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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Chopsdad on 06 September 2007, 23:05:21
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For me it was two things, both on my way home from work.
Firstly I OOF'ed a man waiting at the traffic lights as I walked to my car. By which I mean I made him stop and slipped a flyer down the side of his driver window... he gave me an odd look for some reason. So, if you were in a 52 plate star silver facelift in Carlisle tonight - hello :)
Then I was undertaken by a Yamaha when I was waiting at a set of lights. So, I caught up with him in traffic and maintained a sensible but consistent distance and his speed dropped to 29 mph. When we entered the 60 zone he whizzed off, looked in his mirrors, and slowed to 59 mph.
Must have seen Pat and Mick on Roadwars ;) Although if he'd looked closed he'd have seen me ;D at him.
Childish I know...but it made me smile :y What about you???
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watched the wife try to get one of our dogs to eat leek..... ;D
Apart from that....read your post :D
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Obviously everyone had a boring day..
I look in the mirror..it makes me smile.. :D
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Watched my boss searching around for 15 minutes for his reading glasses, which he had pushed up on his head "filmstar" style.
Childish .. but funny :)
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devoured my free mcdonalds!
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Bought a project Elite, im smiling like a cheshire cat but the wifes not happy ;)
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Chatted to a damn pretty girl on the way to uni this morn.... that always makes me smile ;)
Freshers' week starts this weekend although there are already loads of newbies around, can't wait to get into some parties :D
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Chatted to a damn pretty girl on the way to uni this morn.... that always makes me smile ;)
Freshers' week starts this weekend although there are already loads of newbies around, can't wait to get into some parties :D
I had to read that again I thought it said panties ;D
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made a cuppa in office kitche, left it to go for a pee, went back to my office, got the digestives out to dunk then wondered where my tea had gone ...... then remembered where I'd left it ! onset of senility don't laugh it'll happen to you soon enough
tedm
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Chatted to a damn pretty girl on the way to uni this morn.... that always makes me smile ;)
Freshers' week starts this weekend although there are already loads of newbies around, can't wait to get into some parties :D
I had to read that again I thought it said panties ;D
that made me laugh....and knowing Paul :P
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made a cuppa in office kitche, left it to go for a pee, went back to my office, got the digestives out to dunk then wondered where my tea had gone ...... then remembered where I'd left it ! onset of senility don't laugh it'll happen to you soon enough
tedm
It happens to me already, and I'm nowhere near retiring age!
Dunking though.... wrong, just wrong! ;D
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made a cuppa in office kitche, left it to go for a pee, went back to my office, got the digestives out to dunk then wondered where my tea had gone ...... then remembered where I'd left it ! onset of senility don't laugh it'll happen to you soon enough
tedm
It happens to me already, and I'm nowhere near retiring age!
Dunking though.... wrong, just wrong! ;D
Maybe your using the wrong biscuits LB
clicky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr9ekTf0xc)
To really scare you I had an auntie who used to dunk cream cakes :o
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Walked into Halfords, showed them a couple of trade club invoices, and walked out with a Halfords trade card :)
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How much does that save you on the Retail price?
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How much does that save you on the Retail price?
It varies with what you buy, service items, tools etc. all come with quite a big discount.
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How much does that save you on the Retail price?
It varies with what you buy, service items, tools etc. all come with quite a big discount.
think i am going to do that tomorrow :)
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I caught next doors dog having a crafty sh1te on my lawn. Gave it a right good kicking, got hold of it by the collar and hoiked the little b@stard over the hedge.
That will keep me happy for a few hours :y
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Believe it or not ....this made me smile big time today....
I went shopping here http://www.english-shop.de/index.php?language=en&osCsid=6e87de3f088c09f1da3272087bfd99c8
and got these today
god am i happy
(http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb52/crazydad_01/07-09-07_1543.jpg)
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I caught next doors dog having a crafty sh1te on my lawn. Gave it a right good kicking, got hold of it by the collar and hoiked the little b@stard over the hedge.
That will keep me happy for a few hours :y
Now that would of made me laugh big time to watch you doing that ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Nipped in a parking space in front of someone else..Its no good putting indicators on you should go for it.. ;D ;D ;D
He did say something but i ignored him..Must be the weather.. ;D ;D ;D
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i looked at my bank balance, its pay day today
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About 20 years ago I saw two cars argueing for a parking spot both at 45deg angles trying to get in.
Being the helpfull person I am I rode my motorbike between two cars next to the space, up on the pavement and back down into the empty parking space, then walked off!
I was most disappointeed that they didn't explode :(
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How much does that save you on the Retail price?
Being ex-halfords parts manager, you get 20% on all Halfords Professional Tools (lifetime guarantee), batteries btw. 30-50% discount (get the calcium though) all other parts - 20-40% off.
Its worth getting one just for bulbs, fuses, electrical connectors etc.
H7 bulb normally £8.99 retail, Trade - £1.50! 380/382's work out being pence!
Sorry, was getting too involved there... i'm glad i quit that job.
Not much has made me smile so far today... although I am seeing the girlfriend later... big smile :) :D ;D :y
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I sat in a meeting with some very pi55ed off work colleaugues early this morning... I cooked some toast, made some tea and sat there cracking jokes and insulting the bunch of misserable ba5tard5.....
So there ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I kicked the crap out of the garage wall about 30mins ago. It made my neighbour smile, though fortunately for him, he managed not to laugh ::)
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Beat my mate at golf with 37 stableford points, and got a sun tan on the course as a bonus.
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I kicked the crap out of the garage wall about 30mins ago. It made my neighbour smile, though fortunately for him, he managed not to laugh ::)
Are you doing some sort of Martial Arts?? :P
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I kicked the crap out of the garage wall about 30mins ago. It made my neighbour smile, though fortunately for him, he managed not to laugh ::)
Are you doing some sort of Martial Arts?? :P
Reliving the warranty... ...me against some stupid german designer >:(
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I kicked the crap out of the garage wall about 30mins ago. It made my neighbour smile, though fortunately for him, he managed not to laugh ::)
Are you doing some sort of Martial Arts?? :P
Reliving the warranty... ...me against some stupid german designer >:(
Tut, tut, tut..... :-?
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Sorry, that may have come out wrong. I was referring to a small team of idiots in Munich, not germans in general :-[
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Beat my mate at golf with 37 stableford points, and got a sun tan on the course as a bonus.
The Stableford Story
Dr. Frank Barney Gordon Stableford (1870–1959)
As you know, golf is a game that requires a person to strike a small ball with a club from the teeing ground into a distant hole while following The Rules. It is supposed to be fun. Keeping score is part of the joy. Most people understand the simplest scoring method: one swing at the ball - usually resulting in a more-or-less successful hit - equals one stroke. The lowest score wins, which is fair as long as the competitors are of similar ability. The use of a handicap factor - an allowance of strokes given to a player based on past and current performance - permits golfers of all levels to compete together on an equitable basis.
One day long ago, at a course in England called Wallasey in Cheshire, a man with a handlebar mustache and a plus-1 handicap was playing the par-4 second hole, made unreachable by a wind whipping off the Irish Sea. As he pondered the injustice of one bad hole ruining an entire scorecard (and an entire day), he had an idea of resurrecting a concept that he devised some years earlier in Wales. The man was Dr. Frank Barney Gordon Stableford. His scoring system - a point for a net bogey, two for a net par, three for a net birdie, and so on -was first tried out in a competition in 1932. It was an instant hit.
Whenever The Golf Guru is asked about scoring formats, the doctor's ingenious remedy is always prescribed. The Stableford system is simple, works for all golfers, and can be applied to any situation or combination of players (even hungover bachelors). It's fast, too, because you can pick up if you're not going to make at least a net bogey. Dr. Stableford might have been a great physician, but it was his simple idea on a windy day that truly eradicated a lot of suffering from the world.
The STABLEFORD method of scoring, a system used and revered by golfers all over the world, was first devised by Dr. Stableford when he was a Glamorganshire Gold Club member (which is in Penarth, near Cardiff in South Wales) and was first tried out on the members of this club on the 30th September 1898. His new system was announced in a South Wales newspaper that reported on the Golf club's first autumn meeting.
There was no stroke indexing when Dr. Frank Stableford first decided to experiment with his revolutionary system. All holes were played to par and the Stableford points applied. At the end of the game one third of the players handicap was added to the overall Stableford score. The maximum handicap for the event was fifteen. The system therefore favoured the better golfer at the time which is hardly surprising as the good doctor was a single figure handicapper. Dr. Stabelford didn’t participate in his initial experiment though he donated a special prize to the winner, W Hastings Watson, who scored a remarkable forty two points.
There is no indication of what the members thought about the alternative of scoring by points or, indeed, whether they tried it out on any other occasion. Dr. Stableford, who lived in Whitchurch at the time, went off to serve as an Army Surgeon in the Boer War and on his return rejoined Porthcawl. He won the Porthcawl Championship in 1907 and in the same year reached the semi-final of the Welsh/Cymru Amateur Championship.
He later moved to Liverpool in England, just across the border, around 1914 and joined both the Royal Liverpool and Wallasey Clubs. He was a first-rate golfer and physician who served with distinction and decoration in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Mad Mullah of Somaliland uprising, the Boer War and during World War I held the rank of Colonel.
He was a flamboyant man, wearing bright bow ties and driving around in a yellow Rolls Royce, but he was a serious golfer, forever studying the mechanics of his swing.
By this time he was sixty one years old and his golfing prowess was no longer the same as when he was a young man. Instead of applying the system to the better golfer he adapted it to the general club golfer. The only adjustment that he made was adding the players’ full handicap to his Stabelford score. The “crazy doctor’s new system” was used in competition at Wallasey on the 16th May 1932. Later that year he changed the point scoring to that which survives to this day. Handicap strokes were not added on at the end, but were taken at the relevant holes.
One might argue that the Stableford scoring system does not offer enough reward for good play. After all, a birdie is worth only a little more than a par, and an eagle a little more than a birdie. Surely, these golf achievements are associated with far greater joy and satisfaction than the point differential would suggest. Similarly, the negative feeling generated by a very large score (with 0 Stableford points) is undoubtedly much greater than the acceptable bogey (with 1 Stableford point). It is not entirely clear what Stableford had in mind when he devised this scoring system - equity or quality of life (QOL). In this study, we explore the Stableford scoring system as it pertains to golf-related quality of life (GRQOL).
The members at the Wallasey Golf Club embraced the new system with great enthusiasm. Wallasey nurtured and promoted the system so successfully that it is now played throughout the golfing world.
What Dr. Stabelford had now accomplished was a fairer scoring system that made it possible for a golfer to mess up a few holes and yet still turn in a respectable score; his ingenious idea, which obviously stayed in his mind for a long time before it was generally accepted, has enabled millions of golfers to do just that.
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I kicked the crap out of the garage wall about 30mins ago. It made my neighbour smile, though fortunately for him, he managed not to laugh ::)
Are you doing some sort of Martial Arts?? :P
Reliving the warranty... ...me against some stupid german designer >:(
Tut, tut, tut..... :-?
:y
;D
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:-[
:y
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I've told you before "Don't mention the warranty!" ;D
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Watching Argentina beat France in the Rugby World Cup tonight ;D
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Watching Argentina beat France in the Rugby World Cup tonight ;D
I had to watch bloody Tom Hanks in Castaway. Apparently I'm not allowed to watch what I want on TV whilst I'm on the internet at the same time. Managed to watch the last five minutes.
What is the world coming to? >:(
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Watching Argentina beat France in the Rugby World Cup tonight ;D
I had to watch bloody Tom Hanks in Castaway. Apparently I'm not allowed to watch what I want on TV whilst I'm on the internet at the same time. Managed to watch the last five minutes.
What is the world coming to? >:(
Sounds like you need a tv tuner card in that pc Golfbuddy.
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Watching Argentina beat France in the Rugby World Cup tonight ;D
I had to watch bloody Tom Hanks in Castaway. Apparently I'm not allowed to watch what I want on TV whilst I'm on the internet at the same time. Managed to watch the last five minutes.
What is the world coming to? >:(
Sounds like you need a tv tuner card in that pc Golfbuddy.
;D ;D ;D ;D
TV card alert :D
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Stapleford - well I have written a scoring system for it - use it for our company golf day.
THey are very popular in the trade and all of our customers get invited
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Watching Argentina beat France in the Rugby World Cup tonight ;D
I had to watch bloody Tom Hanks in Castaway. Apparently I'm not allowed to watch what I want on TV whilst I'm on the internet at the same time. Managed to watch the last five minutes.
What is the world coming to? >:(
Sounds like you need a tv tuner card in that pc Golfbuddy.
;D ;D ;D ;D
TV card alert :D
Living in Cornwall has many advantages. Sadly, tv reception is not one of them, most of the county still can't get Channel 5. I don't think that the little aeriels that come with those things would be much good. I can't even get my DAB radio to work in the office. :( :(
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Got mine spliced into my Sky dish signal. ;)
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Got mine spliced into my Sky dish signal. ;)
Spliced? You mean a ..... wire? :-? :-?
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Got mine spliced into my Sky dish signal. ;)
Spliced? You mean a ..... wire? :-? :-?
Cable from the dish to what should be the box, ie the PC. Got Virgin cable so Sky box otherwise redundant. Gives freeview etc without probs...
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Got mine spliced into my Sky dish signal. ;)
Spliced? You mean a ..... wire? :-? :-?
Cable from the dish to what should be the box, ie the PC. Got Virgin cable so Sky box otherwise redundant. Gives freeview etc without probs...
I do all my surfing from the armchair, on a laptop. Desktop is in the dining room but too far to walk. ::)
If I wasn't such lazy slob, I would have gone and watched the match in another room and taken the laptop with me, but once me bum's planted in this chair it rarely moves until bed time. How else do you reckon I get 975 posts in 92 days. :-[ ;)
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I haven't done anything to make me smile, but while keeping an eye on the people in the gym where i work there was a lady on the cross trainer who's boob fell out of her top and that made me :) ;D :y
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Watching Argentina beat France in the Rugby World Cup tonight ;D
I had to watch bloody Tom Hanks in Castaway. Apparently I'm not allowed to watch what I want on TV whilst I'm on the internet at the same time. Managed to watch the last five minutes.
What is the world coming to? >:(
Sounds like you need a tv tuner card in that pc Golfbuddy.
;D ;D ;D ;D
TV card alert :D
Living in Cornwall has many advantages. Sadly, tv reception is not one of them, most of the county still can't get Channel 5. I don't think that the little aeriels that come with those things would be much good. I can't even get my DAB radio to work in the office. :( :(
Cornwall reception unless you are in a dip is pretty good, in the Midlands there is a big signal jammer in Yorkshire called Emley Moor - just there to swap Freeview when the weather is odd.
Never had a problem with Freeview in Cornwall
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Watching Argentina beat France in the Rugby World Cup tonight ;D
I'm on the internet at the same time. Managed to watch the last five minutes.
I had to watch bloody Tom Hanks in Castaway. Apparently I'm not allowed to watch what I want on TV whilst
What is the world coming to? >:(
Sounds like you need a tv tuner card in that pc Golfbuddy.
;D ;D ;D ;D
TV card alert :D
Living in Cornwall has many advantages. Sadly, tv reception is not one of them, most of the county still can't get Channel 5. I don't think that the little aeriels that come with those things would be much good. I can't even get my DAB radio to work in the office. :( :(
Cornwall reception unless you are in a dip is pretty good, in the Midlands there is a big signal jammer in Yorkshire called Emley Moor - just there to swap Freeview when the weather is odd.
Never had a problem with Freeview in Cornwall
mmmmmmmm i had many arguments about what i was allowed to do, hence i am now single again :-/
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Watching Argentina beat France in the Rugby World Cup tonight ;D
I had to watch bloody Tom Hanks in Castaway. Apparently I'm not allowed to watch what I want on TV whilst I'm on the internet at the same time. Managed to watch the last five minutes.
What is the world coming to? >:(
Sounds like you need a tv tuner card in that pc Golfbuddy.
;D ;D ;D ;D
TV card alert :D
Living in Cornwall has many advantages. Sadly, tv reception is not one of them, most of the county still can't get Channel 5. I don't think that the little aeriels that come with those things would be much good. I can't even get my DAB radio to work in the office. :( :(
Cornwall reception unless you are in a dip is pretty good, in the Midlands there is a big signal jammer in Yorkshire called Emley Moor - just there to swap Freeview when the weather is odd.
Never had a problem with Freeview in Cornwall
Half of Cornwall is in a bloody dip. ;D The other half live on top of a cliff. ;)
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Watching Argentina beat France in the Rugby World Cup tonight ;D
I had to watch bloody Tom Hanks in Castaway. Apparently I'm not allowed to watch what I want on TV whilst I'm on the internet at the same time. Managed to watch the last five minutes.
What is the world coming to? >:(
Sounds like you need a tv tuner card in that pc Golfbuddy.
;D ;D ;D ;D
TV card alert :D
Living in Cornwall has many advantages. Sadly, tv reception is not one of them, most of the county still can't get Channel 5. I don't think that the little aeriels that come with those things would be much good. I can't even get my DAB radio to work in the office. :( :(
Cornwall reception unless you are in a dip is pretty good, in the Midlands there is a big signal jammer in Yorkshire called Emley Moor - just there to swap Freeview when the weather is odd.
Never had a problem with Freeview in Cornwall
Half of Cornwall is in a bloody dip. ;D The other half live on top of a cliff. ;)
So are you all a bit dippy in Cornwall then :D
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Watching Argentina beat France in the Rugby World Cup tonight ;D
I had to watch bloody Tom Hanks in Castaway. Apparently I'm not allowed to watch what I want on TV whilst I'm on the internet at the same time. Managed to watch the last five minutes.
What is the world coming to? >:(
Sounds like you need a tv tuner card in that pc Golfbuddy.
;D ;D ;D ;D
TV card alert :D
Living in Cornwall has many advantages. Sadly, tv reception is not one of them, most of the county still can't get Channel 5. I don't think that the little aeriels that come with those things would be much good. I can't even get my DAB radio to work in the office. :( :(
Cornwall reception unless you are in a dip is pretty good, in the Midlands there is a big signal jammer in Yorkshire called Emley Moor - just there to swap Freeview when the weather is odd.
Never had a problem with Freeview in Cornwall
Half of Cornwall is in a bloody dip. ;D The other half live on top of a cliff. ;)
So are you all a bit dippy in Cornwall then :D
Nope, some of us others are too ;D
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Chatted to a damn pretty girl on the way to uni this morn.... that always makes me smile ;)
Freshers' week starts this weekend although there are already loads of newbies around, can't wait to get into some parties :D
I had to read that again I thought it said panties ;D
:PGood Morning!!!!!!!!!! :P
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having entertained 38 under 8's at a birthday party along with the respective parents i have a big smile....
It was Mia's 6th birthday party today, she is 6 on monday, and we gave her carte blance on her birthday, we had a riot today.
Yes it was hard work, yes it was bloody hot, but it was a cracking good laugh