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Title: bargains
Post by: oldspice on December 31, 2005, 02:52:27 pm
Summerfields were selling off their After Eights. The lemon and Irish cream flavours were £1.43 per box. Didn't buy any but did get some Flake Moments for £2.50 which is still scandalous but worth it for a new year treat.
Title: bargains
Post by: smurfboy on December 31, 2005, 02:55:12 pm
Tesco are doing the same. Massive box of After Eights, should've been £4.40, down to £2.07.
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Post by: loulou on January 01, 2006, 12:01:08 pm
A bargain is only a bargain if you wanted it in the first place.
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Post by: chocoboo on January 01, 2006, 01:57:47 pm

That's true you know.

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Post by: goldencup on January 01, 2006, 02:16:06 pm

Quote from: loulou
A bargain is only a bargain if you wanted it in the first place.


Very profound. 

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Post by: smurfboy on January 01, 2006, 03:38:03 pm
It is indeed - but I always want After Eights!
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Post by: chocoboo on January 01, 2006, 03:53:24 pm
Mmmm yes after eights, are lovely.
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Post by: loulou on January 02, 2006, 09:38:27 pm
Quote from: goldencup

Quote from: loulou
A bargain is only a bargain if you wanted it in the first place.


Very profound. 



I heard something similar on a furniture advert.

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Post by: goldencup on January 03, 2006, 08:03:12 am
Was that the DFS ad that you appeared in Lou?
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Post by: loulou on January 04, 2006, 12:00:08 am
No I think it was for Land of Leather.
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Post by: smurfboy on January 04, 2006, 01:48:41 pm
Mommy got me a selection box for 57p from Sainsburys.
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Post by: chocolate chick on January 04, 2006, 01:56:23 pm


The Manchester United Selection box is a whopping £8 in BHS. It's down to £6.40 in the sales. There isn't anything special in there. Needless to say I left it there!

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Post by: smurfboy on January 04, 2006, 02:00:56 pm
You're just paying for the Man Utd name. I'm happy to have one with a big of Santa on for half the price!
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Post by: loulou on January 04, 2006, 08:57:35 pm

Quote from: smurfboy


a big of Santa !


a what?

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Post by: kevvosa on January 05, 2006, 12:51:31 pm
Well Santa is big you must admit.


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Post by: loulou on January 05, 2006, 01:03:46 pm
All those mince pies he eats.
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Post by: smurfboy on January 05, 2006, 01:21:28 pm
I couldn't decide whether to say a pic of Santa or a big Santa, so I said a bit of both.
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Post by: loulou on January 05, 2006, 01:36:13 pm
I knew that really
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Post by: chocolate chick on January 05, 2006, 02:44:37 pm


Think of all the chocolate you could buy in Woolies for £6.40, never mind £8.00.


The selection boxes are £5 on the Man Utd website.

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Post by: kermie on January 05, 2006, 05:15:59 pm

wouldn't touch anything with a man u theme with a barge pole!!


would rather have a block of dairy milk crunchie 

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Post by: loulou on January 06, 2006, 12:30:49 pm
Do you own a barge pole then?
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Post by: goldencup on January 06, 2006, 07:10:30 pm
Doesn't everybody?  I have one in pink.
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Post by: oldspice on January 07, 2006, 09:43:56 am

Isn't it funny what we say? i mean people use that phrase as if they habitually carry a barge pole around with them. Another phrase that makes me giggle is "he wouldn't say boo to a goose". Well neither would 1! What would be the point? Why would anybody bother?


(Anyway, geese can be quite agressive so if you did try to startle one they might turn nasty!)

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Post by: goldencup on January 07, 2006, 02:53:44 pm
  There are all sorts like that when you start thinking about them.  I always used to be amused at my father-in-law forever telling my kids they'd "have somebody's eye out in a minute" if they were carrying something remotely awkward.  The one I definitely don't say anymore is "killing two birds with one stone."  It's mind-boggling that presumably that was once seen as a good thing.
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Post by: oldspice on January 07, 2006, 06:21:00 pm
And what about "he could talk the hind leg off a donkey". Why is  the hind leg more challenging than the front leg and why a donkey? isn't it just as difficult to talk the hind leg off a cow, pig, sheep or any other four-legged animal?
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Post by: goldencup on January 07, 2006, 07:02:06 pm
Somehow, "He could talk the limb off an animal" doesn't have the same ring to it though.
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Post by: loulou on January 07, 2006, 07:32:50 pm
He could talk the trotter off a pig.
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Post by: goldencup on January 07, 2006, 08:30:23 pm
Or the trunk off an elephant.
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Post by: oldspice on January 08, 2006, 10:30:41 am
I adore donkeys.
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Post by: chocoboo on January 08, 2006, 10:34:19 am
Yes, they are sort of cute
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Post by: loulou on January 08, 2006, 03:34:39 pm
Donkeys are the nicest animal in the world. I would love a donkey sanctuary.
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Post by: chocoboo on January 08, 2006, 04:37:08 pm
What would you call your donkey sanctuary Lou?
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Post by: loulou on January 08, 2006, 04:47:24 pm
I haven't thought of a name for it but i always said if i had  a lot of money that's what i would do. Donkeys need lots of love and looking after.
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Post by: goldencup on January 08, 2006, 07:50:38 pm
Awwwww, yes they are very appealing
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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on January 09, 2006, 11:09:26 am
I would look after ex-racing greyhounds if I had lots of money
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Post by: smurfboy on January 09, 2006, 02:07:46 pm

'I could eat the hind legs off a scabby donkey' is another bizarre donkey-related one.


My nan comes out with the best. 'She's got a face like fourpence' is my favourite - I nearly pissed myself the first time I heard that. But she also said to one of her neighbours once 'you look well - have you been run over?'

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Post by: oldspice on January 09, 2006, 05:27:11 pm
What about she's got a face like a sackful of spanners!
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Post by: smurfboy on January 09, 2006, 05:33:05 pm

Or a robber's dog?


One of my friends once described a woman we saw in the shopping centre as having 'a face like a plate of corned beef'!

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Post by: loulou on January 09, 2006, 07:21:23 pm
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Post by: goldencup on January 10, 2006, 03:03:50 pm
My boss described one of her colleagues as having a face like a fart!  Not very pc....
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Post by: chocolate chick on January 10, 2006, 04:04:51 pm
 Thats a new one!
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Post by: oldspice on January 11, 2006, 07:00:54 am
He's got a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp. Could be Phil Mitchell?