On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 9:04:26 PM UTC, undefined wrote:
The Natural Philosopher pretended :
I get a large loyalty and no claims bonus, I pay about £250 a year.. I think
my car tax costs more
£220-ish per year, via a national broker. Always the best quote from
them by a large margin, but when it does creep up, I just suggest to
them that they find another, better quote for me. They have never
failed to find better.

Strangely, everyone I have recommended to the broker, has found them to
be the highest quote for themselves.
I was running out of all my screw sizes. There was a selection for £20 on Amazon. I dont know how many screws there were, but is was about three times the number I was expecting. Bargain.
Then I started using them. They are difficult to start, then the metal is that soft if the screw is 2 inch or more it will probably get the corners rounded before driven home.
I got so ****ed off mid job I came into the house and ordered some boxes of Spax screws online. Expensive.
I get such a sense of satisfaction from putting in the good screws the extra is worth it.

In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If I have
a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working life and
reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to collect
the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

soup wrote
Rod Speed wrote

I will never spend my vast accumulated wealth before I die,

Vast accumulated wealth eh?

Vast enough, anyway.

What time does your alarm go off?

Never use one. I have very occasionally set one
for the very early morning plane but have always
been up when it goes off.

On 17/02/2021 18:58, tim... wrote:


on the odd occasions I have tried such up market supermarket meals

couldn't tell the bleeding difference


That's what you find when the main ingredient is salt


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On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:29:29 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the trolling senile asshole's latest troll**** unread

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"Harry Bloomfield"; "Esq." wrote in message
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The Natural Philosopher used his keyboard to write :
I cant be arsed with chasing the best electricity deal that at best might
net me £100 a year.

I'm in a similar financial position, except I can and do - It takes me a
just few minutes.

It doesn't even take me that long, just one click on
a link which uses my electricity consumption data.

It takes longer to decide if I care that the cheapest
only has an online chat system, no call center and
another click to check the reviews.

It makes me £100 better off over the year, for the investment of just a
few minutes, whilst sat idly watching TV.

I don't watch TV that I don't care about.

This year I saved £150 on my bill.

Me too.

On 17/02/2021 21:24, charles wrote:
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If I have
a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working life and
reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to collect
the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

Well that demonstrates how bad the rest of their product line is.

Would he eat pasta from Marks and Sparks?



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making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people
who pay no price for being wrong.€�

Thomas Sowell

On 17/02/2021 11:36, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
The Natural Philosopher laid this down on his screen :
I did also baulk at £2000 labour to make curtains when I bought a
sewing machine for £50 - a total no brainer in that context - and did
the whole job in 6 weeks of lockdown a bit at a time

HOW MUCH! I needed some vertical blinds adapting - I paid £10 for a
zig-zag capable sewing machine, at a car boot sale. Our older/ancient
machine, was just getting past it.

Excellent deal. Yes well there are curtains and there are curtains. the
space had 5 windows and a set of French doors. The curtains were lined
and thermal interlined.

so on average they wanted about 330 quid to make up a pair.

Each pair took me about two days, so really with the store markup I
don't think they were over paying their seamstresses.

Curtains are not as hard as sofas, but they are still a bitch. Pattern
matching takes a LONG time if you have to join two pieces, and the
weight of heavy three ply curtains makes them tiring to handle, and they
still need at least some hand stitching

Then I spent a load of money on some massively reduced chenille and re
upholstered a sofa and made lots of matching cushions...


http://www.larksrise.com/Project%20P...a/BCD_0011.JPG

that shows some of the curtains too

Then I made some more curtains. And then a few more.

I am up to 12 pairs now, with a few more that probably need replacing.
The ex took the lot with her that were any good and mostly left worn out
****.

So that's maybe around £5000 in labour costs saved during lockdown. The
sofa was absolutely a £1000 job - it was a total **** of a job. I redid
some seams 4 times. But I love the result. It should have been £1200 for
the fabric but I got it for £300 in a sale

And that is the issue isn't it, lockdown, boring, crappy old 1980s sofa,
given to me because it was too big for mates house and crap and old even
then, 20 years ago now, looking bloody marvellous for £300 and probably
about three frustrating weeks of sheer hell?

4 full sets of curtains to replace missing or rotten ones - I had some
where the lining was dust from UV - had to be at least 30 yrs old,.

I think it was worth it



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Canada is all right really, though not for the whole weekend.

"Saki"

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:10:15 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the trolling senile asshole's latest troll**** unread

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https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/r...d-faq.2973853/

"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If I have
a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working life and
reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to collect
the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell the
difference

In article , tim...
wrote:


"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If I
have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working life
and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to collect
the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell the
difference

Remember that cats used to be Gods. They know these things

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

"tim..." wrote in message
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"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If I have
a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working life and
reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to collect
the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell the
difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include theirs
that the cat insists on.

In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"tim..." wrote in message
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"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If I
have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost the
same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working life
and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell the
difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include theirs
that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 02:59:05 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell the
difference

I don't.

Of course you don't, you auto-contradicting sociopathic swine! tsk

--
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"Auto-contradictor Rod is back! (in the KF)"
MID:

On 18/02/2021 09:35, tim... wrote:


"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
Â*Â* I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If I have
Â*Â* a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working life and
reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to collect
the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell the
difference


Don't really apply to the cat - I gave that Harrods example as a bit of
silliness but unless food is obviously off or uncooked or a disaster for
fat/sugar intake, I myself find it quite difficult to dislike food
whether it is the food which cost tuppence, or something 'posh'.

The TV people imagine a lot of people are fussy connoisseurs, and
absolutely have to have the right thing to eat, or risk being untrendy.
Ok, something unusual is an experience (erm, a Chinese....), but to go
overboard and to live ya life controlled by it?

Food fads are not important. If it were available I'd take a
multivitamin pill and measured dose of everything else for a recommended
daily intake.

My daily salads are similar enough as it is.

--
Adrian C

On 17/02/2021 18:37, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 17/02/2021 12:37, tim... wrote:


"Harry Bloomfield"; "Esq." wrote in message
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The Natural Philosopher used his keyboard to write :
I cant be arsed with chasing the best electricity deal that at best
might net me £100 a year.

I'm in a similar financial position, except I can and do - It takes
me a just few minutes. It makes me £100 better off over the year, for
the investment of just a few minutes, whilst sat idly watching TV.

This year I saved £150 on my bill.

if I saved 150 quid on my gas bill they'd be paying me



If I saved £150 quid on my gas bill I'd be phoning the police, because I
don't have gas!

I could probably save £150 on my oil bill by wearing a vest and a double
jumper and gloves for a month




Or by getting another tank and filling it during April last year.

On 18/02/2021 16:28, charles wrote:
In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"tim..." wrote in message
...


"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If I
have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost the
same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working life
and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell the
difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include theirs
that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.


Plus PCBs and micro plastics

On 17/02/2021 16:42, Peter Johnson wrote:
On 16 Feb 2021 20:54:18 GMT, David wrote:



Anyway does anyone else have a yard stick for measuring time and effort
put into research against the cost of an item?



I tend to be sniffy about own-brand stuff - then about ten years ago I
bought some B&Q own-brand laminate flooring. How can they get that
wrong? Quite easily it seems. It didn't/doesn't lie flat. Fortunately
it's in a room that I don't use that much, otherwise I'd have gone to
the trouble of ripping it out and replacing it.
(Do like Tesco Finest range though.)


Waitrose Value range is better than the normal stuff other places
sell.

charles explained on 17/02/2021 :
I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

We have a dog who normally refuses to eat dog food, or those mixer
biscuits. She will happily eat the very same biscuits, if offered as a
special treat.

"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"tim..." wrote in message
...


"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If I
have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost the
same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working life
and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of
driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell the
difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include theirs
that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.

Even you should have noticed that there is more than
just one type of fish, and different ways of dealing with
them to make them viable in a can of cat food.

In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"tim..." wrote in message
...


"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If
I have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost
the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working
life and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of
driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell
the difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include
theirs that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.

Even you should have noticed that there is more than just one type of
fish, and different ways of dealing with them to make them viable in a
can of cat food.

I was not referring to tins of cat food. The 'fish' involved was fresh

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:03:47 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:



Even you should have noticed that there is more than
just one type of fish, and different ways of dealing with
them to make them viable in a can of cat food.

Quarreling now about cat food, you sociopathic senile asshole? Why am I not
surprised? LOL

--
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Rod Speed is an entirely modern phenomenon. Essentially, Rod Speed
is an insecure and worthless individual who has discovered he can
enhance his own self-esteem in his own eyes by playing "the big, hard
man" on the InterNet."
https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/r...d-faq.2973853/

"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"tim..." wrote in message
...


"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If
I have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost
the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working
life and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of
driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell
the difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include
theirs that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.

Even you should have noticed that there is more than just one type of
fish, and different ways of dealing with them to make them viable in a
can of cat food.

I was not referring to tins of cat food. The 'fish' involved was fresh

If the owner can can appreciate the taste of top quality fish as
bought from Harrods, then that will certainly apply to the
cat as well.

In addition, maybe the cat also recognises the green and gold carrier
bags it comes in.



michael adams

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"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"tim..." wrote in message
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"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If
I have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost
the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working
life and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of
driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell
the difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include
theirs that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.

Even you should have noticed that there is more than just one type of
fish, and different ways of dealing with them to make them viable in a
can of cat food.

I was not referring to tins of cat food. The 'fish' involved was fresh

and the only variable here is likely to be:

how fresh

and that will make a difference

but even Harrods is going to have difficulty sourcing really fresh fish

"michael adams" wrote in message
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"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"tim..." wrote in message
...


"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If
I have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost
the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working
life and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of
driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell
the difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include
theirs that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.

Even you should have noticed that there is more than just one type of
fish, and different ways of dealing with them to make them viable in a
can of cat food.

I was not referring to tins of cat food. The 'fish' involved was fresh

If the owner can can appreciate the taste of top quality fish as
bought from Harrods,

but can they?

"Adrian Caspersz" wrote in message
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On 18/02/2021 09:35, tim... wrote:


"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If I
have
a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working life and
reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to collect
the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell the
difference


Don't really apply to the cat - I gave that Harrods example as a bit of
silliness but unless food is obviously off or uncooked or a disaster for
fat/sugar intake, I myself find it quite difficult to dislike food whether
it is the food which cost tuppence, or something 'posh'.

The TV people imagine a lot of people are fussy connoisseurs, and
absolutely have to have the right thing to eat, or risk being untrendy.
Ok, something unusual is an experience (erm, a Chinese....), but to go
overboard and to live ya life controlled by it?

have you seen that advert for the dog food specifically individually created
for your own pooch

what's that all about?

"Andrew" wrote in message
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On 17/02/2021 16:42, Peter Johnson wrote:
On 16 Feb 2021 20:54:18 GMT, David wrote:



Anyway does anyone else have a yard stick for measuring time and effort
put into research against the cost of an item?



I tend to be sniffy about own-brand stuff - then about ten years ago I
bought some B&Q own-brand laminate flooring. How can they get that
wrong? Quite easily it seems. It didn't/doesn't lie flat. Fortunately
it's in a room that I don't use that much, otherwise I'd have gone to
the trouble of ripping it out and replacing it.
(Do like Tesco Finest range though.)


Waitrose Value range is better than the normal stuff other places
sell.

better in what way?

and the range just seems to be basics, not ready meals (which is what Tesco
Finest is)

"tim..." wrote in message ...


"charles" wrote in message
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wrote:


"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"tim..." wrote in message
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"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If
I have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost
the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working
life and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of
driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell
the difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include
theirs that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.

Even you should have noticed that there is more than just one type of
fish, and different ways of dealing with them to make them viable in a
can of cat food.

I was not referring to tins of cat food. The 'fish' involved was fresh

and the only variable here is likely to be:

how fresh

and that will make a difference

but even Harrods is going to have difficulty sourcing really fresh fish


What makes you say that ?


michael adams

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"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"tim..." wrote in message
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"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If
I have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost
the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working
life and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of
driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell
the difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include
theirs that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.

Even you should have noticed that there is more than just one type of
fish, and different ways of dealing with them to make them viable in a
can of cat food.

I was not referring to tins of cat food. The 'fish' involved was fresh

If the owner can can appreciate the taste of top quality fish as
bought from Harrods,

but can they?

Why shouldn't they ?


michael adams

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On 19/02/2021 12:18, michael adams wrote:
"tim..." wrote in message ...


"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
wrote:


"tim..." wrote in message
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"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If
I have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost
the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working
life and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of
driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell
the difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include
theirs that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.

Even you should have noticed that there is more than just one type of
fish, and different ways of dealing with them to make them viable in a
can of cat food.

I was not referring to tins of cat food. The 'fish' involved was fresh

and the only variable here is likely to be:

how fresh

and that will make a difference

but even Harrods is going to have difficulty sourcing really fresh fish


What makes you say that ?


michael adams

...


Because it can take days/weeks to get back from sea, and has already
been frozen enroute.
If you want fresh fish, you need to go down to somewheer like
Worthing beach and buy what was caught that day from the bloke that
caught it.

On 19/02/2021 11:23, tim... wrote:


"Andrew" wrote in message
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On 17/02/2021 16:42, Peter Johnson wrote:
On 16 Feb 2021 20:54:18 GMT, David wrote:



Anyway does anyone else have a yard stick for measuring time and effort
put into research against the cost of an item?



I tend to be sniffy about own-brand stuff - then about ten years ago I
bought some B&Q own-brand laminate flooring. How can they get that
wrong? Quite easily it seems. It didn't/doesn't lie flat. Fortunately
it's in a room that I don't use that much, otherwise I'd have gone to
the trouble of ripping it out and replacing it.
(Do like Tesco Finest range though.)


Waitrose Value range is better than the normal stuff other places
sell.

better in what way?
Well I dunno. Their essential baked beans taste as good as if not better
than Heinz. which is my favourite 'branded' bean. Their own brand
sausages are better than any brand. Their own brand frozen fries and
cornflakes are identical to branded ones 30% more expensive...and so it
goes on ...

Basically you are paying more for the product and less fir the national
TV advertising


and the range just seems to be basics, not ready meals (which is what
Tesco Finest is)


There are some pretty basic ready meals at Waitrose. Some are even worth
eating





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In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If
I have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost
the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working
life and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of
driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell
the difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include
theirs that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.

Even you should have noticed that there is more than just one type of
fish, and different ways of dealing with them to make them viable in a
can of cat food.

I was not referring to tins of cat food. The 'fish' involved was fresh

Still different ways of handling the fish before the consumer buys it.

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In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If
I have a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost
the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working
life and reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to
collect the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of
driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell
the difference

I don't. Likely there is one ingredient Harrods chooses to include
theirs that the cat insists on.

The only ingredient in fish is fish.

Even you should have noticed that there is more than just one type of
fish, and different ways of dealing with them to make them viable in a
can of cat food.

I was not referring to tins of cat food. The 'fish' involved was fresh

and the only variable here is likely to be:

how fresh

and that will make a difference

but even Harrods is going to have difficulty sourcing really fresh fish

But may do better keeping it fresh.

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"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Adrian Caspersz expressed precisely :
I used to have an hours lunch break, ate a Tesco sandwich. If I
have
a 2 minute lunch break, a sandwich from Harrods cost the same.

People that eat Harrods sandwiches have a productive working life
and
reach the grave quicker ...

Does your calculation include the long drive there and back to collect
the Harrods sandwich? It might take me many hours of driving..

I had a work colleague whose cat would only eat fish from Harrods

I really find it impossible to believe that it's possible to tell the
difference


Don't really apply to the cat - I gave that Harrods example as a bit of
silliness but unless food is obviously off or uncooked or a disaster for
fat/sugar intake, I myself find it quite difficult to dislike food
whether it is the food which cost tuppence, or something 'posh'.

The TV people imagine a lot of people are fussy connoisseurs, and
absolutely have to have the right thing to eat, or risk being untrendy.
Ok, something unusual is an experience (erm, a Chinese....), but to go
overboard and to live ya life controlled by it?

have you seen that advert for the dog food specifically individually
created for your own pooch

what's that all about?

Getting you to buy what they are flogging, stupid.

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On 17/02/2021 16:42, Peter Johnson wrote:
On 16 Feb 2021 20:54:18 GMT, David wrote:



Anyway does anyone else have a yard stick for measuring time and
effort
put into research against the cost of an item?



I tend to be sniffy about own-brand stuff - then about ten years ago I
bought some B&Q own-brand laminate flooring. How can they get that
wrong? Quite easily it seems. It didn't/doesn't lie flat. Fortunately
it's in a room that I don't use that much, otherwise I'd have gone to
the trouble of ripping it out and replacing it.
(Do like Tesco Finest range though.)


Waitrose Value range is better than the normal stuff other places
sell.

better in what way?
Well I dunno. Their essential baked beans taste as good as if not better
than Heinz.

Morrison's - a pound for 4

which is my favourite 'branded' bean. Their own brand sausages are better
than any brand.

at 7.50 per kilo I should hope so

that's more than I pay for raw pork

Their own brand frozen fries and cornflakes are identical to branded ones
30% more expensive...and so it goes on ...

I buy neither of those items



Basically you are paying more for the product and less fir the national TV
advertising

yes I understand that

and the range just seems to be basics, not ready meals (which is what
Tesco Finest is)


There are some pretty basic ready meals at Waitrose. Some are even worth
eating

well which ones then?

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On 17/02/2021 16:42, Peter Johnson wrote:
On 16 Feb 2021 20:54:18 GMT, David wrote:



Anyway does anyone else have a yard stick for measuring time and
effort
put into research against the cost of an item?



I tend to be sniffy about own-brand stuff - then about ten years ago I
bought some B&Q own-brand laminate flooring. How can they get that
wrong? Quite easily it seems. It didn't/doesn't lie flat. Fortunately
it's in a room that I don't use that much, otherwise I'd have gone to
the trouble of ripping it out and replacing it.
(Do like Tesco Finest range though.)


Waitrose Value range is better than the normal stuff other places
sell.

better in what way?
Well I dunno. Their essential baked beans taste as good as if not
better than Heinz.

Morrison's - a pound for 4

which is my favourite 'branded' bean. Their own brand sausages are
better than any brand.

at 7.50 per kilo I should hope so

that's more than I pay for raw pork

Their own brand frozen fries and cornflakesÂ* are identical to branded
ones 30% more expensive...and so it goes on ...

I buy neither of those items



Basically you are paying more for the product and less fir the
national TV advertising

yes I understand that

and the range just seems to be basics, not ready meals (which is what
Tesco Finest is)


There are some pretty basic ready meals at Waitrose. Some are even
worth eating

well which ones then?



I cant remember - I very rarely buy them.


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