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29 Mar 2025, 11:44 am

babybird wrote:
My dad just called me a "tormenting bugger"

I seriously can't think why


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29 Mar 2025, 11:58 am

babybird wrote:
My dad just called me a "tormenting bugger"

I seriously can't think why

It was more polite than throttling you.



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29 Mar 2025, 12:06 pm

I don't know why I come here :lol:


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29 Mar 2025, 12:08 pm

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I don't know why I come here :lol:


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29 Mar 2025, 12:11 pm

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I don't know why I come here :lol:

I think you like making us laugh.



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29 Mar 2025, 12:13 pm

You're letting out all my secrets now


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29 Mar 2025, 12:54 pm

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Hmmm.....Yes, I was still a student back then, and didn't prepare very well for the interview. Luckily, Scargill was one of those people who just kept on talking without one having to intervene much. He talked about himself a fair bit and seemed a bit of an egotist, which I suppose a lot of people in his sort of position are. The way things were going at the time, with Thatcher newly elected as PM and Scargill destined for the NUM presidency, it ought to have been fairly obvious that we were heading for a showdown in the 1980s, but I didn't have the foresight to tackle that one.

A few years ago Scargill set up his own political party (The Socialist Labour Party?), which I think is well to the Left in economic matters, but has no truck with modern left-wing identity politics. I have a feeling that King Arthur, a bit like George Galloway, is something of an old-fashioned Social Conservative in some ways.

Yes it was the Socialist Labour Party, founded as a reaction against Blair diluting Clause IV:
"To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service."

We don't hear that kind of thing these days.



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29 Mar 2025, 3:24 pm

I'm always worried that I'll step on one of the dachshunds or boot it across the room.
It's bad enough tripping over mother in law's handbag.
The yappers are just handbags with tiny legs jockeying for position under my feet.



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29 Mar 2025, 3:37 pm

We've been flooded in by all the rain and storms.
Can't even get past our driveway, so I guess I'll be having a staycation for the foreseeable future.
Someone please drone in chocolate.


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29 Mar 2025, 4:33 pm

Carbonhalo wrote:
I'm always worried that I'll step on one of the dachshunds or boot it across the room.
It's bad enough tripping over mother in law's handbag.
The yappers are just handbags with tiny legs jockeying for position under my feet.

Funny you should mention yapping sausage dogs. There's one round here called Jasper who barks his daft head off at me every time he sees me even if I'm tens of yards away from him. He ignores everybody else. I usually get on well with dogs. I think he's a Trump supporter.



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29 Mar 2025, 5:46 pm

I can't believe the price of prescription sunglasses me
I'm just gonna have to get a normal pair and a white stick at this rate


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29 Mar 2025, 5:47 pm

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I can't believe the price of prescription sunglasses me
I'm just gonna have to get a normal pair and a white stick at this rate


They are a lot, aren't they? The price for every different thing is getting worse and worse...



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29 Mar 2025, 5:55 pm

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I can't believe the price of prescription sunglasses me
I'm just gonna have to get a normal pair and a white stick at this rate

I think they still sell cheap clip-on sunglasses. Me, I wear contact lenses so I can just use ornery sunglasses. And not these pricey soft disposable contacts either. Cost-effective rigid gas permeable. One pair lasts me about 3 years, more if I'm careful. I'm good at not losing them.



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29 Mar 2025, 5:57 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:
They are a lot, aren't they? The price for every different thing is getting worse and worse...

My grandad used to say if you don't buy it then it doesn't cost anything.



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29 Mar 2025, 6:01 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
babybird wrote:
I can't believe the price of prescription sunglasses me
I'm just gonna have to get a normal pair and a white stick at this rate

I think they still sell cheap clip-on sunglasses. Me, I wear contact lenses so I can just use ornery sunglasses. And not these pricey soft disposable contacts either. Cost-effective rigid gas permeable. One pair lasts me about 3 years, more if I'm careful. I'm good at not losing them.


Yeah contacts are an option
It's putting them in that puts me off


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29 Mar 2025, 6:13 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
They are a lot, aren't they? The price for every different thing is getting worse and worse...

My grandad used to say if you don't buy it then it doesn't cost anything.


Well, that is true. Even living modestly though nowadays seems to be expensive.