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Tim Over Whelmed

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 24, 2007
10,216
Arundel
Every Christmas and Easter, my wife has a habit of buying the grandchildren Thorntons chocolate eggs or whatever as a 'treat' ... and we pay exorbitant charges for the privilege.
If you were to offer me Cadburys instead of Thorntons I would snatch your hand off 100 times out of 100.
Thorntons chocolate is turd.

How on earth did they get a reputation for being something special?

I'll give you another one ........ Marks and Spencer Food.
Why does it have a reputation for being 'better quality'?
My wife buys milk from anywhere and everywhere, but without fail the Milk that always goes off the quickest is the stuff we buy from Marks.

Anybody think of any other reputations that are totally false? ... (e.g. Joey Barton is an intelligent misunderstood good guy underneath his public face ...)

As with all food and drink products the ones that last longest aren't always the best, you sometimes have to ask yourself why it lasts longer and what gives it the longer life?
 




BLOCK F

Well-known member
Feb 26, 2009
6,380
I fully concur with this.

Added to which I had the distress of my Mother's Macmillan nurse informing me (without any prompting I hasten to add) that in her experience it was terminal and my Mum had 2 years left to live at best.

This caused me so many sleepless nights I can't begin to tell you.

Mum got the all clear a while ago.

Very poor form. :nono:

Sorry to hear about your experiences, but pleased to hear your mum is fine.
 






LlcoolJ

Mama said knock you out.
Oct 14, 2009
12,982
Sheffield








hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.
Helpful Moderator
Mar 16, 2005
61,514
Chandlers Ford
According to the papers an independant company made them for Thorntons and Aldi. Neither Thorntons or Aldi made their own.

Sorry, but that's rubbish.

Thorntons make their own products. If Aldi are selling the same or similar product, it will have been made FOR them, BY Thorntons.
 






Whitechapel

Famous Last Words
Jul 19, 2014
4,106
Not in Whitechapel
Has nobody said Next yet?

Live right by the Holmbush store and when there's a sale on people will be queuing to park there before the shop has even opened. The over-spill normally ends with some prick blocking off my driveway! And for what? Clothes that they could have got anywhere else for 1/2 the price? There's a few things they do well, such as their suits but a lot of the stuff they sell is so painfully average. Really don't understand it.
 


brakespear

Doctor Worm
Feb 24, 2009
12,326
Sleeping on the roof
Family Guy
Superdry
Game of Thrones
The Guardian
Beards

All vastly overrated imo.
 








The Fifth Column

Retired ex-cop
Nov 30, 2010
4,032
Escaped from Corruption
Even better they do a 2m power cable for £2600.

http://www.chord.co.uk/product/chord-sarum-super-aray-power-cable/

Makes Apple look good value.

Its a total con and ridiculous! I could understand the quality of a cable being a factor in older analogue systems but all these cables have to do is transfer a digital signal from the transmitting device so either the receiving piece of equipment gets the signal or it doesn't so either you get a picture or sound or you don't. No amount of gold, shielding, techno buzzwords will make the slightest difference. If you've got a bad cable then it would be very noticeable from the sound or picture cutting out. A £5 cable will do the same job as a £1500 one and the difference would be so negligible as to be almost non existent, it certainly would not equate to £1495 more value or quality. Some clowns will buy it though, I guess a fool and his money are still easily parted.
 








Mancgull

Well-known member
Nov 28, 2011
4,844
Astley, Manchester
This may be contentious, but when my wife had cancer, we found the Macmillan Nurses/organisation of very little help at all.
The ads on the telly make out they carry out all kinds of good deeds and are a very caring organisation.
We found them unhelpful and It is quite difficult to understand what they actually do.
No doubt, others will have had different experiences and good outcomes, but I can only tell it like I find.

Interesting observation. Our family have a similar view. More about counselling than being able to offer practical help. Their fund raising is also pretty aggressive.
 






wellquickwoody

Many More Voting Years
NSC Patron
Aug 10, 2007
13,627
Melbourne
Has nobody said Next yet?

Live right by the Holmbush store and when there's a sale on people will be queuing to park there before the shop has even opened. The over-spill normally ends with some prick blocking off my driveway! And for what? Clothes that they could have got anywhere else for 1/2 the price? There's a few things they do well, such as their suits but a lot of the stuff they sell is so painfully average. Really don't understand it.

I always think that at Next you spend M&S money to look scruffy?
 




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