Tell us something really trivial about your life Volume 40
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paua said:
How should I rate my level if satisfaction?
GR, tell'em t go shaft theirselves sideways wiff th ruff ende of a pineapple. HTH
One of the plants we bought from Amsterdam is apparently like an upside down pineappleGR, tell'em t go shaft theirselves sideways wiff th ruff ende of a pineapple. HTH
Still airing the bags outside.
I guess the stall also sold pots, just wasn't expecting... I'm so naive sometimes...
Edited by Byker28i on Monday 29th April 09:29
Our BT contract ran out it's 24 months. Can we just continue with the cheap 50mb, thats all we need.
Oh no - it's now EE, 50Mb will cost you £40 a month rather than the £27.99 we had before. Ok we'll find someone else... "Hang on, we'll do you the full fibre 500mb for £30 - no loss of service whilst we do it.
Man comes out last wednesday, realises he can't get fibre to our house easily - it's going to need a new pipe run the 50m to our house (as the old BT pipe with the copper wires in is 40 years old and tiny).
Then today they've sent me a cat 5 cable to connect the modem, and said an engineer will come to fit it. The cable is about 3m and far too short for it's intended use
This is going to cost EE so much money. Ridiculous, I'd have been happy sticking with what I had.
Oh no - it's now EE, 50Mb will cost you £40 a month rather than the £27.99 we had before. Ok we'll find someone else... "Hang on, we'll do you the full fibre 500mb for £30 - no loss of service whilst we do it.
Man comes out last wednesday, realises he can't get fibre to our house easily - it's going to need a new pipe run the 50m to our house (as the old BT pipe with the copper wires in is 40 years old and tiny).
Then today they've sent me a cat 5 cable to connect the modem, and said an engineer will come to fit it. The cable is about 3m and far too short for it's intended use
This is going to cost EE so much money. Ridiculous, I'd have been happy sticking with what I had.
Byker28i said:
We had the misfortune to try to return to the UK the day after those misled individuals believed Boris and voted for us to leave the EU. As a regular traveler I wanted to stay in for purely for selfish reasons.
The french response was to put one person on passport control at the tunnel and to take 5 mins per passport check, lots of walking away and speaking to a colleague smoking a Gauloises or drinking a coffee etc, swapping turns each vehicle...
Huge tailbacks onto the dual carriageway.
Me attempting small talk, asked if there was a problem (meaning with my passport as he was intensely studying it)
"Well it's all your fault for leaving the EU"
I think they must exclusively stock Channel ports with Parisians. Thats the only two places in France I've ever found extremely rude people, even when I'm murdering their language
I was in Spain. The Spanish press found Brexit hilarious.The french response was to put one person on passport control at the tunnel and to take 5 mins per passport check, lots of walking away and speaking to a colleague smoking a Gauloises or drinking a coffee etc, swapping turns each vehicle...
Huge tailbacks onto the dual carriageway.
Me attempting small talk, asked if there was a problem (meaning with my passport as he was intensely studying it)
"Well it's all your fault for leaving the EU"
I think they must exclusively stock Channel ports with Parisians. Thats the only two places in France I've ever found extremely rude people, even when I'm murdering their language
Mon Dieu! Sacré Bleu! 
Byker28i said:
paua said:
How should I rate my level if satisfaction?
GR, tell'em t go shaft theirselves sideways wiff th ruff ende of a pineapple. HTH
One of the plants we bought from Amsterdam is apparently like an upside down pineappleGR, tell'em t go shaft theirselves sideways wiff th ruff ende of a pineapple. HTH
Still airing the bags outside.
I guess the stall also sold pots, just wasn't expecting... I'm so naive sometimes...
Edited by Byker28i on Monday 29th April 09:29
glenrobbo said:
Byker28i said:
We always get drug wiped on the way out, apparently it's the quiet unusual ones that are the couriers, but why would I be taking it to Belgium, rather than the other way around.
The French on the other hand don't care "Just go, leave my country. Take in whatever you want, and be thankful I even looked at your feelthy Eenglish passeport - Pah" - or something like that.
The French on the other hand don't care "Just go, leave my country. Take in whatever you want, and be thankful I even looked at your feelthy Eenglish passeport - Pah" - or something like that.
Cracks me up every time!
Moi aussi! 
Is that the time? Good heavens!
Well, good aftermorn then. I have spent what feels like a day and a half waiting in an NHS waiting room for "Urgent Care". If it wasn't "Urgent" I'd probably still be there on Friday. Firstly, at 1hr 20mins past my appointment time, I was seen promptly by a nurse, who, having taken my blood pressure twice, then told me that I would be ushered into the presence of a GP within minutes. Sure enough, forty (40) minutes later, I was seen by a (rather cute) doctoress, who made me sit on her couch, and then lie down while she twisted my head quickly to the right, which caused the contents of the room to rotate uncontrollably, at which point the rather cute lady doctor confirmed my original diagnosis, which was an unwelcome return of BPPV, which involves the inner ear, and makes one very disorientated.
After that rather unpleasant start to the week, I'm hoping that things, as Tony Blair once told us, can only get better.
ION, many congratumalations to Hammo on his perstage count achievement, and thanks for the Officer Crabtree mem - is he one of the greatest comic characters of all time?
I shall be taking the afternoon off, to lie down in a darkened room.
Well, good aftermorn then. I have spent what feels like a day and a half waiting in an NHS waiting room for "Urgent Care". If it wasn't "Urgent" I'd probably still be there on Friday. Firstly, at 1hr 20mins past my appointment time, I was seen promptly by a nurse, who, having taken my blood pressure twice, then told me that I would be ushered into the presence of a GP within minutes. Sure enough, forty (40) minutes later, I was seen by a (rather cute) doctoress, who made me sit on her couch, and then lie down while she twisted my head quickly to the right, which caused the contents of the room to rotate uncontrollably, at which point the rather cute lady doctor confirmed my original diagnosis, which was an unwelcome return of BPPV, which involves the inner ear, and makes one very disorientated.
After that rather unpleasant start to the week, I'm hoping that things, as Tony Blair once told us, can only get better.
ION, many congratumalations to Hammo on his perstage count achievement, and thanks for the Officer Crabtree mem - is he one of the greatest comic characters of all time?
I shall be taking the afternoon off, to lie down in a darkened room.
Today I returned to a rather urgent "can you do this today", which relied on using a client laptop. However they've changed stuff which means it wouldn't connect so necessitated a call to their support staff.
"Can you do it remotely"
"Nope needs to be connected to our network, head into our office at X"
So 40 min drive in "Oh we've no staff in today, they are working from home...". Client laptop isn't allowed to connect to their wifi so the morning wasted...
Ho Hum
"Can you do it remotely"
"Nope needs to be connected to our network, head into our office at X"
So 40 min drive in "Oh we've no staff in today, they are working from home...". Client laptop isn't allowed to connect to their wifi so the morning wasted...
Ho Hum
paua said:
glenrobbo said:
Think ah may need t drink th 32 litres o dettol water used t wash ma wetsuit, 2day. AND inject some bleach.
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paua said:
Oh Paua - hadn't you been consulted on the All Blacks new training strip? Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff