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Control Panel
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 Posted - 15/08/2007 : 08:38:21
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Although LTNS might claim credit for Greggs' six-monthly results, he cannot crow too much as Walmart has taken a pounding.
Still, if Walmart is down then that means that inflation is perhaps down and so interest rates are less likely to rise.
Strange thing, economics. So the moral is: buy fewer pasties and ease the mortgage - and let the London Road, Brighton go hang. |
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Discworld
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Posted - 15/08/2007 : 22:42:44
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Does anybody know what pleasantries Her Majesty made before she took the sword and tapped it on each of of Sir Michael Darrington's shoulders when knighting him?
Doubtless she has been brought up too well to suggest that the sword might come in handy for cutting through one of his tuna baguettes.
And no doubt he is pragmatist enough to realise that it would be futile to suggest that she look in at the Windsor branch next time she's passing.
Perhaps Prince Philip was less restrained. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 16/08/2007 : 12:04:14
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Here is a photograph of Michael Darrington celebrating news of his knighthood with a Greggs sausage roll.
Notice how he makes it clear that the way to eat one of these items is by use of tongs. A Greggs sausage roll is not something that you should sully your hands with.
Should you get any grease on your fingers, then Swarfega is the recommended cleaner. No doubt LTNS can recommend the place with the keenest price on this astringent.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/3357373.stm |
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Discworld
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Posted - 16/08/2007 : 14:00:10
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Guardian story here - copied in today's Argus - about people in Eastbourne who go to McDonalds every day.
Perhaps they should give Greggs a try?
Can there be anybody who goes to Greggs every day? Must cost them a fortune. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 16/08/2007 : 15:17:07
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here's a crazy bunch here who go even wilder with the posted news this week that Greggs are giving out vouchers for free donuts.
Why hasn't LTNS informed us of the free donuts. His masters in Newcastle will be penalising him for dereliction of duty.
http://forums.gumtree.com/about106491.html |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 18/08/2007 : 09:38:11
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Here is a report about the difficulty that such bakers as Greggs have been finding in recruiting bakers. The hours and the less than glamorous "image" of the trade mean that it does not attract apprentices.
Perhaps this explains the rock-hard state of the tuna baguettes. The creation of the bread has been "outsourced" to a suburb of Peking and brought over on a slow boat.
It is not a good outlook for the London Road, Brighton if potential bakers prefer to go on the welfare than get stuck into the dough and yeast.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian_jobs_and_money/story/0,3605,1193355,00.html |
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Captain Hawkeye
Barsoom
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 Posted - 18/08/2007 : 12:01:57
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Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum
Here is a report about the difficulty that such bakers as Greggs have been finding in recruiting bakers. The hours and the less than glamorous "image" of the trade mean that it does not attract apprentices.
Perhaps this explains the rock-hard state of the tuna baguettes. The creation of the bread has been "outsourced" to a suburb of Peking and brought over on a slow boat.
It is not a good outlook for the London Road, Brighton if potential bakers prefer to go on the welfare than get stuck into the dough and yeast.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian_jobs_and_money/story/0,3605,1193355,00.html
Maybe a device like this would resolve such problems.
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 18/08/2007 : 19:55:42
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I see that Greggs sells a wrapped roll which it labels Oval Bite, a phrase which it has trademarked.
What on earth is that particular oval bite? All bites are oval. That is the shape that the lips and jaws form before taking a mouthful of a roll.
A circular bite is impossible. |
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Daveb
Discworld
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 07:37:24
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A Marketing Pitch
Just not Cricket |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 16:00:43
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Here is a mothers' discussion group about Greggs. One of them says this, about letting the children get breakfast at Greggs on the way to school instead of at home.
"Nothing like giving your kid a good bit of pastry stuffed with pig's bollocks for breakfast. I often do. Bet all the kids with wholemeal mungbean alfafa wraps and wheatgrass juice in their lunchboxes were green with jealousy. "
Makes LTNS sound graceful
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=9&threadid=329446&stamp=070525185632 |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 17:19:15
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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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long time no see
Earthsea
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 17:39:53
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Originally posted by Miriam Binder
It is an outrage and no mistake.
Yes It is
and also bugger all to do with
Greggs on London Road.
CP
should have started a New thread on National News
with that Important story.
Lazy Poster. |
Edited by - long time no see on 19/08/2007 17:40:43 |
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Miriam Binder
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 17:43:53
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Originally posted by long time no see
Yes It is
and also bugger all to do with
Greggs on London Road.
No wonder LTNS is frothing at the mouth ... I bet the quality of goods in Greggs bins is no where near as good. Even in London road. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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long time no see
Earthsea
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 17:47:58
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Originally posted by Miriam Binder
No wonder LTNS is frothing at the mouth ... I bet the quality of goods in Greggs bins is no where near as good. Even in London road.
CP's post has nothing to do with LOCAL news
FACT.
He Should do a New thread on it on National News
the damn lazy poster. |
Edited by - long time no see on 19/08/2007 18:40:17 |
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 18:40:07
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The subject is bins and presumably Greggs in the London Road have bins, and the contents thereof and their destination is of particular interest to those who use the London Road. Is Greggs pulling its weight with the unsold baguettes or are they sent to landfill?
Perhaps agent LTNS could enlighten us rather than make these idle remarks. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 18:55:11
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Your Post CP is about
M&S, Tesco and other stores.
Get you pathetic Facts right.
You do not start a New thread (national news)
which it needs
because you are bleedin' lazy. |
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long time no see
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 21:11:10
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My, LTNS has really gone off his rocker this time! Presumably it came from Poundland.
Anyway, any fool can start a new topic but it takes a certain amount of lateral thinking to provide a link to an article about Freegans who have made such use of M and S - and then to ask whether Greggs takes a more enlightened view of whatever waste it produces when it overestimates the demand on the London Road for those increasingly notorious tuna baguettes.
I think we have found another flaw in the Greggs scheme of things, and so agent LTNS is rattled.
It is just as well he does not work for MI5 or SIS otherwise his lack of cool means that England would have been blown up long ago. |
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long time no see
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 21:16:33
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Originally posted by Control Panel
My, LTNS has really gone off his rocker this time! Presumably it came from Poundland.
Anyway, any fool can start a new topic but it takes a certain amount of lateral thinking to provide a link to an article about Freegans who have made such use of M and S - and then to ask whether Greggs takes a more enlightened view of whatever waste it produces when it overestimates the demand on the London Road for those increasingly notorious tuna baguettes.
I think we have found another flaw in the Greggs scheme of things, and so agent LTNS is rattled.
It is just as well he does not work for MI5 or SIS otherwise his lack of cool means that England would have been blown up long ago.
You are deluded
this is about London Road, Brighton
and a greggs on it.
That store does not need a agent.
I do not work for them in any way.
FACT. |
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Control Panel
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 21:24:59
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What does MandS do with its Western Road food? Presumably there is a national policy. So would that mean that an account of that M and S should go in National news?
In which case, this Greggs topic should have been in National news as it is the same tea in all the branches.
LTNS is trying to have it both ways.
He has got all hot under the collar when the simple fact is that this case was being cited as means of making the valid point that we do not know what London Road Greggs does with those baguettes superfluous to requirements each day.
I am beginning to suspect that he has kept these Greggs bins as a secret source of supply for himself, and he is now trying to throw other scavengers off the scent.
But he is exposed by his own bluster. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 21:25:59
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| Of course LTNS doesn't work for Greggs solely ... Control Panel ... it probably was "Pound Stretcher" rather then Poundland ... Pound Stretcher is a London Road Emporium; among all those other London Road delights |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 21:29:53
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Originally posted by Control Panel
What does MandS
The Thread is About many stores pathetic Tesco
is the main one.
And yes it is National Story.
Mega Supermarkets not getting food chucke the right way.
That is why pathetic New Labour
are no good.
They let Supermarkets Rule.
CP go on the thread to talk about it
this thread is to do with local News.
Sign Of The Times. |
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No Expert
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Posted - 19/08/2007 : 23:40:42
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| Checked it out, No Expert but cannot find any sign of Moyles looking in at Greggs. They are no judges of the cool Brighton scene if they can miss out on Greggs. They're just onions, Radio 1. |
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Borninhove
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Posted - 20/08/2007 : 05:30:49
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Cash payments for forum advertisements
Fifty quid for every mention
Of 75p tea at Greggs with fresh milk
All the more to spend on David Cassidy Records and Hornby Rolling Stock
Life in the City |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20/08/2007 : 06:43:48
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Costa over the Road also have Real Milk
but they charge 3 times as much in some cases. |
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Infinite Poppadum
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Posted - 20/08/2007 : 08:59:09
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| But Costa's real milk is from cows. |
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