Everyone lost in the Ether II

Savvybuyer

I have to go. I'm going very slowly, and still not quite finished with M list yet - but I've been leisurely doing that through the evening. I'll return for more later and eventually get to the Lidl updates!

See you later - bye!:wave:

Savvybuyer

I would not expect this product (or at least two others in the range that also show £1.09 and 70p on msm) to compare against M on TBG, even if they were available in T - and they could well be as this just indicates that they have dropped offline - as, if TBG follows its own rules strictly and technically correctly, these are on RTC 70p price in M and that is not compared to.

Cofresh Asli Indian Bhel Mix (200g)



70p 35p / 100g


£1.09 *


The same may be true of the Laziza products (some 50ps and 70ps on msm) as they are also RTC and therefore should not compare on TBG. However, the same is not true of the APG (and I'd revert in favour of that anyway due to the 10%) such as possibly this one:

Laziza Biryani Spice Mix (100g)



Unavailable in Tesco [allegedly]

• 
  70p
• 
  94p

That's an indication of where I'm going to next on the M list, with the items I'm yet to add onto it. These brands are about the only few that I have left to add before I will be completely finished with it (perhaps one or two more beyond). I would not expect to find these in all As, or indeed in all Ms. In fact, I think you will not find it in all As, as I don't see these being available in the small supermarkets. I may be totally wrong again though, as usual.

:wave:

fairclaire

savvy one of my jobs when I do actually work is to deal with new recruits. We had a guy today who worked as a marine engineer and he has aspergers.
he's finding it so hard to find employment he is intelligent beyond anything I can understand and when I saw him trying to write a novel on a scrap of paper I just got him.

and he got me. it was one of those moments where you had to be there but we understood each other.

that was before I sat on the reindeer. He's coming in next week and that gives me a reason to be there. I've had a few dark days but thanks to people like him I realise I can actually help people and he can help me. he's my first 'on the spectrum' ex serviceman and and yes I did puff my chest out that all my years of trying to understand the condition, and all the learning I've done will finally be worth it

I only did it for me and my situation but I might just help another person. it's pleasing

of all things I have an eye appointment in the morning. I'm not sure where having wonky eyes comes in the great scheme of things? it's probably up there with the health check my doctors surgery keeps trying to get me to go to? I've resisted the urge to post something back to them saying......I'm not healthy :rotfl::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

savvy one of my jobs when I do actually work is to deal with new recruits. We had a guy today who worked as a marine engineer and he has aspergers.
he's finding it so hard to find employment he is intelligent beyond anything I can understand and when I saw him trying to write a novel on a scrap of paper I just got him.

and he got me. it was one of those moments where you had to be there but we understood each other.

that was before I sat on the reindeer. He's coming in next week and that gives me a reason to be there. I've had a few dark days but thanks to people like him I realise I can actually help people and he can help me. he's my first 'on the spectrum' ex serviceman and and yes I did puff my chest out that all my years of trying to understand the condition, and all the learning I've done will finally be worth it

I only did it for me and my situation but I might just help another person. it's pleasing

Thanks for that - that's interesting: you know all about this from your own experience. It is interesting the disconnect between what seems like huge intelligence - and inability, to some extent, to deal with certain things (such as my getting a Christmas tree). I managed to deal with the fused light bulb for the living room earlier though - always disappointing when they don't last, but at least it flickered and then went off:( at about 4.20 this afternoon, so we were still a bit in daylight (very slightly but crucially). Though I could have done it, a little more difficultly, with a lot of light from nearby kitchen. (I seem to be coining different words tonight:rotfl:. - it's creativeness you see;):D.)

I can change a light-bulb (just about:o and I don't need any other person to do it). That's an achievement as even a few years ago, I wouldn't have been able to do so (maybe I was just never interested in doing so or learning how to do so - it's quite simply really, twist one out and twist one in. Does it even require any learning? Maybe it does for people with ASDs:think: - we have to do everything (perhaps not totally literally I don't know?) from learning it and using intellect. I never remember it. I remember Morrisons prices more than I don't remember, ever, how to fix a boiler or bleed a radiator. I can't change car tyres - I probably could if I really got into it - although perhaps not in the night-time - instead I call the breakdown people out. But - that's what I've paid for (and more!) - may as well use it and get my "money's worth" - it is needed anyway with my car now getting a little older.

I like your ending right there (which I cut off). I really love that word. Nowadays anyway. Whether I should do or not:rotfl::p. There's nothing better than words the bloody forum won't let me print:rotfl: (and whether I should say this or not). Green Ghoolish Popcorn indeed:rotfl:. I could find no other way - and it does go against my own need for accuracy. I suspect it doesn't like testicles (though it's fine with it like that:huh:). I suspect that product in M is pretty limited in the stores it is in - you may find it in the seasonal aisle though if you are lucky. Or do what muggles do and pay at least twice as much for some other popcorn! 60g packs indeed:rotfl:. 60g for £1 or 50p for 200g? Or something like that - I haven't got time to check fully and make sure my memory thought is totally correct!

(You ought to see what I had to do to the Spotted Richard's pudding. In fact, they must have changed the forum filter as that word, which is perfectly fine context there, was allowed through on my earlier lists, at the time I posted them months/years? ago, as I stumbled across an old list, from ages ago, that I had on a very old thread and found, to my chagrin and I can't alter it, that part of my text had been replaced by four exclamations - I'm not having that done to my text! Obviously, I can't get rid of it - it wasn't there at the time of the post, which quite rightly, let the word through but you should see the subtle way I've had to alter it now, by deleting a space, in order to get it through, the way it should be! Except for that annoying, inaccurate lack of the space:rotfl:. It pains me - at least if I would let it: instead it just causes me a little having to change it. And sorry to anyone that doesn't want me discussing this. I have been avoiding mentioning it for weeks - but then haven't thought about it much in that time. Forum filters raising more issues about things than if they've left them alone:rotfl:! They make such a fuss about words and draw much more attention to them - if indeed they are offensive as seems to be their contention, then surely the greater thought and attention given to them, that twenty and thirty years later now gives more attention to them and reinforces the whole thing, is therefore making the text more offensive in its altered form? It only ever implies the original word or much worse - and sometimes has you going through a whole series of possible alternatives, compounding the matter more:mad::mad::rotfl:. It does, sometimes, make me literally highly annoyed - and, therefore, as causing an emotional reaction - though not one I am having at present - is thereby making the text offensive when it was not before if it had been left untouched.)

Anyway: :wave:, see you later! (I'd better now get to bed before I annoy myself with my latest amendment and my addition of that very last bit there just now. Grrrrr:mad::mad::mad::rotfl::rotfl: What a good way to end... have me thinking about the "F" word now and getting myself so increasingly annoyed by it and wondering why... far beyond if you'd ever actually said it!:rotfl::rotfl:)

[I'm entitled to my opinion, as is everyone else, and if the intention is to avoid upsetting or annoying anyone, then it's no less important that it avoids upsetting or annoying me and greater attention ought to be paid to avoid doing things, such as using asterisking, that often or sometimes succeed in doing so. After all, the word is asterisked in order to avoid upsetting people, or some people, or some other people, and, if their needs and concerns are important and considered, then mine are too or should be too (if they are not, then you (as in the global you, not you personally FC) are disrespecting me and my opinion) and things such as "offensive" asterisking or exclamation points in the middle of sentences, that clearly aren't exclaiming at the end, should therefore not be used. Indeed, I'd go further - [I]must [/I]not be used, if its use thereby gets me worked up. Actually, it's completely without reference to context, as to whether things get me worked up or not. It's illogical when it does or doesn't - as emotion [I]is[/I] illogical. Fortunately, I'm managing to contain my emotional reaction and not experiencing it! Or managing to experience a 1% of annoyance - nonetheless, not neutral completely and it therefore, to some minor extent, has bothered me. But to call it "bother" is putting it too strongly.]

I'm sorry though - as I'm sure my bracketed part will unintentionally annoy someone else, anyone at all, and therefore, by my own standard, be itself me disrespecting their opinion. Thus we reach the stage where no-one's opinion is worth any more or less than anyone else's, all equally valid, and end up either not being able to say or not to say at all anything (silence can sometimes be offensive - people can be offended by your failure to say something or your not saying anything) or else we are all annoying each other - or at least one person, anywhere in the world, that may read or hear what we say and then... well, I don't know where that leads or what I'm leading to. (I think we all always get on don't we on these threads?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: (shakes head a little). I know I try to get on with people anyway, so that's the important thing to me and other people do with me:cool:.)

Anyway, bye-bye:rotfl::rotfl:!

vanilla_twist

You are all going to miss my hilarious post about fc reindeer as I forgot to press sent:o

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nerfdad

Good morning:)

northerngeezer

Morning guys

Pringles 2 for £1 at morrisons according to hukd

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/getSearchProducts.do?clearTabs=yes&isFreshSearch=true&chosenSuggestionPosition=&entry=pringles&dclid=COWMkJjQwckCFcWUwgodGBYAlw

harryhfp

davemorton wrote: »

Talking about Avios points, how many would someone get in say 6 months if they were spending about £1k a week on a points card, so say 25K, and where would that get you a flight to (and back)

You would probably go for a Gold Amex card, 20,000 points + 2000 more if you apply through a referral
https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/content/gold-card/ - then your spend gets you another 25,000 points.


Total 51,000 points. Here is the redemption table http://www.headforpoints.com/2015/07/27/british-airways-avios-redemption-pricing-by-route/


On my Europe route out to our holiday place it's 6500 off peak, one way. So you could buy nearly 8 of those flights (+£17.50 taxes/ fees).


Now do you see why we do it?


Don't forget there are a few tricks to increase your balance. Eg convert first £50 of TCB cashback to Tesco = 12,000 Avios, or convert ordinary TCB cashback direct to Avios @ 1:1. Lots more tricks...


We burn about 250,000 Avios a year on flights but I am still managing to increase my Avios bank balance.

harryhfp

Dave, there are more advantages, just search Amex on HUKD.


Statement credits - Amex gives you money back when you register for a promotion and spend the required amount in a given outlet.


Current good ones are £5 back wys £10 @ Post Office - they have a giftcard that you can credit to Amazon, for example.


Which explains why I have got 5 Amex cards in my wallet. Other people are more enthusiastic than that, but 5 is a good number for me.


So the Post Office deal nets me £25, or put it this way: 50% discount on Amex on £50 spend.


The SD one discussed last night is also £5 back wys £10, good if you need a half price electric toothbrush (as I do).

tweets

Nellie35 wrote: »

I did the quiz this morning and I just went back to check and for the first time ever I am 1st !!!!!!!!!! Bet I won't be by morning though :rotfl:

Nellie35 was yesterday's smartest player! :j:j:j

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