Nurofen

[Shropshire Seagull]

Its emporers new clothes. The one I like is HDMI leads that connect your TV to your satellite/digi box thingy. As its digital, it either works or it doesnt - there is no middle ground. You can pay £80 for one of these, but a £2.99 lead from Tesco works just as well. However, some 'reviewers' swear blind that they see and hear a better quality from the £80 lead and those who cant tell the difference dont have quite the same refined ears/eyes as the reviewer, even though its technically impossible for there to be a difference.

That'll be the "gold plated" conections work better myth then? Never mind that all the wiring inside the boxes is steel or copper ....

 

[gullshark]

I bought a telly over the weekend and they were trying to push 'high speed cables'. Tried to explain that the new ones were HDMI 1.4 and stuff, he didn't take kindly to my very technical explanations and didn't have an answer as to why different USB cables on different computers still pull identical images off a digital camera...

 

[Smile]

Its emporers new clothes. The one I like is HDMI leads that connect your TV to your satellite/digi box thingy. As its digital, it either works or it doesnt - there is no middle ground. You can pay £80 for one of these, but a £2.99 lead from Tesco works just as well. However, some 'reviewers' swear blind that they see and hear a better quality from the £80 lead and those who cant tell the difference dont have quite the same refined ears/eyes as the reviewer, even though its technically impossible for there to be a difference.

As you say either works or it doesnt. I have a projector 8 metres from the blu-ray and purchased a 35 quid 10m lead (as I had heard buying expensive leads is a con) but it did not work, swapped for a 80 quid 10m lead and works perfectly fine.

 

[Superphil]

Selling ibuprofen for 35p probably gives them a 100% profit margin.

Sainsburys far prefer to make a lot more money than 100% margin on 35p, it takes a lot of 17.5p's to pay their shareholders, more like the 300-400% they make on other goods, which sell at a higher price, but hey, if it grets you going into their shop to buy ibuprofen for 35p, then that's what it's all about.

Its emporers new clothes. The one I like is HDMI leads that connect your TV to your satellite/digi box thingy. As its digital, it either works or it doesnt - there is no middle ground. You can pay £80 for one of these, but a £2.99 lead from Tesco works just as well. However, some 'reviewers' swear blind that they see and hear a better quality from the £80 lead and those who cant tell the difference dont have quite the same refined ears/eyes as the reviewer, even though its technically impossible for there to be a difference.

If you read the reviews where they endevour to technically explain the differences it does make a bit more sense. Something along the lines of all those 1s and 0s going down a poor quality cable, some of them get lost, not necessarily obvious if your telly is poor, or if you don't have an eye for it, but with the better quality cables, fewr 1s and 0s are lost in transport, and so the picture is better. I have HDMI running all through my house, probably around 45 metres of it running to 4 rooms, and with an amplifier to boost the signal. That cable has to be of a certain quality, as do the connectors and the amplifier, otherwise the signal gets degraded, blocky and lost during transit, so there must be something in it.

 

[HHGull]

I can confirm Sainsbury's do coated ibuprofen. Just purchased 16 of them for 41p. I'm happy spending that extra 6 pence for the sugary coating to help it down.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

can't take anything with "fen" in its name if you are taking warfarin.....something to do with the liver seemly and could be serious!

Its a right bugger if you get get joint pain....paracetamol doesnt do it!!

 

[Nibble]

The independant newsagent/shit minimart type shop next to The Palmeira pub sells Sainsbury's branded packets of painkillers with one of the 2 blisterpacks missing. Sainsbury's price: 37p Ripoff shop next to Palmeira's price for same Sainsbury's painkillers: 1.99

 

[Arthritic Toe]

.. Something along the lines of all those 1s and 0s going down a poor quality cable, some of them get lost, not necessarily obvious if your telly is poor, or if you don't have an eye for it, but with the better quality cables, fewr 1s and 0s are lost in transport, and so the picture is better. I have HDMI running all through my house, probably around 45 metres of it running to 4 rooms, and with an amplifier to boost the signal. That cable has to be of a certain quality, as do the connectors and the amplifier, otherwise the signal gets degraded, blocky and lost during transit, so there must be something in it.

To use a technical term, thats total bollox. You have been done up like a kipper.

 

[Arthritic Toe]

As you say either works or it doesnt. I have a projector 8 metres from the blu-ray and purchased a 35 quid 10m lead (as I had heard buying expensive leads is a con) but it did not work, swapped for a 80 quid 10m lead and works perfectly fine.

Oh well, thats irrefutable proof then.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Why do you think Sainsburys sell it so low? They only do things that make them money, selling ibuprofen for 35p makes them nothing, so there must be an alterior motive. A bit like selling booze for next to no margin, becasue it gets you in the store, and then there is the possibility you might buy other things that make them the money.

Ibuprofen costs next to nothing to manufacture, they make profit on it when it's still 35p.

 

[pseudonym]

And they had the audacity to bring out nurofen plus, ibuprofen with a hint of codeine, genius.

 

[Durlston]

Tried Nurofen a few years ago when I had a splitting headache and got a panic attack after I'd taken them. Maybe it was the caffeine or some allergy but I just stick to Anadin now which are the best.

 

[Jesus Gul]

And they had the audacity to bring out nurofen plus, ibuprofen with a hint of codeine, genius.

which I think will get you banged up for drug smuggling in certain Middle East countries (incl UAE)

Codeine a big no-no

 

[Neil]

Lemsips and Beechams are another rip off where you can get exactly the same under the tesco or Asda name for a third of the price

 

[pastafarian]

can't take anything with "fen" in its name if you are taking warfarin.....something to do with the liver seemly and could be serious!

Its a right bugger if you get get joint pain....paracetamol doesnt do it!!

tried rose hip tablets?

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

I've always been of the mind that supermarket brand pain killers are in some way inferior to brands like Nurofen and won't work. And as others have said on here I've almost certainly been a mug. My wife suffers from migrain and has always taken Nurofen, but she now buys Tesco Ibruptofen at a fraction of the cost.
Just out of interest, has there ever been an experiment to test out the difference scientifically.

 

[Surf's Up]

"Just out of interest, has there ever been an experiment to test out the difference scientifically".

No, because they've all get the same stuff in 'em!

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

"Just out of interest, has there ever been an experiment to test out the difference scientifically".

No, because they've all get the same stuff in 'em!

Fair enough, thats me told then
Surely the branded products contain shavings of unicorn horn or essence of fairy tears in them. How else could they justify the price.

 

[happypig]

When I had a bad back last year the doc advised me to take double dose of ibruprofen; the normal ones are 200mg and the "plus" ones are 400 mg; I was on 2x400 4 times a day.

 

[beorhthelm]

That'll be the "gold plated" conections work better myth then? Never mind that all the wiring inside the boxes is steel or copper ....

it does make some difference for analogue, as the connector is a weak spot so to say in the link, anything to improve the conductivity will help.

Oh well, thats irrefutable proof then.

ah... he has a point there. the digital is on/off is true up to a point, and that point is usually where you have longer cabling. with a poor quality cable you will possibly see artifacts on the screen where bits are being lost, bit like seeing blocks or jumps of picture on poor digital signal thats *just* enough, or when the weather interferes. the possiblity of this increases dramatically with cable length, so for longer runs it does become more of a potential issue. if your buying a 2m HDMI cable to go from DVR to Tellbox, then a £5 will do the same job as a £50 one. if your running 10m i would probably want to spend that bit more. the biggest rip off in cableing right now is fancy ethernet cables, i saw one in Tescos all branded and purple for £80, while they had a more standard packaged one for a little under £10. even thats expensive to one from a IT shop where it'll be £3-4. so basically £75 for the cable to be purple.

back to the drugs, one difference is the branded products often have something extra in them, for ex. Anadin has some caffeine. that might make a difference to some. theres a big placebo effect too, i buy anadin at £1 rather than asprin at 16p "just in case" the cheper one might not work as well. totally irrational, but i've just always had anadin.