in dixons.
the chap was trying to sell a three year old CD player as new, and for €100 more than the replacement (marantz CD67SE MKII, i think) was selling for in other shops. i had been pretending to be an interested eavesdropper, but stepped in, and asked about the new model. he pretended it didn't exist, but the people he was trying to sell it to mouthed 'thank you' to me and walked away. if looks could kill...

Xios

Oriel wrote:

What's the difference between a yummy mummy and a MILF?

you'd buy a MILF a drink, bit with a yummy mummy, i think the key opening line should be, "got milk?"

Fajitas!

Would most likely be the closing line too tbh.

rymus

hey... if you're gonna strike out, strike out in style.

RCNPhotos

I actually work up in carrickmines, not in Currys unfortunetly. I still haven't checked out what kind of camera gear they stock. What do they have? I won't be back in work til september, that's why I ask. I might apply and become head of photoness there, although it is a ghastly looking shop.

And as for camera centre or whatever on grafton street. i hate them, so, so much. Just something about therm, their attitude is so irritating

Spyral

personally I would have forced the lens down his throat crying

DONT DEFILE THE GLASS YOU IDIOT !

in my personal experience though lots of them haven't a clue and just read off the stat/price card which you've read yourself anyway... *sigh*

PaulieC

RCNPhotos wrote:

I actually work up in carrickmines, not in Currys unfortunetly. I still haven't checked out what kind of camera gear they stock. What do they have? I won't be back in work til september, that's why I ask. I might apply and become head of photoness there, although it is a ghastly looking shop.

And as for camera centre or whatever on grafton street. i hate them, so, so much. Just something about therm, their attitude is so irritating

oh just the usual chainstore type of stuff - a 350D/400D/D40/D40x/Olympus equivalent/reams of P&S. There is actually a sign out front for Sales person wanted, but I don't know what dept.

And just to be absolutely specific on the YM Vs MILF debate - YMs are self appointed, so as Rymus says, the standard is not always up to much. Entry to the club is just lots of money, SUV, parking difficulties and a kid. MILFs are democratic selections and are usually of a higher standard (and probably are a little bit dirty :eek: ).

E.g. Yummy Mummy - Gwyneth Paltrow. MILF - Halle Berry (not technically, but by adoption)

sineadw

Wrestling??? Matt Damon??? Has this forum changed and I missed something?

In fairness I had a relatively well informed conversation with a guy in the camera centre when I was buying the 350 about its relative merits vs the 400D. I usually get the opposite problem - assistants assuming I know nothing and explaining things in small words as I'm female and therefore couldn't possibly understand anything remotely technical :rolleyes:

Xios I'd like to see you try that line, and the ensuing carnage..