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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 23 February 2024, 02:02:10 »

Yes nice drive. 

I've driven Houston to New Orleans on the I10 and then came back on the back roads along the coast, overnighting in Lake Arthur which was cool. 

Also driven to Corpus Christi and back in the other direction.  Camped the night by a lake in a State Park somewhere in the region. The mozzies were like Spitfires! 

Everything's bigger in Texas! 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 22 February 2024, 23:36:42 »

Wedding

153

General Discussion Area / Re: Scams

« on: 22 February 2024, 23:05:17 »

Funny thing.

I was reading this thread and the linked article earlier this evening and the landline rang. The display on the phone said Out Of Area . The only people that phone my landline these days are scammers, elderly relatives and there are a few people I know living overseas who probably only have that number for me. So out of curiosity I answered...

Me: Hello
Caller: Is that Sir Tigger? (Lady with a foreign accent)
Me: Who's speaking please?
Caller: Oh hello, my name is Xxxxx Xxxxxx.  I think you own shares in Xxxxxxx Plc. Does that ring any bells with you?
Me: No not in the slightest. Good night! Hung up.

Thing is. I do own shares in Xxxxxxx Plc, and so there's someone out there who has gone through the Xxxxxxx Plc shareholder records which are in the public domain and have my shareholding details, have my landline number and probably my address etc... 

Maybe they were going to offer me a whopping amount for my shares? 

154

General Discussion Area / Re: French lithium fire

« on: 20 February 2024, 20:21:43 »

Went to the London Olympics (twice) under protest and have no desire to repeat the experience. 

You'll be culturally enriched if you go to the Paris Olympics! 

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General Discussion Area / Re: What a bargain!

« on: 20 February 2024, 18:04:05 »

Ive never seen the point in funerals. My family have been instructed not to bother with one when I fall off my perch.
Send the carcass to be burnt, and if they want to they can have the shes returned to scatter them somewhere, although I dont really see the point in that either.
All silly, pointless and expensive tradition imo.

I worked with a fella 20 years ago who borrowed £15k from our boss so he could give his Mum a proper East End type send off with horses and carriage and a bloke walking in front. 

I wondered what his Mum would have thought about him getting into that sort of debt for that, when he had three little kids to feed. 

156

General Discussion Area / Re: What a bargain!

« on: 20 February 2024, 12:35:31 »

My cousin died last summer aged 56. He was born with a hole in his heart and when he was 18 had a heart and lung transplant and at the time they reckoned he'd get another 10 years, but ended up with nearly 40. 

It was a big funeral and the wake after was a huge piss up where they even put on a disco. The youngsters especially got absolutely hammered! 

A good send off.    RIP Dave.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 20 February 2024, 10:59:51 »

Jobsworth

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General Discussion Area / Re: What a bargain!

« on: 19 February 2024, 22:37:33 »

I had a tailor made suit done for me in Saville Row, Bangkok in 2008. Cost about £100 and it's still going strong for weddings and funerals! 

More funerals these days though.... 

Wife calls mine "the death suit "

At least you know what you'll be wearing when you arrive at the Pearly Gates! 

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General Discussion Area / Boots

« on: 19 February 2024, 20:31:48 »

The Boots in our little town has closed down. It has been there forever. My Mum started there as her first job when she left school in the late 1950's, and I have heard that the Boots shops in two nearby towns have closed down as well. 

Meanwhile, the Lloyds Pharmacy has been taken over by an outfit called J Hoots (No me neither...  ) and it looks like a complete and utter unprofessional shitshow, with empty shelves and shoddy temporary signage. At least they kept on the staff from Lloyds and so far when I order my prescription, it's there when I go in to pick it up. 

More decline... 

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General Discussion Area / Re: What a bargain!

« on: 19 February 2024, 18:41:25 »

I had a tailor made suit done for me in Saville Row, Bangkok in 2008. Cost about £100 and it's still going strong for weddings and funerals! 

More funerals these days though.... 

161

General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 18 February 2024, 21:31:14 »

Hexahedron

162

General Discussion Area / Re: Kingswood and Wellingborough By Elections

« on: 17 February 2024, 23:39:18 »

Went out for a pint with my Lefty mate tonight and he was crowing about the Byelections. 

Until I pointed out that as shite as the Tories are, Labour only just increased their vote in one election by 100 votes and actually lost 5000 votes in the other. He quietened down!   

Then he pointed out that "that far right lot took votes off the Tories as well!" 

Later the conversation turned to climate change and he thinks it's great that farmers are covering the countryside with solar panels... Dear god. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Not long now.

« on: 17 February 2024, 18:36:14 »

They say that once you've caught the cruising bug it's hard to kick. 

I've always wanted to cross the Atlantic and when I was younger wanted to get crewing gig on a yacht, but never did it. I physically couldn't do that now, so doing it on a cruise liner is probably my only realistic option. 

Maybe I'll find a wealthy heiress!     

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General Discussion Area / Re: Kingswood and Wellingborough By Elections

« on: 17 February 2024, 14:29:44 »

OK let's look at the Tory numbers for Nick's benefit and to answer Uncle STEMO's question. 

Kingswood 2019 - 27,712 votes for Conservatives
Kingswood 2024 - 8675 votes for Conservatives

Turnout 2019 - 49,314
Turnout 2024 - 24,905

The Tories got 19,037 less votes on Thursday than they did in 2019, but the turnout was 24,409 less on Thursday than it was in 2019. If just over 10% of the stay at homes had turned out and voted Conservative the Tories would have held the seat.

Wellingborough 2019 - 32,277 votes for Conservatives
Wellingborough 2024 - 7408 votes for Conservatives

Turnout 2019 - 51,193
Turnout 2024 - 30,145

The Tories got 24,869 less votes on Thursday than they did in 2019, but the turnout was 21,048 less on Thursday than it was in 2019. If just over 30% of the stay at homes had turned out and voted Conservative the Tories would have held the seat.

I'm not saying that it wasn't a bad night for the Tories, it was and deservedly so. Their voters mostly stayed at home and Reform nibbled away a chunk of those that did turnout. I wonder what on earth possessed Tory HQ to select Peter Bone's girlfriend as their candidate? 

It wasn't the famous victory for Labour that Britains corrupt biased media have been telling us it was either though, and I expect Labour strategists are wondering how they didn't improve their votes in Wellingborough and managed to lose 5000 odd votes in Kingswood. 

As for Sir Starmer going round claiming there was a massive swing to Labour on Thursday and the British people want a Labour Govt, that just utter bollix! 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Not long now.

« on: 17 February 2024, 11:11:26 »

Nice!     

Where are you flying/sailing to/from etc?