So there are kind of two halves to a card transaction

There is the authorisation - what happens at the till when you do your order. They shop don’t actually get any money at that point. They just get confirmation from your card provider that you are good for it

The money bit happens later

Sometimes it never comes (like when you pay a deposit at a hotel on a credit card, they don’t usually take the money, just do the authorisation )

After a period of time your card provider will stop showing a transaction as pending as the money bit never came

So you are likely not getting cheese any time soon

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Probably stuck at Calais. There’s stiltons of freight waiting to cross the channel

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@anon24576931 to the thread …

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Yeah but who has stopped the money bit! I’ve never had my card declined and was paid for online…is it the cheese end, or have my bank ruined Xmas?! Fucking Lloyd!

Little baby cheeseless

(many apologies)

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Cheese end

Did they confirm they had completed your order and sent it?

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Guys, Tony Cheese has already replied! The cheese is in the van for delivery today! (From London…)
No idea what that means money wise? Hope they just charge me at a later date. I’m not a criminal, please just take my money!

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Possibly couldn’t cope with the orders so just cancelled it? Or maybe the cheese will arrive and you’ll get a freebee

Ok ignore this, enjoy your cheese!

My guess is they will run it through at the end of the day and youll see the charge again soon

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Classic Tone

I also have a gouda cheese pun to make about this!

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Just done another job interview and I’m now finished for Christmas.

Mum’s 80th birthday Zoom family gathering went pretty well earlier

Going to get a chippy tea delivered tonight and drink a cup of booze.

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“WHERE’S MY FUCKING CHEESE?”

“Camem-bert with us, we’re really busy”

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Looks like there was no causses for concern!

(Bleu de causses was a cheese that I have ordered in this delivery that I had concerns would not arrive!!)

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If you speak Dutch you know this pun doesn’t work, obviously.

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Luckily I don’t!

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You gouda be kidding me!!1
(There is also some Old Amsterdam Gouda in this delivery!!)

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Boursin-ta Claus is not going to @Im_On_Safari’s house

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It’s up and it’s glowing

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My wife’s grandparents bought us a nice cheese platter a couple of Christmases ago, but because it was a present they opted not to tell us it needed to go in the fridge.

Luckily we had put it in the pantry which kept it within temperature (presumably - it all tasted fine and we didn’t get gut rot from it, anyway).