Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

But you can be economical with the truth?

He could use that SNP woman's details to sign up.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

No, so I guess it depends how you use it. I use it to find out how much stuff costs/where, so I can choose the shop to go to. It's mostly used to find Pepsi at 7.6p/litre.

When I decide I'm going to buy some fishcakes I'll load up fishcakes, sort into "price per unit" order, then see how much the cheapest ones cost - then look at all the shops to see if there's a difference. Then I'll know which shop to go to - and what sort of prices to expect - and the various options/ranges, coatings/batterings, %age of fish in them etc.

That's how I shop: I decide I want to buy something unusual, look at mysupermarket to decide where to buy it from, then trundle off there to get that one item and maybe look at 1-2 items I've bought from there in the past .... glance down their sweeties aisle. Come away (sometimes) with what I set out to get (they often don't have it), before dropping into Lidl on my way in for combinations of bread, eggs, milk, chips, peas, tomatoes, little cheesecakes, fruit pastilles ....

Snap but it is a pain as you can't put things into the basket and it takes several clicks to switch between supermarkets.

GDB2222

Isn't life arbitrary? You're driving along a road, and all of a sudden a Cold War fighter plane falls out of the sky.... Not something you could plan for, really.

michaels

Is it me? - Beats School Uniform Shop Watford.

We order a bunch of stuff for delivery including multiple sizes with the plan of returning the stuff that didn't ft. When the delivery came they had not put in the two dictionaries we ordered. Went in to do the returns and pick up the dictionaries. They calc'd the return and said the total left was 156 and therefore we did not qualify for the 'spend over £150 and get £15 off your blazer offer - I said the sheet they handed out at school that made us order just said spend over 150 not spend over 165 which I think was what they were suggesting - at which point the shop owner accused me off being a conman, said I should have come in and tried everything on not tried on at home and accused me of lying that the dictionaries were not in the original delivery. Now I was going to buy £9 extra to get the discount (+9 - 15 is still in my favour) but having been called a conman and been told we were not the sort of customers they want and that there is no way they would honour the offer we instead decided we will return everything, a pain yes but tbh their quality was lower than the other supplier anyway and their prices were only competitive with the blazer discount.

I have never been so rudely treated in my life.

Of yes, he was also very rude to his staff who were too young to know that that is not reasonable treatment of employees.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Long time coming .... with your shopping habits/intentions

What a rude little man.

And I thought you were a NP, calling me rude and little?!

If you got a flyer saying 'Half Price Blazer if you spend over £150' how much would you think you needed to spend to get a half price blazer?

Spirit_2

We had cous cous with dinner tonight. it was dressed very simply with olive oil, black pepper and half a lemon squeezed over it.It took just a few minutes to get ready. It accompanied a BBQ of rack of ribs in bbq sauce, Chicken in harissa and yoghurt and rib eye steak and a mixed salad.

A far cry from the first time I ate cous cous over 30 years ago when a libyan friend invited fellow students to dinner. He was married to a welsh girl and she told me she had spent all afternoon picking grit out of the cous cous. It was served with a spicy lamb stew. We sat on the floor to eat and made a cushion of cous cous in our fingers and used it to scoop up the meat and sauce. She had been taught to cook libyan dishes by his sisters whilst living in libya.It all seemed very exotic to me.

Spirit_2

micheals I would also have understood that to mean £150 got the discount, not £150 net of the discount.

zagubov

Spirit wrote: »

We had cous cous with dinner tonight. it was dressed very simply with olive oil, black pepper and half a lemon squeezed over it.It took just a few minutes to get ready. It accompanied a BBQ of rack of ribs in bbq sauce, Chicken in harissa and yoghurt and rib eye steak and a mixed salad.

A far cry from the first time I ate cous cous over 30 years ago when a libyan friend invited fellow students to dinner. He was married to a welsh girl and she told me she had spent all afternoon picking grit out of the cous cous. It was served with a spicy lamb stew. We sat on the floor to eat and made a cushion of cous cous in our fingers and used it to scoop up the meat and sauce. She had been taught to cook libyan dishes by his sisters whilst living in libya.It all seemed very exotic to me.

I first ate it when visiting some fellow students from Brazil. They made pickled cabbage on couscous followed by tea drunk with a metal straw from a pot filled with leaves so the film of liquid was stronger than anything I've ever tried before or since.

Realised there are very few Brazilian restaurants (except possibly in Brazil) and not sure I've identified their USP.

Certainly not endeared to couscous. The texture's just wrong.:(

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

Certainly not endeared to couscous. The texture's just wrong.:(

It is generally overcooked for my liking. It should have a springy texture not a wet or soggy one.

michaels

Another one who had couscous this evening. I do it by adding not enough boiling water, leaving to stay d for a couple of minutes then adding more boiling water and serving so it is nice and hot. Tend to eat it with stews or casseroles so it is not too dry. We probably have it every two weeks as an alternative carb to spuds, rice, pasta or bread. Fairly bland but I can't see what's not to like. Can't remember er when we first had it.

Still got that achey temperature feel which .means I am going to toss and turn tonight