Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

locarr

And another....
Actress Liz Smith, who played "Nana" in the Royle Family and Mrs Cropley in the Vicar of Dibley, has died aged 95.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38440648

Savvybuyer

bubbs wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You're laughing more than me!:laugh:

In fact, I'm pleased to say you've beaten me earlier - it was your Lamb leg from S at £4/Kg. and I thought I had M slightly cheaper. You've also made me find all my sheets of info.:T as I was looking through the one page (both sides) that I had and couldn't see the Lamb Leg I'd written down. I then found that I did have more sheets than that as I found one in the middle of my list that I'd taken out of my bag - I thought I had more than just the one piece of paper!:D Not excessively much though, as two:eek: other pages turned up: but one of them only on one side and most of that blank so it's not that bad even though it's a lot more than I first thought I'd come back with:rotfl:. I've been able just to cross the Lamb Leg off:cool:, as Sains. is cheaper than M.

So, thanks for "getting me organised":). As well as beating my price on the Lamb Leg.

EDIT: I now see you're laughing at just one small part of my post. Taking that one part out of context:rotfl:.

Sarahdol75

TrulyMadly wrote: »

It was really quiet Sarah. There was lots of Christmas tat down to half price and over priced Christmas party food. I saw a full container of blueberries dated today but couldn't be bothered to hang around.
What time were you at Marksies?

We went in about 1pm and they were reducing everything "Christmas" heavily. It was heaving.

We then went in again around 4pm and the "Christmas" stuff had nearly all gone, bar a few packets of yorkshire puddings and parsnips.

Cant belive how full my freezer is, OH was impressed, he was worse than me, walking round, saying "we will have this, this and this" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Let It Snow Candy Canes Peppermint (144g)75p However, may need to check Poundstretcher to see if this, or some other size, is available/works out cheaper there. Of course this will almost certainly go to much cheaper after Christmas in whichever Ms stock then remains anyway.

Seems to be going the wrong way:rotfl::rotfl:. I now have (one store only, no trace for me elsewhere yet) £1 SEL for this and didn't think to check this as I thought it was an RTC price. I now notice I have it on the list from earlier at 75p! So - I don't know whether this has going up or (probably more likely) has got old SEL up - I know one other item had £1 elsewhere but was 75p RTC marked down from £1 so I am taking that other product as 75p.

They could well have done the sneaky increase up to £1 as I had £1 on a yellow label now. If it is £1, you now know it is too dear;). I will look for it again next time (this was always going to be a step towards getting further items updated after Wednesday).

"[A]lmost certainly":rotfl::rotfl:.

There is a similar situation with store opening times on Monday 2nd January - and, although it's 9am-6pm then (so one extra hour), I think that that doesn't permit me to do any more than Boxing Day. Wherever I go, there is no other (fourth) store I can get to within the one hour extra time - and have stores that have wider ranges. I am therefore cancelling 2nd January and only planning on Wednesday that week. I don't see much point in doing the extra (on Monday) half collection only in order to do the proper one two days later. I may as well just do that one day (Wednesday 4th) - and do it properly. The reason I did yesterday was because many offers are due to end in M today and I wanted to see if SELs had been changed (answer is that largely they have not:) - so they are still showing offers as far as my three stores are concerned, if they have had them showing at all: as usual, the odd full price SEL here and there but that's not on items expiring now today). And of course the after Christmas reductions were also a factor yesterday. I will do tomorrow (Wednesday) to get new offer details and try to have items I didn't have yesterday. I will miss Monday out next week and just do the Wednesday as I don't see much changing within a week, unless they are doing to put lots of flash offers on to expire within a week. There will always be some change on 2nd January but I will miss out that date:cool:.

zippydooda

oi OI
you lot, tell me something i dont know or im going to bed. thinking of it,no cruises booked so dm may nor apply

Savvybuyer

Oh dear - all this ineffectiveness again. I was watching/listening to the TV earlier and they showed a woman jump into what was presumably a cold swimming pool. The man outside said "Tell me how you feel without swearing" (my emphasis).

It's no good! Say "without swearing" and you may as well be swearing - it immediately makes me think of a specific and explicitly-exact swear word phrase that she could otherwise have used. So, drat it! Say it with swearing please:D. And now... we've just had a report (another one that's made an issue of the language for me:rotfl:, that I could otherwise have ignored and got the context of, you know, the actual report story rather than the otherwise non-integral language that has been made integral by the bleeping). They've bleeped a word - and yes it was an N word plural (used by a black or African Carribean person) - or at least that's what I've got from it anyway so it made no differenece - actually it did make a difference, of put a sort of emphasis onto it. I think there wasn't even any element of the word remaining around the bleep at all - but that makes no difference! Then they've used a word that is a generally milder ordinary 'swear' word - well, it is and it isn't - it ought to be generally milder except that words that are 'milder' sometimes have a strong impact on me whilst words that ought to be the strongest of all (such as the racially one) have no physical impact, in terms of making me uncomfortable, at all. I guess it's illogical and based on what was strong or not in my own childhood - over thirty years ago rather than how they 'should' be now. So, anyway, the rationally milder word was bleeped - except that they then failed to bleep the same word in the soundtrack of a song played several seconds later! Just... hilarious:rotfl::rotfl:.

:oNone of which was of course the point of the programme or news item at all and they've simply diverted attention onto some irrelevance instead.

:rotfl::p

Do you know? - I think it's neurotypicals again (or, rather, non-autistic people) doing their usual incomplete job - of failing to bleep every occasion and/or probably not even noticing one of them at all. Non-autistic people often miss things all the time. In any event, not to worry as none of it bothered me and the new context that they've given it has simply amused me. At least I wasn't in charge of things though - otherwise I'd go over the top and bleep everything!

EDIT: Actually, I thought about something like this in M. About how they, it may be said, "censor" things for me sometimes by putting a temporary OOS label over the top of the price on the price label. (Of course, I can remove the 'censorship', to see the price underneath, by lifting up the label.) What I thought about was how often though I "see" the price even though I don't lift the label up. :rotfl:I must remember actually to lift the label and see the actual price rather than automatically somehow perceiving it as if it's there. I realised about how I was automatically "seeing" some prices as if they were visible rather than actually checking them, with several OOSs as I was going along in one set of shelving area. Although I did check underneath and they did say what I thought. However, sometimes I can see just the pound sign and the OOS sign is covering the figures and, somehow, I "see" the figures as if they are there. (Or I can just see the right-hand side of the figure 7 at the end and think it's gone to full price £1.37 rather than being £1.00 anymore, for example.) Maybe it's my mind with me already "knowing" the price - but sometimes I do not know the price and the actual price is different (I should never know as I am checking for what the current price, allegedly, is rather than reinforcing my knowledge of what it was last time I checked the item). I felt I was "seeing" prices automatically even when they were fully covered up (by a covering that I could remove though). It's probably based on what I expect. It's the same as static sound in a song automatically makes me think a word that they might have meant, as if it is there. But - it has its uses. I think it's the same thing that means I can drive on the road at night and "see" most of the places where I am going. The human brain is, fortunately, very perceptive to allow us to do that (even if obviously we have dipped headlights sometimes - when cars are approaching. Fortunately, I (and every other driver I would hope) can somehow see where the road is going, in order to be able to drive on it and not come off the road and crash into something).

davemorton

locarr wrote: »

what did you have with it? TIA

As said, treat it like a steak, so chips, mushrooms etc.

zippydooda wrote: »

oi OI
you lot, tell me something i dont know or im going to bed. thinking of it,no cruises booked so dm may nor apply

Well there is a good cruise going in April, if you fancy it, but book a balcony please, as I am taking my mate, so had to have an inside, I dont think I can handle it!!!

Woow! Had a lovely Christmas.

edit: see zips light is off

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

You're laughing more than me!:laugh:

In fact, I'm pleased you say you've beaten me earlier [...]

Savvybuyer wrote: »

You're laughing more than me!:laugh:

In fact, I'm pleased to say you've beaten me earlier [...]

I'm hopeless aren't I?:rotfl:
Duly corrected.

:rotfl::rotfl::cool:

(I think I was thinking the 'right thing', what I wanted to say, but wrote something sounding similar to it instead. My error, though. I have spotted it - as I usually do. And I have corrected it, as it does change the meaning somewhat and may have been (slightly) misunderstood earlier.) [I was actually going back to try to find my post about several items I'm putting onto the list. I will find that by myself though - no probs!]

underperky

Good morning

Who is hitting the shops today ? My last day on steroids so I should be super fit by tomorrow

underperky

locarr wrote: »

what did you have with it? TIA

I tried this with an orange and ginger sauce and also a red wine sauce

But my simple tastes always take me back to sirloin or fillet steak