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Spamkebab · Expert

TV Adverts

Spamkebab · Expert

I don't watch much telly but this advert had me in stitches last night:-

Go Cat, for neutered cats, helps clear the urinary tract, stops neutered cats from getting fat.

Go Cat for neutered cats.

I can just imagine the cat now, "quick put that away before tiddles and ginger next door see it, NO not on the window-sill, silly"

What have i been missing all this time?

Neil.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Quite a specific market that they're aiming at there!

No doubt the result of some marketing brainstorming session deciding which sector had the most disposable income that they needed relieving of... I'm thinking here single women no kiddies. as

(a) most blokes are dog people

(b) those blokes that do have a cat will feed the cat general quality food and if it doesn't eat it then it will when it's hungry enough.

On a related note, in America they push nappies (diapers) for old folks.

Imagine your Tesco trolley filled up with them!

Shaun.

Spamkebab · Expert

Apparently, in America (my sis lives in Colorado) when they advertise "buy 2 for the price of 1" you can just purchase the 1 item at half price, Imagine how Tesco would cope with that over here?

My sis had more or less doubled up on her shopping as you do, because of the special offers, until her husband pointed this out for her.

Another thing is, UK shops have started selling Reece's Peanut Butter cups. For anybody who likes Peanut Butter and Chocolate, this is the ultimate sin.

My wife is now very large!

Neil.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

In Tesco's in Thailand the fish department has live fish and shellfish that you pick.

Also, in the pickles department you can buy jars of whole pickled three spot guarami's... They cost about £4 each here from an aquatic shop. Over there you get about 20 pickled one's for circa 40p.

As for chocolate spread.... Who the heck thought up chocolate and cheese spread!

seems like something dreamed up specifically for pregnant women (strangest craving of any of my wives was one that had a craving for very small rocks!).

Anyway, sure cheese and chocolate tastes great but guess I'll never find out. (it can stay in the "not going to go there box" along with all shellfish, reptiles, rodents, insects and anything that came from the inside rather than outside of an animal... Oh, and if I had to kill anything myself I would be a veggi).

Still think that the Ultimate sin was allowing Ed Sheeran to sing Pink Floyds Wish You Were here at the Olympic closing ceremony! What next the Spice girls sing Freebird, or Britany Spears does Stairway to Heaven.

I'm sensing that this isn't going to end up a very bookkeeping related thread....

Spamkebab · Expert

It is titled "TV Adverts" and we're not doing too well with that, never mind bookkeeping.

Maybe the title should be changed to "Strangest things you can buy in a shop/supermarket" ?

We're on a winner with that one lol.

Oh i hate cats, now that's when i would use the word passion, i hate cats with a passion. Snyde, sneaky, tricky little buggers who think that whilst they are licking their own bums they can still look at you as though they are cleaner and smarter than you.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

One of our rabbits has a similar feeling towards them.

The garden has an eight foot wall around it and is full of tree's and bushes that is a real wildlife sanctuary for birds. The local cats have sussed this and regard it as a game reserve.

Their downfall though is one of our rabbits who loves nothing better than chasing cats.... Its the only rabbit I've ever found that also barks and comes when you whistle so I think that this is one confused bunny.

Best one that I've seen was him sneak up through the undergrowth on one moggie then charged at it from about six feet away.... Cat did an eight foot vertical climb up the back wall and we've never seen that one again.

That rabbit was called wolf due to his huge size (not much smaller than a badger! (Pets at Home... Dwarf lop my a**e)), barking and long grey fur but recently we've been referring to him as Dexter for obvious reasons.

there you go, just when you think that you've got the thread tied down Neil, off it goes at another angle.

Amanda · Expert

Shaun,

I have had 3 dwarf lops in the past, they are great pets, really good with the kids. One of them lasted till he was 8 years old and was huge, he was a white/grey seal point, the runt of the litter but grew large and was lovely! We now only have a cat (sorry neil I am a cat lover as well as dogs). He is large and hunts anything in the the garden, we had chicken feather indoors once so not sure what he did there! No chicken though. Plenty of pigeons, frogs, toads, and mice of course!

Neil, my cat is very clever (hes a pedigree) and is not a tricky little bugger! He's lovely very sociable and loves kids, my hubby who like you years ago hated cats, actually suggested a pedigree when our old moggy died, he is smitten with him and even feeds him now. I've caught him picking him up for a cuddle!

You may change your mind one day.

Would love a dog but still working on that one.

Neil, the Iams cat advert the cat on there was bread by a breeder near us.

Spamkebab · Expert

When you were describing your pet wererabbit, i initially thought of 'Frank' from Donnie Darko.

Dexter brings us quite smoothly into Blood Spatter Analysis, clever stuff.

Oh and Clingfilm, which you can buy in supermarkets.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Amanda wrote:
Shaun,

I have had 3 dwarf lops in the past, they are great pets, really good with the kids. One of them lasted till he was 8 years old and was huge, he was a white/grey seal point, the runt of the litter but grew large and was lovely!

Was the same with Wolf.

He's got two sisters that we were told came from the same litter... Not even sure that they are the same species but at least the other two grew to normal size and then stoped.

I suspect that PaH mixed up a French lop in the wrong pen... all Lops, what can the difference be! (about 15 kg... Not so much a rabbit as a link back to the Jurasic era).

Amanda · Expert

The French and German lops I think from memory are the biggest! You can walk them round the garden on a lead! We didn't he was very stupid and lovely. I wouldn't get another one as the cat would kill it and also can't be bothered with cleaning out the hutch all the time. A cat is so much easier providing you have a catflap, they look after themselves.

Cat next then Shaun?

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Hell would freeze over first Amanda. lol

On the cleaning front we put a cat litter tray with sawdust in it in their cages and that is the only place they do anything as they are actually quite clean animals. Of course if you put sawdust anywhere else then they will go there as they think that they are allowed to. (We also give them a box of hay and that never has accidents happen in it).

On the cats vs Dogs debate. I think our affinity for dogs is that a dog would defend it's owner with it's life as they regard humans as part of their pack. A cat on the other hand would weigh up the odds of winning and then go for lunch.... Just realised, cats must be the management consultants of the animal world!

Given a choice of pet mine would be a Golden Retriever. was brought up with them (apparently one taught me to walk by grabbing it, she walked along then when I fell she would sit and wait).

Amanda · Expert

I saw a beautiful 12 week old cocker spaniel last night with the most adorable eyes, went home and told hubby and he still said no!!! That one was not for sale though.

I like Golden Retrievers as well, theres a big one up our road whos gorgeous.

German shepherds I like too, I've not no hope of one of them hubby hates them he says they are too big. Youngest wants a Pug, thing is my cat is bigger than a pug!

Stardoe · Guru

Oh no....where have I been? All this talk of bunnies and cats and I've missed most of it.

We have four bunnies and two and a half cats (half a cat as next door's cat likes to spend most her time at ours as they've just got a dog!). Two of ours are lops, not dwarf, one's a lionhead and the other is dutch cross lionhead. The biggest male lop likes to chase cats too and once chased a huge grey tom out of our garden. Apparently, according to my daughter, who works at PaH part-time, "dwarf lop" is a misnomer as they are called "dwarf" just because they are smaller than the ordinary English lop (the huge ones with the long ears that drag on the ground...lol). Doesn't mean that they are small.

Cats and rabbits actually have very similar body language and will play together. We used to have a large English spot and her and our large male cat (sadly no longer with us) used to love a bit of rough and tumble

All our animals are rescue animals, local rescues, Wood Green animal shelter and Cats' Protection League.

Pauline

Edit: I forgot about the two guinea pigs!! Also rescue pigs

-- Edited by Stardoe on Wednesday 24th of October 2012 10:13:36 PM

Don Tax · Expert

Re. humour and job seeking - are you applying for any jobs in West Yorkshire lol

Spamkebab · Expert

Hahahaha not anymore

semsley · Guru

Spamkebab wrote:
We've got one of them s4!t things, thinks it's a cat. We started off with 1 Shih tzu, then ended up with another, then puppies.

In the end we just had the father and a daughter, the father tried to become the daughters lover, it was like living in Leeds lol.

-- Edited by Spamkebab on Wednesday 24th of October 2012 06:20:15 PM

Yet more "off topic" - I get the Yorkshire Post (Leeds) every day and both contribute to and read the letters page avidly. Amazingly there has been not one post since the "scandal" started printed. I don't know whether it's because no-one has written or that the editor has decided not to publish any. I might try one and see. TBH I think the media has gone into hyperdrive over this and can't see the point when the guy's dead and the BBC probably doesn't have the same problems now as in the 1970s - different times, different attitudes. It also galls me that the cost of all these inquiries from which nothing will be done but "lessons will be learned" is coming out of my taxes.

Lyndsey · Senior Member

Shamus wrote:

As for chocolate spread.... Who the heck thought up chocolate and cheese spread!

Have you never had a chocolate cheese cake?! confuse

Spamkebab · Expert

Lol, i'm lovin the link to Nigella.

This has got to be the most off topic topic up to now for the BKN

Neil.

-- Edited by Spamkebab on Friday 26th of October 2012 11:16:00 AM

Spamkebab · Expert

Cheese cake hasn't got real cheese in it has it?

Has it?

????

OMG!

Rhianrach · Expert

Spamkebab wrote:
Cheese cake hasn't got real cheese in it has it?

Has it?

????

OMG!
Well you can make it with Mascaponi, though I'm not overly sure thats a cheese cheese more a euro cheese that as we all know isn't proper cheese like wensleydale is.

Lyndsey · Senior Member

Nigella uses cream cheese (like Philli) http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/chocolate-cheesecake-123 , some do use Mascaponi.

I'm guessing if you spread that chocolate cheese on some digestive biscuits, you will get a mini chocolate cheese cake.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Spamkebab wrote:
This has got to be the most off topic topic up to now for the BKN

And it's not like we've not been trying!

Don Tax · Expert

And it's not like we've not been trying!

Hahaa, love it.

Steering clear of Nigella's recipes - more rabbit food, worst luck.

Spamkebab · Expert

Are we getting a little podgy around the middle Timbo?

Amanda · Expert

I make a cheese cake with Condensed milk and Fresh Cream and Limes all mixed up in a mixing bowl, then put ontop of a biscuit base, yummy very fattning though!!!!

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

I make it by opening the freezer cabinet in Tesco's and thinking now how do I have to wait between purchase and consumption.... Could I eat it in the car like a lollipop...

Spamkebab · Expert

Funny, i took you as more of an M&S bloke.

lol

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

What, not Waitrose!

my house sits almost equidistant from Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's. I figure what is the point in having a freezer when I can use theirs so basically do shopping every 1-2 days... Which often seems to be a trolley full of red bull in handy litre size bottles (called Kick by Tesco (currently buy one get one free) and blue charge by Asda (currently 3 for 2)) and maybe a chocolate bar perched precariously on top.

After this thread I'm thinking maybe adding a cheesecake (or pavlova) to todays haul.

Amanda · Expert

Sounds like a recipe for a heart attack Shaun!!!! Wheres the fruit and Veg.

I know someone who had a heart attack this week and hes only early 40's, very frightening. Smoker mind you!

Rhianrach · Expert

Amanda wrote:
Sounds like a recipe for a heart attack Shaun!!!! Wheres the fruit and Veg.

I know someone who had a heart attack this week and hes only early 40's, very frightening. Smoker mind you!

You just described me. I'm quite worried now hmm

Don Tax · Expert

Spamkebab wrote:
Are we getting a little podgy around the middle Timbo?

Nah, 4.9 in the archeries so off dairy and choccy