Who said the Aldi hand trolly was naff?

Well its good construction the wheels are solid rubber,the axle is a steel bar right through..I think it'll stand up to shift heavy loads. ;-)

Well worth 13GBP.

Did anyone buy one of those nail/stapler guns in Aldi last week,if so how much where they? they have three still left and was pondering on buying one but couldn't see the price anywhere?

Reply to
The3rd Earl Of Derby
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Whilst in Aldi this morning I was a bit set back at what I saw... I thought pensioners in this country where on a pittence of a pension,now I'm not sure. Seen two pensioners humping the flat screen TV's on their trollys at

699.99GBP a go?

I've always said no one is poor in this country.

Reply to
The3rd Earl Of Derby

Simply frightful. I'd expect this sort of behaviour of pissed-up teenagers out of control on Saturday night.

These LCD & plasma sets are rubbish, anyway.

FU set.

Reply to
Chris Bacon

The Queen & the DoE are pensioners. They can probably afford a 700 GBP TV - but that doesn't prove that all pensioners are rich - and certainly doesn't prove that no-one is poor.

Of course a far greater concern is the number of people who don't understand simple logic.

Reply to
John Cartmell

There's no doubt some are but ...

"The average UK pensioner is nearly twice as well-off financially now as they were back in 1979, a report from insurer Clerical Medical has said.

Average weekly pensioner income rose from £47 in 1979 to more than £300 by

2004, the study found.

However, after stripping out the impact of inflation, the average pensioner is now 97% better off than in 1979.

.. Average pensioner incomes rose 3.5% a year in the five years up to

2004. This compares to average annual rises of 2.5% in the 1980s and 2.7% in the 1990s."

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Reply to
Tony Bryer

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:05:02 +0100, John Cartmell had this to say:

Are they? Do they actually receive a pension?

Just because they are of pensionable age doesn't mean that they get a pension!

Reply to
Frank Erskine

Probably without bothering to define their use of the word 'average'.

Reply to
John Cartmell

I must admit to not having seen them in any Post Office queue...

Reply to
John Cartmell

You won't, most pensioners have changed the way they withdraw their money nowadays through the the gov iniative of the bank withdrawl...damn big que at the bank on a thursday now. :-(

Reply to
The3rd Earl Of Derby

In order to obtain a 'Pension' ; off the state, one is required to have made the appropriate number of _contributions_ - they used to be called 'stamps' but are now a percentage of salary. [One can, of course, pay for the contributions oneself]. I doubt that either the Queen or DoE (Dept of Enviroment?} have made the contributions. They have attained 'old age' but (presumably) are not pensioners

Ooh! Fancy! A do-it-yerself petard hoist! [the only relevance to d-i-y in the post]

Reply to
Brian Sharrock

Duke of Edinburgh

Reply to
Nobody

However DoE is/was an official abbreviation ... Department of Environment (UK), Department of Energy (US) ... as an abbreviation for HRH Prince Philip KG KT etc. etc. what can I say? "Nobody" use that !

Reply to
Brian Sharrock

I did think the phrase "Queen or DoE" in relation to being pensioners might

*just* give sufficient clue! ;-)
Reply to
John Cartmell

He just didn't realise that you were on acronym terms with the Royals.:-)

Reply to
Mike Halmarack

=A317.99 today in the Blackwater Aldi.

I already have a cheap pneumatic nailer (cosmo) I picked up off ebay. I'm not overly impressed as it won't shoot the longest nails it carries into anything like decent wood.

Shorter ones are ok.

Don't think i'll try another cheap nailer on this basis ..

Paul.

Reply to
zymurgy

7.99GBP in Aldi,I bought one. :-)
Reply to
The3rd Earl Of Derby

I must have only glanced at the price ;)

How is it ? Think i'll need you to test drive it before I take a chance =2E.

P=2E

Reply to
zymurgy

Works fine on the nails/staples it came with,lots of punch to it. I basically only got it for stapling, I'm recovering a 3 piece suite and it was either an hand stapler of this ilk...

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the Aldi won. :-)

Reply to
The3rd Earl Of Derby

Just as well really as that T59 stapler isn't much good for fabrics (unless you want them insulating). 8-)

Reply to
dennis

Still up for 17.99 there. Weird

Paul.

Reply to
zymurgy

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