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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 3, 2018 21:53:14 GMT
Probably because you don't visit often enough (he wrote while drinking cheap red).
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 4, 2018 9:49:41 GMT
Aren't you that Welsh bloke who used to play netball? Something like that I think.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 5, 2018 16:06:40 GMT
Per peeve of the day. The guy before me who used the loo at the gym and would need a lecture on how to take a piss. Jeeezz.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 8, 2018 19:32:24 GMT
My glasses keep breaking. Not happy. They cost a lot.
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Post by questa on Dec 8, 2018 22:07:57 GMT
Self-breaking glasses? That must be a quite a spectacle.
In the never-ending quest for lighter frames, lenses and multifocals with polaroid and UV enhancement, it seems that manufacturers have forgotten that glasses need to be robust as well. The least they could do is include a teensy screwdriver and a few spare screws with each pair sold. The screws on all my glasses have a habit of absconding as soon as the wriggle out of their frame.
I agree with you, Mick. Sitting on your glasses, dropping them or putting something heavy on them produces costs that are out of sight.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 9, 2018 6:41:38 GMT
My optician gives the little screwdriver kit with the glasses. But in any case, they repair any glasses that anybody brings in (the frames at least), free of charge, even if they were not bought there. It is certainly one of the main things that keeps me faithful to them.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 9, 2018 12:57:56 GMT
I decided to put a small cord on my glasses and so when I don't need them they hang around my neck. I sit less often on them and lose them less too.. (Last time I lost them was in a tower in Shanghai, I ad left my glasses on a counter when I had bought a souvenir for my daughters. Took me one hour to find them back)
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 9, 2018 16:02:01 GMT
I learned after not one but two separate incidents to never never never put my glasses on the bed in a hotel. This was in the days when there were patterned or dark bedspreads, though. Now it is usually just the white cover of a duvet, but I am not changing my rule.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 10, 2018 17:15:03 GMT
Boarding a Ryanair plane. Tou wait 10 min in front of them door You wait 10 min inside the gate. No seats. Tou wait 10 min outside the gate. Tou wait 5 min waiting on Th stairs of the aircraft. Windy. Grrr. And brrrr.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 10, 2018 17:22:34 GMT
Been there, done that...
Seems to be a Ryanair ritual.
I flew to Spain on BA this year. No more Ryanair for me!
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Post by whatagain on Dec 10, 2018 17:26:24 GMT
I also try to avoid. But it was 120 e against 400 e with other airline. Even if I am on expenses.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 16, 2018 16:57:03 GMT
The volume level on the T V!
I was watching the last Shrek film and really struggled to hear it. Turned to another film and it is as clear as a bell without changing the volume level.
Appreciate that with age my hearing is far from perfect but it’s bloody annoying!
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Post by whatagain on Dec 16, 2018 18:24:43 GMT
Reminds me of my first apartment. The guy below me when watching ´Starsky and Hurch' would set the volume at max. I had the impression I was on top of the car during the pursuits.
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Post by questa on Dec 16, 2018 21:20:13 GMT
I find the British TV dramas have terrible sound engineering. The characters will go from normal volume to whispering or over loud and I am constantly adjusting the volume controls to keep up. There is too much extraneous noise from traffic, birds singing, kids playing etc. If I turn up the volume, the next ad-break nearly blasts me off my chair. Definitely a First World problem
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 17, 2018 1:54:04 GMT
I cannot recommend earphones highly enough! As you all may know, I watch tv on my laptop & even when the sound is good I tend to use the earphones. It really cleans up the sound and makes it so much crisper, plus if you like it loud you don't have to worry about annoying others. Bluetooth earphones for the whole family!
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Post by lagatta on Dec 17, 2018 3:44:24 GMT
My neighbour has a degenerative disease (a bit similar to MS, but not the same pathology) and it is affecting his hearing as well, so sometimes I have to don earphones. I don't mind. He will soon be moving to a new housing co-op that has flats specifically designed for persons with handicaps. Not far from here, two métro stops down. z
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Post by questa on Dec 17, 2018 6:54:15 GMT
There is too much extraneous noise from traffic, birds singing, kids playing etc. If I turn up the volume, the next ad-break nearly blasts me off my chair. Whoops...failure to communicate... The extraneous noise is on the soundtrack of whatever drama I'm watching. I'll ask Father Christmas if he carries some good earphones on his sleigh...thanks for the tip.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 21, 2018 19:33:33 GMT
I really hate all of the television news reports about what Santa Claus is doing these final days. I have nothing against maintaining the illusion of magical gifts for small children, but I really don't think there are enough of them of the appropriate age group watching the news at 8pm to make it worth the money wasted on these reports. Parents should be in charge of all of the appropriate lying.
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Post by questa on Dec 21, 2018 21:34:23 GMT
Parents should be in charge of all of the appropriate lying. And why not? They have had years of practice! The children know what is going on but perpetuate the myth because they like the sharing of secrets and surprises. My son was Santa in full regalia for the Fire Department's kids party. His 4 and a half year old daughter climbed onto his lap as all the kids up to 12 years old did and thanked Santa for the gift he had just given her. Then she whispered in his ear,"I know it is you, Daddy, but I won't tell the little kids" The TV 'coverage' of Santa travelling around the globe at least teaches a bit of geography. Santa uses maps and they show him in different countries. Should be required viewing for adults who missed out on learning geography at school. K2 Don't become a curmudgeon, doesn't suit you.
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 2, 2019 15:17:33 GMT
When someone says something factually wrong and you show them what is right, then they still say they are right.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 2, 2019 16:44:46 GMT
When someone says something factually wrong and you show them what is right, then they still say they are right. You’ve been talking to Donald J Trump, haven’t you?
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 2, 2019 18:28:22 GMT
I think his mentality is catching. It seems to happen more and more nowadays.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 11, 2019 9:41:48 GMT
When sitting in a section of attached seats, people who constantly twitch and twist, thump their feet and otherwise demonstrate their inability to sit quietly. (This is already annoying when the seats are not attached but it is multiplied when the whole row bas to participate.)
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Post by Kimby on Jan 11, 2019 14:29:23 GMT
Attached seats, period. In America anyway people are TOO BIG to be forced to sit thatclose together. Goes for airplanes, too.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 11, 2019 14:57:46 GMT
Ah, but waiting rooms sink into total anarchy if people are allowed to move the chairs...
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Post by lagatta on Jan 11, 2019 19:30:44 GMT
Kimby, Americans are too wide, but the Dutch are too damned tall.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 11, 2019 20:11:51 GMT
When sitting in a section of attached seats, people who constantly twitch and twist, thump their feet and otherwise demonstrate their inability to sit quietly. (This is already annoying when the seats are not attached but it is multiplied when the whole row bas to participate.) Try living here -- just try! I don't know if the whole country does it, but every Oaxacan ever born is a leg jiggler. When I lived in the US I always thought it was a guy thing, specifically teenage boys. But here everyone does it. I was sitting in a section of attached seats at the airport recently and just barely restrained myself from viciously grabbing the bouncing leg of the middle-aged woman next to me.
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Post by bjd on Jan 12, 2019 6:22:48 GMT
Kimby, Americans are too wide, but the Dutch are too damned tall. I read a few years ago that the Dutch are no longer getting taller and taller. The height average seems to have reached a plateau. When we went to the Netherlands we felt like midgets.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 12, 2019 16:13:04 GMT
While standing on the curb at a pedestrian crossing in Amsterdam, I glanced over at the young woman next to me. I swear I was looking directly into her waist.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 12, 2019 19:42:47 GMT
And I believe that you are considerably taller than I am!
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