Who said the Aldi hand trolly was naff?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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. :-(

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]

Duke of Edinburgh

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 !

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

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

=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.

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

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...

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

Still up for 17.99 there. Weird

Paul.