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Happy Easter to everybody🐥🐣let’s hope things get better in this next part of the year😎
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We can hope. I like to be optimistic
Question. Easter Presents. Is this a new thing? Chocolate eggs, yes. But presents, like at Christmas? I suspect commercial opportunism here, or am I being a tad cynical.
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Define cynical :D
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We can hope. I like to be optimistic
Question. Easter Presents. Is this a new thing? Chocolate eggs, yes. But presents, like at Christmas? I suspect commercial opportunism here, or am I being a tad cynical.
Over the last few years we have gone completely the other way. Easter means absolutely nothing to anyone who doesn't believe in fairies, so we totally ignore it. No eggs, no nothing.
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It is big here in Spain. Deeply religious country.
Even for non religious folk, the Easter processions are a sight to behold. The heavy religious icons are taken out of the churches and carried by a brotherhood around a long route. The costumes and rituals are impressive. Much eating , drinking and getting together also happens. Not much commercialisation though Lidl does have a tiny range of Easter eggs.
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Buy the kids eggs & that's it, travel absolutely nowhere on any bank holiday leave that to the mugs.
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;D
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I shall look forward to Easter eggs with 80% off in the next few days.
I'm not paying full whack for cardboard.
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Me too ;D
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Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. :y
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday! ::) ;D
Happy Easter! :)
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Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. :y
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday! ::) ;D
Happy Easter! :)
Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !! :o and i wasn't even completely empty :-\
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Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. :y
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday! ::) ;D
Happy Easter! :)
Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !! :o and i wasn't even completely empty :-\
Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive. :)
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Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. :y
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday! ::) ;D
Happy Easter! :)
Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !! :o and i wasn't even completely empty :-\
Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive. :)
£172.9. I don't acyually know how big tank is ??? Volvo V70
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Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. :y
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday! ::) ;D
Happy Easter! :)
Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !! :o and i wasn't even completely empty :-\
Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive. :)
£172.9. I don't acyually know how big tank is ??? Volvo V70
Don't take any notice Rog, Lord Opti perpetually lives in 1976! :D
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Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. :y
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday! ::) ;D
Happy Easter! :)
Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !! :o and i wasn't even completely empty :-\
Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive. :)
£172.9. I don't acyually know how big tank is ??? Volvo V70
Don't take any notice Rog, Lord Opti perpetually lives in 1976! :D
In 1976 you would be able to fill a dozen petrol tanks for £114.......and if you were deluded enough buy a brand new Marina coupe for about £1000.
New house for about £7000.
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When I was a kid growing up in South London my nan & mum worked at a sweet factory ( candycraft) Easter was fantastic back then.😃
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We can hope. I like to be optimistic
Question. Easter Presents. Is this a new thing? Chocolate eggs, yes. But presents, like at Christmas? I suspect commercial opportunism here, or am I being a tad cynical.
Would not surprise me if its another "Americanisum" we are following
Easter cards, never heard or seen one before.
We received one this year
Wont be sending any though
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Bit late now ;D
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When I was a kid growing up in South London my nan & mum worked at a sweet factory ( candycraft) Easter was fantastic back then.😃
When I was a kid growing up in South Wales my mum & dad had a sweet shop. Easter was fantastic back then.😃
(looking forward to cut price Easter Eggs tomorrow. Mind you they are so stupidly cheap these days, from what I see in shops).
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When I was a kid growing up in South London my nan & mum worked at a sweet factory ( candycraft) Easter was fantastic back then.😃
When I was a kid growing up in South Wales my mum & dad had a sweet shop. Easter was fantastic back then.😃
(looking forward to cut price Easter Eggs tomorrow. Mind you they are so stupidly cheap these days, from what I see in shops).
70% packaging.....30% chocolate.
They look good in the box but most people say 'is that all there is' when they open it. :D :D ;)
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Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. :y
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday! ::) ;D
Happy Easter! :)
Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !! :o and i wasn't even completely empty :-\
Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive. :)
£172.9. I don't acyually know how big tank is ??? Volvo V70
15 ish gallons from memory :y
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I was out and about today , it all seemed very quiet
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Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. :y
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday! ::) ;D
Happy Easter! :)
Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !! :o and i wasn't even completely empty :-\
Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive. :)
£172.9. I don't acyually know how big tank is ??? Volvo V70
15 ish gallons from memory :y
Gallons ? ???
I know we stiil use MPG (god knows why), but . . . ::)
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18-21 gallons on one of those bad boys ;D
Edit, that's measley US gallons, so 15 proper gallons is about right, as Henry the speeder says. ;D
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Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. :y
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday! ::) ;D
Happy Easter! :)
Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !! :o and i wasn't even completely empty :-\
Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive. :)
£172.9. I don't acyually know how big tank is ??? Volvo V70
15 ish gallons from memory :y
Gallons ? ???
I know we stiil use MPG (god knows why), but . . . ::)
Be pleased you do. Britain ( and the Victorians) gave the world so much. Here in Spain - a metric country, we still buy pipe in inch or fractions thereof , diameter. Known as pulgadas. Car tyres are mostly in so many inches diameter. I still use mpg after all these years but admit I do also know how many km I do to a litre. This is mostly for conversation with Spaniards.
More obscure stuff like BSF are also to be found. Ditto strange nut sizes on machinery. It does make me smile.
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Stolen from elsewhere and it made me chuckle. >:D
Christians say not to practice witchcraft or astrology, but celebrate the resurrection of a dead guy on the Sunday after the first full moon of the equinox and then they drink wine and bread, as his blood and body and incant over their animal sacrifices before they feast!
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Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. :y
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday! ::) ;D
Happy Easter! :)
Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !! :o and i wasn't even completely empty :-\
Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive. :)
£172.9. I don't acyually know how big tank is ??? Volvo V70
15 ish gallons from memory :y
Gallons ? ???
I know we stiil use MPG (god knows why), but . . . ::)
Be pleased you do. Britain ( and the Victorians) gave the world so much. Here in Spain - a metric country, we still buy pipe in inch or fractions thereof , diameter. Known as pulgadas. Car tyres are mostly in so many inches diameter. I still use mpg after all these years but admit I do also know how many km I do to a litre. This is mostly for conversation with Spaniards.
More obscure stuff like BSF are also to be found. Ditto strange nut sizes on machinery. It does make me smile.
When I'm Emperor of the entire world (coming quite soon ::) ) . . . .
Total metrication will imposed on pain of death or serious physical torture. Odd fractions of an inch are just bonkers, totally random fluid measurements (8 pints to the gallon etc), 1,760 yards to the mile. Who the f*** thought all these up? I have a theory that it was just to give kids something to learn parrot fashion at school.
I used to sell medical equipment (made in the USA). On some items the length was metric (cms. EG 70 cms) diameter was a decimal of an imperial (EG .038 of an inch). It is said that a space shuttle blew up due to such confusion, not surpised.
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Watched an American hot rod show the other week and they were stuck as they had no metric spanners , strange as GM and Chrysler and Ford have been metric for years!!
Went to mums for Easter lunch yesterday, not traditional as we had roast duck with roast veg!!
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Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. :y
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday! ::) ;D
Happy Easter! :)
Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !! :o and i wasn't even completely empty :-\
Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive. :)
£172.9. I don't acyually know how big tank is ??? Volvo V70
15 ish gallons from memory :y
Gallons ? ???
I know we stiil use MPG (god knows why), but . . . ::)
Be pleased you do. Britain ( and the Victorians) gave the world so much. Here in Spain - a metric country, we still buy pipe in inch or fractions thereof , diameter. Known as pulgadas. Car tyres are mostly in so many inches diameter. I still use mpg after all these years but admit I do also know how many km I do to a litre. This is mostly for conversation with Spaniards.
More obscure stuff like BSF are also to be found. Ditto strange nut sizes on machinery. It does make me smile.
When I'm Emperor of the entire world (coming quite soon ::) ) . . . .
Total metrication will imposed on pain of death or serious physical torture. Odd fractions of an inch are just bonkers, totally random fluid measurements, 1,760 yards to the mile. Who the f*** thought all these up? I have a theory that it was just to give kids something to learn parrot fashion at school.
I used to sell medical equipment (made in the USA). On some items the length was metric (cms. EG 70 cms) diameter was a decimal of an imperial (EG .038 of an inch). It is said that a space shuttle blew up due to such confusion, not surpised.
You could say that Britain is slowly inching towards metrification ..... ::)
(8 pints to the gallon etc) and why does America have 16fl oz in a pint & we have 20? ???
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Because Americans hate, and I mean hate, to be told that they speak English, not American. So they alter spellings and change the names of things. Bonnet, Hood......Pavement, Sidewalk..etc.
Even when a word is spelled the same, i.e. Tuesday, they still pronounce it differently, Toosday.
They also don't want to think that they use our system of measurements, basically for the same reason.
Basically, they are insecure tossers ;D
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Even when a word is spelled the same, i.e. Tuesday, they still pronounce it differently, Toosday. ....
So do the Welsh ;)
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As does Norfolk ;D Not to mention Satdy or Mundy.
The Americans actually speak olde English, it is us that have bastardised it over time ;), and you can thank the Plymouth Bretheren for that.
The weights and measures thing is probably a side effect of taxation, effectively they have 'more' in a thing, even though the thing is smaller than ours, the more things they buy, the more tax they would pay. :-\
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As does Norfolk ;D Not to mention Satdy or Mundy.
The Americans actually speak olde English, it is us that have bastardised it over time ;), and you can thank the Plymouth Bretheren for that.
The weights and measures thing is probably a side effect of taxation, effectively they have 'more' in a thing, even though the thing is smaller than ours, the more things they buy, the more tax they would pay. :-\
OOOOOO.....don't say anything bad about the yanks to American Al. ;D
As for the taxation theory, you're just guessing, as usual, hence the word 'probably' ::)
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Easter Monday, a perfect day here to spend in the garden both lawns done & all the edges, SWMBO has now rewarded me with a chocolate rabbit, what more could a man want ? 😁😁😁
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Two chocolate rabbits?
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Two chocolate rabbits?
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That's right spoil my day 😂
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Two chocolate rabbits?
.....or two sultry women dipped in warm chocolate. Diane Abbott could be one of them. >:D
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Two chocolate rabbits?
.....or two sultry women dipped in warm chocolate. Diane Abbott could be one of them. >:D
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More for Good Friday I would think with her fish flavoured minge
🤪🤪🤪
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Two chocolate rabbits?
.....or two sultry women dipped in warm chocolate. Diane Abbott could be one of them. >:D
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More for Good Friday I would think with her fish flavoured minge
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Any woman important enough to have a London park named after her has to be worth a shag. ;)
As for the fishy bit just hold your breath. ;) >:D
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As does Norfolk ;D Not to mention Satdy or Mundy.
The Americans actually speak olde English, it is us that have bastardised it over time ;), and you can thank the Plymouth Bretheren for that.
The weights and measures thing is probably a side effect of taxation, effectively they have 'more' in a thing, even though the thing is smaller than ours, the more things they buy, the more tax they would pay. :-\
OOOOOO.....don't say anything bad about the yanks to American Al. ;D
As for the taxation theory, you're just guessing, as usual, hence the word 'probably' ::)
Actually, after falling down a rabbit hole, it transpires that the American system predates the 'imperial' system although they have a shared heritage which predates the Romans...
Said rabbit hole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems)
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Learn to fûckin read ;D
Both the British Imperial and United States customary systems of measurement derive from earlier English systems
I really don't care where the earlier English systems came from. Unless American Indians had a system in place before we got there, then it's the yanks that bastardised what they took with them from here. Fickin colonists.
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And, while we're on the subject of shouty, idiotic Americans, I'm glad this prick got what was coming
Alex Jones' Infowars files for bankruptcy after defamation suits https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61142905
Happy Easter ;D
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Two chocolate rabbits?
.....or two sultry women dipped in warm chocolate. Diane Abbott could be one of them. >:D
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More for Good Friday I would think with her fish flavoured minge
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Any woman important enough to have a London park named after her has to be worth a shag. ;)
As for the fishy bit just hold your breath. ;) >:D
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Been tried by these nice gentleman… didn’t work >:D said women’s Tw£tual delights proved to be a chasm too far🤢
https://youtu.be/HaJQq4K-byw
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It might not be named after her. There are other, equally
sick making appropriate suggestions.
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And, while we're on the subject of shouty, idiotic Americans, I'm glad this prick got what was coming
Alex Jones' Infowars files for bankruptcy after defamation suits https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61142905
Happy Easter ;D
Step away from the Kool Aid ;D