The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

[cheb]

Lidl today.

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Guess how many ?

None? Because it's overated.

[Yorick]

Lidl today.

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Guess how many ?

None? Because it's overated.

Good enough for me nowadays.

[Ant]

I needed a new paint roller, so treated myself to a Purdy Revolution and one of their Powerlock extension poles, looking forward to using it.

[mangocrazy]

The Gilbert Shelton Fat Freddy's Cat omnibus. All the old favourites in one place...

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[weeksy]

Say who now what now?

[Count Steer]

The Gilbert Shelton Fat Freddy's Cat omnibus. All the old favourites in one place...



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If you like that, I assume you are also a Bloom County fan? Opus is something of a hero.

[ChrisW]

If you like that, I assume you are also a Bloom County fan? Opus is something of a hero.

Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts?

[mangocrazy]

The Gilbert Shelton Fat Freddy's Cat omnibus. All the old favourites in one place...



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If you like that, I assume you are also a Bloom County fan? Opus is something of a hero.

Hmmm, no. Completely unaware of Bloom County. Investigation required...

[KungFooBob]

Editor is a fan of Fat Freddy's Cat, but he don't come here no more.

[gremlin]

Tickets to see James at the Albert Hall next year for their 40th year tour. Only took an hour using both a laptop and my phone and I didn't get the best seats, but hey, I'm in with a 'plus one'.

I suspect Mrs. G will come under sufferance but would happily give up her seat for this middle-age musical-fest if one of my mates wants to come.

[KungFooBob]

Shortly before my wife told me off for putting shoes on a table.

[gremlin]

If they're new, there's no risk of a dog egg on the bottom of the shoes, so it's all good.

[Count Steer]

We had that thing about shoes (very much including new ones) on the table at home.

Just looked it up. It signifies the owner is dead.

(From the ritual of putting a dead miner's shoes on the table apparently).

[cheb]

And they'll squeak until you've paid for them.

[Potter]

Shortly before my wife told me off for putting shoes on a table.

They're nice shoes and very well made for off the peg shoes, I've got half a dozen pairs of boots/shoes bought over the last ten years or so and based on current wear/condition they'll easily last me a lifetime.

My wife's mother wasn't keen on new shoes on the table, apparently it's very bad luck.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I've never met a cobbler who's won the lottery TBF.

[Potter]

One would assume that cobblers are exempt from the law of new shoes on tables?

[Mr. Dazzle]

Such questions are not for the minds of men.

Edit: actually, thinking about it, their very name is a synonym for dishonesty. So maybe something happened in aeons past, forever cursing them.

[Horse]

Such questions are not for the minds of men.

Edit: actually, thinking about it, their very name is a synonym for dishonesty. So maybe something happened in aeons past, forever cursing them.

Table? Bench, or counter.


And Wiki says:

"A load of old cobblers" and variants such as "what a load of cobblers" or just "cobblers!" is British slang for "what nonsense" that is derived from the Cockney rhyming slang for "balls" (testicles) of "cobbler's awls".

[mangocrazy]

How about a thread where people contribute their favourite examples of Cockney rhyming slang...?