Everyone Lost In The Ether

Savvybuyer

"An Asperger". I'm being pretty offensive aren't I?:rotfl:. I should correct that to a "person with Asperger's syndrome" or, you may have noticed, I have most recently become pedantic and now refer to a "person who has Asperger's..." because the word "with" suggests it is something along with them, in their presence, rather that being something that is part of them or is the way they are.

"An Aspie". Is that alright? I thought that was a little offensive when I first saw it, then saw it was a self-description and then I'm okay with it. I don't mind being called an Aspie now. Because it's what I am. It's the truth!

3Dogs

gocat wrote: »

Hmmm might try the Smirnoff diet :rotfl:

Sounds great to me :beer: :beer:

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

Snap. Please, please go and get signed off work. You don't owe that bar steward boss anything. If you aren't in a union please do consider joining one.

My first instinct for you was to give yourself the push you need to just hand in your notice. But whatever you do has to be what's right for you. Either way, staying put isn't what's right. At all.

Please feel free to message me on here or on Facebook. Just remember that you aren't on your own xx

That's what the ELITE are all about :A :A

aau1

shirley999 wrote: »

Was it ever on Snap & Save (topcashback)? It was, and still is, on Clicksnap (Quidco).

I was talking about the James Bond 100% cb :cool:

Savvybuyer

From your pedantic friend, good night!:)

(Though I wouldn't really say "friend" - that's a bit obsessive as it's not friends as in a RL situation and unrealistic to think that's the case between anyone and me on here. [I just mean I don't "know" you, as in face-to-face RL - how can you 'really' know someone you've never "met"?:huh:])

Anyway, I'd better go now as I've done five posts in a row again:o:o [EDIT: oh! thank goodness 3Dogs and aau1 came in inbetween:T] and annoyed people by going on about Asperger's yet again so I'd better go - goodnight!:wave::wave::D:wave:

If I do annoy any of you, folks, please, for heaven's sake, say!!:)

Goodnight now:wave:.

Savvybuyer

I may go to M later today(:eek:) or I may not. More likely than not. But - I'm preparing my list for it now, so I most probably will go!

See you later:wave:.

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Martini Prosecco (750cl)£6.50 £6.00 :think:Do we trust the msm price graph showing this as lowest M price for over 6 months?

Another error!
It's 75cl rather than 750cl. It's a result of starting, but not finishing, to convert it from msm's millilitres to centilitres, which I do with bottles of wine and the like for some reason, we could wish it really was 750cl!:rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

zippydooda wrote: »

put it down as lost, now the next step would be to bar outgoing premium numbers, im sure you can do this for about £1
must be a good investment for peace of mind

In retrospect, probably yes, just write it off, for the £18. (If it were hundreds..., then might be different.) Though it couldn't do harm to use the freephone to PhonepayPlus.

Thank you zippy for being far more pragmatic than I can ever manage!:T:) (In relation to both the write-off and the £1 for peace of mind*.)

*Though that goes against my instincts, in other areas. Those insurance companies that want you to pay far far more than £1 in insuring against other things that are extremely unlikely indeed ever to happen. Those extended warranties on consumer products IMO are the worst there. Totally unnecessary (again IMO). I've little truck there with the "peace of mind" argument that the companies use to try to persuade me to get, what I think is largely, unnecessary cover (for things that I'm already covered for, via consumer law or which is just unnecessary as the event infinitesimally unlikely to happen - or, in my view, selling me a product and then offering, at a cost of course, a warranty in case it breaks down within a year is an admission that they couldn't have made the product properly in the first place - so, if it did break down, it'd be their fault for making such a shoddy product that didn't last as long as it should have done - rather a contradiction to offer me a warranty therefore, just gives them more money I tend to think. For the high likelihood that there will be no break down. And thus paid them money for nothing. And, if it did break down, the item sold must have been shoddy and the retailer ought to be liable. Anyway...) Goodnight!:D:wave:

(Don't get me onto my washing machine company... really annoyed me they did, their letters with the way in which they attempted to get me to buy cover...):rotfl:

Savvybuyer

Well I know this thread is about people's problems and social conversation (even though I haven't got a problem, in that it's not currently affecting me).

So here goes... people who are "normal" can do weird things from time to time (or things that, to me, are weird). An example is when I went to a disco, and found some people that seemed friendly, I'd want to stay with them the time at the disco and be friendly and I'd follow them around (not in any creepy way) and be with them. Well, more recently, someone (who by then knew I had Asperger's) was at the disco with me and then it came to where she explained it to me... she said she was just going to have some time with the girls now, that she was leaving me to be with the girls and that I should not feel alone.

Fine - I therefore stayed where I was, let her go off for several minutes and didn't follow her. I still don't understand this though as it seems a very strange custom to me! One of which I was totally unaware for over three decades. Well, no-one had ever told me about it before, no-one left me any guidebook (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9eATBV-_lg) - so how was I to know?:huh: (I don't think you're a child btw, that was just relevant to what I was saying.)

Despite telling me that I should not felt lonely, I still felt lonely. For the entire duration whilst I was left there, all alone, at the disco with no-one talking to me. Whilst she went off, what I might now think of as selfishly, as part of this normal custom.

Bizarrely, I am one who, I think, feels far less lonely than almost everyone else. I have to be: I'm a loner and happy about it, with my special interests. It's a "lonely" but happy life, Asperger's. I don't feel lonely at all (for example, here, all alone, happily typing into the computer). I suspect because I'm doing something: as I am, when I have got a special interest. Most people would be lonely as they don't have special interests - special interest of 'normal' people is socialising and they feel lonely when they are alone, with no people around them, and are not socialising.

I feel far less lonely when I am completely alone. I actually feel lonely more when I am surrounded by other people - especially when the other people are talking among each other and (inadvertently, because of lack of body language connection) ignoring me. I don't feel lonely in Morrisons, as I am doing a special interest. It's situations where people socially are around me and I'm with no-one I know (for example alone in a pub but not with my family) that I would be more lonely and never ever strike up a conversation with anyone. I tend not to go out therefore. When she left me, with no-one talking to me, and said don't feel lonely, I felt precisely that!

In fact, none of this sort of thing - "wrong planet" etc. - struck me at all in the past (and I don't have problems with people sounding too loud) - it's only in the last few years, after my diagnosis, which is still fairly recent, that I've thought about these sorts of things and that this, when I look at it (like I do with a lot of things lol), does feel a bit this way. I didn't feel I was on a wrong planet - I just didn't make friends and never realised why - I just thought I was unsuccessful, unlucky maybe and was no reason other than that - but, these days, perhaps I do feel like it's wrong planet. Or - in actual fact I enjoy (most of the time) watching around others and observing the behaviour of normal people and how weird it is! You have so many problems in your relationships with others that just seem bizarre to me! People generally are so emotional and completely inconsistent and irrational and usually fall out over the bizarrest of things that, to me, would never have been relevant or given rise to any issue and, to some extent, I'm glad I'm all out of that and don't have to have the problems that normal people create between themselves. If you, and others like you, could step back and, in that way, be more "Asperger's", then maybe, in that way, you could learn something from us. HTH.

Savvybuyer

I'm just looking at this and, for me, whose had to buy some potatoes that now will last another week, it's good news.

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/getSearchProducts.do?clearTabs=yes&isFreshSearch=true&chosenSuggestionPosition=&entry=unwashed+potatoes

I'm glad they're not playing ball at the moment! I will be displeased if I see that go to £2 when I wake up later on. Sadly I had to buy some potatoes elsewhere as M were not playing ball last week:(.

I've earlier been reading the reviews people have put on there, out of interest.

Someone posts:
"Excellent value but why have they gone up from £2 to £4 in a matter of two weeks?"

:rotfl:

My answer: that's because the 'half price' offer ended!

"These have a pleasant taste and are good value BUT avoid if you don't like hard work. Took over an hour to get them all scrubbed clean."

Really? That long? I can't believe that.

"Bought these and very pleased with them. I only found a few potatoes that could not be used. As they are in a paper sack, they keep better than the potatoes in plastic bags."

Savvy again;): I think they're excellent - the last ones I had had not even started to flower two weeks after the BB date had expired. I just made sure I folded the bag over to cover where we're opened the bag and thus keep them fresh. Had we begun the bag later and thus had more potatoes left, I think it would have lasted a week more than what it did - and would still then have been edible.

I was initially sceptical of these, before I bought my very first bag some months/year ago, because of how many potatoes were in them and thought we'd never use them before they went 'off', but the potatoes in them, usually, last for ages (well beyond the BB) and, even if we were not to get through them and had to throw away half of them, they'd still work out cheaper than other potatoes. We have not had to throw away any of them - although, admittedly, sometimes, right near the very end of the sack, they were getting a bit flowery - but we still use them - cut off any stalks that may have sprung - until we literally could not safely eat them.

Even at £4:eek:, they are actually cheaper than 2.5Kg at £1 prices. However, I don't like getting them at £4 and, when they are next back at £2, I'll pick up another sack then. They last ages and save so much money - we were getting through many womble amounts and having to do so so frequently buying 2.5Kg:( at expensive pricing in A - and often, sadly, when competitors were not significantly cheaper. It's rare that we have a nice offer elsewhere (e.g. 49p for 2.5Kg) - although, of course, when we do, I absolutely stock up with the A ones then. Otherwise, I think it's more a saving to buy the M huge sack ones at £2 and save the wombles for something else that isn't so expensive and returns little back vs anywhere.

Savvybuyer

3Dogs, what are you doing awake at this time of night? (Thanking my post about the potatoes (thank you!:)) at near quarter to three!:laugh:)

Come to think of it, :eek:why am I here?:rotfl::rotfl:

It is really time to go now (as if in any way it was not before) - so, I'm straight off!!
See ya!:D:wave::wave: