Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Sarahdol75

Good morning everyone.

mrsmac10 wrote: »

Good morning all

Sarah how is your husband?

Di Does yours still have flu Hope it clears quickly

AJ Hope you are better too and read you lovely thoughtful posts

For the seasoned travellers Can anyone tell me how many spirits I can buy at the airport and pick up on my return

Was thinking Smirnoff that was about £12 litre last time. I know I can get it just now for £13.50 in an A v M

TIA

Thankyou, he is doing really well, gone back to work, all back to normal, his voice sounding good at the minute

davemorton

Morning all.

elainemn wrote: »

Dave, run your shop through again as may pick Sains prices up today?

3x Taittinger Reserve Champagne Brut (75cl) £105.00 N/A

Nellie35

emerald21 wrote: »

Hi Nellie:wave:

Hi emerald, hope you are well. Are you off anywhere nice today?

Good morning everyone :wave:

Bubbs well done on 5 stone loss, fantastic achievement :T Are you at your goal now?

chandlerscroft

Good morning another sneaky change

6x Casillero Del Diablo Sauvignon Blanc (75cl) 36.00. V's morries at 30.00
Price drop from 7.98 to 6.00 making it 2.49 a bottle after apg

All Sainsbury's still na

Hth

chandlerscroft

elainemn wrote: »

Dave, run your shop through again as may pick Sains prices up today?

Hi as I said from Thursday onwards all Sainsbury's will come back as na as it has again this morning, Savvy was right again, although I'm not sure why !!!!!! is still showing although it's more of course in !!!!!!

pandoraskids

Nellie35 wrote: »

Bubbs well done on 5 stone loss, fantastic achievement :T Are you at your goal now?

5 Stone? Bubbs That's amazing! Very well done indeed :T

bubbs

Morning all
Not seen it mentioned but not read back yet, Morries have easter veg 3 for £1 and 2.5kg potaoes included

Savvybuyer

braveheart60uk wrote: »

Morning. Another fine Spring day.
I see some Elite morning bunnies about .
The rest must be suffering from the wine lakes in their houses.
Thankfully The only "luxury" drink I have, apart from council pop, is Coke Nil, still have a few from Droid to collect.

More serious note, I see the Gendarme that swapped himself for a hostage has died of his injuries. RIP.
I am not sure how to interpret the BBc headline
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43525267

"French police 'hero' dies of wounds"
Why is hero in inverted commas? If anything I would have put
French police officer, a true hero, dies of his wounds.
Because in my opinion the word hero has been so diluted by misuse
hero sportsman (earned millions), hero of millions (celebrity making millions).
Probably my use of hero is wrong nowadays. Maybe should have been "selfless hero" .

Sorry babbling on. Going for a wee walk in the sun

Because it's a matter of opinion and the BBC journalist that wrote it like that wanted to be impartial? Arguably inappropriately so, as there is no need to be impartial over a matter such as terrorism - indeed the right duty is to condemn it. As regards whether or not he was a hero, we sit on our objective fence and have no opinion one way or the other on the matter.

Perhaps the journalist is quoting someone else, or reporting or 'telling the story' - they aren't inputting their own views into it but are reporting what people have, rightly, called the officer or perhaps the journalist didn't even think about being impartial or not - which they are not required to be here and it isn't a requirement over terrorism - but is simply in the habit of putting other people's words in quotes and has lost touch with reality by having it constantly drummed into them that they are never to take anyone's opinion.

I suppose they deal in facts. He is, factually, French - that matter can be established objectively either by his nationality or the fact he was working in France (depends in what sense the journalist meant the word "French" as it is ambiguous). He is factually from the police, so the description "police" is correct. And factually he died from wounds. However, whether he is or is not a hero is not something that can be determined as a fact. It's what probably the vast majority of people, and almost certainly all 'right-thinking' people (now I've gone into my own habit of quotes, not necessarily accepting other people's descriptions of anyone as right-thinking), would call him.

Normally, when someone dies in the news, they were old or it is something that is expected as part of a tragic event or reprehensible action of someone else - however, when I heard the news this morning, that he had died, it did cause me to react, albeit in my usual underwhelmed way of "Oh, dear".

I can see what you mean about misuse - it's like the words "terrible" and "hate" have been diluted, the first by describing minor everyday things as "terrible" and not reserving it to the truly appalling things and the second by often applying it when you (the global 'you') merely dislike something, even if quite intensely, rather than leaving it to things that are really there to be hated, such as when other people take others' lives.

This has caused me to think though - about whether the police officer is (or sadly was) a hero - is someone that puts themselves into a dangerous situation and dies a "hero"? Does someone have to die to be considered a hero and are there not good people alive such as NHS workers, or the workers of any other health service since I have an international audience, who put all their commitment into their jobs? Or maybe they are merely "good" people and not "heroes"?:think:

bubbs

underperky wrote: »

Well done on your weight loss Bubbs

Thankyou x

hornetgirl wrote: »

Haha, you know me too well
She’s doing really well, thank you for asking. Fully recovered from her surgery and getting to grips with going out and about on her bus pass. Already talking about getting back on her bike once the weather is a bit warmer :eek: Inquest is on Thursday, although it should just be a formality we hope.
Hope you and yours are all doing well. Time for another holiday soon?

Glad you MIL is doing well HG x
She is just back:rotfl::rotfl:

Nellie35 wrote: »

Hi emerald, hope you are well. Are you off anywhere nice today?

Good morning everyone :wave:

Bubbs well done on 5 stone loss, fantastic achievement :T Are you at your goal now?

Thanks , no 1 1/2 lb to go:rotfl::rotfl:

zippydooda

Found a Glitch

I’m at haven. You get a little bit of free wifi in the caravans. Then you have to pay. It’s new here so they haven’t realised you just have to keep setting up new accounts using yopmail. No need to go to email though. And just make up a Mobil number.