Mick Dempsey
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That word was in circulation long before that. Just checked, dates from the Winnie the Pooh stories from the 20s.
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I don’t believe so. It’s 19th century technology. We have to find a way of making genuine emails legitimate, a bit like a blue tick on Twitter.
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Ok, Chuck your computer away and write us all a letter.
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You guys heard of power cuts in the 70s? Ultimate state control of power. Anything like water, power, phone or whatever is a service you pay for and can be withdrawn at any time. Why are they pushing smart meters (to answer Trigger Andy’s question) it’s so they can reduce their biggest overhead..staff, not so they can feed their lizard babies more human flesh. Same as why supermarkets push self service and banks push internet banking and transfers rather than paying in chèques, and why I bought a loader rather than pay guys to cut up and handball wood into the truck. They want more profit, less overheads, like all of us. Now if you lot have some cotton mills to smash up, don’t let me stop you.
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Ok, but the Kirk Douglas one right? Not the remake.
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To say I hate La Poste is an understatement. I sent off my birth certificate, the marriage certificate of my parents and other original documents via recorded delivery to Ireland to get my Irish passport. Not hearing anything (a slip confirming delivery) in a week I went into the post office to enquire. She looked at the ‘puter and said ‘don’t worry the parcel is safely in Tunisia’ They lost it and the documents forever. Took me months to organise replacements and get the passport. A pox on them!
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Vesp got the ban hammer. Matelot disappeared after said post. -
Is it going to be like ‘celebrity coach trip’ where we vote each other out? On a more serious note, really stupid idea.
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Our’s is in the house. But there’s also this plastic thing on the outside that they put another ‘reader’ against for some reason.
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Assuming I was a bystander, if you know what I mean, not actually in any danger from the times I find myself in. 1: Dinosaurs 🦕 2: Being there for the discovery of the New World, meeting American natives. 3: Roman times.
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Not that I’ve ever encountered.
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Very few, certainly next to none in domestic arb. No TPOs, if they’re your trees you do what you like.
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He did some grinding for me a couple of weeks back, he’s fine. As Doug said, he’s giving the old social media a bit of a rest.
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Muck grab I reckon, rake backwards with the tines into a pile, then pick it up (mostly!) I had to shorten the bottom tines for better ergonomics.
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Same what?
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You’ll never get out of bed if you worry too much about stuff. Give him a taste of the job, send him up some easy stuff when there’s time, keeping an eye on him of course. Single line and a flip line is enough, putting him up on a double rope system will leave him looking like a fly trapped in a spiders web and put him off for life, let the instructors waste their time with that bollocks. Once he’s qualified he can drop it and start learning.
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I only wish my dog came to the whistle as reliably as you flutter out of the cave every evening.
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Keep drinking the bottled water.
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It’s a visual reminder to remind everyone that they’re at war.
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Yeah, I read about that.
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Famous one of a bloke in Devon having a wank in his front room, can’t post links but it’s out there.
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Bugger!
