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Post by stefy69 on Dec 13, 2018 7:32:30 GMT
Office party last night !  think I only embarrassed myself once  |
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Post by Dr Tom on Dec 13, 2018 12:44:10 GMT
Office party last night ! think I only embarrassed myself once and after that you can't remember? |
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Post by lynette on Dec 13, 2018 12:47:40 GMT
Can I come out of quarantine now? Not vomited.
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Post by stefy69 on Dec 13, 2018 12:51:06 GMT
Office party last night ! think I only embarrassed myself once and after that you can't remember? You weren't there were you   |
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Post by david on Dec 13, 2018 19:35:03 GMT
If anybody wants a break from the Brexit chaos, have a read of the responses posted on Twitter from an article in the NY times about people’s experiences of petty crime in London.
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Post by peggs on Dec 13, 2018 21:48:17 GMT
If anybody wants a break from the Brexit chaos, have a read of the responses posted on Twitter from an article in the NY times about people’s experiences of petty crime in London. Thank you david, that had me chuckling, what a nice change to all the angry ranting. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 19:47:21 GMT
Started feeling a bit odd after lunch. Feeling worse now. Suspect the fish. Carrying a bucket around the house just in case.
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Post by peggs on Dec 15, 2018 13:22:50 GMT
Rain, wind, bitter cold, just what I ordered for trip to London to see lights and theatre. Small people looking decidedly unenthusiastic unsurprisingly.
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Post by lynette on Dec 15, 2018 14:47:50 GMT
Started feeling a bit odd after lunch. Feeling worse now. Suspect the fish. Carrying a bucket around the house just in case. I've got bucket on standby after last weekend. 👍 |
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Post by anita on Dec 18, 2018 10:43:39 GMT
I've got a cold. Can't stop sneezing.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 17:22:22 GMT
Bought a new car. After bursting two tyres last week, the final straw was drawn on my 'cursed' Matiz. As luck would have it my garage where I take my car for MOT, generally begging 'make it not broken' had a KA for sale. My first two cars were KAs and I love them. So today I brought home my shiny blue KA, and sent the other one to the scrappy. Which is a fitting metaphor for 2018.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 17:51:13 GMT
I sold my last car to webuyanycar.com, who gave me £120 for it. I looked up its MOT history recently and it appears that it didn't last long after I sold it. I suspect it became several other cars. Poor car. It served me well, until it cost me £1500 in two months and the leaking bodywork made the spare tyre go mouldy.
An ex-colleague sold his car to webuyanycar.com and got £50, which I believe is their "I know that's what we say, but come on" price.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 19:15:20 GMT
I sold my last car to webuyanycar.com, who gave me £120 for it. I looked up its MOT history recently and it appears that it didn't last long after I sold it. I suspect it became several other cars. Poor car. It served me well, until it cost me £1500 in two months and the leaking bodywork made the spare tyre go mouldy. An ex-colleague sold his car to webuyanycar.com and got £50, which I believe is their "I know that's what we say, but come on" price. haha a friend of mine got the '£50 just so we can keep our name' price as well, but at that point the thing was such a wreck it was a miracle she didn't have to pay someone TO take it. Mine fetched a respectable £100 off the car I bought. Which given the amount it's been costing me in the last year, is better than a kick in the teeth. I just took the new one on a little spin to the supermarket and it is still delightful. |
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Post by 49thand8th on Dec 20, 2018 23:35:56 GMT
My cold was so bad I had a nosebleed today, but other than that, I think I'm finally seeing the light (and it's not death)!
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Post by raider80 on Dec 21, 2018 3:19:52 GMT
Went home to America for the holidays and as usually the Dallas Airport was a mess but at least my flight went out of Heathrow before the IT meltdown.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2018 9:35:45 GMT
Special request: if the company you work for is reasonably nice and not completely draconian, and if you wake up one morning thinking "I don't feel well at all", then it would be SUPER cool if you could just call in sick rather than deciding you'll *try* to struggle through, because you'll just end up going home mid-morning anyway, and you'll probably have infected all your co-workers during that brief period you're shivering, hacking, and giving it the old college try. I know we're shutting down over Christmas and you maybe want to make sure that everything's finished up, but it's been really quiet this week and your co-workers all do the same job as you and can definitely cover the quietest day of the year.
So if I come down with something in the next few days, I have at least three possible culprits I can point to.....
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 21, 2018 15:03:27 GMT
Spent £1.90, the cheapest I could find, on a train ticket I didn't use, and earned £10 in Nectar points.
Not quite revenge, but still very sweet!
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 21, 2018 16:40:52 GMT
There is a special place in Hell reserved for people who send stoopidly shaped Christmas cards that do not fit on my card holder thingy.
You know who you are...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2018 17:07:35 GMT
Some weirdly stupid people in a car park today. I was parked on the lower of two levels next to the road that goes to the upper level, waiting to pull out. I had trouble leaving because of a long queue of cars looking for spaces, but even though I was creeping out slowly more cars than I could count were queueing bumper to bumper and refusing to let me pull out. Apparently they were so locked into the mindset of "must not let anyone into the queue" that it didn't occur to them that I was trying to get into the queue from a parking space that they could have taken.
I didn't get to leave until all the other cars had gone, leaving an empty space behind me. I usually get a warm and fuzzy feeling from seeing someone else's delight at finding a space when I leave it, but this time I got the warm-and-fuzzies from knowing that the people who had blocked me in were still trying to park as I left.
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 21, 2018 17:17:28 GMT
Duly noted, Tibidabo. Won't happen again. Have you had a chance to read my round robin yet? I'm sure you'll agree it's particularly interesting this year! |
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 21, 2018 17:27:53 GMT
Duly noted, Tibidabo . Won't happen again. Have you had a chance to read my round robin yet? I should hope so too.🙄 And anyway, strange shaped vegetables aren't very Christmassy. Round robins go straight in the bin at Tibidabo Towers ever since we got a month by month account of an anal fissure. So I hope there wasn't any money in yours...😬 |
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 21, 2018 17:31:16 GMT
Seems to be my afternoon for apologising. I thought Mini Tibs would find it interesting (the round robin that is).
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 21, 2018 17:36:50 GMT
Seems to be my afternoon for apologising. I thought Mini Tibs would find it interesting (the round robin that is). *snort* |
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Post by sf on Dec 21, 2018 20:26:23 GMT
For the second year running I've received a Christmas card from Australia. For the second year running it contains an awful round-robin letter detailing this plucky Australian family's battles with various flavours of adversity (a stillbirth, dementia, what sounds like a record-breaking case of haemorrhoids, and singing 'You Raise Me Up' in a choir concert). And for the second year running it's addressed to exactly my address - correct house number and postcode and everything - but to people I've never heard of, and it's also not for any of the neighbours. There is, of course, no return address.
And Mavis-in-Australia has a remarkable gift: she is probably one of the few people alive whose handwriting somehow manages to make the word 'trust' look like 'tw*t'.
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Post by lynette on Dec 21, 2018 23:33:43 GMT
You ever signed up to a charity, catalogue or bought anything from Aussie? Nice people to send again after you ignored them last year. 😂😂
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think I only embarrassed myself once 
