Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

michaels

Pyxis wrote: »

Are they mad?

I predict a mad flurry of items being returned!
They might just as well let you exchange the points for cash and cut out the having to buy something bit!

Not just cash but 2x value cash - it can't be true.....

chris_m

michaels wrote: »

Not just cash but 2x value cash - it can't be true.....

Every little ..... oops, wrong supermaket :rotfl:

silvercar

Pyxis wrote: »

I once asked on a thread if anyone had ever discovered that someone they knew was a username they had conversed with on a forum, but not realised.

It would be even funnier if it turned out that their mortal thread-enemy was someone they knew!

BT had about 100,000 employees, so chris is probably safe.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Having slaved away for BT for 29 years, i took early retirement so I'm now a [STRIKE]gentleman of leisure[/STRIKE] layabout :rotfl:

And why not. Plenty of people sit on their 4rses their whole lives ... at least you bothered to work.

I'm a layabout too, scraping a few meagre pennies here and there ... I should really be "looking for a proper job" but I lack the confidence to get dressed up and go out there and smile at people in interviews

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

The 1300 sounds about right if you are sedentary. Doing 700 calories exercise in order to eat more pies is pretty hard work - around two hours a day brisk walking for me, but probably a bit more for you.

There's a cost element too. Good/warm/waterproof clothing + good footwear ... all to be able to spend another £2/day on food. Adds up to a cost of "free exercise" in the order of £3/day.

£90 a month ... I'm better off eating less and being idle

Typing, allegedly, burns 100 calories/hour. Reading and clicking ... nothing.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I have £500 of Nectar points

You must spend a fortune to get that much.

I'm lucky if I scrape £1/year.

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

BT had about 100,000 employees, so chris is probably safe.

Heck of a lot of change between '93 and '15 though.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

You had it very early, even for afternoon tea. I'd have called it lunch and skipped tea, unless I decided to stay in - in which case I'd have tea as well

Well, it was intended for tea .... then I ate it earlier.

It's so difficult naming meals. To me:
- dinner is noonish.
- tea is 6ish.

There's no supper. When I was growing up, we used the word to mean "some soup/toast about 4 hours after we'd eaten tea, so about 9pm" - we didn't have it every day, just on a few of the super cold nights mid winter, a bit before we went to bed. Sometimes it was just a couple of bits of toast, toasted over the fire on a toasting fork.

We didn't have heating, so that probably stopped us crying ourselves to sleep from cold

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Having slaved away for BT for 29 years, i took early retirement so I'm now a gentleman of leisure layabout :rotfl:

And why not. Plenty of people sit on their 4rses their whole lives ... at least you bothered to work.

Bothered? I had to

However, I decided that, as soon as my projections indicated that I could afford to retire, albeit on reduced pension, then I was off - didn't even bother to wait one more year to get the 30-year "award", a few hundred squids worth of voucher I think.

Having spoken to ex-colleagues and learnt how the job has gone since I left - I know I made the right decision

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

BT had about 100,000 employees, so chris is probably safe.

Stranger things have happened..............whooooo!.........

PasturesNew wrote: »

You must spend a fortune to get that much.

I'm lucky if I scrape £1/year.

I don't dare tell you how many Boots Advantage points I've got. :eek:

(But then I've been saving them up over about 3-4 years).