Every Loquacious Idiosyncrasy Treated Equally - 11+ ELITE Thread

purpledonkey

Night all :wave: I forgot to say earlier thanks to the OP about the 25p cake decorations in A. Managed to get 4 lots earlier (it had been pretty raided). Also Hackney M&S does not have SS tills, but interestingly enough my shopping came to £15.55 and the SA scanned my GR coupon after he pressed total and it still worked, so a £10.55 shop today

Edit: I also got a till spit of £5 off wys £25 on food and drink. Should go nicely with my last GR voucher in the next couple of weeks.

purpledonkey

fairclaire wrote: »

Im off to bed. I really am overloaded with work. Id say Ive bitten off more than I can chew, but I haven't......my mouth is just full :eek: :rotfl:
Normal service will be resumed when I get paid

Night :wave:

As Nerfy would say... Good girl

Truffle_Hunter

Tinyshoes wrote: »

So how many did you get through in one go?:rotfl:

I got 23 tins at the other store the other week. Not sure how many I put in last weeks goody bags but still have plenty left.

Oh no I had the last two 500g packs of bacon, had to delve deep. Reckon that might be the last as the others were all dated after.

Fingers crossed for your shop too.

Thanks for the help on the crisps not sure why I had it in my head the walkers were £2 too.

I took the nine tins that were there, but then thought I forgot to look up :rotfl: Yes many thanks for the couple of tins that were in the goody bag

Re the clear filing tray's that I found earlier in my previous shop I just took the lot and braved that in one transaction as you say I will find a home for them

Just entered my receipt on the a app and it says I have to wait till 6am :eek:

Tinyshoes

Night FC and PD. :A:A

Where is DM? Is he now on the hunt for a rock?

Just staying up to lock my results in. Realised not set up new laptop to print yet, don't want to get into that tonight. :eek:

Tinyshoes

Truffle_Hunter wrote: »

I took the nine tins that were there, but then thought I forgot to look up :rotfl: Yes many thanks for the couple of tins that were in the goody bag

Re the clear filing tray's that I found earlier in my previous shop I just took the lot and braved that in one transaction as you say I will find a home for them

Just entered my receipt on the a app and it says I have to wait till 6am :eek:

:T:T:T

I think we can safely say you have graduated with first class honours. :rotfl:

Well done for braving it.

Savvybuyer

I started writing this at (approximately) 22.30:eek:.

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

Or a sign like "Dogs must be carried on the escalator" could be interpreted to 'mean' that you are not allowed on the escalator unless you are carrying a dog.

(see Roland Barthes on semiotics for a much more in-depth study)

I don't know why I never paid too much attention to a notice like that - even though there are other notices I have paid more attention to - but instead I just got on with things. Well, yeah, if you must "carry" a dog if you're on the escalator... More the rather imprecise style of writing of the person who wrote the notice I feel. (Except that I don't feel the notice - oh dear:rotfl:.)

I've just (some moments before starting this reply) been pondering again and thinking about whether to post what I was thinking. So, you know what... I'll just post it shall I? Make a decision Savvy:T. I suspect, if I do post - as I now am doing - it'll get the highest number of thanks of the evening.

The guy on the BBC article (here's the link again - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-27975772) talks about rock climbing - "...but I met people and got on with them without it [being sociable] being the primary purpose."

I suspect - but I may be completely wrong - that he hasn't met those people again as friends later on. I may get involved in activities but, after they are over, never truly bring any friends back from them.

Believe it or not, I don't talk much about my condition in RL. It's - quite suitably and typically for me as I am a complex person (not that I have any complexes, just that I am complex, meaning 'complicated') - a complex condition with many facets, that affect everyone differently, and impossible to explain in a short sentence. In fact to explain myself/my condition to someone else in RL, it would probably take two hours to explain it all (and, yes, I would have to explain it all - for fear of missing a tiny aspect out whose absence might lead to what I'd said being misleading and causing the completely wrong impression to be left with the other person).

I feel that people generally will just not have the time or the interest to listen for that long and it is so complicated that the 'normal person' would never understand it anyway, as normal people don't have the complex brains to understand such complex concepts. Of course I understand the whole thing fully - and have it all in my head from my pursuit of special study interest in the area - but the problem/part of the problem - especially with oral communication in RL - is itself one of being unable to find the words to put it across and I suspect only other people with Asperger's/high-functioning autism would be interested to listen to someone for two hours but they already understand it anyway.

People often (or, it may even be said, all the time) make assumptions and it is too easy to make assumptions that are wrong or, as I put it, not necessarily correct. Btw, if by this point or later in this post you are expecting me to explain what Asperger's/autism is, you will be disappointed as that is not what this post is aimed at or is about. I don't really mention it in RL because I feel perhaps others would be bored or turned off by my explanation - and long-winded lecture - about it. Also I wouldn't get anywhere with some people who think it is being used as some "excuse" and, for that reason, simply don't want to listen:(.

The man mentions about a train journey and that this is a simple journey for those without autism. You might assume I have, or have had, problems with train journeys in my life. However, I suspect I may even find planning a train journey and a train journey to be much easier than people without the condition find it. With me I have map-reading skills and extremely good geographical memory. Along with which, my previous obsession (when at high school) with bus and train timetables - that horse-chestnut again:rotfl::rotfl:.

Much as I will refrain from boring you with all the details of various routes and times that I used to know about, but I do remember one journey - or rather series of journeys, route by public transport - where I missed the 'last train of the day' - I think I half-intended to do that anyway:rotfl: - and then had to make a journey by bus into another county to then catch another bus back through the county, across its entire length and into another county on the other side where I lived. I was quite a fun journey:D and I already had the contingency planned anyway as I knew the connection for the 'last train' (quite early in the afternoon would you believe?) was quite tight. Didn't cost me any extra either as I had a rover ticket that covered it all.

But, for some people with autism (Asperger syndrome?), there have been those - particularly with the quite common special interest of bus/rail timetables - who have totally not realised that, on getting to some destination, they have also to plan a way to get back home and have gone missing because they did not know to do that. With me, it was a fun day out - I rang my parents during the day with the (inevitable?) message that I would be "two or three" hours later than planned - and arrived back home safely, albeit a little late in the day. I suspect I'd be able to find a train journey much easier than many non-autistic people - sometimes I have anxiety about travelling by train these days - reading too many news reports about crashes I suspect:D - we do suffer from depression/anxiety conditions more readily - but I don't have the sensory issues that stop some people on the autism spectrum from travelling - e.g. fluorescent lights and tiny flickering being detectable and disturbing/distracting by some people on the autism spectrum or the whirring of the train engine coming over as loud, distracting and unbearable noise - and my lack of sensory issues such as these I think meant my Asperger's remained undetected by the 'rest of the world' (if not by me:D) i.e. undiagnosed - for as long as it did. I had a brief thought I might have it even before the medical profession had defined it:D:D:D, 1980s, but then after the brief thought I forgot about it and that was that. Typical that a five-year-old like me might detect I might have this condition:rotfl:.

Despite this I also feel - and I suspect some of you feel the same as me here - that's there's, sadly, nothing too special about Savvy most times as I just fail to find any or indeed many glitches on my M comps. I do try - but oh so near, yet so far. (Wish I had a photographic memory but, sadly, I do have to do my M lists with some active role on my part.) So, please (continue to) accept me, with my human failings and sadly not savantism.

I think there are too many people with Asperger's - it would be much better if my condition was more rare and therefore my skills not too common. Oh so wish it were the case! (If I had some special skills I'd want them to be more rare than they are!) However, I suspect I'm surrounding myself with and looking for people with Asperger's as part of my continuing special interest in the topic itself, so it's just because I see every report and story on the matter:o:o that it seems there's so many when really there aren't.

I think when I was being born, I was called to stand in line before my creator, who told me "And you'll have Asperger's." Whereupon I replied "Alright, okay." And was then commanded to go and "get on with it"...:rotfl:

(Finally, I'll just return to where I mentioned about people who think Asperger's is an 'excuse': I've moved it from earlier in this post to here as I've learned over the years about first impressions and how important they are to people's perceptions - so I thought people might get the 'wrong idea' if I included this too early in the post: even if, to my way of thinking, it makes no odds as to whereabouts in the post it is put and ought to (but won't) make similar no odds to other people:

All too often in my life, I've said things 'out of turn' that I just keep my mouth shut about things now and opt to not even say things at all or even raise the subject as it will only provoke people in the wrong way - a great shame, in a way, as the whole thing then never gets discussed and thus stands no chance at all of being understood - unfortunately it's impossible to persuade people and sadly this society has, all too often, too much of a problem with hearing the truth. Really what I ought to say - what I want to say - is that, yes, it is an excuse and therefore is a complete excuse, justification and defence against everything:p. So put that in your pipe and smoke it!:rotfl::rotfl:I'm not btw - I'm just saying that, in order to challenge the views of people who claim it is an 'excuse' and therefore, their assumption, that that doesn't justify anything. Big mistake of course - people never like to have their views challenged (unless they have Asperger's:D) - all so true as usual - and any attempt at doing so would only upset, provoke them and inflame any matter. So, I just stay shtum. (Best way too often.))

To quote Alan Greenspan (yes, I did have to Google that:o):
"I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said".

Or, in my case, if I turn out to have been...etc. Anyway...

Perhaps I ought to get back to the train journeys:eek:, and these split-tickety things which I'd be very good at.:D:)

Truffle_Hunter

Tinyshoes wrote: »

:T:T:T

I think we can safely say you have graduated with first class honours. :rotfl:

Well done for braving it.

Many thanks, I have learnt from the best :j:j:j :A:A:A

Tried again to enter my receipt details onto the normal site and still get told to wait till 6am, think that means bed time, so I will say goodnight and fingers crossed for our shops

Tinyshoes

Truffle_Hunter wrote: »

Many thanks, I have learnt from the best :j:j:j :A:A:A

Tried again to enter my receipt details onto the normal site and still get told to wait till 6am, think that means bed time, so I will say goodnight and fingers crossed for our shops

Goodnight, :A

I think you were secret Elite before I met you.

Tinyshoes

6am wait for me too.

Goodnight Elite. :A

Savvybuyer

Truffle_Hunter wrote: »

Many thanks, I have learnt from the best :j:j:j :A:A:A

Tried again to enter my receipt details onto the normal site and still get told to wait till 6am, think that means bed time, so I will say goodnight and fingers crossed for our shops

No it means 6am. Unless you go to bed at 6am:p:rotfl::rotfl:.

...No, I know what you meant!!;):D:D:A

Have a nice sleep and hope the APG works for you at, or after, 6am!

Think it's time for me to go to be fair - I've left you with a load... to discuss, of information, to discuss, or to think about, anyway:D:wave:.