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16 May 2009, 18:15
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Lidl bargains
Just seen they had some dual action stirrup type air pumps for a fiver - yes £5. I have one and they are excellent - will shift enough air to work on my big RIB!!!
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16 May 2009, 18:56
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Good grief C-P!
Has your disillusionment with British Retail driven you into the arms of those Teutonic Traders? Will your pride and joy be properly inflated when puffed up with a German Gadget?
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16 May 2009, 20:45
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It stuns me the price that lidl can flog stuff. My local has portable BBQ's for £1.29 ! Great stuff !
I cant see the pumps but I may may head out to check out next week.
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16 May 2009, 21:01
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Originally Posted by willk
Good grief C-P!
Has your disillusionment with British Retail driven you into the arms of those Teutonic Traders? Will your pride and joy be properly inflated when puffed up with a German Gadget?
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It's not a German product - and it's a loss leader so I am actually damaging their profits!!!
Some of the hardware in Lidels is pretty good - the food is recycled toxic waste.
A mate of mine once made me a cup of tea using lidel's tea bags - they were a new invention - waterproof tea bags - after 10 mins the water was still crystal clear!!!
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16 May 2009, 21:13
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Originally Posted by codprawn
It's not a German product - and it's a loss leader so I am actually damaging their profits!!!
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Took you a while to spot that one, didn't it Wilson? 
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16 May 2009, 21:46
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Originally Posted by willk
Took you a while to spot that one, didn't it Wilson? |
 very good Will 
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the food is recycled toxic waste.
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I dont agree with that .. some of their cold meats are very good, next door we have a Tesco and even from their 'best' range .. Lidels ham is far nicer & better quality
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17 May 2009, 10:10
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Ive had a few bargains there in the past same as ALDI my digital camara still works well to this day, had it many years Aldis has now become a little greedy on there electrical devices lap tops and sat navs,,,,,,,,,you can get a lot cheaper and with brand names for what they want for them,,foot pumps mmmmmm,,,,,,i would of thought be ok but,,,,,will the valve connections be right?
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17 May 2009, 13:34
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Ive had a few bargains there in the past same as ALDI my digital camara still works well to this day, had it many years Aldis has now become a little greedy on there electrical devices lap tops and sat navs,,,,,,,,,you can get a lot cheaper and with brand names for what they want for them,,foot pumps mmmmmm,,,,,,i would of thought be ok but,,,,,will the valve connections be right?
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Well it looks the same as the one I bought from the Range and that fits my Rib no problems. Had to get an adaptor for my quicksilver though.
And it's not a foot pump - 100x better!!!
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17 May 2009, 20:44
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Good grief C-P!
Has your disillusionment with British Retail driven you into the arms of those Teutonic Traders? Will your pride and joy be properly inflated when puffed up with a German Gadget?
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'ANGLO SAXON'... loose translation... 'ENGLISH GERMAN'.Just a shame WE forgot how to make things!Germany still THE biggest exporting nation in the world[yes bigger than the U.S or China!] so they must be doing something right!! As long as they dont start exports of the 1914/1939 variety we should be ok!Still reckon the BEST of 'British stacks up against anybody!!
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17 May 2009, 20:59
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Germany still THE biggest exporting nation in the world[yes bigger than the U.S or China!] so they must be doing something right!!
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mmm... and now suffering greater % economic decline than any other country in Europe - as a direct result!
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17 May 2009, 21:14
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Originally Posted by Maximus
'ANGLO SAXON'... loose translation... 'ENGLISH GERMAN'.Just a shame WE forgot how to make things!Germany still THE biggest exporting nation in the world......we should be ok!Still reckon the BEST of 'British stacks up against anybody!!
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Whatever I said - I'm sorry now. To continue your theme though - they've been exporting Royalty since 1840: "Albert, wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife?" and "Victoria, wilt thou have Albert to be thy wedded husband?" and "Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?"
To this last question the Duke of Sussex replied by taking the queen's hand and saying, "I do." Perhaps some in the assembly may have smiled when the Queen of England promised to obey this younger son of a German Duke, and when he said, "With all my worldly goods I thee endow." The queen tells us, however, that she pronounced the word obey with a deliberate intent to keep her vow, and that she kept it.
I was going to make a point round about here - but I've forgotten it.....
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17 May 2009, 21:27
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Albert mau have been German but the Queen is a direct decendant of Henry Tudor who was Welsh!!!
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17 May 2009, 22:38
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Albert mau have been German but the Queen is a direct decendant of Henry Turbo who was Welsh!!!
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Talk about off topic 
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17 May 2009, 22:44
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Albert mau
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When he actually sat on the Throne, was he Chair-man Mau?
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17 May 2009, 22:45
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not really that much off topic as even though henry tudor was welsh, he bought a couple of foot pumps from lidl for his sib.
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17 May 2009, 22:48
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not really that much off topic as even though henry tudor was welsh, he bought a couple of foot pumps from lidl for his sib.
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SCORE! 
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18 May 2009, 07:38
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18 May 2009, 14:20
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18 May 2009, 17:19
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Got one of these today, they are great much faster than the zodiac foot pump, which made pumping up the air floor on my futura next to impossible. The pump may well be from Eindhoven? but the airs from England
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18 May 2009, 19:25
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Got one of these today, they are great much faster than the zodiac foot pump, which made pumping up the air floor on my futura next to impossible. The pump may well be from Eindhoven? but the airs from England |
I find foot pumps pretty useless - these are much better - I keep one in the console of my RIB!!!
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