McDonalds TV ad

Mazzarati2000

simone83 wrote: »

Oh this is great - the Boys brigade up here still have a 'bob a job' week and come to your house to collect leaves or weed your garden etc.

I gave them a whole pound last year each - there gonna get 5p per job next time. I'll get the whole house renovated for £1.50!

Should I contact trading standards about the 95p they over-charged me last year? Robbing kids!!

PMSL - I think you should ask them for a 'credit' for the difference, to go towards this years renovation works....that way you'll only need to spend 55p on them from this years' budget!;)

ckerrd

shellsuit wrote: »

Me too!





Actually thinking more about 'bob', what about the saying 'as bent as a 9 bob note'?

The least 'bob' for a note when I was a kid was 20 (20 bob = a £1 note), so where does that saying come from?

As there was never a 9 shilling note, the expression means something that isn't genuine.

voiceofreason

pitkin2020 wrote: »

no i cant be arsed to recheck what i have typed as i just type it as fast as i can so i can move onto something else, had i of known that this forums users looked down their noses at people who don't use the correct grammar or misspell words i wouldn't have bothered typing a response, but then i couldn't care less the opinions of idiots like voiceofreason, if there biggest gripe is a few misspelling maybe they need to get out more instead of proof reading everyones posts!!!

If you "can't be arsed" to take time to make your posts look like you care about your opinions, and that you think they're worthwhile, why should anyone take you seriously?

You write like a thicko, you'll get treated like a thicko. End of.

Worst of all, though, is that you're not dyslexic or have English as a second language - you're just lazy.

Pathetic.

shellsuit

ckerrd wrote: »

As there was never a 9 shilling note, the expression means something that isn't genuine.

Yep, I know that, but I thought from the saying, that there were a ten bob note, which there never has been.

That probably doesn't make sense, but saying that, not much of what I say actually does!

Sagz_2

A classic MSE thread.

Thanks for the laughs!!

LITTLEMISSFLOWER

I have always called £1 a bob.

carolinosourus

maxtweenie wrote: »

No, my biggest gripe is when people say would OF. :rolleyes:

If that's your biggest gripe then why have you bothered complaining about the McDonalds advert? Surely you should be trying to rid the world of those who say 'would of' instead of 'would have'.

People, stop feeding the trolls...

mummypig_3

LemonGrove wrote: »

In honesty I don't, but the person who shouted it doesn't have the mental capacity to work out such a calculation that quickly in his head.

All this talk of food has made me hungry, I fancy a McDonalds.

Go to Burger King instead. There's vouchers for that dontchaknow..;)

Sagz_2

carolinosourus wrote: »

People, stop feeding the trolls...

NO!
Feed them burgers...... they cost somewhere between a 'bob' and a pound I think.

hollydays

Interesting thread:T
I shall make it my mission to find a boy scout (called BOB obviously)and ask him how much he thinks a bob is.Watch this space (or not).I had no idea a thread like this could get so...er...whats the word?