because they're aimed at people who think shampoo is genuinely important

( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 22:15, archived)

Keep it simple for the simpletons?
Fine.

Now, can you answer another question: why do sofa prices always end in "nine five"? As in "this superb violet leather suite for only six nine five"?

Is it a similar thing for people who don't understand big numbers?
( in vino veritas, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 22:19, archived)

yup
sounds like 19.95 if you say it one nine nine five.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 22:19, archived)

I'm not spending seven hundred quid on a sofa!
Oh wait, I'll spend it on a sofa and two pints, though.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 22:20, archived)