Toast
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All this makes Didcot seem positively paradisiacal.
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Just saw this on Facebook.
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People complaining that they had too much choice. LOL
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" the hospital in Los Angeles"
You'd think a big city like LA would have more than one hospital.
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1 hour ago, Sir Creep said:looks like he authored a couple books on running
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Oh yes, the Coventry ring road is the work of the devil.
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1 hour ago, Heef said:Anyway, I came to the conclusion that Portsmouth was the shittest of shitholes. Vast amounts of concrete. Yep. People that looked as if the only way is Kappa. Yep. A deep foreboding that someone's going to stab you for looking vaguely lost. Yep. A deep seated hatred of the next town for no obvious reason. Yep. The only selling point of the town being something not into the town (Go to Portsmouth they said. Visit the shopping centre at GunWharf Quays they said. Well, if your only selling point is a shopping centre not in the centre, then you're out of home - c.f. Braintree, Clacton). Getting lost in an industrial area in Widnes/St. Helens was reasonably close, but I still think Portsmouth was worse.
I think the fact that most of the road signs in Portsmouth direct you "Out Of City" says it all.
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2 hours ago, charon said:Eddie Stobbart.
Not in trouble, I think, but name probably to go.
Eddie Stobbart trucks, not willing to pay the fee for name to the Eddie Stobbart company that owns the rights.
Sell your soul etc etc.....
They can easily get round this by calling it Eddie Stobart.
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It's really on and off here. Sun came out, I rugged up myself and the dog and went out and it instantly turned into a blizzard again.
Dog ventured down a long narrow gap full of low bushes and trees, well fenced in both sides with sheep wire as it divides two small fields. Came back without his coat. I could see the bright splash of pink (I know) right at the end. The joys of terrier ownership.
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2 hours ago, Sir Creep said:I couldn't find hardly any medical reasons to include anyone. If this thing is over in 6 months or less I'll abandon this website for as many days as the game took place.
By-Election Bingo might finish faster
True, but you just never know. Say you'd had to choose someone from The Vicar Of Dibley - most people would have gone for Peacock and yet ....
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Well it's bloody cold here. I wish somebody had warned me.
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24 minutes ago, Davey Jones' Locker said:Thanks. Yes, I am on here too erratically these days due to work obligations to commit myself to 18 months.
You don't have to do anything after submitting your team. And it could all be over in a matter of days, it would only need five (or even three!) deaths.
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Anyway .... the snow is here now. I went to the butchers about six miles (9.656 km) away and it began snowing heavily while I was there. Nothing from halfway home. Been back about an hour and it's chucking it down now, everything covered.
Most importantly, the smoked ham hock is gently simmering away and there is shin of beef in the fridge. We are equipped for soup and stew.
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1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:I still find it fascinating re the above discussion that people still measure things in inches.
I was taught (during hail, snow, howling gales, etc. etc.) the metric system, decimals, blah blah blah. The UK still seems precious about its imperial measurments, and I have no idea why. At some point, this became a "bloody Europeans" issue, yet I was being taught the metric system before we joined the EEC. It's like when an old country house burns to the ground, and the whole country wants to preserve its burnt-out shell for posterity...why the fuck should we?
If you want a modern economy, get modern I say.
Inches are a better yardstick than those fiddly little cm and mm.
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Nothing here. Nice sunny day but v cold. Bird bath water frozen solid.
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24 minutes ago, Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells said:Good Evening Fellow Humans (I'd address you as gentlemen, but that would be
unbeffittingunbefitting of your moral impertinence and sordid debauchery),I address this letter to whom it may concern; the collective membership of this vile society. I am frankly appalled and dismayed that you deem it an acceptable practice to wager, whether for fun or for profit, on the status of many a well respected member of the upper echelons of society. I am utterly dismayed at your evident disregard for the
affecteffect that the passing of these folk has on those people closest to them. I am appalled at the fact many of you are so actively willing to encourage the death of a good man for the mere sport of acclaiming points of no worth in games of no importance. Are your lives that devoid of meaning and significance that the sole pleasure you can derive is the tacit acceptance that you are indeed so inferior to these talented, cultured and respectable people your only appreciation of them can come in fulfilling your envy as you usher in their deaths with pathetic celebration. The sickening trend of this site is so long established it is frankly appalling that it has been left to go on for so long. The government will be receiving a strongly worded letter encouraging the banning of morally corrupt practices such as the betting of celebrity deaths. You have no empathy, could you imagine googling your own mother's name and being led to a cesspit of asightsite where absolutelyimbeciles such as yourselves had spent years discussing how likely she was to die. How can participating in such a practice not sicken and repulse you to the core?Unkind Regards
Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells
Not bad.
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On 19/02/2018 at 16:46, Deathray said:
Milk, soup and bread. Milk, soup and Bread. Get your milk, soup and bread while you can still reach the corner shop.
Done. Although we do not have a corner shop, indeed no shop of any variety.
I don't buy soup, so may venture out to the excellent game butcher/farm shop for a smoked ham hock tomorrow. Make some proper winter warmer soup.
A few flakes of snow fell here on the North Wessex Downs© today. Otherwise a nice day with some sunshine.
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36 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:Penny Vincenzi, the best-selling author you've never read but have seen all her books advertised on train station platforms, dead at 78.
I was about to say I had, but looking at her bibliography I don't recognise any of the titles. Obviously made a deep impression.
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14 minutes ago, Handrejka said:That's fairly standard for the Metro.
Yes.
They're right about natural causes though.
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1 hour ago, Handrejka said:Sorry for linking to the metro.
That pretty much spells it out, although there are two mistakes in the article.
"the coroner works extensively on every body to find the cause of death, regardless of whether that death is thought to be suspicious."
That should say pathologist. They are using 'coroner' in its US sense there.
And a really bad mistake:
"Liz Dawn, who died of an aggressive form of lung cancer called Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease."
COPD is not lung cancer!
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"What was previously referred to as old age" was often likely to involve dementia, also described as senility. Now seen as an illness or disease.
As for heart attacks, any kind of organ failure is natural causes - unless it's been directly caused by an outside event, accident or trauma. It's the body breaking down or wearing out. That's natural, or people would live forever.
There's a grey area when someone suffers a fatal stroke or heart attack associated with a traumatic accident such as a fall.
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6 hours ago, Phantom said:Natural causes usually covers what was previously referred to as "old age", if the cause of death is something else, then that's usually noted as being the case on the death certificate.
Sean's right though. Cancer and other diseases are all 'natural'. They're saying natural causes because they don't want to go into details, but those details will of course be entered on the death certificate. Formal obituaries in newspapers often don't mention the actual cause of death, presumably out of discretion.
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John and Mary are waiting at the bus stop with their six children. They hear a sound
tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...
and from around the corner appears an old man with a walking stick. He takes his place in the bus queue.
The bus arrives, and Mary gets on with the six kids. As John is about to board, the driver stops him.
“Sorry, mate. Only room for seven inside.”
“When's the next bus for the town centre then?” asks John.
The driver is helpful.
“Not for half an hour, but if you go up the road and take the first left into the High Street, the Number 8 bus is due there in five minutes and that goes to the town centre by a different route.”
The bus departs, and John and the old man start walking.
tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...tap...
(you can keep this up as long as you want)
John is irritated. He says to the old man,
“Can't you put a bit of rubber on the end of that thing?”
The old man replies,
“If you'd put a bit of rubber on the end of your thing, we'd all have got on the fucking bus.”
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Olympic ice dance champions Scott Moir & Tessa Virtue will be skating to a Tragically Hip song as a tribute to Gord at the gala event tomorrow.
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The Weather
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It's a bit weird here. The snow has largely disappeared from the open fields, but in other places it's still deep. A good 12 inches (30.48 cm) where the dog is, and much more in the drifts.