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Mahoney wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 2:51 pm Someone on the news who got no offers with her flat on the market at OIEO £400,000 saying it's sad that if she's forced to sell at £375,000 she won't be getting what the property is really worth.

It's really worth what someone's prepared to pay for it.
This is a good one :lol:

If you think it's really worth 400k then keep trying to sell it at that price :crazy:
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Openside wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:55 pm
Hal Jordan wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:17 am I have never barbecued a single thing in my life, and have no real desire to start. I have an oven, grill and griddle pan in the comfort of my kitchen if I need to cook meat.
Ok but does your husband like to BBQ??
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Openside wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:55 pm
Hal Jordan wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:17 am I have never barbecued a single thing in my life, and have no real desire to start. I have an oven, grill and griddle pan in the comfort of my kitchen if I need to cook meat.
Ok but does your husband like to BBQ??
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Openside wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:55 pm
Hal Jordan wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:17 am I have never barbecued a single thing in my life, and have no real desire to start. I have an oven, grill and griddle pan in the comfort of my kitchen if I need to cook meat.
Ok but does your husband like to BBQ??
No, but our wife does.
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Hal Jordan wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 5:36 pm
Openside wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:55 pm
Hal Jordan wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:17 am I have never barbecued a single thing in my life, and have no real desire to start. I have an oven, grill and griddle pan in the comfort of my kitchen if I need to cook meat.
Ok but does your husband like to BBQ??
No, but our wife does.
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dimly lit underground car-parks that have no wheel-stopper bollards

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mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:04 am dimly lit underground car-parks that have no wheel-stopper bollards

:silent:
As long as you crashed your trolley into someone else's Audi, it's ok.
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mat the expat
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Sandstorm wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:47 am
mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:04 am dimly lit underground car-parks that have no wheel-stopper bollards

:silent:
As long as you crashed your trolley into someone else's Audi, it's ok.
My fault for having a vanity French car with shoddy rear sensors
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mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:48 am
Sandstorm wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:47 am
mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:04 am dimly lit underground car-parks that have no wheel-stopper bollards

:silent:
As long as you crashed your trolley into someone else's Audi, it's ok.
My fault for having a vanity French car with shoddy rear sensors
Posh bastard.
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mat the expat
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notfatcat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:56 am
mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:48 am
Sandstorm wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:47 am

As long as you crashed your trolley into someone else's Audi, it's ok.
My fault for having a vanity French car with shoddy rear sensors
Posh bastard.
Sensor, not camera!
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That's still posh in my book. :lolno:
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mat the expat
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notfatcat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:12 pm That's still posh in my book. :lolno:
'tis second hand from 2013
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mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:30 pm
notfatcat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:12 pm That's still posh in my book. :lolno:
'tis second hand from 2013
Very posh compared to my 2002 Toyota.
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mat the expat
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Fangle wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:32 pm
mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:30 pm
notfatcat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:12 pm That's still posh in my book. :lolno:
'tis second hand from 2013
Very posh compared to my 2002 Toyota.
I sold my GF's SUV and bought a decent mid-life crisis car for the same money - niche here in Oz as it's a manual.
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mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:34 pm
Fangle wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:32 pm
mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:30 pm

'tis second hand from 2013
Very posh compared to my 2002 Toyota.
I sold my GF's SUV and bought a decent mid-life crisis car for the same money - niche here in Oz as it's a manual.
Haynes?


It annoys my that I finished my bacon toastie without noticing I was eating it, because I was reading stuff on t'internet.
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PSA - this dry cured bacon shrank to the size of a postage stamp (only slightly exaggerating).

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mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:48 am
Sandstorm wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:47 am
mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:04 am dimly lit underground car-parks that have no wheel-stopper bollards

:silent:
As long as you crashed your trolley into someone else's Audi, it's ok.
My fault for having a vanity French car with shoddy rear sensors
Turn the lights on in your Renault Clio. :thumbup:
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mat the expat
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Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:42 am
mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:48 am
Sandstorm wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:47 am

As long as you crashed your trolley into someone else's Audi, it's ok.
My fault for having a vanity French car with shoddy rear sensors
Turn the lights on in your Renault Clio. :thumbup:
RS265 innit :spin
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Scrummies

I drink and I forget things.
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Short, belligerent, dogmatic men. Too noisy.
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White goods that pack in after five years and a day and it costs half the price of a new one to replace a chip. Why does the piece of kit that tells a dishwasher what to do cost as much as a reasonably sophisticated phone or tablet?
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GogLais wrote: Sun May 02, 2021 3:43 pm White goods that pack in after five years and a day and it costs half the price of a new one to replace a chip. Why does the piece of kit that tells a dishwasher what to do cost as much as a reasonably sophisticated phone or tablet?
That's a very cheap divorce
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People not wearing masks on PT, despite the dulcet tones of Victorian CHO Brett Sutton reminding us every ten minutes or so to have one on.

I can't help but notice many seem to be in their 20s.

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GogLais wrote: Sun May 02, 2021 3:43 pm White goods that pack in after five years and a day and it costs half the price of a new one to replace a chip. Why does the piece of kit that tells a dishwasher what to do cost as much as a reasonably sophisticated phone or tablet?
Similar when a printer runs low on ink, and a replacement printer with ink is cheaper than the new cartridges. For environmental concerns I’ve been getting the cartridges.
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Happyhooker wrote: Mon May 03, 2021 9:19 am
GogLais wrote: Sun May 02, 2021 3:43 pm White goods that pack in after five years and a day and it costs half the price of a new one to replace a chip. Why does the piece of kit that tells a dishwasher what to do cost as much as a reasonably sophisticated phone or tablet?
That's a very cheap divorce
I've gone for the cheapest possible model this time round.
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The tabs on non-recyclable film that when you pull just results in a half inch of film between your fingers instead of peeling the whole thing off in one piece, and when said film is so strongly bonded that it's impossible to completely remove it from the recyclable tray it's attached to...
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Being back in the office one or two days a week, finding a great spot to sit, Mouth Breather who talks loud constantly...... :oops:
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BnM wrote: Sat Apr 17, 2021 12:54 pm PSA - this dry cured bacon shrank to the size of a postage stamp (only slightly exaggerating).

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I'm guessing by the packaging there's nothing on the right side too or it's inconsistent/ugly. :)

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Enzedder wrote: Wed Apr 21, 2021 6:56 am Scrummies

To be fair to Smith, and a testament to his possible GOAT status, I recall him having a blinder after that gaffe.
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Tech support merry-go-rounds...

I do online library support for my (post-secondary) college and yesterday got some poor student who had been referred around four times, three of those by people who should be more qualified than me to deal with it (prof who set up the resource, IT help desk, the bookstore who sells the resources in question ... and one of the library staff had earlier sent them to the bookstore, who normally deal with such things, who sent them back to us :crazy: ).

So when this student typed "OMFG I just keep getting the freaking runaround" and "this school sucks", I didn't acknowledge my agreement, but went "Sorry you've been treated this way, let's try and work through this". I had next to no idea how to fix the problem, but with some Googling and screen sharing found what "might" be the problem... but that didn't work, so found them tech support for the company that makes the product.

And I tattle-told on the other units to our manager. :cool:
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Poorly written news... "multiple fatalities" in the headline, but "killing one person" in the summary? This isn't some local news thing staffed by one old geezer and a couple of recent grads working on the cheap, it's the CBC ... unless that's all they can afford for the online section these days?

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mat the expat
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Niegs wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 10:52 am Tech support merry-go-rounds...

I do online library support for my (post-secondary) college and yesterday got some poor student who had been referred around four times, three of those by people who should be more qualified than me to deal with it (prof who set up the resource, IT help desk, the bookstore who sells the resources in question ... and one of the library staff had earlier sent them to the bookstore, who normally deal with such things, who sent them back to us :crazy: ).

So when this student typed "OMFG I just keep getting the freaking runaround" and "this school sucks", I didn't acknowledge my agreement, but went "Sorry you've been treated this way, let's try and work through this". I had next to no idea how to fix the problem, but with some Googling and screen sharing found what "might" be the problem... but that didn't work, so found them tech support for the company that makes the product.

And I tattle-told on the other units to our manager. :cool:
Nothing better than fixing something after its been around the blocks
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The term England used incorrectly.
The English hate the word "English", and use the word England as often as possible, whether it is used really wrongy. used really really wrong, or just blurted out in the street by some alf garnet character..
It isn't "the England football team", sorry, it is the English football team.
This is a very new thing, that started in the last five years.

Nobody outside of the English population supports England.

If you support them you are English. A English supporter, not an England supporter.


They are all English fans or English rioters..not England supporters..rioting.
England supporters rioting insinuates that it was other people, other than English supporters who were rioting.

It really bothers me when Swansea and Cardiff supporters riot and they are reported in the press as being Welsh (even though they
are club supporters and could be litterally anyone from anywhere) but when English national team supporters riot they are described as being England supporters (people who could be from anywhere).

The England team should be the English team.
British broadcasters are even saying "the Wales team", to make "The England team' sound less wrong.


I am on to you fuckers.
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Line6 HXFX wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 10:36 am The term England used incorrectly.
The English hate the word "English", and use the word England as often as possible, whether it is correct or wrong.
It isn't the England football team, sorry, it is the English football team.
It is a very new thing, that started in the last five years.

Nobody outside of the English population supports England.

If you support them you are English. A English supporter, not an England supporter.


They are all English fans or English rioters..not England supporters..rioting.
England supporters rioting insinuates that it was other people, other than English supporters who were rioting.

It really bothers me when Swansea and Cardiff supporters riot and they are reported in the press as being Welsh (even though they
are club supporters and could be litterally anyone from anywhere) but when English national team supporters riot they are described as being England supporters (people who could be from anywhere).

The England team should be the English team.
British broadcasters are even saying "the Wales team", to make "The England team' sound less wrong.


I am on to you fuckers.
You're on fucking something, that's for sure
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Line6 HXFX wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 10:36 am It really bothers me when Swansea and Cardiff supporters riot and they are reported in the press as being Welsh (even though they
are club supporters and could be litterally anyone from anywhere) but when English national team supporters riot they are described as being England supporters (people who could be from anywhere).
Correct me if I am wrong, but you couldn't write 'Wales supporters' to refer to Cardiff supporters, since Wales national team already exists. Surely that's the obvious reason for the difference?

I can't tell if this is a very good troll or if you're a bit dumb lol.
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Uneven sound levels in TV and film.

You have it set to the right level for the dialogue and then some music or something will play at about twice the volume leaving you scrabbling to turn it down and then by the time you've managed it we're back to just dialogue and needing it at the previous level.
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First world problem - car satnav constantly losing the volume that I’ve set it at. Or at which I’ve set it.
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My neighbours who keep shouting at their google speaker
Google set the alarm
Google how long left on alarm
Google how long left on the alarm
Google how long left on alarm
Google how long left on the alarm
Google how long left on alarm
Google how long left on the alarm
Google turn off alarm
GOOGLE TURN OFF THE ALARM.

Yesterday he started doing DIY (sawing) in his bedroom next to mine at 7:06am.
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mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:48 am
Sandstorm wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:47 am
mat the expat wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:04 am dimly lit underground car-parks that have no wheel-stopper bollards

:silent:
As long as you crashed your trolley into someone else's Audi, it's ok.
My fault for having a vanity French car with shoddy rear sensors
Renault Vel Satis? They’re lovely.
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sockwithaticket wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 12:56 pm Uneven sound levels in TV and film.

You have it set to the right level for the dialogue and then some music or something will play at about twice the volume leaving you scrabbling to turn it down and then by the time you've managed it we're back to just dialogue and needing it at the previous level.
Yep, a bizarre phenomena. I stopped watching Gone Girl after about 5 minutes for a similar reason - I just couldn't understand the dialogue (can't remember if it was music or background noise that was disproportionately way too loud).
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