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when i go in they always tell me about the days they have games even tho i go in like everyday... idiots

WAIT! There's an age limit on the glue??? ... The guys at my local GW are awesome then. Me and my sister are under 18 or what ever the age for the glue is and they sell it to us all the time =\ Also one of the guys there was selling his ork army that was worth about 400$ to us for 300 and when we said we couldn't afford he offered it for like 200 or something because we have a small ork army so far... of course not being eligible to work yet we had to say no =\ are some GW guys really suck jerks? All the GW near us have awesome employees.

JD21290 wrote:

I know, British is a terrible language.

you mean english?
if thats your opinion, then start learning french boyo

Feh, the British language, what a load of rubbish. 'Chips' indeed.

HBMC: dont you understand? all of us over here speak chinese, not english ...... or so some may think 0_o



orkish, of course there is an age limit on it
ie: people tend to sniff the stuff.

now, if you wanted to sniff glue would you really go and spend around £200 on models just for the glue to sniff?

Oh also I can't believe they would make you leave for loitering XP The last like 5 times I went (usually go once every other sunday) we didn't buy anything and they're fine with that. One crazy kid once ran around our local GW shouting KILL the snipers! KILL the snipers! Also ORKS ROCK!!!!
EDIT: Hmm they let me buy the glue and ya I hate the smell of it anyways though...

Feh, the British language, what a load of rubbish. 'Chips' indeed.

Dont know if your trying to have a bubble or if your just being a bengal, either way your still a crown.





Edit:

One crazy kid once ran around our local GW shouting KILL the snipers! KILL the snipers! Also ORKS ROCK!!!!

redshirts possibly offered him money to advertise orks for them, lazy fethers!

Hmmmwhut? Oh.

JD: You speak English, we speak Americanese.
...
All joking aside, just take a theatre class, people. A lot of good playwriters are British, and you tend to pick up on the dialect.

You know, every time I've been to a GW store (and I've been to a lot in several countries), I'm always treated with respect. They always ask what game I play and what armies and ask if I've seen the new xxxxx but it's never pushy and always cordial. I'm not old but I'm not young so maybe that's part of it but I've never had one of ^those^ moments.

My wife has been to the store without me a few times (picking up presents and the like) and she says every time it's like the old western movies where the piano player stops and everyone looks at the door.

Oh he didn't say orks rock. I was posting that part lol.

EDIT: brb in about 10 minutes guys gtg eat so i'll answer quotes later XP

i hate when we get new redshirts in mlgs.

i come in and they walk up and ask me if i have played before. and then we do the whole ive been playinglonger then you dance.

and then the guy will ask me what armies i play. so i have to list the main ones i play, and then i am asked if i know about the new releases and i reply that i probably knew about them a month before they went up on the announcement board.

psh, im probably not the nicest to the new ones, but i believe in a small degree hazing.

i got into it with one of the new guys the other day, over who knows more fluff. he didnt know about malal (sp?). it was funny

All joking aside, just take a theatre class, people. A lot of good playwriters are British, and you tend to pick up on the dialect.

spend a week walking around london, its less work and you pick up alot more, and learn how to avoid being mugged aswell






Orkish: fair enough then
was just hoping that GW staff were not taking advanatge of kids by offering them toys for promotion.

I dont have much proble with the british dialect

No I know this kid he's a regular there... he's kind of a spaz lol. He's like 8 or 9 and he was running around because he wanted this guy to kill another players snipers in a game 0_o He had to be told to calm down like 20 times by the GW guys.


EDIT: oh lol i thought you said you hope he's not BEING not that you were just making sure =P

EDIT: If they paid me models to advertise then lets just say the whole mall would be informed about GW +P.

He said,

"Don't tell your parents about us. It'll be our little secret."

:(

Malfred wins the thread.

lol, trust malf to bring his fantasy into a dakka thread

Oh funniest thing a GW dude ever did was when my sister got her first BW she asked for help on one part of it. Meanwhile I'm playing a game thinking she's working on it. I finish my game and go and see the BW fully finished after it had only been the wheels that were done. I say "WOW! You finished it that fast?" her response is "No, every time I told him I could do the rest he said wait one more piece, until he finished the whole thing."

At a RTT (the shop invited some GW employees down) Basically it went like this on my turn. GW: Ok, take that unit and you can move it up to 6" in any direction, being that they are orks with choppas I would move them 6" towards my units (repeat for every unit) Now you can shoot this is how it works, That unit has (looks at models) 26 shootas and 3 rokkit launchas they can shoot up to 18" because they are assault weapons, Now they get 2 shots each so you get a whopping 52! shots! Now take 10 dice and roll them....you get the picture for every unit for every phase. He did give me props and tell me hes never seen anyone run maddok with 30 ard boys and that it was very tough and probablly shouldnt be ran in a RTT (in which Im sure he gave me a very low comp/sportsmanship score, especially because the same unit pretty much ate 2k worth of Tau)

I did eventually tell him that I know how to play and run my army, which he took with a grain of salt and kept telling me how everything worked including how many saves to take and what type and why I got saves and the history of saves and what the difference between a save a invulnerable save and a cover save was and when to take each type and that cover saves dont work in CC blah blah blah blah blah blah save blah blah blah 2 wounds blah blah blah my god that army is tough blah blah blah blah blah blah I dont think this is how GW intended for the orks to be played blah blah blah blah was all I heard after turn 2.

Maybe years of watching the Bill have gotten me used to the varying English accents.

Anyway, my experiences are much like Ozy's - I'm honestly surprised by the stories in here as stuff like that has never happened to me. The glue thing doesn't surprise me, as the UK is a fething nanny state devoid of all common sense (it's PC to the nth degree, moreso than the US could ever dream of being). But the rest of it... wow.

I mean, other than that one staffer who was constantly going on about cheese (the BT player) and didn't know the rules, everyone else has been pretty normal. The old manager of the Hornsby store in Sydney, Jimmy, was a great guy. And one of the staff at the Chatswood store, guy called Alec (I think... we went to the same school when I was like 5 and he was in the year above me, so it's been a while) is a good guy as well.

most annoying thing?

In Edinburgh whilst on holiday i went in to see if where store was up to much and if they had any new news or such like.... only to be bombarded with BUY ELDAR THEY WILL ROCK IN THE NEW RULES. i replyed, no they suck and are expencive. but no he never listened... after about half an hour i desided to not buy anything and wait till i got home...

The only problematic british dialect is geordie: Scots is fine, cockney no problem, welsh (if you avoid the spit and the places where they 'still actually speak in welsh') ok. Even my mix of yorkshire and scouse causes no problems. But geordie? no chance. I pity any of you yanks who turn up in newcastle for your first taste of the british isles; If i can't understand the buggers, what chance have y'all got?

Ahem..

Last september, I went into a GW store for the first time in around 14 years. Asked for a demo of the new rules and very nearly walked straight out again when the redshirt started providing sound effects for the game. I stuck with it and left with a codex and some harlequins in spite of his efforts to sell me what seemed to be the ENTIRE range of Eldar stock they had on display! Sigh.... It really was just like the old days

Well, the guy who tried to sell me a Blood Angels Dread comes to mind, but the one who took the cake (and actually happened twice) was the douche who told me to go back to Florida (first time) and Montreal (second time) to exchange a mini which had come broken in the box.

Now, admittedly, I'd gotten wise the second time and rang back the next day. The subsequent chap I spoke with was polite, friendly and efficient as he shipped me a new box.

Guys at my local GW rock though n_n they all awesome!

I've got a few so I'll start with my most recent.
For Black Friday last year I drove all the way to the local GW store (45 minute drive) I'd called the night before to ask when they opened, they respond 7am.
I show up at 7am when they open and I see that they must have been open for about an hour already so I'm a little upset.
I start asking about the day exclusive merchandise and RS - "Well we have this button here you can have one."
Me - "Uh thanks, what about the special chaos shirt."
RS - "Oh well that's going to be given away."
Me - "But the website says they're for sale."
RS - "Yeah we're different here."
Me - "WHAT?! I drove 45 minutes for a button?"
RS - *Disappears in back* "Here's a poster."
Me - "Uh thanks..."

6 Years ago I used to hang out a lot at the same GW store as my friends worked in the arcade a few doors down.
Well I show up for the Ogre Kingdoms promotion day, its a conversion contest, you're given an Ogre and a box of bits and you get to convert what you want. So I make a sentinel legged Ogre with a bunch of bionic parts. Some people like it, one staffer HATES IT.

So a week later, Tuesday, it's painting time, and I come back with all my paints and I had a few non GW paints. I start painting using the GW paint and the same GW employee starts talking about his rocky immigration to America and how he's been discriminated against because of his accent and other stuff. Well he's going on and on so I keep painting nodding and smiling at the right times.
I start painting with some non GW paints, and he goes crazy. He starts yelling about how dare I paint with tis crap and to close it up right now.

Well I came in again that weekend with my folks as they wanted to clear up the fight. I notice they're having a sale so I start picking out some boxes. After picking up the second box my father asks what we had fought about, and the second I mentioned non GW paint he starts yelling at my father about how he's a horrible parent and it's my father's fault I've become such a horrible person, how all the employees hate me and they have tons of complaints every week against me. So I decide to put back the boxes I've been holding as I don't feel like buying stuff from someone who's yelling at my father, and the GW employee starts yelling about how I'm now being rude and huffy.
The ironic part was the sale was for customer appreciation.

JD21290 wrote:i think shane wins this one



most of the people at GW portsmouth know me, so its never a problem until they hire a new person, when some fething kiddo asks me for ID so he can sell me glue it really does take the piss
ok, im 19, i just spent over £300 here, and im now going to buy a tub of £5 glue to sniff......... dill weed

You have to show ID to buy glue?... Just wow... There are times I feel bad for bitching about my country and state so much.

You have to show ID for the sprays too.... But not the modelling kits.

okay here you go;
rs; so did you hear about the new lotr
me; no (cutting him off)
rs; but its going to
me; no
rs; you sure?
me; no
rs;you get a
me; no
rs; free
me; no
rs; pair of
me; no
rs; games day tickets
me; no
rs; arent you going?
me; already have aticket, i dont need to win one
rs; but
me; no, i have skitarii to make. go away. now
other rs; john doesnt do lotr since its stupid

H.B.M.C. wrote:Maybe years of watching the Bill have gotten me used to the varying English accents.

Anyway, my experiences are much like Ozy's - I'm honestly surprised by the stories in here as stuff like that has never happened to me. The glue thing doesn't surprise me, as the UK is a fething nanny state devoid of all common sense (it's PC to the nth degree, moreso than the US could ever dream of being). But the rest of it... wow.

I mean, other than that one staffer who was constantly going on about cheese (the BT player) and didn't know the rules, everyone else has been pretty normal. The old manager of the Hornsby store in Sydney, Jimmy, was a great guy. And one of the staff at the Chatswood store, guy called Alec (I think... we went to the same school when I was like 5 and he was in the year above me, so it's been a while) is a good guy as well.

Sorry, bit OT here, but what has an age limit on glue got to do with Political Correctness? Your post sounds like the Daily Express...

It's to do with the whole 'nanny state' thing in the UK. Political correctness has bred a situation where the government tends to try to wrap everyone in bubblewrap lest someone get hurt or offended. Protecting people from harming themselves (physically, mentally, and so on) to a crazy degree.

But that's not a discussion for this topic, so I'm dropping it now, as should you.

I don't have these experiences because the only GW store around here, although owned by GW, is co-owned by a comic/TCG/other minis store.