Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

curl_girl

davemorton wrote: »

That you two ladies *cough* dont know why that word is not allowed.

Yes, I'm a lady.







Dunno about bubbs though!:D

Nellie35

emerald21 wrote: »

Thanks TM she can be a little madam sometimes too .

They are off to Center parcs in Whinfell tomorrow :eek:

Hope they have a safe journey and Nellie s daughter. Well everyone really lol

Thanks emerald. Hope Dawn has a safe journey tomorrow.
Well DD & her GF decided that they would travel back to Chelmsford today after looking at livecams on the M54, M6, M1 & M25 which all looked much more driveable than they did this morning. They left at about 7.15pm and the journey can usually take anything from 3hr 45mins up to 6hrs:eek: so looks like I will be up late waiting for the text that says they have arrived safely.
I think it has finally stopped snowing here as it has been constant all day. I have brushed the snow off the cars 3 times today to make it easier in the morning :eek: Stay safe out there everyone x

TrulyMadly

davemorton wrote: »

wHY DIDNT HE JUST bUY ONE BOTTLE, THEN REFILL IT IN THE TOILET? (ignore caps)

Was there a toilet....I don’t know!:rotfl:

Why did he not check them before he left home?

So many unknowns:rotfl:

davemorton

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Was there a toilet....I don’t know!:rotfl:

Why did he not check them before he left home?

So many unknowns:rotfl:

And why put water in in this weather, he would have been better off paying £2.50 for 5l of windscreen wash in adsa, the water will just freeze.

Chrisv

davemorton wrote: »

Ooooooo, while you are on, can I ask a favour please. If you go to Asda anytime goos, can you see if they still sell those candles with the letters on please, and see if the have a G, I and an N. :beer:
I just cant be harrised with driving all the way there just for them, if they are not in stock.

These ones Dave? I can add them to my shop, so should be in stock - I'll check tomorrow afternoon

https://groceries.asda.com/promotion/2-for-pound-3/ls88364

zippydooda

davemorton wrote: »

Ooooooo, while you are on, can I ask a favour please. If you go to Asda anytime goos, can you see if they still sell those candles with the letters on please, and see if the have a G, I and an N. :beer:
I just cant be harrised with driving all the way there just for them, if they are not in stock.

these one dave ???
£2 each or 2 for £3
https://groceries.asda.com/promotion/2-for-pound-3/ls88364

davemorton

Chrisv wrote: »

These ones Dave? I can add them to my shop, so should be in stock - I'll check tomorrow afternoon

https://groceries.asda.com/promotion/2-for-pound-3/ls88364

Yip, they are the ones, thanks so much Chris. :beer:

zippydooda wrote: »

these one dave ???
£2 each or 2 for £3
https://groceries.asda.com/promotion/2-for-pound-3/ls88364

Yip, those are the ones

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Savvy will know:rotfl:

I don't know, which word do they mean? In order for me to know, I have to know what the five dots mean:rotfl:. I have just tried and then I have deleted it (since the two-word name when changed to a single word by removing the space between the two words also fails and gets partially converted into exclamations) as I consider that, if something fails the "filter" and appears as exclamations, the site disallows it so it shouldn't even be posted in any form at all - and this includes the exclamation marks version. This site doesn't even allow the two-word name of the willow when the two words are put together as one.

It's obviously because the same five-letter word, in one definition, has a meaning that is perceived by some or many English-speaking people as a vulgar meaning. I make no view on the matter one way or the other as I am (supposedly) completely objective and was trying to decide whether or not it saying it has a vulgar meaning is an objective fact:rotfl:. Or is it a matter of collective opinion?:think: Or does the fact that, so I believe, that collective opinion exists thereby make it a fact? I don't know:rotfl:.

Anyway, obviously in some contexts the word does not have that meaning - however as the arguably useless filter is based on a computer program, computer systems are unable to see context. I think you knew all this anyway.

There is a point though. For me, historically (and it seems to be based on my childhood as to whether, in certain situations but not others, I am comfortable or not with particular words as the emotional impact or response seems to be based on social conditioning in my childhood), this word, in its often-socially taboo meaning, was one of the most severe for me - certainly in the top three (despite the fact that, as children in the playground, we joked about it and it seemed entirely neutral in that place), yet the BBC rankings seem to think this is a medium word and not a strong one when for me historically it was or is one of the strongest and the BBC Editorial Guidelines claim that the strongest language consists of three other words and their derivatives, when at least one of those and its derivatives is not the strongest for me, but this word is and yet they fail to include this strongest word in the strongest language whilst putting a word that is milder than that for me in there and whilst this word, that is stronger than "the strongest" according to them is wrongly considered to be medium. However, it is complicated because my view of what is stronger for me is objective but, in the actual situation, the word that isn't among the top three for me might in some situations have a greater impact on me - and therefore be stronger - than this word in other situations. Very, very complicated - I have my own personal views (based on what my views were, or what I learned or was told, in my childhood) but whether or not I am actually caused offence by something, a severe averse emotional response or feeling, and to what level I experience anything negative, does not always relate to my objective-looking personal view (rational "offence" that isn't any) but instead is illogical (emotional offence). You never know how something affects someone.

See whilst I have written this, at exactly the moment I was coming to write this, the unbleeped use of the actual word we are talking about has been broadcast on ITV1 - and has had no effect on me at all. I think they bleeped something a moment ago - probably the less severe word that some tiny minority of people bizarrely take more exception to that has, in any event, come to my mind so it makes no difference what they bleep or even if it is just a bleep with no way of working out what it originally was - if anything, that situation, that just opens up more and more possibilities, is the worst of the lot - it may as well be that word. A pure bleep sound is now so associated with it, that it may as well be the word - and indeed exclamation marks on this forum, or asterisks or any other symbols elsewhere - depending on how many of them used in a row. It is ineffective and causes me to ponder its meaning - or I know already.

The BBC however seems to think the word ITV has just transmitted but which cannot be posted on an internet forum available in the same society at the same time of night is perfectly fine and, for example, uses it in the name of a Russian feminist rock band and seems to think it is perfectly fine before the watershed. Yet it is one of the severest for me and in fact, on random occasions, they have caused me serious offence by using the word in the name. Yet - and what also annoys me - they absolutely refuse to use, and would never use, not even in a band name, another word that for me is lower down the scale.

So, ITV will broadcast it, the BBC has transmitted it at 8.30pm when some children may be in the audience, even on a news channel - I was actually caused offence by a use late at night - but this forum doesn't allow it. (I am not saying it should - just that the whole social taboo is shot through with inconsistencies, incorrect assumptions and attempts at things that are alleged to constitute censorship that may as well not even amount to being that that are of little use and which circulate the "censored" information even more widely.)

TrulyMadly

davemorton wrote: »

Yip, they are the ones, thanks so much Chris. :beer:



Yip, those are the ones

Oh no....you’re going to have to pay full price for one:o:rotfl:

HILLBERN

Evening-
Journey not as bad as I expected- from Stansted for the following 9 miles traffic was at a near stand still, frozen slush on motorway...no more snow but visibility was awful nearly all the way.
At least I got here safe, even if it took 4 1/2 hours...