Things you don't understand watch - have you got things you don't understand?

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RunningRonnie 29 Aug 8:13am, 29 Aug 2024 3,299 posts	0 RunningRonnie What ever happened to BOGOF offers in supermarkets? They used to be the most common offer, now they barely seem to exist.
Bazoaxe 29 Aug 9:26am, 29 Aug 2024 27,309 posts	0 Bazoaxe I was in a market in turkey in the summer snd their offer was BOGOSP
stilldreaming 29 Aug 9:41am, 29 Aug 2024 1,453 posts	0 stilldreaming @RunningRonnie I seem to remember the Government (?) banning them, as they were usually applied to unhealthy food products. This may be a false memory 😕
JamieKai chameleon 29 Aug 2:02pm, 29 Aug 2024 19,078 posts	0 JamieKai chameleon Why a group of grown adults are playing a Harry Potter game in their lunch break.
GordonG 29 Aug 2:54pm, 29 Aug 2024 10,620 posts	0 GordonG I'm not sure that BOGOF deals were actually banned (yet) but there has been pressure to not have them partially due to the thought that they lead to food waste.
NDWDave 29 Aug 7:54pm, 29 Aug 2024 19,946 posts	0 NDWDave The new uefa champions league format
RunningRonnie 30 Aug 10:25am, 30 Aug 2024 3,302 posts	0 RunningRonnie Apparently some people don't like coriander as it tastes like soap to them, due to a certain gene that has not mutated. Given that the same food tastes different to some people, how do we know that anything tastes the same? We would all agree on what a strawberry tastes like, based on what we have individually learned a strawberry tastes like, but how do we know we are tasting the same thing?
Raemondo 30 Aug 11:40am, 30 Aug 2024 12,041 posts	0 Raemondo I guess because we can synthesise the taste of strawberry with different ingredients and agree that it tastes the same (for a very generous value of the same) as an actual strawberry. Although I suppose multiple people could stop be registering that the synthetic tastes similar to the thing they've learned to call strawberry, without it proving that what they're actually experiencing is the same as anyone else.
JamieKai chameleon 30 Aug 10:57pm, 30 Aug 2024 19,084 posts	0 JamieKai chameleon [I have similar thoughts about colours - what you see as green might not be what I see as green, but we've both been told that's what it is.] [Oh gods, is anything real? existential crisis Well, it is coming up to my oldening...]
Winniefree 31 Aug 6:02pm, 31 Aug 2024 8,062 posts	0 Winniefree Yes! That's a thought I've often had - how do we know whether what any of us experience is the same as others. My blue might be your green, the smell of coffee may be completely different for us but as coffee always smells like that we'd never know.