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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat.

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Does this help?
    cognitive dissonance
    noun
    PSYCHOLOGY
    1. the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioural decisions and attitude change.


      Nope? me neither


    Devon.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    edited August 2018
    1)Loving the rain but found that my "waterproof" Jacket lets water in at the shoulders -(I have had it about 7 years though) At least I found out before we go to Edinburgh where the forecast is for rain all week.
    2) Just paid over £70 quid to fill the car up! The most I have ever had to pay & that is in one of the normally cheaper garages, should have guessed it's August of course crafty bu**ers!
    AB Still learning

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
     "the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioural decisions and attitude change..."    so even experience can't change their mind ... you know the saying about repeating the same action and expecting a different outcome ... that sort of stuff .... and loads of other stuff too .... like having climate change explained to them ... and then   http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/trump-s-new-oceans-policy-washes-away-obama-s-emphasis-conservation-and-climate

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Petrol is not as expensive as it was in 2008. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Lyn said:
    Petrol is not as expensive as it was in 2008. 
    Well I have never spent so much filling up the car before!
    AB Still learning

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I love "cognitive dissonance".  Brilliant expression.

    Don't take much note of petrol prices as it's something we have to have to get about but we do go for the cheaper SM stuff and not branded.  However, can someone please explain why, whilst driving "uphill" to Belgium a couple of weeks ago I got there on 37 litres but on the way back south a week later it took a whole tank to do the 800odd kms and I had to fill up 20kms short of home?

    I have tried not using weedkiller here but we have a serious infestation of deeply seated bindweed so I do use it occasionally but carefully and with a dedicated back pack spray that is very easy to control.  We also have cardboard down to cut light to bare soil and also free sheets of plastic from our farmer neighbour who would otherwise dump it and we have deep mulches between plants plus weed membrane down and chipped bark.   Hoeing the drive is a real chore but is starting to work but then they're just annual weeds.   

    Fingers and jets from the hose plus feeding the birds are my form of insecticide.


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Did you do more stopping and starting on the return journey Obx. I believe that uses mor fuel,  as does city driving compared to motorway driving. 
    West Yorkshire
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Air con uses a bit as well
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • On the 11/8/08 petrol was 113.9p per gallon On the 6/8/18 it was 128p per gallon according to the RAC tracker
    https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time
    "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Why can't car hire  companies tell you up front how much the ripoff insurance is going to cost? If you go elsewhere for insurance, they resort to threats, blackmail and outright lies to get you to purchase their product even in addition to the one you've already bought.

    When buying something online, I can't count the number of times that I've got to the checkout, found extortionate postage and abandoned the transaction
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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