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Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #23250 on:** 19 October, 2018, 01:24:57 pm »

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"Hi, I'm Georgia, would you mind not smoking outside? Someone's mummy or daddy could be having their treatment today," says one of the announcements.

Pro-smoking group Forest has said the announcements are "Orwellian".

I don't think Orwell did twee...

ian · « **Reply #23251 on:** 19 October, 2018, 01:44:40 pm »

Why not just tell them to move?

hellymedic · « **Reply #23252 on:** 19 October, 2018, 01:51:09 pm »

Smokers can be very aggressive when confronted...

Beardy · « **Reply #23253 on:** 19 October, 2018, 01:53:08 pm »

My annoyance with smokers is the way they consider their leftovers as not litter and just throw it wherever they feel. I have a standing argument with my children about this every time they come home.

ian · « **Reply #23254 on:** 19 October, 2018, 01:56:06 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 19 October, 2018, 01:51:09 pm

Smokers can be very aggressive when confronted...

That's really no excuse for not confronting them. If they get aggressive, then call the police. Honestly, we're supposed to be adults. Mummy will be very cross!

citoyen · « **Reply #23255 on:** 19 October, 2018, 02:36:43 pm »

The hospital where my mum worked instigated a total ban on smoking anywhere in the grounds. My mum was among those who campaigned for this, being fed up with having to walk through clouds of smoke around the main entrance. I think this should be standard policy across the NHS.

Forest can fuck right off. You don't have a right to demand comfortable facilities ANYWHERE, never mind on hospital grounds. Not being able to get your nicotine fix for the duration of your hospital visit won't kill you.

hellymedic · « **Reply #23256 on:** 19 October, 2018, 03:18:20 pm »

Quote from: ian on 19 October, 2018, 01:56:06 pm

Quote from: hellymedic on 19 October, 2018, 01:51:09 pm
Smokers can be very aggressive when confronted...

That's really no excuse for not confronting them. If they get aggressive, then call the police. Honestly, we're supposed to be adults. Mummy will be very cross!

Well, I'm a coward.
I don't like people shouting at me.
I don't like people threatening violence.

I am not willing to put myself into a conflict situation and I doubt the cops would be interested.

orienteer · « **Reply #23257 on:** 19 October, 2018, 04:29:04 pm »

I'd like to see similar buttons on tube trains to tell people to take their feet off of seats.

Whenever I see this I imagine the squalor they must live in.

ian · « **Reply #23258 on:** 19 October, 2018, 05:46:21 pm »

That's every Southern train. It's quite common to have to disregard several seats before daring to sit down because they're filthy.

I'm not saying it never ever happens, but in the last three weeks, I've travelled on public transport in Amsterdam, Leiden, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, and Paris and I've not seen anyone with their feet on the seats opposite. Mind you, it's a bit of shock to see clean streets (admittedly, the Parisians would be up to their necks in the shit of little dogs if they didn't).

Back in London yesterday, getting on a Thameslink at St Pancras, the first thing I saw. So I told him not to. Which he actually did and sat there sulking all the way to East Croydon before giving me a foul look as he got off. He must have been in his thirties, ffs.

hellymedic · « **Reply #23259 on:** 19 October, 2018, 06:01:48 pm »

Feet on seats is horrible and I doubt the perps would do this at home BUT the leg room on some trains is so dire it's understandable if not forgivable.

I pity anyone with longer legs than mine. There is *just* enough legroom for me, a 5'5" female.

Basil · « **Reply #23260 on:** 19 October, 2018, 10:22:47 pm »

I'm just looking at a Kid's Activities pamphlet from the town gym.
Rugby skills age groups starts at 3. Wow! 3 is pretty small for rugby.

Pleased to see that bicycle skills starts at 2.5 years.

chrisbainbridge · « **Reply #23261 on:** 19 October, 2018, 10:38:10 pm »

our granddaughter is 2 1/4 and using a strider. The local children cycle track has red lights, give way signs, etc. Last week a little boy asked her father why she did not stop at the red light!!

Beardy · « **Reply #23262 on:** 20 October, 2018, 01:27:18 am »

Things that continue to amaze me 2732

I’m in my local, though it has to be said I’m not as regular as I once was.
I’ve been drinking a specific beer all evening but he latest pint is a bit dubious. I mention this without rancour to the staff.
The land lady (a scary lady!) was present when I was questioning.
I continue to drink the latest pint, albeit somewhat slowly
Meanwhile the landlady disappears below stairs and changes the barrel.
I still not entirely happy with my pint.
I mumble something to that effect, and the landlady says ‘give him a new pint, in fact, I’ll do it’
New pint issued
I question why I am being treated so, and am told in no uncertain terms if I’m not happy then it’s a done deal.
I’m still suffering from disbelief, it grateful that she changed my beer.
Ok, I admit I’m a bit of a beer monster, but my inferiority omplex still can’t cope with the fact that important people are willing to take my word for it, even when it might cost them money.

nicknack · « **Reply #23263 on:** 20 October, 2018, 10:23:50 am »

Any pub that doesn't do that is a pub not worth going into.

Basil · « **Reply #23264 on:** 20 October, 2018, 10:35:29 am »

Any pub that thinks that they don't do that, soon finds that actually, they do, if I'm there.
Of course they do. I you pay >£3 for something, you should get what you pay for.
I'm also a bugger for not accepting short pints.
Typical conversation goes thus.

Me. That will be £3 then?
Bar person. No. It's £3.40
Me. No. That's the price of a full pint.

lou boutin · « **Reply #23265 on:** 20 October, 2018, 10:40:55 am »

I've just discovered Lucifer!! I'd seen it advertised, but thinking that it was a kin to Hell Raiser I gave it a miss until a cologne explained to me that it was quite amusing. I'm now hooked.

Torslanda · « **Reply #23266 on:** 20 October, 2018, 10:51:44 am »

Lou has just invented a new term for cow orker.

Cologne for colleague. Genius!

lou boutin · « **Reply #23267 on:** 20 October, 2018, 11:02:15 am »

Blooming auto correct!!!

Takes a bow - pleased to be of service.

I think I can add this to my list of corkers chalked up to auto correct. The best yet being SLuT meeting instead of SLT meeting and the circulation of a 'daft report'.

T42 · « **Reply #23268 on:** 20 October, 2018, 11:18:06 am »

Quote from: Basil on 20 October, 2018, 10:35:29 am

Any pub that thinks that they don't do that, soon finds that actually, they do, if I'm there.
Of course they do. I you pay >£3 for something, you should get what you pay for.
I'm also a bugger for not accepting short pints.
Typical conversation goes thus.

Me. That will be £3 then?
Bar person. No. It's £3.40
Me. No. That's the price of a full pint.

The version I knew was

Me: Can you get a whiskey into that?
Barwart*: Certainly, sir!
Me. Then fill it up with beer.

* from the German Wart, as in Tankwart = petrol pump attendant

ElyDave · « **Reply #23269 on:** 20 October, 2018, 11:38:39 am »

Quote from: lou boutin on 20 October, 2018, 11:02:15 am

Blooming auto correct!!!

Takes a bow - pleased to be of service.

I think I can add this to my list of corkers chalked up to auto correct. The best yet being SLuT meeting instead of SLT meeting and the circulation of a 'daft report'.

My best mistype was of "pumping station"

I'll leave it to the imagination, only one letter was changed.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #23270 on:** 20 October, 2018, 12:16:55 pm »

Quote from: lou boutin on 20 October, 2018, 11:02:15 am

Blooming auto correct!!!

Takes a bow - pleased to be of service.

I think I can add this to my list of corkers chalked up to auto correct. The best yet being SLuT meeting instead of SLT meeting and the circulation of a 'daft report'.

Daft report, I'm totally stealing that!

lou boutin · « **Reply #23271 on:** 20 October, 2018, 03:02:55 pm »

rogerzilla · « **Reply #23272 on:** 20 October, 2018, 06:59:59 pm »

My new FSA square taper BB lasted 60 miles before it started squeaking and is now as stiff as pedalling through treacle. Quality stuff.

fuzzy · « **Reply #23273 on:** 21 October, 2018, 10:05:38 am »

Quote from: ian on 19 October, 2018, 12:58:25 pm

There should be a word for the icky feeling you get when, after a week-long cold, you catch sight of your computer screen in the sunlight at just the right angle to see all the biological splatters from your sneezing, coughing, and spluttering. I think I actually made an eek noise. I suppose there's are worse biological fluids to found splattered on computer screens. If you've got a teenaged son, I'd get in plentiful suppliers of iso-propyl alcohol and disposable cloths.
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 17 October, 2018, 11:48:25 pm
According to an e mail I recieved, someone has hacked my computer and hijacked the webcam to film me watching and enjoying pornographic movies on my laptop. They only want a few bitcoins to persuade them not to send the video to all my contacts.

I feel really cheated. I haven't seen a good porn film for years. Certainly not since the invention of the computer and web cam.

They did get my password correct- though it isn't one I have used for years.

TheLurker · « **Reply #23274 on:** 23 October, 2018, 07:33:14 pm »

I'm really looking forward to August of next year when Gladstone-Brookes (Brooks?) will have to find something other to do than badgering people into claiming for PPI compo. and we'll be free of their bloody awful adverts.

Oh and when did it become a thing for shampoo to be gluten free? It's just soap innit? Soap isn't that well known for its gluten content. I also thought you had to ingest gluten for it to cause you problems, or is that not so?