Re: The Far East : Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:13 am  

sanjunien wrote:

yeah but think about the good you did in China - feeding a family and boosting thier economy which is keeping the rest of the world afloat

There is that I suppose, I'll have to emphasis the charity angle to her - like the shirt I bought in Primark this week, there will be a family in Bangladesh who haven't had to raid the tip once this week because of me.

Re: The Far East : Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:48 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

There is that I suppose, I'll have to emphasis the charity angle to her - like the shirt I bought in Primark this week, there will be a family in Bangladesh who haven't had to raid the tip once this week because of me.

you're a credit to society, a rôle model thanks to your altruistic approach to life

sadly i'm not in to this charity thing on the basis that i'm a tight old git who always puts himself first....

Re: The Far East : Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:22 am  

sanjunien wrote:

you're a credit to society, a rôle model thanks to your altruistic approach to life

sadly i'm not in to this charity thing on the basis that i'm a tight old git who always puts himself first....

It's an impossibility that you could be tighter than JC/McF.

Surely?

Re: The Far East : Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:33 am  

WIZEB wrote:

It's an impossibility that you could be tighter than JC/McF.

Surely?

and that from a man from Arbroath !

problem is when I try to save money it actually ends up costing me twice as much !

I recall taking my Pools coupon into the newsagents once - he asked me "if you did actually win Littlewoods jackpot, how would you handle the begging letters ?"

" easy" I said " I would stop sending them..."

Re: The Far East : Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:05 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

You won't overpower Radio 2 with one of those things! You'll barely get it to register in your own car, never mind someone else's. They really are a pile of sh*t.

Ooh its just arrived today, plugged it in and...

...it works !

Bit of fine tuning for the sound quality needed but, erm, it works anyway, my £4 investment in hi-tech audio stock seems to be justified