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13 hours ago, parsforlife said:

Things hanging down off ceiling, in particular lights.  Why the f**k is it fitted 3ft off the ceiling to create an unnecessary hazard that will inevitably be headbutted? 

It could be left over from the days of gas lighting- you wouldn't want a gas light close to your ceiling. 

Also a 100 watt filament bulb created a bit of heat so perhaps it was wise to keep them 3 feet away from the ceiling

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1 hour ago, Bairnardo said:

Padron Peppers, EVOO, Flaked Sea Salt.       11.5

This always reminds me of an old maths teacher I had. When doing algebra, if the answer to a question was "7x" and someone only said "7" he'd always respond with "7 what? Bananas?".

Hence whenever I see this menu pricing style I automatically think they want paid in bananas.

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21 hours ago, coprolite said:

Mrs Coprolite likes to booby trap the garden so if i'm out playing "football" or "badminton" with the kids i'll almost always end up being struck behind the ear by a bird feeder and getting a load of niger seeds down my back. 

Funnily enough (not actually funny) I headbutted the A/C bracket in our garden last night which resulted in a fair amount of blood, a headache and a nice scar.  

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13 hours ago, Peil said:

Started off as people in the emergency services could get a discount at some places, 10/20% off depending on who accepted it. Didn't stop people in back office roles signing up either, but it's a commercial thing anyway. 

Seems to be good moaning 'why should they get it' it's not coming out of their pockets so what's the grump?

I guess the point is it's an 'exclusive' scheme and not open to all so naturally those who aren't able to join feel disgruntled that others who they perceive don't really qualify can. 

 

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16 minutes ago, hk blues said:

Funnily enough (not actually funny) I headbutted the A/C bracket in our garden last night which resulted in a fair amount of blood, a headache and a nice scar.  

You were right the first time. That's funny. 

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22 hours ago, coprolite said:

Mrs Coprolite likes to booby trap the garden so if i'm out playing "football" or "badminton" with the kids i'll almost always end up being struck behind the ear by a bird feeder and getting a load of niger seeds down my back. 

This reminds me of an old wooden garage my dad had. One day I found a tennis ball hanging from a string in it so of course I gave it a few whacks until it came off. I wasn't able to reach where it had been nailed so just tied it round one of the beams close by. 

My dad had measured it so that the ball touched the windscreen of the car when it was far enough in. Wasn't there when he crashed into the back wall of the shed but he was livid!

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There's a song getting played on the radio just now that's utterly dreadful.  No different from most of them, but this one absolutely boils my pish for a couple of reasons. 

It's one of these ones that's destined to be sped up and remixed and requested by morons every week on the GBX on Radio Clyde.  This isn't the worst part though. It contains the line "when the camera flashy, I act so happy".

Everyone involved should be shot. 

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25 minutes ago, Nkomo-A-Gogo said:

This reminds me of an old wooden garage my dad had. One day I found a tennis ball hanging from a string in it so of course I gave it a few whacks until it came off. I wasn't able to reach where it had been nailed so just tied it round one of the beams close by. 

My dad had measured it so that the ball touched the windscreen of the car when it was far enough in. Wasn't there when he crashed into the back wall of the shed but he was livid!

I see where you get it from now.

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10 hours ago, Zetterlund said:

This always reminds me of an old maths teacher I had. When doing algebra, if the answer to a question was "7x" and someone only said "7" he'd always respond with "7 what? Bananas?".

Hence whenever I see this menu pricing style I automatically think they want paid in bananas.

My physics teacher must have been splitting his time between Lanarkshire and Fife, that is my exact thought whenever I see that and also the response I give to my kids whenever they don't specify units 😂

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1 hour ago, KnightswoodBear said:

There's a song getting played on the radio just now that's utterly dreadful.  No different from most of them, but this one absolutely boils my pish for a couple of reasons. 

It's one of these ones that's destined to be sped up and remixed and requested by morons every week on the GBX on Radio Clyde.  This isn't the worst part though. It contains the line "when the camera flashy, I act so happy".

Everyone involved should be shot. 

This one? 

 

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2 hours ago, Nkomo-A-Gogo said:

This reminds me of an old wooden garage my dad had. One day I found a tennis ball hanging from a string in it so of course I gave it a few whacks until it came off. I wasn't able to reach where it had been nailed so just tied it round one of the beams close by. 

My dad had measured it so that the ball touched the windscreen of the car when it was far enough in. Wasn't there when he crashed into the back wall of the shed but he was livid!

I did this at a previous house.

My wife came from the garage fuming that she couldn't be trusted to stop  in the right place, so I removed the tennis ball.

The following Sunday I went golfing, picked up the clubs from the back of the garage only to find a bumper shaped bend in my golf cart, it was my turn to be fuming.

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You know how folk have those wee pictures of themselves on Teams? I'm in a session now and someone's is her and her baby.

Thankfully my mic was off when I exclaimed and scoffed.

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4 hours ago, DA Baracus said:

You know how folk have those wee pictures of themselves on Teams? I'm in a session now and someone's is her and her baby.

Thankfully my mic was off when I exclaimed and scoffed.

Its not me is it?

Anyway, my gripe is I need to head to weegieland on Thursday and be at something near Central for 10am.

Train options, get in to Queen street at 0845hrs or 0956hrs.

Shite country.

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37 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Its not me is it?

Anyway, my gripe is I need to head to weegieland on Thursday and be at something near Central for 10am.

Train options, get in to Queen street at 0845hrs or 0956hrs.

Shite country.

I don't think so unless you attended an OPD webinar at 11.00 today? And you're also now a woman.

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33 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Its not me is it?

Anyway, my gripe is I need to head to weegieland on Thursday and be at something near Central for 10am.

Train options, get in to Queen street at 0845hrs or 0956hrs.

Shite country.

I wasgoing to use the train to go from Stirling to Dunfermline on Saturday for the game. 25 miles. Would have had to use 5 trains taking nearly 4 hours for the round trip costing £20. (going there Stirling to Croy, Croy to Waverley, Waverley to Dunfermline FFS. )

 

Went by car instead, 30 minutes each way, £11. 

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