Improved Thinker
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37 minutes ago, Lemonade said:
We have Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats, although Deliveroo are on my shitlist at the moment as I tried to get a Burger King delivered a few weeks ago when I was hungover to bits and badly craving some greasy food. I got a notification that the fuckhead was outside and my phone rang for maybe 1 second then cut off. I looked out the window and couldn’t see him so I looked on the map and he was about 3 streets away. So I tried to ring him but he never picked up. About 5 minutes pass and I get a notification saying Your driver can’t wait much longer please go down and meet him. But he still isn’t picking up the phone and I can he hasn’t moved. Then I get another notification saying “Your driver has left, he’s left your meal with number 138 or 142.” I live at number 20..... plus he didn’t even appear to be on the right street. It just said 138 or 142.
So I message Deliveroo and tell them what’s happened and they ask their stupid questions then say “I’m really sorry about that, I’ll arrange a refund”. And I say “I don’t want a refund I want my food. Can you just send me out another order?” And they say “no sorry we can’t do that” and I say “but that’s ridiculous” etc and that goes back and forth for a while. And then just to top it off they message me with and say oh sorry about this but we tried to process the refund and it’s been referred to our anti-fraud department or some shite, so they need to review it, they’re not back in until Monday (this was a Saturday) and then it will take 48-72 hours to be processed. So I’m like, you throw my food over a hedge then I have to wait 5 days for a refund. Amazing.
Then I ordered the exact same thing from the same restaurant with Just Eat and it arrived within 20 minutes. Chili cheese bites, onion rings, Whopper, the lot.
Basically fuck Deliveroo forever.
A problem I seem to get a-lot is restaurants that are in so much of a rush that they forget parts of my order. Yes, I can get a refund through Deliveroo but it's frustrating because I was looking forward to it.
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7 hours ago, Lemonade said:
I love Mexican food.
Neil has said in the past that with the traffic the site still gets (i think it’s still quite high on the Google results) the site basically pays for itself and doesn’t cost anything to run, so he’s no intention of taking it down. I hope that’s still the case. The archives are gold. It’s a shame all the images in the posts are gone and a lot of the posts are just blank. But still.
Yeah, next time your in Aberdeen you should check out Fresh Mex. They are on Schoolhill and are really good. Started by two students from University of Aberdeen who started it as a stall but now have premises.
The archival knowledge of nightclubs in this forum belongs in a museum.
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On 7/23/2020 at 10:33 PM, Lemonade said:
I’ve had McDonalds delivered. The food is pretty much the worst food to be fair. Burger King is miles better. Bigger, meatier burgers that are actually hot, ace chips, onion rings, and Chili Cheese Bites with nothing at McDonalds can even come close to. GTFO with your mozzarella dippers McDonalds. I’ll give McDonalds the McFlurry. Ok and the apple pie. None of Burger King’s desserts are good.
I’ve re-read most of the thread, it took me several hours.
Do you like Mexican food?
To be honest the decline of this forum has made me fear that if it goes offline we may lose the archives forever.
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On 7/20/2020 at 6:36 PM, Lemonade said:
You all mocked cool1 and he was basically inventing Deliveroo two years before Deliveroo existed. Visionary.
Fuck Yeah! Ahead of my time. I was 15 when I posted that. Should have did it. Bet you they have all had McDonalds delivered. Bunch of cunts. I'm still pretty shit at grammar.
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I know there ain't much life left in this forum but I thought I would say it anyway. The Bon Accord centre has become a dead mall. There I said it. Proper Dan Bell style. What a turn up for the books. 20 years ago in this forums heyday this was the main shopping centre. Pretty full of shops a food court with tons of footfall. I went through the other day and honestly. Pretty much everything had 'permanently' closed. Lile gutted with empty windows. All 4 units behind Costa in the main circle closed. New Look closed, Menkind, Thorntons, Hawkins Bazaar all gone.
Aberdeen's Wellgate!
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Been a while but here you go. Taco Bell are opening two restaurants in Aberdeen. The first will be next to Mcdonalds on Union Street in the former Clarks unit. The second will be at the Haudagain Retail Park in the former Maplin/Carphone Warehouse unit. This will be a drive through. Decathlon will be opening an Aberdeen store.
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I'm sorry but due to Covid 19 Spring and Summer has been cancelled and won't take place this year. You can't just assume that the world will keep spinning 365 days a year.
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Really hating this kind of Lockdown. Looking forward to it ending eventually. Hopefully I will survive but we will have to see. How are you all managing?
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On 12/6/2019 at 8:05 PM, Lemonade said:
Is it actually still open? I'm back in the city for a couple of days next month, I must go in for a look around.
Yes, it's still open for now. The way the roof is looking they might have to close. Aberdeen has changed alot in recent times even I could not keep up. The police are moving into Marischal (or however it's bloody spelt) College.
I really do miss this forum. I'm coming up for 24 now.
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I joined the forum back in 2011 and fell in love with the back catalogue of threads. I found it fascinating learning about old clubs and pubs in Aberdeen. I think it was an aspergers thing.
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B&M are opening on Union Street where BHS used to be.
Card Factory are opening at Dyce Shopping Centre.
Home Bargains are opening at Berryden Retail Park where JJB used to be.
Subway are opening at Dyce Shopping Centre.
Greggs and Subway are opening concession stores at Shell Petrol Station, King Street.
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Emma Morano died the other day, she was 117 and was the last known person to have been alive in the 19th Century.
Points please?
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32 minutes ago, waltz said:
Oh, that's good. Do you work there?
No, I work at Asda and have never stepped foot in the place. I don't post about my work on here, I am not allowed too.
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On 02/04/2017 at 1:00 AM, waltz said:
I live in Glasgow now but when I'm back I'll nip past Melt. Can't stand the decor but if someone is willing to serve me macaroni cheese in a toastie I'll forgive bad decor. Fuck, a place could have a wall painting of Pinochet and be playing Kasabian on a loop but if they served toasties that good I wouldn't care at all.
Well from tomorrow you can also get milkshakes there including Cherry Bakewell and Nutella.
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16 hours ago, waltz said:
I miss EARL so much
I have heard great things about Melt Toastie café on Holburn Street.
5 minutes ago, ca_gere said:the irish fella on George Street did a mean sandwich. He still there?
Dublin Dave's is still open.
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12 hours ago, colb said:
I don't know, i don't work in town any more, my sandwich game has slipped.
I have decided to do some digging and they appear to be dead. Below is there twitter page which has not really had any posts since they closed in the Belmont 3 years ago back in 2014. They did however post a criptic tweet in 2015 which simply said "We're pivoting...", read into that what you will.
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The place always seemed to be busy but I suppose not enough to be financially viable. They have said that admission has gone up since 2014 though.
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The Café/Bar in the Belmont Filmhouse has as of today stopped serving food. The space will still be open to serve drinks only until the end of April. This is part of the closedown of the Belmont Café/Bar which is closing due to poor use.
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1 hour ago, ca_gere said:
U wot m8?
Just because we don't have under 18's on the list does not mean they won't die. It's inevitable regardless.
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On 1/6/2017 at 9:36 PM, ca_gere said:
I like how the scoring system is humorously morbid yet doesn't give points for anyone under 18, as if to say "i'm not that evil".
Just because we can't pick under 18's does not mean they are not going to die. They are going to die regardless and so not being able to pick them is a bit pointless.
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I imagine much revising will be done with the shit show that was 2016. Will 2017 follow suit we will just need to wait and see.....
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5 hours ago, Delboy1969 said:
There's still time for a sneaky one before the bells kick in and the death transfer window opens, already got my signings done and dusted!
The Queen is ill with a heavy cold.
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Argos are to open their third outlet in Aberdeen (fourth if you count Portlethen) in Garthdee inside the Sainsbury's creating 15-20 jobs.
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Is that with Andrew Saches added?
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Hello, welcome to the forum. I have not stayed in any of those unfortunately. Just wanted to welcome you as we haven't had anyone new in many years.