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HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 5th March

Friday, March 5th, 2010

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 5th MarchIt’s Friday afternoon, and just when you thought you’d pretty much had enough for the wek, we’re going to hit you square between the peepers with some difficult-to-solve quiz-type questioning.

Marvel at the amazing bargains courtesy of HotUKDeals and gnash your mind at the true or false statements that accompany them. Do it.

625725 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 5th MarchTHE DEAL:  A 120GB Xbox Elite console – only £148.94 delivered.

TRUE OR FALSE?  It’s called the Elite because if you press a hidden button on its undercarriage it will sprout legs and perform a little jig accompanied by The Shamen’s Ebeneezer Goode.

626085 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 5th MarchTHE DEAL:  A 5kg bag of onions – for only £1.00.

TRUE OR FALSE?  The Falklands conflict of 1981 was actually caused by a breakdown in the onion trade agreement between Britain and Argentina.

625770 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 5th MarchTHE DEAL: A bottle of Krug Grande Cuvee for just £49.98. Yes, as little as £49.98 (although it’s normally about £100)

TRUE OR FALSE?  Krug Grande Cuvee is best enjoyed when sucked off a piece of raw onion that has been dipped in it.

(deals found by HUKD members StevenA2000_UK, vtailor and AddictWeb)

TRUE OR FALSE: All statements are FALSE!!!

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 26th February

Friday, February 26th, 2010

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 26th FebruaryAs ever, Friday is pie day. It’s also True Or False time here at Deals Of The Day, where we try and twist your addled mind right off its hinge with a series of bargains and conundrummy statements for you to get to the bottom of.

The bargains come from HotUKDeals, and what’s definitely true is that there’s hundreds more where these came from…

620368 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 26th FebruaryTHE DEAL:  An O2 Simplicity tariff – 300 minutes, unlimited texts and landline/O2 – O2 calls – only £1.67 after Quidco.

TRUE OR FALSE?  If you use your phone underwater, every minute is immediately tripled, meaning you could actually get 900 minutes with this deal.

620462 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 26th FebruaryTHE DEAL:  One litre bottles of Bells whisky, Smirnoff vodka and Gordon’s gin – only £12 a bottle while stocks last.

TRUE OR FALSE?  In order to qualify for this offer, you have to buy four pairs of clogs at £14.99 each.

618657 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 26th FebruaryTHE DEAL:  The Kodak ZX1 high definition pocket video camera. Was £149.99 – now £49.98

TRUE OR FALSE?  This can clearly film inside any pocket, from a suit jacket inside pocket to one on the outside of a pair of cargo pants. Upload your best efforts to PocketFootage.com and you could win a trouser voucher.

(deals found by HUKD members skgwho, mazola and wazzygib)

TRUE OR FALSE: All statements are FALSE!

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 19th February

Friday, February 19th, 2010

It’s Friday and that means your weekly dose of our true or false guessing game. No more sailing blankly through the round-up of bargains like you do the rest of the week – this is serious.

More bargains and less bullshit over at HotUKDeals.

Bitterwallet - Sky collect personal dataTHE DEAL: For new Sky customers, your first year’s subscription at half-price. Plus free HD pack and free Sky+ HD box.

TRUE OR FALSE?  HD TV has not even begun to reach its full potential. By 2020, experts believe levels will rise somewhere between 254-256. With the addition of as-yet-unpredictable stremifying boosts, the levels could reach a dizzying 257.

614272 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 19th FebruaryTHE DEAL: Mixer taps. Three designs to choose from. Only £17.99.

TRUE OR FALSE?  Get the settings just right and these mixer taps could provide you with a mixture of water, barbecue sauce, hot syrup, olive oil and Labrador urine.

travelodge 300x227 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 19th FebruaryTHE DEAL:  £19 hotel room sale starts at 6am tomorrow. It covers stays from 12th March to 31st May

TRUE OR FALSE?  You get an extra 10% off the price of your room if you bring your own bedding and 15% off if you bring someone else’s bedding.

(deals found by HUKD members darlowad, hotmik and noiy)

TRUE OR FALSE: All statements are FALSE!

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 12th February

Friday, February 12th, 2010

hukd logob1 150x44 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 12th FebruaryTrue Or False Friday. Do we really have to explain it again? Or mention that the bargains all hail from HotUKDeals? No? Good.

607837 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 12th FebruaryTHE DEAL:  Flower for the PS3 through the Playstation Network. They say it’s great. We say it’s only £2.39.

TRUE OR FALSE? It’s crap. A flower grows on your TV screen then dies. Like everything in this world, it dies. Life sucks you know.

608162 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 12th FebruaryTHE DEAL:  Box of six Cadburys Crème Eggs for £1.00. Only a couple of sightings but we’re in an optimistic mood and we’re plugging it.

TRUE OR FALSE?  If you incubate a Cadburys Crème Egg you’ve got a 2% chance of a chocolate chicken hatching out of it. Although that will die in under a day. Everything dies.

607783 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 12th FebruaryTHE DEAL:  More sugary shite. A baker’s dozen of doughnuts for only £1.00.

TRUE OR FALSE?  The doughnut was invented by Sir Alfred De Doughnut in 1762. He wanted to create a snack that represented the circle of life. But life isn’t a circle. It’s a straight line and at the end everyone falls off.

(deals found by HUKD members DelBoySmiffy, atifebrahim and steviedeal)

TRUE OR FALSE: All statements were FALSE. Apart from the stuff about death.

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 5th February

Friday, February 5th, 2010

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 5th FebruaryTrue Or False Friday then. True? False? Whatever – just don’t sneak a peak at the answers at the bottom of the post before you’ve had a go. You’ll be letting us all down that way.

What is definitely true is that HotUKDeals is the best website in the world ever.

602732 1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 5th FebruaryTHE DEAL:  Upgrade your year-old Hyundai to a brand new ‘10’ model for as little as £499.

TRUE OR FALSE?  ‘Hyundai’ is Korean for ‘barmy arse-banging machine.’

601703 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 5th FebruaryTHE DEAL: A Panasonic Viera 50 inch plasma TV with full HD – only £699.95

TRUE OR FALSE?  Following HD and 3D will be HB, where the picture on your screen will look as though it has been drawn with a pencil.

602504 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 5th FebruaryTHE DEAL:  All sorts of saucy undercrackers at the Ann Summers sale.

TRUE OR FALSE?  Ann Summers is a real person, although she is now 76 years old and weighs 14 stone. She delivers every 1000th order in person, wearing whatever the customer has ordered.

(deals found by HUKD members eslick, devssm and loopylisa2008)

TRUE OR FALSE: All of today’s statements were TRUE! Ah, imagine that!

Actually, they were false. Even that last one just above this bit.

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 22nd January

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 22nd JanuaryWhat’s that? You want a round-up of some of the best bargains around at the moment but you also want to rack your brains as you try to figure out whether or not the statements that accompany the bargains are true or just bollocks?

Okay then – here you go. True Or False Friday, presented in association with HotUKDeals.

589526 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 22nd JanuaryTHE DEAL:  Ping Pong table. Table football table. Snooker table. £32.99 each, all down from £129.99.

TRUE OR FALSE?  Ping pong was invented in 1898 by two surgeons when they batted a hardened gall stone up and down an operating table.

589016 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 22nd JanuaryTHE DEAL:  See a West End show in London’s fashionable West End. Tickets priced between £10 – £35 for TOP SEATS!

TRUE OR FALSE?  Shows in the promotion include Oh Mr Candleteeth!, The Buckle Hunters, Jizz – The Musical and For Dutch And Dutchness.

589502 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 22nd JanuaryTHE DEAL:  A lovely 13.5 Tog Bounce Back duvet. From £4.80 – £7.20.

TRUE OR FALSE?  Within the boundaries of the city of Coventry, it is still legal to stuff a gibbon corpse into a duvet cover and just dump it in the street – but only after nightfall on the second Wednesday of every month.

(deals found by HUKD members sunflower, Papa Lazarou and NattyD)

TRUE OR FALSE: All statements were FALSE.

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 15th January

Friday, January 15th, 2010

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 15th JanuaryTrue Or False Friday then. Bargains from HotUKDeals, statements from our fevered minds… or are they from books of facts???

583200 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 15th JanuaryTHE DEAL:  A 5-DVD Blade Runner Ultimate Collector’s Edition DVD – only £5.99.

TRUE OR FALSE:  In the original alternative ending Rick Deckard ran away from a face off with Batty and got a job as an organ-grinder in Paris.

583755 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 15th JanuaryTHE DEAL:  Three Blackburn Rovers matches for £30. At this time of year, in the form of their lives, how can you refuse?

TRUE OR FALSE:  Blackburn’s greatest ever goalkeeper was Mick ‘The Chin’ McMinn, who saved most shots with his four-foot-wide face.

51KoX7fOe+L. SL500 AA280  HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 15th JanuaryTHE DEAL:  45 dishwasher tablets from Finland. Sorry, that’s 45 Finish all-in-one dishwasher tabs – only £1.25.

TRUE OR FALSE:  The powerball in dishwasher tablets doesn’t actually contain anything, but the man who invented them wanted them to look like Japanese flags as he believes the Japanese will cleanse the rest of the world of their sins in 2019.

(deals found by HUKD members amibees, mark halsall and glenncraneuk)

TRUE OR FALSE: All statements were FALSE.

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 8th January

Friday, January 8th, 2010

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 8th JanuaryIs it Friday already? Possibly – even if it isn’t (we can’t tell because of the snow) we’re going to bang out a True Or False Friday around today’s uberbargains from HotUKDeals.

Are we being truey or are we being falsey? Hmmm…

577370 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 8th JanuaryTHE DEAL:  A Meccano rescue bucket, with 190 pieces and 18 models to build. Down from £25.00 to just £7.50.

TRUE OR FALSE?  Using this bucket of stuff, you’ll be able to rescue anyone from anything at any time, in under a minute. The emergency services all carry them.

577061 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 8th JanuaryTHE DEAL:  Pack of 10 x 275ml WKD Blue – only £5.00.

TRUE OR FALSE?  Drinking screenwash will make you popular and seem attractive to members of the opposite sex. Screenwash? Where did that come from? We meant blue WKD. Obviously.

577108 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 8th JanuaryTHE DEAL:  Sandisk 4GB M2 memory card – only £7.00 (RRP £29.99) With free next day delivery.

TRUE OR FALSE?  This card holds five full memories or seven incomplete/hazy ones.

(deals found by HUKD members andywedge, arducks and lukellawncariad)

TRUE OR FALSE – All statements are FALSE

HotUKDeals Of The New Year’s Eve

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The New Years EveAs a special treat/cruel and unusual punishment, it’s True Or False New Year’s Eve, yet another chance for you to pit your wits against our tricky bargain-related statements that may or not be true or… false!

The bargains are from HotUKDeals and are all undoubtedly true. As for the accompanying factoids, you’ll never know… unless you look at the bottom of the post for the answer.

570038 HotUKDeals Of The New Years EveTHE DEAL:  A one-year Merlin annual pass for a whole host of theme parks and attractions – only £75 but you must be able to collect it from London.

TRUE OR FALSE?  You can’t just collect this from anywhere in London, but from a specific location. In case you’re wondering, that location is Hedge 8 in Area B.

570046 HotUKDeals Of The New Years EveTHE DEAL:  A box of 40 Duracell Plus high power alkaline batteries for only £12.79 – that’s less than 32p per battery.

TRUE OR FALSE?  If the power in the batteries sold in the UK in 2009 was harnessed, it would be sufficient to blast the country out of its foundations and send it circling Neptune eight times. Scientists don’t know what would happen after that.

554017 HotUKDeals Of The New Years EveTHE DEAL:  T-Mobile 120 USB Pay As You Go dongle – just £8.49 delivered. Aggravating mobile broadband on the hoof.

TRUE OR FALSE?  You can’t use a dongle in the jungle.

(deals found by HUKD members L0oser, pedroman and whizzkid)

TRUE OR FALSE? All statements are… FALSE!

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Wednesday 30th December

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Wednesday 30th DecemberBy popular demand, yesterday’s True Or False Tuesday that replaced the regular True Or False Friday has been carried over into today, which means that you’re about to take part in True Or False Wednesday.

Got that? Good. We’ve plundered HotUKDeals for bargains and our brains for total bollocks/clever facts so let the battle commence!

569188 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Wednesday 30th DecemberTHE DEAL:  An R4 MicroSD/TF Adapter flash cart for Nintendo DS and DS Lite – just £2.47 including delivery.

TRUE OR FALSE?  If you play pirated DS games using one of these gizmos, Nintendo will find out and you’ll be visited at night by the mythical Mario Brothers character Dr. Di Nippler.

568770 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Wednesday 30th DecemberTHE DEAL:  A £9 Travelodge sale – starting soon!

TRUE OR FALSE?  Travelodge manage to keep their prices so low because they are actually registered with the tax office as non-stop party venues and receive tax relief every time one of their guests checks out without tears streaming down their faces.

569517 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Wednesday 30th DecemberTHE DEAL:  Panasonic Viera 50” 1080p plasma TV with a five year warranty and for only £699.00.

TRUE OR FALSE?  The warranty for this TV covers damage caused by bodily fluids, sump oil, exploding aerosol cans and chips dipped in ketchup that have been thrown at the screen. Read the small print as chips dipped in mayonnaise are not covered, nor are potato wedges in any state.

(deals found by HUKD members nicksinghuk, jebervic and panddda)

TRUE OR FALSE: all statements were FALSE.

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Whatever day it actually is. 28th? 29th? Something like that.

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Whatever day it actually is. 28th? 29th? Something like that.Half-drunk, bloated and deranged by the wazzing up of the festive calendar, our regular True Or False Friday has become True Or False Tuesday (it IS Tuesday today isn’t it?)

Here’s the best of the latest post-Christmas bargains from HotUKDeals, along with some unusual statements that may or may not be true or false. Hmmm…

568496 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Whatever day it actually is. 28th? 29th? Something like that.THE DEAL:  A tuxedo – for only £20. Cut a dash at your New Year party while probably giving off tremendous amounts of static electricity.

TRUE OR FALSE?  If all of the tuxedos sold in the UK in the past ten years were made into a series of ‘super-tuxedos’ there would be enough of them to dress as many as 120 Angels Of The North. This would take into account the fact that the Angels’ freakishly long arms would require an unconventional-looking tuxedo.

568404 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Whatever day it actually is. 28th? 29th? Something like that.THE DEAL:  Bioshock for a Windows PC – downloadable for only £3.49, down from its regular price of £13.99.

TRUE OR FALSE?  If every man, woman and child in the UK downloaded Bioshock today, enough electricity would be used to boil 70,000 kettles the size of elephants, using up enough water to completely drown the city of Bristol. Apart from some of the suburbs on the outskirts – they would be more or less fine.

chicken baby large 203x300 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Whatever day it actually is. 28th? 29th? Something like that.THE DEAL:  Two large whole roast, ready-cooked chickens for only £5.00. One on its own is usually £4.19. Cor, and indeed, bwark!

TRUE OR FALSE?  If every chicken eaten in the UK every year was actually a pencil, there would be enough pencils to fill St Paul’s Cathedral, assuming that the cathedral was only half its actually size and that the pencils were roughly 30% larger than regular pencils, and without rubbers on the end.

(deals found by HUKD members deasyb, StephenHugh and Newbold)

TRUE OR FALSE: All statements are… FALSE!

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 18th December

Friday, December 18th, 2009

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 18th DecemberCome and test your addled brains on our super-sophisticated Friday quiz, as we pound your mind with bargains and statements about said bargains that may be true or may be false.

All bargains come from HotUKDeals. All true statements come from dusty old books. All false statements come from our idiotic minds.

560414 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 18th DecemberTHE DEAL:  A breadmaker! For making the bread! And only £14.48! Give us this day our daily etc etc etc…

TRUE OR FALSE?   Add 100ml of molten rubber to the bread mix before putting  it in the machine and you’ll get a loaf-shaped chew toy for your dog.

560200 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 18th DecemberTHE DEAL:  A Beavis & Butt-head 10-DVD collection. For just £9.85.

TRUE OR FALSE?   The characters of Beavis & Butt-head were based on Ipswich Town’s 1980s Dutch midfield duo Arnold Muhren and Frans Thijssen.

560208 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 18th DecemberTHE DEAL:  Guitar Hero World Tour for the PS3 and Xbox – yours for just £7.99

TRUE OR FALSE?   Left-handed players of Guitar Hero can unlock a secret hidden level which invokes a naked Satan in their own living rooms.

(deals found by HUKD members whizzkid and holly100)

TRUE OR FALSE: All statements are FALSE.

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 11th December

Friday, December 11th, 2009

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 11th DecemberRight you bunch of bright, perceptive monkeys – see if you can separate the truth from the lies in among today’s Deals Of The Day.

As ever, the bargains come from HotUKDeals and the statements accompanying them from either a big book of facts or a big pile of fucking lies. Answers at the bottom.

553069 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 11th DecemberTHE DEAL:  A six foot pool table, reduced from £249.99 to just £49.99. One hundred and eighty!!

TRUE OR FALSE?  Pool as we know it will be abolished in 2018 and replaced by a new version with a table that slopes from each cushion and a single hole in the middle. The new name for the game will be Plug.

553652 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 11th DecemberTHE DEAL:  The Ultimate Bourne DVD collection. All three Bourne movies in a box for only £6.95.

TRUE OR FALSE?  The character of Jason Bourne was originally going to be called Jackie P. Sizzlechest until actor Matt Damon demanded a change (Damon’s middle name is Sizzlechest, trivia fans)

553087 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 11th DecemberTHE DEAL:  A couple of Yankee doodle-related bargain books that have, ahem, caught the imagination of HUKD readers. Shag Yourself Slim (£2.26) and Make Your Own Sex Toys – 50 Quick  And Easy DIY Projects (£6.20). Phew, eh readers?

TRUE OR FALSE?  Amazingly, at the time of writing this, the web domain www.sex.com still hasn’t been snapped up by anyone.

(deals found by HUKD members amdg, amibees, stevemac1 and Carley)

TRUE OR FALSE: All statements were FALSE.

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 4th December

Friday, December 4th, 2009

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 4th DecemberIt’s that time of the week again – you know it’s almost the weekend, and that means beer and skittles, but first you have to navigate our tricky bargain-based puzzle better known as True Or False Friday.

Here’s what happens – we point you at some blistering bargains from HotUKDeals and delicately drape a statement over them. You decide if we’re talking fact or fiction. Answers at the bottom – no peeping.

5466791 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 4th DecemberTHE DEAL:  A red Nintendo DS Lite for only £69.00 – if you qualify for the appropriate code and type it in properly.

TRUE OR FALSE? The Nintendo DS was originally called the BS and was designed as a bluebottle-catching/killing instrument. The wildly successful game-playing feature was only added three days before mass production began.

546497 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 4th DecemberTHE DEAL:  The Michael Palin World Collection. A five-book box set covering the ex-Python’s travels across the world, visiting everywhere ever. Just £8.09.

TRUE OR FALSE?  Michael Palin has never ventured further than outside the M25 since 1990. All of his journeys are carried out by his older brother Ray.

chocolate body art (3)THE DEAL:  A free box of chocolates worth £19.99 when you spend £20.00 – and there’s 15% Quidco as well!

TRUE OR FALSE?  The new Prime Minister of Nepal is actually a six-foot statue made entirely from chocolate. He vowed that if he won, one lucky voter would get to eat him. Since his election, he has backtracked on that promise.

(deals found by HotUKDeals members Senses, andywedge and Tracey6101)

TRUE OR FALSE? All statements were FALSE

HotUKDeals Of The Day – Friday 27th November

Friday, November 27th, 2009

hukd logob1 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 27th NovemberIt’s Friday and that means we’re about to bamboozle your minds with what may be truths or what may be lies in what we like to call True Or False Friday.

Oh, and there’s some bargains too, courtesy of HotUKDeals

539747 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 27th NovemberTHE DEAL:  Gavin and Stacey, the popular comedy show. DVD of series one for just £3.98 and series two for only £3.99. Laugh till your face bleeds off.

TRUE OR FALSE?  In the original pilot episode of Gavin And Stacey, lead actors James Corden and Matthew Horne’s characters wore giant wolf heads as they were both supposedly criminally shy.

img 4125 300x200 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 27th NovemberTHE DEAL:  Massive reductions on a range of apps at the iTunes store as part of the Thanksgiving celebrations. Yes, even here in the UK where we quite rightly don’t give a shit about Thanksgiving. Cheers America.

TRUE OR FALSE? ‘App’ stands for ‘Abominable Plaything for Pricks’

539227 HotUKDeals Of The Day   Friday 27th NovemberTHE DEAL: Boxes of various lagers and ciders for just £7 each. None of that ‘2 for £16’ or ‘3 for £30’ counting-on-your-fingers bollocks involved here.

TRUE OR FALSE?  Mixing lager and cider to make snakebite only works in the northern hemisphere. Try it below the equator and you’ll create a black, viscous and tasteless drink that is commonly known as ‘DTG-7824-X’.

(deals found by HUKD members janz70, amibees, z and Oscar1)

TRUE OR FALSE? All statements are FALSE.