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Post by jean on Jul 21, 2007 7:17:53 GMT
I went shopping yesterday and it was so frustrating. Why aren't clothes sizes standard any more? How can I be small in one shop and large in another. I only had lunch in between honest  So glad I don't go very often  |
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Post by Shrubrose on Jul 21, 2007 7:19:52 GMT
oh jlottie, it's horrible isn't it? I'm always large in all of them |
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Post by MamIDdau on Jul 21, 2007 11:37:37 GMT
They have a lee way (or however that's spelt, never had to type it before) of a few inches for each size so you can be a 12 in one shop and a 14 in another. I stopped shopping in those shops that made me a 14 ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2007 12:25:48 GMT
I went shopping yesterday and it was so frustrating. Why aren't clothes sizes standard any more? How can I be small in one shop and large in another. I only had lunch in between honest So glad I don't go very often Plus they reckon that as the sizes go up the length of the trouser must too, so you find a pair that fits round the hips, waist & bum but you have a clear foot of material dragging on the floor. This either cost extra to get alterered (especially if like me you can't sew) or ruin the look of them. |
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Post by jean on Jul 21, 2007 18:39:52 GMT
I really don't enjoy shopping for clothes when I have to take 3 different sizes into the changing rooms I've never been able to work out how a size 22 can cost the same as a size 8 either |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Jul 21, 2007 21:18:55 GMT
I got three numbers up Karlslass in the Lottery 2nite - ;D
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Post by snowowl on Jul 21, 2007 21:22:02 GMT
Well done Jenny you shoulnt be on the whinge thread you should be celabrating  a tenner is better than nothing  |
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Post by MamIDdau on Jul 22, 2007 8:25:13 GMT
I've never even got 3 numbers and we've been doing it for over a year.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2007 8:44:51 GMT
I did the lottery with the same numbers every week for the first 4 or 5 years that it ran. I only ever won 1 tenner. Since then, I've not done it at all but still check it most weeks to see if I'd have won anything. So far, I wouldn't have won anything at all with those numbers so I've saved myself a fair bit of cash !
I occasionally have a lucky dip on the main Lotto and a scratch card but I rarely win anything (although I did have £100 on a scratchcard once).
FA x
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Post by nightowl on Jul 22, 2007 13:04:19 GMT
Hooray!! ;D ;D ;D Reading this thread reminded me I hadn't checked them and I got 2!!!!!! tenners! ;D One on the normal Lottery and one on the Thunderball!! Not won anything for months, you must have brought me luck! ( and £20 worth of plants!!! ;D Cheers  |
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Post by snowowl on Jul 22, 2007 14:20:04 GMT
Congratulations Nightowl |
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Post by Chuckles on Jul 22, 2007 15:12:15 GMT
Well I came on here for a whinge about feeling cr@p with this bug but ended up laughing.
It was CPB's snail thats lodged up a tree and JL's cost of a size 22 compared to an 8 that did it for me ;D
Thanks guys ;D
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Post by jean on Jul 22, 2007 16:59:37 GMT
Well I came on here for a whinge about feeling cr@p with this bug but ended up laughing. It was CPB's snail thats lodged up a tree and JL's cost of a size 22 compared to an 8 that did it for me ;D Thanks guys ;D Glad it made you laugh Chuckles ;D It came to my notice in M & S in the underwear department lol - the mind boggles |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Jul 22, 2007 17:19:27 GMT
I spent most of Saturday trying on shoes in many different shops - I had to ask to try on a size 3 1/2, a 4, a 4/12 and a 5 - I used to be a 4 but not anymore I can be anything - same with clothes although I always take into the changing room a 14 and feel quite joyous when I have to smirkingly ask if they have this in a smaller size please ;D ;D ;D
The assistant usually shoots me down in flames by saying "Oh yes they are generous sizes in this make Modom"
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Post by rosagalicia on Jul 22, 2007 19:56:42 GMT
Trousers here, only seem to come in one length - very long - and always have to be altered. Most shops offer a alteration service - and some will alter while you wait, but it is a bit annoying to buy trousers and then have to wait for a week for them to be shortened. It is also annoying not to be able to buy trousers that come up to your waist, unless it´s in M&S, which I visit when UK (but I guess that´s more of an age thing!! so should perhaps be on the Feeling your Age thread!)
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Post by Juliet on Jul 22, 2007 20:05:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2007 20:13:41 GMT
Sorry to interrupt ladies but I just wanted to have a whinge about mindless morons who vandalise things simply "for a laugh". We had a collapsed drain under the pavement outside next door's house. They've dug it up and filled it once and now it's been dug up again (which is another whinge but I won't do that one tonight !). It's all fenced off at the moment with roadworks signs etc round it. Some kids have just ridden past on their bikes and thought it would be "fun" to stop, kick all the fencing down, chuck the roadsigns into the hole and one into the road. Why ? What on earth can they get out of that ? They're just bloody mindless idiots and it annoys me IMMENSELY !  FA x PS - You can carry on talking about clothes now ladies......... |
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Post by prodigal gardener on Jul 22, 2007 20:22:55 GMT
I got three numbers up Karlslass in the Lottery 2nite - ;D WELL DONE ! Just dont even get me started on the lottery tho (blimey here she goes again ) we have a syndicate at work and last christmas we had £90 in. So we all decided to go for Lucky dips - yep you guessed it not even a tenner !! Sounds a bit fishy to me - 90 lucky dips and not even one tenner its a bloody consiprancy thats what it is ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by jean on Jul 23, 2007 20:49:41 GMT
Just a thought going back to sizes - how on earth does someone design underwear that fits sizes 8 - 22 ( a very vivid imagination springs to mind lol)
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Post by Shrubrose on Jul 29, 2007 12:56:36 GMT
Weeds, weeds, weeds - I HATE weeds. Right I'm off to vent some of my loathing on the damn things. Thanks for 'listening' |
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Post by Weeterrier on Jul 30, 2007 10:38:08 GMT
First point, Mackays is good for sizes, I'm a good size smaller in there! Second point, which is my whinge. Why does every hedge on both sides of my house seem to belong to me? I am off to cut them before lunch, and I hate that job  |
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Post by thecleaninglady on Jul 30, 2007 12:17:13 GMT
I hate clothes shopping. I am only 4ft 10 1/2 tall so have difficulty finding a good range of clothes. When I was MUCH younger (and slimmer), I was able to buy from the children's section. But age and 2 children have put paid to that. I find that many of the 'Petite' ranges are designed for 'old ladies' (no offence to any older posters).
I also only take a size 3 in a shoe, and they are often quite rare to find. Again, many size 3's are what I term 'Granny shoes', because they remind me of the sort my Grandmother used to wear. I once e-mailed Clark's Shoes about the lack of size 3's. Their reply included the line - "Over the past few years we've noticed a drop in the popularity of this size".
As if you can change your shoe size to suit. It's not like changing your dress size by diet!
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Post by thecleaninglady on Jul 30, 2007 12:17:49 GMT
Sorry - didn't mean my rant to be so long!
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Post by Weeterrier on Jul 30, 2007 12:40:42 GMT
Rant all you want, cleaning lady. Though I envy your daintiness, I can imagine it must be very annoying. Especially when shops give that sort of reply. I'm annoyed for you now |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2007 12:45:18 GMT
I have the opposite problem, TCL. I'm 5' 9" with a 34 inch leg measurement, and I'm sick of being directed to the men's department for trousers! Who are these 'average' people that fit into shop clothes? ;D |
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Post by Shrubrose on Jul 30, 2007 19:26:03 GMT
Not me for one. |
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Post by Weeterrier on Jul 30, 2007 21:37:04 GMT
I have the opposite problem, TCL. I'm 5' 9" with a 34 inch leg measurement, and I'm sick of being directed to the men's department for trousers! Who are these 'average' people that fit into shop clothes? ;D |
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Post by Barbara on Aug 1, 2007 9:57:54 GMT
what a bl**dy morning i got up to find my daliahs eaten to the ground by slugs,
the baby i look after threw up all over the kitchen.
and now i've ricked my back cleaning it all up.
i should have stayed in bed. ::)she's asleep now thank god.
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Post by MamIDdau on Aug 1, 2007 12:36:14 GMT
I left B&Q yesterday evening and they didn't even get me a bloody card! Now I remember why I wanted to leave there! Got my leaving do on saturday so we'll see if a card or something materialises then. Sounds silly but I've always put in for collections and cards etc when others have gone and I've arranged them myself when any staff from my department left. I only want a card...  |
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Post by Chuckles on Aug 1, 2007 12:43:26 GMT
Oh April poor you bet you were sick to the stomach. Lets hope somethong nice materialises on Saturday, if it doesn't S@D then lot of them your better off out of it  |
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So glad I don't go very often 
