Tesco - Best Before Date Scam.

Ok so i generally shop at Iceland or Tesco Metro (down Newbury high street), which i am aware aren't the best supermarkets, however they are the only two places I can easily walk to without resorting to using the local bus service. I'm aware that stock in Tesco Metro costs more than identical products in the megastore 2 miles up the hill, and I'm also aware that some cheaper products are not stocked in Tesco Metro, so customers will be forced to buy a more expensive alternative (value bin bags for instance...). Now that's a little bit of a piss-take seeing as they have pretty much taken over the entire UK shopping industry and make a million pounds profit every 37 seconds, but I can live with that. Something I cannot live with is the fact that Tesco produce is covered in barefaced lies. I can give you an example: On Sunday I emerged bleary eyed from my bedchamber, fragile and hungover - and upon finding my fridge empty undertook a shopping excursion, I decided Tesco Metro was the spot as I had a whopping £1.50 clubcard voucher and was determined to use it before it expired, unlike normal.
So I trot off there and buy a bunch of stuff including a pack of 6 standard tomatoes, the 'Display Until' date on the packet read 24th August 2010 and the 'Best Before' date said 28th August 2010, I used my fingers to calculate that as it was Sunday 22nd August I had at least 6 days in which to eat my 6 tomatoes, which worked out perfectly, one tomato a day keep the doctor away and all that...
So this morning I was rather pissed off to notice the biggest tomato in the packet was not only soft and leaking juice but the underside was fucking mouldy, and today's only the 25th!! Upon checking the remaining fruits I found they are all soft and over-ripe and will be very suprised if my remaining 3 tomatoes will last until Sunday without going bad too... Cheers Tesco, You Fucking Lied To Me!
Now one or two tomato's I don't really give a shit about, but this happens time and time again with allsorts of stuff: Ripen at home Peaches and Plums take ages to ripen then you have a window of maybe 12 hours to eat all the fruit before it goes bad, Tesco brand wafer thin ham never lasts the distance, and the bread!! Don't get me started on the fucking bread, I end up throwing out mouldy slices every single week - partly because they don't stock any loaves with a best before date more than 2-3 days in advance, (thanks you fuckers) and partly cos it always bloody goes off, airtight container or not.
So there it is, I fucking hate Tesco, because for all the money they earn / scam / cheat people out of, they still cannot work out when a tomato will go bad and put the relevent instructions on the packet. Fucking Chumps

Can I borrow 80p mate?

What the hell is happening to Newbury town centre? It seems that every single day I'm asked to lend crackheads, junkie's and the fucking DREGS of society 80p. He can't even busk for change.. WTF? These people have obviously seen the modus operandi of those other high street inhabiting scumsuckers: the charity mugger - which Newbury is a renowned hotspot for - and decided to emulate with their own twist (i.e. look like a toothless crackhead and ask for 80p instead of looking like a student and asking for £4 a month; to care for disabled kittens or some shit...).
Anyway so I'm wandering down the high street to the shop to purchase myself some nice food, and as i'm walking past the Snooty Fox a young man, reasonably tall with dirty clothes approached me looking a bit apprehensive with the classic line 'can I borrow 80p for the phone, mate?'. I replied with a curt 'No' and strolled onwards whilst the dude went straight to a well to do older couple behind me and asked the same question. I was out of earshot and do not know whether he was succesful in his quest for 80p. I have a feeling tht it was is shift in town and he had probably asked every single person he ad seen walking about and probably earned several 80p's from kindlier members of the public than I.
I have several problems with this practice which I'll try and describe for you. Firstly - Why does this dude need 80p to use a phone? I'm pretty sure there aren't even any coin operated pay phones left in town - so right from the off this stranger has just wandered up and fucking lied to my face. Unaccetable.
Secondly - why 80p? Has he got a specific conversation he plans to have on this phone call, and knows that he's gonna need exactly 80 pence of credit in order to complete it? No - he's clearly a fuckin idiot, even if he had to make a phone call (which I'm certain he doesn't) he would have no idea about how much it costed, we are talking about the sort of person who simply cannot and will not learn.
Thirdly - do I not have a right to walk to the shops unmolested by scumbags? Why should I work everyday and pay income tax, council tax, vat, national insurance only to be hassled for the remaining change in my pocket by these cretins? You could earn 80p in ten minutes of your hourly minimum wage (£4.85 innit?) if you got a job... But therein we have the problem, for the last 12 years the welfare system in this country has been generating a culture of people with no assets of their own, who somehow believe that everyone else is happy to pay out whilst they take, take, take. What a world we live in.