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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:56 
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Kriss Akabusi is giving a motivational speech at work today.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Kriss Akabusi is giving a motivational speech at work today.

He's supposed to be really, really good. Enjoy.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Akabusi! Awesome!


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I've had this email off an Amazon seller.

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Hello.

I'm very sorry for bothering you.
Judging from your product review, I would say that you didn't have a very good experience with us.
We would like to offer you a compensation for your order.
We can send you brand new products or issue a refund.
Please consider it, and contact us back with your decision.
We are going to make your experience better.
I will be grateful if you could consider removing or editing your review.

Thank you
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At first, it looked a bit odd but when I looked into it it appears that I did leave a review in October of 2016 for some cheap printer cartridges I purchased. I said...

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I bought these cartridges around 2 months ago and have used them very sparingly. Today I've come to print something and the black one has "failed" according to my printer. No amount of cleaning is able to save it.

They were cheap but the fact that they won't last long probably explains this.


and I left a 1 star review. I can't remember leaving the review but I must have been quite annoyed as it's not like me at all. So, what would you do? Would you ask for some more cartridges and take the review down? Would you ask for a refund and take the review down or would you do nothing and leave it?


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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If they'd replied within a few days then that would suggest good customer service and I'd consider removing the review, or editing it to at least state that they dealt with you in a timely manner.

A year's taking the piss a bit though.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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School places for the kid were confirmed this morning - we'd been a bit anxious about it as only Second Born had a place two days ago - which meant it was a possibility I'd be moving out on my own and the family would be following for the next term (April start) which would have been rubbish. So now all systems go - we've got about 40 days until we go.... And a lot to do.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Am I right in thinking that this is a permanent move then?


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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It's a 2 year assignment, but is inevitably going to end up being extended.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I just need a bed and some cupboard space for my T-shirts.

How fast is the broadband going to be?

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Grim... wrote:
I just need a bed and some cupboard space for my T-shirts.

How fast is the broadband going to be?


When I lived there, it was rubbish. Seemed to get throttled a lot, and you really felt the U.S. come online.

Things may have changed since then.


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The free wifi I've used at hotels and whatnot has been fine.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Are you out on the week of the 4th December? I am in Johor for a few days.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I'm not, no - that's my last week in the UK!

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Mr Russell wrote:
Kern wrote:
Kriss Akabusi is giving a motivational speech at work today.

He's supposed to be really, really good. Enjoy.


Yes, he was excellent. Really interesting speech going through his career and talking about his teammates. Can't quite believe he's almost 60 now.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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No Akabusi selfie? I'm disappointed in you!


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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No Akabusi selfie? I'm disappointed in you!


I know. Too much of a queue.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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No Akabusi selfie? I'm disappointed in you!

I've got one somewhere

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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No Akabusi selfie? I'm disappointed in you!

I've got one somewhere

No Ainsley selfie? I'm disappointed in you!


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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There are 3,600 seconds in an hour. Thinking of an hour it seems much more than 3,600 seconds long. 3,600 doesn’t seem that many seconds at all. If I count slowly, a number per second, it feels like it would take a lot less than an hour to reach 3,600.

I’m right, aren’t I?

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Yes. Also, it would take you over 11 days to count to a million like that.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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A million seconds is 11 and half days.

A billion seconds is 31 and a half years


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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A trillion seconds is 31 and a half millennia

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Eight hours is 28,800,000 milliseconds. I had to work this out earlier today.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Of course to make that work you have to count to a thousand every second which is trickier

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Cras wrote:
Of course to make that work you have to count to a thousand every second which is trickier


I can get to 21, but I have to drop my trousers.

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At the Misfits awards night and the stats show I had the fourth-highest men's batting average this season with .703! Really chuffed with that.

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I also got Manager's Player of the Year. :DD

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Whoop! Whoop! Good work Myp! X

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Would somebody on a PC please be kind enough to trim this to 100x100px and under 24kb so that I can use it as an avatar? I’m on my phone and either can’t or don’t know how.

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How's that?


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Great. Thank you for that x

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Oh, it’s distorting the aspect ratio when an avatar. It’s ok, manatees are kind of misshapen anyway, and I’d lose a bit if it were cropped anyway, so it’s fine :)

Thanks again!

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Try this one. A few transparent pixels on the side


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What a star. Thank you so very much xx

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What a star. Thank you so very much xx

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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You are still the/a man, fair warning the cockles of my heart. And it's 32 degrees here, so my cockles are flipping boiling now.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Aww, lovely.

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Dark rum and Ting is amazing.

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What sort of ting?


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38p tin from Tesco.

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What sort of ting?


Like Lilt but without pineapple.

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So fizzy grapefruit?

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Really didn't know what to say to our four year old daughter the other day. She was coming up with a list of homonyms. "So there's bats that fly and there's bats that we play with" etc etc. Then she came out with "there's chicken that we eat and there's chickens that run around!".

I just said "err, yeah". She adores animals and I didn't think it was a conversation that either of us were ready for.


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Really didn't know what to say to our four year old daughter the other day. She was coming up with a list of homonyms. "So there's bats that fly and there's bats that we play with" etc etc. Then she came out with "there's chicken that we eat and there's chickens that run around!".

I just said "err, yeah". She adores animals and I didn't think it was a conversation that either of us were ready for.

I remember having that conversation when I was young. Although it was ham and pigs.

It only put me off the not too nice laughing cow ham cheese that led to the conversation. TV were in Normandy, on the patio.

Just saying,.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Interesting. We've already had that conversation with our 3 and 5 year old. They're fine that beef comes from cows but I don't think they quite understand how it comes from cows.


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I don't think they quite understand how it comes from cows.


That's not something I'm particularly keen to explore in depth either, to be honest.


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Yeah she'll probably be completely unphased. I think it's more me. I eat meat but I find it to be a source of internal conflict. It's not something that I find that I can wholly justify to myself. And that makes it feel a little more awkward than it might be.


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Why not? We're at the top of the food chain at the moment so we need to take advantage while we can. It might not always be that way. For instance, Dinosaurs could come back.


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Could be worse, could be 'Daddy, where does cat food come from?'

'well, you know those horsies that Daddy shouts at on the telly on Saturday afternoon. Well...'


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