There's a lovely lake near us with loads of interesting water fowl, benches in little private spots etc. Cycled past a family sat at one today - both parents staring at their phones and the kid, maybe 4, with its tablet in one of those fun-coloured rubber cases/stands. All sat in silence.v8-powered wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 4:06 pmNope, BMP too!gremlin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 4:01 pmThat's what BMP.
How many times do you see families at the dinner table with both adults on their phones and all kids with their noses pressed against a screen? No conversation or interaction. Food gets served, no recognition of the waiting staff, food shoved down with a fork, as using a knife would require the device being put down.
Am I sounding like a grumpy old man?
On holiday recently, nice restaurant etc - wealthy looking family with couple of kids, all on iPads / phones playing games but with the volume blaring. No need for it, selfish arseholes......
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There's a thread for dead celebrities nobody has heard of but not for ordinary people. Maybe I'll start one, "Just Dead People Special To You".
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I can't buy half a pizza from the takeaway.
A whole pizza is too much. I mean to say, I can eat a whole one. I would eat a whole one, but I shouldn't eat a whole one and I don't have the will power not to.
But if I could buy half a pizza, put a little salad on the side and hey presto.
Instead, I had pasta
A whole pizza is too much. I mean to say, I can eat a whole one. I would eat a whole one, but I shouldn't eat a whole one and I don't have the will power not to.
But if I could buy half a pizza, put a little salad on the side and hey presto.
Instead, I had pasta
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Pizza comes in different sizes, what size can't you manage?
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The ones with 12 pieces are too much. Can only handle 8 pieces.
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Just save half for breakfast
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It's what air fryers were made for.
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Nah. Have it cold for brekky with that half full can you found behind the sofa
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Watch out for the fag butt in it.
All aboard the Peckham Pigeon! All aboard!
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I've just parcelled up 42 books and will get the princely sum of about £33. The star of the show was 'We are Legion (We are Bob)' for £3.57 iirc. The oddest was when I scanned in the complete set of 'Mortal Engines' books they took some but not the 3rd or 4th. Got a reject stack for Oxfam now.
However, the missus cleared 4 or 5 books off the shelves. She bought them in the RHS Wisley library sale (they sell off library books and donations to do with plants/gardens). Some 1st editions (probably only editions!) on exciting things like sweet peas She'd done a Google....£50 to £70 each! I didn't scan those (I might do it for a laugh - if they actually have bar codes).
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My local pizza man will make a half pizza, he'll even just cook you a base so you can take it home and make a sandwich (It was my wife's request, she was pissed, she is very persuasive. In her defence, if it needs it, it was a bloody nice sandwich.).
I don't like to think about "half pizza" personally - if I order a whole pizza the whole fecking pizza IS MINE.
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As a stoodent, my housemate used to wrap up the remnants of his post-pub-takeaway and just wedge it down the side of the sofa so that he could continue eating it in the morning. How none of us died ....
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It's about 9 / 10 inches. It's not that I can't manage it, it's that I don't need that much food.
Have you three given up on reading posts before replying ?
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Tuesday, but I don't think I'll make it to the party.
Soapy £10 to anyone that can tell me the reference !
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The gap on the points needs adjusting, if that doesn't work change the condenser.
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Personally, I'd say sod the expense and buy a new gap.
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I thought they'd stopped trading?
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If you stick it under your pillow it's less likely to go missing before the morning.
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Spanish websites. Just booked ferries to Fuerteventura and took nearly as long as the ferry itself.
I was a programmer for many years and I'd have been sacked if I'd produced the 2 shit sites I had to use today
I was a programmer for many years and I'd have been sacked if I'd produced the 2 shit sites I had to use today