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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2018 21:40:35 GMT
I got my glasses today. I was told I needed them a couple of years ago but totally ignored it. I mean, I knew my vision wasn't perfect but I've been able to do anything I wanted without them.
I remembered earlier this year I have to renew my driver's license next month (even though I don't drive) so I thought it was time to buy some damn glasses in order to pass the medical exam.
So here I am, wearing glasses for the first time ever, and it's weird. I guess I'll get used to it.
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Post by Tibidabo on Jan 31, 2018 21:49:37 GMT
That lovely moment when the much shorter half of the couple chooses the seat in front of yours. .......and proceeds to blow up their booster cushion.....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 8:34:49 GMT
While we're on the subject, what's the etiquette around asking the couple in front of you to swap seats so you're not behind the taller of the two? Are you just meant to suck it up as the luck of the draw, is it acceptable to ask, is it acceptable to ask but only if you've checked if your neighbour is okay with it, or is it something that Miss Manners has never actually covered?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 9:11:28 GMT
While we're on the subject, what's the etiquette around asking the couple in front of you to swap seats so you're not behind the taller of the two? Are you just meant to suck it up as the luck of the draw, is it acceptable to ask, is it acceptable to ask but only if you've checked if your neighbour is okay with it, or is it something that Miss Manners has never actually covered? To avoid the risk of any kind of nasty confrontation, I think I'd rather go and get myself a booster cushion...
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Post by anita on Feb 1, 2018 10:02:57 GMT
While we're on the subject, what's the etiquette around asking the couple in front of you to swap seats so you're not behind the taller of the two? Are you just meant to suck it up as the luck of the draw, is it acceptable to ask, is it acceptable to ask but only if you've checked if your neighbour is okay with it, or is it something that Miss Manners has never actually covered? To avoid the risk of any kind of nasty confrontation, I think I'd rather go and get myself a booster cushion... Or a hatpin!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 13:15:29 GMT
what's the etiquette around asking the couple in front of you to swap seats so you're not behind the taller of the two I've seen it done, and one of my party was once asked, too. Go for it, if it looks like it is a BFG. If it looks like a Big Fat Gobsh*te, I’d put up and shut up! Seriously though, on the couple of occasions recently that I have had my view completely obscured by someone in front, I’ve been lucky enough to have time to speak to an usher or run out to the box-office who have been happy to change my seats.
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 1, 2018 13:24:58 GMT
on the couple of occasions recently that I have had my view completely obscured by someone in front Obviously, @caiaphas, if I had known it was you...I would have sat right up in my seat.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 13:44:15 GMT
on the couple of occasions recently that I have had my view completely obscured by someone in front Obviously, @caiaphas , if I had known it was you...I would have sat right up in my seat. And if I had known it was you, I’d have come and sat on your lap!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 15:41:01 GMT
That's "Mr President", if you please.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 18:35:09 GMT
I'm having custard for tea, because why not?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 18:38:06 GMT
Wot, no rhubarb?!?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 19:59:08 GMT
I didn't have any rhubarb, and I felt the need to have custard now rather than wait until I had something to go with it.
When I was a child nobody ever told me that one of the benefits of being an adult is that you can have a bowl of custard whenever you want. That seems like the sort of thing I would have liked to know.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 20:46:26 GMT
I had apple and custard yesterday, and damn nice it was too. Also when you're a kid nobody tells you that you can stand there and lick the tin/container clean while you heat up the rest.
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Post by kathryn on Feb 2, 2018 9:12:44 GMT
Well of course I have a rotten cold now, 5 days before I go on holiday. 🤧 Because I have tonnes to sort out at work and all my packing to do, and long- haul flights with a head cold arebsuch fun.
Was meant to be seeing Dry Powder tonight. 😞 I don’t suppose anyone is going to be around Hampstead and fancies turning up and pretending to be me, to use the ticket?I had about 3 hours sleep last night and haven’t made it into work so am very unlikely to make it this evening.
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Post by tonyloco on Feb 2, 2018 12:53:04 GMT
Get well soon, Kathryn. I hope that what you have is indeed a cold and not the flu thing going around which takes about four weeks to finish. With me the main flu symptoms were a cough and a sore throat (as well as a mild fever and other cold-like things) and I had no voice for the first week or so.
Anyway, I wish you a speedy recovery!
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Post by kathryn on Feb 2, 2018 13:25:58 GMT
^Get well soon kathryn . I guess the good news is that a cold lasts 7 days if you treat it, a week if you don't, so that does mean you'll have a good holiday to get over it, I guess. Thanks guys. Hopefully - what with the time difference - I'll be getting over it just as my holiday proper starts. I've given myself a day to get over the jetlag at the other end before my tour starts, so I guess I'll just catch up on as much sleep as possible. I did have my flu jab before Christmas so it *shouldn't* be the flu.
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Post by peggysue on Feb 3, 2018 12:35:17 GMT
Today I am remembering my favourite singer on the anniversary of his death in a plane crash. The one and only Buddy Holly. His music is timeless and will live on forever. Buddy Brilliant xx
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 4, 2018 11:21:32 GMT
I've started watching Grey's Anatomy again from the beginning - am currently in the middle of season 2.
Oh my! How absolutely brilliant was this back then? The writing was first class - Christina running around the hospital looking for the right right severed leg; Christina, with pink knickers peeking out from her hospital gown, wheeling her drip stand into patients' rooms to give her professional opinion after her ectopic pregnancy; George refusing to buy tampons "I am NOT your sister!"....there are so many laugh-out-loud moments in between the serious stuff.
But who in their right mind decided to kill off George O'Malley? He was absolutely the best thing in it. I'm dreading season 5! And I know he and the actor playing Burke didn't get on, but they are a formidable double act. Sandra Oh is also fantastic.
It's now not a patch on what it was, what with various half sisters of Meredith all over the place and those whiny, annoying drips that are Amelia and Arizona (the latter of which, in my opinion, is only there because she happens to be the daughter in law of A Very Very Famous Film Director) and Chief (Richard) and Bailey mere caricatures of their former formidable selves.
13 years old and it really stands the test of time.
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Post by viserys on Feb 4, 2018 13:47:17 GMT
I stopped watching when Sandra Oh left the cast. I had already lost most of my interest in the show at that stage and Christina was my favorite character, so that was the last nudge I needed.
I'm semi-interested in the new firefighting-spinoff, but the first stills haven't really inspired confidence so far.
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 4, 2018 16:09:20 GMT
I'm semi-interested in the new firefighting-spinoff Thanks for the heads-up on this viserys, I'd not heard about it, despite Bailey's husband going off to re-train as a firefighter - though that all now makes more sense! However, I'm not sure there is really room for another big budget American fire show. Chicago Fire is my absolute favourite American import at the moment and there will surely be comparisons. It seems a risky step to take when there is such a successful Chicago franchise going at the moment.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2018 19:25:40 GMT
Baked the hell out of some cookies.
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Post by ensembleswings on Feb 5, 2018 21:49:31 GMT
Gone and spilt the remaining half of my cuppa all over my laptop. Brilliant. Now the trackpad and left click button don’t work 🙄 Here’s to hoping it dries out and works again. Don’t have the money to replace it this month or anytime soon.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2018 22:06:10 GMT
Gone and spilt the remaining half of my cuppa all over my laptop. Ouch. A few years ago I spilt something on my keyboard and over the next few hours more and more keys stopped working, spreading out from the upper left. It was an inconvenience when the numbers went but I could still use the numeric keypad, but then the letters started to drop out too. Fortunately it was a desktop machine so all I had to do was buy a new keyboard and plug it in. Laptops are considerably more of a pain when something goes wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 13:38:11 GMT
Sad day in dog sitting land, the dog due to arrive on Friday sadly died today. She belonged to a local lady and we'd got to know them both a bit over the last few months. Widget was an elderly rescue and her owner wanted to give her a nice last few months/years, so at least she got that rather than being in a dog's home for all this time. Still poor old thing.
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 6, 2018 14:10:32 GMT
It's the end of an era. I've received my very last printed copy of the Yellow Pages. The Sunday paper is thicker!!
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