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Post by lynette on May 8, 2018 20:25:03 GMT
Ok, Duncan, we hear you 😁
Plenty of other newspapers and a good programme about secret agents on channel 2
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Post by bellboard27 on May 8, 2018 20:31:27 GMT
Interesting seeing how many of you avoid (or largely avoid) alcohol. I must say that avoidance of alcohol has not been the first thought that has come into my head on reading many of the posts on this board over the years.
I suppose all this avoidance might just about balance out the alternative strategy taken by @ryan But maybe not.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2018 20:36:43 GMT
Interesting seeing how many of you avoid (or largely avoid) alcohol. I must say that avoidance of alcohol has not been the first thought that has come into my head on reading many of the posts on this board over the years. I suppose all this avoidance might just about balance out the alternative strategy taken by @ryan But maybe not. It’s just that Ryan drank all the gin in London |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2018 21:22:06 GMT
Interesting seeing how many of you avoid (or largely avoid) alcohol. I must say that avoidance of alcohol has not been the first thought that has come into my head on reading many of the posts on this board over the years. I suppose all this avoidance might just about balance out the alternative strategy taken by @ryan But maybe not. It’s just that Ryan drank all the gin in London One likes to do one's bit for the economy. |
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Post by d'James on May 8, 2018 21:48:28 GMT
I like alcohol and I like theatre, but my possibly unpopular opinion is that the two don't go well together. Ice cream is a great idea, though. They really don’t, I agree. I can manage a glass before and one in the Interval but any more and it’s not fun. |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2018 22:48:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 16:35:50 GMT
If you walk along staring at your phone in the street and make someone else swerve to avoid you, your phone becomes their property automatically. Why swerve? If you brace yourself properly, then when they inevitably walk into you, it'll hurt them a lot more than it'll hurt you.  |
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Post by ptwest on May 9, 2018 19:31:33 GMT
I must admit that in those circumstances I have been known, on occasions where the pavement is crowded and there isn't an obvious sideways move available, to simply stand still and see how long it takes the phone user to notice that there is a very big obstacle in front of them. The reactions can be quite amusing......
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Post by alece10 on May 9, 2018 20:17:07 GMT
I must admit that in those circumstances I have been known, on occasions where the pavement is crowded and there isn't an obvious sideways move available, to simply stand still and see how long it takes the phone user to notice that there is a very big obstacle in front of them. The reactions can be quite amusing...... I do that even if the pavement isn't crowded. Bonus points if they walk into me and drop their phone. |
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Post by ruby on May 9, 2018 22:29:55 GMT
I must admit that in those circumstances I have been known, on occasions where the pavement is crowded and there isn't an obvious sideways move available, to simply stand still and see how long it takes the phone user to notice that there is a very big obstacle in front of them. The reactions can be quite amusing...... I do that even if the pavement isn't crowded. Bonus points if they walk into me and drop their phone. That's my favourite hobby when I'm in Bristol city centre. |
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Post by mistressjojo on May 10, 2018 0:48:53 GMT
If you walk along staring at your phone in the street and make someone else swerve to avoid you, your phone becomes their property automatically. Why swerve? If you brace yourself properly, then when they inevitably walk into you, it'll hurt them a lot more than it'll hurt you. This happened to me once, except in my case I was stationary, waiting for my friend against the wall outside a shop. Woman walked straight into me and spilt her juice all down her front, then abused me for walking into her! When I said I wasn't actually moving, she was the one moving, I then was abused for not getting out of her way. No talking to some people. |
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Post by dramallama on May 10, 2018 8:07:03 GMT
Why swerve? If you brace yourself properly, then when they inevitably walk into you, it'll hurt them a lot more than it'll hurt you. This happened to me once, except in my case I was stationary, waiting for my friend against the wall outside a shop. Woman walked straight into me and spilt her juice all down her front, then abused me for walking into her! When I said I wasn't actually moving, she was the one moving, I then was abused for not getting out of her way. No talking to some people. This just reminded me of something I witnessed at a bus stop not too long ago. An older guy (pensioner-age) waits at the bus stop with his arm in a sling (this was near a hospital so I'm assuming he came straight from there). A woman approaches, who is looking at her phone and crashes into him. He lets out a bit of a scream, because she pretty much ran straight into the side with the sling. In the process, she drops her phone and then gives him abuse for it before picking it up and leaving. Everybody at the bus stop was pretty much speechless; we obviously made sure he was fine and he just said that he'd never witnessed anything like that before. It's incredibly how self-centred some people are. |
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Post by Jon on May 10, 2018 16:30:39 GMT
I don't like emojis, text speak or GIFs but I don't mind acronyms like OMG or TBH.
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Post by theatremadness on May 12, 2018 12:02:20 GMT
Agreed, Monkey. Loved it this week!
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Post by perfectspy on May 12, 2018 13:35:13 GMT
I hate Musicals
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 13:45:39 GMT
Idina Menzel has a good voice, but there is just something about it I find annoying. I can't place it, but there is just something that grates on me.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 15:15:45 GMT
Wicked really isn’t that good.
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Post by hitmewithurbethshot on May 12, 2018 16:32:38 GMT
There's a special place in hell reserved for parents who bring their young children to a restaurant/pub and let them run around and do whatever they want (Sometimes in bare feet. In a pub!) and expect the waitresses to act as cheap childminders.
I actually get a kind of dark enjoyment out of a child falling over when I've told them multiple times to stop running in the restaurant. It's quite satisfying. Like a back massage or a cold shower in a heatwave.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 16:59:49 GMT
I actually get a kind of dark enjoyment out of a child falling over when I've told them multiple times to stop running in the restaurant. One of the funniest things I've ever seen was in the mirror maze at Wookey Hole. I was making my way around and almost directly in front of me a young boy was racing along and ran straight into one of the mirrors and fell over flat on the floor, more shocked that the universe should betray him like that than actually hurt. There was a couple just behind him who, like me, completely lost it laughing, and I just know that about a minute in the child's past was a "Don't run or you'll hurt yourself". |
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Post by Jon on May 12, 2018 17:56:12 GMT
There's a special place in hell reserved for parents who bring their young children to a restaurant/pub and let them run around and do whatever they want (Sometimes in bare feet. In a pub!) and expect the waitresses to act as cheap childminders. I actually get a kind of dark enjoyment out of a child falling over when I've told them multiple times to stop running in the restaurant. It's quite satisfying. Like a back massage or a cold shower in a heatwave. Not to mention museums and art galleries! What parent in their right mind would let a child run amuck in a place with lots of fragile and expensive works |
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Post by alece10 on May 12, 2018 18:48:07 GMT
Gogglebox
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Post by lynette on May 12, 2018 20:52:59 GMT
There's a special place in hell reserved for parents who bring their young children to a restaurant/pub and let them run around and do whatever they want (Sometimes in bare feet. In a pub!) and expect the waitresses to act as cheap childminders. I actually get a kind of dark enjoyment out of a child falling over when I've told them multiple times to stop running in the restaurant. It's quite satisfying. Like a back massage or a cold shower in a heatwave. Not to mention museums and art galleries! What parent in their right mind would let a child run amuck in a place with lots of fragile and expensive works The art exhibition thing gets me. If you are on your own and you will never come again and you have a kid, ok, bring the child in and hope for the best but when we were with littlies, we took turns, one to go in, one to childmind and then swap over. Takes time but saves whinging little children and annoyance of everyone else there. Showing my age... |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2018 8:22:36 GMT
There's a special place in hell reserved for parents who bring their young children to a restaurant/pub and let them run around and do whatever they want (Sometimes in bare feet. In a pub!) and expect the waitresses to act as cheap childminders. I actually get a kind of dark enjoyment out of a child falling over when I've told them multiple times to stop running in the restaurant. It's quite satisfying. Like a back massage or a cold shower in a heatwave. Can I follow this is up with a: Slamming a tablet in front of a child so you can incessantly refresh facebook is not parenting. |
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Post by david on May 13, 2018 12:08:07 GMT
People who think it’s ok to start talking to people in the middle of supermarket isles while you are trying to do your shopping and having to negotiate your way around them like an obstacle course.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2018 13:03:03 GMT
That "Mom in heaven" doesn't need a Facebook post wishing her happy Mother's day (insert deceased relative and holiday/anniversary of your choice as appropriate, this is just the one irking me today)
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