Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

mystic_trev

vivatifosi wrote: »

Don't know if anyone else is looking at the Black Friday sale on Amazon but there are some good bargains on there.

Yeah, I've just bought a pair of slippers :rotfl:shows my age

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

You sound stressed lir. I hope it gets fixed soon.

Apparently the missing bits are being biked here or somthing overnight from Bulgaria or ...outer Mongolia or somewhere, in order to meet the deadline of tomorrow.

lostinrates

Having a weird day.

PasturesNew

I drink a LOT of fizzy pop - and I put it down to my deprived childhood

A boy over the road used to have two bottles of Corona drinks delivered to his doorstep every week by the milkman. Oh how I coveted those bottles of sparking goodness. In our house we got 1-2 bottles of fizzy pop as a special "Xmas Treat" only. So, since I've been working and able to buy my own stuff... I'm aftraid I've always loved, loved, loved, fizzy pop

Pep Max for me every time.

silvercar

Pep Max for me every time.

can you really get Pep max for 25p a can?

silvercar

This is my third day of broken sleep. OHs jetlag disturbing me and today he leaves early to fly off somewhere and there is a problem with the car, so he comes back to tell me, then he returns to tell me he can't find DS's car keys and disturbs me again. Then a third time when he phones from the petrol station to ask how to open the petrol cap - why can't he read the manual!

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Occasionally dh goes through a 'float' phase, and he gets through litre of the stuff making icecream sodas and coke floats.

I once tried making coke floats with diet coke (see balanced diet - sugary ice cream in nil calorie coke). Doesn't work - the float sinks, causing the coke to fizz up, out and all over the table!

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

can you really get Pep max for 25p a can?

Yes, 8 packs of 330ml for £2. Usually when they're £3.99 on a BOGOF.

Very common, somewhere will usually have that deal most weeks.

Occasionally Lidl will do 24-pack offers that work out the same too.

Right now the cheapest prices are in the diddy cans (8.3p/100ml) - 330ml cans are £2.50 for 8 in 2-3 supermarkets.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't look for things randomly online.... I don't have a telly and had decided not to get one if possible because they cost £120 for a small one and then there's the license.... but at £63 I might peek. 19" sounds huge. What is an LED telly then? All I know is there are two types of telly: CRT and flat screen.

LED is a type of flat screen, like Plasma and LCD. It's quite a modern type and cheap on electricity. A bit more expensive than that, but a better model, would be this one from Richer Sounds. They have great deals for hifis and TVs if you happen to have one nearby:
http://www.richersounds.com/product/tv---all/sharp/lc19le510k/shar-lc19le510k
Once you've moved you can pick up one of those for under £100, plus £10 for a five year warranty and be able to watch freeview trouble-free for the next five years plus the cost of a licence. These things now are tiny, so even if you're moving again, the box is small and can be shoved in the back of a wardrobe until you move again.

Unfortunately the Amazon ones have all gone now.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'll see how it goes. A TV's not a necessity - a fridge/freezer and then a washing machine out-trump a telly - as does something to sit/sleep on. So it's way down the priorities list.

I definitely want a flat/light one, that I can carry myself. I'll also have no furniture so any telly also needs to be lightweight as it will sit on top of an upturned plastic box.

Sorry Pastures, I can't suggest a fridge/freezer or washing machine small enough to stick the box in the back of your wardrobe:p. The telly boxes for the 19" models though are definitely tiny and even have a carry handle. They are way different to TVs of old.