Extraordinarily Loyal Is The Elite

DeeDee74

Just a quick warning to be carefull about ordering to far ahead with reeds. It's been 6 weeks since I spotted them & they should be coming up to a price change in A's.
Candles still good for T's also.

Bananababe

Mrs_stinkface wrote: »

Evening boys and girls.

My boy is sooooo funny today, I honestly don't know what's gotten into him. I said just before bedtime "guess what?"
His reply was " you're a pirate!" Lol, I'm still chucking now and it's over an hour later.

E vouchers are all present and accounted for, can some lovely person tell me if we are still flashing please? X

Oh thats funny :rotfl:

Mrs_stinkface

poppypopster wrote: »

I think the flash has stopped now. Airwick seems to be all good

Thanks hunny x

bubbs wrote: »

Stinky has just arrived:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Sorry stinky xx
Your Lo is so funny:D

Oi missus, your one to talk :rotfl:
To be fair, somebody was trying to describe me at work today and their description was "the tall, skinny, gobby one" :rotfl:
It's pretty accurate to be honest

emerald21

David. wrote: »

:rotfl: oh its only 8ish

See... Talking in riddles again

Savvy_Siobhan

hi guys are the reeds, flash,beef, and fig air wicks still working if I do an order for tomorrow

MKS

ilovetoshop wrote: »

Afternoon

Thanks to custard op, I managed to get a few

Now I paid 11p each instore but they showed full price on apg now someone bought some reduced dove I store which also showed full price, do we think it might be worth trying other reductions in store like the flash to see if it shows full price

Schoolgirl error, I got the flash instore at the weekend. In paid the reduced price @ 1.50 and that's what it showed on the apg. hth

Mrs_stinkface

Bananababe wrote: »

Repoting for duty !!

Im on the hardys sparkling pinot noir so may get outta hand.

Its medicinal !

Im on a gallo, Pinot Grigio. The local one stop had reduced it to £2.99 a bottle. We are the proud owners of 6 bottles (that's all they had) lol

Bananababe wrote: »

Oh thats funny :rotfl:

He gets his wit from his mumma , happy belated birthday to you babe :kisses3:

Savvybuyer

bubbs wrote: »

They wont tempt me;):D

Good, nor me:D. Unless they have a really good glitch on vs M and force me to go out again:o:o:o.:rotfl:

Right - it's about this:

I noticed that my post on the last thread, referring to "The Men Who Made Us Spend" on BBC TWO television perhaps didn't get as many thanks as it deserved. I'm attempting to stand back and be objective in saying that.

I noticed the first edition of the programme was repeated last night (a day after I stayed up through the night watching it on the i-Player:(:(:o:rotfl:). You know I'm no good at giving any summary or any 'plotline' to any programme or film, but it was about companies getting together to fix it so that light bulbs would only had 1,000 hours of life (compared to previous 2,000 hours before the cartel). I noticed how, as shown on the programme, the advertising then trumpeted Great - now lasts 1,000 hours!!:D as if to con gullible consumers (as undoubtedly most people indeed are) who did not realise this was half what the bulbs used to last.

It also covered about upgrades and how people absolutely must have the latest model - in order to get people to spend money, effectively for a colour change. The 'old' product itself worked perfectly fine.

I see no reason to change and I am quite happily unfashionable. I think everyone else (nearly) is taken in and just got to spend, waste money. Neither do I have a mobile phone - where the most changes in design apparently take place.

Why is it that people who used to work for companies appeared to me to be able to speak freely and tell the truth whilst the companies, through the employees who still work for them, appeared not to answer the questions at all in my view? Just so cynical. Presumably this is called being diplomatic:(. (Cf: Sepp Blatter recently regarding the award for Lionel Messi: "Do you want me to tell the truth or do you want me to be diplomatic?" Yet, the fact he, arguably, has to put it that way in order to sugar the pill of what he said following it.) Just finding it interesting how you accept all this sort of thing, of people 'being diplomatic'. Of course if they were to admit to anything, it would immediately be controversial and end up maybe losing customers through much greater awareness of what goes on that that would create (Gerald Ratner anyone?) so instead they are forced into giving a non-answer 'answer' as that will be seen by fewer people, apparently accepted without fuss by this cynical and dual (or more)-standard society, and somehow be okay.

Anyway...rant rant!:rotfl: No - it's not fair to dismiss it as a 'rant'.

I notice the programme website leads to articles from the Open University, such as how shops get us to buy.

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/sociology/the-shops-make-us-buy

Again, it's absolutely cynical.

I notice
"The most profitable brands are placed at eye level (or children's eye level if they're targeted at them). However, profitable goods tend not to be the best deals. Supermarkets know that shoppers form their impression of whether a chain offers good value on a few staples, such as bread or milk or apples. Those ‘price-sensitive’ lines appear cheap and pull you into the store, often in the belief that everything else is equally as cheap. But supermarkets hike up the prices on other items, operating an internal subsidy."

My emphasis (twice). Note how the popular purchases - profitable goods - are not the best deals.

The entire section on "Discount signs" (again, click on the supermarket option, one of the three, to bring up these pages) is also worth reading IMO.

I pick just one small part from it here:
"Do you have the time and commitment as a consumer to play the supermarket game? Can you become knowledgeable about the price over time of products so you can avoid being out of pocket?"

It is absolutely a game. One where prices go onto 'offers' that are more expensive than previous pricing and see people ripped off. I think we should only buy the loss leaders and then walk out. Do not be taken in by any of it. Or, more accurately, just buy the loss leaders of a specific competitor together with any glitches vs the same competitor.

Play them at their game - saying, or suggesting, they are cheaper, or as cheap, as their competitors:(.

I note the online stores (there's a section on that too, the other is coffee shops) - how they add the postage and packing on at the end, don't include it in the original cost and put its pricing much less prominently than the headline prices of the items. It's all manipulation, by the online stores, too IMO.

Woah! - this was a long post!:eek:

karlie88

Grandfather driving Nissan GT-R with son and daughter in-law as passengers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgq2AdTN83o

:rotfl:

MKS

josie_ann57 wrote: »

Try this MKS, I know it uses vinegar but the jelly overpowers it.
Beetroot in Jelly
2lbs beetroot
1/2 pint white vinegar
6 cloves, 6 peppercorns, small bay leaf
1/2 packet raspberry or blackcurrant jelly. I think I have used the powder ones before.
Wash BR,do not cut, cook by boiling/microwave/pressure cooker, until tender.
Cool slightly, rub off skin and dice into small pieces or slice.
Pack tightly into sterilised jars.
Place vinegar & spices into saucepan, boil for 10 mins, discard spices.
Pour onto jelly until completely dissolved, pour onto beetroot completely covering it. Allow to cool and seal.

Keeps for ages.:)

Thanks josie_ann57, sounds good. :beer: