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[Parafox]

5 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I was after ideas for a Christmas present for Mrs. FFF. Well, her pair of Ugg slippers which our daughter gave her years ago, are finally showing their age.

Right, that'll do I thought - until I went on the website and saw what they cost.

The pair she currently has are £130!

That said, given how long they have lasted, it probably means they work out excellent value.

If I paid £130 for a pair of slippers I'd be sick at the till. Ugg or not.

 

Lets say... £5 production cost. Stitch an Ugg tag in them and charge idiots whatever they will pay.

[Tommy G]

20 minutes ago, Parafox said:

If I paid £130 for a pair of slippers I'd be sick at the till. Ugg or not.

 

Lets say... £5 production cost. Stitch an Ugg tag in them and charge idiots whatever they will pay.

Someone’s great idea is netting them $2.5bn a year!

[Free Falling Foxes]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

If I paid £130 for a pair of slippers I'd be sick at the till. Ugg or not.

 

Lets say... £5 production cost. Stitch an Ugg tag in them and charge idiots whatever they will pay.

 

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

Someone’s great idea is netting them $2.5bn a year!

Crunching the numbers suggest they may well be better value.

The Ugg slippers I mentioned in my original post on this subject, are 10 years old. The equivalent pair now on their website cost £130.

£13/year.

My £20 slippers rarely last a year so.......

 

Note to Ugg:

If you care to reward my endorsement of your excellent product, please DM me for contact details.

[FoyleFox]

8 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I was after ideas for a Christmas present for Mrs. FFF. Well, her pair of Ugg slippers which our daughter gave her years ago, are finally showing their age.

Right, that'll do I thought - until I went on the website and saw what they cost.

The pair she currently has are £130!

That said, given how long they have lasted, it probably means they work out excellent value.

 

Have a look if Sketchers do a similar style. My last pair lasted 6 years, just got a replacement pair in the Amazon sale for £30.

[Jon the Hat]

UGG are clearly overpriced, but they are undoubtedly better quality than most of the competition, and there are many many competitors over here.  I guess you pay for the confidence they aren't market quality crap.

 

[Stuntman_Mike]

I prefer international football to club football these days. 

[oakman]

I don't understand the love for all the Aardman animation stuff, I think Wallace & Gromit is particularly sh*t.

[slymunn]

On 04/12/2025 at 22:38, Free Falling Foxes said:

 

Crunching the numbers suggest they may well be better value.

The Ugg slippers I mentioned in my original post on this subject, are 10 years old. The equivalent pair now on their website cost £130.

£13/year.

My £20 slippers rarely last a year so.......

 

Note to Ugg:

If you care to reward my endorsement of your excellent product, please DM me for contact details.

 

On 04/12/2025 at 23:23, FoyleFox said:

 

Have a look if Sketchers do a similar style. My last pair lasted 6 years, just got a replacement pair in the Amazon sale for £30.

My wife has some Sketchers ones called 'bobs'. They have lasted years and I think you can get a couple that are UGG styled.

[Silebyfox_89]

I actually enjoyed BDCR's goal more than Abduls goal.

[Claridge]

I couldn’t care less if England won the World Cup

[Parafox]

3 minutes ago, Claridge said:

I couldn’t care less if England won the World Cup

 

Would you celebrate/be happy/proud if they did?

 

I think I already know the answer.

Edited 14 December 2025 by Parafox

[grobyfox1990]

43 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Would you celebrate/be happy/proud if they did?

 

I think I already know the answer.

I don’t care if they did but I would celebrate it of course. Caring about something and celebrating it after the event are two different things. 

[bovril]

7 minutes ago, grobyfox1990 said:

I don’t care if they did but I would celebrate it of course. Caring about something and celebrating it after the event are two different things. 

This is the approach of 90% of the population I would imagine 

[Claridge]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

 

Would you celebrate/be happy/proud if they did?

 

I think I already know the answer.

Be glad for others who want them to win it

[kenny]

3 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

Would you celebrate/be happy/proud if they did?

 

I think I already know the answer.

It would be fun.

 

But not claridge scoring against palace fun.

 

More Cosby duck race with the kids when your duck didn't win fun.

[Unabomber]

I have no problem at all with any delivery company. There is a programme on right now about evri and where are these losers parcels. The world’s gone mad. In order something and it arrives what’s the problem. 

[Tommy G]

5 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

I have no problem at all with any delivery company. There is a programme on right now about evri and where are these losers parcels. The world’s gone mad. In order something and it arrives what’s the problem. 

You drunk? 

[westernpark]

5 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

I have no problem at all with any delivery company. There is a programme on right now about evri and where are these losers parcels. The world’s gone mad. In order something and it arrives what’s the problem. 

I seem to do alright also with parcels- but according to statistics Leicestershire is the worst place in the country for missing parcels. I have never heard anyone mention having an issue.

[Unabomber]

3 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

You drunk? 

No?

2 minutes ago, westernpark said:

I seem to do alright also with parcels- but according to statistics Leicestershire is the worst place in the country for missing parcels. I have never heard anyone mention having an issue.

Maybe I’ve just been lucky then with the drivers. I had worse today collecting something I’d ordered from m and s, my order number was for a lady called Shelia. 

[danny.]

12 hours ago, westernpark said:

I seem to do alright also with parcels- but according to statistics Leicestershire is the worst place in the country for missing parcels. I have never heard anyone mention having an issue.

Loads of issues with stolen and missing parcels where I am in Leicester. Also a fair few delivery drivers can’t read because they manage to deliver stuff to completely the wrong street. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

War is like a game of Risk.

[UniFox21]

Do we "over-medicalise" too many things now? Sat watching some day time tv whilst visiting my folks before Xmas, entire sections of shows saying X, Y, Z links you to potentially having various issues down the line. 

[Tommy G]

Christmas doesn't feel as expensive as it was last year. 

[Guest worth_the_wait]

3 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

War is like a game of Risk.

I remember one strange game of Risk we had many moons ago.

 

I had retreated and all my armies were on the 4 Australia/Indonesia/New Guinea squares.   Which effectively meant I only got 2 pieces reinforcement every turn.

 

My brother had the rest of the world, and had massed his forces on Siam (as that was the only way to attack me).   Even though he got loads of reinforcements every turn, I kept whittling down his forces with every set of dice throws.   This must've gone on for about an hour, until tea time when we gave up and called it a draw!

[Zear0]

17 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Christmas doesn't feel as expensive as it was last year. 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/17/christmas-dinner-chocolate-more-expensive-reports-which

 

No chocolate orange for Mrs G?