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19 minutes ago, TxRover said:

Automobile manufacturers reusing model names for a new model completely different than the previous one. The Ford Ranger is, to me, a compact pickup, basically like the front of a 1980’s VW Rabbit with a bed attached (which was sold in the U.S. then too). Small, efficient and inexpensive, that’s my mental picture of a Ford Ranger, so it took some mental gymnastics to process the “too big” idea in these posts. The 1983 model was 176” long and 67” wide, while this new “midsized” 2023 model is 211” x 78”. It’s a blooming full 3 feet longer and a foot wider, why use that name?

I crunched the numbers, and the new Ranger takes up 40% more space.

The UK spec is 2.16 m wide which is 85 inches which is actually in danger of being too wide to fit down roads that won't advise of a width restriction, the widest I have seen advised is 7'0"

I'm not sure when they start but really they are too big for UK roads

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I've just seen something online that's pissed me off I've been that stupid. When I buy trainers or whatever I'll end up like £10/£15 under free delivery threshold and rather than the £8 delivery I'll spend the shortfall on tat. Usually socks or stickers or pins. 

Somebody posted online they just bridge the gap with a gift card so next time they use that site they've got money off too.

andy samberg mind blown GIF

Twenty years of online shopping like a fucking idiot.

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You're fully 15 metres inside a pub, yet, you can still smell cigarette smoke from outside. (Unfortunately I seem to have a very sensitive sense of smell.....).

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7 hours ago, GTG_03 said:

Sitting in the TV lounge at work and there's a boy doing that snot snorting thing every minute or so. Just go and blow your nose FFS! 

I've worked with one of those too. Some day he's going to be beaten to death with a box of tissues and everyone will turn a blind eye.

My son went through a phase of snorting snotters when he was younger, and it too a long, long time to break him in to blowing his nose. Spent ages having to teach him how to do it, but he got there in the end. You're welcome, world.

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1 hour ago, BTFD said:

I've worked with one of those too. Some day he's going to be beaten to death with a box of tissues and everyone will turn a blind eye.

My son went through a phase of snorting snotters when he was younger, and it too a long, long time to break him in to blowing his nose. Spent ages having to teach him how to do it, but he got there in the end. You're welcome, world.

Back in the day I was a prolific taker of home movies. The classic was Joe junior, aged three, being taught to blow his nose by his big sister. He could not grasp the difference between blowing and snorting up the way. 

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3 hours ago, Derry Alli said:

I've just seen something online that's pissed me off I've been that stupid. When I buy trainers or whatever I'll end up like £10/£15 under free delivery threshold and rather than the £8 delivery I'll spend the shortfall on tat. Usually socks or stickers or pins. 

Somebody posted online they just bridge the gap with a gift card so next time they use that site they've got money off too.

andy samberg mind blown GIF

Twenty years of online shopping like a fucking idiot.

season 8 episode 21 GIF

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9 hours ago, Cosmic Joe said:

Back in the day I was a prolific taker of home movies. The classic was Joe junior, aged three, being taught to blow his nose by his big sister. He could not grasp the difference between blowing and snorting up the way. 

Which made him really unpopular at cocaine parties.

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13 hours ago, Ken Ickie said:

You're fully 15 metres inside a pub, yet, you can still smell cigarette smoke from outside. (Unfortunately I seem to have a very sensitive sense of smell.....).

When the one smoking area at the pub is at the only entrance meaning you have to walk through a cloud of smoke to get it.

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1 hour ago, Hedgecutter said:

Looking for genuine highlights of a match but instead finding recordings of FIFA / Pro Evo games that VL gamers have uploaded.

Or a fucking screenshot of the Livescore or some other scores app showing the result/scorers.

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16 hours ago, Derry Alli said:

I've just seen something online that's pissed me off I've been that stupid. When I buy trainers or whatever I'll end up like £10/£15 under free delivery threshold and rather than the £8 delivery I'll spend the shortfall on tat. Usually socks or stickers or pins. 

Somebody posted online they just bridge the gap with a gift card so next time they use that site they've got money off too.

andy samberg mind blown GIF

Twenty years of online shopping like a fucking idiot.

 

12 hours ago, 101 said:

season 8 episode 21 GIF

Back in the day when H96 were halfway decent and playing in the Europa League group stages, they once had Helsingborg in the group stage. Demand for the away game way higher than the official allocation.

Ticketmaster Sweden wouldn't accept any orders being paid for by a German credit/debit card. Solution, buy a gift voucher and purchase the ticket with that.

Think about ca. 700 tickets were purchased like this, before they sussed what was going on and closed it down.

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