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I don't see the point in car insurance and prefer to drive without it. This makes me drive more carefully to avoid getting into any accidents and also means that even short journeys have an element of excitement in them. Plus I really hate those fucking Confused.Com adverts.
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Maybe im wrong then. I just thought that around that area was the Raploch.
Its Sainsburys that is near the Raploch, coming to think about it.
Obviously some town planner had a wee joke putting the 'posh' supermarket next to Mage Haney-ville.
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You lived in the Raploch then? Were you insane?Is there a tesco's in the Raploch?
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On the topic of parking spaces, can I just say that Tescos in Falkirk (Retail Park) and the one in Stirling, will announce for the owner of a car to return to their car if it is parked in a parent and child/disabled bay without a sticker or permit to park there.
I have saw this in both Tescos on many occasions. Personally if I had a child and someone was parked in a parent and child bay, then I would give the customer service desk the registration number of the said car.
I have an elderly grandparent who has a disabled pass that sits in my mums car. I will agree that it is very annoying to go to Tesco or any other car park and not get a disabled car parking space as some idiot who does not require one decides he/she will park there.
I used to live on the street next to Tesco's in Stirling. I once got drunk or stoned, can't remember, and did several kamikaze runs jumping over the wall to get munchies from the garage, startling the unsuspecting motorists filling up. I can't remember if they were old or disabled or had kids or all three. I feel quite bad now.
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Even though there are 19 other spaces?
Yes. Incidentally, would you park in the closest space to the door? I used to work with a disabled lady who would always park closest to the door so it was easier for her to get in. She used a wee scooter/buggy type thing and didn't like to use it outside too much so always tried to get closest. So sometimes even when there are plenty of spaces you still need to tghink and be considerate.
No doubt Sam just skids into place right next to the door, stealing the space from a starving African orphan with one leg, just so she doesn't have to get her ballet shoes wet when she trots in to mix with the hoi polloi in Tescos. You make me so sick Sam, I just vommitted all over the keyboard and have lost faith in humanity to such an extent I have formed a suicide pact with my strange upstairs neighbour. I bet you don't even care do you? Eh? Eh?
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Oh and Sam if I was disabled and you parked in my spot I'd give you a good prodding with my crutches or a damn good shunt with my electric wheelchair.
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A guy in my work swore at me under his breath today. It was my fault, I thought a meeting was at 3pm but it was actually at 2pm. Still, not nice to be sworn at so even though I was speaking to him later on quite amicably he goes on the 'revenge list'. Edited highlights of this list:
Craig Brewster
My uncle
Edinburgh City Council
The Turkish nation
Living TV
Siegfried
My ex boss
My other ex boss
Another ex boss
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With Sheen there's the classic good cop/bad cop double act, and he carries off the bad cop superbly. From the first moment you meet him in the film it's clear he's a total dick, and he plays the role perfectly!
A few of his lines are really funny, and despite the film being set in Boston he's also classic NY Scorsese in his snappy delivery. The performances by Damon and Di Caprio are good because they're fairly straight and neutral, while I think Wahlberg's character required a bit more gusto.
And yeah, the swearing probably swung it for me
Still to watch Internal Affairs, will be interesting to see how it compares having seen the new one first
I agree with Colin. Swearing is big, clever and funny.
I quite fancy Infernal Affairs on the back of seeing this as well.
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He quit the ICT forum because of me apparently.
I can see where he was coming from with that one
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Thieves 'cash in at Tesco tills'
Tesco says fraud levels are low
Tesco self-service tills suffer from an apparent "security loophole" making it easy for fraudsters to steal cash, consumer group Which? has said.
Tesco operates the check-outs at 320 stores, allowing shoppers to scan goods and pay with a debit or credit card.
But the tills do not take chip-and-pin card technology and Which? says this allows thieves to use stolen cards.
In response, Tesco said fraud levels at the tills were low and chip-and-pin technology would be in place soon.
Which? said it was prompted to issue the warning after several consumers contacted it after having fallen victim to fraud.
The editor of Which?, Neil Fowler, accused Tesco of being "highly irresponsible" for not having adapted the tills to chip-and-pin technology.
"It is hard to believe that the UK's biggest supermarket is making it so easy for criminals to use stolen credit cards in their stores," Mr Fowler said.
"We can only hope they close this obvious loophole and introduce standard security procedures in the very near future."
Tesco denied that it had a significant fraud problem at its self-service tills.
"While it is impossible to stamp out all credit card fraud, fraud levels at our self-service checkouts and petrol pumps are very low and no higher than at our main checkouts, which have full chip-and-pin," a Tesco spokesman told BBC News.
The supermarket said it had already started to introduce chip-and-pin at its self-service tills.
"When we originally introduced the self-service tills over two years ago, chip-and-pin was not a proven technology.
"Now that it has become widely accepted we will be rolling it out into all our 320 current installations - this process has already begun and should be completed by December."
Strange that these tills don't have Chip and Pin, I thought that everywhere was to be chipped and pinned by February?
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It really is that good, I think. It was actually quite refreshing that Scorsese has changed his regular setting from Italian-American NYC to Irish-American Boston for The Departed - helped avoid it being too cliched.
I've got Infernal Affairs on DVD to watch so I can see how it compares to the original
I am finally going to see The Departed on Saturday.
I shall be sure to offer my own comparison wth the brilliant original!
I watched Goodfellas last weekend, The Departed compares very well to it. I can practically recite Goodfellas though, what a cliche I am. I agree with COlin in that it's interesting to switch 'culture' to the Irish is refreshing. It helps that Matt Damon is from Boston, as is Mark Wahlberg, who surprisingly is excellent ("Do we look like c***s to you?"
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This guy Malkin is making his debut for the Penguins this week.
Malkin scored on his debut but the Penguins lost 2-1 to the NJ Devils.
Buffalo and Minnesota are the form teams of the NHL both with perfect starts.
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Well if you're not allowed to drink and *then* drive, what are you supposed to do?
My mate is a copper and we were quizzing him once about drink driving. You can drink a can of lager and still be under the limit so we reasoned that it would be completely legal to drink a can whilst driving - you can drink coke or juice legally, why not lager if you are under the limit?
His refreshing honest reply was 'We'd probably just nick you for being a cheeky c**t'
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This guy Malkin is making his debut for the Penguins this week.
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Trinny and Susannah.
Just f**k off, eh?
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I wouldn't have thought ice hockey would be popular in the South like Atlanta
Is it not more of a Northern / Canadian game?Are Five showing ice hockey still in the UK?
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Mmmmm......
The NY Rangers?
Can't support a team called Rangers, I'll stick with the Penguins thanks
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And Chris, Penguins were the worst team in the NHL last year, better not to go with the best team name
;)What teams play in red and blue then, I'll support them.
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I concur with my learned friends about the Departed, brilliant film with superb performances forom all in it.
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I don't know much about ice hockey but whenever I've watched it I've quite enjoyed it.
I quite like the Pittsburgh Penguins, simply because of their name
They have signed this Russian guy Malkin who is apparently top notch but has dislocated his shoulder and will be missing for a while.0 -
I want to go and see the Departed but may have to persuade my girlfriend to come to
NO doubt this will involve summarising the plot several dozen times in the cinema and putting up with squemishness when folk get 'whacked' as I believe the parlance has it.0 -
Was that the 1st time you have watched it? I'd have given it 2/10 as well.
However, when I watched it again (and again and again....) it's got 9/10 stamped all over it
I can't watch films like that, I think I have no sense of humour. I can't think of a comedy film that I really like.
I am a miserable c**t.
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I went ot see CHildren of Men the other night, it was pretty decent. I thought it worked better as an action flick than the serious dystopian vision it thinks it is. Clive Owen was good in it.
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Blacky has left saints
He's up in Sneck training with his bro
Is Black Jnr any good? What position does he play/
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I lived in Wallace Street, next to the Tesco's at the roundabout.
Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...
in The General Nonsense Forum
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People are too mollycoddled these days - no smoking, life insurance, car insurance, pet insurance and all that malarky.
The human race managed fine for thousands of years without all this pish. I bet Attila the *** or Genghis Khan didn't have chariot insurance, I'm sure when Winston Churchill went for a few sneaky brandies he didn't have to go outside to puff on his cigar and I'm absolutely positive that Clint Eastwood monkey buddy from Every Which Way But Loose didn't have worm insurance. But they all managed OK and became admirable members of society!