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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: GROWLER on November 22, 2008, 10:19:24 AM
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New revamped store just fully opened up, but they can't hide their dreadful ignorant munting staff behind those freshly wallpapered cracks, and what is it about the customers they seem to attract too?
I'd swear every Ricky Tomlinson look alike and his wife was in there this morning, with their elastcated pale grey tacky tracky bottoms and bloody sandals partly hiding those wooly white socks. sick2:
Get your yellow tainted beards cleaned up and or removed too, you gross looking slobs. evil:
I was ashamed to be a Morrisons shopper this morning. noooo:
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Shrugs:
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He was out getting cake supplies(with marzipan) I spect ::)
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He was out getting cake supplies(with marzipan) I spect ::)
They'd run out FFS! Angry9:
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Two of their vegatable display staff....how bloody apt....just stood in front of the mushrooms....how apt...talking about prostitutes! eeek:
I had to literaly get hold of his trolley and fling it to one side to get to them.
He just glared at me as though I'd done something wrong as I casually muttered under me breath, soft shite. cussing:
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Your need for mushrooms was that urgent eh? rubschin:
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I know exactly where you're coming from Growler. My nearest supermarket is a Morrisons, of all the supermarkets I've used, Morrisons bread (and pies cloud9: ) are vastly superior to any others. And you were right about Christmas cake thing, we've polished off a couple in the past few weeks. A colleague once said, "never go in on a Saturday lunch-time, it's chav-city"... so I did, she was right, I won't do it again
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I know exactly where you're coming from Growler. My nearest supermarket is a Morrisons, of all the supermarkets I've used, Morrisons bread (and pies cloud9: ) are vastly superior to any others. And you were right about Christmas cake thing, we've polished off a couple in the past few weeks. A colleague once said, "never go in on a Saturday lunch-time, it's chav-city"... so I did, she was right, I won't do it again
Great. Guess where TG is being dragged to in the next hour. noooo:
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whistle: You won't catch me in a supermarket ~ life is too short.
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We used to get Tesco to deliver all our stuff when we lived in the UK... why go to the shops with all the chavs...? Shrugs:
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My point exactly ~ I don't mind specialist shops, butcher, baker (with or without trainsets) etc are fine. They sell good products and they know what they are talking about but supermarkets are a pain in the rear. They are often no cheaper and shopping there takes hours.
Order by internet and let them deliver ~ we reduced our food bill considerably by doing this. No petrol costs, no "impulse" buying, no "I wants" from the kids, no agro with stupid people who stand in your way, no silly youths trying to pack for you. In short 30 mins on the PC and the following day Gupta or his mate Rhanji turns up at the front door with all we need. I don't even have to carry the stuff. cloud9:
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My point exactly ~ I don't mind specialist shops, butcher, baker (with or without trainsets) etc are fine. They sell good products and they know what they are talking about but supermarkets are a pain in the rear. They are often no cheaper and shopping there takes hours.
Order by internet and let them deliver ~ we reduced our food bill considerably by doing this. No petrol costs, no "impulse" buying, no "I wants" from the kids, no agro with stupid people who stand in your way, no silly youths trying to pack for you. In short 30 mins on the PC and the following day Gupta or his mate Rhanji turns up at the front door with all we need. I don't even have to carry the stuff. cloud9:
We used to get loads of free stuff from Tesco too... They'd invariably deliver stuff we hadn't ordered and then couldn't take it back in case we'd poisoned it or something... razz:
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My point exactly ~ I don't mind specialist shops, butcher, baker (with or without trainsets) etc are fine. They sell good products and they know what they are talking about but supermarkets are a pain in the rear. They are often no cheaper and shopping there takes hours.
Order by internet and let them deliver ~ we reduced our food bill considerably by doing this. No petrol costs, no "impulse" buying, no "I wants" from the kids, no agro with stupid people who stand in your way, no silly youths trying to pack for you. In short 30 mins on the PC and the following day Gupta or his mate Rhanji turns up at the front door with all we need. I don't even have to carry the stuff. cloud9:
cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing:
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Also true BM, we have received many items we have not paid for.. One tip ~ some people (my inlaws for example) are convinced that home delivery is a way to shift anything close to its sell by date off onto the home shopper ~ NOT SO. Most of what is sent out has never even reached the shop floor but to be certain I always ask for a mid-morning delivery. That way all the sell by date stuff has already been snatched uo by the grannies who queue to get at it and you get stuff fresh off the day's restocks.
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The whole sell by date thing varies from store to store it depends who does your delivery. The asda that delivered to the grotty flat was excellent however, the asda that delivers to this house is a nightmare on the home delivery front.
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We've never had a problem either here or in Hertfordshire with either Tesco or Asda. Come to that we didn''t have a problem when we used Sainsbugs when they first started this whole performance in North London a great many years ago.
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Well you've obviously been lucky then!
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I know exactly where you're coming from Growler. My nearest supermarket is a Morrisons, of all the supermarkets I've used, Morrisons bread (and pies cloud9: ) are vastly superior to any others. And you were right about Christmas cake thing, we've polished off a couple in the past few weeks. A colleague once said, "never go in on a Saturday lunch-time, it's chav-city"... so I did, she was right, I won't do it again
Great. Guess where TG is being dragged to in the next hour. noooo:
She was talking about the local one, I forgot to add that she said the ones around Leicester have excellent clien clyunt people shopping there (honest)
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I know exactly where you're coming from Growler. My nearest supermarket is a Morrisons, of all the supermarkets I've used, Morrisons bread (and pies cloud9: ) are vastly superior to any others. And you were right about Christmas cake thing, we've polished off a couple in the past few weeks. A colleague once said, "never go in on a Saturday lunch-time, it's chav-city"... so I did, she was right, I won't do it again
Great. Guess where TG is being dragged to in the next hour. noooo:
She was talking about the Basingstoke one, I forgot to add that she said the ones around Leicester have excellent clien clyunt people shopping there (honest)
Well I raised the standard of the place when I walked in.
Bloody heaving. No trolleys etc. It's like the whole city realised Xmas is coming and decided to go to Morrisons. bastards. cussing:
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I know exactly where you're coming from Growler. My nearest supermarket is a Morrisons, of all the supermarkets I've used, Morrisons bread (and pies cloud9: ) are vastly superior to any others. And you were right about Christmas cake thing, we've polished off a couple in the past few weeks. A colleague once said, "never go in on a Saturday lunch-time, it's chav-city"... so I did, she was right, I won't do it again
Great. Guess where TG is being dragged to in the next hour. noooo:
She was talking about the Basingstoke one, I forgot to add that she said the ones around Leicester have excellent clien clyunt people shopping there (honest)
Well I raised the standard of the place when I walked in.
Bloody heaving. No trolleys etc. It's like the whole city realised Xmas is coming and decided to go to Morrisons. bastards. cussing:
Raised the standard eh? Must have been their Flagship store then. whistle:
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I'm just severely pissed off that there wasn't a Crimbo CAKE, or even Crimbo CAKE slice on the shelves. Banghead
I've deliberately started going early morning now, to give the munters chance to stock the shelves up during the night. ::)
Come on. WHAT is the point in 'avin' Crimbo if they haven't got Crimbo CAKE on sale then ey? confused:
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They have some at here, loads of 'em. I've still got some so I didn't bother getting one. You'd have loved one whistle:
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I'm just severely pissed off that there wasn't a Crimbo CAKE, or even Crimbo CAKE slice on the shelves. Banghead
I've deliberately started going early morning now, to give the munters chance to stock the shelves up during the night. ::)
Come on. WHAT is the point in 'avin' Crimbo if they haven't got Crimbo CAKE on sale then ey? confused:
It's November?
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Precisely.
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eveilgrin:
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It's not a Christmas cake though, It's a "top iced rich fruit cake". Lovely fruit cake, golden marzipan, white icing, a plastic sprig of holly, [cynic mode on] but nowhere does it say that it's Christmas cake, so all religions can enjoy it without offending their particular god [cynic mode off]
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So it would be OK for Jews then? rubschin:
Would you have to take the holly off?
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I really don't care a monkeys chuff what you call it. It's CAKE, and I luv it, cloud9: but I haven't got any. cussing:
Why's it got a sprig of holly on it then if it's not Crimbo CAKE?
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So it would be OK for Jews then? rubschin:
Would you have to take the holly off?
The holly could stay ~ but the cake would have to have been made in line with Kosher rules of food preparation.
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So it would be OK for Jews then? rubschin:
Would you have to take the holly off?
The holly could stay ~ but the cake would have to have been made in line with Kosher rules of food preparation.
Or just stick a 'Kosher' label on it and all will be fine... whistle:
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They have some at Basingstoke, loads of 'em. I've still got some so I didn't bother getting one. You'd have loved one whistle:
eveilgrin:
Well I'm going to see what the Asda have got in the crimbo CAKE line today, as me CAKE tin is empty. Banghead
I NEED CAKE
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You could bake one, like
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You could bake one, like
Errrrr, no I couldn't. I don't do wimmins werk. noooo:
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Yes you do (Cake in a Bowl). You are just crap at cooking, like
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Yes you do (Cake in a Bowl). You are just crap at cooking, like
He prolly doesn't know where the kitchen is... or he's not allowed out of his garage like... noooo:
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Yes you do (Cake in a Bowl). You are just crap at cooking, like
THAT is beside the point, and irrelevant.
Morrisons crimbo CAKE is lovely, and cheap.
As previously stated, you couldn't make one for like that for £2.99 and 6" diameter, and WITH marzipan too. cloud9:
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http://www.morrisons.co.uk/Christmas/Stress-free-shopping/ (http://www.morrisons.co.uk/Christmas/Stress-free-shopping/) angel1
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http://www.morrisons.co.uk/Christmas/Stress-free-shopping/ (http://www.morrisons.co.uk/Christmas/Stress-free-shopping/) angel1
But do they deliver?
Asda Do
Tesco Do
Sainsbury Do
Fortnum & Mason Do
Harrods Do
Iceland Do
Morrisons Don't
Says all I need to know about a northern company sailing so close to the financial rocks, by thninking they know best, that they will soon be taken over by someone much better at retailing. Anyway they don't even make the Crimbo Cake that some are so fond of. You can buy such cakes in Aldi and Lidl ~ cheaper too. whistle:
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Don't do home delivery. Rather choose stuff meself, and also gives me a chance to do some
people munter watching to fuel my appetite for a good rant. Angry9:
Might try Sainsburys today. Got one near...ish, and I believe they've improved a bit of late too.
Better staff, and classier totty to blimp at whilst searching for me CAKE too! cloud9:
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I know the one. Very good for totty spotting.
You could start to play MILF Bingo,like angel1
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I know the one. Very good for totty spotting.
You could start to play MILF Bingo,like angel1
You mean MILF Bingo© Barman 2008... whistle:
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Photographic evidence will be required eveilgrin:
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I know the one. Very good for totty spotting.
You could start to play MILF Bingo,like angel1
Cheshire jOaks? rubschin:
What's this MILF bingo then ey? rubschin:
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BM is still werking on the rules. He may be some time whistle:
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BM is still werking on the rules. He may be some time whistle:
Souldn't there be a 'T' in MILF, or am I thinkin' of summat else I'd like to do like? eyes:
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My nearest is a Tesco so called 'Superstore' we were in there on Wednesday eve for our usual weekly shop and Saddler spotted a DAB radio/CD player on special offer. He has been dropping heavy hints for weeks about DAB radios & xmas.
I had had a look on Amazon, but £50 for a radio! bugger that for a game of soldiers. Anyhoo this radio/CD thingy is £70 bar for a couple of pee & I've got £12 of money off vouchers so I think okey dokey.
Saturday afternoon sees me driving round the bleep car park for 25mins before finding a space but do manage to get one of the last 2 radio/cd's. Next stop the checkouts. bleep bleep bleep. Suffice to say it took me over an hour from entering the car park to leaving it, all for 1 item.
If Saddler doesn't express extreme happiness on Christmas morning he will get it wrapped round his head.
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Here's a perfectly good thread about Morri(n)son's cake and you pollute it with stuff about Tesco radios. Wimmin noooo:
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eeek:
Pot - Kettle ~ Non White.
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shocked003
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Here's a perfectly good thread about Morri(n)son's cake and you pollute it with stuff about Tesco radios. Wimmin noooo:
It wasn't intended to be about CAKE. You turned it into a CAKE thread, munter. Banghead
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My nearest is a Tesco so called 'Superstore' we were in there on Wednesday eve for our usual weekly shop and Saddler spotted a DAB radio/CD player on special offer. He has been dropping heavy hints for weeks about DAB radios & xmas.
I had had a look on Amazon, but £50 for a radio! bugger that for a game of soldiers. Anyhoo this radio/CD thingy is £70 bar for a couple of pee & I've got £12 of money off vouchers so I think okey dokey.
Saturday afternoon sees me driving round the bleep car park for 25mins before finding a space but do manage to get one of the last 2 radio/cd's. Next stop the checkouts. bleep bleep bleep. Suffice to say it took me over an hour from entering the car park to leaving it, all for 1 item.
If Saddler doesn't express extreme happiness on Christmas morning he will get it wrapped round his head.
You should have waited 'til tomorrow and got 2½% VAT off it... point:
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My nearest is a Tesco so called 'Superstore' we were in there on Wednesday eve for our usual weekly shop and Saddler spotted a DAB radio/CD player on special offer. He has been dropping heavy hints for weeks about DAB radios & xmas.
I had had a look on Amazon, but £50 for a radio! bugger that for a game of soldiers. Anyhoo this radio/CD thingy is £70 bar for a couple of pee & I've got £12 of money off vouchers so I think okey dokey.
Saturday afternoon sees me driving round the bleep car park for 25mins before finding a space but do manage to get one of the last 2 radio/cd's. Next stop the checkouts. bleep bleep bleep. Suffice to say it took me over an hour from entering the car park to leaving it, all for 1 item.
If Saddler doesn't express extreme happiness on Christmas morning he will get it wrapped round his head.
You should have waited 'til tomorrow and got 2½% VAT off it... point:
One of the coupons had to be used by Saturday - it was for £5.
Mind you I think I must have used that in petrol !!!
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The Asda don't do low price crimbo cake. noooo:
I'm NOT impressed, and feel another stroppy e mail comin' on. cussing:
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rubschin: They do here
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Did you happen to notice how much their self basting frozen turkeys were?
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Did you happen to notice how much their self basting frozen turkeys were?
No look it up on their site same as me. You know I don't go into supermarkets and I certainly would not buy a frozen turkey in one. We are having duck ~ it is currently swimming in a farm pond in blissful ignorance of its destiny. Lil Bruvver has matters in hand
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Oh good point! Hadn't thought of that. redface:
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I shall be off to Asda to buy a turkey later.
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Errrrrrrr ~ why?
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Shrugs:
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My Christmas Turkey!
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Aldi... whistle:
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Christmas is weeks away ~ you take all the fun (if there ever was any) out of it by all this preplanning.
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Once I have the turkey and I stop preplanning. I panic that I won't be able to get one if I leave it any later. redface: And I can't afford the reserved fresh ones locally.
I also have to preplan presents because I can't afford to buy them all in one go and Mother Wench's need to be posted and I do that early so as to make sure they get there.
Plus, Sunday is the first advent! cloud9:
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Supermarket Morrisons reported an 8.1% leap in its third-quarter sales thanks to the chain's value ranges and cut price deals.
The group said its efforts to keep shopping bills and fuel costs down had been "extremely popular", with more than 700,000 new shoppers visiting its stores each week.
All they need to do now then, is to hire some staff actually from planet earth, and stop raising the bloody price of their budget price stuff every week...bastards. cussing:
They try making out they're in it for our benefit, all local corner shop warm and cuddly like. cloud9:
In reality they are a bunch of thieving parasitic arse wipes like the rest of their counterparts, treating their suppliers like utter shite and reaping the fat profits for themselves. sick2:
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They've run out of cake again then?
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Shallow thoughts there Nick ~ I am sure Growler is thinking of the common good and is rightly against the phoney marketing ploys used by these people ~ that and they've run out of Crimbo Cake again.
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Well I've had me Cornflakes and am now ready to let battle commence. The dreaded crimbo shop part 1 at Morrinsons. Banghead
They'd better have some of my crimbo CAKE too, or I WILL see my arse, BIG time.
2 bloody weeks without now. Just not good enough. noooo:
I'll no doubt have to que at the customer 'service' desk to get my £20 off card stamped before battling my way around the ho bloody ho ho shite filled aisles.
I fully expect to be in a right old shitty mood in 90 minutes. cussing:
Must remember to get a bottle of Branston Pickle while I'm there like too....gift wrapped of course. ;)
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Went to Waitrose again yesterday... a very pleasant shopping experience... cloud9:
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Went to Waitrose again yesterday... a very pleasant shopping experience... cloud9:
Lend me a quid.
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Went to Waitrose again yesterday... a very pleasant shopping experience... cloud9:
Lend me a quid.
You won't spend it on the demon alcohol will you...? rubschin:
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Morrisons IS a shit hole, and I told one of the staff there too. She agreed. eeek:
Crimbo CAKE purchased though, and found this Bishops Finger ale that you lot are always rumbling on about, so I bought a few bottles. recommendations from in here are normally sound....like me CAKE so expect it to be first class.
No Youngs though. noooo:
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Morrisons IS a shit hole, and I told one of the staff there too. She agreed. eeek:
Crimbo CAKE purchased though, and found this Bishops Finger ale that you lot are always rumbling on about, so I bought a few bottles. recommendations from in here are normally sound....like me CAKE so expect it to be first class.
No Youngs though. noooo:
Careful with the Bishops Finger... it is quite strong - you might have to dilute it you soft northern shite like... ;)
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I just got back from Waitros again... they're giving whisky and brandy samples away! happy088
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Morrisons IS a shit hole, and I told one of the staff there too. She agreed. eeek:
Crimbo CAKE purchased though, and found this Bishops Finger ale that you lot are always rumbling on about, so I bought a few bottles. recommendations from in here are normally sound....like me CAKE so expect it to be first class.
No Youngs though. noooo:
Careful with the Bishops Finger... it is quite strong - you might have to dilute it you soft northern shite like... ;)
Bit like you do in the bar, you mean swindlin' old trout. cussing:
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Morrisons IS a shit hole, and I told one of the staff there too. She agreed. eeek:
Crimbo CAKE purchased though, and found this Bishops Finger ale that you lot are always rumbling on about, so I bought a few bottles. recommendations from in here are normally sound....like me CAKE so expect it to be first class.
No Youngs though. noooo:
Careful with the Bishops Finger... it is quite strong - you might have to dilute it you soft northern shite like... ;)
Bit like you do in the bar, you mean swindlin' old trout. cussing:
whistle:
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Went to Waitrose again yesterday... a very pleasant shopping experience... cloud9:
Lend me a quid.
You won't spend it on the demon alcohol will you...? rubschin:
Er...
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Went to Waitrose again yesterday... a very pleasant shopping experience... cloud9:
Lend me a quid.
You won't spend it on the demon alcohol will you...? rubschin:
Er...
If he answer is 'no' you can't have it... whistle:
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Went to Waitrose again yesterday... a very pleasant shopping experience... cloud9:
Lend me a quid.
You won't spend it on the demon alcohol will you...? rubschin:
Er...
If he answer is 'no' you can't have it... whistle:
You cant even get a gallon White lightening for a quid these days. Shocking. noooo: