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Post by questa on Aug 27, 2021 15:19:16 GMT
Here we are using depot boxes. If you are expecting a delivery you phone and give your details and are allotted a code number (you choose which depot you want to go to). Then you just go to that depot, key in the code and presto...the box opens and you take your goodies. Boxes come in all sizes, my friend had a car-wheel delivered. It is free...for now that is!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 27, 2021 15:38:56 GMT
I received two items from Amazon today, in person, which I ordered just last night. I declined Amazon Prime again, but was informed when the order was confirmed that I once again have been automatically signed up to Amazon Prime anyway for a 30-day free trial. Maybe I'm weird, but I just don't want to receive things so fast.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 27, 2021 15:43:13 GMT
Here we are using depot boxes. We have those all over Paris, too, but using one has never been proposed to me. One of the big cultural chains here (FNAC) also has them inside their stores and sometimes when I order something (which I do when it is not obviously on display in the store or too difficult to find), I get sent to one of their automatic boxes. I am fine with those but I see a lot of people fussing over the scanning details.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 27, 2021 16:25:20 GMT
2 pet peeves today.
I have got toothache. Jeez, it really hurts. I am day 4 and antitibiotics are starting to really kick in since yesterday. So i am down to 2 painkillers a day. One light, one stronger for the night.
Second pet peeve is traffic jams. 6 hours to drive to Lyon that i usually do it in 4.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 27, 2021 16:28:24 GMT
Sounds like old age. Eye problems, tooth problems... I'm glad I am still young, but I hope you get better.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 28, 2021 8:10:26 GMT
There is no pain worse than toothache or earache. That's why I get so upset with mothers who don't administer a painkiller to a teething baby. Yes, the gums get stuff rubbed on them but an all encompassing pain syrup will help tremendously.
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Post by bjd on Aug 28, 2021 12:11:26 GMT
I have been away for a few days so am just catching up with posts here. About porch package thieves -- there was a funny video doing the rounds of Canadian news sites last winter. Some thief came to grab a package off someone's porch -- perhaps in Toronto -- and then his car got stuck in the snow as he was trying to get away. The man whose parcel it was filmed it all.
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Post by rikita on Aug 29, 2021 20:22:57 GMT
There is no pain worse than toothache or earache. That's why I get so upset with mothers who don't administer a painkiller to a teething baby. Yes, the gums get stuff rubbed on them but an all encompassing pain syrup will help tremendously. i would say that depends a lot on what amount of pain the baby is in and what else has been tried. i didn't ever give agnes anything beyond the numbing stuff rubbed on the gums and a cooled teething ring, and of course a lot of soothing - she was fussier than normal when teething of course, but nothing close to when she had an ear infection, when i did give her paracetamol juice ...
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Post by whatagain on Aug 30, 2021 8:45:35 GMT
Yes we gave bumbing gel to the kids too. It was magical, they turned quiet very fast. Was called T-gel or teegel or teethgel...
I can now touch my tooth, but the pain moved upwards, in the sinus. So back to painkillers.
When i blow my nose, i get a smell from the sewers. Lovely. 🤧🤢
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Post by tod2 on Aug 30, 2021 12:33:24 GMT
Must be the anti-biotic killing off those nasty bugs.
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 24, 2021 10:19:03 GMT
Pet peeve - menu only as a QR code. Went to a cafe this morning for a late breakfast. Sat down, saw that to access a menu I had to scan a QR code. Waitress came and I asked her for a printed menu and explained I don't have internet on my phone. Don't have them she said. Saw they have wifi so asked for the password. Not working she said. Then how can I know what is to eat and the prices. She just looked at me. I asked her what they have then. She said, sandwiches and eggs. I said I'm badly allergic to nuts (I'm not but decided to be awkward) so what would she recommend. She stood and looked at me, looking embarrassed as I could tell she had no idea. I asked her how much is a cheese sandwich. She said she's have to go and check. I bid her farewell and left. Went to another cafe. Same QR code thing. Told the waitress the same problem. She brought out her phone which I find out is a work issued phone and left it with me. She said it was a regular thing, people not having internet, data run out etc etc. Had a reasonable breakfast. Included coffee and orange juice and pate. Bread was a bit sad though. Could have done with some German stuff. Meat products were tasty.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 24, 2021 12:00:06 GMT
Oh, it looks like something you must have been able to choke down with a little effort.
They went the QR code route in Paris, too, but I think they encountered a lot of resistance and have mostly gone back to printed menus.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2021 15:55:25 GMT
This is an example of a business forcing customers to do the work the business should be doing so that the business can save money. It's fiddly, lazy, & right up there with the impulse that makes customers tip because they know that staff is underpaid. The other day a friend & I were out & decided to go for breakfast. We saw a sign for a restaurant, entered the building and had to go down a dark hall. At the end were three arched doorways, none of which were marked. A young woman came to one of them and admitted that it was the (unpromising looking) restaurant. We asked to see a menu & she pointed to a little sign with a QR code. So ..... you can't turn on a light in the hall, you can't put a sign on the restaurant, and your staff is only trained to vaguely wave at a mark directing the customer to fetch his/her own equipment out in order to access a menu on a tiny screen? Obviously we didn't want to subject them to the burden of preparing food for us, so we left. It's helpful to have a QR code on a printed menu so the customer can capture it for future reference. Ditto having the code on any advertising. But having it as the only option in the restaurant itself is downright shabby.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2021 17:52:27 GMT
Surprise, in the meantime, workers had found better jobs and didn't return to the miserable restaurant work of miserable hours, miserable customers, miserable working conditions. Precisely! And -- no surprise -- the "conservative media" is spinning this new lack of victim-workers as the fault of giveaway programs, i.e., the usual siren song of tax money from the decent hard-working middle class going to layabouts. Nothing new, & of course they keep using that appeal because it works.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 20, 2021 17:45:37 GMT
English menus using french words.
So ok, entrée means main course. But today there was 'brûlée' instead of crème brûlée. Burnt ? Really, that is a dish ? Like master of. Maître d'. Of what ? If you can't speak the language, avoid ! It will only lead you in a cul de sac, with a sense of déjà vu. Merde ! 😉
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 20, 2021 18:38:05 GMT
You can have merde à la mode.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 21, 2021 4:13:00 GMT
The buckle of my belt broke. My jeans are too loose, i keep adjusting it.
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Post by casimira on Oct 26, 2021 20:34:59 GMT
Why am I not surprised but become outraged each time we go back to our old house and see evidence of persons who have come in and rummaged through the rubble and taken things. Both inside and outdoors. Today I discovered a copper tub that was being used as a planter dumped of it's contents and gone. So maddening and such a violation of our space.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 26, 2021 20:37:31 GMT
Sorry about that. Copper theft is a huge problem in France, too.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 27, 2021 4:21:57 GMT
Those cameras are utterly worthless. Even if they capture the thief in the act of stealing the parcel, the odds of finding them are very slim. Around here the ring doorbell videos of porch pirates are given to the police who post them on their FB page, and TV news also airs the images. In a smaller city, the odds of someone recognizing the culprits are actually not bad.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 27, 2021 4:25:03 GMT
Today I discovered a copper tub that was being used as a planter dumped of it's contents and gone. Sorry this is happening to you casi. ☹️
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 27, 2021 15:04:46 GMT
I am so sick of the commercials for ordinary cleaning products (e.g. Lysol...) which now proclaim that they eliminate covid-19. Maybe not a bad idea if Donald Trump drinks it.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 27, 2021 22:35:08 GMT
Cleaning products can be really efficient.
I read an ad for a product cleaning tombs in cemeteries. It is called 'déterre gens' in French.
Roflol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😜😜😜😜😏😏🍺🍺🇧🇪❤😄😄😱
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Post by whatagain on Oct 28, 2021 6:43:50 GMT
Pet peeve of yesterday : i had made a reservation for a night on a boat close to our factory, but the guys never showed up despite my calling.
Of todqy : my hotel reservation has been cancelled due to my card being blocked after being hacked.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 28, 2021 15:26:32 GMT
... each time we go back to our old house and see evidence of persons who have come in and rummaged through the rubble and taken things. That is disgusting and really adds insult to injury. Whatagain, you've had a black cloud over you the last couple of days!
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Post by casimira on Oct 28, 2021 15:55:35 GMT
I have a secret desire that one of the f'ers "accidentally" steps on a charred floorboard and crashes down into the kitchen sink.
Once the house is demolished in the very near future I hope the contractors have some type of plan to secure their building supplies etc. It will be one huge open lot with many points of entry. I'm assuming this is not their first "rodeo".
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 28, 2021 21:22:29 GMT
In the meantime, since you still have a front porch over there, I suggest a rocking chair, a shotgun, & a mean dog.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 29, 2021 1:47:31 GMT
Entrée doesn't mean main dish everywhere, not even in English...
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 29, 2021 3:15:25 GMT
If we removed all of the improperly used foreign words from each language, they would shrink significantly.
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Post by tod2 on Oct 29, 2021 12:44:21 GMT
Once the house is demolished in the very near future I hope the contractors have some type of plan to secure their building supplies etc. It will be one huge open lot with many points of entry. I'm assuming this is not their first "rodeo". Sorry about your thieving opportunists Cassi - They seem to be doing it little by little which makes me think its the same person/persons. If it were here in S.A. your entire leftover house would be gone overnight. Most builders here have a shipping container which one can buy for very little money. They store all the cement, spades etc etc. and padlock it shut in several places. Some even have a sight-hut with a watchman.
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