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It shouldn't be parked like that, but it must have been there when you parked.

No it wasn't. My car hasn't moved since yesterday afternoon. I presume the white car arrived later. There was a Golf parked up to the line at the other side of the bay but I at least had a few feet to manouvre.

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I was in Scotland as well today, probably saw you.

Saw me? You probably know me. In fact your probably related to me.

Lived in London for several years, and there are plenty of folk there who would consider that a reasonable assumption, in a Hills Have Eyes/Deliverance/Fife way.

Although in the States, I was asked if I was related to Sean Connery. On more than one occasion. Seriously boys, go visit America. Knee deep, I'm tellin' ya.

Edit for added offence to Fifers :thumsup2

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Although in the States, I was asked if I was related to Sean Connery. On more than one occasion. Seriously boys, go visit America. Knee deep, I'm tellin' ya.

When I first moved here I was asked, in all seriousness, where I learned to speak English. Then I was given the added compliment of being told I spoke it quite well. Which I was never told when I lived in Britain.

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Lived in London for several years, and there are plenty of folk there who would consider that a reasonable assumption, in a Hills Have Eyes/Deliverance/Fife way.

Although in the States, I was asked if I was related to Sean Connery. On more than one occasion. Seriously boys, go visit America. Knee deep, I'm tellin' ya.

Edit for added offence to Fifers :thumsup2

When I lived in the UAE an American said to me when I told him I was from Belfast, "I have a granny in Limerick, would you know her?"

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

Anyway, really getting on my tits at the minute - that fcuking Chris Evans ad for BBC Playlist where he is painfully humming a tune to try and get people to recognise it. If you recorded that ad and then played it in court I doubt any judge would convict you?

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Different departments in large organisations not talking to each other.

I had two appointments at our local(ish) hospital on Monday, the second of which was to get some pretty important results. I got the time off work, came home at lunchtime to find an answerphone message cancelling the second appointment - which I've spent a week or so trying to get my head around the potential ways forward. Fuckit, I'll just go and get the scan done, I thought (appointment one).

Off we went to the scan, came back home and, literally ten minutes after getting in, the phone goes. It's the hospital, appointment two department.

"We tried getting hold of you all afternoon to say we'd reinstated your appointment - now we'll have to reschedule for next week. We know you were having an MRI today, so we should have the results from that as well"

Well, Missus, if you knew I was having an MRI, it wouldn't even have needed an outside line to get the message across, would it? It would also have saved you ringing me at home, where you evidently knew I fucking wasn't. :angry:

Oh, and organisations giving this kind of incompetence the managementspeak moniker of "silo thinking". No it's not, it's just fucking incompetent.

Actually, from my point of view, this instance isn't exactly petty, but it pisses me off all the time, not just in this case.

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