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The way I look at this is, if something is twice the price, is it twice as good?
Very few things work that way though, do they?
Moving away from food... if it's twice the price, and lasts twice as long... then I'm possibly in.
Phones is a good example actually. I have a Pixel 7a. The more expensive 7 had slightly higher specs that you probably wouldn't notice in the real world, and perversely a worse camera. The 7 Pro I think was simply bigger.
It does everything I want, not once have I found myself frustrated with it. Performance is snappy, storage is fine, camera is decent even in unfavourable conditions. I'd have another if it died (which probably going to be sooner than later as I've dropped it once too often). There's 8 series, a 9 series and I think a 10 series now. I haven't looked at them beyond in passing, but I don't imagine there's much 'must-have' to be had. Less plastic, perhaps.
The way I look at this is, if something is twice the price, is it twice as good?
And the way I look at it is - does it do the thing I want it to do? If not, then it doesn’t matter how cheap it is.
Watches.
With coffee or bike bits or whatever you're talking maybe a zero on the end of the price. Watches and it's four.
Karndean is considered to be up there with Amtico - All the cheaper stuff I've looked at looks considerably more fake than the better stuff from both these 2.
Will have to do some research. We had 2 lots of flooring in the last 2 years. The Parquet was really good and the chap that sold it (knows his stuff), would have made more money selling the Kardean, but he recommended this other brand (will try and dig out some information later).
if it's twice the price, and lasts twice as long... then I'm possibly in.
Vimes' Boots Theory.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.
I’ve rarely seen a thread where I disagree with so many posts. Coffee. Flour. Cars. Electronic shifting. These are only some of the items I disagree that there no difference between cheap and expensive. But I totally, totally agree that other people prefer to save the money and buy the cheaper version, but for me, that doesnt at all mean that the expensive one isn’t better.
i rent cars regularly for work. I’ve stopped accepting Dacias. There have been 2 or 3 of them where the infotainment system simply wouldn’t work decently with a simple Android Auto app. I even asked the attendants out to the car to see if it was me being stoopid (I accept that it normally is). The Avis employee couldn’t get it working either and swapped me into another brand. When that happens 3 times, it’s time to give up imo.
Your £1200 iPhone doesn't do anything that my £250 Android does
See this is where I find all this wonderfully individual.
I don't have a £1200 iphone but I do have a premium apple device and for me it does plenty of things better than a £250 android phone would. It runs iOS better for starters. It produces image files I can work with quite well and outputs truly excellent video footage that again I can work with. It also has a battery that will last three days depending on my usage. Oh yea, and it still works if it gets wet.
But I don't go telling people their £250 phone is rubbish and they need a premium device. I just accept there are people who will buy the device that has the features they are looking for.
Hookers?
The supermarket aisles that sell baking goods, all very expensive, buy the dried apricots, walnuts, mixed fruit etc from the normal shelves. Also any of these products which claim to be for health or slimming, again the dried fruits, nuts etc, buy them from the normal aisles or even better from the 'weigh your own loose food section'. Although quite often the baking products are cheaper than the health products.
I think I've actually confused myself here. :o)
That misses a lot of important points. I went to F1 at Silverstone this year. It may be the only time I go to an F1 race, may be the only time that I experience that crowd, the noise of those engines, the actual event with several live and well-known bands, seeing Jackie Stewart drive past, etc. (Also, we had a perfectly good view of the action and didn't pay £150 for stand tickets.) You aren't paying for just an F1 race, you're paying for everything else that is going on as well.
In your world, going to see Joe Bloggs play a £10 gig in your local pub is the same as a ticket for Glastonbury?
Sure. So maybe a better example would be the Silverstone Festival. £150 for 3 days with free roaming grandstand access. Live bands every evening, free access to the museum, funfair, dragster display, car clubs, vintage vehicle displays, a car from every world champion since 1950 (apart from Kimi randomly), free access to pit garages and the paddocks, chatting to drivers, allowed to use a bike to get around the circuit so you don't spend half the day walking. Lots of famous drivers, cars from 1950's through to around 2015. Modern F1 is dull. The cars are too big, too heavy, too dependant on electronics and aero. They look slow especially in the race because they drive to a delta to avoid burning up the tyres. At the Festival I was watching a pair of Maserati 250F's dicing whilst 4 wheel drifting through Club. It was utterly magical. Way, way better value than the Grand Prix.
And I've had much better nights seeing new bands in small venues for a tenner than I have seeing big bands in big venues. Yeah great, lets spend £250 seeing a a band that were great 30 years ago at a venue so big that you can only see tiny dots on the stage and have to watch it on the massive screens to even see who it is on stage. Add in £12 for a burger and £9 for a pint and a two hour queue to get on the bus to get back to the Park and Ride. That's only value for money if you want to show off to your followers on social media.
Expensive luggage...pointless
Bike related, expensive hubs. I have old shimano cup and cones from 20 years ago still going strong. Meanwhile I've had bearings and freehubs fail on stuff costing far more
And don't get me started on expensive cycling glasses. I have 2 pairs, and they are no better than the ones I buy from decathlon and planet x costing a tenth of the price
What are you doing with those photos anyway
I've just shot some video and some official group photographs of medical professionals with mine (I have to admit that we used external lav mics for the sound – but that was more of a technical consideration for syncing sound from the three different iPhones used for the filming).
See this is where I find all this wonderfully individual.
I don't have a £1200 iphone but I do have a premium apple device and for me it does plenty of things better than a £250 android phone would. It runs iOS better for starters. It produces image files I can work with quite well and outputs truly excellent video footage that again I can work with. It also has a battery that will last three days depending on my usage. Oh yea, and it still works if it gets wet.
But I don't go telling people their £250 phone is rubbish and they need a premium device. I just accept there are people who will buy the device that has the features they are looking for.
Yeah I get this. Some people will use their phone camera for high end use, but I have a proper camera for proper photography and I suspect most people who are into photography will use a camera, and if you are not really into photography and just want pics for family/social media then a £250 Android phone camera is more than adequate. Plus my Android has a night vision camera which the iPhone doesn't.
My battery capacity is 10,000mah so I can backpacking for a week without a charge. iPhone 17 is just over 5000mah. I see the iphone is at least waterproof now though so that's something.
Look, it's your money. If you like it, can afford it and it makes you happy then that's great. But don't kid yourself it's 5 times better than a £250 phone.
Look, it's your money. If you like it, can afford it and it makes you happy then that's great. But don't kid yourself it's 5 times better than a £250 phone.
If your £250 phone doesn't do what I need, then the £1250 phone is infinity times better.
My wife would make your teeth itch, it was a revelation to her when I showed her she could 'sort by price' when interweb food shopping and she discovered a whole load of (mostly own brand) products that weren't typically in the first 3 hits. She "saved" £40 that week apparently.
She seldom seems to look at weights or UoM and on several occasions has bought interesting things like a single Mushroom or 150g of Mince (from which I made a single burger)... We currently have 10 boxes of cat food (each containing 20 sachets) due to a misunderstanding of numbers, Cat won't go hungry at least.
There are also the 2 occasions she ordered nothing but Prosecco because she forgot to amend her delivery placeholder order... When I asked why she didn't at least put a handful of useful things on the placeholder order like Bread, Milk or ham she just shrugged...
It's almost as if going into a physical shop and looking would be a better use of her time than trying to buy stuff unseen over the internet...
Your £1200 iPhone doesn't do anything that my £250 Android does
And I bet My £180 Refurb iPhone pisses all over your Android thing... 😉
TBF I used to be a bit of a diehard Android user, but honestly neither option is fantastic VFM when bought new. Having been the only holdout in my family, I can confirm life is easier when you're all using iPhones...
Paracetamol, Ibuprofen etc. Active ingredient is exactly the same in supermarket generic own brands as in the expensive stuff on the next shelf.
Yeah, it boggles my mind that people actually buy Nurofen
Actually you're incorrect.
I was surprised about this too when I found out:
Although yes they do contain exactly the same ingredients, there is a proven placebo effect (for some people) that buying a more expensive brand does in actual fact reduce the perception of pain compared to cheaper own brand stuff.
I buy the own brand stuff!
Expensive luggage...pointless
If you're are talking about "designer" luggage I agree.
However practical stuff like Ogio, Osprey or North Face* is worth the extra money. I used to travel a lot for work and I know that cheap luggage is false economy.
*That's if there duffle bags haven't gone to shit like a lot of their stuff now.
Look, it's your money. If you like it, can afford it and it makes you happy then that's great. But don't kid yourself it's 5 times better than a £250 phone.
No. Because it does things the £250 quid android cannot do, it is way more than five times better for me.
Is it five times better for you, absolutely not. The fact I need to say that suggests you may have missed my point entirely (or I didn't make it well enough).
For proper photography or video work I too use my camera, but there are times when that is not feasible.
Hammers:)
Doesn't matter what they cost, it still does the job.
Incredible how the most (seemingly) innocuous threads can turn tetchy on here.
Doesn't matter what they cost, it still does the job
I'm not aure thats true i have one hammer that honestly if you hit a big nail into hard wood it makes your teeth vibrate! Like its almost come out of my hand! It was a really cheap steel handled job.
I'll never buy and estwing thats for sure though.
I do have a premium apple device and for me it does plenty of things better than a £250 android phone would. It runs iOS better for starters.
Well, that's hardly surprising. 😁
Incredible how the most (seemingly) innocuous threads can turn tetchy on here.
Bog off, fish face.
Sure. So maybe a better example would be the Silverstone Festival. £150 for 3 days with free roaming grandstand access. Live bands every evening, free access to the museum, funfair, dragster display, car clubs, vintage vehicle displays, a car from every world champion since 1950 (apart from Kimi randomly), free access to pit garages and the paddocks, chatting to drivers, allowed to use a bike to get around the circuit so you don't spend half the day walking. Lots of famous drivers, cars from 1950's through to around 2015. Modern F1 is dull. The cars are too big, too heavy, too dependant on electronics and aero. They look slow especially in the race because they drive to a delta to avoid burning up the tyres. At the Festival I was watching a pair of Maserati 250F's dicing whilst 4 wheel drifting through Club. It was utterly magical. Way, way better value than the Grand Prix.
Almost exactly comparable in price and style to an F1 weekend, then? (My ticket was £150, from Thursday to Monday.) And F1 will never look like good value if you don't like F1, to state the obvious.
Doesn't matter what they cost, it still does the job
I'm not aure thats true i have one hammer that honestly if you hit a big nail into hard wood it makes your teeth vibrate! Like its almost come out of my hand! It was a really cheap steel handled job.
There are four tiers of tools:
Cheap rubbish that is barely functional (steel handled hammers are a prime example). Tourney groupsets are a bike equivalent.
Useful amateur stuff that is affordable, fine if you're doing your hobby. Deore is a bike equivalent.
Normal professional stuff: not fancy, but worth it if you're using it every day for your job. XT groupsets are a bike equivalent.
Elite stuff: Not functionally better than regular stuff, but nicer. XTR level stuff.
Lidl do good cheap arborio rice. I use it once a week for what its often our cheapest meal of the week.
I estimate Lidl sells rice for less than half the cost of arborio. Which is the point.
Coke and hookers?
i rent cars regularly for work. I’ve stopped accepting Dacias. There have been 2 or 3 of them where the infotainment system simply wouldn’t work decently with a simple Android Auto app. I even asked the attendants out to the car to see if it was me being stoopid (I accept that it normally is). The Avis employee couldn’t get it working either and swapped me into another brand. When that happens 3 times, it’s time to give up imo.
Also,
Mortgages.
my 5 year fix at 1.6% is coming to an end (yes it’s been a good 5 years).
best offer I can find is 3.7% plus a grand up front.
so that’s £400 a month lining someone else’s pockets and I still have to live in the same ex-council house. 🤷♂️
I estimate Lidl sells rice for less than half the cost of arborio. Which is the point.
You mean the stuff on the left? It's not a cheaper version of the stuff on the right. It's something else. It's great for sticky rice, or to have with chilli... but it's not risotto rice. It's not a cheaper risotto rice... it is not risotto rice at all.
Ah, I see @blokeuptheroad has made this point already.
Bringing it back to bike stuff.
I have a Lidl bike stand which I need to use occasionally. Yes, it’s a bit heavy and the clamps are somewhat agricultural - but for working on my own bikes, my families bike and friends bikes it’s absolutely fine. Having served my time working as a mechanic in a busy bike shop - I’ve used much better stands, but my Lidl one does what it needs to.
Track pump is also good. And their sub £10 torque wrench.
F1 is frustrating. My dad and I went a few times in the early 90s 00s. Got into Donnington for free in 1993 to see the greatest ever first lap in the rain, then we did Silverstone for a few years, but the costs then were steep for a crap view, Donnington is great for spectating. We then realised we could go to the Spanish GP for less than Silverstone and be in Barcelona. That was great. Anyway, fast forward twenty years, my son and dad are still into F1 and I thought let's look how much it would be for a weekend at Silverstone, as it would be great to go with my dad once more... hmmm, its got seriously expensive...
Not sure about a cheaper equivalent, but cripes the sports industry has really learned how to milk its fan base in the last twenty years.
I will not moan about enduro race fees ever again...
Watches.
I was going to suggest watches but then thought it depends on how the owner of said watch views it - as a functional tool for telling the time (in which case, yes, a £10 Casio will be just as good as a £12,000 Rolex with the added advantage you're unlikely to be mugged for it) or is it primarily a status symbol or an investment (in which case, no, the £10 Casio is not better).
You mean the stuff on the left? It's not a cheaper version of the stuff on the right. It's something else. It's great for sticky rice, or to have with chilli... but it's not risotto rice. It's not a cheaper risotto rice... it is not risotto rice at all.
They're both rice. One is more expensive than the other. The cheap one is less good for a particular dish.
If you look at that way, the expensive one is less good for another particular dish.
They are different types of rice, not different price points of the same rice.
Do you just see all beans as "they're all just beans"?
as a functional tool for telling the time (in which case, yes, a £10 Casio will be just as good as a £12,000 Rolex with the added advantage you're unlikely to be mugged for it)
I have a rolex that I inherited and it is actually an inferior tool for telling the time as it gradually loses time and it needs adjusting regularly. It is basically a piece of jewellery as far as I'm concerned.
Have to disagree about bottom brackets, Hope last way longer than cheap Shimano and you can replace the bearings, I can't tell the difference between cheap and expensive porridge.
Dishwasher tablets
Using 2 own brand tablets work out cheaper than the branded ones
And get the plates clean in the same way
From a practical point, my very expensive mechanical calculator is vastly inferior to pretty much any cheap digital one.
Asics trainers, they get holes in the toes sooner than cheapo ones. And Merrell / Salomon GTX boots leak and fall apart as quick as mountin worehouse
and haircuts, Ive never been in a position to understand why a haircut can cost so much.
From a practical point, my very expensive mechanical calculator is vastly inferior to pretty much any cheap digital one.
I was looking at curta on ebay yesterday laughing at how daft an idea it was.
Sometimes with painkillers there’s an own brand one that’s ever so slightly more expensive than the cheapest so I’ll get that one assuming I’m paying for some extra placebo they’re putting in it.
If you look at that way, the expensive one is less good for another particular dish.
So use the cheap rice for everything. Bonus!
Have we got this far in with nobody mentioning premium petrol and diesel?
Bottled still water.
Asics trainers, they get holes in the toes sooner than cheapo ones. And Merrell / Salomon GTX boots leak and fall apart as quick as mountin worehouse
and haircuts, Ive never been in a position to understand why a haircut can cost so much.
disagree with this, I love my merrells and they last me years of daily use, as they get older the get relegated to garden/cycling duty and still don’t fall apart.
However I agree about haircuts
So use the cheap rice for everything. Bonus!
Well, it’s a vegetable, so you could save time and money by boiling a bit of rice to serve in place of all those expensive green things. Food budget sorted !!
Why would I drive for 6 hours got better things to do
One of my favourite things to do is travel places and that often involves driving. Scotland for example is an 8hr drive away at least, could be more. I used to find driving to North Wales on the A470 a right chore, now I have a really nice car I genuinely enjoy it and look forward to it. But you do you. I'm not interested in your driving habits, but objectively if do drive a long way, it's more comfortable and relaxing in a better car.
Your £1200 iPhone doesn't do anything that my £250 Android doesn't
Actually it does - iPhones have a LIDAR sensor for their face recognition that you can use as a 3D scanner with a suitable app. Android phones do not. I happily use Android but this is the one thing I would like.
Are you trolling? Apples and tomatoes are both fruit.
Yes, different fruits. A better analogy would be different varieties of apple or tomato.
had a summer job in a coffee factory - pure hell, hot and everyone wired all the time breathing in coffee dust
anyway container lorry full of 65kg cases boxed of beans from south America is unloaded into hopper, ground up and pumped to top of tower, the grounds are dropped through a giant flame to roast em then pumped into jars . Made them for supermarkets and other big brands.
supermarket value coffee is 95% same as posher brands, maybe 1 slightly more expensive case of beans is mixed in with 20 or 30 of the regular ones and they swap different labels and lids over. The price difference making it is tiny, but the markup in the shop could be 2 or 3 times the price. This was 28 years ago so there was less choice
Kellogs cereal, heinz ketchup, or beans - supermarket stuff is identical
only one that doesn't compare is Coke vs supermarket colas
Actually it does - iPhones have a LIDAR sensor for their face recognition that you can use as a 3D scanner with a suitable app. Android phones do not. I happily use Android but this is the one thing I would like.
thats very niche reason to blow a thousand quid!
I think the flagship Honor phones have LIDAR
phones are a very good example, incremental improvements hyped up by slick marketing so that they are status symbols, getting you to shell out a grand every year or so when mid/ budget phones do everything really need
also applies to mtbs, geometry is fairly settled, a 5 year old bike loses nothing to a 2025 bike (apart from not needing batteries)
and haircuts, Ive never been in a position to understand why a haircut can cost so much.
Well when yo have good hair a good cut is worth every penny :-). Last time I grew my hair I had a £10 cut at a barbers and it was rubbish compared to a £40 cut at a good hairdressers. I could do without all the faffage in the good haircut place tho
Tj reminding us all again,that he does indeed still have a good head of hair!
Have we got this far in with nobody mentioning premium petrol and diesel?
Out here in Canada standard petrol is 87 octane. Subsequently my 15 year old VW requires "premium". Lah do dah!
It did actually start knocking when I ran it on standard for a while.
Cars are a funny one. We hired a little Dacia a couple of months back, and it was perfectly ok, if a little agricultural. If I was pottering around town now and then, it'd be fine, but not great for racking up hundreds of miles.
Like with the watch thing, if the primary function is basic transport, then yeah, it's alright, but if transport is secondary to a status symbol, not quite.
but objectively if do drive a long way, it's more comfortable and relaxing in a better car
As somebody who has never owned a premium car I'm fully aware that this is the case.
Part of me lies to myself that it isn't true to justify the real reason I don't buy more expensive cars - I'm tight/ prefer spending the money on other things.
The car thing can be looked at from a variety of ways.Enjoyment- when younger i had a fast car, but at various times in my life i have also had a slow car 2cv !!. It was a fun drive in a different way , keeping momentum, timing gear changes,, watching gradients, character etc etc.
It felt fast at 50 mph!
The fast car (Imprezza) was too fast really and if you drove it everyday it becomes normal, a bit like a motorbike, you start riding it faster for the thrill
I think if you enjoy driving you make the most of the slower vehicle.
If you do not " bond" with the vehicle then thats another story. Esp its uncomfortable.
I drove the 2cv to Portugal and back via France as well......
But i am tight and my van and cars now were bought with well over 100,000 miles on them and have character!
definitely mechanical watches. I have a Casio quartz g-shock that picks up radio signals to always give precisely the right time … and I use that to set my mechanical watches
Unless its a genuinely bad or old car i don't think Molgrips argument holds water.
Or maybe my arse is unpicky but i've driven many many hire cars over long (and windy backroad long, not blasting up the M# and trunkroads) distances all around scotland chasing railway bridges and never ever thought "jesus i needed a mercedes for this"
Probably the most critical thing to how comfortable i was was whether it was automatic or not.
Alcohol - why bother with ChateauNeuf-de-PooPoo when you can just drink rubbing alcohol?
TBH just buy more isopropyl alcohol as you can clean your brake discs as well.
Kill 2 birds with one stone (and possibly yourself so don’t try this at home)
Alcohol - why bother with ChateauNeuf-de-PooPoo when you can just drink rubbing alcohol?
TBH just buy more isopropyl alcohol as you can clean your brake discs as well.
Kill 2 birds with one stone (and possibly yourself so don’t try this at home)
I once randomly decided to try meths. Not take a swig just a single droplet on my tongue. Holy shit you'd have to be desperate.
Another time i accidentally swigged white spirit... Clear ribbed plastic bottle with clear liquid next to the clear ribbed plastic bottle with clear liquid... That was actually less of a shock but had an unpleasant mouth feel.
The phones thing is really interesting and i would love to see some one do some proper long term research. As far as i can work out in the high end phones at the same price point you’ll get a better camera on Android than iPhone. Android i think are better value for storage.
so why am i typing in an iphone?
I use to own a £350 mid range samsung. It basically died due to being in damp pockets. It also had 3 persistent software niggles. There were a few things the Facebook app would refuse to do so I’d have to use the web version.
So needing a sealed phone i bought an iPhone 12. It died due to a combination of lawnmower damage destroying the sealing then a year later water damage. But overall i was impressed. Well made and no software bugs
My theory is that iPhones stay in use longer. That’s based on collecting phones at the start of every lesson. But I’d love to see a proper study on it
Have to disagree about bottom brackets, Hope last way longer than cheap Shimano and you can replace the bearings, I can't tell the difference between cheap and expensive porridge.
I think the issues crap bearings, good bearings cost a little more but the leap to ceramic bearings (at bicycle leisure markup)that don’t have any real benefit for boggo cyclists other than bragging rights on how much you paid (although may have a placebo effect ) 🙂
Paracetamol, Ibuprofen etc. Active ingredient is exactly the same in supermarket generic own brands as in the expensive stuff on the next shelf.
Can't put a price on placebo effect, though. My mum is convinced Nurofen "works better" and pays through the nose for it, whereas I'm so cheap I once made my own paracetamol.
Expensive luggage...pointless
Many of my work colleagues have been using the knock-off Rimowa aluminium cases from Shanghai and they're indistinguishable from the real thing. No complaints to date.
Some suitcase manufacturers place a big deal on their warranty, but I can confidently tell you that Samsonite don't give a shit about theirs and have so many get-outs that I'd buy any other brand before one of theirs again.
My theory is that iPhones stay in use longer. That’s based on collecting phones at the start of every lesson. But I’d love to see a proper study on it
I’d agree with this just got some iPhone 16e’s to replace xr’s (2018).
A medical friend told me that the stuff that goes with the active ingredient in Nurofen is better quality than the non-branded equivalents and consequently is better on the stomach.
We own many 80 litre barrel bags. The cheap ones from Go Outdoors have better zips and materials than the North Face one
Although the active ingredients in generic and branded medicines are identical, there can be differences in the formulations that they are delivered in and the coatings on the tablets that may make them slightly quicker acting or easier to swallow.
There is the slightly awkward fact that branded medications work slightly better due to the placebo effect.
It’s not a big difference, but it is a differences.
Personally, knowing all this, I use the cheapest generics, but other people’s MMV.
I once randomly decided to try meths. Not take a swig just a single droplet on my tongue. Holy shit you'd have to be desperate.
Another time i accidentally swigged white spirit... Clear ribbed plastic bottle with clear liquid next to the clear ribbed plastic bottle with clear liquid... That was actually less of a shock but had an unpleasant mouth feel.
TBH my m8 was telling me about gin production.
You buy in the base alcohol NGS (neutral grain spirit) at 99% dilute it and add your berries/flavouring , distill it again etc
The art I suppose is being able to make consistent batches at scale.
But white spirit,isopropyl and methylated spirits are absolutely toxic to us so best not use as a base for any home made gin.
As per recent stories in the news over this stuff
I have a rolex that I inherited and it is actually an inferior tool for telling the time as it gradually loses time and it needs adjusting regularly. It is basically a piece of jewellery as far as I'm concerned
it is,instead of gold chains or rings but it’s functional jewellery as it’ll give you some idea of the time 🙂
Quite often on cheaper products I find that one of the ways that cost savings are made are in quality control.
A medical friend told me that the stuff that goes with the active ingredient in Nurofen is better quality than the non-branded equivalents and consequently is better on the stomach.
First aid at work certificate?
The active ingredient in both is Ibuprofen. It's a chemical compound. It either is Ibuprofen or it's not, there is no better quality. As others have pointed out, there may be other things in some brands to ease swallowing or speed absorbtion etc. but the active ingredient is the same.
Not stuff with li-ion batteries in
A medical friend told me that the stuff that goes with the active ingredient in Nurofen is better quality than the non-branded equivalents and consequently is better on the stomach.
First aid at work certificate?
The active ingredient in both is Ibuprofen. It's a chemical compound. It either is Ibuprofen or it's not, there is no better quality. As others have pointed out, there may be other things in some brands to ease swallowing or speed absorbtion etc. but the active ingredient is the same.
Primary Reader Award?
Perhaps if you had read the post by Blackhat properly before posting your patronising reply you might have noticed what they actually wrote rather than what you thought they wrote and were also the first of the 'others' to point this out.
But thanks for your input.
Guilty as charged, hands up. Skim reading and having a bad day, but that's no excuse. Apologies to Blackhat, my rude reply was uncalled for, and thanks to Winston for pointing it out.