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OriginalGriff6-Jul-14 23:25

6-Jul-14 23:25

chriselst wrote:
A 99p Store does exactly what it says on the tin, everything costs 99 pence.

So...PoundLand for real cheapskates, then? Laugh | :laugh:

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chriselst6-Jul-14 23:28

chriselst

6-Jul-14 23:28

I believe that was the aim of the bloke who started the chain, simply to undercut poundland and let that fact do his advertising for him.

Chain is growing very quickly, I think we may have one in Lichfield now although as there is almost nothing in the city centre but bars, cafes and charity shops these days it is not somewhere I go when needing to buy anything.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

OriginalGriff6-Jul-14 23:39

6-Jul-14 23:39

Same with all city centres, and most towns too.
The local town has a centre with shops still - but they are dying slowly as well. Sigh | :sigh:

_Maxxx_7-Jul-14 0:33

_Maxxx_

7-Jul-14 0:33

chriselst wrote:
here is almost nothing in the city centre but bars, cafes and charity shops

You had me at "bars"

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Nagy Vilmos6-Jul-14 23:36

6-Jul-14 23:36

There is also PoundWorld, which Mrs Wife assures me is reet posh compared to Poundland.

Johnny J.6-Jul-14 23:31

Johnny J.

6-Jul-14 23:31

Maybe she simply wanted to try them out in peace and quiet at home before deciding if she wanted to pay such a humungous price. Surely, she would either have brought them back or paid for them at a later date?!?!? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Nagy Vilmos6-Jul-14 23:34

6-Jul-14 23:34

Bloody foreigners! Coming over here, steeling all our cheap tat!

In Hungariorszag they have ft100 shops. That's about 30p in real money!

Chris Quinn7-Jul-14 0:02

Chris Quinn

7-Jul-14 0:02

She obviously must have been beautiful to attract such a punishment[^].

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Sander Rossel7-Jul-14 0:05

Sander Rossel

7-Jul-14 0:05

It's an OO world.

public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
   public void DoWork()
   {
      throw new NotSupportedException();
   }
}

Keith Barrow7-Jul-14 0:43

Keith Barrow

7-Jul-14 0:43

KRISTINA Berezovska: 6 Months for 99p item
Rolf Harris: 5 years 9 months = 69 Months for touching up under-age girls.

Something is wrong with the sentencing here, Jake the Peg's crimes have a money-equivalent value of about £11.40

Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

Nagy Vilmos7-Jul-14 1:07

7-Jul-14 1:07

In mitigation, he got time taken of for having met Vanessa Feltz[^]

[Too soon?]

OriginalGriff7-Jul-14 1:23

7-Jul-14 1:23

My gawd! I thought the kiddie-fiddling was bad enough, but that's just perverted! Dead | X|

Keith Barrow7-Jul-14 1:40

Keith Barrow

7-Jul-14 1:40

I just sicked in my mouth a little. I'm pretty sure there is a pun to be had on her surname though.

Nagy Vilmos wrote:
[Too soon?]

Never.

Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

Expert you say?

Nagy Vilmos6-Jul-14 23:08

6-Jul-14 23:08

from an e-mail:
Hello,

I'm an expert head hunter who specializes in placing Application Support Staff into permanent positions in the UK.

[...]

My clients based in Central Glasgow

so, you're so good you've realised I live at the other end of the country and I'm in development not support. Yea, I'll give you a call... Laugh | :laugh:

Re: Expert you say?

Pete O'Hanlon6-Jul-14 23:18

Pete O'Hanlon

6-Jul-14 23:18

He means that he's got an impressive shrunken head collection and one of those multi-assault blowpipes, the bagpipe.

Re: Expert you say?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter6-Jul-14 23:28

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

6-Jul-14 23:28

Of course he is an expert - he was able to send you a spam with all your shields up!!!

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

A husband ...

Rajesh_Francis6-Jul-14 22:32

Rajesh_Francis

6-Jul-14 22:32

stepped on one of those penny scales that tell you your fortune and weight and dropped in a coin.
"Listen to this," he said to his wife, showing her a small, white card.
"It says I'm energetic, bright, resourceful and a great person."
"Yeah," his wife nodded,

"and it has your weight wrong, too."

PS : For these type of jokes my coat is always outside of this room.. I ll take from there.. Poke tongue | ;-P

OriginalGriff6-Jul-14 22:41

6-Jul-14 22:41

Ah! The old ones are the best!

And that one is so old it drew it's pension before I was born!

Keith Barrow6-Jul-14 22:51

Keith Barrow

6-Jul-14 22:51

"I say I say I say! Dost thou see-est this newe and most awful and artificial invention, that of which I speake being called the Zoetrope? I heard many a young lad say that therein lies a scene where the Dutchesse of Devonshire doth disrobe and the footemane doth observe through the key-hole, in the most lewde and humorous manner!"

Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

OriginalGriff6-Jul-14 23:23

6-Jul-14 23:23

Indeed thou say Sirrah? Most assuredly I am forsooth fain of this intelligence!
The Dutchesse of Devonshire doth disrobe her habiliment? For her cicisbeo, I presume?

_Maxxx_7-Jul-14 0:39

_Maxxx_

7-Jul-14 0:39

Tits ooteth for t'lads, eh!

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