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Infinite Poppadum
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 Posted - 08/10/2007 : 11:55:39
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posyed by long time no see
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Wrong
it covers the Food areas.
But Greggs sells food (loosely speaking). Therefore the enitre premises are a Food Area. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
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Posted - 08/10/2007 : 13:32:40
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LTNS has been curiously reticent about the new Somerfields layout and tills set-up which he praised in his very first Greggs posting.
Perhaps Somerfield has proved more of a disappointment than Greggs?
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 08/10/2007 : 17:14:37
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| I see that Greggs' window is now proclaiming something about a "meaty ballerina", which seems to be part of a telly advert. But I cannot see how there is any connection between such a ballerina and a steak bake. Any self-respecting ballerina would be well advised to avoid any such things if desirous of keeping up an agile jetée. |
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Control Panel
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 08/10/2007 : 17:43:40
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Originally posted by Control Panel
So much for the Wide Open Doors. In Croydon Greggs has had to fill these Doors with bouncers to stop people shoplifting.
http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/search/display.var.1741352.0.dont_take_the_biscuit_says_greggs.php
The mean streets of Croydon are nothng compared with Farmington, Montana in the USA, where a man called Scott Masters has been stopped after stealing a 52-cent donut. He put it inside his shirt and tried to bolt away but pushed aside a woman shop assistant, and so this means that he is being charged with armed robbery rather than shoplifting, and this could bring a prison sentence of anything from five to fifteen years.
He has previous, and so that could make it up to thirty years if that is taken into account. He is currently in jail, case pending. In the melée he did not get to eat the donut but threw it away.
And what is Farmington’s police chief called? Rick Baker! Perhaps Masters’s defence team will say that, with a name like that, the police are prejudiced against Masters.
If anything like this happens in the London Road, Brighton, England, those caught and imprisoned will at least undergo the “cold turkey” of weaning themselves from Greggs’ “food”. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/10/2007 : 17:52:11
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Thats Croydon
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Daveb
Discworld
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Posted - 08/10/2007 : 19:45:14
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You should try Penge High Street.
Get some jabs first though. |
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 - 09/10/2007 : 10:54:21
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posted by long time no see
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No the AirCon
removes any threat from wasps.
Yet more short-sighted behaviour by LTNS and Greggs!
Here they are killing off the wasps when they are a necessary part of the ecological chain.
Here is a report which shows that elephants are frightened away by the buzzing of bees. So there we have it, the public in London Road, Brighton is now in danger: should any elephants escape from Preston Park and head that way, pedestrians will be in be trampled under foor because all the bees that could have turned them back these large, tusked creatures have been destroyed by the Greggs air conditioning.
It is no good throwing pasties at stampeding elephants, you need bees.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/09/kenya
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/10/2007 : 11:05:56
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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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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 09/10/2007 : 11:14:03
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Originally posted by Miriam Binder
or mice!
Panic over! We might be all right after all - there's plenty of those in Greggs. |
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Borninhove
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5311 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2007 : 13:20:14
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quote:
Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum
quote:
Originally posted by Miriam Binder
or mice!
Panic over! We might be all right after all - there's plenty of those in Greggs.
Then again, mice as a deterrent would require the elephants to look down whereas bees can rise to the occasion. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2007 : 13:40:38
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quote:
Originally posted by Borninhove
He thinks they're the best ...
That pasty at the botttom seems to have something of a fish eye about it. |
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Borninhove
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The Duke of Uranus
Barsoom
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Posted - 10/10/2007 : 12:45:36
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Well i never. Whilst searching for some top notch pastie images with the aid of google's image search i discovered that pasties are also the name used for nipple decorations.
Hurrah for decorated nipples and hurrah for greggs! |
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Daveb
Discworld
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Posted - 10/10/2007 : 13:35:06
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CP must know the traditional Cornish pastie did in fact have a fish one end and jam the other.
No mention of nipples. |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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Pelagia
Barsoom
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Posted - 10/10/2007 : 14:09:58
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Originally posted by Daveb
CP must know the traditional Cornish pastie did in fact have a fish one end and jam the other.
No mention of nipples.
I thought that was bacon rolly-poly? |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Infinite Poppadum
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Posted - 12/10/2007 : 11:46:00
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In the Leader today there is a good piece by Adam Trimingham about the history of the London Road which he says now "has something of a desolate air about it".
He does not mention Greggs.
There is a picture from 1970, when it appears to have had many more individual shops.including The Curtain Shop and The Silk Shop. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
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Posted - 14/10/2007 : 12:48:49
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| Greggs announced this week that its prices are set to rise 4.5% annually - the cost of ingredients is going up and up. |
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Infinite Poppadum
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
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Posted - 15/10/2007 : 10:09:42
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Greggs insistence on using 'real milk' could be having an impact on the ecological stability of our planet
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It’s enough to put the nation off breakfast. Civil servants have suggested that Britons put long-life milk in tea and pour it on their cornflakes to save the planet from global warming
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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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Control Panel
Discworld
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Posted - 15/10/2007 : 10:21:06
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UHT milk should be poured over the civil servants every morning. The time spent in cl;eaning themselves would mean that there is less of it in which to come up with such rubbish,
Will Greggs be objecting to this terrible proposal? |
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Pelagia
Barsoom
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Posted - 15/10/2007 : 10:32:56
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quote:
Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum
In the Leader today there is a good piece by Adam Trimingham about the history of the London Road which he says now "has something of a desolate air about it".
He does not mention Greggs.
There is a picture from 1970, when it appears to have had many more individual shops.including The Curtain Shop and The Silk Shop.
Anyone remember Broadmeads? |
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Control Panel
Discworld
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Posted - 15/10/2007 : 11:39:03
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Greggs' shares have dropped a bit to around £49 but this report
recommends buying them. It also notes that Greggs cannot keep putting up its prices. So does this mean there will be more branches? More pasties, strewth! And this at a time when the government is issuing an obesity warning.
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/10102007/214/wednesday-tips-round-logicacmg-greggs-regent-inns.html |
Edited by - Control Panel on 15/10/2007 11:41:44 |
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Infinite Poppadum
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Daveb
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Posted - 15/10/2007 : 19:41:01
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Originally posted by Pelagia
Anyone remember Broadmeads?
Not me.
Bellmans, yes. |
We're all doomed!
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Control Panel
Discworld
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Posted - 18/10/2007 : 09:11:48
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Up in Durham Greggs are selling more pasties. Alarming news.
Most oddly, though, the photograph of the Greggs branch in the photograph has an extra sign: Special Shop.
So, why has Greggs not made its London Road, Brighton branch a "Special Shop" if the location the hot spot that some claim it to be?
If the pasty-chomping Northeners can have a "Special Shop", why not the sophisticated, metropolitan spirits who promenade along the London Road, Brighton?
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Weather-helps-Greggs-sell-more.3362852.jp |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 19/10/2007 : 14:38:44
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| Plastic bags are one thing (or, rather, many things) but what steps has Greggs taken to ensure that its wrappings do not continue to infest the London Road, Brighton? |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 20/10/2007 : 18:16:21
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| If Greggs is such a force for good in the world, why hasn't the Dalai Lama expressed his support for it? |
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