Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.

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I just got invited to apply for a job. Not even sure what that means? Does it mean i'm in with a chance, or i'd get it if I applied? :crazy: Nice to be asked though! :thumbup:
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Taipan wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:23 am I just got invited to apply for a job. Not even sure what that means? Does it mean i'm in with a chance, or i'd get it if I applied? :crazy: Nice to be asked though! :thumbup:
Depends who invited you!
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Sunny wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:33 am
Taipan wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:23 am I just got invited to apply for a job. Not even sure what that means? Does it mean i'm in with a chance, or i'd get it if I applied? :crazy: Nice to be asked though! :thumbup:
Depends who invited you!
The head of the dept that is recruiting to that post and is on the interview panel. So I guess I'd get her vote? Don't want it anyway..
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Taipan wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:38 am
Sunny wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:33 am
Taipan wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:23 am I just got invited to apply for a job. Not even sure what that means? Does it mean i'm in with a chance, or i'd get it if I applied? :crazy: Nice to be asked though! :thumbup:
Depends who invited you!
The head of the dept that is recruiting to that post and is on the interview panel. So I guess I'd get her vote? Don't want it anyway..
That sounds like it's yours if you want it then. But as you don't, good chance to recommend a friend!
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Got a big, gay hug from a colleague who'd heard I'd been under the weather. :D
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gremlin wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:20 pm Got a big, gay hug from a colleague who'd heard I'd been under the weather. :D
Awww. :thumbup:
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Hawksmore steak. Not the best, but not half bad either. 🥩
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gremlin wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:20 pm Got a big, gay hug from a colleague who'd heard I'd been under the weather. :D
Did he give you a tickle in your poorly bits ?
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Yorick wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:19 pm
gremlin wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:20 pm Got a big, gay hug from a colleague who'd heard I'd been under the weather. :D
Did he give you a tickle in your poorly bits ?
He'd love to. In the pub many years ago he professed that I was the third best-looking man in the bank.

Granted he was pissed and I suspect the pool of contenders was a bloody sight smaller back then. :lol:
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gremlin wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:23 pm
Yorick wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:19 pm
gremlin wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:20 pm Got a big, gay hug from a colleague who'd heard I'd been under the weather. :D
Did he give you a tickle in your poorly bits ?
He'd love to. In the pub many years ago he professed that I was the third best-looking man in the bank.

Granted he was pissed and I suspect the pool of contenders was a bloody sight smaller back then. :lol:
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Even though there wasn't much fresh snow, even though visibility was pretty poor. Snowboarding always makes me happy and I feel very lucky to be able to go so often!
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Had a small issue with the van, and noticed a couple of the HP fuel pipes were 'oily' whereas the feed pipes were dry! New seals it is then.
Had a look on YT and looked straight forward enough, except they, to a man, pulled the fronts off their vans to get access.
Time for a bit of amateur gynaecology then.
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Van even started afterwards too!
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I gave my youngest daughter our old car about 4 years ago.

A 2013 plate high mileage Peugeot 206 not worth a great deal but I knew the one they had was pretty hard up and they couldn’t really afford to replace it.

Well it eventually packed in and they got £120 for it from WBAC.

So she messaged me wanting to transfer that money to me :wub:
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Got my Camperbus an MOT. Only extra price this year was a window wiper :thumbup:
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Felix wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:16 pm Got my Camperbus an MOT. Only extra price this year was a window wiper :thumbup:
POS! Mine went straight through! :D
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Taipan wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:53 pm
Felix wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:16 pm Got my Camperbus an MOT. Only extra price this year was a window wiper :thumbup:
POS! Mine went straight through! :D
Away with your French shite. Mine is a 2003 reg and got an MOT mans compliment on how well preserved it is :lol:
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Felix wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:01 pm
Taipan wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:53 pm
Felix wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:16 pm Got my Camperbus an MOT. Only extra price this year was a window wiper :thumbup:
POS! Mine went straight through! :D
Away with your French shite. Mine is a 2003 reg and got an MOT mans compliment on how well preserved it is :lol:
Italian shite iffin you dont mind! :x Hang on a mo... :think:
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Felix wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:01 pm
Taipan wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:53 pm
Felix wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:16 pm Got my Camperbus an MOT. Only extra price this year was a window wiper :thumbup:
POS! Mine went straight through! :D
Away with your French shite. Mine is a 2003 reg and got an MOT mans compliment on how well preserved it is :lol:
My 2013 campervan went straight through its last MoT. German shite ftw :)

Unfortunately it now has a lot of pretty lights on the dashboard, all relating to brakes/ABS/Traction control. Probably a dodgy sensor :(
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Our 36 year old camper van (Talbot) flew through her MOT in Jan. 143k miles and going strong. Beat that.