Be Excellent To Each Other

Just sat twiddling my thumbs for fifteen minutes whilst 'Mapinfo' generates a heatmap from a huge dataset, only to discover that the beautiful creation on my screen is showing the differences in the unique identifying codes for each area. Ooops.

Glad the taxpayer's money isn't going to waste.

Nice clear result though, yes?

Aye. It's very pretty.

Eggcitement in Undercliffe as police flanked by missile carrying hooligans

Replacement trainers.

Yes, those are much less conspicuous.

Is it me or are those just as vile?

His legs aren't that bad!

Those are just as vile as you.

Thank you, I do try. "Flutters eyelashes"

I actually struggle to find acceptable (ie black) trainers nowadays.

I should clarify I like running shoe style, or lightweight styles, and have gargantuan feet.

We can be shoe buddies!

13 to 14, depending on brand.Nikes I tend to go 14, because I tend to find they're a bit narrower than other brands.

The brightly coloured ones look alright on 'normal' feet, but look like your wearing fucking distress bouys when you're a goddamned podiatrical tyrannosaur.

Literally the same.
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Depending on the shoe and the brand I can be anything from size 11 to 13. So fucking frustrating.

The 4 pairs of shoes currently own range from 9 to 12. So much for standardisation

Shoe shopping: 'wow, those would be perfect! Oh, those go to size 12. Fuck. Oh well those would do just fine! Size 10 is the max? FFS. Show me ones that will fit me... Erm, well. They're the least worst. I'll take them! HOW MUCH!?

Much better than it used to be, of course, when choice often came down to 'these or none at all'.

I'm glad I don't do any sport that requires specialist footwear.

What the fuck? I know Adidas always seem to come up a bit small but only like half a size.

We should have custom-fitted trainers by now. For a reasonable price.

My school buddy Matthew had size 15s at age 15. He pretty much resigned himself to wearing workboots for the rest of his life.

Weird, no? The 9's are Sketchers trainers and the 12's are boots with a high ankle.

I need bright trainers, so I can spot them in transitions when I do triathlons.

I went to the Arboretum Cafe today, for breakfast.

The options are:
Traditional Breakfast: £4.95
Sausage or Bacon Bloomer £2.99
Toast 85p per slice (add jam 50p, add egg £1)

There is a promotion just started, which I have taken a picture of, below.

I saw the leaflet yesterday, but they'd all been removed today, so I asked if this was still available (I found the leaflet I took a picture of as I was leaving today). Yes, they said. I asked them what the offer was as I didn't remember. Now, just read that leaflet, and what do you make of it?

What the two women on shift told me was that I could have a £1 coffee with my breakfast, which would save me 80p as coffee is usually £1.80. Ok, fair enough. BUT, I couldn't have toast. Ok, that's fine, I didn't want just toast, I was going to have a full breakfast.

No, she said... They'd serve me breakfast but remove toast, because it says excludes toast. I suggested that surely that meant that you couldn't get the £1 coffee option if you were 'just' having toast for breakfast. No, they insisted that it meant that toast would be removed from any breakfast I was ordering if I wanted s £1 coffee. I could, however, pay 85p to add toast, which would then cost 5p more than just having a normal breakfast with toast and a normal full price coffee.

It's a bit funny, but I like the girl, so I smile and say I will have a sausage bloomer instead as then I don't t need to worry about toast. She says she thinks it applies to bread as well as toast. Now I just blink dumbly for a while. I can have a sausage bloomer, without the... Bloomer? So, just a plate with a couple of sausages on it.

To stop the pain I just order a breakfast with toast, with no drink. And I don't want mushrooms. She asks if I'd like some free extra toast instead of mushrooms. I say yes, just to make it stop.

Also, that picture is of fricking TOAST.

Amazing scenes! I don't think I would have been able to keep a straight face while if she'd have explained it to me.

You are clearly right and they are clearly very bad at thinking.

What you want are trainers with little led lights in that work off s RFid chip, so you get within 10 feet of them they light up.

I did smile s couple of times, though I was trying not to as I didn't want them to think I was taking the piss.

See, in situations like that, I think it definitely helps to take the piss in a most obvious fashion.

Except they are about to be in a position to handle your food , so I'd go with Mimi and just smile and not worry about it.

You loose your feet?

Mimi, was that cafe run by John Cleese and Victoria wood?

I hope nobody mentioned the war.

I was queueing for a baked potato there once (which I had to return as it was cold and raw in the middle...) when a woman brought her sandwich back to the counter. It was a ham, cheese and salad sandwich with a whole grain mustard served on the side. But they hadn't given her the mustard, and inside it was just cheese and salad, no ham. They stated simply that they never had any ham or mustard. They didn't see anything weird or wrong with just having given the woman a cheese sandwich instead.

Make your party Van-Gogh with a bang!

From ThisisOxfordshire:


Fifth in the world!

Why is Nervous Pete not in that comp?

I bet Craster could easily morph into a better one.

Thought of this:

Tonight I will be fixing my fence, after next doors puppies tried to steal my socks today.

It's up to them to keep their dogs in, not for you to keep them out.

Not convinced that's all that true if you own the fence

It is my fence... I have the panels, just never fixed it

I think it's right. You don't have to have any fence at all, but they still shouldn't let them onto your property.

Unreasonable, but there you are.

It sounds like a job for Paw Patrol.

It is a problem I suppose but also the weights of a normal sized cat, fox and next door's Yorkshire Terrier are annoyingly close so getting one but not the two others is a real task when setting the ebay bought gin trap.

Yep. It's true. I looked it up when the dog at the bottom of our garden got in. They had a new fence in the end.

Is Paw Patrol any good? We really like Octonauts at the moment. All the special feature length ones are on iPlayer at the moment.

That is unreasonable. If you don't own the boundary, you can't replace a fucked up fance panel, so have to come up with some additional means of dog-proofing? That's bizarre.

It's your dog, it's your responsibility to keep it off other people's property.

It's the same deal with cats, if you want to be seriously unreasonable.