The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

It's quite a clever marketing ploy, the money off fuel thing.
It's only when you sit and work out exactly what you save on a full tank that you realise that, unless you live quite close by, it's probably not worth it.

Even a 1000 extra nectar points..... that's £5 off a shop, which is a good amount if you normally spend a lot anyway, but otherwise might not be.


I got my regular coupons from Waitrose a couple of days ago (from their reward card thing, sent in the post), and they attempt to match the coupons to your routine spending.

I did laugh, because they had sent me a load of coupons for money off baby stuff! :rotfl: :rotfl:

The only thing I can think of is that several weeks ago, I bought a couple of tubs of cotton buds that were on special offer.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

You'd most likely not be able to get close to a pump, with all the forecourt junk stacked up and lying around... wobbly signs offering meal deals, sacks of kindling wood, waste bins, people inflating their tyres

Quite apart from the fact that I very much doubt that it's legal to pilot a hovercraft on a public road

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Quite apart from the fact that I very much doubt that it's legal to pilot a hovercraft on a public road

If it's taxed and insured it probably is.

After all, you can drive a taxed and insured garden shed on the roads, as well as a bath, a Macdonald's beefburger and a giant shoe.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

If it's taxed and insured it probably is.

After all, you can drive a taxed and insured garden shed on the roads, as well as a bath, a Macdonald's beefburger and a giant shoe.

But all those are on wheels.

Hovercraft tend to have cornering and stopping capabilities not quite as effective as those of a very soggy piece of celery on a skid pan.

* other analogies are available but those which I know are not what should be used in polite company

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

But all those are on wheels.

Hovercraft tend to have cornering and stopping capabilities not quite as effective as those of a very soggy piece of celery on a skid pan.

* other analogies are available but those which I know are not what should be used in polite company

Or apparently a normal car on Chinese tyres in the wet.
Or most of the local drivers around here who seem to have difficulty with the fairly simple idea that the central white line is not a centre guide for their cars and should be kept to their right.

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

Or apparently a normal car on Chinese tyres in the wet.

LOL

Or most of the local drivers around here who seem to have difficulty with the fairly simple idea that the central white line is not a centre guide for their cars and should be kept to their right.

Ah but you've got to make allowances for people who've only just graduated from normal size Scalextric :rotfl:

ukcarper

Apparently Keith Moon had a hovercraft which he drove down his drive to local pub.

Edited originally put I instead of he wishful thinking

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

LOL
Ah but you've got to make allowances for people who've only just graduated from normal size Scalextric :rotfl:

:rotfl:
I reckon one button is about all some of 'em could handle.

chris_m

ukcarper wrote: »

Apparently Keith Moon had a hovercraft which he drove down his drive to local pub.

I can believe anything of Keith Moon - I bet he ended up destroying it though, just like everything else

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

Things that grate when you're looking for houses:

Why do agents have to tell me who a house is for? "ideal FTB", or "summer bolthole". So annoying.... especially if/when they're touting stuff well above my budget as "suitable FTB".... "ideal family home".

These phrases can turn one off a property when the terms used grate.

Family bathroom - so I can't buy it? Only families can use this house?
Where do single people wash?

"Popular area", "sought after area" - they're not though are they; they're just adding stock phrases. Popular could just be with police cars at dusk/after dark....

Agents just fill space with buzz-words, not real actual information. I once saw a studio room advertised as ideal for the local primary school ... makes you wonder who that was aimed at then!

They're estate agents, they'd put a positive spin on a pile of broken bricks on a derelict site in an area frequented by drug users.
"Desirable and artistically arranged potential home in area ripe for development"
Lucky really there's Google Earth and t'internet to sort out the worst of the dross these days. Last time we bought we drove miles all around the area looking at properties to reject after seeing the outside / where they were.