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Post by kathryn on Sept 26, 2018 10:43:58 GMT
You know how some days, little things that shouldn't bother you really, really, do? I think I am having an accumulation of grumpy today....
FFS, though, how hard is it to put the leftover cake in a tupperware at the end of the day so it doesn't get chucked by the cleaners?! I knew I should have done it myself and not relied on one of the 6 people still in the office at half-five to do it - including the person who I explicitly asked.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2018 10:55:58 GMT
FFS, though, how hard is it to put the leftover cake in a tupperware at the end of the day so it doesn't get chucked by the cleaners?! Are you sure it wasn't a matter of "Oh, yeah, the cleaners totally threw out the rest of the cake. Sorry." (Shifty look. Brush crumbs off desk.) |
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Post by kathryn on Sept 26, 2018 11:04:10 GMT
FFS, though, how hard is it to put the leftover cake in a tupperware at the end of the day so it doesn't get chucked by the cleaners?! Are you sure it wasn't a matter of "Oh, yeah, the cleaners totally threw out the rest of the cake. Sorry." (Shifty look. Brush crumbs off desk.) Funnily enough I wouldn't have minded that! But judging by the shocked look on her face when I said 'I can't believe there's no cake left!', no. (I had bought enough for a gathering of 30+ people - there was lots left!) |
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Post by kathryn on Sept 26, 2018 12:53:49 GMT
Update -she has now bought more cake, and I feel bad for being grumpy. And I spilt tomato soup over myself.
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Post by lynette on Sept 26, 2018 14:24:33 GMT
Update -she has now bought more cake, and I feel bad for being grumpy. And I spilt tomato soup over myself. Tomato a b****r to get out of clothing. I feel your pain. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2018 15:52:43 GMT
Update -she has now bought more cake, and I feel bad for being grumpy. And I spilt tomato soup over myself. Tomato a b****r to get out of clothing. I feel your pain. You should do what I do, and loathe tomatoes. No more tomato problems.
(Apart from "What the ****? Does everything in this ******* menu contain tomatoes?")
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Post by showgirl on Sept 26, 2018 20:33:16 GMT
My worst day of theatre-going in a long time; in fact, I can't recall ever before leaving not one but two productions early on the same day. At least my tickets were cheap and abandoning the matinee at the first interval meant I was able to catch instead a film I had wanted to see, but it still felt like a largely wasted day, especially as the weather was so lovely that it seemed wrong to spend any time in an urban environment.
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Post by 49thand8th on Sept 26, 2018 22:37:14 GMT
I have finally started watching Schitt's Creek, and am LOVING it. My roommate and I are only three episodes in, though.
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Post by anita on Sept 27, 2018 9:03:02 GMT
Apparently at my grandson's nursery school [ in America] they just had a drill for what to do if someone comes in shooting.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2018 12:22:24 GMT
No, it's a Canadian sitcom about a wealthy family who loses all their money and it's extremely good and just gets better and better the longer it goes on. Available on Netflix, anyone who's looking for a recommendation!
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Post by 49thand8th on Sept 27, 2018 14:17:37 GMT
No, it's a Canadian sitcom about a wealthy family who loses all their money and it's extremely good and just gets better and better the longer it goes on. Available on Netflix, anyone who's looking for a recommendation! Aw. You answered this so earnestly. I would've answered with a Let Me Google That For You link. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2018 14:39:23 GMT
It's like Lovesick (née Scrotal Recall), a genuinely great bit of TV saddled with the kind of dumb punny name that really undersells the whole thing.
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Post by kathryn on Sept 27, 2018 18:57:48 GMT
Decided to give Schitt’s Creek a whirl. Looking it up reminded me of the really annoying thing that Netflix does on its search page, where it comes up with suggested search terms that make you go, ‘oh, they’ve got that!’ and then when you click on it, you realise, ‘no, they don’t. It’s just that everyone else really wanted to watch that too...’
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2018 21:08:02 GMT
Speaking of Netflix is anyone else addicted to Riverdale even though they should be old enough to know better? It’s awful, the actual worst and am I addicted. Yes.
Also I’ve spent half my day on a bus, the other half having a slightly mad archives day. I’m barely clinging to sanity at this point
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 27, 2018 21:32:54 GMT
I have just watched Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, recently available on Netflix.
Absolutely loved it, from the late 70s/early 80s setting, which was beautifully evocative with its migraine inducing wallpaper clashing with swirly carpets, to its avocado dado rails and yellow flocked bedspreads. Then there was the wonderful reunion of Walters and Bell (this time as mother and son) with Dame Jules bringing out her best Liverpudlian mother and Jamie Bell treating us to some great Saturday Night Fever moves. Frances Barber plays a wonderful cameo as the bitchster and Annette Bening is delightfully eccentric as Gloria Grahame.
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Post by kathryn on Sept 27, 2018 21:34:05 GMT
I have not tried Riverdale yet but I just did, like, 5 episodes of Schitt’s Creek without even trying so I think I found my new binge-watch...
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Post by stefy69 on Sept 28, 2018 6:43:56 GMT
I have just watched Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, recently available on Netflix. Absolutely loved it, from the late 70s/early 80s setting, which was beautifully evocative with its migraine inducing wallpaper clashing with swirly carpets, to its avocado dado rails and yellow flocked bedspreads. Then there was the wonderful reunion of Walters and Bell (this time as mother and son) with Dame Jules bringing out her best Liverpudlian mother and Jamie Bell treating us to some great Saturday Night Fever moves. Frances Barber plays a wonderful cameo as the bitchster and Annette Bening is delightfully eccentric as Gloria Grahame. Totally agree, excellent film , why it didn't win handfuls of award is beyond me... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 7:43:01 GMT
I have not tried Riverdale yet but I just did, like, 5 episodes of Schitt’s Creek without even trying so I think I found my new binge-watch... I might try that when I finish saying 'what is this UTTER NONSENSE' and still watching three episodes of Riverdale (in my defence also I do love a ginger and that town is LOUSY with them) |
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Post by sherriebythesea on Sept 28, 2018 13:46:22 GMT
Been crazy busy with work, trying to get ready to leave for London Oct 26. I cannot believe that I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I can get 4 days in London for my February birthday to see All About Eve, Come From Away, True West and Follies.
WHAT HAVE YOU PEOPLE DONE TO ME !!!
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 28, 2018 14:08:43 GMT
I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I can get 4 days in London for my February birthday So you're like The Queen. Is your other birthday in the summer too?  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 14:33:06 GMT
I have just watched Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, recently available on Netflix. Absolutely loved it, from the late 70s/early 80s setting, which was beautifully evocative with its migraine inducing wallpaper clashing with swirly carpets, to its avocado dado rails and yellow flocked bedspreads. Then there was the wonderful reunion of Walters and Bell (this time as mother and son) with Dame Jules bringing out her best Liverpudlian mother and Jamie Bell treating us to some great Saturday Night Fever moves. Frances Barber plays a wonderful cameo as the bitchster and Annette Bening is delightfully eccentric as Gloria Grahame. Annette Bening was quite frankly robbed of an Oscar nomination this year for that film. I know she's already got an old film relic at home but when is she going to win an Oscar? |
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Post by peggs on Sept 28, 2018 17:45:03 GMT
Realising half an hour in after impending ofsted inspection notification that it will clash with almeida booking and make it even harder but suspecting this is not a frustration to voice out loud.
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 29, 2018 12:17:07 GMT
Just took delivery of two blue and white ceramic lamps from that well-known shop that thinks an X can be doubled.
Unwrapped the first one. To say this took 35 minutes would not be an exaggeration. 2 rolls of packaging tape. Cardboard box. Another roll of packaging tape. Second cardboard box. Plastic bags tied in knots. Polystyrene. Plastic wires tying up the cable far too tightly. Found a light bulb (yes, one that fitted!) Pulled out the sofa and unplugged the old lamp, thought about the clocks going back😠 (impressive eh?) and changed the time on the timer before plugging in the new one. Got rid of the spider who'd taken up residence. All good.
Unwrapped the second one.
Except it wasn't a beautiful blue ceramic lamp.
It was a green owl. 🦉
On closer inspection it was a green owl lamp base.
Oh for crying out loud. (And anyone who has a green owl lamp base look away now.....but it was seriously hideous.)
So I called customer services. Very sorry, never happened before, yada yada - actually, they were very nice. But. They didn't have any more blue and white ceramic ones in the entire country and I don't just want one, so it will have to go back as well.
So off to pull out the sofa again, dismantle the lovely new blue and white lamp and then go and dig all the packaging out of the various recycling bins and mantle (opposite of dismantle, obvs) the whole bloody package again for sending back. My kitchen now looks like a snowstorm has hit. Polybloodystyrene!
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Post by lynette on Sept 29, 2018 12:43:32 GMT
Name and shame. I don’t get the double x
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 29, 2018 13:02:50 GMT
TK
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