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Author:  devilman [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 14:47 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Findus Fop wrote:
Squirt wrote:
What if you grind up the Dog Shit Fairy?


White dog shit.

GARLIC BREAD?


Does anyone remember Curlywurlys?

Curly! Wurly! 10p! Costs more now! Curlywurly! They made them smaller!


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Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 21:15 ]
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A friend I met through another forum was recently diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia.
On the up side, he's been told that survival rates are very high and he's otherwise very fit and healthy.
Author:  markg [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 21:24 ]
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Yeah AML is the worse one. It took my cousin and damn nearly my uncle too who was saved by some wonderful person's stem cells.

Hope your friend comes through ok.
Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 21:56 ]
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Yeah, having heard about his diagnosis I was doing some reading and saw the survival rates of the different types.....

Scary stuff.
Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 18:50 ]
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Not a massive nay compared to some in this thread, but, today has seen Jazzy:
    Get a parking ticket (first ever!)
    Get so low on fuel I have to take a detour and coast into the nearest petrol station
    Miss my dentist appointment.

My yay is that I got to see a lovely colleague (currently on maternity) and her month old baby who let me cuddle him for a whole hour. :)

Might just consider today over though and go to bed!
Author:  TheVision [ Thu May 17, 2018 11:31 ]
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Just finished a video for a client and he's emailed me back saying. "It's a wrap on the video. It's the best we're going to do this time around! :P Thanks for all your efforts"

I'm probably reading too much into it as he has been really positive throughout the whole process so far. This email just seems like it's a "good enough" type deal?

Never mind. I'm pleased with it and my invoice is on the way!
Author:  DavPaz [ Thu May 17, 2018 11:33 ]
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If you were pleased and you got paid, that's a win!

Maybe he was being self depricating
Author:  Zardoz [ Thu May 17, 2018 11:33 ]
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This time round sounds like repeat business to me. Stay positive and well done!
Author:  myp [ Thu May 17, 2018 11:34 ]
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I guess the client has a budget and can't spend any more on it, I wouldn't worry unless they complained about it. Good enough is good enough.
Author:  Zardoz [ Thu May 17, 2018 11:38 ]
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Well my car has cost me then best part of £1,400 but it's running great now.

Our loft conversion idea has had to be rethought, costing us more money but it'll retain the huge back bedroom and give us a bigger open plan 3rd floor.

Realised with the help of Markg that my RC transmitter is borked and that's why (mostly) I've been having terrible crashes recently but I found a bargain new one that I had just enough money to scrape together and grab.
Author:  TheVision [ Thu May 17, 2018 11:43 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
If you were pleased and you got paid, that's a win!

Maybe he was being self depricating


Zardoz wrote:
This time round sounds like repeat business to me. Stay positive and well done!


Lonewolves wrote:
I guess the client has a budget and can't spend any more on it, I wouldn't worry unless they complained about it. Good enough is good enough.


Yep, all spot on. I won't worry about it. I'm pleased with it!

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Author:  Trooper [ Thu May 17, 2018 12:09 ]
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Good enough is a much maligned target. Good enough should be exactly what you are targeting in a business transaction. Efficient, see...
Author:  Cras [ Thu May 17, 2018 12:11 ]
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Consistently Mediocre is the best goal
Author:  MaliA [ Thu May 17, 2018 12:39 ]
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Found 3 old £1 coins.
The bank swapped them for new ones!
Rover worth £3 less
Author:  Zardoz [ Thu May 17, 2018 13:28 ]
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Surely it's worth £3 more now.
Author:  MaliA [ Thu May 17, 2018 13:42 ]
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No I went to the library and did some printing.
Author:  Zardoz [ Thu May 17, 2018 14:40 ]
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But the coins in the car were worthless in their non-legal tender state.

Your car has remained the same in that respect.
Author:  KovacsC [ Fri May 18, 2018 11:28 ]
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Can you swap old £1.. I still have a few in the car
Author:  MaliA [ Fri May 18, 2018 11:33 ]
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I did.
Author:  Warhead [ Fri May 18, 2018 12:22 ]
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KovacsC wrote:
Can you swap old £1.. I still have a few in the car



The question is, can YOU swap them? If not, send them to MaliA.
Author:  TheVision [ Fri May 18, 2018 12:26 ]
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TheVision wrote:
Just finished a video for a client and he's emailed me back saying. "It's a wrap on the video. It's the best we're going to do this time around! :P Thanks for all your efforts"

I'm probably reading too much into it as he has been really positive throughout the whole process so far. This email just seems like it's a "good enough" type deal?

Never mind. I'm pleased with it and my invoice is on the way!


And I've been paid! :DD
Author:  Warhead [ Fri May 18, 2018 12:34 ]
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Blimey, that was quick.
Author:  asfish [ Fri May 25, 2018 8:59 ]
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Was away in Belgium most of this week.

On Wednesday night got back to my room around 11pm after eating dinner with some people from work I had bumped into.

My passport wasn't in any of my pockets, so 20 mins of panic and retracing my steps, (we had eaten at a hotel opposite)

No sign of it so I walked back to the hotel planning to call our travel provider and work out how the hell I would get home.

Then I remembered I had showered and changed before going out, I always travel with a small bin liner and but all my dirty clothes in that, so find my trousers and there is the passport in the back pocket: DD

Don't remember having this level of panic for some time! Had 4 beers with dinner that probably didn't help!
Author:  BikNorton [ Fri May 25, 2018 10:11 ]
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I think that's a pretty reasonable thing to panic about, to be fair.
Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:01 ]
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I did an Ironman 70.3 triathlon. Well i started it, I missed the swim cut off by 1 second. Guttered, I need to work on my swim
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:04 ]
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That seems harsh. Was it a competition?
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:05 ]
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Also, I assume the "yay" part is that you didn't then have to run or ride the bike?
Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:03 ]
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Grim... wrote:
That seems harsh. Was it a competition?


Yes it is an Ironman competition. They are strict. Yes the nay was I got to rest :)
Author:  BikNorton [ Thu Jun 14, 2018 13:06 ]
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Nay - after a shitty couple of months which has led to my anxiety breaking me over the last couple of weeks, I'm told one of our big trees went over into next door's garden last night. From the description, the 20+ metre tall sweet chestnut with a trunk well over a metre thick. Onto the greenhouse we sold them last weekend.

Yay - just the empty greenhouse rather than house, I get to buy a pair of big axes now, and sweet chestnut is brilliant smoking wood.
Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Jun 14, 2018 14:51 ]
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Bloody hell, that could have been much worse.

Did you get the money for the Greenhouse before it was flattened? :)
Author:  BikNorton [ Thu Jun 14, 2018 15:17 ]
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We did, but it would be worth the good faith in offering a refund. They'd got as far as assembling the vertical panels and laying them out - there's a pretty good chance it's fine; the glass is still in our garage and the one we've erected had a heavily-laden fig tree fall on it without damage.

I am now super glad we had the eucalyptus removed, that was already shaky in the last batch of winds and would've been straight onto their house.
Author:  BikNorton [ Thu Jun 14, 2018 19:53 ]
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Oh thank fuck - it was a silver birch that's half the height and a twentieth the width - and it landed in such a way as to do essentially o damage to anything.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Jun 14, 2018 20:49 ]
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Not so good for smoking, though.
Author:  BikNorton [ Thu Jun 14, 2018 22:34 ]
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No, but I need to take lots of the chestnut anyway. And the hazel. And the apples. And there's already chestnut and cherry knocking around the garden somewhere that I should start seasoning.
Author:  DBSnappa [ Fri Jun 15, 2018 7:33 ]
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I got nicked for speeding yesterday. In Italy, so there go all those urban myths about the traffic police turning a blind eye to speeding motorists. I had to suppress a smile when they told me the fine was €28.70
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Jun 15, 2018 7:58 ]
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What an oddly specific amount
Author:  DBSnappa [ Fri Jun 15, 2018 12:11 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
What an oddly specific amount

It’s supposedly €41 if you take up to 2 weeks to pay. You get a 30% discount for paying within five days, hence the €28.70
Author:  Trooper [ Fri Jun 15, 2018 14:02 ]
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Brexit means you don't have to pay, this is exactly what we all voted for.
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Jun 15, 2018 14:30 ]
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Yeah, tell Johnny Foreigner that you'll only pay it in The Queen's Own Sterling.
Author:  TheVision [ Sat Jun 16, 2018 14:42 ]
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Yay... I just got to the last 18 on Fortnite on the Switch. My best ever!

Nay... My battery went soon after.
Author:  Grim... [ Sat Jun 16, 2018 15:41 ]
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The Grimlet got his first 1st the other day.
Author:  TheVision [ Sat Jun 16, 2018 16:29 ]
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Good work! What's he playing on?

I have a feeling that Switch users are still getting used to it so it's not quite so tough out there.
Author:  myp [ Sat Jun 16, 2018 18:03 ]
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TheVision wrote:
Good work! What's he playing on?

I have a feeling that Switch users are still getting used to it so it's not quite so tough out there.

Interesting!
Author:  Grim... [ Sat Jun 16, 2018 20:12 ]
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TheVision wrote:
Good work! What's he playing on?

PS4
Author:  devilman [ Sun Jun 17, 2018 7:05 ]
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Grim... wrote:
The Grimlet got his first 1st the other day.


Those university courses are getting easier and easier.
Author:  Warhead [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:06 ]
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My sister and her husband are over from South Africa, staying with one of their sons and his family in Cardiff. They usually make a trip to Manchester to visit us and some old friends while they’re here, but we decided to drive down on Friday, stay over in a Hotel and make a surprise visit to them on Saturday, staying over on Saturday night and driving back today.

As it was a last minute decision to go, we had a problem finding a room, as The Stones were playing in Cardiff on Friday night, but I finally managed to book a room in Caerphilly Premier inn. We arrived just after 9pm, only to be told they had double booked the room and so they had no vacancies. The manager was very apologetic and was trying all hotels in the area to see if any had vacancies, and we were psyching ourselves up to turn up at my nephew’s to ask to doss down anywhere, when the manager found a room. In Bristol. Around 30 miles away. He called the hotel to ensure they’d hold the room for us, and asked if we wanted to book for two nights. I told him we were visiting relatives in Cardiff, so he said he'd book a room in Caerphilly for Saturday night, free of charge. It’s around an hour’s drive from Caerphilly to Bristol, so not too bad.

We had a great visit in Cardiff on Saturday, and when we booked in at Caerphilly last night, we not only got the room free, but full breakasts for this morning as well.
Author:  Kris [ Tue Jun 19, 2018 15:08 ]
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Warhead wrote:
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
My sister and her husband are over from South Africa, staying with one of their sons and his family in Cardiff. They usually make a trip to Manchester to visit us and some old friends while they’re here, but we decided to drive down on Friday, stay over in a Hotel and make a surprise visit to them on Saturday, staying over on Saturday night and driving back today.

As it was a last minute decision to go, we had a problem finding a room, as The Stones were playing in Cardiff on Friday night, but I finally managed to book a room in Caerphilly Premier inn. We arrived just after 9pm, only to be told they had double booked the room and so they had no vacancies. The manager was very apologetic and was trying all hotels in the area to see if any had vacancies, and we were psyching ourselves up to turn up at my nephew’s to ask to doss down anywhere, when the manager found a room. In Bristol. Around 30 miles away. He called the hotel to ensure they’d hold the room for us, and asked if we wanted to book for two nights. I told him we were visiting relatives in Cardiff, so he said he'd book a room in Caerphilly for Saturday night, free of charge. It’s around an hour’s drive from Caerphilly to Bristol, so not too bad.

We had a great visit in Cardiff on Saturday, and when we booked in at Caerphilly last night, we not only got the room free, but full breakasts for this morning as well.


At first I was >:( then I was >:| at the end I was :D.

What a rollercoaster of emotions.
Author:  myp [ Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:36 ]
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My softball club has two teams now. The first team (that I occasionally play for) plays in East Midlands Softball League Division 1, and the second team (which I captain) plays in Division 3.

The second team finished joint-top of Spring League D3 with the same points and wins as another team but missed out on the championship due to a 0-2 head-to-head record.

The first team finished joint-top of Spring League D1 with the same number of points, wins, head-to-head record (1-1) and runs allowed so the championship will be decided on the toss of a coin!

While gutted to have missed out on promotion I'm really proud of our efforts and think it may have come a bit too soon anyway. Half of our team are either brand new or in their second season, and we would probably struggled. Hopefully we can keep playing well in the Summer League and get promoted in time for spring 2019!

We've also reached five tournament finals and lost them all, but I haven't been involved due to lack of funds.
Author:  Warhead [ Sat Jun 23, 2018 1:56 ]
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Kris wrote:
Warhead wrote:
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
My sister and her husband are over from South Africa, staying with one of their sons and his family in Cardiff. They usually make a trip to Manchester to visit us and some old friends while they’re here, but we decided to drive down on Friday, stay over in a Hotel and make a surprise visit to them on Saturday, staying over on Saturday night and driving back today.

As it was a last minute decision to go, we had a problem finding a room, as The Stones were playing in Cardiff on Friday night, but I finally managed to book a room in Caerphilly Premier inn. We arrived just after 9pm, only to be told they had double booked the room and so they had no vacancies. The manager was very apologetic and was trying all hotels in the area to see if any had vacancies, and we were psyching ourselves up to turn up at my nephew’s to ask to doss down anywhere, when the manager found a room. In Bristol. Around 30 miles away. He called the hotel to ensure they’d hold the room for us, and asked if we wanted to book for two nights. I told him we were visiting relatives in Cardiff, so he said he'd book a room in Caerphilly for Saturday night, free of charge. It’s around an hour’s drive from Caerphilly to Bristol, so not too bad.

We had a great visit in Cardiff on Saturday, and when we booked in at Caerphilly last night, we not only got the room free, but full breakasts for this morning as well.


At first I was >:( then I was >:| at the end I was :D.

What a rollercoaster of emotions.


That’s why it’s in the ‘Nay’ but ‘Yay’ thread.
Author:  Kris [ Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:01 ]
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I just wanted to use all the emoticons if I'm honest.
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