News of the day

akamaisondufromage wrote: I think BOGOF should be banned full stop in supermarkets.  We live in a society where so much goes to waste and these kind of offers on anything that goes off just encourages waste.  Just put the bloody price down for F S !

Years back, when BOGOF was in its infancy Tesco had a deal where if you bought 12 hot cross buns (in late summer naturally) you got another 12 free. Being only three of us, 2 dozen was far more than we'd ever want, or need or ever be able to consume before they went stale so I picked up a single pack and put them in the shopping trolley- "You get another free" said the assistant who was stacking the bread products shelves as she thrust a 2nd pack into my hand - "I don't need another." I said politely as i put it back on the shelf. "It's okay", she insisted, picking it back up and thrusting it at me, "they're free". "No," I replied, "it's fine, I don't need 24 hot cross buns"... this left her looking puzzled and a lost for words so she just shoved them in my trolley then returned to stacking the shelves, and I promptly took them out again and put them back and walked off, think that was the end of it - but no, she chased after me and literally threw them into my trolley - "It's buy one get one free!" she snapped, and stormed off. Not wishing to prolong the war of attrition, I allowed her a Pyrrhic victory and dumped them on an another shelf in a different ailse... Until we got to the check-out. "You know these are buy one get one free"... 

^It's good for health if you're starving.

No one is forcing you to take the free second one (except perhaps in the example above) and no one is forcing you to eat it. Stop expecting the government to solve your self-control problems.

akamaisondufromage wrote: thellama73 wrote: ^It's good for health if you're starving. No one is forcing you to take the free second one (except perhaps in the example above) and no one is forcing you to eat it. Stop expecting the government to solve your self-control problems.  TROLLISMS   I'm not starving.  I don't really expect the Gov to do this.  I expect that if enough people complain, then just maybe the Supermarkets will change what they do.  How dare you belittle my addiction to marmite flavoured crisps.

They have marmite flavored crisps where you live? Man, if we had those in America, I would be all over them.


Edited by thellama73 - July 19 2012 at 13:10

One of those mornings where I wish I hadn't checked the news.

14 Killed in Shooting at Colorado Theater

Edited by Slartibartfast - July 20 2012 at 07:08

I have a real personal issue with shootings in general. Not to make light of the devistating and tragic event, but it angers me for reasons that the majority of the world around me feel are out of order. So..I get a little out of order myself. It's like...okay, now it's going to be a situation where security may be re-enforced to extreme measures in movie theatres right? Now there will be fear across the nation when families take their kids to the movie theatre. Just brilliant! Another dirtbag with guns. What's on his agenda? To be a celebrity like all the others? To go down in history? This is where my negative attitude sets in. Some moron..years ago...shot Amish children in a church and for what? What is the point? Look into the mind of the killer? I don't think so. It's pretty clear what the motive of the situation is here. These people want to obviously make a statement. It has been an on going pattern or fad since the first massive high school shootings. Take everyone's life and then take my own. What does that prove? Even the Amish are not safe? Is that the mentality? Bullcrap! The Amish will never reveal a sense of anger or give satisfaction to the gun freaks who find that particular tragic event laughable. And..there are many unfortunately that do. A lot of sick minded people who are influenced by this fad of shootings..whether or not they may take place on a campus, a movie theatre, or a toliet. The Amish did not react to the shooting in the way that the killer and his fans wanted them to. You cannot break a community like that and expect the same reaction you get from the innocent victims in the movie theatre. So...if there was a motive (which I'm convinced there is), then the killer failed.The attention aspect of it all angers me to no end. I interact with a young generation of special education students and a majority are turned on by the various shootings in this country..just as I was turned on by the Beatles in 64'. It's nothing but a fad and a repeated pattern to prove some kind of point. The incident in Norway was typical. There is nothing special about it. The FBI takes logical steps to address these killers. The important facts of these cases are reported 24/7 as the body count changes, observations are made on the history and upbringing of the killers, interviews with the survivors, journalists on a mission, people sitting watching the news..scared and disturbed out of their minds etc. It angers me that this is a pattern which ...so far...can not be fixed or addressed properly. Now parents will be afraid to take their kids to the movie theatre?    

After the Columbine shootings, security was inforced in selective schools, shy kids were suddenly observed and sent for council where it was suggested to the parents that meds would be an alternative to the problem. Parents would spend money on meds, a child psychologist, and if teachers did not follow these procedures immediately, then their jobs were on the line. These procedures seem to be more about the medical profession making money than a direct and healthy solution to the threating problems of today. Doctors have openly admitted that to me, claiming that the reports on children are mostly false. It is quite overblown to take precautions with every child that is shy. Like a routine that revolves around the evidence that the Columbine killers were misfits or loners. I'm sorry to say this , but an action such as this one feels moronic to me and is not the true solution for the ever expanding problem. Every year, or every 3 to 4 months out of a year, 12, 14, or 25 people die from bizzare and moronic shootings. I wonder often if that could be changed?

TODDLER wrote: After the Columbine shootings, security was inforced in selective schools, shy kids were suddenly observed and sent for council where it was suggested to the parents that meds would be an alternative to the problem. Parents would spend money on meds, a child psychologist, and if teachers did not follow these procedures immediately, then their jobs were on the line. These procedures seem to be more about the medical profession making money than a direct and healthy solution to the threating problems of today. Doctors have openly admitted that to me, claiming that the reports on children are mostly false. It is quite overblown to take precautions with every child that is shy. Like a routine that revolves around the evidence that the Columbine killers were misfits or loners. I'm sorry to say this , but an action such as this one feels moronic to me and is not the true solution for the ever expanding problem. Every year, or every 3 to 4 months out of a year, 12, 14, or 25 people die from bizzare and moronic shootings. I wonder often if that could be changed?

When the world becomes crowded with so many people, a few number are going to by psychos. As we live in a more and more desensitized world, shootings become "funny" to the youth. I mean, I remember my parents saying i would watch the gulf war stuff as a little 1 or 2 year old and cheer the military on having no idea I was cheering on death. As I grew older and gained access to the internet, I was shown horrifying pictures that I cannot unsee. I have seen things that are so terrible that I consider myself a worse person because of what I have seen. When I see a mutilated body I no longer look at it in horror because it no longer frightens me. These things do not seem real because they have been so deeply planted in my brain.

thellama73 wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Unfortunately, I think that once the proverbial cat was let out of Pandora's Box, I don't know that it can ever be put back into the box.  There wasn't a cat in Pandora's Box. The box contained all the evils in the world, and cats are most definitely a force for good.

I must disagree.  Cats are the epitome of evil. 

Cats kill rats. Rats are evil. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Cats are good. QED

Things like this shooting just really make me feel funny emotionally, I can't even grasp within my imaginings the coldness or schizophrenia someone would have to feel to commit mass murder. Same thing happened with the Tuscon shooting two years ago, it just fills me with tears that aren't even sadness really just a large amount of despair. It makes me sick.

EDIT: And I didn't read completely, but if this was turned into a death penalty argument, how many guys like this do you see rehabilitated? It just doesn't happen.


Edited by The Truth - July 20 2012 at 12:41