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Blind-Faith

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 5, 2023
  • #14,456
Football highlight shows, just show the highlights of the football! I don’t give a shit about the background of some lower league team and history of the local community , or some clubs local community initiative.

I just want to see the goals
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 5, 2023
  • #14,457
Blind-Faith said:
Football highlight shows, just show the highlights of the football! I don’t give a shit about the background of some lower league team and history of the local community , or some clubs local community initiative.

I just want to see the goals
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If they want to fill time I’d watch actual genuine tactical knowledge of the teams. I think there’s a real gap for an Uber geeky football show that goes into proper tactical detail.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Nov 5, 2023
  • #14,458
Tourists, especially Americans.
 
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TomRad85

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 5, 2023
  • #14,459
Sick Boy said:
Tourists, especially Americans.
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Chinese tourists give Americans a run for their money.

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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Nov 5, 2023
  • #14,460
TomRad85 said:
Chinese tourists give Americans a run for their money.

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Actually, yes...in Prague I had one going as far as pinching my arm to get ahead of me in a queue.
 
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Sbarcher

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 5, 2023
  • #14,461
TomRad85 said:
Chinese tourists give Americans a run for their money.

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Always loads of them at Bicester Village. They were wearing masks well before COVID broke out. Maybe they knew something?
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Nov 5, 2023
  • #14,462
Sbarcher said:
Always loads of them at Bicester Village. They were wearing masks well before COVID broke out. Maybe they knew something?
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Backpacks on the front too.
 

Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 5, 2023
  • #14,463
Trying their best to reintroduce the bowl cut as well.
 

Nuskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 5, 2023
  • #14,464
Sbarcher said:
Always loads of them at Bicester Village. They were wearing masks well before COVID broke out. Maybe they knew something?
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The masks thing is more likely cultural from the brush with (MERS/SARS?).
 
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Ian1779

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • #14,465
OFSTED inspections
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • #14,466
Ian1779 said:
OFSTED inspections
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Good luck
 
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robbiekeane

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • #14,467
Sbarcher said:
Always loads of them at Bicester Village. They were wearing masks well before COVID broke out. Maybe they knew something?
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SARS

Also just generally smart practice probably
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • #14,468
robbiekeane said:
SARS

Also just generally smart practice probably
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And a general lack of a weird teenage streak of insisting if everyone’s doing X it’s my god given right to do Y or I’m being forced to be a sheep by an authoritarian govt.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • #14,469
Not annoying for me but probably is for the family that grifter that built the spa has had her appeal against its demolition rejected, get round there with the hammers and smash it down to stop any more appeals.
 

LastGarrison

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • #14,470
Geordies.

Particularly the football supporting ones with their ‘wacky’ flags.
 
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oscillatewildly

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • #14,471
LastGarrison said:
Geordies.

Particularly the football supporting ones with their ‘wacky’ flags.
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Go on, give us an example.
 

LastGarrison

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • #14,472

 
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oscillatewildly

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • #14,473
Hmmm. See what you mean.
 
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ovduk78

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 8, 2023
  • #14,474
Not the normal complaint about motor insurance being too high but I have just sold my BMW motorcycle and to cancel the insurance which expires in march is £55.99, I only paid £60 to insure it for a year!
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 8, 2023
  • #14,475
ovduk78 said:
Not the normal complaint about motor insurance being too high but I have just sold my BMW motorcycle and to cancel the insurance which expires in march is £55.99, I only paid £60 to insure it for a year!
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Wait what? Motorcycle insurance is £60 a year?? Id have assumed it would be more than cars considering the accident stats.
 

ovduk78

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 8, 2023
  • #14,476
shmmeee said:
Wait what? Motorcycle insurance is £60 a year?? Id have assumed it would be more than cars considering the accident stats.
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One of the benefits of being old, having plenty of NCB and living in Scotland.
 
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Sbarcher

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 8, 2023
  • #14,477
Modern cars!
Give me a traditional handbrake and a spare wheel every time.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Nov 8, 2023
  • #14,478
Sbarcher said:
Modern cars!
Give me a traditional handbrake and a spare wheel every time.
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So much easier to fix as well.
 

dutchman

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 8, 2023
  • #14,479
shmmeee said:
Wait what? Motorcycle insurance is £60 a year?? Id have assumed it would be more than cars considering the accident stats.
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A motorcycle does much less damage to other vehicles.
 

Sbarcher

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 9, 2023
  • #14,480
The new way to keep NHS waiting lists down. Last year I had a new hip here in Oxfordshire. From seeing the GP it took 10 weeks for the new hip. I’ve had a very painful knee now for some years and had an arthroscopy 3/4 years ago. Recently had an X-ray where I’ve got advanced osteoarthritis and GP confirmed I need a replacement. But from 2023 there is a new system. Firstly there is a new telephone consultation with a practitioner. They said I needed a replacement. This now requires me to see an advanced practitioner in person before I can be referred. When I asked why we have these 2 extra hoops to jump through they told me that too many people were being referred and this was one way to reduce number of people on the waiting list.
So, instead of increasing patient throughput we are now chopping people off the list.
Sounds like a Baldrick plan to me.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 9, 2023
  • #14,481
Two
Sbarcher said:
The new way to keep NHS waiting lists down. Last year I had a new hip here in Oxfordshire. From seeing the GP it took 10 weeks for the new hip. I’ve had a very painful knee now for some years and had an arthroscopy 3/4 years ago. Recently had an X-ray where I’ve got advanced osteoarthritis and GP confirmed I need a replacement. But from 2023 there is a new system. Firstly there is a new telephone consultation with a practitioner. They said I needed a replacement. This now requires me to see an advanced practitioner in person before I can be referred. When I asked why we have these 2 extra hoops to jump through they told me that too many people were being referred and this was one way to reduce number of people on the waiting list.
So, instead of increasing patient throughput we are now chopping people off the list.
Sounds like a Baldrick plan to me.
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Two more costly people needed as well, the nhs is a master of throwing good money down the drain, I have friends that work in it and they are overpaid for the work they do and it drives mrs TGP mad as a nurse.
 
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SkyBlueSoul

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 9, 2023
  • #14,482
Sbarcher said:
Modern cars!
Give me a traditional handbrake and a spare wheel every time.
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I don't bother putting the handbrake on at lights anymore, pushing a button feels counter intuitive and has caught me out a few times.
 

Mcbean

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 9, 2023
  • #14,483
SkyBlueSoul said:
I don't bother putting the handbrake on at lights anymore, pushing a button feels counter intuitive and has caught me out a few times.
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Wife’s new car thankfully has a conventional handbrake and ventilation controls that are not in a screen !
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 9, 2023
  • #14,484
Sbarcher said:
The new way to keep NHS waiting lists down. Last year I had a new hip here in Oxfordshire. From seeing the GP it took 10 weeks for the new hip. I’ve had a very painful knee now for some years and had an arthroscopy 3/4 years ago. Recently had an X-ray where I’ve got advanced osteoarthritis and GP confirmed I need a replacement. But from 2023 there is a new system. Firstly there is a new telephone consultation with a practitioner. They said I needed a replacement. This now requires me to see an advanced practitioner in person before I can be referred. When I asked why we have these 2 extra hoops to jump through they told me that too many people were being referred and this was one way to reduce number of people on the waiting list.
So, instead of increasing patient throughput we are now chopping people off the list.
Sounds like a Baldrick plan to me.
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This is commissioners all over, NHS England idea is always to create another gateway. See the farce of having an A&E next to an 'Urgent Care Centre'. The NHS would run much more effectively if the persons employed behind a desk in the centre were instead employed by the provider and given the opportunity to create the most efficient structure of providing services themselves.

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Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • Nov 9, 2023
  • #14,485
I'll add an NHS one(!) Am currently embroiled in a battle to get them to change my pre-payment prescription address to where I've moved - the consequence of which is they keep sending me letters saying I haven't actually got a pre-payment, and can I give them some money for claiming when I wasn't supposed to.

So they can change the current one, the direct debit address but... getting them to change the one that renews the end of the month has been impossible! Apparently they can;t do it, and when they ring the person who can change it, apparently none of them can hear one another to do it!

And the basic question is, why won't their systems feed into one another so when I change doctors and change address, other NHS related info can be changed too?

(Apparently we should blame Harold Wilson for insisting on ICL supplying the IT tech back at the very beginning!)
 
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Blind-Faith

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 9, 2023
  • #14,486
One that I’ve only realised tonight, people who leave taps running in pub toilets, it’s just fucking lazy and rude, a bit of an odd one I know, but it really winds me up
 
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Greggs

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  • Nov 9, 2023
  • #14,487
Crusts on a bread loaf. I'm always pushing past the fucker. Is he just there to protect the rest of them, acting all hard because he's got an inbuilt shield? I feed them to the ducks and get pleasure watching them get pecked at.
 
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Sbarcher

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  • Nov 10, 2023
  • #14,488
Greggs said:
Crusts on a bread loaf. I'm always pushing past the fucker. Is he just there to protect the rest of them, acting all hard because he's got an inbuilt shield? I feed them to the ducks and get pleasure watching them get pecked at.
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You leave us upper crusts alone!
 
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Seaside-Skyblue

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  • Nov 10, 2023
  • #14,489
Blind-Faith said:
One that I’ve only realised tonight, people who leave taps running in pub toilets, it’s just fucking lazy and rude, a bit of an odd one I know, but it really winds me up
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While on Pub toilets ...who on earth is picking their nose and wiping it on the wall? Grim.

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Sbarcher

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  • Nov 10, 2023
  • #14,490
Blind-Faith said:
One that I’ve only realised tonight, people who leave taps running in pub toilets, it’s just fucking lazy and rude, a bit of an odd one I know, but it really winds me up
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Hate those taps in pubs where you push down to operate. They go all over my pants and make it look like I’ve pissed myself.
 
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