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[cybermule]

One of my miniature iris bulbs has miraculously shot up and flowered - it's beautiful. I also have some crocuses (crocii? meh... who knows?) that the previous owner planted, so my garden is finally showing some colour. Albeit only purple :)

There's a Tesco Express opened just a few minutes walk away. Ethically I'm moderately against Tesco (along with most other annoying chains), but they keep reducing their food. Today I spent £4.03, and bought a huge pizza, a jar of olives, two tubs of tomatoes, naan bread, two ciabatta (sp?), sweetcorn, mange tout, courgettes, pitta bread and a bag of salad. That'll keep me going for days :)

Hahah Tesco - I'm going to rape you and move on, just as you do to everyone else ;P

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[unsane1.livejournal.com]

http://dictionary.com/search?q=crocus
n. pl. cro·cus·es or cro·ci

You used 4 words I don't know in your post. I think I'm going to perform an experiment to see if the rate goes up or down over time. :)

If it goes up then either you are getting smarter or I am getting dumber or both. If it goes down then either I am getting smarter or you are getting dumber or both. lol :)

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[amiga500.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think I understood them all, though I've been exposed to so many Brit mags (my mum has a bunch with 'My Boyfriend Had a Boyfriend!' and 'I Lost 12 Stone - And My Husband Left Me' on the covers) so that's probably why.

I'm all for doing whatever it takes to get what I can from groceries stores, hence all the coupons and such. Everything's so damned expensive here, and next to nothing good ever gets marked down (though I got 25 cent chocolate chips and foil pans after Christmas) so something that will give me free beans (50 cent coupons double to $1, and the beans cost 90 cents a can, so . . .) or cheap cookies is worthwhile. Besides, it's a reasonably harmless way to have fun, since grocery buying is necessary anyway. And it sounds like you did really well.

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[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think I understood them all

I still don't know which ones they are?!?

though I've been exposed to so many Brit mags

Oh dear - I look at those magazines, and I just boggle! How can people bear to live in such a state of unproductive, miserable, heyper-emotionality? Freaks, the lot of 'em.... We're not all like that, I promise :)

Besides, it's a reasonably harmless way to have fun, since grocery buying is necessary anyway. And it sounds like you did really well.

Heheh - thanks! I hate shopping with a fiery passion, but like you said, you have to buy food (most other stuff I wriggle out of), so you might as well have fun. So long as it's not produced by slave labout, I'm up for screwing every and any penny I can out of the big food stores.

Heheh - I forgot you were "coupon queen" :)

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[amiga500.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know, or you'd be too busy taking care of the kids you'd started having at fourteen, and trying to lose weight while looking for a new man to ever post here. Oddly enough, though, those mags seem to have fashion and complementary medicine info that's several years ahead of American stuff. I started taking fish oil as an anti-PMS thing based on what I read in one, and my husband thought I was a complete flake until he saw a news item about how it was a good antidepressant some time later. American women's magazine are all about making your marriage work, and making patriotic cakes involving little bear-shaped cookies, so they're much less interesting.

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[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I think that despite our stiff-upper-lip britishness, we're a bit more open minded than some other cultures. Or on average, anyway. We tend to think that what you do in your own home is your own business, so I guess we get away with less patriotism :)

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[cybermule.livejournal.com]

http://dictionary.com/search?q=crocus n. pl. cro·cus·es or cro·ci

Ooo - thanks. I'm lazy :P

You used 4 words I don't know in your post

LOL - sorry! Which ones? FWIW, my speech is so spikey and geeky that quite a lot of native Brits have problems keeping up with me. I'm always fascinated with linguistic nuances, and WAY too intense. But my friends like me, so that's OK :)

I think I'm going to perform an experiment

Hey - you vivisectionist, you! You can't experiment on me - I'll get too self-conscious and start dumbing down my posts ;p Plus, I'll be forced to perform a similar experiment on you to assess the relative philosophical content of each of your posts, together with a "weirdness" rating ;)

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[unsane1.livejournal.com]

LOL - sorry!


Why, oh why dost thou feeleth the needeth to apologizetheth?


Which ones?


crocuses
naan bread
ciabatta
mange tout


But my friends like me, so that's OK :)


large_vocabulary == good!


I'll get too self-conscious and start dumbing down my posts ;p


LOL, don't you dare! I was pointing out my lack of intelligence.


Plus, I'll be forced to perform a similar experiment on you to assess the relative philosophical content of each of your posts, together with a "weirdness" rating ;)


Oooooh please do! LOL j/k. :)

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[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Why, oh why dost thou feeleth the needeth to apologizetheth?

Meh - sorry ;) Seriously though, it's just low self-esteem and an over-eagerness to please. Plus a natural tendency to covet the abilities of everyone else as superior to my own - I guess the circles I move in tend to value hard logic and verbal dexterity. Blah.

naan bread, ciabatta

See - the English have as many words for bread as Eskimo do for snow! ;) WRT naan bread - indian food doesn't seem to have made as big a hit across the Atlantic as it did here. Curry is the nation's #1 dish, apparently.

Oooooh please do! LOL j/k. :)

*grins* We'll see the relative weirdness-balance evolve, then. I think you'll win - you have an admirable tendency to think about odd/ interesting things far more than I do :)