Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Serendipitious

bubbs wrote: »

And there is me thinking he had been making big sausages :rotfl::rotfl:

rhosynbach

Loving the nostalgia posts. Feel old as remember most things. .

Someone mentioned cassettes , ds2 has a player in his car. I remember showing him how to tape fron the radio but people kept coming in and talking and ruin it .

bubbs

My car i just got rid of had tape:eek:
Anyhow, i have to go bed ccant keep my eyes open, night night x

HILLBERN

bubbs wrote: »

We were going Wickstead park in the afternoon, my mum says if our no better after dinner (1.15pm) your dad will take others wickys, then take you hospital later:eek:
I couldnt even put my foot on the floor:rotfl::rotfl: i wonder why:rotfl:

Thats where I went for a birthday treat...Wickstead park

davemorton

bubbs wrote: »

Cheek:eek::eek::rotfl:
Wonder how long you will keep that?;):rotfl::rotfl:

Why, you been posting codes again? :rotfl:

Sarahdol75

bubbs wrote: »

Hi Rhos
DM what we grabbing anyway?
Sarah, i think its tomorrow you said dh goes, good luck and hope it works x

Was today bubbs, hes home just collected him. In a lot of pain.

Savvybuyer

I've gone back occasionally to using (see how I avoid splitting an infinitive - makes me sound crass:rotfl:) Nectar search - it's been on one of my browsers but unable to get it to download to the other. Eventually I will collect £2.50 in points for something 'free' from Sains. (Probably after I've spent more in electricity searching on the web and on this site but never mind. It's a - bitta fun.) I've tried to search for something however and Nectar came back with "Invalid search" - obviously not got the search words in their dictionary:rotfl:.

However I notice the definition of "invalid" from the Urban Dictionary - for once, this time, it's one I can link to:rotfl:.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Invalid

"Inconsistent with some web programmer's arbitrary and frequently incorrect notion of how the world should be." Sounds about right:p;).

Of course, going and looking up the T&Cs about why something is considered "invalid", which I did ages ago, gives me no clue. (I think they just deem whatever they want to as "invalid": it is, indeed, arbitrary.)

EDIT: Here I go again:rotfl:.

"In order for a search to be valid, you have to be in the UK, the query has to be something meaningful or logical, and it must produce results."
https://download.toolbar.nectar.com/

I'm in the UK and the search was "meaningful" (to me anyway, it meant something to me since it was a word I was searching for), it was logical (how can it be anything but when it's by a person who has Asperger's who works in such a way?) and it did produce results. "Meaningful", to me, means that has a meaning. Well, anything has a meaning, to someone, and is therefore "meaningful". (It means whatever you want it to mean and, once you attribute a meaning to it, it is meaningful to you, regardless of how much it is not meaningful to someone else. Someone else has simply missed the point and not understood. There is nothing that is not objectively meaningless - or meaningful. Otherwise they would be asserting that the word of the English language has no meaning - an assertion flatly contradicted by its appearance in any dictionary and definitions being provided for it, which clearly show it to "have meaning". Therefore, to be meaningful.)

However, as I said, it is totally arbitrary, since it is subjective and based on someone else's opinion (that wrote the algorithm for what is deemed to be valid or not, that we have no way of knowing in advance exactly and precisely what that contains in order to ensure that we make only "valid" searches - there is of course no rule against making an "invalid" one, it is just that it is not awarded any points) and it depends on whether the writer of the algorithm wished to allow the search to be classed as "valid", in their opinion, or not. Presumably anything that relates to a previous search might be called, logically, related and therefore is "logical" - however, if it is too close then it might be thought you are searching for the same, or similar, thing again and thus be discounted. Otherwise, I have no idea what they mean by "meaningful", "logical" or "produce results" - I'm sure that every word in the language would "produce results" since, at minimum, it would retrieve a dictionary entry and therefore "produce a result". Could it also not be the case that a search that retrieved only one result may still be a valid search according to their own system, since it has produced a result and therefore they mean "result or results"? I can't really imagine many searches that would produce no results, or result, at all.

As usual an organisation doesn't intend their T&Cs to be taken seriously:rotfl:. It's no problem, I shall simply search for something else, later, that their system does not deem to be "invalid".

The Nectar website question asks "How can I be sure that I am doing valid searches?" The answer, although of course they do not state this as no-one ever states what they really mean, seems to be "You can't." Since I cannot tell in advance whether or not a search is going to be deemed meaningful or logical. To me, it's them that is not being "meaningful" or "logical" - since I have no idea what they mean by "meaningful" regarding searches that are meaningful to me even if not to them or "logical" since everyone else appears to operate in an illogical and inconsistent fashion. In short, they are being meaningless to me when they use the meaningless word "meaningful":rotfl:.

mrsmac10

wackynut wrote: »

Brill. :T:T
You know I think the oos glitches are the way forward as a's seem to be on top of the others.
oos items are pretty easy to find too, it's just a bit time consuming keeping an eye on everything that's on mb.
Also whether they work is a bit hit and miss at the moment but I'm sure if they were tested a bit more they could be fine tuned.

I can send dh tomorrow morning if that's any help. You just need to pm what he should buy. He knows about fillers. :rotfl:

silvercar

bubbs wrote: »

Thought i was the bees knees with one of these:rotfl:

I had one of those and used to plug it into my first computer to dave programmes!

The computer used the TV as a screen and the tape recorder as a disk drive. Made a screeching noise as it loaded programmes, written in primitive languages like BASIC.

Doubt my A level in computing would be much use now. As my kids say, "you mean there was a time when the web didn't exist? How is that even possible?"

hornetgirl

bubbs wrote: »

I never had a liberty bodice, i feel left out:rotfl::rotfl:

Lol, me neither bubbs. It doesn't sound like we missed much.