Nope.
This is what a modern day pasty has evolved from, but I don’t know whether you’re looking for a different word…
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Ha! I didn’t know that about evolving into today’s pasty. Here’s what I was looking for, although I seem to remember it as being made in a dish rather than as a pasty or roll.
Anyway, I’ve digressed enough here. Back to yer gear grinding, boys and girls.
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The Cornish pasty used to have the meat filling in the top and then a “dessert” filling in the bottom and you’d eat it sideways using the crimped crust as a handle so that the miners with their filthy hands could hold it and eat it but without eating all the crap and mining dust on their hands.
Source: lived in Cornwall for 4 years and heard that damn fact more than I care to count
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Dull comment alert: Actually this was proven wrong due to numerous photos where the crimped end is seen half eaten. But yeah I had heard what you said a lot also before seeing a little section on the one show about it 
Well I imagine you would hold the crimped end near the bottom so you could eat the top half of the crimped end as it is one of the best parts imo
But good to hear you watch The One Show haha
So I’ve got an infection on my upper right tooth, was meant to go dentist but covid-19 caused my appointment to be cancelled. I wake up with really bad facial swelling and I call 111 and they get an out of hours dentist to call me. Dentist calls, prescribed me some antibiotics and said someone will call me to tell me when it’s ready and they’ll send it to the Boots near me. Excellent. Convenient. I’m happy.
I get a call…
“You need to come to Finchley Central to collect your prescription”
I’m like “the out of hours dentist said I could get it from Boots near me”
The woman kisses her teeth. “Ok. I’ll call Boots now. I’ll call you back in a minute, answer.”
She calls me back a few minutes later
“No answer. Go to Highgate Street but you need to get there now because it closes at 2pm”
“Ok but that’s in 13 minutes and it’s 37 minutes away so how am I realistically going to make that journey?”
“I’m not familiar with your area”
That’s fine. I can suggest a few pharmacies
She kisses her teeth again and starts arguing. With her manager “I wanna go on lunch now, I’ve been working since the morning”
I’m just patiently waiting.
“Yeah. Come Finchley”
So I’m like, there’s a pharmacy near me called Petter, any chance you could email it there since Finchley is pretty far for me.
“Yeah ok but I’m not liable if they don’t accept it.”
Hangs up.
Fucking bitch lol
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I dont think it’s possible to find a nice dentist/doctor receptionist to be honest…
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Wow what a bitch lol
I remember last year making a comment in the things you love thread about a good customer experience I had as it feels so rare now days.
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Whenever I encounter one I just have to repeat to myself, “it’s a tough job and people must treat them like shit… It’s a tough job and people must treat them like shit”, like a mantra of sorts, because I just have to tell myself that there is a justification for them being so unpleasant like 95% of the time lol.
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Believe me you don’t want to know how much crap they get and how many idiotic questions they try to answer every day 
I’ve sat there myself countless of times in between patients etc and the amount of morons you have to deal with are seemingly endless lol.
But tbf I guess it’s the same in most professions. Stores, car work shops, IT support, public transport personal and what not are probably sick and tired of having idiots like me bothering them with the same dumb questions every day.
My fucking cunty lockdown breaking neighbours. I’m fucking done with it and having a word tomorrow.
What are they doing?
Driving over an hour to see relatives, this has been 3 times, leaving at 11am and not getting back till 8pm. One parent drove to their house and sat inside the house. Met up with friends and went for a walk. Instead of going to one shop, they go to 6. They then have the nerve to clap on a Thursday. It just fucks me off!!!
I feel like a curtain twitcher but due to an respiratory disease I cannot leave the fucking house and have to watch these pricks parade about like nothings happening in the world.
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People who are extremely sensitive and take offence too easily. Now I know that’s going to sound highly ironic to some people, so hear me out, its context specific
I work in a customer service team for a charity, quite a large national charity and the most prominent charity for the issue we focus on, so it’s always been a very busy environment with huge numbers and varieties of queries.
But some of the ones we get, honestly…
“it’s disgusting you give away 10k in your lottery, that should go to the cause”
Look mate, do I really need to explain to you the basic concept of a lottery? No lottery could function unless it brought in more money than it gave away in prizes, you fucking idiot.
“You sent me an email about Mother’s Day and my Mother died seven years ago, how dare you do this you’re an absolute disgrace.”
Like, does your PTSD get triggered every time you walk down a high street in March cos of all the Mothers Day marketing materials? Sorry your mum has died and all, but guess what, everyone’s fucking mum will die one day, you still need to be able to exist in the real world. Why are you shouting at me? If our database had an option to note whose mother had died, we wouldn’t send the mailing to you. But unfortunately we don’t, cos it would be ludicrous to even attempt to collect that data on all of our supporters.
“how dare you contact us asking for funds at this time of crisis, its disgusting, you’re a disgrace etc”
Look, if you can’t donate that’s fine, we get that times are tough. But our cause is one that is directly affected by the pandemic, the people we help are actually hugely affected by everything that is going on. You’re on our mailing list cos you support our aims, you must want us to help these people, so don’t be so fucking touchy about us asking people who care to help out if they can. Just ignore the email and move on, don’t take up more of our time and resources by making us deal with your asinine complaints, particularly when everyone is already having to work harder than usual due to furlough/redundancies.
Sorry, I needed to get that off my chest. Love working there and love our supporters, but might need a change as soon as a new job feels viable, cos I’m right at the end of my patience with bullshit complaints. The worst ones come on social media, cos half the time they’re just bored wankers giving out shit to a charity that popped up in their FB feed cos they’ve got nothing better to do, rsther than genuinely engaged supporters who deserve to be listened to and responded to.
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These are some of the worst people entirely.
I used to work in IT Support and every month or so I had to send a company wide email out asking for feedback on how our service had been recently. There was this one guy who would always reply sarcastically with ‘Shit, I had this issue and etc etc was a shambles’. I’d always ask why the complaint was raised at the time of the issue rather than waiting for my monthly email to give me a hard time. Answer; because he was a bored and sad person.
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The worst ones are people who set up £1 direct debits to meet the criteria of five DDs a month going out in order to get certain rewards from their bank, and then get in touch with us to complain about something or get us to make admin changes. They either don’t realise or don’t care that by doing that they are now putting us in the hole, because the cost of fiddling about with your £1 DD has quickly outweighed the money you’re giving us.
We had this one recently that dragged on for so long that at a loose estimate, I figured it would be at least another nine years until his direct debit covered the cost of the time me and my colleagues had spent dealing with him. He was seeking compensation from us, because an admin error at our end meant we didn’t collect his £1 one month and his bank then didn’t give him the £30 he said he’d allegedly be due. I had to start dealing with this when it required someone a touch more senior than the people on the phones. I was astonished that someone would be demanding thirty quid from a charity, and only half jokingly said to my manager, “please let me call him up and incredibly politely tell him where to go”, but it seemed that we were going to look into whether we should compensate him and refer it to a trustee.
Called him up and when I could get a word in, explained the exact documentation he’d need to provide to evidence the thirty quid he lost. After more bluster from him, in the end he seemed to decide that he wouldn’t pursue it as long as everything went smoothly in future.
Just infuriating though, wasting my time on someone who is just using us to get benefits out of his bank account, who then costs us money in the process. Life’s too short for this, honestly haha
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Oh another triggered leftie, what a surprise 
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I used to work at a marketing agency and I won’t name names but some of the money just thrown away by bigger charities is a bit disheartening. Like they’ve just binned £20k projects or changed their minds on inconsequential shit to make it a £30k project because some twatty marketing manager wants their ego to be expressed somewhere on it.
I know in the grand scheme this is like 0.01% of their revenue but you can’t help feeling for the cunt who’s just run a quadruple marathon to fund that whim 
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