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Post by MamIDdau on Aug 5, 2007 18:55:26 GMT
Ooooooooooooh WB don't ya hate them tourists!!! Without them, I'd be able to afford to buy somewhere to live around here and be able to get home in the summer months without queueing for half an hour to get 2 miles!! Argh!
However, I can't really complain because we used to come here on day trips to visit my family in Llanfairfechan/Penmenmawr.
As for what they're called... well, don't get me started!! Encountered 3 or 4 on the way to my mum's earlier.
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Post by Biggles on Aug 5, 2007 19:14:29 GMT
I'd like to have a whinge about the 2 idiots who have obviously been drinking all day and who just walked past my house, stopped and leant against my front wall and then proceeded to puke all over the pavement in front of my garden. How lovely FA x And also Two supposedly adult men who finished their cans of Lager-and threw them over the hedge--"What an example" for younger teenagers--some of whom are well brought up with manners--
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2007 9:07:11 GMT
I want to whinge because I have a rotten summer cold Headache, blocked sinuses, comedy voice, the works. My darling children can't help but be incredibly LOUD!!!! Ouch.
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Post by Shrubrose on Aug 6, 2007 9:11:15 GMT
Poor you. Drink plenty (non-alcoholic ;D), paracetamol and get family to give you lots of sympathetic looks. This last always helps ;D
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Post by nightowl on Aug 6, 2007 11:03:24 GMT
In Scotland, I think they are called tourists, but there is usually an adjective preceding the word. Darling?...Desirable?...? Cherished?...Lucrative?.....
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Post by Weeterrier on Aug 6, 2007 12:07:40 GMT
Nightowl, you know me so well!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2007 17:44:09 GMT
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Post by Weeterrier on Aug 6, 2007 17:49:50 GMT
Come into the Ladies Andy, we won't mind
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Post by Shrubrose on Aug 6, 2007 18:06:20 GMT
oh wt, saucy
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Post by MamIDdau on Aug 6, 2007 18:10:50 GMT
The gents toilets do generally absolutely honk. It's obviously men with lil, erm, that can't get close enough to make sure it doesn't go on the floor... ;D
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Post by Shrubrose on Aug 6, 2007 18:37:40 GMT
I'm driven to enquire as to how you know this April?
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Post by Biggles on Aug 6, 2007 18:59:07 GMT
I'm driven to enquire as to how you know this April? I also wondered How you knew that--(I thought I was the only one) cause I once went into the Gents by mistake--What a revelation!!!!They dont even 'drop' their pants! ;D Big ones, Small ones ,some as big as your head---Just like the song. (hope I am not pre-modded for that)
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Post by Shrubrose on Aug 6, 2007 19:26:33 GMT
I bet there's a few of us who've done that myacer. I walked into one once, saw this man and thought 'what's he doing in here'. The look of surprise on his face was priceless.
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 6, 2007 20:28:46 GMT
I walked into an (empty) gents' toilet at work once...I thought 'What strange hand basins...'...innocent, me ;D
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Post by MamIDdau on Aug 6, 2007 20:43:27 GMT
Well, there was this one time (not at band camp for you american pie fans out there) where we were doing a drunken conga line through a night club that ended up going thru the gents. And you can smell them when you walk past.
I think men's wee smells more than women's anyway. And sugar puffs make ya wee smell funny too <nods> We had this conversation in a pub once and you know when it kinda just goes absolutely silent and you say something really embarrassing at that exact moment and the whole pub hears it? Yeah well, it was one of those... Luckily I'd had some dutch courage so didn't really care. Ok, I'd had a lot of dutch courage.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2007 20:45:39 GMT
That sugar puff thing is sooooo true! ;D
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Post by Biggles on Aug 6, 2007 21:06:30 GMT
Fat Andy is the only man to have the courage to post on this subject! I like that remark about Wash Basins--I really thought they were!!!Honest--I am only a youngster and naive with it. What a learning curve--you get to know something different everyday--and I nearly used it to wash my hands -- What other embarasing situations have members been caught out with?
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Post by Shrubrose on Aug 7, 2007 8:56:00 GMT
I feel the need for a whinge. Was in the garden yesterday, planting out some more annuals (grown from seed ;D), was working in a tight space so had to kneel and move carefully. Anyway, moved my foot a fraction, that's all, and ended up snapping my one and only lily. It was all the more devastating because I'd planted a number of bulbs and this was the only one that had emerged. Was not a happy camper, I can tell you.
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Post by pdblake on Aug 7, 2007 10:27:18 GMT
Earlier today I had a tearful phone call from my 80 year old aunt saying that British Gas had written to say that following a review of her account her monthly electricity Direct Debit would rise from £35 to £114 with effect from 6th June 2007. The idiots did this to me too, from £30 something to £150 odd, for no apparant reason. I rang them and in the time they answered (about half an hour) and the bloke at the other end had explained (in very broken English) that there was nothing he could do about it, I'd been on the internet and switched to Scottish Power. Thank God for the internet:)
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Post by Shrubrose on Aug 7, 2007 11:58:19 GMT
We're with powergen. They very kindly paid us back an amount of money we had accrued from monthly payments, but the monthly payment has remained the same. How do you figure that one?
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Post by Weeterrier on Aug 8, 2007 17:41:27 GMT
I am so disappointed tonight, because I don't have a whinge. I found a Hellebore seedling (and a Fuchsia one, very strange), I saw a Wagtail feed her baby, a woodpecker came to the birdfeeder, and 5 moorhen chicks came out of the water to eat out of my hand. I'm a happy bunny tonight AND it hasn't rained today Who could ask for more?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2007 18:33:07 GMT
Actually Wee one, that's given me an idea for a new thread.......
FA x
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Post by nightowl on Aug 8, 2007 18:35:01 GMT
Awww WT, Moorhen chicks eating out of your hand? That would make my day too, they are sooo cute, like black fluffy pom-poms! ;D
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Post by jean on Aug 8, 2007 18:57:59 GMT
whinge - sorry. Would you walk on the side of a busy winding road with no pavement, which has a speed limit of 60mph? Some people on holiday do, and they let their children ride bikes 2 abreast wearing no safety gear at all Still counting down the days to sanity returning
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Post by Weeterrier on Aug 8, 2007 20:12:08 GMT
Awww WT, Moorhen chicks eating out of your hand? That would make my day too, they are sooo cute, like black fluffy pom-poms! ;D They're a bit beyond the fluffy now nightowl, more at the gangly spotty stage! I'm taking my camera tomorrow, if I get some good snaps, I'll post them. They come out of the weeds when I whistle. Awwwwwwwwwww
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Post by Weeterrier on Aug 8, 2007 20:14:14 GMT
whinge - sorry. Would you walk on the side of a busy winding road with no pavement, which has a speed limit of 60mph? Some people on holiday do, and they let their children ride bikes 2 abreast wearing no safety gear at all Still counting down the days to sanity returning Please whinge away, those stories are always more interesting ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2007 20:23:22 GMT
Oh I have enjoyed reading this, my whinge tonight, well firstly I had 2 goes at spelling whinge, & secondly there is one of the day night cricket matches on and one of the floodlight towers shines right in the study & the bedroom & then they all wander round drunk. ps my spell check says hinge, or whine or w hinge!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2007 23:10:59 GMT
Today we had heat and this evening calm, which is pretty good by me. At 9pm I was trying to identify, which of the 3 different owls we are so lucky to have. They were all twit-twooing So why whinge...... ?? We live as part of 6 or 7 hills which end up in an ancient volcano basin......by 10pm we had 3 sets of fireworks from all directions.....and three live bands going (actually it was all very professional). Distant enough from here so wouldn't keep anyone awake....but the owls and the bats I had hoped to glimpse wouldn't come out to play anymore
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Post by Shrubrose on Aug 12, 2007 5:41:31 GMT
CPC did you hear an item on Radio 4, I think it was on a similar theme? About birds in the city though. They were singing for periods after dark when they could be heard as the noise of the city quietened. The presenter was postulating that their behaviour was changing in response to the environment they were living in.
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Post by thecleaninglady on Aug 12, 2007 7:48:00 GMT
The birds near me often sing away throughout the night - first heard them last Christmas Eve - thought they were waiting for Santa!!
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