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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9793
    TTony said:

    Just back from taking the dogs for a run in the back garden *...

     



     

    * Technically, it's the farmer's field the other side of the back garden fence, but we don't mind sharing as long as he keeps it mown nicely.

    I recognise that as the way to the magpie if you walk across the field from the back of Nobby's place :)
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • FazTheWookieFazTheWookie Frets: 80
    @TTony - excellent taste in canine companions, Sir!
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 15603
    Just bought some shopping and it turns out my bottle of Diet Coke has my (real) name on it! Quite pleasing.
    I’ll handle this Violet, you take your three hour break. 
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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
    EricTheWeary said:
    Just bought some shopping and it turns out my bottle of Diet Coke has my (real) name on it! Quite pleasing.
    Your real name is...Aspartame..?!

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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 15603
    RocknRollDave said:
    EricTheWeary said:
    Just bought some shopping and it turns out my bottle of Diet Coke has my (real) name on it! Quite pleasing.
    Your real name is...Aspartame..?!
    Of course not! Although something of a suprise that coke print bottles with Oi Fat Bastard on them...
    I’ll handle this Violet, you take your three hour break. 
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  • SporkySporky Frets: 23802
    I am still recovering from a bit of a shock this morning - I'd booked a plumber, and he actually turned up and did all the jobs he was meant to. This does not correlate strongly with my general experience of plumbers.

    I await the bill with interest. Not the financial sense of interest. Just to be clear.
    "[Sporky] brings a certain vibe and dignity to the forum."
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    And presumably not the platypus sense of bill?
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • SporkySporky Frets: 23802
    You are spot on.
    "[Sporky] brings a certain vibe and dignity to the forum."
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    Phew!! Relief all round ...
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9793
    nor even the "old" sense of bill ...
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9793
    software for latest product is put to bed. Filed in the release dept, with a release note & everything stashed on the server :)
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9793
    My mum had a heart-related "incident" on Saturday and got whisked into hospital but they've let her out this afternoon and apart from tiredness 'cos you can't sleep in a hospital she says she feels "fine". My sister went yesterday, stayed overnight at mum's, and will stay for tonight returning home tomorrow assuming no further trubble. Natch, had I been told it were serious, I'd have gone too, but this seems to have been one more in a list of incidents that have been occurring since mum was a little girl...
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • LixartoLixarto Frets: 1618
    I'm glad you've got a lid on things Phil :)

    In other news, I'm writing a sonnet for the first time in about four years.
    "I can see you for what you are; an idiot barely in control of your own life. And smoking weed doesn't make you cool; it just makes you more of an idiot."
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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 26143
    Local garage fixed my old workhorse car with three cable ties this morning.

    Stealer would have charged close to £400 for parts, probably half that for labour, plus VAT.

    I had to persuade the garage to take a tenner.
    Having trouble posting images here?  This might help.
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  • monquixotemonquixote Frets: 17108
    tFB Trader
    Nat West offered to shift my existing credit balance to a new card with 0% then when I took the card out they told me they couldn't actually shift the balance because it was a Mint card which is also RBS (I specifically asked this at the time). As a result I asked them to cancel the card which they completely failed to do. 

    So far so "Boils My Piss", but I recently discovered it is a "reward points"based card which has been earning me points despite my never having used it (or even activated it). As a result I just claimed £25 despite not having used the card for anything :D

    Also NAD!
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  • DeadmanDeadman Frets: 3663
    TTony said:
    Local garage fixed my old workhorse car with three cable ties this morning.

    Stealer would have charged close to £400 for parts, probably half that for labour, plus VAT.

    I had to persuade the garage to take a tenner.
    Sounds like the good old windscreen wiper mechanism fix? Vectra?
    I play at my dining room table.
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    Front door?
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • VimFuegoVimFuego Frets: 14862
    engine mount?

    I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.

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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    Hubcap? Roof?
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • VimFuegoVimFuego Frets: 14862
    flange?

    I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.

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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 26143
    Deadman said:
    Sounds like the good old windscreen wiper mechanism fix? Vectra?
    Engine under tray on an Audi A6.
    Having trouble posting images here?  This might help.
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9793
    Lixarto said:
    I'm glad you've got a lid on things Phil :)

    In other news, I'm writing a sonnet for the first time in about four years.
    Thanks @Lixarto Spoke with my mum on the phone yesterday evening and she seems fine :)

    Aren't you a few hundred years late for writing sonnets? They wrote them back in Shakespeare's time (Will, not Robbie). Are you reviving the form? Good luck with it anyway.
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • LixartoLixarto Frets: 1618
    Well, I'm not the only person alive writing them!

    Free verse killed them off to an extent, but people like Paul Muldoon and Seymour Mayne are writing them.

    Thanks though - it is now finished :)
    "I can see you for what you are; an idiot barely in control of your own life. And smoking weed doesn't make you cool; it just makes you more of an idiot."
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211

    Ooooo I just had a nice phonecall - I'm going to be on basement jaxx's next song, and they've asked me to be a gorilla guitarist again in December, can't wait! 87.4470145833329 days to go! :D

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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5698

    Awesomes Viz..

    I look foreward to the next jam, so I can say, I've played guitar with Bassment Jaxx's guitarist

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    Er, that might be stretching it a tad - I think all I do is the odd squeal and grunt!
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5698
    I'll still say it though B-)

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • ESBlondeESBlonde Frets: 3532
    edited September 2013
    mike_l said: I'll still say it though B-)

    And     I'll say I'm bookface freinds with a bloke that knows a guy that once played with Bassment Jaxx.
     Look at me name dropping and everything!


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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5698
    ESBlonde said:
    mike_l said:
    I'll still say it though B-)


    And I'll say I'm bookface freinds with a bloke that knows a guy that once played with Bassment Jaxx.
     Look at me name dropping and everything!
     


    And TFB friends

    ;)

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • holnrewholnrew Frets: 8201
    I just feel happy. Thought I'd share.
    My V key is broken
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