A chicken is for life not just Christmas Dinner (An 11+ ELITE Thread)

zagubov

lookinforabargain wrote: »

:eek:

Don't start on me germs!

I discovered my DD has threadworms _pale__pale_ and it's proper freaked me out Was cleaning and scrubbing everything in sight like a mad woman this morning! I've still got the heebie jeebies just thinking about it

Don't panic. they're harmless and grown adults with even the most basic hygene will break their transmission cycle relatively rapidly. Kids will reinfect themselves by scratching themselves puting their fingers to their face. The doc will prescribe an antihelminthic drug although you may wnat to check the over-the-counter-cost. There are no side-effects and the worms don't get resistent. One tablet may be enough, but give one to the whole family.

Mildred1970 wrote: »

I am

But thanks to the very lovely Zag :kisses2:I am watching via Tunnelbear :T

Thank you. It's nice to be appreciated.

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Here's one argument:

http://drlwilson.com/Articles/BONES.HTM
"[FONT=&quot]Pasteurization is evil.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] The main reason for calcium deficiency is the pasteurization of milk. This damages the calcium so that it is poorly utilized, in our experience. It also damages the milk in many other subtle ways.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Pasteurization was important 100 years ago, perhaps, when infections in milk were common and conditions of cleanliness at dairies were a problem. However, today certified dairies are very clean and no illness results from the use of raw, certified dairy products which are used the world over. The pernicious practice of pasteurization ought to be outlawed due to all the damage it causes to milk. Instead, raw certified milk is illegal in most American states and in some other entire nations. This is due to pure and simple greed on the part of the large dairies, that do not want to clean up their milk and they do not want competition from the small dairies."[/FONT]

Here's another: what with the anti-vaccine brigade and this new example of flat earthism, we're close to slipping back into the healthcare equivalent of the dark ages. :eek:

Medicine's only actually worked for the last 100 years. Before that visiting a doctor didn't affect your life expectancy.

Savvybuyer

pattylabelle wrote: »

She is probably getting an unsettled nights sleep- get some Ovex from the chemist asap and treat the whole family.:A

Hi Patty - I'm sorry if we appear to be leaving you out a little by all this talk around about collection of Morrisons prices.:A

Savvybuyer

We haven't got a situation of 'everything returning N/A vs M' have we, due to prices being over 7 days old?!?

silverhairgranny

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

Misery guts had a new granddaughter this evening :T

Congratulations:T

Savvybuyer

Ah, here we are, no, it's not James from msm, it's from Bruce Dove from Brand View (or at least who was from Brand View back in 2011) - they provide the data for Sains BM - from the same source as before:

'Bruce Dove ... says that every time you go into a decent-sized supermarket, there is likely to be somebody in there checking prices and promotions for a competitor.

"We operate with permission in some stores, and in others we operate more covertly," he says.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16002303

FloFlo

Savvybuyer wrote: »

We haven't got a situation of 'everything returning N/A vs M' have we, due to prices being over 7 days old?!?

Don't think so other stuff on the apg compared just not the one I was aiming for. Had it worked it would have given back £9.20 on the 3 for £10 spend at A.

FloFlo

Night all, and thanks Savvy. xx

zippydooda

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Thank you very much for that!:)

I knew you meant that - but I was referring to this (very very old and out-of-date article now):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16002303
' "It's almost an industry itself, actually," says James Foord from MySupermarket, which provides the data for Asda's Price Guarantee. '

I thought I saw "cottage industry" there - although I do remember Mr T calling it a "cottage industry" of a very small group of customers using the 'DTD price check vs Asda' when they pulled it in April 2011. A "cottage industry of savvy and determined customers" if I remember it rightly:D. At that point, I was proud to be part of such a "cottage industry".

The way they collect Morries prices for the APG, if it's still up online, is here:

http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2011/2/ASDA-Stores-Ltd/TF_ADJ_49664.aspx
In particular, Response part 1, but also into part 2.


Response part 1 says:

"1. Asda said a third-party agency scanned shelf-edge prices and promotions in Morrisons stores in various locations across the UK every Monday and Wednesday, recording three prices for each product to minimise the risk of recording inaccurate price information. If a recorded price for a product was 20 per cent different from the price recorded in the previous week, the agency made an additional confirmation of the price. Asda said checks were carried out to ensure the data was robust and as accurate as possible and that more significant pricing and product identification discrepancies were investigated manually. Asda accepted that the price comparison exercise in Morrisons relied on the accuracy of shelf-edge labels but they believed the process was robust and involved processes designed to remove inaccuracies.
Clearcast [the television advertising clearance body set up by the industry] said that, because Morrisons did not have an online presence, unlike Tesco and Sainsbury's, the Morrisons data needed to be collected manually. Clearcast said they had examined the online and manual processes at an initial stage and were satisfied that it was a good and fair way of collecting competitor data."


Assuming that this is still the way they do it.

They scan every item three times apparently, to reduce mistakes. They do this in every one of the six stores they collect in (twice a week), at least one of which is in Scotland as that has a different data set.

so how did we get the 1p Jaffa cake comparison? especially as it would be more than 20% difference in price at some point from a week before

Savvybuyer

davemorton wrote: »

Yes, we were called a cottage industry, I was referring to that also.

Do Morribobs let them in to scan?

If I people into a secret (or what was a secret, no longer is immediately after this:D), I was one submitting info. into that DTD spreadsheet (remember that, those of you who were around in 2011?) - if I remember it rightly, it was the weekend the day before the spreadsheet creators said they'd received so many inputs into it and been overwhelmed that they had to stop approving them all and let them in unamended. Well, most of that I suspect was due to me - I had been working right through the a.com website and finding items that were cheaper in T than A every 3 seconds! (So, now you know.)

Sometimes it was - although 3 seconds is a bit of exaggeration it was sometimes not far off! I was, at one stage, finding one after another after another. And to give the impression they were cheaper than A:(:rotfl:. Of course back then I was just looking at anything at all that was cheaper in A and not even looking at whether it was good price by weight or not - with doubling of the difference it didn't really matter did it?!!!:D:) My Easter Sunday that year was spent finding items that were cheaper in Mr A, I remember it was after T had failed to compare on the Easter eggs as A had pulled them off their website, yet they were there, cheaper in A, immediately before my shopping - that became the source of a spat between me and T that never got resolved, was never given anything at all from it and I've hated them ever since. I now shop there as rarely as possible and solely and always with the intention of making a profit on any very limited thing I might buy. Conditional spends do not work with me as, even after them, I would still be paying anything at all to T and thus making a loss! So - bog off!:p:p:p:rotfl::(:rotfl:

None of them are cheaper than anywhere else. They'll all more expensive than each other on items on which another has on promotional offer.

underperky

scamps1966 wrote: »

Cried with tears of happiness.

http://sfglobe.com/?id=853

Bless them