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littlebluebird

fairclaire wrote: »

My mission is to find cheap roll on/stick deodorant for DS2. He is 13 later this week so it's now acceptable to wear deodorant :rotfl::rotfl:
He used spray this morning and sounded like he was having his fingernails pulled out :eek: He says it hurts, so I need to find something a bit less harsh for him. Shame, as I have a cupboard full of various sprays.

Morning all. :wave:
Don't know if it's any help but lynx roll ons are £1 at Ts and £2 at @.
They are on offer til 22nd.

Also, beef was a goer from an HD this morning. (Although none left in my store so was subbed for larger ones, shame. )

aau1

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mhoc

The trouble with not being able to put APGs into the machine on the day over the weekend is that I tend to forget them until I am trying to make some sense of the receipt pile on the desk.

This one is from the 6th and actually gave a better result than I thought it might. The only items that let me down were the wheat crunchies and the Simply Great - if Id not opted for a fancy flavour it would have matched the standard one and given me another 30p on my APG.
This was OHs Shopotize receipt -Pizza, jelly babies, KP wheaties, Pepsi for £2.80 cashback and £1 for the seabrooks.
I had MOCs for free packs of Simply Great (a £2.20 and a £1.50 one strangeley for August and September) 10ps for the jelly babies, two 50ps for the John West (to give to youngest son) - no APGs though
Loveley till girl just scanned everything :T

0.15 x ASDA Bananas by Weight per kg £0.10 £0.10
1 x ASDA Smartprice Sparkling Water (2L) £0.17 £0.17
1 x Pepsi Max (2L) £1.00 £1.00
1 x John West Tuna Steak in Brine No Drain (120g) £1.50 £1.00
1 x John West Tuna Steak in Spring Water No Drain (120... £1.50 £1.00
1 x KP Wheat Crunchies - Crispy Bacon (6x25g) £1.00 £1.88
1 x Goodfella's Stonebaked Thin Margherita Pizza (345g... £1.50 £1.00
1 x Seabrook Lattice Hand Cooked Crisps - Cheese & Oni... £1.25 £0.99
1 x Seabrook Lattice Hand Cooked Crisps - Natural Sea ... £1.25 £1.00
2 x Simply Great MangoGreat Mango Juice Drink (1L) £3.00 N/A
1 x Bassett's Jelly Babies (190g) £1.00 £1.00

Savvybuyer

Ya don't need any preparation for that:D. Just go there and get on with life as you already have.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/09/students-aspergers-ready-university-life

Of course I never had any preparation or any special help from my university - I went through university and my Asperger's was diagnosed over 15 years later (after I'd already then been through university a second time and still wasn't aware I had the condition).

The article reporting very different problems though, many of which I don't have. Such different effects it has on different people that have it, some of which have some aspects but not others. I'm a bit a fussy eater, but not to that extent (although some of you may have noticed that I don't ever seem to buy certain ranges of products on my own shops, even though I check the prices on every grocery item for all you lot, lol:rotfl::rotfl:, in other words even the ones I don't buy - that's Asperger's:D:laugh:).

Sort of like learning the entire bus route network even though you virtually only ever use the local bus service to your college or work and none of the other services.

The one thing there I did have was the difficulties with group work - although by the time I reached university I'd already become assertive enough to have my input, as a reaction no doubt to have been 'pushed down' so often at school. So there wasn't really much of an issue with group work at that stage of my life but, as I said, it is different for different people.

I was thinking about this only the other day - and there are a number of different things I did/said, a number of 'incidents' shall we say (although the word 'incident' almost certainly suggests more than in fact happened - they weren't ones that got me into trouble) at points in my university, all of which are Asperger's. The way I didn't turn and look at anyone in the audience for example at my graduation ceremony. So I have this photograph my dad took, in which I only face sideways:rotfl:.

I was bullied at school, it occurs to me now for being 'different'. By the time I reached university however, my behaviour, which had been more like an adult, then fitted in and especially with other adults in an academic setting. I was almost never seen in the student bars, but just stayed in my own house, and never really made any friends. (Violins playing, sob story:(:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: - no, don't worry, it's not a sad story, I'm in fact perfectly fine and happy as I'm writing this.)

I may as well add, I mentioned earlier about eye contact and perhaps suggested I never made any. You may have got a misleading impression from this (and of Asperger now has to correct that lest you have done so:D:rotfl:) - if I am sitting at a table, one on one, face to face meeting with someone, in fact I make good eye contact. If I am making a presentation to a group sitting at a bench in front of me (I don't want to suggest this might be to a Magistrates' Court bench:o:rotfl::rotfl: as I've never been in that situation, but, no, to people in a row at a job interview perhaps), then I make good eye contact again. If they are dotted around the room however, then I don't and I don't think to look across the room and back again, not naturally, and if I did probably distract me from what I'm saying.

Similarly, if I'm sitting on a sofa in a pub, or perhaps sitting around a table, but different people are at different points in the room, I'm tending not to make eye contact. If it's a table like a row (or rather two rows, one I'm in and the other opposite us facing towards us), perhaps I would make eye contact or at least face the person I want to talk to. However, I can't enter the conversation they're inevitably having (if this is a non-autistic group) because I have to wait until everyone has ceased talking (and, here, the definition of "talking" does not extend to "talking" through body language. Body language, itself, can be seen as "talking" - or at least communicating a message to everyone (that is, except me:rotfl:). But I don't mean that - I mean, you know, talking. Speaking, saying something, by words that other people hear. Not "speaking" via your body language - which anyway doesn't 'speak' to me!)

As I mentioned before, this is why I often can't a word in edgeways. Or a word in at all. And, by time everyone has finished talking (in my sense), the conversation has now moved on to something else, or else they've finished with that issue and any input on it is now too late and boring (we've already finished!) but I couldn't get into the conversation - between two or more other people - at any point when it was in progress as I cannot see the 'cues' at which to do so, and if I say anything when someone is already talking, the group (or individuals in it) would likely take it that I am being rude and interrupting as it is going to be at the wrong split-second. I would not be that I am rude, instead I simply can't see any body language that lets me know when to interrupt.

This is doubtless why I can never make friends and engage as part of a group in that way (and also have the problem that I often 'don't know what to say') but is why it is easier to talk to someone one to one. Though even there I'm waiting for them to finish speaking to someone else:rotfl: and neither of the people talking to each other even recognise I am there:doh: (possibly because they are receiving no body language signals from me - I do not have that transmitter either!:D) Ignorant, normal people that treat me as if I'm not present:rotfl::rotfl:. (It can have its advantages sometimes, slipping in and out of somewhere, unnoticed:eek::rotfl:. I'm sure, if any Asperger was there, they'd notice immediately any tiny rustling in the room, as well as the colours of the carpet patterning and everything else:rotfl:. Pick up things that others fail to notice. Such as when traffic lights have changed to green, to my bugbear:rotfl:! Or - best one that gets me - and this is people driving cars not HGVs - why, in a national speed limit zone, do they do 40, then when it goes to 50, they'd still doing 40:(, but when it goes to 40 sign, then they start doing 45 or 50:huh:! Is this just normal behaviour? Most 'normal' people - who I assume haven't got Asperger's because it isn't common - is only a tiny percentage of the population - seem to drive like this.

Is it the case of neuro-typicals (that is people without autism disorders) being people that fail to notice speed limit signs, or indeed any others except for speed camera signs - I think Department for Transport research (yawn...:() showed that the speed camera sign was the ONLY one that any real proportion of the driving population knew. 99% (I may have it wrong) of people knew that one. 80% knew the next sign (again, I may be out). Virtually no-one knows any other road sign:(. (Except presumably the 1% that have Asperger's. Perhaps because Asperger's are the only ones that, if interested, would read the Highway Code at any time other than trying to learn to drive - as we read things rather than take part in social interaction - and, indeed, are the only people that would even ever follow the Highway Code or, it seems, any speed limit signs at all (with the exception of camera ones at which - the key issue to normal people's behaviour - seems to be 'if they will get caught'. Otherwise it doesn't matter).

aau1

viv0147 wrote: »

Savvy buy! 6 tins of heinz baked beans £2 in Asda

Another great joke :rotfl:



Wait a minute....:think:

karlie88

Morning everyone.

:eek:

hornetgirl

Snap-ant wrote: »

Tour of Britain going through the town today.

Hoping I can change my tea break so I can wave to Bradley Wiggins

Friday for us. Not quite coming here, but Hemel Hempstead which is only just up the road.

lawrie28

mhoc wrote: »

I've had a limited edition proof copy of the new Nick Hornby 'Funny Girl' arrive this morning - does anyone who does comps remember this as a prize from somewhere - I am wondering if I am supposed to read and review it for somebody.
If I keep it for reading when we are away I won't get it finished, huge thick paperback and we are only away for a week.
Anyway first win for ages, need to get my butt into gear.

There was a thing on his website, you filled in a form and would get sent one, more of a freebie than a comp. Not had mine yet, so hopefully I get mine tomorrow.

Savvybuyer

aau1 wrote: »

Another great joke :rotfl:



Wait a minute....:think:

:rotfl::rotfl:

viv0147 wrote: »

Savvy buy! 6 tins of heinz baked beans £2 in Asda

:rotfl:
I agree it's another joke. I even saw an item that was way more expensive than what it had been some time before, now marked as a "Savvy Buy" on msm. Er, no thanks...:(:rotfl::rotfl: (In fact, I could, given time, probably find it again - i.e. if I happen across it.)

EDIT: ...and there's where I should have stopped! But as usual I have to add more...:D, I was thinking about some of this yesterday, when I was in that very expensive store, Mr Ms, about how "half price" is just an expensive price. I prefer free (or 'better than free'). But - a lot of the branded cleaning products - £1.37s and £1.60 -somethings. Just, way expensive. Whoever needs "brands"? You don't even taste those particular products (I hope you don't!).

M also now had a new POS promotional device shall we say. Perhaps this is the new "Great value". (Which, as you know, almost always, if not always, means a price increase compared to the immediate previous price.)

"Big brands, low prices." the signage said. (Or "Low prices on big brands", one or the other.) Such as Walkers 20 pack crisps £3. £3 is supposed to be a "low price". I think M and myself do not necessarily have the same idea as to what is "low". Everyone - what is a "low" price?

These crisps were £2 two weeks ago and went up to the £3 price. I would have called the previous £2 "low" (or at least "lower"). But, apparently, £3 is still "low". Again, we (M and me) obviously have different ideas about what is "low". "Low", for them, appears to me to mean anything they can make money on - for that is their job:doh: - by advertising as being "low" so that people pick it up in the belief that it is a good offer.

Watch out for this!

Also had other Walkers crisps at "big brands, low prices" £1! £1 is an extreme expensive, high price to pay IMO (but then we are money-savers! And beyond what the normal "bargain hunters" claim to be good - we are the Elite!) £1 "low" price when - admittedly a different brand - they have Seabrooks on 84p.

At the other store, I noticed a promotion at the entrance. A variation on the theme - this time "big brands, small prices". Er, not small enough to me! The brand at a "small" price, apparently, was Dolmio 710g. They've "cut" the price of that by an extremely little amount in my view - 60p - from £2.60:eek: to £2.00:eek:.

£2.00 now is a "small" price, according to them. Well, it may be a small price to pay for them - which gives them more money than sometime before. These are the Dolmios that were on offer earlier in the year at £1.30! Until they go back to that, they are nowhere near my lists or any of my buying ideas. £1.30 is a "small" price (or certainly it is "smaller", i.e. than £2). In fact, I wouldn't even call £1.30 a small price - maybe a penny or 30p might be "small" (I was going to write something like 46p or 48p there - but, way, that is getting near to those expensive 50p items:eek:). Again, I think we have different ideas:rotfl:. Anything over a £1 ever is real expensive to me:rotfl::rotfl:. But this £2 "smallness" is obviously aimed at the mass consumer, who pays way over the odds on everything, thinks that prices are constantly rising and sees everything in the context of what else they pay and therefore thinks it is "good". As I mentioned a bit ago, they're on another level, or another planet, compared to us and what prices apply to everything. For us, half price is expensive, and even quarter price is no good sometimes:rotfl::rotfl:.

Fortunately, I have a memory, that the public in general may lack, or they else fortunately not have any interest in, instead being concerned with reality TV programmes and the pointless antics of irrelevant 'celebrities', and I can remember the Dolmio at £1.30 so I am certainly not going to be caught out! Helpfully, I shall now start viewing "low prices/small prices" with the same caution that applies to "great value" - which seems to be an automatic rejection of whatever it is promoting as it is almsot certainly a price increase compared to some previous price (maybe the one before last).

ADDITIONAL EDIT (oh no:(:rotfl::D:rotfl:): Ocado are £1.30 on the Dolmio at the moment (not that I would buy them there;)) - so much for M's £2.00 "small" price!

izzy65

Ladyshopper wrote: »

I thought they did understand, thats why I was so disappointed to find out my manager has gone to the Dr behind my back. The reason for this was because I didn't go to the toilet for an hour and a half when he visited me!!

Its very difficult when your symptoms/pain/discomfort are invisible, and you appear to look fine to people.

I'm also wondering if its because I went on holiday - pre-booked and not a secret, and checked with federation it was still ok to go. Basically I was lying around on a cruise ship rather than lying around on the bed at home, but bladder played up a lot whilst away so definitely curtailed things like getting off in port.

I think some managers are still of the opinion that if you are off work sick, you can't leave the house for any reason whatsoever.

Anyway, will let Federation do the negotiating on my behalf, but have decided that I will ask for 2 more weeks off sick, then get my GP to sign me back on with restrictions (she has already said she would do this) regardless of what work say. I need something to take my mind off things, and I am just going to go crazy at home.

I can understand where your coming from here, but that doesn't make the symtoms any less real, and in some ways it makes it harder, just don't go back to work until you are ready both mentally and physically you don't have to prove anything to your manager:)