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Cherry red? Oxblood DMs rule!

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:lol:

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Shoes are expensive here. Unless it's for a special occasion, I usually only buy a couple pairs of dress/work shoes a year. It's with trainers where I tend to blow the budget. :(

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The daughter starts gym class in the second semester so I thought new trainers were called for. Sport chek had about 20% of their wall of trainers for women. The remaining 80% was devoted to the male gender who apparently need an extensive choice of really ugly shoes.

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About 3-4 years back, OH had to go to a clinic for some minor surgery, in and out the same day, in for about 6 hours. I stayed with her until she was collected from reception by the admissions nurse then set off back home.

She later told me that the nurse had said "If you give me your father's 'phone number, I'll call him when you are ready to be discharged". :(

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When a radiographer said to me that "things have changed since your day"

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Brilliant. :rofl:

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This week someone sent me a friend request. I didn't recognize the name but there aren't that many people who reference that Bald Faced Stag in their facebook profiles so I thought I must know her and accepted. Then I realized, she's my young cousin who puts it about, a looker, it wouldn't be kosher really but I'd go there.

And then I chatted with her and she was proud of her grandchildren.

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My wife was caught speeding thru' a small town in Nevada in our Canadian minivan with its metric speedo. The policeman asked if she mistook Kms for Mph and she said 'No sir! but my father here is unwell and I'm looking for a clinic". I was still asleep/snoring strapped into the recliner in the back of the minivan.
The policeman then directed her to the nearest 24/7 clinic where she spun around.... then left town.
She told me of her devious trick later...and wondered why I wasn't amused.

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After a monumental cock-up on the communications front, my jeans have now been located in a warehouse in Oregon where they have been languishing for just over 6 weeks...

And I still don't yet know what the shipping costs will be. :confused:

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Hey, Reggie's brother in law :rofl:

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Absolutely! :thumbup:

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Reggie: You realise the sort of people you're going to attract, don't you Jimmy? Thugs, bully-boys, psychopaths, sacked policemen, security guards, sacked security guards, racialists, Paki-bashers, queer-bashers, Chink-bashers, anybody-bashers, Rear Admirals, queer Admirals, Vice-Admirals, fascists, neo-fascists, crypto-fascists, loyalists, neo- loyalists, crypto-loyalists.

Jimmy: Do you really think so? I thought support might be difficult.

:rofl:

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Brilliant! I'm sure I have the DVD set somewhere, haven't watched it for years, but now it's going to get another airing.

Thanks for that! :thumbup:

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In 1978 and if you're sixteen. ;)

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When I see my stepdaughter off to work in the morning I say "Have a good day at the office" and she responds "I won't" :rofl:

(she doesn't work in an office and she's never seen it)

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:lol:

Right then, what's your take on her response if she's never seen it?

I'm now really intrigued...

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Nothing so mysterious. I told her about it.

On the odd occasion I've even passed her a water bottle and her lunch saying umbrella and briefcase. Of course she didn't reply with a thank you darling. :rofl:

It's a shame we don't live where the streets are named after poets. Anon Avenue :lol:

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To be continued. I must away to bed now, I've just scared the crap out of one of the cats laughing at that one.

Hasta la vista. ;)

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Can't seem to locate the DVD, but that's hardly surprising as I'm the victim of what the female contingent in this place have termed 'tidying up'.

Good grief, we are MONTHS away from moving, and yet things continue to disappear on a daily basis. If I question the current location of just about anything, I get met with a shrug and a response of 'probably in a box in the garage'.

It's doing my head in, but maybe it's just a way to stop me banging on about the destruction in the park a few metres away.

Bloody well better be... :blink:

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Constipation makes you feel old. Especially when its really bad and you have to dig it out with a spoon. :unsure:

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There are certain things that just can’t be un-read. This would be one of them.

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I think he got his punchlines mixed up. Work it out with a pencil is the one I know. :lol:

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That was the constipated mathematician, wasn't it?

:p

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I'm so old that, in my era, he used logs to work it out.

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Is that where the term 'logarithm' came from?

:p

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I'm getting there. My package has now been split into three separates in an attempt to duck Swiss import duty - that's a thin line - we'll see.

Handling and shipping costs were quite a bit up on Siouxie's guestimate, but I'll wait until the dust settles and all the credit card bills are in before doing the final reckoning.

Not that I would have found those sizes, cuts and colours here anyway, so I'm pretty sure that I'll be coming out a winner. ;)

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One leg at a time?

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:lol::lol::lol:

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Indeed.

One thing that makes me feel old is work....:lol: Nearly everyone I work with is under 25.

My body makes me feel old too, it's not a happy camper with physical labor, and appears to be slowly falling apart, back aches, elbows always hurt, and since December something causing my heel of my foot to hurt causing me to limp most of the time and putting more weight on my left side causing my left knee to hurt as a result.

If only there was an office job that could pay the same as I make....:lol:

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Never go there. It is zombie death.

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The bright 8 yr old next door asking me if I remembered steam trains from a very very long time ago.
I do. :unsure:

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I grew up in a small town railway station and this was our local train; engine, tender, baggage and mail car, freight car, passenger car, and caboose, not unlike the Hooterville Cannonball. Near the time of the photo (last run) I drove this train from our station to either the elevator or the section house, can't remember which, perched on the engineer's lap.

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:eek:

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Throttle in hand..:lol: only way for a little kid to see out the window of that thing. When the same train crew came back the next day in a diesel-electric locomotive they asked me if I'd like to drive that one as well. I climbed up the ladder and looked into the cab and saw the strange new controls and chickened out. I'd ridden in the cab of the steamer enough times I wasn't afraid of it, but the diesel was too new to me.

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My wife is making me feel old. She will be 60 next month...who would have thought a chap like me could be sleeping with a 60 year old!

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My children frequently ask me whether such-and-such was different "back when the world was all in black and white." Swines, the lot of them :mad:

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Even in the 80's when I cranked up the gramophone to play jazz records in the club some people would spend a lot of time looking for wires and volume controls, amazed that it made music through arm-strong power.

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When every other sentence at a ‘meet and greet’ With a new GP is prefaced with the words ‘at your age..’ :thumbdown:
Oh and becoming a great-aunt for the 3rd time will do it to you.

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I'm a great aunt to 21 and great, great aunt 5 times over. How bad is that! Though in mitigation, for the 'great-great' bit, each generation did start producing sprogs at a rather young age, lol

:lol:

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The registration process at a clinic in the hospital...
Family doctor, who to contact, any allergies...any falls?....