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May I robustly confirm that I am bothered by Tesco's and neighbours and judging from this site who isn't. As for the comma's I'm not aware of any requirment for formal punctuation on SG.org although I am aware that starting a sentence with a But is very bad form. Perhaps you are the chap who berated the owner of Home for using the wrong font on his N4 bags? If so you should know that Karmenz/K1 have misspelt Restaurant on their sandwich board.
As for that salad are we talking the pre-packed variety? I think 'foreign bodies' in these have even been reported in purchases from Sainsbury's, Waitrose et al. As for slugs they are masters of disguise aren't they? The way they assume the appearance of mixed leaves,it's enough to make you chop your own salad!
Tosscat my parking reference was in response to your earlier post on Woody's thread about '..people who drive to Tescos..' or somesuch phrase. Sorry to shoehorn it in to a different rant but you get the point I hope?
[Lucky there were not many other posts in the interim so your reply sits neatly in sequence]
@rainbow-carnage - Why would you buy something to wear without trying it on. Nobody walks down Oxford St. as there are quiet parallel routes to the north or south but the stores in Oxford St. also tend to have branches elsewhere - you can often find the locations online then visit a quieter spot [Westfield perhaps?] High St. Ken seems a bit frying pan/fire to me, just a different type of shopper,tourist, god-botherer.
Shall we get back to wondering about Woody's? - I might buy it and turn it into cinema, entrance by successful interview only.
Perhaps a touch cynical...
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I work in the wild West End - nothing would induce me to battle my way down Oxford Street for shopping.
Brent Cross is a half hour jaunt on the 210 bus from Stroud Green. As long as you don't try to do anything mental like go there on a Saturday afternoon, you'll have a much better shopping experience. There's John Lewis and Waitrose, Fenwicks, an Apple shop to park accompanying men in (should you be foolhardy enough to bring them), stacks of fashion shops and is open 'til 8pm.
And if one is of the 'I can't possibly use the bus with my tribe of children, 10 pushchairs, oodles of bags and a dog' persuasion they have about 60 million parking spaces. And no god botherers!
Love it or hate it, you'll miss it when it's gone...
Why do people queue up at the cigarette counter to buy lottery tickets? You can buy lottery tickets anywhere and the price is the same.
In fact, why do people buy lottery tickets?
It's like betting on Hull to win the Premier League five years in a row.
So economists have struggled to understand why people do it.
Recent work more properly puts lottery tickets in the category of consumer purchase, equivalent to a mars bar or a cup of coffee.
The consumer isn't buying an investment. They're buying the right to daydream about a jackpot.
Which goes to prove that economists often struggle to operate in the world of real people.
I didn't mention that the salmon in my salmon and pasta salad was stuck to the salmon skin.
I think this proves Andy's point that it is a daydream that people are buying in to as most of these people don't have any expectation that they might recieve bonuses, or get huge pay rises, or wait for their parents to die and leave them money and a big house, or indeed earn lots of money for themselves.
Most of the regular punters play 3 lines a week making their yearly spend just over £150 per year.
In the days where there were decent interest rates on savings lottery punters would have made more on saving this money than they would have any chance of winning on the lottery (I can't bring myself to call it Lotto). Now that our glorious leaders have completely removed any incentive for people to save I guess that the lottery is as good a bet as anything else.
If you're not happy with savings rates, buy bonds.
The idea of making money without risk is what screwed the economy up in the first place.
As are most things that cost a pound. This is also true of mars bars, carrots and newspapers.
Result: lots of people lose their savings, their houses, their jobs. And the responsible parties get bailed out. Which incorporates a tax on stupidity but also factors in a tax on honesty.
Conversely, bobody loses more than however many quid they choose to spend per week on the lottery (and it does baffle me that some people buy more than one ticket per draw, because the increase in chances is so minimal - whereas going from no chance at all to 1/14m is a massive jump, and quite enough on which to pin a dream). And I'm sure the people who do win millions on it - and that's what, at least one person per week now? - are crying all the way to the bank when you tell them about the odds and how foolish they were to play.