Random musings and general banter.

[Duke of Cheese]

Can you imagine him being let loose on children’s television with that patter in the modern day era, His day in that field is thankfully at an end. Dodgy double entendres, hawking bargain basement goods to a few thousand viewers, plus, a group of behind the scenes humouring him youths seems to better suit.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Can you imagine him being let loose on children’s television with that patter in the modern day era, His day in that field is thankfully at an end. Dodgy double entendres, hawking bargain basement goods to a few thousand viewers, plus, a group of behind the scenes humouring him youths seems to better suit.

Thousand viewers you sure

 

[Jazzydrury]

Just looked up Jezza on Wiki

He done a Panto last Christmas, and last was on TV in 2018. He is more relevant than Pedro

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Sorry, I meant 27 - on a good day

 

[galesgal57]

Air fresheners 3 for £12.99 on Amazon. Shop around folks.

 

[exmothian]

£53.95 for all six

 

[Battiola73]

Just switched on to see Pratt in a hat wearing a whitish tracksuit.

Oh I’m so tempted, not, to buy 6 unknown air fresheners with a 10% discount for £53.95. Weird bottles with even weirder names and by a weird presenter.

5 for £19.99 on Amazon
I’ll stick with Febreze thank you

 

[Lord Helpus]

Ooh let me think...

I assume he's referring to Mulberry, who sell bags for around £1000

Air fresheners 3 for £12.99 on Amazon. Shop around folks.

Yeah but... these are exquisite, dogs love them and Pete says watch out if you leave them in your bathroom - your guests will spray themselves thinking they are a deodorant!!!!

I'm always doing that, picking up an air freshener and using it as a deodorant...especially in other people's bathrooms.

I don't get how this man's mind works, he says the most bizarre things thinking it will help sales but he just sounds like a moron. Perhaps because he is one.

 

[galesgal57]

Yeah but... these are exquisite, dogs love them and Pete says watch out if you leave them in your bathroom - your guests will spray themselves thinking they are a deodorant!!!!

I'm always doing that, picking up an air freshener and using it as a deodorant...especially in other people's bathrooms.

I don't get how this man's mind works, he says the most bizarre things thinking it will help sales but he just sounds like a moron. Perhaps because he is one.

Maybe the type of "guests" he invites have worked up a sweat, if you know what I mean. (I know, I just can't help myself)

 

[Jazzydrury]

Dean Wilson is on Create selling a Sewing Machime for £2.900, do they know there is cost of living

 

[Professor Branestawm]

With reference to the above - am I right in recalling there was once a time in UK retailing where if an item had been wrongly priced far too low and was on display, you could demand the goods for that price, and the retailer HAD to sell them to you? Long now repealed if so. The seller is no longer required to do this any longer in similar circumstances.

I’m not sure, Duke.
Legally, displaying goods with a price ticket is what’s known as an ‘invitation to treat’. The sale contract isn’t finalised (in a shop) until the ‘ringing of the cash register’- the acceptance by the cashier if the money you proffer. (It came from a case brought by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (against Boots) who were hoping to secure more jobs for their members, as the law said a pharmacist had to be present at the sale of some medicines, so there had to be a definition of exactly when the sale occurred).
It might’ve been different before that case, (which was I think, from memory, in the 60’s).
I think a number of online retailers pushed this, just as the internet caught on, and fir online shopping there’s now a distinction between an order being placed (which is analogous to the ‘invitation to treat’), and the order being accepted - which is when the contract is finalised, the price fixed (and usually the payment is taken).

Unless you’re IW, in which case the price is what Peter says it is (but he might only tell you a quarter of the true price, which is how he often seems to work the flexi-pay scam…)

 

[Professor Branestawm]

sorry - my hands aren’t so good today and I hit post twice. Could mods remove this one, please?
Thanks.

 

[Battiola73]

I’m pretty sure it was the case back in the 1960s. I think C&As were one of the chief offenders of doing this. Remember going shopping to the branch in Kensington with a friend who’d seen a black corduroy jacket in the sale for less than half price. When paying for it she was told it was a mistake and should be 25% off. Friend stood her ground and got for marked price. She wore it for many years.

 

[Professor Branestawm]

Slightly off-topic but linked in general to issues of time…I bought this classic 1970s Westclox ‘Space Age’ clock from eBay last week. It was sold as not working but actually ticks and keeps slow time from time to time. I wonder if the Professor or Hammy know if these clocks can be repaired? Mum and Dad were always told in the Green Shield Showroom that Westclox clocks could only be repaired by the maker..View attachment 29421

I’ve never seen that specific model, Duke.
It’s a good looking clock though - harking back to the 60s and the Space Age, I think.
Is it battery or mechanical? I only ask because the face says it’s a Big Ben Repeater, so it could have either inside.
If it’s mechanical, which is my best guess, most repairers can either fix it or if the parts are too hard to source, then to supply and install a new Hermle (or similar) mechanism. If battery, then probably a new module rather than a repair - but still do-able.
Just needs a specialist in clock repair - they’ll give you a quote. Don’t pay more than £100 though - get another quote…

 

[Professor Branestawm]

He's just gone up in my estimation, he loves Tunnel of Love by Dire Straits. My all time favourite band, and the live version is sublime. Apart from that, he's still an ar*ehole.

That line ‘like the Spanish City to me, when we were kids’ - the way Knopfler sings it brings goose bumps every time.
Pure, distilled, nostalgia. And wonderful.

 

[Professor Branestawm]

Didn’t realise kids could take Drink to school,for during the day.

I remember all we had was 2 of those Quarter Pint Glass Bottles of Milk a day

Oh yes!
After they’d been delivered at 9-30 and left in the sun all morning.
Always just a little bit cheesy….

 

[Dr Quincy MkII]

I’m not sure, Duke.
Legally, displaying goods with a price ticket is what’s known as an ‘invitation to treat’. The sale contract isn’t finalised (in a shop) until the ‘ringing of the cash register’- the acceptance by the cashier if the money you proffer. (It came from a case brought by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (against Boots) who were hoping to secure more jobs for their members, as the law said a pharmacist had to be present at the sale of some medicines, so there had to be a definition of exactly when the sale occurred).
It might’ve been different before that case, (which was I think, from memory, in the 60’s).
I think a number of online retailers pushed this, just as the internet caught on, and fir online shopping there’s now a distinction between an order being placed (which is analogous to the ‘invitation to treat’), and the order being accepted - which is when the contract is finalised, the price fixed (and usually the payment is taken).

Unless you’re IW, in which case the price is what Peter says it is (but he might only tell you a quarter of the true price, which is how he often seems to work the flexi-pay scam…)

I worked for a supermarket called Wellworths back in the 90s it was eventually taken over by Safeways and SuperValu but then if an item was priced wrongly we had to honour it. But maybe that was just the store policy

 

[Dr Quincy MkII]

I should also point out, I bought a jumper in Primark earlier this year and it had a price tag of £10 and it was actually supposed to be £15 and they gave me the jumper for the cheaper price. And promptly sent someone over to remove all the £10 price tags

 

[cheeky chappie]

I admit to laughing a bit when Peter S was flogging the cool touch pillas, oops sorry pillows, a week or so back and Jeremy joined him on set.

Peter to Jeremy:

Now, we've both performed in some of thee biggest television studios in the world, so we know what hot can be like under those lights, am I right?!?

Jeremy nodding excitedly and saying he was going to ask for the pillas, oops sorry pillows to be included in his rider (list of things entertainers request when doing a show) the next time he was in a tv studio.

Oh dear ...

 

[cheeky chappie]

Dean Wilson is on Create selling a Sewing Machime for £2.900, do they know there is cost of living

Would love to know how many of these more expensive machines they actually sell. Mind you if they had Mike M flogging them we'd get ...

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