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🐞CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XV🐞

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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Someone has just started up "music " all we can hear is the thud thudding of the base. We have double glazing and it's shut 😠
    AB Still learning

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The news is already predicting Christmas food shortages :|
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Best make sure you've planted some sprouts and parsnips then @wild edges and have space in the freezer to buy an early turkey.
    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
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    The nurse was embarrassed beyond measure, but I  just sniggered. I said to her " Gosh!, have we slipped back to the 70s? At least he didn't call us nancy boys, "
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You could always blow him a kiss as you leave. He might expire from apoplexy  😉 

    (that’s only a joke folks … I wouldn’t wish anyone dead … not even a bigot). 

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





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Three months and quite a bit of work but I finally had my decision through from the Valuations Office about my council tax banding claim. They've approved my request to be dropped down a band \o/  What I can't work out though is why they've set the effective date of the change as June 2015 rather than the date we started paying the tax. In theory I can try to squeeze a rebate for the overpayments out of the council but I can only do that as far back as the date of effective change.

    There seems to be a limit of 6 years on many things as far as changes are concerned.  I'd guess this is one.
  • NorthernJoeNorthernJoe Posts: 660
    B3 said:
    I've never seen a black person. I've never seen a white person. We are all on the pinky beige to dark brown spectrum. Some have more melanin than others. Some have less.
    Actually there's a few categories lighter than pinky beige? There is a blue veined white. There's also the colour where they're virtually transparent and have to get sunburnt just to reach white! I think they are living among the Scottish!!! ;)
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    There is a blue veined white. There's also the colour where they're virtually transparent and have to get sunburnt just to reach white! I think they are living among the Scottish!!! ;)
    Billy Conelly used to do a whole routine on his legs being blue and it taking 3 weeks to get as white as normal folk. 
    AB Still learning

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    When I think about it, half of my dad's arms were  transparent blue and the other half were nutty brown - as was the top of his head.
    That's my argument  stuffed😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Apparently for at least a week after my arrival Pa thought Ma had given birth to a ‘Red Indian’ … 

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





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