Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Munqui · 22 July 2016 at 1:08AM

It's just not carling :eek: ..it's best not to ask :rotfl: (nothing glitchy, just comparing correctly)

Munqui · 22 July 2016 at 1:09AM

Just popping this on then off to bed, night all :wave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09m0B8RRiEE

Savvybuyer · 22 July 2016 at 1:12AM

Did anyone manage to listen to that Force Majeure track I linked to all the way through? Well done if you did. If not, there's some vocals at about 2 and half minutes in (yes it much shorter for me than waiting through a Coldplay song on the radio:rotfl: - that drones on and on from my POV) that you may have missed if you didn't manage to get that far. If you like/don't like it, please can you reveal any autism diagnoses:rotfl:.

I think the "problem" with this song (Force Majeure) is that it actually has a tune to it, as far as I can hear, and I bet it's that part that is the reason why it didn't get playlisted on the radio. I bet the "tune" generally irritates people.

Yes, there is repetition (at earlier parts in the song) there, that I can hear, but, for me, at least the song is advancing on and changes and doesn't drone on in a boringly repetitive way like the "dance" music on the radio most often around the same year as this was made. I bet they don't even have any dance music at all in the charts these days - but actually I'm not currently into the dance style of the current time but other genres of current music (which won't be on the radio no doubt:rotfl:) being made at the moment, though I'm sure there's still good non-chart dance music of the moment but maybe just not taking me back to the "classics" like Force Majeure.

I know I posted another track some years ago now that Davemorton couldn't manage to get through:rotfl:. So, we all like whatever we like and see from our own perspective. Me, I can't understand how you can't manage to get through Trouser Enthusiasts' Sweet Release (the song that DM couldn't keep listening to) whilst someone else, that likes Justin Bieber, probably can't understand how I can't keep listening to that:rotfl:. Spice of life and variety - wouldn't do if we were all the same!

Actually had one of my favourite songs called "rather weak", that I'm still listening to every day, by someone that heard me playing it a long while ago. I think it is quite a strong song:rotfl:. Sturdy and well made. It was the vocals they thought were weak. They are strong, uplifting and the best parts of the song! Actually I heard before though of some music artist saying they didn't like their own music and couldn't understand that but obviously the crowd they played to did. Actually I didn't like all of their songs that much - the worst was the one that got into the Top 10 (and some radio play) and I preferred someone else's take on that song:rotfl::rotfl:. But one of the first artists' songs, obviously number 57 for one week or whatever it was, was (and continues to be) excellent:rotfl:. In fact everything good they did failed to enter the Top 40. Well, not fact. The jury is still out - and most likely indeed outvotes me - but obviously just in my tastes (well, you can't really change your own tastes can you?).

Munqui · 22 July 2016 at 1:15AM

Munqui wrote: »

It's just not carling :eek: ..it's best not to ask :rotfl: (nothing glitchy, just comparing correctly)

Do Morries not do loose carrots, onions, red onions or bananas :think:

Maybe there all fair trade versions of fruit & veg

Munqui · 22 July 2016 at 1:21AM

Munqui wrote: »

Just popping this on then off to bed, night all :wave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09m0B8RRiEE

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Did anyone manage to listen to that Force Majeure track I linked to all the way through? --snip--

Did anyone listen to my link all the way through :rotfl:

Night all again!

Savvybuyer · 22 July 2016 at 1:32AM

Munqui wrote: »

Just popping this on then off to bed, night all :wave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09m0B8RRiEE

Oh, a song for me to consider:T:T. You'd better be prepared for some really nasty (unintentionally) comments if I don't like it, as I really rip into stuff I dislike!

Oh. Yes, I like that one. One of my "favourites" (well, not favourite favourites but good track). But then I would like it, since it is pop music from before 1998:rotfl::rotfl:. (Actually, some of the stuff approximately 1996 onwards was getting 'bad' (for me) - and more and more so each year, until, finally...* But anyway:rotfl:.)

(*I switched off the radio in annoyance.)

Munqui wrote: »

Did anyone listen to my link all the way through :rotfl:

Night all again!

Yes, but to be fair, yours was much shorter. Actually, to tell a lie, I haven't listened to it (apart from the first few seconds) but I know the song already and like it so I know what's it going to sound like, and yes, that's one of my favourite songs.

Can I be truthful though and say that that's the one by that artist that I play less. But maybe that's because we've heard it more. Maybe I ought to play this song more. Sometimes reminds me of things I don't play that often. Or, I'll stumble across a song from my record collection whilst clearing stuff out, put it on and realise it was excellent and wonder why I haven't been playing it much much more. You rediscover things. There's a world of discovery in music. Unfortunately, I don't think what we all hear whenever we go out or to parties reflects or really allows that discovery at all. But then maybe I end up going to the "wrong" venues.

And, since the Haddaway song (that version anyway, there's other versions of it too and, as far as I know, I like them all) was pop music from before 1998, it also qualifies as dance for me - and I like it.

It's that year, now in history, for me again. My tastes to that respect did seem to annoy someone I knew once as I seemed to keep giving this dividing line every time as to whether I liked something or not. But from my POV, it was because of what the radio was playing and, by then, selecting etc... which everyone else around me, when I mentioned that, never seemed to accept. Not interested in comparemyradios.com that "prove" my position to be true:rotfl:.

Someone else in normal life said I was "writing it off". I wasn't writing it off by then. It was just what I liked and didn't and of course I told them the truth if I liked or didn't like something (people got annoyed at how often - every song on the radio in the office basically - I was commenting I didn't like it - but sometimes I just said nothing at all... but honestly I just didn't like anything that came on all day). I hadn't written it off as if they ever were capable of picking a new good song (and they weren't!) I would have liked it. Although, yeah, by now, I think I have pretty much written off any pop song made in the future from ever being good again. It's been like this for about seventeen years for me, and will "never be as good", "don't make them like they used to" (not in pop music anyway) and I don't see it changing. Maybe sometimes I think it's not as bad as it was and is a bit better - but there's nothing ever outstanding and I just don't really like it. There's absolutely loads of really good/excellent songs being made at the moment, and possibly more than ever before, in fact some of them are better than ever before, but just none of them in what now (and has for nearly two decades) classes as "pop music". Shame really, from my POV. That we (or me) don't get these songs on the radio (or not much - or played maybe once at night on one station only and then taken off air. Just too good to keep being played on the radio:rotfl::rotfl:!).

Anyway, I think that's it, do you? Two nights of discussion of bemoaning popular music (or actually not all of it as it was good for me once - in fact it was always good from the start of my life and I liked, or at least didn't dislike, everything - although to be honest I never really listened to stuff when played out in public in the 1980s much, though I didn't dislike it, but really liked it wen the 1990s started and I tuned in the radio and heard a song I really liked and kept listening to everything, all of which was then good, and all of what I now understand to be the specialist shows (I thought they were all pop music:rotfl:, which was "all good" then - never known any bad pop song at the point in my life) and continued listening, just to radio, until the songs started annoying me around 1996 - or a few at that time - and then more each year until I switched them all off in annoyance, after having heard music that I really liked that they then removed from air completely. I heard it on the Top 40 as well so I assumed it was pop music but they weren't really playing it. Went through all the radio all week for Tilt's Invisible that was on the chart but never heard it (it was a shortened version of the Lost Tribe version that had been on the radio not the original radio edit just to clarify - I hadn't heard that at all on the radio but I very much like that as well). Just kept hearing all that didn't like or - at that stage - sorry (and I really am) just really detested.

I'd rather listen to Keith Harris and Orville or Mr Blobby or St Winifred's School Choir than listen to current pop (which I can't even manage to listen to) but then I suppose we all have our lacks of taste sometimes. But then all of that was in pop music in the old days so, almost by definition it seems, I liked it. I think the reason I like St Winifred's School Choir* is because I was five at about the time it came out, so I seem to like artists or singers who were about the same age as me at the time the songs came out. So, yes, eighties, I go into stupid five-year old choir singers:rotfl::rotfl: - and into a lot else besides, which was always good. It's bizarre - I can listen to the School Choir, or Mr Blobby, all the way through - but not to Justin Bieber?!?:huh: It's true though - I just don't know why but I couldn't. Couldn't get through Justin's song. My tastes are really unkind sometimes. Pop singers of today and a bunch of five year olds can sing better than you:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

*(And yes I do, I admit to it!)(:rotfl:) <-Things like this though, that's lots of things that change people's perceptions of you, even if maybe in a minor way. So, now you know one of Savvy's favourites is St Winifred's Choir..:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: That said, I don't play it all the time. But there's this as well... some songs are so crap that they're good. Or some songs are just funny. So, it's not a real serious attempt at music, it's just because it's funny for the reason that it's not (for instance, yes, as a young child, I'd like Keith Harris, but nowadays, as an adult, I just find it hilarious:rotfl:: it's the "yes I know but I'm gonna help you mend it" part that cracks me up nowadays, not that anyone can remember it or wishes to:laugh: - I think it'll have that song played at my funeral just to annoy everybody:rotfl: (they've been annoying me for seventeen years with their tastes:rotfl: (except they've not since I've managed to avoid hearing only that all day)). But the pop music of today seems to me to be just plain rubbish (or just not to my taste) and not even so rubbish that it's good. It's not even as if it's extreme or anything (and so much that it's good), but just plain in the middle blandness and, bizarrely therefore, somehow even worse. It's worse than Keith Harris:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. I can't even listen to the whole songs:rotfl:. But for Davemorton, Sweet Release is bad (can't listen to it - or at least not the version I once posted). And I don't know whether or not he likes Keith Harris:rotfl:.

Savvybuyer · 22 July 2016 at 2:26AM

Munqui wrote: »

Do Morries not do loose carrots, onions, red onions or bananas :think:

Maybe there all fair trade versions of fruit & veg

Bananas dropped off at the end of one week at the beginning of July and, obviously now it seems, may have not been picked up ever since. (I've no idea why - maybe someone just didn't scan them that week and, maybe, as a result the system now thinks M has been OOS for too long that, even if the collector now scans them, the system doesn't detect that.) Carrots - I don't know but 1Kg bags haven't compared for well over a year (sometimes I good thing to be N/A) ever since M changed to a different pack size for about two weeks and then went back. They're not fairtrade versions (not as far as I'm aware - haven't been looking in M since the beginning of the month). I have said before the price collectors are useless on fresh fruit and veg. vs M.

Elsewhere, I suspect SP frozen Fish Fingers will never compare against M anymore (and SP Yogurts at 33p already dropped off ages ago) as the fish fingers went briefly absent from M and dropped off the system, even though they came back in M. I don't think they'll ever be picked up again now - the SP Yorkshire Puddings, which took ages to compare in the first place, dropped off completely after a change in pack design in M and haven't compared against M ever since. There are some items though that M seems to discontinue for several months - such as some Savers tins and seasonal items such as Easter eggs and Christmas - that are obviously 'absent' for months, but do come back and almost immediately compare after they come back in M. (Maybe they never truly disappear from every M:think:. Anyway. Who knows if any M, somewhere, now has a single box of Santa's Chocolates still left in their storage somewhere that might be found under a pile of everything else and eventually be brought out? Unlikely - but then there are over 500 Ms, so anything unlikely overalll may happen in a single one of them and therefore "likely" to happen somewhere. Though I wouldn't think Santa was likely now (and I have a specific, exact definition of "likely" which is "more than a 1 in 3 chance of it happening"). I think the BB date I had was end of July, so if I still have that - and I probably haven't - and last saw in April, I will delete that next time from the list.)