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Sbarcher

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  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,881
Astute said:
CD's? What are they?
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Something physical to keep in the loft for the next 25 years!
 

Astute

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  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,882
Sbarcher said:
Something physical to keep in the loft for the next 25 years!
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You mean like a wife? Sounds like a good idea.
 
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richnrg

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  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,883
(sorry, football related, but..)
A thing that annoys me is ex-footballer TV pundits, when talking about VAR, saying that the VAR bosses should employ 'someone that has actually played the game' (ie someone like themselves), to help design VAR/make decision etc.
They seem to think that 'actually having played the game' somehow qualifies them to make better decisions than referees, oblivious to the fact that in almost every case, 50% of said pundits thought a particular incident should have lead to a penalty, whilst the other 50% thought that it definitely shouldn't.
 
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Gazolba

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  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,884
I hate getting letters in the mail where you can't tell from the envelope whether it's an official communication that you are in breach of some law or owe someone money, or just a letter telling you that since you are now old you should consider reserving your cemetary plot, or buying one of their hearing aids.
 
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eastwoodsdustman

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  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,885
Children in need and comic relief. Mega rich people raising their profile by getting other people to donate money. Hate it more each year.
 
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SBAndy

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  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,886
eastwoodsdustman said:
Children in need and comic relief. Mega rich people raising their profile by getting other people to donate money. Hate it more each year.
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The tv show, maybe you have a point. I’d like to think that me and 6 others collecting outside Nuneaton train station this morning weren’t just doing so to raise our profile.
 
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eastwoodsdustman

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  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,887
SBAndy said:
The tv show, maybe you have a point. I’d like to think that me and 6 others collecting outside Nuneaton train station this morning weren’t just doing so to raise our profile.
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Fair play to you all. It’s ‘the celebs’ that really really get my back up. All multi millionaires and give a couple of hours of their time when a bit of their Mooney would be better. But then they wouldn’t be raising their profiles.
 

Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,888
Children in Need yes. Comic Relief no. Charity starts at home, over £1bn has been raised for comic relief since it started, to no avail it sometimes seems. There’s plenty of poverty here.
 

SBAndy

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  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,889
eastwoodsdustman said:
Fair play to you all. It’s ‘the celebs’ that really really get my back up. All multi millionaires and give a couple of hours of their time when a bit of their Mooney would be better. But then they wouldn’t be raising their profiles.
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Do you know what - I started thinking that actually it’s probably worth it for them to use their profile to help raise money. Then the Dragons Den cast show up who could raise the £35m raised so far within about 4 seconds, and all of a sudden I agree with you.
 
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SkyblueBazza

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  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,890
Every charity has a celebrity publicist.

They are all worthy causes - bit the people who genuinely have the free cash to splash about seem to be the celebrities & those of 'status' (?) Who are the very people that either squeeze us in the first instance or try to squeeze us a bit more to donate!

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fernandopartridge

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  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,891
eastwoodsdustman said:
Fair play to you all. It’s ‘the celebs’ that really really get my back up. All multi millionaires and give a couple of hours of their time when a bit of their Mooney would be better. But then they wouldn’t be raising their profiles.
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Whilst I understand what you're saying, if they raise the profile of something and help people to donate then what's the problem?
 
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SkyblueBazza

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  • Nov 15, 2019
  • #5,892
fernandopartridge said:
Whilst I understand what you're saying, if they raise the profile of something and help people to donate then what's the problem?
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Just the potential hypocrisy for me.

'I live in a 10 bedroom countryside mansion & am giving my time freely to get you to donate x% of your weekly income to support..." kinda stinks to me. Forget the time & effort because that in real terms helps the needy in little or no way whatsoever. If cold hard cash is what makes the difference...then celebrities & rich folk that spout should simply say "I have dontated £X to charity
Y which is z% of my annual wealth" now to me that would be taking a lead.



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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 16, 2019
  • #5,893
SkyblueBazza said:
Every charity has a celebrity publicist.

They are all worthy causes - bit the people who genuinely have the free cash to splash about seem to be the celebrities & those of 'status' (?) Who are the very people that either squeeze us in the first instance or try to squeeze us a bit more to donate!

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Bit socialist for you Baz
 

Sbarcher

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  • Nov 16, 2019
  • #5,894
Interesting that a while ago CIN accounts showed over 100 staff with an annual salary of £42000. Around £7m in costs. Also had over £80000000 sitting in its account.
 

Marty

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 17, 2019
  • #5,895
Went for a walk this morning, dog shit and litter all over the place, what's wrong with people?
 
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vow

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  • Nov 17, 2019
  • #5,896
Toilet seat's that don't stay up when you're trying to have a slash.....yea, I know I'm a gentleman....


..but I really shouldn't use the Ladies in the first place...
 
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xcraigx

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  • Nov 18, 2019
  • #5,897
Pretty much any real life police series I watch on the telly that tells you the sentence the criminal got for the crime being documented. One lone policeman got attacked and had the shit kicked out of him. 2 members of the public couldn't even pull the yob off of him. The sentence was 3 months in jail suspended for 12 months. Nothing then. Another guy bit a police dog and battered the policeman whilst his mate helped join in. The case was dropped. How?!
 
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Mcbean

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  • Nov 18, 2019
  • #5,898
The fella in front of me at Stans - sits on the back of his chair at half time - he’s such a big chap that it doesn’t allow me to stand up comfortably and when people want to come past I have to really go back in the next row - I have been polite but he still
Persists - suggestions please
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Nov 18, 2019
  • #5,899
Mcbean said:
The fella in front of me at Stans - sits on the back of his chair at half time - he’s such a big chap that it doesn’t allow me to stand up comfortably and when people want to come past I have to really go back in the next row - I have been polite but he still
Persists - suggestions please
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Take a kid to kick the back of his chair all game.
 
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Blind-Faith

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  • Nov 18, 2019
  • #5,900
Mcbean said:
The fella in front of me at Stans - sits on the back of his chair at half time - he’s such a big chap that it doesn’t allow me to stand up comfortably and when people want to come past I have to really go back in the next row - I have been polite but he still
Persists - suggestions please
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flop your cock out onto the top of his head, if your lucky he might not sit there again
 
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fellatio_Martinez

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  • Nov 18, 2019
  • #5,901
Blind-Faith said:
flop your cock out onto the top of his head, if your lucky he might not sit there again
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Or if he's really lucky the big fella might kiss it.
 
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Blind-Faith

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  • Nov 18, 2019
  • #5,902
fellatio_Martinez said:
Or if he's really lucky the big fella might kiss it.
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I set it up, you knock the joke out of the park!
 
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richnrg

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  • Nov 19, 2019
  • #5,903
Mcbean said:
The fella in front of me at Stans - sits on the back of his chair at half time - he’s such a big chap that it doesn’t allow me to stand up comfortably and when people want to come past I have to really go back in the next row - I have been polite but he still
Persists - suggestions please
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install some mini-spikes along the top of the chair-back.
 

Mcbean

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  • Nov 19, 2019
  • #5,904
richnrg said:
install some mini-spikes along the top of the chair-back.
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Strangely enough I got some yesterday as some birds keep shitting in my porch !
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Nov 19, 2019
  • #5,905
Mcbean said:
Strangely enough I got some yesterday as some birds keep shitting in my porch !
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Do you have their numbers?
 
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fellatio_Martinez

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  • Nov 19, 2019
  • #5,906
Sales c*nts in shops.

I know it's their jobs to sell but I wish they'd be a bit more more subtle about it and not immediately race over when they see someone come into the shop.

I reluctantly went bed shopping at the weekend and they house a special breed of sales creep. My strategy is to never engage because once you engage it's game over.

Sales person "Are you okay? Can I help you?"

Me "No thanks, we're just having a browse"

SP "Anything in particular?"

Me "Not really, just a bit of window shopping"

SP "Ah okay, y'know a bed is a serious investment because you spend most of your life on it!"

Me "Yeah.... Thanks. I'm not buying anything today. Just getting ideas" *walking away

SP "Would you be a spring or memory foam type of guy? "

Girlfriend "Well I love memory foam myself"

SP:

 
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Nick

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  • Nov 19, 2019
  • #5,907
fellatio_Martinez said:
Sales c*nts in shops.

I know it's their jobs to sell but I wish they'd be a bit more more subtle about it and not immediately race over when they see someone come into the shop.

I reluctantly went bed shopping at the weekend and they house a special breed of sales creep. My strategy is to never engage because once you engage it's game over.

Sales person "Are you okay? Can I help you?"

Me "No thanks, we're just having a browse"

SP "Anything in particular?"

Me "Not really, just a bit of window shopping"

SP "Ah okay, y'know a bed is a serious investment because you spend most of your life on it!"

Me "Yeah.... Thanks. I'm not buying anything today. Just getting ideas" *walking away

SP "Would you be a spring or memory foam type of guy? "

Girlfriend "Well I love memory foam myself"

SP:

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Just tell them you are trying them out so you can order them on Amazon.
 

Mcbean

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  • Nov 19, 2019
  • #5,908
C*unts who don’t acknowledge when you make it easier for them to pass you - we live on a single track road with passing places- I see a van coming and pull in 100 yards from him - he races by me without a nod wave etc - c**t - next time I will drive very slowly so he has to get off the road next time - if he does this he will immediately drop 2 feet into the mud !
 
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SBAndy

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  • Nov 19, 2019
  • #5,909
fellatio_Martinez said:
Sales c*nts in shops.

I know it's their jobs to sell but I wish they'd be a bit more more subtle about it and not immediately race over when they see someone come into the shop.

I reluctantly went bed shopping at the weekend and they house a special breed of sales creep. My strategy is to never engage because once you engage it's game over.

Sales person "Are you okay? Can I help you?"

Me "No thanks, we're just having a browse"

SP "Anything in particular?"

Me "Not really, just a bit of window shopping"

SP "Ah okay, y'know a bed is a serious investment because you spend most of your life on it!"

Me "Yeah.... Thanks. I'm not buying anything today. Just getting ideas" *walking away

SP "Would you be a spring or memory foam type of guy? "

Girlfriend "Well I love memory foam myself"

SP:

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Was this at Dreams in Gallagher Retail Park perchance?
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Nov 19, 2019
  • #5,910
SBAndy said:
Was this at Dreams in Gallagher Retail Park perchance?
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Why, do you work there Andy??!:happy:
 
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SBAndy

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  • Nov 20, 2019
  • #5,911
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Why, do you work there Andy??!:happy:
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Alas, no. When bed shopping last year there was a particularly irritable chap working there who was very pushy. So much so that I had a not so discreet word with him to leave me and the other half be.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Nov 20, 2019
  • #5,912
SBAndy said:
Alas, no. When bed shopping last year there was a particularly irritable chap working there who was very pushy. So much so that I had a not so discreet word with him to leave me and the other half be.
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Nowt worse than a bad tempered salesman.
 

Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 20, 2019
  • #5,913
Mcbean said:
The fella in front of me at Stans - sits on the back of his chair at half time - he’s such a big chap that it doesn’t allow me to stand up comfortably and when people want to come past I have to really go back in the next row - I have been polite but he still
Persists - suggestions please
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Well, you can start by stop calling it Stans. That might help.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Nov 20, 2019
  • #5,914
While on that subject

When you go out to eat and they come over while you have a mouthful of food to ask about it.

What's the point?
 

SBAndy

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 20, 2019
  • #5,915
Nick said:
While on that subject

When you go out to eat and they come over while you have a mouthful of food to ask about it.

What's the point?
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Because that way you can’t complain?
 
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