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Post by bjd on Oct 16, 2021 8:26:22 GMT
Longterm trends are difficult to forecast. I saw yesterday that at the local supermarket gas station, the gasoline I buy (95 E10) cost 1€60.9/litre. I remember that was the price in March 2020, just before the first French lockdown when the lack of buyers made the price drop to 1€20 within a couple of weeks.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 16, 2021 11:19:47 GMT
Generally go up probably but I'm still traumatised from seeing it at two euros a litre in France last year (on the motorway).
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 16, 2021 11:59:41 GMT
That's why the French never buy it on the motorway. In an emergency you buy maybe 5 litres and take the first exit where there is a hypermarket.
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Post by questa on Oct 16, 2021 12:32:18 GMT
Where is the question? You go by the route you either haven't used before, or the one you haven't seen for the longer time. It is a long way so give a bit of adventure time along the way or it will be b-o-o-o--r-i-n-g.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 16, 2021 15:58:17 GMT
Excellent set of photos by K2 this afternoon.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 16, 2021 16:37:43 GMT
I don't buy it on the motorway either. I usually time it in France that I fill up in the town/village where I stay the night and stop the next night at a distance where I still have fuel left then do the same again. Luckily with my car that can be 700 - 800km. But if I'm driving between Spain and Germany, or vice versa, I fill up in Spain or Luxembourg then only have to fill up once in France.
Questa, I've not driven either route apart from Barcelona to the house and with that I can do it a few different ways. So both ways will be new. If Mrs M is with me we do shorter days and look around somewhere new. If by myself, I'm not bored (when) driving a long way anyway.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 18, 2021 15:00:21 GMT
Waiting for my plane. I do it a lot of times as of late.
Sleepung at Helsinki tonight. At airport coz the bloody car hire doesn't open before 9 and no later than 6. So on wed i sleep again at the airport. Grrr.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 18, 2021 18:02:48 GMT
A daily public affairs programme in France (Quotidien) makes a point of showing how mobile phones dominate everything. During legislative sessions, at least 30% of the legislators are staring at their phones instead of following the proceedings. When the president (or any other major public figure) makes a speech outdoors in a crowd, half the people are fiddling with their phones. Tonight they showed the president greeting a bunch of firefighters at a ceremony in Marseille, and a young firefighter standing less than 2 metres from him, directly across in the front row, kept glancing (albeit guiltily) at his phone.
This appalls me.
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 19, 2021 6:25:08 GMT
Me too (however dull a dignitary's speech is). I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Queen's technique, when someone else's phone rings, is to say "You'd better answer it, it might be somebody important" (presumably she's been watching Hyacinth Bucket). My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by tod2 on Oct 19, 2021 7:59:27 GMT
As wonderful as cellphones are they have become an all consuming curse on the world. In the beginning we forbade our staff to carry their phones onto to shop floor whilst serving customers. Did it work? Not a jot. They would put the phone on silent mode and vibrate. Soon as it went off they would head to the toilet to ring back - I watch the security cameras sometimes and the "management staff" are forever looking intently at their phones but I am reminded that they are also taking calls from customers so that's the way it is these days.
Kerouac, if you noticed such rude behaviour I hope so did the Boss Firefighter and took him to task!
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 19, 2021 11:12:36 GMT
Kerouac, if you noticed such rude behaviour I hope so did the Boss Firefighter and took him to task! If nobody other than Macron and the camera crew noticed it at the time, the guy is now nationally famous so whether or not he received an official reprimand, he is now the laughing stock of the fire station. And just think what he must have heard from his mother...
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 19, 2021 15:41:30 GMT
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Queen's technique, when someone else's phone rings, is to say "You'd better answer it, it might be somebody important" (presumably she's been watching Hyacinth Bucket). Absolutely perfect!
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 19, 2021 15:54:07 GMT
Perhaps needlessly rude and cruel for someone who was not necessarily guilty. But royalty is famous for that.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 20, 2021 9:52:36 GMT
Not been around much....been sewing all the time. Take note of this Cheery and your sewing will improve -
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Post by tod2 on Oct 20, 2021 10:10:43 GMT
Gosh Mark, that is such a gem of advice.....not only for sewing ladies. It can apply to cooking too. My stew always turns out to be delicious if I put on a little powder and paint and start in a clean kitchen.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 20, 2021 11:36:36 GMT
Before I cook I always make sure the bed is made. The food tastes so much better.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 20, 2021 12:52:51 GMT
Bargain! We needed a new kettle and I found one for £45 reduced to £11 as it was a discontinued line but the 2 year guarantee still applies.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 20, 2021 12:55:52 GMT
Before I cook I always make sure the bed is made. The food tastes so much better. A plate might be better. Sheets can get very messy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 20, 2021 15:51:58 GMT
It's this kind of wisdom that makes Mick deserving of a bargain kettle.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 20, 2021 16:22:41 GMT
At our plant in Belgium, a worker specialised in roofs (ardoisier in french) went to work. At 10 m he got a call from his landlord. He got totally engrossed in the discussion and kept walking on the roof. Except there were openings of polycarbonate to get some light inside and he got through it. He fell 8 m flat and was declated dead on arrival at hospital.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 20, 2021 16:34:08 GMT
At our plant in Belgium, a worker specialised in roofs (ardoisier in french) went to work. At 10 m he got a call from his landlord. He got totally engrossed in the discussion and kept walking on the roof. Except there were openings of polycarbonate to get some light inside and he got through it. He fell 8 m flat and was declated dead on arrival at hospital. In my working time we had a similar accident when a guy fell through the roof 5m up and landed on the concrete floor on his hands and knees.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 20, 2021 21:06:08 GMT
Similar thing happened in Italy a week or so back, guy working on repairing a roof at a manufacturing plant fell through and died, made the national evening news. They are called "morti bianche" there and are a very big deal.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 20, 2021 22:30:21 GMT
You boys are just little rays of sunshine, aren't you?
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Post by questa on Oct 20, 2021 23:12:48 GMT
Everyone of those morbid posters should tell a little joke to atone. What do you call an Irishman who stands around on your sun-deck all day? V V V V V ''' Paddy O'Furniture
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 21, 2021 1:01:23 GMT
It took over an hour for me to get that!
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Post by tod2 on Oct 21, 2021 7:23:56 GMT
In this light mood - a true story. A burglar was breaking into a house by removing some of the roof tiles and leaving a gap he could crawl into. Unfortunately he knew nothing about ceilings so when he stepped onto the ceiling board he fell straight through. He landed slap-bang onto the bed of a sleeping couple who shouted "What are you doing here!" The answer came quick and fast as he looked at the startled pair - ""Please, I want a job!
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Post by questa on Oct 21, 2021 11:53:24 GMT
He landed slap-bang onto the bed of a sleeping couple who shouted "What are you doing here!" The answer came quick and fast as he looked at the startled pair - ""Please, I want a job! Worked all right for the chap who broke into Buck House and told Lizzy he wanted a job.
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Post by bjd on Oct 22, 2021 6:53:52 GMT
Who is this Gaby Petito person? I have seen her name on all kinds of international news sites nearly every day for weeks now. Is she particularly important for some reason or is there an international slow news moment?
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Post by whatagain on Oct 22, 2021 7:53:05 GMT
She was a media unfluencer aged 22. She posted about her rizdtrip in instagram. Then she disappeared. The mist plausible exolanation is that her fiance killed her, then committed suicide some days after. Since people who follow influencers have nothing better to do, they kept speculating in insta and the whole affair became junkfood for the media.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 22, 2021 15:56:27 GMT
international slow news moment? Bjd, I believe the story took off the way it did because there were so many bits of it guaranteed to capture the attention of even the casual reader of mystery novels. Indeed, even the first part of the story -- the boyfriend returned home without her & without any explanation of where she might be, then he disappeared -- was guaranteed to engage the public. Then the release of a 911 call and subsequent police-cam footage further whetted outrage and interest in the case. This should tell you all you want to know: www.vox.com/22684204/gabby-petito-missing-updates-internet-web-sleuthing
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