Da thread....do you dare come in da house?

zagubov

lookinforabargain wrote: »

Seeing as there was no eggs, I had to make do with this instead



DM this is what a proper sausage looks like :rotfl:

That was the standard shape for sausage when I were a lad! Link sausages from companies like Walls were just appearing in the 70s if I remember correctly!

aau1

pattylabelle wrote: »

Speaking of healthy glitches or comparisons - can somebody shed some light on the good blueberry comparison that was hanging about a wee while back. I know that Westie posted a lot about it a while back but I cannot for the life of me find the details. Savvybuyer to the rescue!!!! TIA

You sure they weren't blackberries?

purpledonkey

Night all, off to hunt for some tunes for next weeks drive

Savvybuyer

pattylabelle wrote: »

Speaking of healthy glitches or comparisons - can somebody shed some light on the good blueberry comparison that was hanging about a wee while back. I know that Westie posted a lot about it a while back but I cannot for the life of me find the details. Savvybuyer to the rescue!!!! TIA

Yes, it's blackberries. Blueberries, blackberries you know it doesn't matter to me as I will go for almost any berries, I go for whichever works out saving money:rotfl:.

It's A's 300g fresh Blackberries, the ones at £3. Compare to T with a price of a little over £1, after a slight weight adjustment.

Morgy9

Oops fell asleep before checking my Asda apg's and you've all moved!. Thanks for new thread Karlie :T

Anyhow at shops 6.30 pm yesterday Carver Ham, Large Lemon drizzle cake and small prawn crackers still working. (But doh only just realised also better return on cake v S ah well amended my list).

Asda Chosen by You French Fries (1kg) £1.25 v £1.11 useful filler v Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose and N/a v M.

Hum womble .... no return but don't buy double stuff oreos in an A v T shop whatever you do :eek:. But wonder if it would work other way around? Can't remember as think Mr T do direct Asda comp not via MSE - so probably not ? ... sure Aau1 will confirm tomorrow. Anyhow MSM showing these as n/a at Mr T so intriguing this price appears on apg ...

21 items (18 different) on your bill qualify for comparison ASDA Tesco
+£6.55

2 x ASDA British Semi Skimmed Milk 4 Pints (2.27L) £2.00 £2.00

1 x Cesar Favourite Recipes - Pouch (8x150g) £4.48 £5.00

1 x Cesar Senior Recipes - Pouch (8x150g) £4.48 £5.00

2 x Pepsi (8x330ml) £4.00 £4.38

1 x Jacob's Flatbreads - Mixed Seeds (150g) £1.00 £1.59

1 x Glade Discreet Refill Bali Sandalwood & Jasmine £2.00 £2.80

1 x Young's Seafood Sticks (400g) £1.92 N/A

1 x Young's Shredded Seafood Stick Cocktail (140g) £1.00 N/A

1 x Young's Jumbo Surimi (200g) £1.50 N/A

1 x Gordon's Elderflower Gin (700ml) £15.50 £13.00

1 x Walkers Quavers & French Fries Big Variety (20) £2.50 N/A

1 x Walkers Quavers - Cheesy (20x19g) £2.50 £2.34

1 x Caxton Chokomallos (6) £0.50 N/A

1 x Rakusen's Traditional Matzos (300g) £1.30 £1.19

1 x ASDA Chosen by You 100% Pure Apple Juice from Conc... £1.00 £1.00

1 x ASDA Unwaxed Lemons (5) £1.25 £1.35

1 x ASDA Chosen by You Apple & Raisin Slices (5) £1.00 N/A

1 x ASDA Chosen by You Forest Fruit & Raisin Slices (5... £1.00 N/A

2 x ASDA Chosen by You Moscow Mixer (1L) £0.96 N/A

1 x ASDA Butcher's Selection Stir Fry Pork (500g) £3.00 £3.39

1 x ASDA Spicy Cantonese Style Stir Fry Sauce (230g) £1.00 N/A

2 x ASDA Oriental Bean Stir Fry with Edamame Beans & P... £2.00 N/A

1 x ASDA Rice Noodles with Spring Onions (400g) £1.00 N/A

1 x ASDA Fresh Tastes Spicy Szechuan Stir Fry Sauce (2... £1.00 N/A

1 x ASDA Fresh Tastes Hoisin Stir Fry Sauce (230g) £1.00 N/A

1 x ASDA Dessert Pears (600g) £1.25 N/A

1 x Harvest CheweeE Cereal Bar with Toffee (9x22g) £1.68 N/A

1 x Fairy Original Washing Up Liquid (433ml) £1.20 £1.25

2 x Schweppes Slimline Indian Tonic with Lemon (1L) £2.00 £2.00

1 x Nestle Yorkie Man Size Buttons (120g) £1.00 £1.59

1 x Nescafe Caf! Menu Latte Skinny (8) £1.50 £2.99

1 x Oreo Double Stuff Chocolate Cookies (157g) £0.50 £3.50

1 x Oreo Chocolate Cream Cookies (220g) £1.00 £1.89


Comparison total (compared products only) £49.71 £56.26

Savvybuyer

:hello: again, I was going to post earlier (about 11 o'clock last night), but, perhaps not unreasonably given the time, I felt a bit tired. I've woken more now though - no, don't worry, I'm fine, I do all my best in the middle of the night:D.

I went out yesterday - we even managed a bit of sunshine - we've had better days of weather but it was alright. (Okay Savvy are you going to tell us where you went?;):D Come on, you post this and tease us and then don't tell us where:(:rotfl:.) But, coming back and entering onto the motorway...:mad::mad::mad:those people that slow down when they are about to join rather than gathering speed in order to go with the flow of the traffic:mad::mad:. The one in front of me slowed to about 25mph:mad: just before they were to enter and then hesitated even more. The motorway behind was fairly clear - there was nothing immediately behind, a car in the first lane not totally in the distance behind, enough distance back, wasn't immediately there but would soon be if you didn't get a move on:mad::(. I join the motorway and, then, stupid idiot in front decides they'd join the motorway in front at snail's pace, forcing me to move into the second lane:mad:.

Then, about a minute later, a person in the middle lane dawdling along at 65mph:mad::mad::mad:. Grrr...!:mad::mad::rotfl:.

I occasionally (in fact almost every day) encounter stupidity on the roads.

One recent one that sticks out was on the dual carriageway but a part with a 50mph limit, in theory. No congestion, silly driver in front insisting on doing 40mph. So, naturally, I check my mirrors and seeing it is safe, I indicate and move over to the second lane and get up to 50mph to overtake. Driver in front immediately now gets up to 50mph. I'm at this point alongside him, of course me being me I can't put my foot down and go faster as needing to comply with the 50mph limit - are you going to slow down and let me overtake? A car now approaches behind me, now threatening to want to speed off into the distance, tailgating me. Car alongside me not slowing at all.

I had to drop behind the car that was alongside me, all the while annoying the one behind me, with the one behind risking shunting me up the back because of how close and fast they were travelling. The vehicle in front continued, and I managed to fall back and signal to get back onto the first lane, safely behind it, it wasn't going to let me overtake. Whereupon the car in the second lane sped off into the distance:mad:.

This particular stretch of road has 50mph and speed cameras. However in my experience it sometimes doesn't seem to make any difference whether it has speed cameras or not. I think the speed camera sign is the only road sign that is virtually uniformly recognised - more drivers don't know what signs other than that one mean!

Sometimes they seem to make a difference and sometimes they do not - I've been analysing the behaviour of other road users:eek: and trying to figure out if there is a pattern to when they will or will not drive at the speed limit and there doesn't seem to be any logical rule to it or not. They were driving at 50mph on a temporary motorway restriction, with speed cameras, but at 70mph when the 50mph signs were there but no speed cameras (I was safely on the left hand lane at this point, driving at 50mph, having made sure I was far enough ahead in the distance before slowing to that in order to be driving at that when the 50mph sign first came up and also so that no-one would collide up my back end and could easily overtake as all of them did:().

If this however is how "normal" people drive, then I'm glad to be on the autistic spectrum. My Asperger's clearly does affect my driving: it makes me a better driver than others on the road. Doubtless there are police officers and lawyers and others who read this thread - what is it that I am doing wrongly? I suspect I'll be told that in fact it's wrong to gather up speed to enter a motorway - although of course I never learned what was or was not the right thing to do there as they don't include motorway slip-roads on standard driving lessons. I'm certainly not a 'road hog' - I get up to the speed limits, when safe, and don't dawdle along. It's other road users on the road that are the ones (indeed it seems almost everyone else) that don't comply with the rules, and I'm well aware that they don't and I don't expect them to so I try to cater for this. Why are people who are "normal" so different to me, in their complete failure to do the 'right' thing? Or is the "right thing" to break the rules and maybe I am therefore wrong? And, while some things probably take longer to dawn on me, I suspect my perception of motion is enhanced as well. As for how all other drivers operate - just typical!

I did see one driver doing the 'right' things the other day. I suspect they are on the autism spectrum too:rotfl:.

Rant (it's sort of a rant) over!:):cool:

Savvybuyer

Morgy9 wrote: »

[...]

Hum womble .... no return but don't buy double stuff oreos in an A v T shop whatever you do :eek:. But wonder if it would work other way around? [...]

I suspect it would work on T PP. Just check more carefully the weight on the ones in Mr T though, for this reason I was stopped from buying a twinpack of similar biscuits in T recently because t.com had them at 220g (or something like that) and A as 2x110g. Now - we know that's the same, but do these computer systems necessarily?:(

As for the Double Stuff, it should work, if there hasn't been a recent weight change issue.

"...don't buy Oreo Double Stuff [on APG]..." - yes of course, but that's what they keep doing, my wombles! They always buy these 50p biscuits:(:(:mad:. Grrr again!:rotfl:

They're buying the 50p biscuits now - the packs that we were buying beforehand, when they were on 3 for £2 with a trigger available that made them somewhat cheaper. Although - we did have to buy 3 packs:(. Yet, with mine on wombles time after time, you'd suspect every 'normal' shopper now picks up a 50p biscuit pack each time they shop. Such unnecessariness:( - no wonder the obesity rates in this country are rocking to sky-high!

Savvybuyer

That leads me on nicely to my next 'to do' post. Now being done!:D

Aren't the wombles, if I may say so, rather crap at the moment?

Most are now giving nothing. It's being ruined by £1 chocs, and if it's not that, by 50p biscuits:(. And I had one earlier that would have been just over a pound (and very 'printable') - but sadly they added a £2 Lurpak butter to the shopping and brought it down to around 30p:(. Not worth bothering with on that occasion, unless I want a collection of 10ps, 30ps and 20ps:(:(. (I shall have to stick to buying a couple of tins of SP things on my next shopping:rotfl:.)
I haven't seen people adding the £5 Surf powder yet though (50 wash), even though one of my stores has them right outside:mad: - but, sssh, let me not speak too soon:(.

Savvybuyer

This is the first thread I've come to straight off straight by name. Obviously a good thread title that I can remember!:T:T

I did a Muller shop yesterday (12th April;)). I just like the way this kind of shopping is done and therefore couldn't resist doing it myself.

Oh dear one of the Vanilla yogurts that I bought hasn't been counted!:j:j

And it just happens that the other 10 of them pick up the mbuy but compare vs N/A:D, and the one that wasn't counted makes all the other different nine I bought appear at full price and compare to same price or cheaper elsewhere!:rotfl:

Even the people in my household, who are fed up with me going on and on about comparison shops in RL and just don't bother with them:wall:, even they rather liked this one and found it amusing when I explained it to them!

Why £0.98?

9 items on your bill qualify for comparison Waitrose

+£0.40
1 x Muller Rice Apple (190g)£0.68£0.68
1 x Muller Rice Raspberry (190g)£0.68£0.68
1 x Muller Rice Strawberry (190g)£0.68£0.68
1 x Muller Light Fat Free Strawberry Yogurt (175g)£0.68£0.60
1 x Muller Light Raspberry & Cranberry Yogurt Fat Free...£0.68£0.60
10 x Muller Light Fat Free Yogurt - Vanilla (175g)£3.00N/A:rotfl::T:T:D
1 x Muller Light Fat Free Yogurt - Toffee (175g)£0.68£0.60
1 x Muller Fruit Corner Strawberry (150g)£0.68£0.60
1 x Muller Corner Crunch Yogurt - Chocolate Digestive ...£0.68£0.60
1 x Muller Rice Banana & Toffee (190g)£0.68£0.68
Comparison total (compared products only)£6.12£5.72

Savvybuyer

I like one of my vanilla yogurts being excluded under the guarantee!:D:D

Term and condition #10:

"We operate a fair use policy, so if you've bought the same item multiple times, we'll only count a maximum of 10 instances of each item in any one Check. ...":D

:rotfl:Seems a very very fair use to me!:rotfl::rotfl::):D

Thanks for only counting ten instances of that item, Mr A!:D As a result, all the other 9 that aren't that item have to be taken at full price as I've missed a mbuy on the counting of only ten instances and therefore must be compared in such a way versus the four rivals!:):D:T.