BS: Small things In Big Boxes

Subject: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:44 AM

is that how you spell things?
it looks a bit odd,
not that i really give a shit, [this is music site, not spelinng site]

anyway = i went ysterday to Skeletons [its a local bakery], and bought sausadge and tomato sandwidge , and they put it in big box, i got a bit exited, as they put price up, [to 1,50 pounds] . but i went home, = [i only live next door, so not far then],
but see it is normal size, and i got un exited.!
fiddling basterds!


and another thing is, they put coco pops in a big box, but wehn you open it, its halkf emty,
and it says on the side="if the box is half emty, its becase of, they got shook up in the truck and tyhat, ie = coco pops might settle during transit.

bloddy rip off , if you ask me.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:51 AM

any way= asda pops are a lot cheaper, but they dont go pop. and they go soggy qwicker, but if you eat them qwwuickm, its ok, werks out a lot cheaper.


and if any body moan about my spelling= they can get buggered, i'm not botherred.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: GUEST,Big things in Small Boxes
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:01 AM

Your title is something any man would not want to be said about him.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Teresa
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:10 AM

Oh, remember when cDs used to come in that horrible blister-packing? You'd cut and cut this huge piece of plastic, and wonder that you didn't cut your fingers off, and finally out would come this modest little CD, and you'd have to throw this big hulking sharp plastic thing in the garbage, and smush it down (again careful not to cut your hand off ...).

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: C-flat
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:32 AM

When I worked in the wholesale/retail industry we used to have certain items that were known as "windbags". Ideal for the prize-bingo operaters to make a display or "flash", they were inexpensive goods, often toys, whose value owed more to the lavish packaging than to the contents.
A good example of a "windbag" would be the "painting by numbers" set which had a window-box-opening, displaying the contents in an area of around 10" x 6".
The box itself measured something like 30" x 18" and was otherwise empty.
I know people like that too.

I used to enjoy doing the "bingo run". We'd load a van and, starting in Redcar, work our way down the coast calling on all the prize bingos until we'd reach Bridlington. With a precious cargo of ornamental glass fish, larva-lamps and assorted wind-bags to sell, the trip could last a couple of days.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 06:55 AM

oh.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 07:10 PM

games used to be like that - a big flashy box and a little disc.

pizzas too. you think there is going to be lot of cheese on them due to the picture on the packet, but alas no.

some bastards make cds a bit like that too.... a couple of good uns and fair amount of tripe. You think, it can't be tripe. I'll give ita chance, but first instincts are invariably spot on.

Trailers for TV programmes - they show the only well written suspenseful 10 seconds from three hour orgy of complete cobblers.

as you sagely remark...little things in big boxes. A fair assessment of life itself, I have found.

however certain things don't disappoint, but I can't remember what the last one was.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 07:16 PM

Well, my dad's boy scouts once got him an updated Scout handbook for Christmas.....and they packed in in a coffin case full of excelsior.....was pretty funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 07:23 PM

I misread the title of this thread as "Small Things In Big Boxers".
But I knew it had to be started by jOhn.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Mooh
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 11:42 AM

My love has lost her virginity, but she has the box it came in.

Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 11:52 AM

I suspect that is old news, Mooh!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 12:22 PM

I hate them too... It can work the other way as well.. putting a small thing into a smaller box.. makes you think the thing is really big, but in reality, it's just that the box is smaller.

Restaurants do it too. Put a standard size meal on a big plate and you think you're getting more food.... last night I had lemon chicken with chips and peas. It came on a plate so big it could have been used as a sledge. There was an ordinary to small spoonful of peas, the usual amount of chips and two chicken breasts in lemon breadcrumbs. It was delicious but chasing the peas around the plate became a bit of a marathon, because the plate was so big! (Stuck 'em together with mayonnaise in the end....)

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 12:32 PM

seems a cruel thing to do to defenseless peas - mayonnaise in the end. Not to mention a bit kinky.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 01:05 PM

I thought this was a cricket thread!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Mooh
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 01:15 PM

Amos...So old I can hardly remember, lol. Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 05:05 PM

I congratulated Mrs S for passing her driving test at a matronly age by buying her flowers, champagne, and her own brand new Renault 5 Turbo, which I parked in the middle of the garage. The garage was the ultimate big box, as she asked where the car was, after I threw open the doors. There, I said, parked in the middle of the floor. A brand new Dinky Renault 5 Turbo.

Needless to say the licence wasn't consumated.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 05:43 PM

Huh;.... All I got from Mine when I passed my test was 'oh good, you can drive me to the pub'.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 06:38 PM

Not the first man you've driven to drink I bet;~)
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:04 PM

David Blaine.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:39 PM

It was a woman that drove ME to drink.
Some day I must find her and say thanks!

W C Fields of course.

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Hrothgar
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 11:29 PM

Liz, I thought it was honey with peas?

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 04:26 AM

Why can you never get a video out of it's case until you don't need it? and why do CD's need jewel cases, we were told when they first came out that they were indestructable and could only be damaged by nuclear fusion. Now the packaging is 100 times more that the product.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: GUEST,Amos at Dawn
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 08:10 AM

Nuclear fusion?Naah. Anyone who has opened one knows that's the jewel-case wrapper they were talking about.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Flash Company
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 10:41 AM

Computer software takes some beating. I have recently recieved a 10x8x2.5 inch box, inside which is another box, made to fit snugly, inside which is a 3x4 inch x 20 page instruction book and 10 CD's in paper cases.

Save the Planet?

FC

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 10:56 AM

No, honey is to keep them on the knife... mayonnaise has a better adhesion to porcelain.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: breezy
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 11:21 AM

back to the thread

I thowt this was about Dave Bryant.


What comes in a posh box?

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Seaking
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 11:48 AM

David Beckham ?

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 12:10 PM

David Gower?
G

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Mingulay
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 01:59 PM

David and Goliath?

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 12:25 PM

Dabs are the best. A few days ago I received a parcel which consisted on a box approximately 10" square by 3" deep. Ooh I thought whats this - believe it or not a SD memory card around 1" by 11/4".

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 12:58 PM

How come the Big Mac on the TV ad looks nothing like the one you get over the counter?

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 07:14 PM

Last year when Jade and I were in the UK she hit the shops in her usual way. When it came time to pack for the return trip to China we were well overweight on the luggage.

So we ditched all the bags and cardboard from our purchases and knocked off nealry 4 kilos of mass.

These eco-friendly boxes are OK but it still takes energy to manufacture the bloody things.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 11:51 AM

there is a food ship on newland ave, and they dont put things in boxes and its cheeper.

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Peace
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 03:38 PM

Is this a sister/brother thread to "Does size matter?"

Subject: RE: BS: Small things In Big Boxes
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 01:42 PM

if you like....