Friesiansam
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JDL
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Can members please refer to forum rules - politics is not permitted, here or anywhere. I don't want to apply the specified sanctions, but will be doing so in future.
JDL
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People who tailgate learner drivers - inexcusable. Watched someone in the village doing this the other day, but forum rules forbid me from describing it as I'd like...
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Government departments (HMRC, DWP etc), which always send post out on a Friday. It therefore arrives on a Saturday - meaning there's no-one to talk to things about for the next couple of days. I'm sure it's to minimise calls and maximise stress.
DougK1
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jjbomber
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We never get any post on a Saturday! By some remarkable coincidence, we get quite a lot on a Monday though.
Now the funny part. When my regular postman was off, I asked the relief postman why we don't get mail on a Saturday and does our regular postie go down the beach with the kids? He said the regular postie doesn't have any kids, so he doesn't know why. Anyway, the enquiry did have an effect. The relief postie stopped calling on Saturdays as well. Back to the drawing board!
Friesiansam
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I remember when, I used to consider Royal Mail to be almost completely reliable...
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Man flu. Whether it exists or not is irrelevant. I've been physically laid up for the past few days, as my daughter has and Mrs. P has a chest infection.
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The ignorant. Two dimwits came into the pub last night, but only after having a chat at the threshold - holding the door open for half a minute and allowing all the heat generated by the roaring fire to escape...
Stuart83
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Tell me about it, people undermining flu is frustrating.
It comes from the people who complain about having it with no symptomology other than a slight sniffle.
The fact they are upright long enough to complain tells me they haven't got the flu at all.
Get well soon flu is no joke......
Yeah, this is quite a bad one. For nearly 3 days it knocked me for six. Feeling better, headaches gone as have the aching legs and haven't taken any Lemsip (other cold and flu remedies are available) since yesterday, but still got a runny ooter.
JDL
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Here's something I find somewhat annoying that's CD related.
I've bought a few CD box sets over the last 2 years.
A 16 CD Cecille Ousset (The French Pianist) set in particular and yesterday, a set of Rachmaninoff's 3 Symphonies and 4 Piano Concertos and a couple of other sets.
The CDs in these sets are in cardboard sleeves inside a box.
The CDs are so tight in the sleeves, that they will not tip out at all. You can't shake them out either.
If you insert a finger to miss the playing surface and reach the centre of the CD, they become even tighter.
The first remedy I performed, was to take 2 old CD/R that I don't care about, place them together and repeatedly force them in and out of the sleeves of the 16 CD boxed set, to wear them in. That worked well. It did leave cardboard dust inside each sleeve but it took about 40 minutes to do all 16. Now the CDs easily slip in and out of the sleeves.
I've taken to carefully slicing through one edge of the sleeves now when they arrive like this. But they were so tight originally, that there was no way to avoid getting finger marks on the CDs.
This is somewhat annoying that CD sleeves in such cases are not quite large enough.
I've bought a few CD box sets over the last 2 years.
A 16 CD Cecille Ousset (The French Pianist) set in particular and yesterday, a set of Rachmaninoff's 3 Symphonies and 4 Piano Concertos and a couple of other sets.
The CDs in these sets are in cardboard sleeves inside a box.
The CDs are so tight in the sleeves, that they will not tip out at all. You can't shake them out either.
If you insert a finger to miss the playing surface and reach the centre of the CD, they become even tighter.
The first remedy I performed, was to take 2 old CD/R that I don't care about, place them together and repeatedly force them in and out of the sleeves of the 16 CD boxed set, to wear them in. That worked well. It did leave cardboard dust inside each sleeve but it took about 40 minutes to do all 16. Now the CDs easily slip in and out of the sleeves.
I've taken to carefully slicing through one edge of the sleeves now when they arrive like this. But they were so tight originally, that there was no way to avoid getting finger marks on the CDs.
This is somewhat annoying that CD sleeves in such cases are not quite large enough.
JDL
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My brother 'caught' something like this a couple of weeks ago. He was running a high temperature, had a thumping headache and his legs ached badly, but no sore throat, no runny nose. He did feel a bit vommity. (Is that a real word? Who cares.)
This state of affairs lasted about 5 days. Our disabled neighbour, a lady who we go and visit at least twice a week, to get shopping for her, top up her electricity key, things like that had also had it. He developed the symptoms she had the same evening we'd visited her. I never got it.
I don't know why I didn't get it. Me and my brother have looked deeply into "Germ Theory." It's problematic. No so called virus, has ever been isolated in any lab, anywhere in the World, at any time recently or in the past. It's quite strange because we do seem to 'catch' these things called colds or flu from each other but many Doctors dispute "Germ Theory", which I believe originated with Louis Pasteur.
Anyway glad you're feeling better.
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Stuart83
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I'm not alone then.
With me it's been the cd albums, the lumineers one was that tight I had to wrestle with it.
JDL
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JDL
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Ok, I know it might seem hilarious.
Go onto YouTube and find
GeoEngineeringWatch.Org/The Dimming.
And then keep laughing.
Go onto YouTube and find
GeoEngineeringWatch.Org/The Dimming.
And then keep laughing.
Stuart83
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