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PaulF

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22150 on: 18 March, 2020, 02:52:25 pm »
We do, however, have a bank for two hours on a Wednesday morning in the town car park, which I use when someone annoyingly sends us a cheque.

Most banks allow you to pay cheques (up to a certain value) in via an app on a phone.

Which ones? Neither of mine (RBS and Nationwide) do.

Jaded

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22151 on: 18 March, 2020, 03:00:04 pm »
LLLoyds and Bank of Scotland.

Before this functionality I always used to post my cheques in. It was much faster than going into a branch.
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22152 on: 18 March, 2020, 03:11:20 pm »
We do, however, have a bank for two hours on a Wednesday morning in the town car park, which I use when someone annoyingly sends us a cheque.
Good job you're not an audax organizer!  ;)
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22153 on: 18 March, 2020, 03:21:55 pm »
Depth to be expressed as eg knee deep or over my head. Riders may range from 6-foot plus on a penny to toddler in a trailer.
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ElyDave

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22154 on: 18 March, 2020, 04:05:33 pm »
never trust a frog when asking if you can wade.

To them it's alway knee-deep

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22155 on: 18 March, 2020, 06:31:55 pm »
We do, however, have a bank for two hours on a Wednesday morning in the town car park, which I use when someone annoyingly sends us a cheque.
Good job you're not an audax organizer!  ;)
SO at X
L into Grand Union Canal
Nah:
SO at X
Control on LHS, Country Girl
R from control
Info question: depth of Grand Union Canal

Info answer: "It's the Birmingham and Worcester, 28ft below road level.  You'd have to ask Basil for the depth."

 ;D

Having to explain my laughter to the gent on the other side of the office.  :-[

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22156 on: 18 March, 2020, 07:05:51 pm »
Surprisingly it's only lower thigh deep.
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22157 on: 18 March, 2020, 07:11:04 pm »
Surprisingly it's only lower thigh deep.
HTH

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ian

Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22158 on: 19 March, 2020, 12:05:33 pm »
Black pen ran out of ink. Sigh.

Pingu

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22159 on: 20 March, 2020, 07:28:00 pm »
never trust a frog when asking if you can wade.

To them it's alway knee-deep

IGMC, and go and stand a suitably exclusionary distance from others

Only comes up to here on my ducks.

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22160 on: 20 March, 2020, 07:29:05 pm »
NatWest were great and terrible depending on the local branch.
NatWest local branch - I remember those.
There's no longer a single branch in the Forest of Dean district, they closed the lot. Even the big towns just outside the forest, Chepstow and Monmouth, both closed. If I put my postcode into the website Stroud is my nearest, about 15 miles distant if I recall correctly. Only if you're a very strong swimmer, due to the small matter of the river Severn it's actually 45 miles. Central Gloucester is my nearest, that's about an hour to get to.

But the Severn has banks, shirley?

SoreTween

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22161 on: 21 March, 2020, 08:55:42 am »
 :facepalm: The TTJ thread is thattaway ----->

 Oh and don't you-know-what.
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22162 on: 26 March, 2020, 03:49:06 pm »
FFS Offshore team.    That customer wanted their backup link ceasing.  You ceased both of them.   You've had increasingly urgent emails telling you to get it rebuilt, so why the frack did you issue the new order with a date of tomorrow ?   :facepalm:
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22163 on: 26 March, 2020, 08:21:06 pm »
Ah, offshoring. Half as efficient for a quarter of the price. What’s not to like?   :-\
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22164 on: 26 March, 2020, 08:27:25 pm »
Half as efficient ??  You're kidding me.
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22165 on: 31 March, 2020, 01:06:11 pm »
Some arsehole has let their dogs off the lead in the field behind our house  :hand:. The field where I was watching 4 hares running about this morning  >:( >:(
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22166 on: 18 April, 2020, 11:54:57 am »
It is good to know that even in these difficult times the scammers are hard at work trying to separate the unwary and their money, such as the animal fanny who phoned me this morning to inform me of a problem with my Amazon Prime account.  Which in my case I have not got.

Come the day of sweeping post-Panzers-down-Whitehall reforms these people will not be sent to the Reëducation Camps, no, they will be herded into garbage scows and dumped fifty miles SSW of the Scillies.  And should they have the temerity to be FOREIGNS then the Democratic Ruthless Bastards Party's elite Spetsnaz units will have carte blanche to use unnecessary violence in their apprehension and subsequent rendition to the holding camp on the Isle of Portland.
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22167 on: 19 April, 2020, 11:20:57 pm »
Oi!
The Guardian!
Stop putting photies of the Slithy Gove on my internet!
 :sick:
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22168 on: 20 April, 2020, 09:00:48 am »
Oi!
The Guardian!
Stop putting photies of the Slithy Gove on my internet!
 :sick:
I've switched my internettheguardian consumption to the international edition. Slightly less corona and a lot less slithey gove.
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barakta

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22169 on: 20 April, 2020, 07:58:41 pm »
How do you do that? Sounds good.

I know folk who have switched to Al Jazeera to get more international and less UK-biased bad media reporting.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22170 on: 20 April, 2020, 08:31:39 pm »
Top right corner, there's a pull down you can switch between UK, US, Australia, International.
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barakta

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22171 on: 20 April, 2020, 09:47:30 pm »
Oooh will have a look, thanks.

Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22172 on: 17 May, 2020, 03:08:15 pm »
Neighbour across the road.

Why why why why why do you have to:

(a) be out car-fondling so much (it's just a metal box lad not a p***s extension) and

(b) have loud tw***y "music" playing LOUDLY whilst you do it.

That's why cars will never be replaced by bikes for many people- their car is an "entertainment" centre.

When I am in charge, loud "music" will only be allowed to be played through headphones and cars will not be allowed "entertainment" systems. Train drivers aren't allowed to have music on in the cab (and phones off) because of distraction so there's a good logical argument for it  :smug:

Even better, we should divide the population into "noisy" and "quiet" types and put all the noisy ones together in one big cacophany whilst the rest of us listen to bird song and such like.

GC

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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22173 on: 17 May, 2020, 03:54:33 pm »
I think about a third of us would live in Quieton and go to Noisyville for parties, another third would live in Noisyville and go to Quieton for work/rest/etc.
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Re: The RANT thread (often contains fruity language)
« Reply #22174 on: 17 May, 2020, 06:15:33 pm »
As long a Noisyville has some sort of timetable for musical genres...