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    Things that annoy you

    This is the problem with cars that have SOME automated functions but not all! My car has daytime running lights at the front (as is required on all recent cars) but also turns front and rear lights on when the light level fades. Many don't have that so they blindly assume the lights are on. It's...
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    Segregation

    What was the deal with blocks 4 and 8 (??) being empty? Or were they all in the posh bar all game?
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    Match Thread Coventry City - Birmingham City Match Thread - Friday 8th Dec

    Surely "Tom Brady's Birmingham City"???
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    Match Thread Coventry City - Birmingham City Match Thread - Friday 8th Dec

    I think we should be OK for the win tonight. Rooney will be wanting to save a good number of his squad for tomorrow afternoon's match against Sunderland ... if the official EFL website is to be believed!!
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    Dumbest work meetings

    Not the only explanation - they usually just don't answer emails!!
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    Dumbest work meetings

    A certain leading university in the area (Warwick, seeing as you asked) have a HUMUNGOUS HR department (they call it the People Group. FFS!). Every Monday at 2pm, they have a "Huddle", where everyone has to stand around in the open plan office while the Director of HR spouts bollocks about what...
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    Death List 2023

    Shane MacGowan's death is reported on the Beeb as saying "he had been unwell for some time". Well, yeah, i guess he had! Most of his life, i suspect. But gone too soon. He's more likely to get number one at Christmas than either Alistair Darling (unless Doris Day's "Move over, Darling" is...
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    Things that annoy you

    Sounds like you were bloody lucky not to hit the lighting circuit when drilling the holes for the cabinet fixings!!
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    Things that annoy you

    A little cut-out in the cabinet will ensure the light switch has the emphasis it deserves, at last!
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    Death List 2023

    You seem to be up very early scouring the obituary columns for the obscure ones! I guess you were a big fan back in the day?
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    Death List 2023

    They could only have dreamt of getting anywhere close to 2-2! The consolation goal that knocked Scotland out was their only sniff! Best game i have ever seen from England (other than maybe the 5-1 in Munich). RIP Tel.
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    Death List 2023

    if only ...
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    Retirement

    My father-in-law's mantra was that the only reason you go to work is to earn enough pension to have an enjoyable retirement.
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    Retirement

    Thanks! I think the travel pot switches over to social care costs (which will be supplemented by some kind of equity release) around the 80 mark. Her folks are either side of 80 and are losing the travel bug and ability. UK holidays will be very much the thing for us by then, i'm sure. Good luck...
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    Retirement

    Have less than two years to run on my mortgage, which is more than half my pay packet, so will be looking at reducing hours from age 61 1/2, and am working with my bosses on succession planning, bringing my deputy up to speed. Looking at retiring fully when i hit 64, provided my "ridiculous"...
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    Things that annoy you

    This is the current picture in the UK - one case in Scotland and one in England (well, Lincolnshire, a well known county of chicken pluckers).
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    Map of english dialects ( we speak with an accent exceedingly rare )

    To say that Worcestershire and Herefordshire are "West Midlands", the same as Tamworth, and even Leamington, is plain bonkers. They have very distinct accents and ancient dialects (mainly grunts). I think the Cov accent is immediately recognisable and distinct from Brum. The main tell-tale sign...
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    Cov Council Going Bankrupt?

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    Deepdale hoodoo

    Read the title as "Deep DooDoo". And i think the answer might be "Yes"!
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    Things that annoy you

    Which one in particular? India is a hoot!
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