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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Which reminds me of something that really annoys me.
    Why do reporters stand outside parliament and shout at us when they could sit in the studio in front of a picture and speak normally?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    wild edges said:
    I've spent a lot of time in hospitals over the last 2 years and no one has asked me for any blood. Maybe the NHS are missing a trick by not having someone in waiting rooms ready to take blood from bored people.
    If you got moved to the top of the queue of people waiting, it might work.  Knowing my luck though, I'd go in for the blood letting, miss my call for treatment and then drop to the bottom of the queue again.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    Which reminds me of something that really annoys me.
    Why do reporters stand outside parliament and shout at us when they could sit in the studio in front of a picture and speak normally?
    Particularly recently when the dick 'ead could always be heard shouting something in the background.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 said:
    Which reminds me of something that really annoys me.
    Why do reporters stand outside parliament and shout at us when they could sit in the studio in front of a picture and speak normally?
    I can answer that one ... they believe it gives their report ‘veracity’. 

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Maybe you could donate an armful at reception in order to get a GP appointment. This idea has definite possibilities.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Please tell me that playing in your garden isn't the equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns. I can't bear to watch anymore.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Hosepipe fittings!   Why are they so flipping useless?

    Expensive, wall-mounted, Hozelock reel has stopped reeling in.  Website says return to factory for fixing.  I don't think so.

    Attachments for spray heads and connectors - always drip, leak, come off altogether in mid spray leaving me with wet hands/sleeve/trousers/leg depending on what I'm doing and the season.  I've tried several makes, plastic and metal and it makes no difference. 

    Grump. 
    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
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited May 2019
    Back to being a grammar nerd too.

    BBC coverage of deaths on Everest where people use "summit" as a verb!  More than just plastic rubbish up there then and since when did the highest peak in the world have windows?

    A great niece has shared a post on FB in which "inbox" is a verb!

    Can you tell I'm having a bad knee day?
    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
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Do you remember where you were the day "access" became a verb?

    I cringe when I hear talk of a woman's "bosoms".  A bosom is a pair of breasts.  Women do not have multiple bosoms.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Sadly :p
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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