Things that over promise and under deliver

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'd rather use Apple over Windoze any day!!

 

[Profpointy]

[QUOTE 3122225, member: 259"]Any shop called "The Traditional X Company", or "The English X Comany", where X=the product they sell.
They tend to get a lot of coverage in weekend supplements, they don't perform in any special or remarkable way, and they cost the earth.[/QUOTE]

Though I agree in general, I have to say, the English Shaving Company, supplied me with a rather good razor for acceptable cost. Works much better than cheap ones, despite using the same standard razor blades.They also do some very overpriced ones too so theory may still hold.

 

[craigwend]

For I am a soothsayer ...

 

[Doseone]

I'd rather use Apple over Windoze any day!!

Actually, so would I...maybe,.... but I'm not prepared to pay the massive price premium for the privilege.

 

[MarkF]

Supermarket own brand food stuff that tastes of nothing. This week, Morrisons "Eccles" cakes, for the sake of a 39p saving over the real deal Lancashire Eccles cakes, I stupidly bought them and they tasted just like I anticpated, of nothing. Asda didn't have any Castello Danish blue cheese, only Asda Danish blue cheese, it tasted of nothing, it didn't even smell of anything.

 

[Over The Hill]

Scissor Sisters.
Huge hype -
basically one hit wonders.

 

[Mattonsea]

In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg.

 

[redcard]

Scissor Sisters.
Huge hype -
basically one hit wonders.

If you judge bands on the number of hit songs then you're probably correct.

 

[postman]

One coat cover paint.

 

[postman]

Or this size tin will cover x sq yds.Like boll=== it might if you water it down like p===.

 

[Profpointy]

In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg.

Nooooo ! it's (nearly) always a fantastic program. i learn something , usually in some depth, about something I didn't even know was even athing previously. And when it's on something I do know a little about I'm impressed how carefull they are not to dumb down, whilst still being accessible. Bragg asks some intelligent questions and acts as a proxy for the audience - whilst conveying unfeigned interest. Perhaps the only thing on radio 4 worth bothering with these days

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Supermarket own brand food stuff that tastes of nothing. This week, Morrisons "Eccles" cakes, for the sake of a 39p saving over the real deal Lancashire Eccles cakes, I stupidly bought them and they tasted just like I anticpated, of nothing. Asda didn't have any Castello Danish blue cheese, only Asda Danish blue cheese, it tasted of nothing, it didn't even smell of anything.

You do realise that you need to take the wrapper off first??!!

 

[TVC]

Anything orgsnised by Leicester* City Council.


*Please feel free to insert the name of your local town or city, I suspect they will all be the same.

 

[Lullabelle]

Scissor Sisters.
Huge hype -
basically one hit wonders.

We saw them live, dreadful, tedious and boring

 

[nappadang]

Royal Mail. Top under deliverers, they wrote the under deliverers handbook and regularly amend it with new, previously un-thought of ways to spectacularly fail to deliver anything remotely close to decent service.