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Assume v. Presume
- Thread starter Black Hole
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prpr
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Black Hole
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He's a lurker, and clearly he's been talking to my Mum. Tell somebody you like something once (school packed lunches), and be forever typecast. If not beans, then lettuce & salad cream (Heinz, of course). Not so much my lack of desire for variation, but easy for Mum. I can't say I've had a bean sandwich since school.
Personally, I have far more interesting things (to me) to expend time and brain power on than making decisions about what I'm going to eat. Usually it gets to 8 or 9pm and I make do with what I can find in the freezer. Post-war, I was brought up to eat what was put in front of me and be grateful (none of the modern trend for tantrums if it isn't chicken nuggets or whatever, and parents giving in to it for a quiet life), so I am undemanding.
How you want to spend your time is your choice, you have no business expecting anyone else to conform to your idea of normality.
I'm talking in general rather than in particular...
Is it? Perhaps to you, not necessarily to everyone. Do you believe every adage to be universal truth? It's overdue you understood that no individual is an exemplum of "normality".
Personally, I have far more interesting things (to me) to expend time and brain power on than making decisions about what I'm going to eat. Usually it gets to 8 or 9pm and I make do with what I can find in the freezer. Post-war, I was brought up to eat what was put in front of me and be grateful (none of the modern trend for tantrums if it isn't chicken nuggets or whatever, and parents giving in to it for a quiet life), so I am undemanding.
How you want to spend your time is your choice, you have no business expecting anyone else to conform to your idea of normality.
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I thought I had a frequent bus service near me at every 20 minutes but every 2 minutes
though I am not sure how much extra work you will get done.It's overdue you understood that there are other colours apart from beige. Anyway it is your loss so of no concern to me.
EEPhil
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Two buses to get from home to work. As the University is next to a very large teaching hospital buses are quite often full. Combine that with school kids moving across the city and past the university/hospital and the odd few minutes can easily make a half hour differenceI thought I had a frequent bus service near me at every 20 minutes but every 2 minutes
EEPhil
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Crumbs! You mean you can remember eating before the war?
That late? Gives me indigestion!
Early to bed, early to rise is my usual behaviour - not so much out of choice but tired early and can't manage a long sleep.
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Black Hole
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I realise you're having a quip, but I mean it was in the decades where parents still had the habits of scarcity (and there were still price controls, no discounts – supermarkets competed on who could offer more Green Shield Stamps).
That's as may be, but I get absorbed in something and...
Anyway, if I ate early nothing would get done after. However, several days in a typical week I'm out and dependent on opportunity.
I'm generally not asleep until gone 1, and awake before 6. Whether I get up or stay in bed depends what's going on at the time, and whether it can be done using my iPad (most of my admin can).
EEPhil
Number 28
Of what a shame my father worked at a garage that issued Green Shield Stamps. We did seem to fill the books up rather quickly.
Perhaps it was just petrol usage and the trips to whichever supermarket issued them. (I thought it was Fine Fare, but that appears not to be the case)
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Black Hole
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The amusing thing about Green Shield is that Sainsbury's turned their back on them and went for other means to foster loyalty. Once price control came off, nobody wanted to issue them and started competing on price, so the assets which serviced Green Shield (showrooms, warehousing etc) were repurposed for catalogue shopping, rising from the ashes as Argos. Only for Nectar to do a deal with Argos, and then eventually for Sainsbury's to acquire Argos.
If you collect Nectar points you are effectively still collecting Green Shield Stamps. Ironic.
If you collect Nectar points you are effectively still collecting Green Shield Stamps. Ironic.
EEPhil
Number 28
Can't say I'm committed to one supermarket. I have loyalty cards for all those I use that have them. I use them mainly for the "instant" savings. If they give points then I'll consider that as well. Argos give Nectar points - eventually, so that's helpful.
All those cards and all that data "they" have about my spending habits!
Tesco used to give Green Shield Stamps, and the Co-op used to give Co-op Stamps, but who used to give Blue Chip Stamps?Of what a shame my father worked at a garage that issued Green Shield Stamps. We did seem to fill the books up rather quickly.
I still have a full book of New Green Shield Stamps, and an almost full book of Blue Chip Stamps.
EEPhil
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I can remember an independent petrol station on the A46 between the A606 junction and Leicester that used to give blue stamps - probably Blue Chip. Never saw them anywhere else.
antipodean
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I like to shop at Tesco because I can use Club card points for travelling on the Chunnel on my trips to Europe.
prpr
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Tesco didn't really exist around us, so we only got stamps with petrol. We preferred petrol stations that did the stamps. I don't recall how/where we redeemed the books though, or what was obtained.
We got literally thousands by buying a new bed there in the 70s. That took an awful lot of lick and filled quite a few books.
On my trawl through all the paper work in the house, I've discovered two partially complete books, and a pristine catalogue of all the things you could get. Annoyingly there's no date on it, but the stuff you could get looks like it would have been from the late 70s or early 80s. I'll post some pics. if anyone's interested, having not (yet) had the heart to throw it away.
I've also found my brother's National Savings stamps book, partially complete. There's a note on it saying they will only pay out for complete books. Damn it, I would've been interested to see what they'd said had he tried to redeem it. (So that was a waste of pocket money or whatever then.)
I know where you mean. We never went in there. My dad was very particular about which brands of fuel he'd buy and would never buy Jet or whatever from independents (aside from desperation measures like "Last petrol before Dartmoor" if short). I think Esso, Shell, BP were OK, and probably Texaco as well.
Does anybody remember the white plastic figures of monarchs from the dim and distant past they used to give away with petrol too? Like all of these sort of things, you could never collect the whole set and sometimes you ended up with several duplicates of one or two (I think it was Charles II). That was probably Esso. (I'll save Tiger Tokens for some other time.)
Luke
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Cleveland, which was part of Esso.
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prpr
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OMG, that was it. I'd completely forgotten. Now that's triggered Total and National as well.
Just one of many (incomplete?) sets: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/357450566077
EEPhil
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Don't remember those. I can't remember what brand of petrol was sold at the garages where my dad worked (and my uncle owned). Shell? I do know there were collections of plastic coins (can't remember what they depicted) in a cardboard display. We had a large collection of Pyrex cups that came with a plastic holder. I'm sure they were a petrol promotion. Unfortunately only a few left.
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Black Hole
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IIRC we used to get drinking glasses from petrol and crockery from washing powder. We have a kitchen wall clock (a ceramic plate with a hole in the middle, blue check pattern) which used to be mains driven until I replaced the movement with quartz, which must have come from something like that – one of my friends' houses had one too, and that was after we moved 40 miles.
EEPhil
Number 28
We had some white Phoenix Opalware bowls (like Pyrex, but not) - I think they are supposed to be cereal bowls and may have been a cereal promotion, but too small. Probably a set of four - only one left. Too many things are breaking and can't be replaced!
It's possible some of my drinking glasses were obtained from that source.