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My theory is accept the bribe then ignore it and use a different supplier.
Clearly no undue influence has been exerted that way.


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My theory is accept the bribe then ignore it and use a different supplier.
Clearly no undue influence has been exerted that way.


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My theory is accept the bribe then ignore it and use a different supplier.
Clearly no undue influence has been exerted that way.


I advise you never to get involved with Russians.

He said scruples, not rubles!

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In theory EE have it all over London but I'm not convinced I've ever noticed it.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Um, Christmas Illuminations, somewhere in Lancashire, apparently. In daylight they look like palm trees, but when it goes dark ..........

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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It's a great but old photo, and I think the original sourcing places it in Florida, which means the palm trees make an awful lot more sense.

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It's a great but old photo, and I think the original sourcing places it in Florida, which means the palm trees make an awful lot more sense.



They lied to me about Lancashire then. In fact, now I come to think of it, Lancashire didn't make any sense at all, there's nowt Christmassy about it. Never mind, it gave me a giggle.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Technically it should be a dipthong, I guess. Fœtid. Autocorrect doesn't like that either.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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That's a ligature, not a diphthong. The former is the typographical entity, the latter is the sound it represents.


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I was of course referring to the sound it makes. Obviously.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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This article in today's Oxford Mail about a 'hero farmer who ploughs snow for free', complete with pictures of said hero farmer, is slightly undermined by one short paragraph which isn't referred to again in the rest of the hagiography:

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Over the past three days, he has sent his plough man [name] out to clear roads in four parishes around where he lives in Hinton Waldrist, near Kingston Bagpuize.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I'm 49% sure that Tormund from Game of Thrones is living on my building.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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This article in today's Oxford Mail about a 'hero farmer who ploughs snow for free', complete with pictures of said hero farmer, is slightly undermined by one short paragraph which isn't referred to again in the rest of the hagiography:

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Over the past three days, he has sent his plough man [name] out to clear roads in four parishes around where he lives in Hinton Waldrist, near Kingston Bagpuize.

Eh, I think that's fair enough. If you look up who built Buckingham Palace you get John Fitch, not the people he employed.

I also notice that the ambulance service has a Polaris for all-terrain stuff. That seems like a really odd choice to me, what with them being so small.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I'm 49% sure that Tormund from Game of Thrones is living on my building.


Whenever I think of Tormund I’m reminded of the legless sailor from Blackadder 2.


The guy looks exactly like him, but maybe age is betraying him. He looks younger than me and yet Tormund is 39.

I just checked and Tormund is 1.83m (a bit shorter than me). The guy living in my building is taller than me.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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This article in today's Oxford Mail about a 'hero farmer who ploughs snow for free', complete with pictures of said hero farmer, is slightly undermined by one short paragraph which isn't referred to again in the rest of the hagiography:

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Over the past three days, he has sent his plough man [name] out to clear roads in four parishes around where he lives in Hinton Waldrist, near Kingston Bagpuize.

Eh, I think that's fair enough. If you look up who built Buckingham Palace you get John Fitch, not the people he employed.

How is that example also "fair enough"? :D

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Because he employed them to do it. That's just how it works, at least in my head.

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Yeah I'd call sending an employee out to do something like that "civic-minded" rather than "heroic". Reading the headline does make it sound at least like some farmer who was out there himself in the freezing cold in his tractor.


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I agree with Mark. Heroic is the guy working out in the cold. The guy that sent his workforce out to help the community had done a great thing, but ‘heroic’ is a bit much.

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Now watching the punisher and eating my pork scratchings from my pork scratchings advent calendar. And drinking spenny beer. Spenny beer tastes better, or so I have convinced myself.

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Pork scratchings advent calendar five!

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Totally worth the luggage hassle bringing it :)

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I watched Through the Keyhole I’m a Celeb special. Myleene Klass was on it and looked absolutely radiant.

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Kingston Bagpuize.


There are some fabulous place names in the United Kingdom.

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Kingston Bagpuize.


There are some fabulous place names in the United Kingdom.

I've driven through Unthank a few times.


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Chorlton-Cum-Hardy. That is all.

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Kingston Bagpuize.


There are some fabulous place names in the United Kingdom.

I've driven through Unthank a few times.


Ooh, this is spooky. I was just out in th car and switched on radio 2 and who is currently playing live, but The Unthanks. Never heard of them before, but they’re oddly interesting.

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Chorlton-Cum-Hardy. That is all.


A fine, fine place.

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Drinkers End (no apostrophe) near my in laws' gaff is one of my favourites.

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Serendipity alert.

I have landed myself a new job working in Bolton starting some time in the New Year once I have negotiated my 3 month notice period. I'm off to do a similair kind of thing but at a normal accountants and not in the contracting industry - which is a big YAY.

I went to my guitar lesson (for the wedding remember?) on Monday and let the guy know I wouldn't be working in Wilmslow anymore in the future. He then tells me *he's* moving to Bolton in January and he is moving to the actual road where my new employers are, so I can still nip and have lessons of a lunch with him.

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I agree with Mark. Heroic is the guy working out in the cold.

Modern tractors are lovely places to be - he wouldn't have been cold.

I think "heroic" is far too much for either of them.

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Hey guise! We didn't do Christmas names!

For the 2nd year running.

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For the 2nd year running.


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For the 2nd year running.


I got one last year.


Well you can't have one this year, so there! Wait.

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