The Mad(ness) that is the Elite. He's gone, but was one of the best :A

silvercar

From the main board, with thanks to lazywife.

Fairy non-bio washing liquid and gel now 3 for £10 instead of £6.50/ £7 each at Sainsbobs.

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/sainsburys/bundle/695172_610104.html

emerald21

ROCKINGHAM wrote: »

Has anyone received their Morrisons Vouchers and Lip gloss from the Sun Perks offer - mine should have been here on 22 Nov.

I know many have cancelled but that a lot of £1 s that have gone in to The Sun coffers.

I received one pack of three today should be one for hubby coming soon hopefully lol. Not received any of the money ones yet .

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

Savvy you do make me smile! As it happens he did actually die on me, as he was on my lap. So you taking me literally on this occasion is correct. However, even if he hadn't actually been on my lap, I'd still have used the same phrase

I spend a lot of my life trying not to use phrases and sayings etc that, when taken literally, mean something completely different. It saves me a lot of time having to explain them to DS2, only for him not to understand anyway! But sometimes the real me just can't help myself

Ah - I'd mis-read you:o: I thought you'd said he was down by the shed... and I was resisting off saying that you shouldn't have slept down by the shed then should you?!!:rotfl::rotfl:

I now understand - you took him to the vets, after all the heartache that you explain in your previous post. And I can understand from that being explained quite why you were upset. I think I'd have been upset in those circumstances.

You'd better not say what you literally mean in future as I look so far behind literal statements now, I'll think you mean something else! But don't now take this literally...:):)

(I know it's not intended to be an attempt to 'catch me out' - but, you know, there I am, getting an implied other meaning and then they tell me it would have been correct to have taken it literally!:rotfl::rotfl: You can understand, from that, how confused I might be. It's those 'normal' people again - tell you not to take it literally and then, when they mean it literally and you've taken it some other way (because they told you not to) - now they meant it literally this time!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: (Well, why didn't they say that?):(:mad::mad::rotfl::rotfl: Obviously, ... (and zzzzz..zzzzz..):D they didn't mean you to take them literally when they said not to take them literally. .... (In other words, what use was it to listen to their instruction that you weren't to take them literally as they didn't mean that, on occasions when that instruction itself was not meant to be taken literally? And neither did they tell you on which occasions their instruction was to apply literally and those on which it did not!

How are we to know??!!??:rotfl::mad: It seems, in conclusion, to have been yet another useless and vapid instruction that wasn't really fully meant!:rotfl::rotfl: In which case, what was the point and why bother giving the instruction in the first place??!:rotfl::rotfl: Probably just conversation dressing again and not attempting to convey any meaning or information. Just.. typical!:rotfl:)

"You shouldn't have taken it literally."

"Well, then, if I shouldn't have taken it literally, what was the point of giving that instruction if it wasn't really meant? Ergo, you should have said what you really meant and not said something if you didn't mean it (or intend it to be taken literally)."

HopePray

emerald21 wrote: »

I received one pack of three today should be one for hubby coming soon hopefully lol. Not received any of the money ones yet .

Mine and OHs lipglosses arrived today, OH has decided he does not like them so gave them to me :D

Sunshinemummy

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Then she should have apologised to you for her upset annoying you:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

I don't know what "inappropriate" means - no-one ever defines it in a clear and therefore satisfactory way, other than (unsatisfactorily) by reference to their own or someone's else opinion.

The word "inappropriate" is one of the most inappropriate words in the English language, precisely because it is so unclear as to what is and is not "appropriate" (or "inappropriate") comprehensively in absolutely every possible situation and eventuality without exception. Time after time, in codes of behaviour (I know this is going way off original subject), we are told "this is not an exhaustive list" (as to what is or isn't acceptable).

That will not do. I want an exhaustive list. Otherwise, it is totally unclear as to what you mean to include or not. And therefore I do not know. As such it is, if I may say so, inappropriate for you (that is the code of conduct writers) to fail to give an exhaustive list.

"Don't tell inappropriate jokes." Well - what does that mean??!?:think::think::rotfl: I may have (from knowledge of society and what may or may not be seen as acceptable within it) some idea but I do not know, conclusively. And that just won't do! It leaves it, as I said, in an unsatisfactory position. Thus... I'm right once again! "Inappropriate" is an unsatisfactory word to use as it is most unclear. This subject-matter is obbiously one that exercises my mind from time to time, as I try to fathom out what it means and without success.

It is a grey word that means different things to different people in different situations... so I agree with you!

Sunshinemummy

bubbs wrote: »

Yes i did bought in t's :T:T:T just got back now going to clean my windows:eek::(

You are so energetic

I've just suggested to OH that he has a week off to bottom the house for Christmas.... don't think I can post his response!

:j

Savvybuyer

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

It is a grey word that means different things to different people in different situations... so I agree with you!

I can do no better than reiterate what I've just said in relation to something else...

Savvybuyer wrote: »

[...] In which case, what was the point and why bother giving the instruction in the first place??!:rotfl::rotfl: Probably just conversation dressing again and not attempting to convey any meaning or information. Just.. typical!:rotfl:)
[...]

Typical people again!:):);):rotfl:

Sunshinemummy

emerald21 wrote: »

What do you do sunshine mummy ? No one would forget to feed me lol I d remind them or say something. I can t do without food and I need it ( food that is) every 3 to 4 hours during the day as I feel sick. Well that s my excuse anyway

I was writing several reports that should have been about 6 weeks work and had to do it in 4 days as well as various other meetings/bits. By Thursday I look horrendous, people just kept giving me double strength coffee or Redbull, and if they were brave/sympathetic they left biscuits as well.

I was shaking at times but I think it was the overdose of caffeine rather than the lack of food.

In the main I managed to be polite throughout... only one slight out burst when someone thought that something was a forgone conclusion....... I corrected them and they had the outburst!

:o:o:o

Naebbirac

Me again:D
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Sunshinemummy

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I know you're joking and that's not literal! (I think..)

I'm told I am supposedly too literal, but so wary I have become that I might be taking things literally and 'missing the point' I am now continuously looking behind everything said in order to determine whether or not there was an implied non-literal meaning intended. My default may be to start from what it literally says, but then I consider what it 'really' means (or might really mean), which is more than I suspect other people do.

The problem..really.. is with others, not with me. Specifically that people are not accurate enough and say (or write) something other than what they mean. If they did not mean it and meant something else, why did they not say what they really meant and not something else that they think has the meaning of what they meant but which does not? I'm not talking about sarcasm or irony or even politeness dressed up as communication. I am focussing here on issues of where people say - or even more to the point, write (thereby having time to consider it, correct it if need be and make sure it said what they intended it to say) - something and put it in a way that says the opposite of what they mean, more because they have failed to think or consider things beforehand and are simply lazy or unskilled in the English language as to understand what they actually wrote (or, sometimes, I suspect, what they meant it to say) rather than because they knew it was saying something other than their message. Ineffective communication, in this aspect, is no communcation.

Anyway ... lecture about language grammar over..especially as I don't get some of the more, to me, arcane and highly detailed aspects myself.

Anyway, can we get back to money-saving, Savvy???!?

Yeap... loo rolls, cheese..... Happy Mummy!!