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LANGO1966 wrote: »

Thanks Dee Dee. Shop results from Sada in Wales (on holiday)

8 items on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda Tesco
1x Wham Raspberry Flavoured Bar (16G) £0.10 N/A
1x Tresemme Smooth Salon Silk Shampoo (500ML) £3.70 £1.72
1x McVitie's HobNobs Milk Chocolate Biscuit Flapjacks (5PK) £0.64 £0.65
1x Swizzels Refreshers Chew Bar (SINGLE) £0.10 N/A
1x Giant Strawberry Stripes (1PK) £0.10 £0.10
1x Haribo Starmix (1PK) £0.10 £0.10
1x MAOAM Sour Giant Stripes Cola & Lemon Flavour (1PK) £0.10 £0.10
1x Barratt Flumps (12G) £0.10 £0.10
0.47x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Banana (PER KG) £0.32 £0.31
1x Tresemme Moisture Rich Luxurious Moisture Shampoo (500ML) £3.70 £1.72
Comparison total (compared products only) £8.76 £4.80

Glitch shopping whilst on holiday:rotfl::rotfl::eek::rotfl:. I like it:D.

HILLBERN

cjj wrote: »

How does this look for my interview please. I only have these little boots, some strappy open toed heels or ballet pumps. Would this outfit be acceptable for catering interview do you think. Tia xx

looking good, boots or pumps would possibly be better, but whatever you feel comfortable in. Remember in catering you usually have to wear a net thingy over your hair, or perhaps have it tied back, jewellery is also usually a no no, and closed in flat shoes but im sure you've done your research just in case they ask any questions on dress protocol.
Good luck but im sure you wont need it, Im doing a 2 day mandatory training course so ill be thinking of you at 2.15:)

Savvybuyer

Leothecat wrote: »

O my word.....just read back further!
How do you do it Deedee? Thank you....I love Dove shower gel, it's so thick and creamy and doesn't slide,off your hand before I can get it on my body.....like OS!!

That's what I say all the time, unbelievably (but it's true). I am very old-fashioned in that way (but not of my personal choice). Everyone else around me - quite okay - is saying something generally considered to be more "severe" - and I'm saying exactly what you have, because I can't physically say the other things. I wish I could. I'm just not a natural, whenever on rare instance I have sworn around others, it's always come out stilted and misjudged - because I do it so rarely people notice it and then say "Don't swear", which compounds the problem I have (usual inability to swear) and I get criticised for something (okay that does not upset me that that happened) when everyone else in the same place at the same time is using it constantly (not a problem to me, indeed I actually like the sound of the actual words in certain contexts, namely friends groups as makes the environment more informal - I know not everyone would agree, which may vary depending on your age and, to some extent, gender, but the same actual words do sound harsh elsewhere - potentially at least, and in other places sometimes funny). My other favourite, outside of my solitary house, but again not my personal choice is "oh dear". I just can't. I prefer the "stronger" words. Well, actually I do but I don't (depends where, when, who around etc.). I actually agree with this: another link I can't post fully - due to this system's censorship, but, you know, if I added a "ty" suddenly the full word would appear:rotfl:. I've omitted it from the URL (so this won't link) - just google the rest if you're interested to find out what I'm referring to and hopefully it'll be there. I agree the word I don't like as much is childish.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/comments/2p0m69/dae_hate_the_word_poop_more_than_the_words_
(Better give a content warning - don't link and just skip this post if you don't like it.)
Oh - I've just tried it myself and apparently my partial link does link:cool:.

Ergh. Yuck. I don't like seeing that word in the middle of the last part of the link. And yet, of course, this site allows such "more unpleasant" things.

Folks, we are all children on this website:rotfl:. (Actually it's probably okay - people post pictures showing potatoes apparently doing such thing, or we know they really are not, and it's found generally funny.)
Regarding my not posting the link to the Guardian and Independent articles - it was not that I considered the phrase to be offensive but just that I did not feel that it was appropriate to post on this forum. Which actually speaks volumes and probably suggests that it's unacceptable in some contexts and therefore is offensive.

SineadG

bubbs wrote: »

felix mixed selection catfood 2 for £2 should be £6.48 each
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/felix-mixed-selection-catfood-2-for-2-should-6-48-each-2275095

This is working instore also

Munqui

_party_

Thanks DD :kisses3:

Mumto2monkeys

savvy_sal wrote: »

Thanks but the sloppyties one is robinsons

how did I not see that?

Sorry:o eye test booked for tomorrow;)

bubbs

SineadG wrote: »

This is working instore also

is it? paying £2 for 2 packs?

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

:rotfl: you put an asterix in your post :eek:

I'm not sure that aversions to certain things are always to do with a previous bad experience. I think I've told you before about DS2 absolute loathing of anything green. I've never been able to fathom a rational explanation for it. I know it's always been there (or at least from an early age) as it was a very canny nursery teacher that noticed he was getting extremely distressed every time someone asked him to sit on a green chair. Any other chairs were fine, but not green ones.
Obviously green is a very unfortunate colour to have an aversion to it's pretty hard to avoid! I have put unsightly slabs across my lawns so he doesn't have to walk on the grass, it has a huge impact on his diet and I have to remove all the green triangles from the quality street at Christmas :rotfl:amongst other things. He copes better with it now than he used to and I've figured out that it's not the sight of it that bothers him so much, it's that he dislikes any contact with it. It took me years to unravel that fact properly.
People in our household can own and eat and touch green things as long as he doesn't have to.

You're right: they are not always to do with this. Though I was referring to the context (:rotfl:, yet again, context) of my own PTSD and other people's. I certainly did not have this problem twenty years ago (before all the events in the meantime in more recent years) - that's how it's happened - I've gone into a different place and, suddenly, in that context something is offensive for me and I've been repeatedly exposed to that thing. Things that I was always switching off the radio when I wasn't visiting the gym since the mid-1990s. Then to have same thing with strangers around me... and repeatedly at every session.

I think the 'green' thing is probably to do with something sensory. I don't have the sensory side of autism as such, although it was suggested, as a result of my referral through psychology services with my depression illness that developed as a result, that the music thing was something sensory. They gave me the Asperger's diagnosis (which, to be fair, I very briefly "knew" I had twenty-seven years earlier, when no-one else knew of Asperger's, and the impact on my occupational functioning did not change the fact I always had (and have) Asperger's - you still have it even without disruption to occupational functioning in my view as I had it in my schoolchild days even when I was totally emotionally fine and, to all extents, fully functioning (other than the old chestnut "communication skills" - that's all it was seen as: it wasn't disability).) In a way, it's a positive, as I would not have my Asperger's diagnosis without having had all the bad experienes in the leisure centres. (I did, eventually, try to go to a different gym. Unfortunately they played the same sort of material there. I wrote to reception (unable to speak to them face-to-face because of the issue to which it referred and felt uncomfortable to do so) - they told me the CD had been removed. Unfortunately the same CD was played two weeks or so later - and I was again caused offence.*

I think (and it's only a supposition as I don't know how DS2 experiences the world), the aversion to green may be because of how that colour comes across to him. Something sensory, obviously something bad that you can't experience (nor can I). Something like a running tap sounding like a pneumatic drill next to your ear. Some autistic people report that. I have none of those difficulties: although, as regards music, I was never able to (and still can't) concentrate with music on in the background (to me it's foreground) and, I was told, that's an autistic thing too. It is - I see and hear nearly everything in a room I enter. Other people generally see... just other people. To me, the key dropped on the floor is more obvious sometimes! Can be useful if trying to find keys:rotfl:. Then again I have "key scares" (like everyone I suspect) from time to time and put down my house or car keys and can't remember.find where I've left them. Can be a bit more (but not usually much more) disorientating to me, that likes routine and comfort, than the average person I suspect.

Mind of information wheels this one out again:
http://www.livescience.com/21275-color-red-blue-scientists.html

("Colour is a personal perception")

Or maybe not:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051026082313.htm

"...yet people appear to perceive colors I]sic[/I the same way." Obviously, it's not an error as such as it's an American website.
But, regarding this quote, how could we ever know? Maybe it's different for autistic people - perhaps autistic people experience a different perception of colour or in different part of the brain etc., or maybe some autistic people do - but, again, how would you ever know how my red, green, blue, etc. precisely look to me?

*To anyone interested, on that occasion it was the song Dead and Gone Radio Edit - let's get it out - and hope it doesn't trigger anything for me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OACV8UVHF5o "Cleaned Songs" it claims - what a joke:rotfl::rotfl:. Not enough for me - still racially offensive language and others in the soundtrack in signature form. Bear with me, just checking the soundtrack is the same in this version as to what I heard - [EDIT - no, this linked one does appear to be clean i.e. rewordings, one they had in the gym was blanked parts, although not quite - more like signature sounds still present, as if the full words being whispered and, therefore, heard more clearly. Still checking for you and seeing if it is the version I'd heard. It's probably one off an unmarked pop album or Now! compilation or something - obviously dangerous material that isn't marked with any warning:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: (I can laugh at funny side of it, safely here at home, though not funny at all at the time in the actual situation.] [EDIT 2: If I find the "right" one, I'll change the link.]

Claire1972

Munqui wrote: »

Are these the right ones ?

John West Steam Pots Tuna Infusion Soy & Ginger with Mushroom Couscous (285g made up) 8
John West Steam Pots Tuna Infusion Coriander & Cumin with Lime & Coriander Couscous (285g made up) 9
John West Steam Pots Tuna Infusion Basil with Sun-dried Tomato Couscous (285g made up) 9½
John West Steam Pots Tuna Infusion Chilli & Garlic with Spicy Red Pepper Couscous (285g made up) 8½
John West Steam Pots Tuna Infusion Lemon & Thyme with Tomato & Black Olive Couscous (285g made up) 9½

Hello
Sorry just logged in I'm not sure, far too many for me.
I have about 7 days to catch up on, I'm thinking about doing a c&c for tom as I need essential stuff, anything worth going at the moment please?
Claire x

SineadG

bubbs wrote: »

is it? paying £2 for 2 packs?

Yes I bought some about an hour ago