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Thank you Lidl, thank you Aldi

  • 29-03-2014 10:12PM
    #1
    Unknown Soldier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭


    You have done more for the safety of runners and cyclist and in some ways motorists, than the various quangos for road safety in this county put together.

    You have people "lit up" in bright yellow and all that jazz.

    The various deal you do on that gear is to be commended.

    Or maybe that is just me?

    Anyone else think they have done us all a favour making people running/walking/cycling take a more visible and safer look?

    They also do cheap, strong and tasty polish beer too, which is nice.


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  • #2
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Now that you mention it I'd agree.


  • #3
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    The german wimen in their bras look hot when they flog cheap undies. Thank u lidl x


  • #4
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    *Goes in to ALDI/LIDL to save money - leaves with a €40 hammer-action power drill that'll be used once*


  • #5
    Cantremember
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Cantremember


    Great that the usual rip off merchants have been shown up


  • #6
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Are the people that are alive today only because their lives were worth protecting to them when the hi-viz stuff dropped below a certain price point the ones we really want to save?:)


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  • #7
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    I'd like to thank them for the robot vacuum cleaner on sale last week,hours of fun getting stoned and laugh At it going around bumping into things


  • #8
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Their bicycles lights are not the greatest though.


  • #9
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Thank you Lidl and Aldi for saving me and my girlfriend about €6000 on shopping in the last 3 years.

    PS: Fcuk you, Tesco!


  • #10
    randy hickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭randy hickey


    I'd like to say a final thank you for the length of rope that I sourced there......










    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=82208415


  • #11
    CarrickMcJoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    And to all the wealthy Irish skiers on the piste dressed head to toe in ALDI.


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  • #12
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    randy hickey wrote: »
    I'd like to say a final thank you for the length of rope that I sourced there......










    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=82208415

    have you used it yet?


  • #13
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    Thank you Aldi for having cheap food and helping me save.


  • #14
    Unknown Soldier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭Unknown Soldier


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Are the people that are alive today only because their lives were worth protecting to them when the hi-viz stuff dropped below a certain price point the ones we really want to save?:)

    Can you do that in a proper sentence? you hurt my head :(

    :confused:


  • #15
    LostBoy101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭LostBoy101


    Indeed, hail our German overlords!


  • #16
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    Thank you Lidl for having a huge range of Mothers Day appropriate stuff for the Missus, sparing her from the usual battered bunch of Petrol station flowers.

    Especially when it's 7.45pm, you're covered in oil, have just finished work and looking for mammies day stuff is effort.


  • #17
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Their bicycles lights are not the greatest though.
    +1.

    and their sports clothing is very poor material too. what do ye expect for the price I suppose.


  • #18
    131spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭131spanner


    Thanks Lidl for giving me the opportunity to have 2 dinners worth of fish fingers and baked beans for under €2.50.

    From a lowly student.


  • #19
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    maryishere wrote: »
    +1.

    and their sports clothing is very poor material too. what do ye expect for the price I suppose.

    Buy cheap buy twice.


  • #20
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    Indeed. Thanks for supporting the high-vis=safety fallacy.


  • #21
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    No Pants wrote: »
    Indeed. Thanks for supporting the high-vis=safety fallacy.


    yes because walking on country roads at nighttime in dark clothes trying to avoid being run over by drunk drivers is safer than doing it in high-vis:pac:


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  • #22
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    Can you do that in a proper sentence?

    He did.


  • #23
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    No Pants wrote: »
    Indeed. Thanks for supporting the high-vis=safety fallacy.

    Ok- dokie.


  • #24
    Mariasofia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Mariasofia


    Thanks because now I can afford a lovely sparkly pink Irish dancing costume for the 45 euro a week I save.....






    The son isnt talking to me though!! :(


  • #25
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭hfallada


    According to my German lecturer in college. Germans aim for at least 2 foreign holidays a year. To do this they live save during the year by shopping in places like lidl and also( there is also stores cheaper in Germany that make lidl look like superquinn).

    Lidl and aldi have completely changed how must Irish shop now. Most Irish people only brought expensive branded stuff. Now we have no problem buying no name stuff as they are cheap and good


  • #26
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    hfallada wrote: »
    According to my German lecturer in college. Germans aim for at least 2 foreign holidays a year. To do this they live save during the year by shopping in places like lidl and also( there is also stores cheaper in Germany that make lidl look like superquinn).

    Lidl and aldi have completely changed how must Irish shop now. Most Irish people only brought expensive branded stuff. Now we have no problem buying no name stuff as they are cheap and good

    Huh. I'll have you know, Suddenly Diamond is where it is at, currently. No name. The cheek.


  • #27
    Tropheus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭Tropheus


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    *Goes in to ALDI/LIDL to save money - leaves with a €40 hammer-action power drill that'll be used once*

    Used once? I've found stuff in the garage I don't even remember buying.


  • #28
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    I shop for groceries at Lidl because now I feel ripped off if I shop for them anywhere else.

    Would not buy their running gear though.


  • #29
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Lou.m wrote: »

    Would not buy their running gear though.

    +1 Ann Summers have better racing gear.


  • #30
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,199 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Love them both to bits! All the branded stuff is in there under different names anyway.

    But I do get afraid that they will end up just a dear as the usual rip off multiples sooner or later....


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  • #31
    The Narrator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭The Narrator


    Thank you Aldi for your delicious €0.75 red sauce.

    Now get to work on a proper BBQ one..


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