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I always thought jam jars were wank until I went calling on Doc Watson a couple of years before he died, he offered apple juice in jam jars no explanation given. Seemed normal at his and other local cabins.

Maybe there's a place for jam jars cos it felt correct, but Deep Gap, NC, ain't Peckham I suppose !!

Since then though I like jam jars to drink from, probably for nostalgic reasons.

Sue Wrote:

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> What really amuses me is that now, in places like

> Wilko, you can get glasses made to look like jam

> jars, complete with metal lids and holes punched

> in the lids for a straw :))



Actually, I'd never thought of the lid / straw thing. That could actually make more sense if you were at a festival or somewhere you might spill drink.


But in a bar? Nah.

I thought jam jars were traditionally used for cocktails when they were invented in new orleans or something, back in the day. Hence the explosion of them over here. Ah, for some reason that reminds me of the furore over the Actress opening/serving wine in tumblers :))
What gets my goat are the Bet365 adverts with professional cockney actor Ray Winstone especially when he says: "And I bet responsibly." Yeah, right. I want to kick him up the arse every time it comes on, which is during every commercial break when the football's on. Grrr!

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Jam jars are for jam.


The other thing they get used for a lot hereabouts is as candle holders for people who are organising their own wedding reception on a budget and going for the village fete / vintage / WI look. There's almost always someone looking in the Wanted section.


Also good for holding tealights if you're eating outside on a summer evening.

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> What gets my goat are the Bet365 adverts with

> professional cockney actor Ray Winstone especially

> when he says: "And I bet responsibly." Yeah,

> right. I want to kick him up the arse every time

> it comes on, which is during every commercial

> break when the football's on. Grrr!



That and that ex Liverpool player doing property investment forums


You know the one, Robbie fat lips ham head.

Inkmaiden Wrote:

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> I could be wrong but I thought the jam jar thing

> came about from mimicking Prohibition era

> speakeasy bars when they brewed/served alcohol in

> jam jars to disguise it.



Ink,

You are not wrong, drinking warm whiskey owt a jar has always been acceptable and in fact optimal.

Seabag Wrote:

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> Jah Lush Wrote:

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> > What gets my goat are the Bet365 adverts with

> > professional cockney actor Ray Winstone

> especially

> > when he says: "And I bet responsibly." Yeah,

> > right. I want to kick him up the arse every

> time

> > it comes on, which is during every commercial

> > break when the football's on. Grrr!

>

>

> That and that ex Liverpool player doing property

> investment forums

>

> You know the one, Robbie fat lips ham head.



To be fair, he does actually know a bit about property investment.

Otta Wrote:

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> Seabag Wrote:

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> > That and that ex Liverpool player doing

> property

> > investment forums

> >

> > You know the one, Robbie fat lips ham head


> To be fair, he does actually know a bit about

> property investment.


The Robbie Fowler Property Academy is run by a Florida based company, Legacy Education Alliance. Fowler has licensed his name to the company (you won't find him on stage either).

Initial sessions are free, with in-depth training for wannabe landlords charged at around ?1,000. The academy promises Fowler students ?investment strategies? in ?social housing, buy-to-let, lease options and land development".


His wife runs their property business and always has.

  • 3 weeks later...
Back to the shop, as the original post began, today there's a large sign saying "Bric a brac half price". But when I selected a piece, it wasn't half price. Wrong sort of bric a brac. Nowhere did it explain some pieces were off limit. Why can't they learn something basic about the retail trade? Or is it me?

Lynne Wrote:

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> Back to the shop, as the original post began,

> today there's a large sign saying "Bric a brac

> half price". But when I selected a piece, it

> wasn't half price. Wrong sort of bric a brac.

> Nowhere did it explain some pieces were off limit.

> Why can't they learn something basic about the

> retail trade? Or is it me?



No, it's not you, it's at least several of us.


Did you ask them why it was the wrong sort of bric a brac, and what was the right sort?!


Does anybody know if the same person manages both the large and the small hospice shops in Lordship Lane, as the larger one seems to be run more efficiently, at least lately and in my experience.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Jah Lush Wrote:

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> > Jam jars are for jam.

>

> Also good for holding tealights if you're eating

> outside on a summer evening.



Back to jam jars, I once actually bought (from the late lamented Grace and Favour, I think it was) two or three pretty little glass jars specifically sold for hanging up outside with tealights in.


They looked lovely in the garden. For a while. But .....


As soon as the metal container bits of the tealights got hot at the bottom, all the jars shattered :(

lavender27 Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

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> > lavender27 Wrote:

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> > > Rational rage for certain "Tinnitus"

> >

> >

> > Eh?!

>

> look it up




I know what tinnitus is.

Sue Wrote:

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> lavender27 Wrote:

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> > Sue Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> > > lavender27 Wrote:

> > >

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> >

> > > -----

> > > > Rational rage for certain "Tinnitus"

> > >

> > >

> > > Eh?!

> >

> > look it up

>

> I know what tinnitus is.


Well, it kind of rings a bell...

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