Author Topic: A random thread for small things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 3064730 times)

Ruthie · « **Reply #18100 on:** 08 June, 2015, 11:21:59 pm »

Yeah, I know, right?

Ham · « **Reply #18101 on:** 09 June, 2015, 12:05:39 am »

You may not have wanted to know that Boker sell direct and normally have some excellent reductions

https://www.boker.de/us/closeouts-pocket-knife.html

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #18102 on:** 09 June, 2015, 12:55:29 pm »

Quote from: Ham on 09 June, 2015, 12:05:39 am

You may not have wanted to know that Boker sell direct and normally have some excellent reductions

https://www.boker.de/us/closeouts-pocket-knife.html

Yebbut if you buy from that site you will have to pay VAT on the import, plus customs charges and also face possible confiscation of your pocket knife.

Buy from Heinnies direct.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #18103 on:** 09 June, 2015, 02:42:41 pm »

As we all thought, the pushy Americans' emails to my landlady and the Holiday Let landlady across the road were scams:

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Hi Helen

The reservation was a scam. I have a call with the fewo-direct.de and ask them if they know such reservation mails. It's always the same experiment to get money.

So thank you for your answer and your words!

Silke

I have now asked her to also email the other Ferienwohnung place around the corner as it's a complicated issue and my German would struggle with it (and their English is very basic). Don't want them being caught out either.

Bledlow · « **Reply #18104 on:** 09 June, 2015, 09:08:17 pm »

From Kim{

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...the usual commuter-level[1] lights ...

[1] By which I mean the YACF definition of 'obnoxious and redundant', rather than the general population's 'poundshop-quality with a flat battery'.

Made me think of Mrs B, with her anonymous Chinese claimed-to-emit-1000-lumens retina-burner alongside a mere 350-400 lumen Magicshine light. "Obnoxious & redundant"? You bet!

T42 · « **Reply #18105 on:** 09 June, 2015, 09:30:56 pm »

One of the solutions to the asinine Trib crossword today was "CRAP".

Gattopardo · « **Reply #18106 on:** 10 June, 2015, 03:36:12 am »

Quote from: Ruthie on 08 June, 2015, 11:05:21 pm

Why the bloody hell am I on the Heinnie Haynes mailing list?

Was I that drunk

Ogod what did I buy

It is a fav shop....

andrewc · « **Reply #18107 on:** 10 June, 2015, 08:10:50 am »

Oh that's why these over trousers were at the back of the gear cupboard...

The arse & crotch areas are split wide open...

Apologies to anyone on the campsite who caught an eyeful....

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #18108 on:** 10 June, 2015, 07:57:39 pm »

The scheduler at work is playing games. I've had a really tough week this week. Next week I have a piece of piss sets of tasks and a 5-day weekend. Shouldn't grumble, I spose...

Ham · « **Reply #18109 on:** 11 June, 2015, 07:40:15 am »

You know those sellers on eBay that have a bewildering range of stuff? how about http://stores.ebay.co.uk/savechannel

(you have to carry on, at least to the unicycle, if not the lab power supply, violin or cat scratcher post, you might not get as far as the Land Rover timing tool or the skeleton)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #18110 on:** 11 June, 2015, 09:44:21 am »

Plucky Little Belgium again!

They wanted to mint a commemorative E2 coin for the 200th anniversary of Waterloo, but the French vetoed it, so they used a loophole allowing any EZ nation to mint its own coins in non-standard denominations. Now there's a E2.5 coin for the end of Napoleon!
http://www.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2015/jun/10/euro-coin-row-france-wins-the-battle-belgium-wins-the-war

It would be worth joining the Euro so we could mint special coins for Agincourt, Crécy, the Armada!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #18111 on:** 11 June, 2015, 11:47:26 am »

I just happened upon a pair of US/Chilean cycle tourists, Jack & Alyssia, in Southend! They were heading for Maldon. I furnished them with 1:50000 OS maps and some written notes to help them escape from the Southend Peninsula via Stambridge Mills and Doggetts Farm.

caerau · « **Reply #18112 on:** 11 June, 2015, 12:33:50 pm »

I saw The Doctor twice this morning.

Not for anything medical you understand. I didn't see any Daleks or Cybermen.

(I could have used a TARDIS to get around my building while they were filming)

Deano · « **Reply #18113 on:** 11 June, 2015, 02:42:43 pm »

Quote from: Wombat on 28 May, 2015, 07:44:34 pm

A sort of question.... Has the sun ever been known to shine on Ribblehead viaduct? Today was my third visit to it, and miraculously the weather performed as usual, and the sun disappeared, and all was wet and windy and dull. I'm beginning to think that it has the same curse as Beddgelert, in that it pisses down with rain whenever I get anywhere near it.

Please will someone reassure me that the sun has been seen in that part of Yorkshire? Note necessarily in this century, just any recorded occurrence will do...

Just for you, Wombat

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=48852.msg1875428#msg1875428

Bledlow · « **Reply #18114 on:** 12 June, 2015, 10:49:54 pm »

Mrs B & I are just out of shot, to the right.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3032206

Wowbagger · « **Reply #18115 on:** 13 June, 2015, 02:40:15 pm »

I just accidentally clicked on the "Tune association" thread. More than 400 pages of drivel have been generated since the previous occasion I accidentally clicked on it.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #18116 on:** 13 June, 2015, 08:09:10 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 13 June, 2015, 02:40:15 pm

I just accidentally clicked on the "Tune association" thread. More than 400 pages of drivel have been generated since the previous occasion I accidentally clicked on it.

You're a miserable bugger sometimes.

hellymedic · « **Reply #18117 on:** 13 June, 2015, 08:18:35 pm »

Tune Association is not for me.
I read other threads.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #18118 on:** 13 June, 2015, 09:16:56 pm »

It's not for me either, but it seems a bit harsh to call it "drivel" when it is harmless fun. It's not supposed to be great literature or deep philosophy!

Ruthie · « **Reply #18119 on:** 13 June, 2015, 09:21:34 pm »

It's just a daft game like you'd play with the kids in the car, only written down.

mcshroom · « **Reply #18120 on:** 13 June, 2015, 11:36:32 pm »

Each to their own. I've seen POBI described in similar terms

TheLurker · « **Reply #18121 on:** 14 June, 2015, 10:56:27 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 13 June, 2015, 02:40:15 pm

I just accidentally clicked on the "Tune association" thread. More than 400 pages of drivel have been generated since the previous occasion I accidentally clicked on it.

Mornington Crescent! Oh. Sorry. Wrong game.

Bledlow · « **Reply #18122 on:** 14 June, 2015, 12:14:03 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 13 June, 2015, 08:18:35 pm

Tune Association is not for me.
I read other threads.

+1

SandyV · « **Reply #18123 on:** 14 June, 2015, 12:59:42 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 13 June, 2015, 11:36:32 pm

Each to their own. I've seen POBI described in similar terms

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #18124 on:** 14 June, 2015, 01:53:49 pm »

If you're a Western European travelling in a country where that makes you consipicuous and conspicuously rich, you might want to take precautions against pickpockets. Whether you'll want to go to the lengths (or depths?) Dervla Murphy did in Russia in 2004 is not for me to say.

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I transferred most of my cash from money-belt to shoes and prepared one $50 bill to be inserted next morning in the ultimate hiding place – reflecting as I did so that in this context the female anatomy is more convenient than the male, the vagina being in less frequent use than the anus.

Two pages later she is robbed at gun point by, she thinks, an off-duty policeman. She is left with $50.