Phew

IveSeenTheLight

Cleaver wrote: »

"Oh, you mean the same f*cking shops that you find in every f*cking shopping centre and town all over the f*cking country?"
"Erm, yeah."

erm no.

i understand this shopping centre has new shops that are not found in the city, let alone other shopping centres

http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/CouncilNews/ci_cns/pr_unionOp_291009.asp

The number of retailers new not only to Aberdeen, but to Scotland, demonstrates the potential in our local economy and confidence in Aberdeen's ability to leading Scotland's recovery.

This £275 million development, which has generated about 1,000 new jobs for Aberdeen, promises great things for the local economy and I look forward to seeing it and other sections of the retail and leisure industry in Aberdeen continuing to do well."

new_home_owner_3

carolt wrote: »

Load of new house prices for one area I'm tracking just come in. Am pleased to report that whatever is going on nationally, or even in average terms in my area, the sort of houses I'm looking at are still all coming in at 2004 prices - under 250K.

Were up to 350K at peak.

bullsh!t:cool::rolleyes:

Cissi

mewbie wrote: »

I realise some shopping has to be done. Food, petrol, occasional electrical items or shudder.. clothes. I go with a clear idea of what I want, ignore virtually everything else on display and buy it. Object to get in and out like a military precision operation. I am not a browser.

On the rare occasions I buy something that wasn't on the list I feel guilty and dirty. Spending money does not make me feel good. This is a rare slip into anecdotal - it is why I am more popular when pretending to be someone else.

Oh dear, I've just realised Mewbie is my OH :eek:

SingleSue

mewbie wrote: »

I realise some shopping has to be done. Food, petrol, occasional electrical items or shudder.. clothes. I go with a clear idea of what I want, ignore virtually everything else on display and buy it. Object to get in and out like a military precision operation. I am not a browser.

On the rare occasions I buy something that wasn't on the list I feel guilty and dirty. Spending money does not make me feel good. This is a rare slip into anecdotal - it is why I am more popular when pretending to be someone else.

I am the female you!

Mr_Matey

fc123 wrote: »

OK...Worked out more..they seem to be queueing for Apple shop and pics show Apple shop full....it's a man thing.

My fiancee always drags me into the Apple store. Usually to tell me how great the iphone is and how it'd make a great xmas present.

She's probably hinting at something, but who knows with women right?

geoffky

That picture is of Aberdeen airport with all the oil workers heading home.as not many of them are daft enougth to want to live there...dyce to the airport is all i ever knew and that was enough for me..

damanpunk

geoffky wrote: »

That picture is of Aberdeen airport with all the oil workers heading home.as not many of them are daft enougth to want to live there...dyce to the airport is all i ever knew and that was enough for me..

Geoffky comes out the closet as oil worker shocker :eek::eek::money:

Tbh the majority of offshore works come from Aberdeen/shire, Moray, Newcastle and Fife....... Can you honestly say any of those places are better?!

wageslave

I suspect the crowds have less to do with people desperate to spend their disposable income and more to do with looking for a way to put their day in.

I will slip into the ancedotal (I know I do it all the time, Mewbie, it is a woman thing).

When I worked in retail it used to baffle me how many people wandered round the shops on Boxing Day. One blasted day in the house with their families and they were so desperate to escape each others company they were willing to spend a public holiday annoying the frakk out of me.

To be fair they might have just been saving on the heating bills

chucky

wageslave wrote: »

To be fair they might have just been saving on the heating bills

or selling gates back to the houses that they got them from...

wageslave

chucky wrote: »

or selling gates back to the houses that they got them from...

Was that a pig flying over my internet connection?

Chucky you made a joke