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Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

I'm off to bed (sorry sofa zippy ) if anyone is going to be at Harrogate tomorrow........I will buy you a coffee I have a detailed plan of all the catering outlets :rotfl::rotfl:

Hope you cope ok with the Poole party TS :rotfl:

WIRS your grandson is super cute!

No you're not, you're still here 16 minutes later:eek::eek::rotfl:.

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

hobbitjones :eek:

haven't seen you around for ages! glad you are alive and well and hope work is treating you well :A

I don't think I've seen Raven much recently but just got thanked!:T:T Hope you're all doing well.

Savvybuyer

People are here, lurking and thanking:rotfl::rotfl:.

For me now though, it's late enough today so see you later folks!:)

Goodnight fc, and anyone else:wave:.

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

No you're not, you're still here 16 minutes later:eek::eek::rotfl:.

blame DS2and that God forbidden EE charger
I've had a night ofhim and his bloody phone tonight! I'll tell you! :rotfl:

I told him earlier how we never had mobiles or means communications as kids. he flounced out of the living room saying'oh that must've been lonely' :eek: :rotfl::rotfl:

He'd gone by the time I replied it wasn't because we had real conversations with real people

Naebbirac

FC, you still up too. I went to bed early for a change, woke up and can't get back to sleep now! And I have to go to work tomorrow:(
So sad about your DH. It's such a burden for him to be haunted by the things he's seen. I'm glad you are finding out at least some of them and it's helping you make sense of things. Our memory is a precious thing, but it's a shame we can't block out the bad and keep the good. I'm not putting it very well, but I hope you get the jist of it.
I've given up on sleep for the moment, off downstairs to make a hot drink and put the telly on.
N x

Savvybuyer

Naebbirac wrote: »

FC, you still up too. I went to bed early for a change, woke up and can't get back to sleep now! And I have to go to work tomorrow:(
So sad about your DH. It's such a burden for him to be haunted by the things he's seen. I'm glad you are finding out at least some of them and it's helping you make sense of things. Our memory is a precious thing, but it's a shame we can't block out the bad and keep the good. I'm not putting it very well, but I hope you get the jist of it.
I've given up on sleep for the moment, off downstairs to make a hot drink and put the telly on.
N x

So am I:rotfl:.

I'm just here because I wanted to add that I've also been thinking about "disability" recently and what that means. Specifically since what does the "dis-" part of the word mean if some people with otherwise "dis"abilities have also have some abilities that the general population tend not to have, such as in Asperger's? I started looking at the senses and how, although the standard answer I was told at school was that humans have five senses, there could be up to 20. (Another lie by my teachers:rotfl::rotfl: - "Pluto is a planet", "Santa Claus", "tooth fairy" etc.etc. - did my teachers ever utter a word of truth?!?:eek:.) More than five senses - senses of balance, motion etc. There's dispute about some of that and depends on what is meant by a "sense" or whether a means of "perception" is different to a "sense". Sometimes perhaps I don't feel myself moving through the air (but how would I know: if it's something I can't feel?) - sometimes I am moving... and keep moving and bump into something. But, if so, if I have a "deficit" in that area, it's very subtle indeed. I wondered about the "sensing" of body language - is that a sense or perception I wondered? If so, then apart from the really absolute overt, and needs to be far more overt than most people I suspect would imagine, I am body-language blind.

However, I wonder if all of us are disabled, or else wonder whether most of us are disabled (or have a disability). What about people that are colour-blind for instance? Which, in some specific circumstances, if ability to distinguish certain different colours is important, could be a disability in those circumstances (or maybe it's a 'disability', regardless, I don't know - my Asperger's deficit in inability to read body language disappears if I am alone and no other person is around me, or when I'm asleep, my inability to do small talk doesn't matter; yet I still have the "disability").

However, are most of us "disabled"? Or maybe "disability" is defined by reference to the normal, or most commonly-occurring, person?:think:

For example, what about these people:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2161402/Gabriele-Jordan-British-scientist-claims-woman-superhuman-vision.html

The person has four cones in her eyes to perceive colour, instead of the normal human's three. Are "normal" humans that only have three therefore "disabled" because they do not have the fourth cone and cannot perceive the millions of extra colours that the tetrachromatic person can? In fact, it may be that up to 12% of the population have this ability, to see so many more subtle shades of colours that do not even have any names because they have never been seen by the normal human. Does that make the rest of us, 88%, disabled? Are "we" colour-blind in relation to the functionally tetrachromatic human? (I say "we" in quotes as, who knows, if you are female, you might be tetrachromatic and not know it.) As "we", I'm speaking there, of course, as a generally perceived as non-colour blind person which might be now defined as "colour-blind" in relation to the extra millions of colours that can be seen by the functionally tetrachromatic person. (I've no idea about anything anymore:rotfl: - always assumed I wasn't colour-blind but perhaps that's not so - although I think it's correct to continue to say I have, in relation to colour at least, "normal vision" (whatever that might be - or at least, what is seen as "normal perception of colour", in my own subjective way - colour being a personal sensation).)

Interesting - hope it provokes thought. Nothing to do with money-saving:rotfl:, but anyway, you know this thread we can chat sometimes (except that Savvy "chats" about arcane academic matters and never so-called "small" talk:rotfl:). Aren't most of us "disabled" in some way or another - there's so many different kinds of disabilities and degrees - and don't over half of us have a disability of some kind or another? Or maybe all of us are disabled in one way or another? If we are not tetrachromatic, we lack a fourth cone and therefore inability to perceive something, ergo disabled. And even those of us who are, may lack something else that some other humans have (or does it have to be generally have?)) and therefore be "disabled" in that way. Does anyone have complete perception of everything that human beings in total can perceive?

purpledonkey

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Alert: no political viewpoint being made by me whatsoever!

I know I was staying off politics, but just been clicking on various news stories around the internet and one of them happened to refer me to an "interesting", and maybe even fascinating, website called isidewith.com. (https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz)

Asks you various questions and purports to align you with various stated party policy positions, saying what percentage you agree with each party etc.

My own results, I'm not saying what percentage I got for each party, but:

United Kingdom

United Kingdom voters side mostly Conservative. You disagree with most United Kingdom voters on almost all issues, especially Immigration and Economic issues. You might want to consider moving to one of these regions.

Seems I'm in a minority on nearly everything again:(. Of course it is oh wise one here. Does no good though to be in disagreement with most voters on nearly everything, as means none of what I want would ever get voted for:think:. When they say "mostly" there, they mean 37.7% to Conservative and 36.8% to Labour. Hardly a great difference between the figures and presumably well within a margin of error?

Based on my answers, the site places me as

Left-Wing Authoritarian
Your political beliefs would be considered strongly Left-Wing and moderately Authoritarian on an ideological scale, meaning you tend to stand up and protect those who are oppressed or taken advantage of and believe the government should do the same.


It's absolutely right on those last points. I do believe that the government should do the same. What major role is there for government but to protect poor people and the weak and the vulnerable?

When you have result percentages for each party, you can click on "compare answers" for each and see what the party says and what you said. I'm not entirely convinced however: for example, for the SNP, the site says that their answer as to what should happen to foreign aid is that it should increase; however this links to a quote which appears to be where the SNP say that they will maintain foreign aid levels - seems to me to be saying it should stay the same rather than increase. The site suggests the Conservative Party want the death penalty to be reintroduced - however this links to an article from the Daily Telegraph which is several years old and which claims that a group of Conservative MPs were proposing that but no evidence is presented to me that this is actually official Conservative Party policy. I'm not also convinced that one of the answers assigned to UKIP elsewhere is actually their stance.

I'm not going to say who I support, give my stance on anything or get into debate, but instead leave you to draw your own (correct or incorrect) conclusions except to say that one of the parties gave an answer (according to the site) which I thought was a much better position than my own answer, and I've now revised my opinion accordingly:D, but also one other party gave a view that I thought was completely ridiculous - and I even found myself agreeing entirely with the answer of a party whom I'm least likely to support whilst the party I'm voting for (not the one that is the very top in the percentages from this website) actually gives an answer I don't agree with on that question.

All v.interesting.

Finally, as for the question of whether tenants should receive less I]sic:p[/I benefits if they live in a housing association or council property with more bedrooms than occupants my answer was, of course, no, they should receive fewer not less. However, I was having a jibe there:rotfl:.

I trust that this is all my usual impartial approach and a fair summary by me that didn't side with any party or another:rotfl:.

Thanks Savvy, that was a fun little quiz. Didn't help me one bit though, apparently my ideology is 'centrist' and all the results came out the same :rotfl:

Still no closer to deciding

ChelseaFred

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I think the best is the "Snakes" and 4 Candyland Fruit Salad vs T. Or, nearly as good, but in fact achieving one more item and then don't need to spend on another filler, is "Snakes", 3 Fruit Salad and 1 Chupa Chups XXL Lolly.

Otherwise, can you confirm that the Chupa Chups "Best of" Lolly (do not get that one folks, as it is not in T's 4 for £1 offer) is indeed no longer comparing against M? (It used to, and might be 'good', but I don't think M sell it any more:(.)

Of course, I say "do not get..." but, to be fair, on the sweets it's hardly a great loss and they are 5 for £1 in A. (:idea:Wonder whether that mbuy is, in fact, the only mbuy that is better value than the lowest individual price? Otherwise, I can't think of any mbuy in A that does not represent a more expensive single price per unit, and then buying mbuyfold over the odds:eek:, than some earlier individual price or, at least, represents the same price as that price - and then having to bulk!) Careful, folks - has some of this stuff, individual Fudges, etc., gone up from individual 20p to 25p?:rotfl:)

Hiya Savvy,
Here is the M comparison for that shop:-

5 items (4 different) on your bill qualify for comparison ASDA Morrisons
+£0.05

1 x ASDA Orange Loose £0.30 £0.30
2 x ASDA Strawberries (400g) £3.00 £3.00
1 x ASDA Green Seedless Grapes (500g) £1.50 N/A
1 x Chupa Chups Best of Lolly £0.25 £0.20
0.34 x ASDA Bananas by Weight per kg £0.23 £0.23
1 x Ghost The Fragrance Eau de Toilette (30ml) £22.00 N/A
1 x ASDA Chosen by You White Mice (60g) £0.30 N/A
1 x ASDA Sliced Carrots (335g) £0.37 N/A
1 x ASDA Cherry Tomatoes (365g) £0.84 N/A
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Milk Chocolate Buttons (30g) £0.25 N/A
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Mini Bananas Bag (50g) £0.25 N/A

So Chupa Chup Lollies are a good comparison, giving approx. 7p back but they are tiny. Strawberries & Grapes ok too.
Incidentally, from your later post, I am about 75% colourblind (after a bad bout of measles/mumps or Chicken Pox when I was young) but I understand that the vast majority of males are at least partly colourblind?
Time for bed methinks, just finished last nightshift of the week and looking forward to a weekend off:T

ChelseaFred:)

Nannylala

Good morning awake far too early :eek: so am going to try get a little more shut eye as out with a friend today which means a lot of walking and talking

underperky

Good morning


Cloudy and dry here