It's Saturday afternoon....

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

to think, you gave me carp for spending £20 on a pair of socks, and here's you pouring £4.65 down the drain when you could have bought a frozen tikka masala for 99p.

My once-monthly takeaway is my only social life... I get to walk in somewhere and say "I ordered by phone" and "thanks" to a human being. That counts as social interaction in my world, so worth it

Actually, this time I didn't. I need to change takeaways. He recognised me, said my name, so I just nodded this time... fitted in a "thanks" as I left though. Not robbed of that bit.

PasturesNew

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I
...a maternity pillow for £20 at my local argos....

What's that then? Do you put it under your 4rse/back/head to make sure you get pregnant?

trixie73

PasturesNew wrote: »

My once-monthly takeaway is my only social life... I get to walk in somewhere and say "I ordered by phone" and "thanks" to a human being. That counts as social interaction in my world, so worth it

Actually, this time I didn't. I need to change takeaways. He recognised me, said my name, so I just nodded this time... fitted in a "thanks" as I left though. Not robbed of that bit.

you think thats bad, we get pizzas for all of us every saturday nite and when i phone up i dont even have to say anything, he just says "hi XXXXXX , is it the usual, it will be there in half n hr".

b0rker

I was in town yesterday.

It was very, very busy!

Almost like the week before Christmas.

A bit of a nightmare for someone like me who is not really into the whole shopping thing, well off-line shopping anyway!

Oblivion

PasturesNew wrote: »

What's that then? Do you put it under your 4rse/back/head to make sure you get pregnant?

No, you stick the pillow up your jumper to fool the benefits agency into thinking you're pregnant :rolleyes:

Dave.

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PasturesNew wrote: »

What's that then? Do you put it under your 4rse/back/head to make sure you get pregnant?

A regular pillow can be used for that No.. this was a long pillow to wedge under her belly and between her feet so she can sleep better

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/0986753/Trail/searchtext%3EPILLOW.htm

And when she sleeps better, i sleep better

SingleSue

I did my bit!

I purchased a local evening paper.......46p.

b0rker

ringo_24601 wrote: »

A regular pillow can be used for that No.. this was a long pillow to wedge under her belly and between her feet so she can sleep better

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/0986753/Trail/searchtext%3EPILLOW.htm

And when she sleeps better, i sleep better

From that picture you appear to have bought her a man substitute.

She is cuddling that thing as if she is devoting all her love to it.

You don't work off shore on a 2 on 2 off basis do you?

Leaving a man shaped pillow at home by way of a deterrent to other males in your pack?

Pobby

WFT? wrote: »

The trades, it is to be observed, which are carried on by means of bounties, are the only ones which can be carried on between two nations for any considerable time together, in such a manner as that one of them shall always and regularly lose, or sell its goods for less than it really costs to send them to market. But if the bounty did not repay to the merchant what he would otherwise lose upon the price of his goods, his own interest would soon oblige him to employ his stock in another way, or to find out a trade in which the price of the goods would replace to him, with the ordinary profit, the capital employment in sending them to market. The effect of bounties, like that of all the other expedients of the mercantile system, can only be to force the trade of a country into a channel much less advantageous than that in which it would naturally run of its own accord.
The ingenious and well-informed author of the tracts upon the corn trade has shown very clearly that, since the bounty upon the exportation of corn was first established, the price of the corn exported, valued moderately enough, has exceeded that of the corn imported, valued very high, by a much greater sum than the amount of the whole bounties which have been paid during that period. This, he imagines, upon the true principles of the mercantile system, is a clear proof that this forced corn trade is beneficial to the nation; the value of the exportation exceeding that of the importation by a much greater sum than the whole extraordinary expense which the public has been at in order to get it exported. He does not consider that this extraordinary expense, or the bounty, is the smallest part of the expense which the exportation of corn really costs the society. The capital which the farmer employed in raising it must likewise be taken into the account. Unless the price of the corn when sold in the foreign markets replaces, not only the bounty, but this capital, together with the ordinary profits of stock, the society is a loser by the difference, or the national stock is so much diminished. But the very reason for which it has been thought necessary to grant a bounty is the supposed insufficiency of the price to do this.
The average price of corn, it has been said, has fallen considerably since the establishment of the bounty. That the average price of corn began to fall somewhat towards the end of the last century, and has continued to do so during the course of the sixty-four first years of the present, I have already endeavoured to show. But this event, supposing it to be as real as I believe it to be, must have happened in spite of the bounty, and cannot possibly have happened in consequence of it. It has happened in France,

Or put more simply. Equities are showing, by and large, negative yields and investors are shifting to less risky corporate bonds thus under valuing many stock options. House prices only go up. We have experienced a period of inverted government gilt curves due by and large to loose ( notice I said loose not lose ) fiscal policies and intense national debt deficit. My house is my pension, thus securitised loans have been much of the focus of the current negative market gyrations. They won`t let it happen.

Moving swiftly on to the derivatives market as opposed to commodities, again we are seeing short to long term movement toward gilts. As it`s different this time long term cash deposits may be a favorite instrument in a low based inflationary climate but quantitive will present a danger in reversing this.

And fings like that....

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b0rker wrote: »

From that picture you appear to have bought her a man substitute.

She is cuddling that thing as if she is devoting all her love to it.

You don't work off shore on a 2 on 2 off basis do you?

Leaving a man shaped pillow at home by way of a deterrent to other males in your pack?

hah, she has called it her second husband.. but since i found it by the side of the bed this morning, i wouldn't want to be him!