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Hold your hand out at arms length and count how many fingers there are between the bottom of the Sun and the horizon. Each finger represents 15 minutes til sunset. (Only works on holiday when you can see the sun and the sea) |
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Private parking charges from a hotel where my son dropped a mate off and was there the VAST time of 14 mins but they want to "fine" him £100. Thieving gits.
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Please for the love of God will people stop posting polls on linkedin
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price of fuel - almost broke £100 to fill up, first time ever. £1.49 a litre of diesel.
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And we bloody grow them here in California... Having said that I opened one yesterday and it was perfect. Probably the first one this year. Meghan and I finished it for breakfast this morning on toast. :rolleyes: |
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WiFi on the undergeround. Possibly the worst decision ever.
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The Haas type we pick next year will stay fresh on the tree for several months. |
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You make as much sense as welt so I'll assume the answer to the first part of my question is "yes".
As for your question, I have no f~cking idea what you are on about apart from knowing it is not "interesting". I have never had more than a couple brass farthings to rub against each other (why I should want to do such a thing I'm not sure) and am not in the slightest bit patriotic or nationalistic. |
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Called palta down here (another native word). Avocado is a word invented by the American growers deemed more acceptable to the buying public than the original name of Alligator Pear. |
If their nadgers were that big it's no surprise they had problems running away from the dagos.
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Though as I remember it, they were only invented in England at some point in the late 70s.
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I just read up on this. M&S introduced them in 1968 as “avocado pears”, which is what my mum used to call them. It was at first unsuccessful owing to the confusion created by the name - housewives trying to stew them and serving them with custard. They must have made it to Sainsbury’s quite a bit later, in any case.
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When paying on your card these days being made to feel guilty asking to see how much they’ve put into the machine.
3 times in the last month people as put in the wrong amount. I’m asking to look at the screen for the purchase I’m making in your shop you ****tard. |
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We’ve been looking to move out of the city. We’ve seen some fantastic affordable properties which due to nearby avocado plantations, are utterly dry. Wells are useless and they have to have water trucked in. Which is very annoying. |
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The bloody band at England football matches. I was sat directly above them last night. Just not necessary.
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A guy started a winery, acres of grapes and a nice house with a tasting room. As this is a bit off the beaten track, all the surrounding homes are large ranch style which get their water from wells. Mysteriously all these wells started to prematurely dry up. Apparently the guy with the winery was somehow using all their water up on his land. There was quite a to-do, but not heard anything lately, so not sure how it got resolved if it did. |
Having to go to work on a Sunday night after playing football... its cold and dark outside, I just wanna go to bed.
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A fair number of the 'socialist' cristian democrats sold state land to themselves at some stupidly cheap price - say 10p in the pound for arguments sake. Specifically to have avocado plantations. These got first dibs of the water runiing off the mountains - leaving everyone else with little. Throw in the apartment building explosion along the coast, and that probably takes the rest. Land that has been using that water since pre-colonial times now have none. Oddly, this political ownership of these orchards? never seems to get mentioned on any news or documentary programme related to the water crisis. Not a mention during the wider COP26 debacle, either. It is as though these plantations don't exist. |
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Of course it's not as heartwarming as telling people they've been successful, but there will always be more who didn't succeed at an interview than did, so it's a much more fundamental part of the job. I can't believe people actually bottle telling candidates, that is so weak. I'm glad you make the effort pallet, but those who don't should be "let go" immediately, and given shit references, grrr |
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Nothing beats starting the job with a widespread feeling of rancour, and distrust. Be very hard to have any respect for the person who got your job. Probably all due to some feckwitt who had started the interview process without going through internal HR norms beforehand. 'You do realise that this company has a policy of offering roles internally first.....' ...feck how do I get out of this, I know, put my bullshit face on.. |
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In Chile, banks don't even contact their clients to tell them their credit application has been rejected. They just hope the problem goes away on its own. The client waits a week, and then waits another week thinking that it is good manners to be patient. Then rings or emails and gets told the bad news. The bad news was available a week earlier. Relly week emotional intelligence, and they live in their own bubble without the issues and problems facing regular people. |
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Wickes in Croydon.
Wickes in Croydon playing Christmas tunes. |
Updated my wife's iPad last night.
Completely change the appearance/location of the Apps. She is freaking out wanting me to make it look like it did before. Why do the ****ers do this??? Also every app you open, asks stupid questions that I don't have a clue what the correct answer is... I read it's all part of the security issues and "people" being able to "see" your stuff. Don't Apple realize that 99% of people using their devices are not technically savvy enough to answer this stuff right, nor care. We just went through the same with our phones on Saturday... |
The award of the penalty for England’s third goal tonight. Ball was clearly going out and was the merest of brushes against the fingertips. Common sense please.
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Sky using demographics to target advertising straight to my TV. Getting my fair share of Viagra by post adverts, I thought this firm must be paying a fortune for advertising and a lot must be hitting the wrong target audience, until I googled it. Adsmart by Sky.
Sky AdSmart has a revolutionary approach to TV advertising; it’s targeting abilities are so advanced that different ads can be shown to different people watching the same programme at the same time. Households can be selected based on factors such as age, location, lifestyle or even if they have a cat! Don’t advertise by channel, advertise by audience! |
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Finding out that Judith Keppel is still stealing a living on Eggheads
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I gave up, and put it all back together, and in fact the leak seemed to have gone away until today when it has come back with vengeance. Only solution I can see is buy a complete new set (hot/cold/Spout/drain)... if only you could buy just the one you need. A bit like having to replace a car headlight assembly because the bulb burnt out. :wallbash: |
^ Oh, and I could hardly move for two days after crawling around under the sink!
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The fact that in 6 months' time, and for the next 4 or 5 years after that, we'll have to put up with the Conor Gallagher - Have We Replaced Him? thing, thus adding him to the RLC and Cabaye pantheon of "Midfielders Who Are Hard To Replace And To Whom Every Midfielder Since Them Must - MUST! - be Compared."
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... When you need a part and can only buy it in packs of two (or more) and the chances of needing the second one in my life time are slim to none!
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Banks (I’m looking at you Santander) that take 3-4 months to shuffle some paper around before paying out a mortgage.
This isn’t the approval process - that’s all done. The customer is approved, the terms are concluded. It’s purely administrative. |
Celebrities doing things for charity that you look at and you think really?
Sophie Ellis Bextor supposedly dancing for 24 hours in a kitchen. She is hardly moving her feet. If you want to look at something to make your crap day feel better, look at it on BBC website, even Pudsey the bear is standing there thinking to himself put some effort in. Eddie Izzard must be thinking I ran 26 marathons in 26 days and she is just moving one leg for 24 hours |
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I know it's probably already been done to death - but Yodel couriers.
They give me a 3-hour timeslot for collection of a returns parcel, and tell me that the driver will contact me 30 minutes before arrival. I've heard that story before, so I have their online tracking app fired up at the start of the allocated timeslot to keep an eye on the progress of the driver. 2 hrs 30 into the allocated timelsot and still no phone call, but I see on the app that I am now the driver's next but one stop, and that the driver is 2 streets away. So I go down to the front door with the parcel, open the door and am standing on the front garden path, watching for the Yodel van to arrive in the street. Look at the app - it's refreshed to say "driver was unable to collect as nobody was home - contact your consignee to arrange another collection slot". Either Yodel are massively incompetent or they are a bunch of shysters. Personally I think its a bit of both. |
“Live rent free in your head”, “give your head a wobble”
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Verisure - ongoing: "It's getting dark early now - we had better get an alarm"
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Called a painter early this morning, left a message... guys never called back.
Expecting a landscape guy to come by sometime. He calls me at 12:30 and says he will be there in and hour and a half. Never shows up. I needed to go to a custom blinds place, and was putting off until after the landscape guy had been, so that went out the window, no pun intended. Tradesmen, can't live with them and can't live without them... |
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I never seen Curb Your Enthusiasm, but from what I know about it, you might be on to something! |
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Thanks… I think! I really must download a few episodes to check it out. Heard so much about it. |
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I, unfortunately, had an early role 1996 to 2001 at Aus Post as a Parcel Driver. Your guy probably fell behind schedule and skipped a few streets to catch back up. Especially if there were only one or two or indeed only yours in the local vicinity. Only takes a kid answering the door, with "mum will be here in a minute to put you 3 or 4 minutes behind (aka 1 or 2 pick ups or drops) Get 3 or more of those and suddenly you're twenty minutes or more behind. AFAIK the delivery rate for parcel drivers is 21 per hour.... It is in this country in a metropolitan area at least. Thats one every 3 minutes.... work that out for driving to destination....finding a parking spot.... removing item from van... locking the van...knocking on door.... going back to van, unlocking the van.... starting her up and then onto the next spot. It gets even worse if the driver is a private contractor and paid by the parcel. (circa 1.30 AUD per parcel currently... all costs including holiday pay, fuel, van ownership insurance and sick pay incurred by the driver.... hence they work over 12 hours minimum per day.... average 14 hours and they don't get paid for sorting and set up.... And that's @ Aus post the private companies are even worse. I would imagine the rest of the world follows similar examples. Twas honestly the worst, most thankless, most miserable job I've ever had in my life. Can't believe I managed to stick it out for so long...but two kids under 5 means you don't have much choice but to be a responsible bread winner. |
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And I would have some sympathy if this was an isolated incident, but it isn't. I've had troubles with Yodel before - deliveries left with neighbours while we were sat at home wondering whern the driver was going to arrive, deliveries left "in your garden shed", when we don't have a garden shed - the list goes on. Speaking to friends I'm not the only one to have these sort of experiences with the company - so it's obviously a major and recurring problem within the organisation. Which begs the question - if the current operating model is failing so regularly why the hell don't the powers that be do something about it? I guess the answer is that suppliers still use them because they are cheaper - but this will eventually backfire because consumers will just stop buying from them if they only have a less than 50:50 chance of the goods actually arriving. |
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He answers the phone, sounds a decent chap, lives close by. He says he will be by at 3:00. Come 4:00 no sign of him, so text him asking if he is still coming. Texts back he will be here at 5:00. Shouldn't it be him texting me that he won't be here to 5:00? As for Landscape guy - totally gone AWOL. Not answering his phone today. What if I was still working and had to take time off to meet this guys... painful. Oh, and I forgot... still no response from the blinds company. |
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