An Enjoyable Look Into tweets and Poppy's Expeditions Thread (An 11+ ELITE Thread)

zippydooda

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Back to sausages:rotfl:

fairclaire wrote: »

Everything comes back to sausages :rotfl:

Ain't you 2 got some house work to do.

Nenen

fairclaire wrote: »

Thank you very much for sharing this, it helps more than you know. Thank you also Enterprise for your very touching words. And also to the other too many to mention people who have gave hugs.
You lot are AMAZING

I'm just catching up and would like to send some more hugs to you Fairclaire:grouphug:

You sound an amazingly supportive wife and a wonderful mum. I hope your dh starts to feel better soon and you all get to enjoy lots of happy times together.

Sunshinemummy

SpiralingDown wrote: »

My DS was reading up on this after hearing a teacher talk about it. We were in the car on Friday when it was mentioned on the news about bedtime stories, DS turned to me and said 'you never read to me before bed sure you didn't?' I told him that until he was 4 years old I read the gruffallo every night because it was his favourite and the only way I could get to read him a different story first was to promise to read this afterwards. He told me to prove it, now the only way I could prove it was to recite the whole story (including the different voices I used to use) so I started 'a mouse took a walk through the deep, dark woods. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good ..... Etc'. He let me get to the end before turning round and saying he remembered it, he better remember it, it's etched in my brain for all eternity!!
He hates English but loves reading thank goodness. I have to find his dad's Terry Pratchett books as that's what he was reading to him before he died and DS wants to read the ones with Death as he loved those ones.

Thanks for sharing xx

Savvybuyer

Anyway, good evening everyone:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

I was searching somewhere else for something else and happened to find this - from our King - that made me :rotfl::rotfl: when he said replace "adviser" with "salesperson":rotfl:!

[Deleted as had referral link in. Was a link that included a video of Martin Lewis saying banks are commercial businesses that exist to make profit and therefore if you see 'bank adviser' in a branch, replace the word 'adviser' with 'salesperson'.]

I think probably the same approach is needed with - well actually with all advertising. Replace every word with its opposite, magnify all the small print up to the most prominent possible and reduce the prominent message of the original ad to a footnote. IMO.

What, separately maybe, of this?
Cadbury Freddo 6 pack on t.com - says "Save 15p" Was £1.15 Now "Only £1".

Of course, for starters, that minimisation of cost-word "only" should be ignored and indeed especially in regards to expensive £1 pricing.

I don't see this as a "save" of any kind at all. They were/have been 75p in Mr A for some while. Therefore I see it as "pay more", in other words Pay more 25p.

Whenever you see price reduction, think price increase. Price reduction = price increase. When you see "Save" replace it by the words "Pay more". In this case, even 75p is too much given the relatively low gs. in the product overall. I see this as a way to sell relatively little quantity of chocolate for a quite high (75p) price. It's an expensive way to purchase chocolate in my view.

Not only of course the 1p chocs etc., making it a "Pay more 99p" in place of "Save 15p" and - even then - that £1.15 pricing being something I'd never pay unless I got far more back off it. But seems to me rather similar to - that programme the other night that had the swab test of the trolleys that was mentioned on here, they also looked at ice creams and the amount of fat in them. Yet again fits into the "Joe Public knows absolutely nothing at all and makes total incorrect assumptions" mantra that I keep mentioning.

They had a choice of a 'value' range and a branded product. Now, which would be better and contain less fat?!?

Obviously - the cheaper product I thought! But "Jo Public" on the programme said the branded version, because you would like to think it would be better quality because of the brand and are prepared to pay more for it because of that.

They were absolutely wrong. Again. The brand had three times the amount of fat - and they wheeled it out (lumps of lard) on separate plates on a trolley. I think it fair to say the lady on the programme was shocked. I think she said that she was.

Came as no surprise or shock to me at all. I assume that branded products are generally rip-offs and cheaper versions, without the money spent on the advertising, can do the job just as well - while not nutritionally identical (and they certainly weren't here - as the branded one had three times the fat!), they (barring situations such as higher levels of fat) taste virtually the same and are often made on the same production lines or, if not, in the same factories. I can never tell any real difference between a so-called 'value' product and a branded one - or if I can I don't mind the 'value' product taste. Indeed, sometimes I prefer the cheaper one's taste!

It's all marketing, marketing, advertising, influencing and shaping consumer perception, it's not about saving us money - they are commercial business there to make a profit. What they tell us on the packaging is not primarily for our benefit but (aside from statutorily-required information that may be given only the prominence or not that it requires by law) is there to convince us that it is better and is there to make them money. This is done, inevitably, by us not saving that money, but spending that more money. Ignore them. Do not be taken in by branded messages or claims.

Of course, sometimes the branded products may work out cheaper than the ordinarily 'cheaper' ones if there is a glitch or some promotion; in which case I see no need to get the more expensive 'value' product but can then go for the brand!:D

You'd like to think it was better quality. Yes, but it almost certainly isn't, to my perception, and you must be living on cloud cuckoo-land to believe that it was in the first place. You're prepared to pay more for the brand. Speak for yourself - I'm not!:D:D:rotfl:

I do, nowadays, think that part of my approach/thought process here does have something to do - alert daily Asperger update:D:rotfl: - with my Asperger's syndrome. Because of it, I think differently from most people and am very unlikely to follow current fashions, trends or fads or go for something just because it's "in". (I'm sure I could find the relevant bullet point about this in Prof. Tony Attwood's "Complete Guide..." book.) Remember that, when companies are targetting advertising, they are doing it for the non-autistic mind, as 99% or whatever of people are not autistic. There will be body language communications in it and a method of perception and communication that I miss. That also explains, to me, why most advertising is so banal and bland and doesn't actually make any claims as they have none that could truthfully stand up - instead you see dancing crocodiles and other such - if you step back and consider it - meaningless and ulitmately banal and pointless stuff. It connects with most people, doubtless as it is seen as entertainment and a bit of fun. Very fun - parting you from your money:rotfl::rotfl::D!

fairclaire

Saversue wrote: »

Yes I do remember.
Maybe ladies who buy animal print bras are a bit forgetful :rotfl:or prefer to go Commando

if the lady who bought my wombled bras was going bra commando, I bet it took her ages to get back to her car :eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

fairclaire

zippydooda wrote: »

Ain't you 2 got some house work to do.

says he who is going to go on a housework frenzy before Mrs Z returns from Malta

bexter7

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Candles
Wonky chocolate
Dolmio
Cereals:)

That's almost my exact Delivery for tomorrow morning lol! Plus a flump, red onion, brown onion, etc.

How did ya guess?!? :rotfl:

Savvybuyer

Just answering one of the 'Adpoint' questions earlier.

"Were you aware of movie XY before you watched this ad?"

Of course I've no idea what movies are or aren't going on at the moment, as I don't pay any attention to the matter:D.
Er... Perhaps they should have asked whether I was aware of the movie after I'd seen the ad! Shows how much attention I was paying - I've no idea what the movie was even afterwards! Only watch them to collect the points:D:rotfl::rotfl::j:j.

I'm so pleased there's no chance of me being influenced by a movie whose name I cannot recall!:D I will of course go to the cinema to watch something, as part of the tickets given out as 'freebies' with one of my bank accounts (which I didn't get for the cinema tickets:D). I do like a visit at the cinema. I'm just aiming this at my inattentiveness to the actual content of the ad than any dislike of movies, which I'll watch on TV for the normal cost of the electricity etc. in the event anyway.

Savvybuyer

zippydooda wrote: »

And with that bomb shell I wish you all a good night :beer:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Bombshell?!?:question: Nothing of it was any news to me:D:rotfl::rotfl::cool::money:.

[Edit - oh - goodnight zippy!!!:D:wave:]

zippydooda

fairclaire wrote: »

says he who is going to go on a housework frenzy before Mrs Z returns from Malta

Exactly. You two have my house work to do. I did not say your own houses
Don't want to see a battered zippy do we.



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