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This year there are many mega poppies (about a foot in diameter) attached to lampposts etc. Is that really necessary?

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No, but it's nice.

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Dunno, they seem to be commercialising Remembrance Day. Even selling poppy mugs and various tat.

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Living in an apartment with interior hallways and locked front door makes it super difficult to receive parcels.

UPS claims to have tried today but they never buzzed.

The item is 50 pounds so not like I can take it on the scooter hence why I wanted delivery...lol

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That’s awful. Lest we forget.

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And of course UPS has to take Monday off so they won't even try to deliver until Tues.

Lazy lazy driver didn't even try to deliver it.

I am ticked off as Tuesday there will not be anyone home so who knows when I'll get it at this point

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The problem with that is that many of the items are being manufactured and sold illegally, the poppy, as a symbol of remembrance is in the sole ownership of the UK British Legion and the Canadian Legion, and anything bearing resemblance to them and used as a remembrance symbol is illegal if not sanctioned by them. There are very many companies selling poppy brooches, and the legal ones donate a percentage of their sales to the legion.

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I just found out that my Grandfather signed up at the start of WW1 at the age of 14 - lying about his age - and served until the war ended.

Here's a picture of him at the end of the war, age 18, with his wife-to-be (my Grandmother).. so young, so much horror to have seen.

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Is that Nootella or Nutella?

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So...
The woman in Iran, taking her new child to visit her parents there on holiday - sounds more convincing than hiking in Afghanistan - and arrested/charged with helping to overthrow government by training journalists....

Why not "remind cabinet ministers the government has no doubt that Nazanin was there on holiday”?

Why "the government's position is..." which sounds sort of contrived, a little like recognition of one thing but they are taking the view it was something else?

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I believe Boris stated that he believed she was there training journalists.

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Exactly... the husband had to send a message to the UK's chief diplomat that it's not a good idea to suggest that the wife was on a subversive mission.

Boris the Buffoon strikes again. Never mind that the poor woman is still in prison, at least he got some attention.

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Total embarrassment. What puzzles me is that whenever his colleagues talk about him, there's always a parenthetical reference to him being highly intelligent, yet over many years he hasn't displayed any real evidence of it.

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Well, he's Foreign Secretary and a potential Prime Minister, Lord help us all, so he must have some smarts about him. Trouble is, he only seems to deploy those smarts when it benefits him alone. How anyone can think he has the interests of British people at heart is quite beyond me. The man is a self-obsessed liar and cheat.

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These are quotes contributed to BoJo
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

"Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3." Shame In no longer married lol

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Yeah, that's it. "remind cabinet ministers the government has no doubt that Nazanin was there on holiday” sounds so much more convincing than a reference to the government's position.

It looks more than a little like the parties got together previously, realised something might look a bit dodgy so agreed a "position" which may be at slight variance with reality. Only for one of those involved to "let the side down" :(

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I see the moron has issued another typical blustering quasi-apology. "I'm sorry if I made myself look bad by dropping you in it", basically.

What a loathsome slug of a man.

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His dad will be one of the 'celebrities' on 'I'm a celebrity, get me lout of here'

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Live streaming from Halifax, (I've always heard it was a swinging town):
'Most Nova Scotian thing': Donair Cam offers 24-hour livestream of meat on a spit | CTV Atlantic News

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Never use UPS.:angry_smile:

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This.

Multiple phone calls and emails. Yesterday they decided the shipment ID they gave me (5 times) is invalid. Radio silence since. I have given up hope. :thumbdown:

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The driver on Friday claims nobody was home when he/she tried to deliver, but someone was home all day, and nobody ever buzzed us as it shows on call display is someone does, no call.

No attempted delivery notice left either which they normally do, so to me the driver seems to never even have stopped by.

Yesterday was a holiday here so they were closed.

Today tracking just shows in transit sitting at their depot (not open to the public) so who knows if it will be delivered since it doesn't show out for delivery and there is no estimated delivery date like normally is.

This parcel only went Burnaby to Vancouver which is a mere 15 km or so away.

Only reason I need it delivered as it's 50 pounds and I cannot take a 50 pound item on the scooter...lol

Next time I will ask the store to put it in a taxi...:lol:

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Voortman Oatmeal Raisin cookies. :nod:

Who needs Hobnobs. Pfft.

https://m.popkey.co/f6d4e2/rwqz7.gif

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Had the Radon test results for our basement today. I told everyone to pack their bags ready for leaving tomorrow morning. :lol:

The level at which action is suggested is 200. Ours was 59. :zzz:

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For you medical people on here, can you self-administer a defibrillator machine?

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Extremely unlikely, to need one usually your heart has stopped to all intents and purposes, and, usually, you are unconscious, so a little difficult. In certain cases when the heart has developed a very odd beat, then it's used on conscious people, but that's a much rarer situation.

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Fair enough, but could one anticipate a cardiac arrest and have the pads already strapped to their chest in preparation? Some sort of preventive situation, like a timer?

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Something similar happens in sci-fi movies when there's a long journey to some planet in a distant solar system and the crew/passengers are in suspended animation (or whatever) with life support connected and monitored, ready to respond. :lol:

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If you fall in the water while fishing...will they still work?

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From Private Eye
:rofl:

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Where DOES the North begin? The North/South divide is under scrutiny again - BBC Three

Based on the first map shown I grew up on the north/not north line which could explain a lot about me. I love the quote that the north is 'not a place but a state of mind.' Watching that video makes me weep for the future and the appalling lack of just basic general knowledge. We all laugh at americans and their lack of knowledge about basic geography/world events but this video isn't far off.

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Hard to get a break these days.

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For the first time in over 10 years I paid off a full balance of my credit card...and then 2 days later used it again for the first in a series of payments expected to be around $5k for dental treatment. 3 Root canals.

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that is a singularly unhelpful and spiteful contribution to this thread. I'm sure you think you're terribly clever, but you continue to come across on here as an insufferable knob.

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Three root canals would be US$1,050 with my orthodontist in Los Algadonis, Mexico. You could have a holiday and still save a ton of money. My dentist in NS had to say that the work was excellent. I have been going to the same dental folks down here for over 10 years with no problems. My dental benefit package payed 100% of each job because it was less then their threshold of 80% of what they pay in Canada.

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Yes, I've heard that about Mexico. I remember something similar in the UK about Poland and Czech Republic too.

Just been looking at an article on that place to see where it is. Quite convenient if you're "a stone's throw away" in Arizona ;)

They're being done apart and two of them require something more specialist than usual (2 for $3500 1 @ $1000) so maybe two would be more than $350 US each.

Out of curiosity I checked flights - about $1000CAD return. Convert the $1050 US to CAD = $1400, so $2400. Maybe extra for the 'complicated' two and then accommodation/other costs over a couple of weeks.

Might not be too much difference overall other than seeing a new part of the world that doesn't really appeal.

I suppose I could always be kidnapped and have my teeth removed one at a time and sent back with the ransom notes. :rofl:

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The North starts at Yorkshire and Lancashire. I've never been too sure about Derbyshire.

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I'd go for Leicestershire, none of this Midlands rubbish.

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Watford Gap service station