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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)
-   The Maple Leaf (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/)
-   -   The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/weekly-food-shop-around-globe-796129/)

Zen10 May 5th 2013 1:20 pm
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Alan2005 (Post 10693588)
Ah, you beat my toned down edit. I shall now have to re-edit it and have the edit badge of shame :(
:lol:

Zen10 May 5th 2013 1:20 pm
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Alan2005 (Post 10693589)
Are you a bird then?
No, I'm just being ridiculous. It comes naturally. My avatar is really me, if you're interested.

Novocastrian May 5th 2013 1:31 pm
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Zen10 (Post 10693587)
Misogynist.
Since you're both here and are both highly opinionated on matters concerning global economics, I'd like to ask if either you have read this?

Oh, hang on I'll have to find the link again (I downloaded the file). Two minutes....

.... or a bit more.

Here... http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/3...blication/566/

You have to download the pdf if you want to. I thought it was funny.

Zen10 May 5th 2013 1:58 pm
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 10693598)
Since you're both here and are both highly opinionated on matters concerning global economics, I'd like to ask if either you have read this?

Oh, hang on I'll have to find the link again (I downloaded the file). Two minutes....

.... or a bit more.

Here... http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/3...blication/566/

You have to download the pdf if you want to. I thought it was funny.
Interesting about excluding the NZ data. I'm not an economist, but I can see how RR's work has influenced austerity programmes. I'm not a supporter of "austerity" at all, and never have been, so this is interesting. Are you an economist, then? What are your views?

Novocastrian May 5th 2013 2:13 pm
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Zen10 (Post 10693608)
Interesting about excluding the NZ data. I'm not an economist, but I can see how RR's work has influenced austerity programmes. I'm not a supporter of "austerity" at all, and never have been, so this is interesting. Are you an economist, then? What are your views?
No I'm not an economist. I'm a scientist. Economists are not scientists.

Hence the mayhem.

Novocastrian May 5th 2013 2:17 pm
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
This one is good too.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/maga...urrentPage=all

I've posted that link before because it's fascinating and the author is a friend of mine.

DandNHill May 6th 2013 8:51 am
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 10693525)
One can hope that a large number of DM readers conclude that they should emigrate to Somalia because the shopping's so cheap.

A death blow to UKIP.
:rofl::rofl:

Shard May 6th 2013 5:32 pm
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Zen10 (Post 10693592)
No, I'm just being ridiculous. It comes naturally. My avatar is really me, if you're interested.
Such duplicity, Sir Hugo :D

Zen10 May 6th 2013 5:59 pm
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 10695349)
Such duplicity, Sir Hugo :D
One more comment like that, Shard, and I'll have my associate Mr Jaws throw you out the airlock.

Zen10 May 6th 2013 6:00 pm
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 10693622)
This one is good too.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/maga...urrentPage=all

I've posted that link before because it's fascinating and the author is a friend of mine.
Interesting, thanks. I really should put some effort into learning more about this.

Mikeypm May 6th 2013 8:52 pm
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 10693622)
This one is good too.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/maga...urrentPage=all

I've posted that link before because it's fascinating and the author is a friend of mine.
Thats a very interesting piece and thanks for sharing Novo :)

It goes to show as usual that greed over rules common sense

Shard May 6th 2013 9:07 pm
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Mikeypm (Post 10695595)
Thats a very interesting piece and thanks for sharing Novo :)

It goes to show as usual that greed over rules common sense
It rather overplays the common sense, but greed certainly rules the financial markets.

Novocastrian May 7th 2013 9:43 am
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Mikeypm (Post 10695595)
Thats a very interesting piece and thanks for sharing Novo :)

It goes to show as usual that greed over rules common sense
You're welcome. It is rather amusing.

Novocastrian May 7th 2013 9:44 am
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 10695622)
It rather overplays the common sense, but greed certainly rules the financial markets.
Overplays? :(

Any eejit knows that if you convolute a gaussian with another one, the result is yet another gaussian with a narrower full-width-half-maximum than the starting ones.

Any eejit except David Li and the Masters of the Universe, that is.

scribe123 May 7th 2013 9:58 am
Re: The Weekly Food Shop Around the Globe
 
Interesting article (even if the thread has drifted a little).

I've managed to get the weekly shop for a family of 5 down to £60 on a good day and £90 on a bad, and I shake my head at how expensive it is.

Compared to some of the western families I'm a bit of a scrooge it seems.


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