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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #16,031
wingy said:
Middle ages I believe, some shenanigans over the king or something!
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I’m pretty sure it was the capital for a short period.
 

ccfc922

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #16,032
wingy said:
Middle ages I believe, some shenanigans over the king or something!
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Ah just had a Google, never knew that before. Only Winchester being the capitol before London.
 
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Sky_Blue_Daz

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,033
stripping the paper off the ceiling been up about 50 years and its that cheap woodchip stuff, but the lining paper underneath im sure was put up with super glue and snot ,
 
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wingy

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  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,034
Sky_Blue_Daz said:
stripping the paper off the ceiling been up about 50 years and its that cheap woodchip stuff, but the lining paper underneath im sure was put up with super glue and snot ,
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Lovely mate, what day's off are designed for, probably something starch based I'd assume if it's.that old,if you're wetting it it'll take a a few lashings of water.
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,035
wingy said:
Lovely mate, what day's off are designed for, probably something starch based I'd assume if it's.that old,if you're wetting it it'll take a a few lashings of water.
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had a few hours free yesterday and today nearly done, got to get new door frames, architrave and skirting boards in this week .Just getting quotes from carpenters , rates are between £250 & £300 a day
 
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Nuskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,036
Sky_Blue_Daz said:
stripping the paper off the ceiling been up about 50 years and its that cheap woodchip stuff, but the lining paper underneath im sure was put up with super glue and snot ,
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Absolutely horrible stuff to get off. Bane of plasterers and decorators alike!
 

Nuskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,037
Being the only person in the house able to switch a light off when leaving a room!
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,038
Nuskyblue said:
Being the only person in the house able to switch a light off when leaving a room!
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God the locals used to say it looked like Blackpool illuminations back in the day out in the sticks!
 

Marty

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,039
Nuskyblue said:
Being the only person in the house able to switch a light off when leaving a room!
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Used to wind me right up that, now switched to LED's everywhere and couldn't care less as I can power the majority of the lighting in the house for one of the old type of bulbs.
 
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wingy

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  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,040
Marty said:
Used to wind me right up that, now switched to LED's everywhere and couldn't care less as I can power the majority of the lighting in the house for one of the old type of bulbs.
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They're pretty good aren't and last for around 6-7 year's, until you pop into local warehouse and they're in the bargain section,G10 on the label but they don't reach properly as there's something wrong in 5design!
 
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Marty

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  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,041
wingy said:
They're pretty good aren't and last for around 6-7 year's, until you pop into local warehouse and they're in the bargain section,G10 on the label but they don't reach properly as there's something wrong in 5design!
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They're fantastic tbf, cost about £30 to do the whole house and probably save double that every year on the electric bill
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,042
Marty said:
Used to wind me right up that, now switched to LED's everywhere and couldn't care less as I can power the majority of the lighting in the house for one of the old type of bulbs.
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Even better if you get smart led bulbs so they go off automatically
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,043
Marty said:
They're fantastic tbf, cost about £30 to do the whole house and probably save double that every year on the electric bill
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We need to do this for fridges and cookers and whatever. Just make it so efficient we can all have ten and it doesn’t matter.
 
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wingy

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  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,044
shmmeee said:
We need to do this for fridges and cookers and whatever. Just make it so efficient we can all have ten and it doesn’t matter.
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Fat chance, we've got a war to fund mate?
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,045
How is a cup of coffee nearly £4 in some places now? Just blatant price gouging
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,046
fernandopartridge said:
How is a cup of coffee nearly £4 in some places now? Just blatant price gouging
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That's probably cheap for most places.

Much easier to boil the kettle and get a travel mug
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,047
Nick said:
That's probably cheap for most places.

Much easier to boil the kettle and get a travel mug
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On the M1?
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,048
fernandopartridge said:
How is a cup of coffee nearly £4 in some places now? Just blatant price gouging
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Up the Ricoh mate!
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • #16,049
fernandopartridge said:
On the M1?
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Very true
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,050
Again. Lack of planning when doing roadworks.

Doing stuff on every route at the same time is just stupid. Add in buses and bin men stopping when things are down to one lane.

10 minute drive taking 45 minutes.
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,051
I was doing a job yesterday morning on that new estate on the Tamworth Rd, then needed to go to walsgrave it took nearly an hour
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,052
Sky_Blue_Daz said:
I was doing a job yesterday morning on that new estate on the Tamworth Rd, then needed to go to walsgrave it took nearly an hour
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Its madness, every route has roadworks and lane closures.

An hour to do 7 miles this morning.

Although from there to walsgrave I'd have gone down to the services and got on the M6
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,053
Nick said:
Its madness, every route has roadworks and lane closures.

An hour to do 7 miles this morning.

Although from there to walsgrave I'd have gone down to the services and got on the M6
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ffs never thought of that
 
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mmttww

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,054
fernandopartridge said:
How is a cup of coffee nearly £4 in some places now? Just blatant price gouging
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How the world’s smelliest fruit is making coffee more expensive

A "perfect storm" of economic and environmental factors in coffee-producing regions is pushing up prices.
www.bbc.co.uk
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,055
mmttww said:

How the world’s smelliest fruit is making coffee more expensive

A "perfect storm" of economic and environmental factors in coffee-producing regions is pushing up prices.
www.bbc.co.uk
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The mark up on coffee is exceptionally high. I know for example its Wetherspoons most lucrative product. They even let you have 'free refills'. The beans represent only a fraction of the cost in any case. The price increases over the past few years have been huge, 60% ish.
 

ccfc922

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,056
Constant road/motorway closures. Did the round trip yesterday from Poole to CBS and if I hadn't of stopped off it would have still been gone 3am by the time I was back. Rolled in at 4:30
 

ccfc922

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,057
That not only have the few cyclists around had millions and millions of pounds of cycle lanes built for them taking up half the already congested "main roads" in the Bournemouth and Poole area that they don't legally have to use, they still feel the need to cycle on the pedestrian side or even better, against the flow of traffic...
 

robbiekeane

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,058
fernandopartridge said:
The mark up on coffee is exceptionally high. I know for example its Wetherspoons most lucrative product. They even let you have 'free refills'. The beans represent only a fraction of the cost in any case. The price increases over the past few years have been huge, 60% ish.
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Cocoa’s dizzying volatility is spilling into the coffee market

Many major traders deal in both commodities, so soaring cocoa prices are squeezing market players for cash and forcing them out of coffee trading.
www.japantimes.co.jp

Also record high cocoa prices can impact coffee market too. Pricing action in response to rising input costs though really pisses me off because it's about protecting shape versus absolute earnings. Like it's more important for a company to keep a 45% Margin than it is to deliver the same absolute dollars in earnings. Just greedy
 
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Nuskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,059
John Torode
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,060
I can get a 200gjar in Asda for £2-25 , very palatable too it is,decafs also extremely pleasant !
 

Ian1779

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • #16,061
Nuskyblue said:
John Torode
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Gregg Wallace is worse
 
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eastwoodsdustman

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  • Sep 20, 2024
  • #16,062
Ian1779 said:
Gregg Wallace is worse
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Whoever put them together for a tv programme pulled a master stroke didn’t they.
 

ccfc922

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 20, 2024
  • #16,063
Ian1779 said:
Gregg Wallace is worse
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You're lucky you gave the extra G or there'd be trouble!

In fairness, I like them both on masterchef.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Sep 20, 2024
  • #16,064
People calling players and managers by their first names.
 
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ccfc922

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 20, 2024
  • #16,065
Sick Boy said:
People calling players and managers by their first names.
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I'll add the nicknames and first names on back of shirts now. Wolves were the worst for it a couple of seasons ago.
 
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