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Post by lazybones on Jul 15, 2021 13:12:47 GMT
I've deleted Jeff's app from my phone. I'm going to browse some of the available titles on monopolies and capitalism, at www.waterstones.com.
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Post by Chumbles on Jul 15, 2021 13:20:11 GMT
Both Westfields will be underwater. What a world. At least that should mean the Apple stores are a bit less crowded. Swaffham is safe as chips. Invest now in a dry future in Swaffham! ... Bluewater Shopping Centre will certainly be much more appropriately named Underwater Shopping Centre; it might even be a prettier place. But I won't be going - I lived along the North Kent Shithole Metro on various loops for a couple of years the North Kent Line (or Woolwich Line) and the Bexleyheath Line (most people called it the Sidcup Line). (Erith, Bexleyheath, Sidcup, Belvedere)... I hated them all except Sidcup which I could tolerate... and Abbey Wood / Thamesmead where all the ground floor flats were unoccupied and the stairwells stink of urine, were the absolute pits. Roll on 2050 |
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Post by amipal on Jul 15, 2021 13:20:21 GMT
I am on a work call and all I can hear is him shouting about all the "fahkin buuurds he's been smashin" Now there’s a super-spreader if ever I’ve heard of one. Thank you, tenthenemy. |
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Jul 15, 2021 13:25:39 GMT
I'm out of the shower, however, I had had a struggle putting a clean pair of trousers on. Did Lazybones put a Hex on my pants? I mean, he reads all those weird books. So, in essence, I dunno.  |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Jul 15, 2021 13:30:05 GMT
The essential problem with BDT I have today is that I have no D. Well I have some beer but it’s foul stuff, who drinks that?
It’s been a while since I heard anything about Wide Andy or his proxies. I wonder if he is an anti lockdown lunatic. By that I mean I wonder if he is anti lockdown.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jul 15, 2021 13:41:47 GMT
Future generations will wonder at exotic tales of Hull in the same way that we think in awe about Atlantis. What was this lost civilization like? Why did it come to an end? Were the inhabitants punished by the gods for their heretical telephone system?
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Post by lazybones on Jul 15, 2021 13:45:39 GMT
I've just purchased three books on the Waterstones app. I decided to use a gift card I was gifted at Christmas for doing ok in a work quiz.
The purchase was £33.93 and the value of the gift card was £20. I decide to try it anyway.
It worked!
But ... How will Waterstones make their £13.93 back?
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Post by stxdpr on Jul 15, 2021 13:47:26 GMT
Forgot it was bdt, will investigate the d on the way home. That doesn't sound right.
Our magical online systems aren't able to open online excel type thing, pressing refresh counts as work?
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Post by tenthenemy on Jul 15, 2021 14:02:21 GMT
Now there’s a super-spreader if ever I’ve heard of one. Thank you, tenthenemy . Your welcome. |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Jul 15, 2021 14:06:41 GMT
If you want to use a less diabolical online book shop, hive.co.uk are cheap, have free delivery, and pay their taxes. They also give some profits to local bookshops. Bookshop.org are also good but a bit pricier
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Post by lazybones on Jul 15, 2021 14:13:08 GMT
Bookshop.org's not bad. I'm going with Waterstones today because they've got an app, they accept my Christmas gift card and ... They're the only UK book chain that even comes close to rivalling Amazon for book sales. Without them Amazon would pretty much monopolise the UK market. This is my understanding.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jul 15, 2021 14:23:27 GMT
Like Tuffers I stayed up late playing games, but I packed it in at 2 a.m. There's no way that I will finish Xenoblade Chronicles before my copy of Skyward Sword arrives tomorrow, but I'm still making an effort and working my way through the 531,000 side quests.
In the morning I had another scam phone call, the first time in a long time with an actual human being at the other end. Usually it's just a recording or a computer voice. So at least I had the pleasure to tell him to p*ss off with his scam in person. He tried to assure me that it wasn't a scam. Yeah, because BT Openreach always phones Virgin Media customers from a mobile phone number. Right.
Lunch: Chicken katsu with tempura rice, Asahi Super Dry for BDT.
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Post by lazybones on Jul 15, 2021 14:27:11 GMT
I ate some spaghetti for lunch. It was nice. I imagined it might have been the kind of thing Rick Stein would enjoy if he was stopping off at Puglian worker's cafe, maybe.
I'm being too modest. It was delicious.
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Wide Andy's Jazz habit
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Post by Wide Andy's Jazz habit on Jul 15, 2021 15:01:25 GMT
I've strayed into jazz funk territory. A bad business.
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Post by gongfarmer on Jul 15, 2021 16:12:32 GMT
I've just purchased three books on the Waterstones app. I decided to use a gift card I was gifted at Christmas for doing ok in a work quiz. The purchase was £33.93 and the value of the gift card was £20. I decide to try it anyway. It worked! But ... How will Waterstones make their £13.93 back? They will rip out 41% of the pages before sending them out to you. |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jul 15, 2021 16:20:43 GMT
 Time to finally take the flag down. |
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Post by crankcaller on Jul 15, 2021 16:28:45 GMT
We'll keep the red (and white) flag flying here.
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Post by crankcaller on Jul 15, 2021 17:37:30 GMT
Honest to fuck the amount of folk not wearing masks on trains is giving me the fear. You can ride a bike but you can't wear a mask? Get fucked.
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Post by MrTiddles on Jul 15, 2021 17:48:13 GMT
Angry Crank is a man to be feared.
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Post by crankcaller on Jul 15, 2021 17:58:10 GMT
What? a passive aggressive specky wee gadge tutting at you? Unfortunately not.
Just been and watched some of the Indiana Jones filming near Glasgow Central. Looks great.
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Post by crankcaller on Jul 15, 2021 17:59:19 GMT
They're still filming this parade.
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Post by Felice Landry on Jul 15, 2021 18:00:01 GMT
Passive aggressive is the best.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jul 15, 2021 18:08:36 GMT
You would say tbat.
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Post by Felice Landry on Jul 15, 2021 18:12:13 GMT
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Post by Felice Landry on Jul 15, 2021 18:29:39 GMT
I don't know whether Chumbles has seen this. |
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