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  • Dizzy_Ditzy
    Dizzy_Ditzy Posts: 17,470 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Nearly all the cast of mrs browns boys are related...Cathy is his real life wif, I think Dermot is his RL son and bono is his RL grandson
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  • davemorton wrote: »
    :j:money::j:money::j:money::j:money:
    [IMG][/img]silvj.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us

    love it :rotfl:
    Tiger :cool:
    I'm a body double for Claudia Schiffer and i wont get out of bed for less than [STRIKE]£10k per day[/STRIKE] a 1p find
  • David.
    David. Posts: 24,086 Forumite
    fairclaire wrote: »
    DONT:D Ive found out today we have a pump thing for that very purpose:rotfl: I never thought to ask what it was before. I also found out that our vacum sealer thing was bought for the purpose of putting the said worms in a bag, sucking the air out them and freezing them:eek::eek: In our freezer:eek: I have never paid a blind bit of notice to any if this before :rotfl::rotfl:
    I would not laugh Ive seen one. You didnt think he was going to stick his lips round the blow hole did you :eek:
    When The Fun Stops Stop ;)
  • west_is_best
    west_is_best Posts: 1,797 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 21 January 2013 at 11:06PM
    davemorton wrote: »
    Well, hardly a snowflake fell today here, grrr. I best have some heavy blizzards tonight or I will be none too happy!!

    You can have ours..... with a red ribbon... our drifts are from top of the hedge one side to the top of the other side of the road.. totally blocked in...
    nikkilala wrote: »
    Thanks for remembering:)Tried to get on earlier but I think MSE was broke:(I wrote out a long post and then it disappeared.I owe QPRanger a humungous thank you for recommending her vet:T:T:TThe vet was amazing with Alfie! He got down on the floor with him and Alfie let him look at his teeth and pull his leg about:)(Our old vet would only look at his teeth with an anaesthetic!!!) No muzzle, no crying and no panting! In fact Alfie actually tried to follow him out of the room because he's his new best friend..LOL..He diagnosed arthritis straight away and Alfies started his medication :) But on the down side he thinks he has Cushings so we will be going back next week:( Just have to wait and see now on that..It can't be cured but can be treated to give him a good quality of life for a while.
    I would never have believed that their were vets out there like that if I had'nt seen it myself. We've seen loads of different vets in our old surgery but this one is absolutely fantastic:T:T

    I sold a puppy to someone in Cheshire who absolutely adored the little one... I always advised everyone to get my puppies vet checked by their own vets even though my vet checked them over twice before they left home.... this particular instance, the buyer phoned me 3 weeks later crying on the phone, his vet had told him that the little chronic heart murmur and needed an operation the week after and it was going to cost £5,000!!!!! Bear in mind this little one had been checked twice by my vet and was given a clean bill of health.... I was on the phone to a bloke that was crying his heart out and was more than happy to pay to have this little one operated on.... My advice to him was to go for a 2nd opinion and get back to me...
    2 weeks later he phoned me, again crying.... there was absolutely nothing wrong with the little one... clean bill of health.
    A year later he bought the little one to see me, that's when he told me that the previous dog had cost him over £10,000 in med's and operations!!!!!! He did have insurance but not the point.... The moral of my story is, always take your pet to a recomended vet not a particular vet because he lives down the road...

    Im so glad he's ok, I hate it when mine are ill.... my girls are yo have their stitches out on thursday.... the vet's coming out to do it, less stress for my babies hopefully xxxxx
    Guy1 wrote: »
    i met sne is asda, trying to find her as i really want to meet her again and have not seen her in asdas again since. really beautiful girl and want to find her. can anyone help?

    Is this a dating agency or what???
  • David.
    David. Posts: 24,086 Forumite
    No why do you ask?:D
    Sneaky and it worked ;):rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    When The Fun Stops Stop ;)
  • artha
    artha Posts: 5,254 Forumite
    fairclaire wrote: »
    toms, cucumbers, peppers, chillies, melon, courgettes. Don't plant all at once, stagger them so everything isn't ready at the same time. :)

    That's OK DM is used to staggering:rotfl::rotfl:
    Awaiting a new sig
  • fairclaire
    fairclaire Posts: 22,698 Forumite
    David. wrote: »
    I would not laugh Ive seen one. You didnt think he was going to stick his lips round the blow hole did you :eek:

    No! lol :eek: I mean I have seen this thing in the shed, I had no idea what it was and never asked. And due to complete uninterest I had no idea that it had anything to do with fishing. He has all sorts of gadgets in there....I stopped wondering what they were years ago! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • Not bein funny or anythin right. But wheardo you all ive if you have to have buzzer symptons to get in?? it sounds like Yugouslavia to me

    lol no just wales , and lots of desighner store have them & jewerlary;) shops :o
  • izzy65
    izzy65 Posts: 2,862 Forumite
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    Only in the rain. It's almost as if there is too much grip. I drive a 6 something or other... I can't be bothered to get dressed and go take a look :o

    I haven't driven it in this weather as I haven't needed to. I rarely drive to work as its only 2.5 miles away

    I think we drive these cars but really how many of us understand how it works, if I turn off TC in mine it doesn't actually turn it off it just over rides the command to reduce throttle ,so it will spin but sometimes you need the extra throttle to move the car or it just spins and goes no where especially in the snow (or so I am told :rotfl:)
    The person who never makes a mistake never learns anything.
  • Savvybuyer
    Savvybuyer Posts: 22,332 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 21 January 2013 at 11:11PM
    The prunes did not behave the way I wanted them to. 1st teso 2nd sada and 3rd sains.


    1x TESCO WHOLEFOODS PRUNES 250G - £2.00 † n/a £1.39
    BANANAS LOOSE 0.32911kg £0.26 £0.22 £0.26
    1x HEINZ CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP 400G - £0.89 £0.50 £0.89
    1xHEINZ SPRING VEGETABLE 400G - £0.89 £0.50 n/a
    TESCO LOW FAT NATURAL YOGURT 500G - £1.00 † £1.00 £1.00
    NAIR MOISTNG CREAM 100ML - £1.00 £1.00 n/a
    KLEENEX BALSAM HANKS 6 PACK - £1.47 £1.00 £1.00
    HUGGIES PURE BABY WIPES SINGLES 64 - £1.29 n/a £0.99
    2x KELLOGGS OPTIVITA RAISIN 375G - £5.98 † £4.00 £5.98
    TESCO EDAY VALUE RIM BLOCK PINE - £0.20 £0.20 n/a
    TESCO EDAY VALUE SPONGE PAN CLEANERS 5PK-£0.19 £0.19 £0.19



    3 coupons used nair, kleenex and huggies.

    Good evening everyone. So they were sure about the weight of those bananas then? Exactly 0.32911 kg.

    Thanks for trying. Sorry the prunes weren't well-behaved. (It looks like they're soft prunes rather than stoned prunes. You wanted to compare to the A Ready to Eat Stoned Prunes 250g, which are on rollback at £1.17. The Sada version is also CBY rather than Wholefoods - Sada do have A Wholefoods Soft Prunes, at £1.47, but they're 200g. I suppose at least you 'saved' by using the three coupons so paid less and mitigates some of the loss on the prunes. Still disappointing though: and, myself, I've been caught out by fine distinctions of the powers-that-be on matters rather like this before.)

    Look away now if you don't want/need more detail: The Tosco £2 prunes (the T Whole Foods Soft Prunes 250g) do show as comparing to A at £1.17 (and S £1.39) on MSM. However, the T Ready to Eat Prunes (250g), £1.39 at T, also show as comparing to A £1.17 (and S £1.39). The A product, however, the £1.17 rollback item A Wholefoods Soft Prunes 250g, shows as comparing to the T price of £1.39 (obviously MSM can't compare one item at A on their site to more than one item at T).

    As regards both of the T products, on MSM, comparing to the same A item, I've had my own argument before with T comparing both its T own brand semi-skimmed milk 4pt and the Creamfields 4pt Semi-skimmed milk (which isn't called "Tosco") to A's own brand 4pt semi, on the basis that only one could be comparable and Sada did not stock Creamfields Milk. (MSM also regard Creamfields at T as non-comparable to anywhere else.) Sadly this argument with T didn't get very far. For consistency, however, since they compare (or at least used to compare, back when I got caught out) both the Creamfields milk that they stock and their own brand T milk to one item, they ought to compare both prunes packs to the same A 250g rollback item! I doubt that would get anywhere though.

    Also - a rhetorical - and switching away from T PP, what do you (or they, i.e. MSM) do when there are two items at a competitor, of different sizes but both within the 10% weight limit that applies on the APG, but one is significantly cheaper in price per kg?

    Here, T may have decided - or else their system may have played up in its own way - that their Wholefoods Soft Prunes aren't comparable to A's Stoned Prunes. But I note they (T) have compared to S. What type of prunes are S's version?

    Also - regarding the weights and 250g T product not being comparable even to Sada 200g Wholefood Prunes - but then surely you'd adjust the Sada price of that up - the T PP suggest they do include non-material differences in size (which they treat as up to 10%) - I don't think they adjust for weight though like the APG does?

    Meaning that it is sometimes possible to compare a larger weight T product to A's cheaper price on a smaller item (sometimes the T PP may in practice go beyond 10% - another example where the T&Cs aren't always followed by the system - although there's certainly no complaint here as it's in our favour - but some items, that are slightly larger sized at A (and within 10%) e.g. some of the own brand frozen pies, that cost same price at T and A, have previously compared on the T Price promise at the same price at T (for a slight smaller pack) to A when, as A's pack is larger, it ought to adjust the A price down slightly - so you get slightly less at T than you would at A and don't get a pro-rata adjustment refund: of course if they're within 10% weight difference and you bought at A, you'd get 10% off T's same price (or 10% off T's price slightly increased due to T being a little less weight) - so it'd seem best buying the equiv. own brand at A but for the hope that T might have matched to a price based on A's weight, therefore slightly cheaper per g for A as opposed to T being same price, and that slight adjustment (if it worked) may have been more than the 10% cheaper (with price incr. for T as T smaller-sized) you'd get from the APG.

    Except that the T PP allocates the same price for both T and A, despite the slight different size and the fact that T would have been charging you slightly more based on the weight, making it best to buy the equiv. from A (+10% cheaper even if T's price is adjusted slightly up on that).

    And if you got this far and understand all this, ... phew!:rotfl::D

    (If you didn't, it's your fault for ignoring the 'look away' anyway:))
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