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it seems people have used the price of big mac to show the difference in cost of living in different countries. but as u can see, the promotions they give, in terms of money off vouchers; can make a nonsense of those prices. for eg, uk big mac costs (according to the website) $3.94. = £3.11. but in actuality it is £
London Monday
It’s a huge building slap bang in prime land near the victoria station. It is owned by the Westminster council but run privately. it’s a really nice place to swim, but can get quite crowded esp today (is it because it is the weekend?) when I went around 12.30pm. Though when I left at about 1.30pm the lanes were quite empty. You have to take potluck.
I thought I will meet some guys who go regularly to swim and make friends that way, but I go so haphazardly that I don’t see the same guys twice. So like the gym I don’t really make friends to find regular swim buddies. But then, swimming is one activity which u don’t need another to do. It is a great activity for introverts haha.
I read this article in older hood.com about living in france.
I am very glad that in uk the shops open for the customers’ convenience and that is another reason to like living in uk.
why go into a macdonalds to buy salad?
24 Feblondon 5.18am 7.6C friday 2017 dry night.
i got woken up just now by simon coughing, he looks like he is coming down with something. then he was able to go back to sleep, whilst i could not. so i decided to get online and browse the internet instead. and read this interesting article in the daily mail about a book, how things become popular by derek thompson. with quotes like this…
why do we go into a macdonalds wanting to order a salad but end up ordering a double cheeseburger instead?
or i like it because it is popular, i hate it because it is popular, referring to fashion. ( and they end up wearing the same clothes as another in a function. haha)
‘the tension between neophilia and neophobia’. Neophilia is the liking of new things, neophobia the fear or dislike of them, and both come into play when you are launching any product. As Thompson rather pithily puts it: ‘Many people crave new products, ideas and stories, provided that they are just like the products, ideas and stories they already know.’
its an interesting book i shall keep an eye out for it in the library. it does not offer a solution, it seems.
what is your reason for that macdonald behaviour? my opinion is that i dont think it is value for money to pay for a salad. somehow i get a feeling that a hamburger is better value for money. you can buy one with chips for £1.99 , with one of those free vouchers that u can find in any metro newspaper. i dont think it is worth it to pay that money for a salad. (come to think of it, i dont even want to buy the hamburger, so i dont think it is worth it to buy it even at that price…am i confused or what?!! haha .i think if i were travelling and cannot cook, i will be tempted to get a hamburger for that price.)
for one thing, it is very easy to make a salad yourself, it takes no skill at all… whilst it does take a lot of effort to make a hamburger. also, i dont think many people actually go into a macdonald to buy a salad. if they are vegetarian they would not want to set foot inside a macdonalds at all and will order their salad in a vegetarian place. after all, if u are a vegetarian you want people to know it and your credibility will be destroyed if they see u inside a macdonalds.
so that question may not be quite true, not many go into a macdonalds to buy a salad only. in fact, he should ask why does anyone go to a macdonald to order a salad? haha. so maybe the book is full of questions that no one asks really. haha.
another tidbit of news i see is the headline result of the by election. with the conservatives taking copeland. (its in the lake district)and labour retaining stoke. it is the first time in 35yrs that a party in govt has taken an opposition seat in a by election. that is historic indeed. and it also is bad news for UKIP. even with all the things in its favour,( the labour candidate who won is a ardent remainer , in a place which have voted for brexit), it still cannot capture stoke.
added 10.35am 7.3C sunny . i went back to sleep and just woke up again. and reading my post i was extremely impressed with wikipedia. i noticed they have immediately updated their entry about copeland and stoke with the new MPs, that were just elected earlier this morning.
cooked breakfast
2 Declondon 12.28pm 8.8C cloudy/foggy friday 2016
i got a macdonald leaflet sent to me recently by post offering breakfast for £1. or £2 if it is with coffee. its good if u are travelling and so out of the house/flat; but it is so much cheaper to just cook it at home, and you can have it with fried fresh tomatoes, that it is a no brainer which is preferable. though i have to admit i was tempted when i got that leaflet. even me, because there is something rather appealing about those photos. not to mention someone else have cooked it. and you are seated in a restaurant and also able to use their free wifi. it feels very grown up. haha. the voucher is valid before 10.30am. i also got free vouchers for a big mac with fries, or a quarter pounder with fries for £2. and that is valid all day. i think the big mac with fries or quarter pounder with fries is the better value. but i have not bought any. i sometimes wonder why i dont. maybe the thought of my pass experience when it was so salty has lingered in my memory. they look great in the pictures but no so in reality.
breakfast.
when i cook it myself i get two fried eggs!! this breakfast costs 40p.
it seems people have used the price of big mac to show the difference in cost of living in different countries. but as u can see, the promotions they give, in terms of money off vouchers; can make a nonsense of those prices. for eg, uk big mac costs (according to the website) $3.94. = £3.11. but in actuality it is £2.95. (i think , i must go by a macdonalds and check! added. it is £3.09)yet i have vouchers that allow me to buy it (plus fries) for £2.
people who buy and eat these hamburgers all the time really deserve to be poor. £2 seems quite cheap for a macdonalds quarter pounder, but think of this… for that same price u can buy 500mg of minced beef. 1lb = 453gms. it would make u a lot of quarter pounders, because hamburgers are not pure beef, it is 50% fillers, (rusks etc). so u could get 8 quarter pounders out of that minced beef.even if u make allowance for all the cheese,gerkins and buns, u could still make 4 meals out of those. added. 11.48pm 3.12.16 4.7C saturday. my usual breakfast is porridge with a small handful of sultanas. that is it. and it is really very filling. today i did not feel like eating till 9pm.
what is this about macdonalds and olympians
17 Auglondon 1.43pm 25.1C sunny blue sky wednesday 2016
saw another fullpage promotion of burgerking, in the metro free newspaper this morning. with discount vouchers for a large variety of meals. my favourite is the 9 chicken nuggets for 99p. the same paper has a macdonalds offer
i was surprised to read that macdonalds give free meals to the olympians in the rio village. and that it is so popular that they are forced to limit each to 20 orders. 20 orders are still a lot for one person to eat. there were pictures showing the long queues at the macdonalds outlets in the olympic village in rio.
one chap bought such a meal and showed how difficult it is to eat it all. yet those olympic players were eating it . it certainly is a great advert for macdonalds, when even peak condition olympic players would eat macdonalds and a lot of it too.
whatever people say about how unhealthy these burger fast food joints, they are very popular.
valid till 1.9.16 for the burgerking, valid till 18.9.16 for macdonalds.
added. 3.03pm friday 19.8.16 i saw this eating dirty review of a macdonalds, and saw a picture of the writer standing next to a macdonalds ordering machine. all big screen of it… and it reminded me that macdonalds have no servers taking your orders anymore. it is all a computer display where u click on buttons. i remember wandering inside a macdonalds once, and was so frightened by these display screens that i crept right out again.