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11 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Monday morning an I wonder what junk I have in the work email account?

Oh look - seems to be an advert for a wife-swapping event by a well known provider of flophouses.
At least they get a coat hanger each for their trunks.

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They look like someone just drowned in the pool and they are waiting to be questioned by the police.

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Bravo is getting picked up by mechanic tomorrow. I stuck a battery on charge when I got back. I probably won’t be home when it gets picked up, and it’s a bit unfair asking missus or 60y/o mechanics to carry it down the stairs from 5th floor. Put it back in, and thought - oh fuck it, might as well see if it’s fully charged and the car starts with no errors on dash. Reporting resounding success!

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What a glorious morning.

Feel quite footloose and fancy free.

Might go to the garden centre and spend too much money.

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Ooh Peugeot 505 estate! I had a 1985 one of those, one of the best cars I ever had.

Until it caught light,

Still got exported to Africa tho😁image.jpeg.589c53f82d0dd26b933034579178ddf0.jpeg

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Drove past a bloke who is out jogging wearing only shoes, underwear and hearing protection.

This was the last thing I expected to see today.

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The session has been started less than 15.mins at that time

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Currently watching and rob walker said theres all sorts of shenanigans going on in this session

Which has been going less than an hour and no theres hasnt

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I went out to the car this morning and it was covered in ants… could it be the Demon Shine I used at the weekend?

I think it has a cherry fragrance?

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8 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

cherry fragrance?

popped it then?

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flicking channels cos the snooker finished and classic british cars on bbc four

mark evans is narrating but for the first 3 secs of hearing himĀ 

i nearly thought it was @Skizzer

well it cheered me up anyway - will watch it tomorrow

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9 hours ago, hairnet said:

flicking channels cos the snooker finished and classic british cars on bbc four

mark evans is narrating but for the first 3 secs of hearing himĀ 

i nearly thought it was @Skizzer

well it cheered me up anyway - will watch it tomorrow

The shows he did in the 'A .... is born' format were fantastic.

How it progressed from a car to a helicopter was a real lesson in "anyone can do this stuff, you just have to learn it", and I use it as an example all the time when people tell me they're no good at fixing things.

If a dude can learn how to build a helicopter you can fix your car. A bit like those Royal Navy ads about fixing a skateboard.

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I really enjoyed the Wreck Rescue with Lizzie and her frog eye sprite.Ā 

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2 hours ago, DeeJay said:

I really enjoyed the Wreck Rescue with Lizzie and her frog eye sprite.Ā 

best one was the aec phakt

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Jaguars diesels really are getting more and more agricultural....Ā 

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4 hours ago, myglaren said:

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Phun phakt: Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.Ā 

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9 minutes ago, nomiST said:

Phun phakt: Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.Ā 

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Is that who they are?Ā  They all look alike.

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10 minutes ago, myglaren said:

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Is that who they are?Ā  They all look alike.

Gary Oldman and Tim Roth. I think.Ā 

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No idea who Tim Roth might be, or Gary Newman.

Took a dislike to Gary Oldman in "Leon, The Professional" and haven't a clue what he might look like.

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I needed to move my white 405 this evening as it was blocking my trailer in.Ā  Its not started for 6 months so I carried a freshly charged battery over and lifted the bonnet to find a battery already in the tray, "well that'll be fucked but might as well try"Ā  connected the leads up and was surprised to have ignition lights and even more suprised when it started on the 3rd turn of the key.Ā  A bit of shunting around unseized a recalcitrant rear brake and it happily towed the trailer round the yard.

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Mrs W got awarded employee of the month today. She works in accounts and wasn’t happy with an invoice for facility services. Turned out a new start manager had signed a contract for Ā£70k a month, for 5 years with a national supplier, without approval, when they were only paying Ā£2k a month to a local firm before.Ā 
Her reward? Ā£50, a certificate and an invite to the ā€œstarsā€ awards night next February. She is happy that she’s spotted it, protected her colleague’s jobs but the new start manager has been dismissed, which she feels guilty about. Well done her though, she could have Ā just paid it, as it had been approved, but she knew it wasn’t right.

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6 hours ago, Wibble said:

she feels guilty about.

She has no need to - if he's done that so early in this employment he'd probably have ruined the firm by the Autumn.

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6 hours ago, Wibble said:

Mrs W got awarded employee of the month today. She works in accounts and wasn’t happy with an invoice for facility services. Turned out a new start manager had signed a contract for Ā£70k a month, for 5 years with a national supplier, without approval, when they were only paying Ā£2k a month to a local firm before.Ā 
Her reward? Ā£50, a certificate and an invite to the ā€œstarsā€ awards night next February. She is happy that she’s spotted it, protected her colleague’s jobs but the new start manager has been dismissed, which she feels guilty about. Well done her though, she could have Ā just paid it, as it had been approved, but she knew it wasn’t right.

One of my hats I wear is that of a ā€˜Forensic Accountant’ and the due diligence of people such as your wife helps to prevent things such as fraud…… not even some AI algorithms would spot that!

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