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General Discussion Area / Nervous

« on: 10 May 2025, 14:27:11 »

Does anyone know if or where the lump of Soviet space junk has landed?  I heard a bang about an hour ago, but it was the guy round the corner dropping his dustbin lid. 

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General Discussion Area / $50 million

« on: 19 March 2025, 00:09:02 »

Just reading about a guy in the States getting that when a tray of hot drinks spilled into his lap at a Starbucks drive through. On the footage it looks to me that he took the tray then dropped it himself. Can't do a link but it's on the BBC news site. Starbucks are appealing the award.

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General Discussion Area / Happy New Year

« on: 01 January 2025, 12:33:05 »

to all you old buggers on here. 

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General Discussion Area / Cystoscopy

« on: 24 November 2024, 15:53:28 »

Have any of you old buggers on here had one? I'm due one early next month and would like to know your experience of it. Feel free to pm me if you don't fancy 'going public' about it. TIA.

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General Discussion Area / Darwin award winner

« on: 19 October 2024, 15:30:37 »

Just read on AOL that a social media "influencer"has died after trying to scale Spain's highest bridge.  Seems his family tried to talk him out of it but he reckoned he'd "be alright". Must be devastating for them, but the things these people do to gain fame and 'likes' is totally off the scale.

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General Discussion Area / Pontins

« on: 02 September 2024, 17:25:42 »

Just been reading that Pontins have had to apologise for discriminating against Irish travellers by refusing bookings, based on a list of common names. I can think of another reason why they're not wanted at their resorts. 

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General Discussion Area / Microsoft worldwide outage

« on: 19 July 2024, 09:08:15 »

Bloody glad i'm not travelling today. 

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General Car Chat / Tesla recalling....

« on: 13 December 2023, 16:31:31 »

....two million cars in the States due to auto pilot issues. Anyone else think that auto pilot is a bad idea? It's bad enough now with the standard of some driving.

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General Discussion Area / Sounds about right

« on: 25 November 2023, 11:02:28 »

Just turned my Chromebook on to look to see if l'd had anymore useless emails and one of the news headlines amused me somewhat.
It said that the 'i'm a Celeb camp had been invaded by blood sucking leeches'.  Surely that's just the contestants. 

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General Discussion Area / 'Smart' water meters

« on: 04 November 2023, 11:07:18 »

Had a letter this morning from Anglian Water, stating that they will be fitting them over the next few weeks. On the back of the letter is a list of FAQs. One is, "can i choose not to have one"? The answer is a big fat 'no', as they have a "legal obligation to manage and protect the water supply".
How long before it's going to be the same with electrickery meters where we will have no choice?

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General Car Chat / Minor roads in Daventry area.

« on: 26 August 2023, 13:29:52 »

Just got back from visiting my eldest and must say the roads around his area are bloody awful. Narrow, bumpy, potholes and the potholes that have been repaired are so shoddily done that all the repairs have disintegrated. They don't need any 20mph limits around there because you dare not go any faster.

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General Discussion Area / Indian moon landing

« on: 23 August 2023, 15:30:44 »

Well done to the Indians for managing to put a lander onto the dark side of the moon. I wonder how much of the millions we give to them as aid, (dressed up as 'economic development') helped to pay for that extravagance. Millions of their citizens are starving for goodness sake.

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General Discussion Area / Happy sewing machine day

« on: 13 June 2023, 18:14:50 »

Who the hell thinks all these things up? 

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General Discussion Area / You couldn't make it up.

« on: 30 May 2023, 19:01:03 »

Just heard that the shinanagins over Schofield  is being referred to a House of Commons select committee. WTF! It's a shame that politicians haven't got anything else to concern themselves about.

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General Discussion Area / What the fark.

« on: 05 May 2023, 13:46:23 »

Just heard on my local news that the shoes that Charlie will wear for tomorrow have cost £3,500.   Crisis, what crisis, to quote Supertramp.