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OffenhamSkyBlue

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,291
CovValleyBoy said:
This generational thing where people arrive at a food counter.
Say a coffee shop & order by saying "can I GET..... " wtf does my head in
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Absolutely this!
 
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Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,292
CovValleyBoy said:
This generational thing where people arrive at a food counter.
Say a coffee shop & order by saying "can I GET..... " wtf does my head in
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American TV I imagine. Spreads like a really bad infection and like you I hear it everywhere. Often groan at my Mrs who will always say she’s ’going to get a shower’.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,293
Tommo1993 said:
American TV I imagine. Spreads like a really bad infection and like you I hear it everywhere. Often groan at my Mrs who will always say she’s ’going to get a shower’.
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Standard response: "No need, bab, we've already got one!"
 
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AJB1983

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,294
Sbarcher said:
Another gripe about the NHS, although not the caring side.
Why does the NHS cost so much to run?
I've just had a call from my wife who was odering an item for her ward.
It costs £38 so she put the order through. She gets a call from "Procurement" saying she has to buy through them, that's the system.
It's exactly the same item from the same supplier but through the official channel it cost £230!
She is livid and will be complaining the the Trust CEO if she can't buy it direct.
Our money, being squandered away from the front line services.
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I used to work at a huge multi national engineering/car company - they had a ‘stores’ where the workers could get the things like gloves for work etc
Third party company ran it that did the rover factory at longbridge.
Charged my company over double for the same stuff.
These companies always take the piss if they see the £££’s.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,295
AJB1983 said:
I used to work at a huge multi national engineering/car company - they had a ‘stores’ where the workers could get the things like gloves for work etc
Third party company ran it that did the rover factory at longbridge.
Charged my company over double for the same stuff.
These companies always take the piss if they see the £££’s.
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Was the same years ago when I worked in the education sector, they were paying a 3rd party absolutely mind blowing money for doing very basic shit.

Want a network switch changing? Anybody competent can do it within 20 minutes, nah let's get a consultant in to charge hundreds per hour to "plan", then charge 3x the price for the hardware and then back to charge hundreds to configure and put it in.
 

Nuskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,296
MalcSB said:
Googled etymology

  • Tatars:
    The word "tartar" has historical ties to the Tatars, a Turkic-speaking group from Central Asia and Eastern Europe. They were known for their nomadic lifestyle and military prowess, and their diet included raw meat.

  • Steak Tartare:
    The Tatars' practice of eating raw, minced meat led to the French dish known as steak tartare, which is often served with a sauce similar to tartar sauce.

  • Sauce Tartare:
    The sauce that became popular with steak tartare was named "sauce tartare" by the French, referencing the Tatars' association with raw meat dishes.

  • Tartar Sauce:
    Eventually, the sauce evolved and became popular on its own, becoming known as tartar sauce in English.

  • Cream of Tartar:
    It's important to note that cream of tartar, a baking ingredient, is also named "tartar" but it has a different origin related to a byproduct of wine fermentation and is unrelated to the Tatars or steak tartare.
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Thank you, I could not be arsed but my backwards reasoning was correct.

I assume the Jewish Russians bought it over in the 19th century.
 

Nuskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,297
Sunderland.

Lucky, lucky bastard's
 
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wingy

Well-Known Member
  • May 25, 2025
  • #17,298
Nuskyblue said:
Sunderland.

Lucky, lucky bastard's
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Not so sure about this/that,all planned for this year at any rate.
A manager nobody had heard of,three months of preparation a few dirty tricks to upset the opposition, bring down the oppo to your level and voila, of course it could have backfired but didn't.
Sheffield UTD can only look at themselves for not being hungry enough, who that's down to I think it's self evident.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • May 25, 2025
  • #17,299
CovValleyBoy said:
This generational thing where people arrive at a food counter.
Say a coffee shop & order by saying "can I GET..... " wtf does my head in
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It’s yet another shitty Americanisation. Nothing will ever be worse than those saying period rather than full stop.
 
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dutchman

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  • May 26, 2025
  • #17,300
CovValleyBoy said:
This generational thing where people arrive at a food counter.
Say a coffee shop & order by saying "can I GET..... " wtf does my head in
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I had a teacher like that (Mrs Turner). Normally mild-mannered, she would go beserk if a kid used the word "got".
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 26, 2025
  • #17,301
Having to have my windows closed all weekend so I don't hear Robbie Williams whaling. Doing my fucking head in
 
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chiefdave

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  • May 26, 2025
  • #17,302
Nick said:
Having to have my windows closed all weekend so I don't hear Robbie Williams whaling. Doing my fucking head in
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why is he in your garden?
 

Nick

Administrator
  • May 26, 2025
  • #17,303
chiefdave said:
why is he in your garden?
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He's at the CBS and the volume is stupid.
 

olderskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 26, 2025
  • #17,304
Nick said:
Having to have my windows closed all weekend so I don't hear Robbie Williams whaling. Doing my fucking head in
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Take that you moaning bar steward
 

Wyken Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • May 26, 2025
  • #17,305
Seeing a dad wearing a Villa shirt taking his son around a supermarket who is wearing a Cov shirt

Sent from my Pixel 8 using Tapatalk
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • May 27, 2025
  • #17,306
Nick said:
Having to have my windows closed all weekend so I don't hear Robbie Williams whaling. Doing my fucking head in
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Is the noise coming from Mr Williams or the whales he is hunting?
 
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ovduk78

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  • May 27, 2025
  • #17,307
Wyken Sky Blue said:
Seeing a dad wearing a Villa shirt taking his son around a supermarket who is wearing a Cov shirt

Sent from my Pixel 8 using Tapatalk
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Surely it would be worse if the dad was wearing a city shirt and the son a villa one
 
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BodicoteSkyBlue

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  • Thursday at 1:03 PM
  • #17,308
Having to do compulsory company e-learning
 
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chiefdave

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  • Thursday at 1:48 PM
  • #17,309
Having 2 less teeth and a lot less money than I did an hour ago
 
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LastGarrison

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  • Thursday at 5:40 PM
  • #17,310
chiefdave said:
Having 2 less teeth and a lot less money than I did an hour ago
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Cov is getting rougher by the day!!
 
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chiefdave

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  • Thursday at 5:56 PM
  • #17,311
LastGarrison said:
Cov is getting rougher by the day!!
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I would laugh but it would hurt
 
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ccfc922

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  • Thursday at 11:58 PM
  • #17,312
CovValleyBoy said:
This generational thing where people arrive at a food counter.
Say a coffee shop & order by saying "can I GET..... " wtf does my head in
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Tbf, as much as i agree it depends on the application of please or not at the end...
 
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ccfc922

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  • Thursday at 11:59 PM
  • #17,313
Tommo1993 said:
American TV I imagine. Spreads like a really bad infection and like you I hear it everywhere. Often groan at my Mrs who will always say she’s ’going to get a shower’.
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Think that's an invitation mate... get up there man!
 

dutchman

Well-Known Member
  • Friday at 3:50 AM
  • #17,314
Supermarkets moving stuff around in the ludicrous belief I'm more likely to buy something that I didn't before. If anything I'll buy a lot less than I usually do because I can't find it anymore.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Friday at 5:57 AM
  • #17,315
ccfc922 said:
Tbf, as much as i agree it depends on the application of please or not at the end...
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It doesn’t. It’s a shitty Americanisation.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Friday at 9:28 AM
  • #17,316
Those "fake Range Rover" Jaecoo vehicles. Ugly as fuck!
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Friday at 10:32 AM
  • #17,317
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Those "fake Range Rover" Jaecoo vehicles. Ugly as fuck!
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Cheap as fuck tho. Was looking at Chinese EVs yesterday randomly and couldn’t believe the prices.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Friday at 10:56 AM
  • #17,318
shmmeee said:
Cheap as fuck tho. Was looking at Chinese EVs yesterday randomly and couldn’t believe the prices.
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How much are they? Compared to, say, an MG HS?
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Friday at 11:32 AM
  • #17,319
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
How much are they? Compared to, say, an MG HS?
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About the same, but MG is a Chinese brand too these days.
 

Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • Friday at 11:43 AM
  • #17,320
ccfc922 said:
Think that's an invitation mate... get up there man!
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Stuff like that stopped after I married her.

must marry
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

Well-Known Member
  • Friday at 11:48 AM
  • #17,321
shmmeee said:
About the same, but MG is a Chinese brand too these days.
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Yeah, exactly, but have been around in the UK a bit longer in this incarnation, so a longer history of long-term road tests.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Friday at 11:56 AM
  • #17,322
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Yeah, exactly, but have been around in the UK a bit longer in this incarnation, so a longer history of long-term road tests.
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Oh got ya.
 

ccfc922

Well-Known Member
  • Sunday at 1:49 AM
  • #17,323
When a crime is committed and there's no description of the potential perpetrator that the police are looking for.

May as well not report it in the Press.

Teenager in hospital after city centre stabbing - BBC News

Leicestershire Police says the boy remains in hospital with potentially life-changing injuries.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Monday at 6:48 AM
  • #17,324
People on local Facebook groups (especially) who comment, in the aftermath of a road accident or some similar incident "I hope everyone's OK". What they *actually* mean is "Please can someone give me a like and pass on some juicy gossip?"
Pointless wastes of space and air!
 
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dutchman

Well-Known Member
  • Yesterday at 4:35 AM
  • #17,325
The last time I logged onto Facebook my home screen was filled with posts from people and organisations I've never heard of before. It took me ages to right click and block them all. This was not the first time it's happened either.
 
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