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aau1

russetred wrote: »

Haven't checked back yet to see if anyone else has spotted that Tesco wine has the champagne sparkling mystery case at £50. Works out at £8.33 a bottle with minimum of 3 bottles of champers in the case.

I'll give you one guess who spotted it first.

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Woo hoo party. Mystery fizz in stock. :T

Chrisv

m4rtin wrote: »

As I originally surmised....:p

The only thing I can see at the moment is that although most are 60p in S there are some that are 40p, 50p & 75p but they are not showing for A in MyS so presume this is why it still compared?

:T :T :rotfl:

My only excuse is that I sometimes don't see what is in front of me :rotfl:

Tinyshoes

aau1 wrote: »

I'll give you one guess who spotted it first.

Aren't you meant to be working?

I do have a reputation of wine thief to shake off you know, trying to redeem myself.

Oh and I may have done an order or two. :rotfl:

dipdap

TS is it you that has the DH who has never finished the bathroom? Or am I thinking of someone else?
(I have a feeling it's either you or TM )

Tinyshoes

russetred wrote: »

Haven't checked back yet to see if anyone else has spotted that Tesco wine has the champagne sparkling mystery case at £50. Works out at £8.33 a bottle with minimum of 3 bottles of champers in the case.

Yours is a much better OP than mine, I was so excited I didn't put the finer detail. :rotfl:

Tinyshoes

dipdap wrote: »

TS is it you that has the DH who has never finished the bathroom? Or am I thinking of someone else?

You have the right person. Yes it's us. Bathroom equals stash room at the moment until the new garage is built.

Just a shower cubicle in the corner and and plaster and render off most walls.

9_inch

miss_corerupted wrote: »

You forgot Wales and Northern Ireland

Yes, sorry about that. I think all countries should have independence. Otherwise they may as well just merge into one.

Savvybuyer

littlebluebird wrote: »

:T I find it really interesting to read your perspective on things Savvy. I have taught many a child on the spectrum and also have a few friends with children on the spectrum so it's interesting to hear how you feel about it or perceive things to be. I guess that as an adult you're more able to explain things as you've had longer to process and reflect upon the differences in how your mind works. Thanks for posting.

I knew someone would find my post useful for that very reason:T:T. In fact I was diagnosed only more recently, so I've had a shorter time to process:D. Some things come to people like me straight away and are obvious, that would take the normal person ages to imagine even if they ever did. Virtually straight after my diagnosis, it became obvious to me what the problem was! The fact that 'everyone' else is communicating via body/eye language (it's a straight concept to me that the eyes 'talk'!). I didn't notice this before my diagnosis as I was completely unaware of it - things were just how they appeared to me, the way they have always been - I just didn't really know why people never really make friends with me. I can't interrupt a group of two or more people who are talking (through spoken words) to each other, I always have to wait till they are totally silent (in that sense) as everyone else gets the cues as to when they can interrupt, through body language and eyes and is totally natural.

That's the problem - but unfortunately there is no solution to it. People generally pick up body/eye signals even before they occur (done subconsciously) - this does not exist for me and, even if I were to try to learn it by looking for the cues (and I'm way too old dog on that now, I've got by fairly well as it is and would only add a load of exhaustion trying to follow all that as well that, at the moment, doesn't exist because I'm unaware of it), if I were to learn to look for the cues, I'd still be at least a split second behind everyone's subconscious perception (or more by the time it 'reached' me - observation, then detecting in my mind what I have observed) and therefore I'd be 'interrupting' a split second too late and, as with all these things, in social life, the exact timing does make a huge difference. I'm sorry, it's going to come across, even slightly (and your subconsciousness can pick up on that and it does affect your perception, against your knowledge, in a very subtle and severe way) even slightly delayed. So, I'm left waiting until everyone is quiet - and then all the moments have passed and any input by me, at that stage, is way too late and everyone else has moved on. I now sound boring, bringing them back to something they've finished ages ago, and neither can I move the conversation on because (a) it's finished at that point and (b) I don't know what topic at all to move it on to and am still trying to respond to the one they were mentioning but had finished. I couldn't input when they were mentioning it, as I would be interrupting (inevitably at the wrong point) and would have come across as being rude.

It's so difficult getting a word in edgeways to any people talking to each other. And they ignore my presence entirely, as they're receiving no bond signals from me - like a diagram of dots, where everyone is a dot, but all the dots except one joined to each other (lines of body and eye language communication), binding them together, with one dot totally on its own, joined to nothing. Me.

All the above became clear extremely soon after my diagnosis. Until then, I could not see any of the above. I was unaware of how much body and eye language communication are. They're possibly 70% of all communication - so that's an awful lot that I miss (like blindness). I just received what I received, unaware that there was any more that I wasn't receiving. After my diagnosis, I started to think differently as I now was aware that there were things I wasn't receiving and tried to look for implications of the things I was missing. I'm now (not literally, but after my diagnosis) looking at whether there is something I am missing - and a thought about whether there is something you haven't received is now something that wouldn't have been there before - I never thought about it before - so of course it does change your perception. I can now 'see the problem' but, as I explained, there's no way of getting around it.

Of course no-one else can see the problem at all and everyone, in a new social setting in a pub for instance, say I was trying to meet someone, find a new friend, would be completely unaware that I have autism. They would therefore highly likely just see someone who was talking about things that have long moved on from, after the event, and now boring them. I don't communicate well 'in the flesh'. No fault of my own as I have a communication disorder. And no fault of theirs as it is a hidden disability and therefore how are they supposed to know? I wouldn't really have or know what to say to them in any event (other that what they've finished talking about, whatever it was). I have a view on everything (even if that view is that I don't have a view about it one way or the other) but couldn't just think of something to say of my own initiative. It would either be what they've now finished 'ages' ago (may as well be ages ago) - or it'd be about my specialist topic(s) again, which aren't going to attract people. Er, the price on the SEL of the Cloths in Morrisons is 36p. You can obviously see a great pub conversation starting there:rotfl::rotfl:.

It's interesting having a communication disorder though, once you know that that is what it is and the reasons why things are as they are. I like how most of it is completely unsolvable. People don't make allowances for things, because they are unaware of the hidden disability to make allowances for. And there is no way of explaining to them or getting their allowance - er, can you give me a gift card because you would have given me one if I had used subtle eye contact and a cheeky smile but I was unable to do so because I have autism. Sort of not going to work I feel!:rotfl: Sorry, I just sold everyone down the river because I gave you my truthful lowest price straight out, rather than seeking something initially too high in the middle then negotiating down but not quite to my lowest. However, I have autism, so please can you ignore my lowest price and in fact give me the (a bit higher) price you would have given me had I started off like most people at the deceptive negotiation higher pricing and had I given subtle body language/welcoming eye contact. Again, I think not.

And imagine, if this is a workplace setting and in fact between colleagues, well they are all supposed to comply with Equality Act and make "reasonable adjustments" - such as adjusting their own perception to be as if I had negotiated properly. Er, again I think not and it's interesting how that theory, of the neurotypicals' legislation, the Equality Act, isn't going to work. You say all things in "your" legislation and then make exceptions and exceptions to the exceptions, and it's theory that you aren't going to apply in practice. Imagine actually doing any of the things I've just said - just again proves how you never comply with what you say you will:p. You never do. You claim to support certain things. But you never actually apply them in practice. Typical again, of the neurotypical world.(:rotfl::rotfl::D:p:D) I do like watching it, as an 'observer' in this world. Love how a lot of the time you get yourself tangled in all sorts of things because of emotions. Things that I need almost never have the bother about:j. (It's not that I am emotionless - far from it. But it's because of my more tendency to rational thinking.)

m4rtin wrote: »

I think it does sometimes? I posted this a couple of weeks ago but nobody seemed to pick up on it or quote so I assumed it was well known about or me being stupid

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=66294174&postcount=1073

I do remember reading your post at 1073 before. So I did, in that sense, "pick up on it" although I didn't respond - this was because I thought it reflected what we already knew, though it was useful to mention what you did. However... it seems that, in fact, it's only the ones that are comparable between A and the competitor in question (whichever competitor, in a given situation or comparison attempt, is in question).

So you don't have to look at the entire competitor offer, but only the ones in that offer that are sold in A. Of course it may be simpler if you see the entire competitor offer and that all products in it are same price. (Rather than seeing the offer and then trying to go through every item in it and find out if it's in A.)

There is a slight complication I could add to this here - skip this bit if I've already confused you (or if I haven't but you've already got the gist and don't want to risk me confusing that). Regarding items that are showing as OOS for A (which may or may not be OOS on APG perhaps based on how long they have be "OOS"/the 7 day 'rule') - are they included in the items "available in A"? Which was why I've changed there to using the word "sold" in A rather than the word "available". (They may be "sold", or at least may have been "sold", even if they are currently temporarily OOS and thus, currently, not available.;) Careful Asperger wording you see!;):D (Blink and you'd miss it:rotfl:.))

The word "rule" is in single quotes, as maybe it's not always strictly applied (by the haphazardness of computer systems) and therefore maybe not strictly a "rule". I wouldn't risk buying in A "OOS in A" items* as they are not in stock on a.com/msm and therefore don't count to your 8. Sometimes however, when part of an mbuy, I believe they've counted as triggers? And sometimes they have still appeared on the APG, and not done that, despite showing OOS. Perhaps the rule therefore not being applied - or maybe this reflects the 7 days till they actually disappear?:think:

Yet I had a packet of biscuits once go OOS on msm on me in the period between buying them and later that evening when I tried to check the APG. As they were my eighth item, that shop failed. Not enough items, despite only apparently becoming unavailable in A and only being that for a few hours (not 7 days). So that's why I think the 7 day rule might sometimes not be strictly applied. There's a reason why I think everything - see! Glad to have explained it all:rotfl::rotfl:.

Okay...

Price collection day!!:D:D:j:rotfl:

*You can sometimes buy them in A as the OOS just reflects what is online.

Tinyshoes

dipdap wrote: »

TS is it you that has the DH who has never finished the bathroom? Or am I thinking of someone else?
(I have a feeling it's either you or TM )

I am sure we have seen TM's bathroom, hers is shiny and sparkling I am sure.

This is mine few months ago doesn't look much better now. :eek:

dipdap

Tinyshoes wrote: »

You have the right person. Yes it's us. Bathroom equals stash room at the moment until the new garage is built.

Just a shower cubicle in the corner and and plaster and render off most walls.

Thought so
I'm wondering if yours and my DH were separated at birth :think:
Up in the loft we have a stack of wooden planks we bought for boarding the loft over 10 years ago and DH started off by fixing 3 down and has never touched them ever since :mad:
The internet is now a lot more resourceful than it was back then and I pointed out to him then he needed to have the joins of have boards on the joists
Guess who as right all along although I'm now going back up and have to remove the screws of the 3 he drilled down (lopsided :mad: )
I now know why I banned DH from all diy many many years ago :rotfl:

Are you ever gonna get any closer to your new bathroom?