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Taipan wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2024 11:22 am Prime Video. FFS I pay to have this and yet most films I want to see are £3.49 on top!

I have a long list of films & series in my watchlist on Prime, nothing on regular telly last night so went to see if there was anything worth watching on Amazon, and blow me if 75% of the stuff I'd bookmarked wasn't now pay per view

MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2024 12:15 pm

Taipan wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2024 11:22 am Prime Video. FFS I pay to have this and yet most films I want to see are £3.49 on top!

I have a long list of films & series in my watchlist on Prime, nothing on regular telly last night so went to see if there was anything worth watching on Amazon, and blow me if 75% of the stuff I'd bookmarked wasn't now pay per view

Yep. The enshitification of Amazon continues apace.

Druid wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2024 11:58 am Apparently the way I do it is wrong, and the way my wife does it is right

Yeahbutt,that'll be everything you do anyway.

demographic wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2024 9:53 am More of less insignificant but a minor irritation is People Cutting Onions Up RONG!
And while I'm I'm on the subject, when they complain about onions causing tears whilst cutting and not understanding that a properly sharp knife greatly lessens the spray of teargas the onion chucks out.
Fuckwits are probably cutting against a glass chopping board as well.

I have wondered why onions haven't caused my eyes to water for many years, I'm a bit fussy about keeping knives sharp.

Amazon have been told by the US courts to stop their sharp practices on subscriptions so expect them to be looking for other areas to rip people off.

Mussels wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2024 4:26 pm Amazon have been told by the US courts to stop their sharp practices on subscriptions so expect them to be looking for other areas to rip people off.

They're going a bit further than just Amazon on sharp subscription practises. It's a damn fine idea - I hope we get the same legislation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07nlvmyl05o

I'd love to think a lot of these comments are in jest, but sadly I don't think so

weeksy wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:37 am

I'd love to think a lot of these comments are in jest, but sadly I don't think so

Sadly doesn't surprise me

weeksy wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:37 am

I'd love to think a lot of these comments are in jest, but sadly I don't think so

Thats how people end up crippled and all for some wankers amusement. Have they caught him yet?

Taipan wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 3:34 pm

weeksy wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:37 am

I'd love to think a lot of these comments are in jest, but sadly I don't think so

Thats how people end up crippled and all for some wankers amusement. Have they caught him yet?

Dunno man, it just popped up on Insta it's not someone i follow etc.

A few years back I got 'egged' on the way home from the pub. For those not familiar with this branch of hilarious humour, it involves an egg being throw at an unsuspecting pedestrian from a vehicle.

Oh the hilarity, as the blood from the gash on the back of my head mixed with the runny egg... Silly cunts.

Tripped over when jogging this morning, one of those ones where you don't realise you've done anything until you find yourself spread out on the street looking at the sky.
So now of course I have an ankle and foot swollen up like a festive halloween pumpkin and have to do the comedy old man shuffle around the house for (at least!) a week. Cocks!

DefTrap wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:23 pm Tripped over when jogging this morning, one of those ones where you don't realise you've done anything until you find yourself spread out on the street looking at the sky.
So now of course I have an ankle and foot swollen up like a festive halloween pumpkin and have to do the comedy old man shuffle around the house for (at least!) a week. Cocks!

RICE.

Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate.

GWS.

It's one of the reasons I run in the woods. Mud is softer to land on, plus you don't get quite the same size audience.

gremlin wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:46 pm RICE.

Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate.

GWS.

It's one of the reasons I run in the woods. Mud is softer to land on, plus you don't get quite the same size audience.

Ta.

Amusingly I'd just passed the missus (also jogging), and was poorly attempting to dismount a kerb having just skirted an oncoming car, so I literally fell in a heap in fron of her.

I'm a very poor and impatient patient - I'll definitely be trying to run on it later this week.

The house bothering I'm doing involves those exterior grade interlocking chipboard panels - not a full 8' x 4' sheet but around half that size. I moved one from the garage into the house, then the other and thought nothing of it. ABout 10 seconds later the muscles in my shoulder started screaming in pain and then so did I. I was in mortal fear of sneezing or coughing as that induced vicious stabbing pains. Even sleeping on my right side was agony.

After about a week it's pretty much fixed itself, but I'm now very very careful when I'm moving stuff around.

gremlin wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:46 pm

DefTrap wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:23 pm Tripped over when jogging this morning, one of those ones where you don't realise you've done anything until you find yourself spread out on the street looking at the sky.
So now of course I have an ankle and foot swollen up like a festive halloween pumpkin and have to do the comedy old man shuffle around the house for (at least!) a week. Cocks!

RICE.

Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate.

GWS.

It's one of the reasons I run in the woods. Mud is softer to land on, plus you don't get quite the same size audience.

Ya mean kids laughing at fat blokes in lycra ?

DefTrap wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 5:10 pm

gremlin wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:46 pm RICE.

Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate.

GWS.

It's one of the reasons I run in the woods. Mud is softer to land on, plus you don't get quite the same size audience.

Ta.

Amusingly I'd just passed the missus (also jogging), and was poorly attempting to dismount a kerb having just skirted an oncoming car, so I literally fell in a heap in fron of her.

I'm a very poor and impatient patient - I'll definitely be trying to run on it later this week.

The million dollar question..

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Did she laugh?

Yorick wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:20 pm Did she laugh?

Asked me if I was ok and called me a fool in the same breath. And she kept on running.

I bought some strawberries yesterday and was looking forward to scoffing them later on today as I love a nice punnet of strawberries for a bit of a treat. However my wife just saw them and said oh strawberries! We'll have a nice strawberry and rocket salad later. Putting strawberries in a salad BMP!

Some people are so daft!! Everyone in my group at the school has succumbed to a cold. It's not very nice, but I'm pretty sure it's just a heavy, face watering cold. No one has needed to take time off.

Everyone has kept their distance (well, some of us haven't this week!! ** ) and some of us with the worst watering faces have been using a hand gel (like in covid times) to try and stop the spread of said cold (but when you're on buses or in classrooms everyday, nothing is really going to prevent it!!)

Monday one of the group was ill enough not to come into school. TBF, she had been avoiding everyone as much as possible but still ended up that ill. She came back yesterday still keeping everyone at arms length at a minimum.

Anyway - when we all arrived this morning at 5.45, she calmly told the other 7 in the group that she was positive for Covid She'd done a test at home and it was positive.

Ok, I get that some people still test. And maybe we all should have done. But we haven't (including the main instructor!), no one has masked up or stayed home. Over here most people accept that they might get/have it but I haven't met anyone in the last couple of years that's actually tested to be sure


Anyway - she shouted loud enough to us and a few others that the instructor on site at 6am told her she had to go home!! Then she argued that we were all ill so probably all positive. Eventually, with the director of the school, it was agreed she could stay if she wore a mask, which someone had to find her


I just think FFS!! Why do a test knowing that the school may well try and send you home?? She must have known they would suggest that?? Surely!! I still don't think I've got/had it - my lurgy feels exactly like the usual cold I get in February and sometimes December - it's just a bit early but then I'm never with a load of random people for three months before winter!!


Oh and I overheard a conversation in which she and another were saying they were forced to have the original vaccines cos it was required here - maybe if she'd had them all she' wouldn't currently be positive!! Although as I said elsewhere, I have no scientific basis for that thought

People are just daft!!




** There are three people in the group that I hug in the mornings instead of bisous/fistbump/etc. The first day they were ill they stepped back and said no. But the second, Lucie looked so sad that I just said "it's the same bug, might as well hug cos I'm just a few days ahead so it can't make any difference!!" (again, no scientific basis!!) So, now the three of us still hug but most of us do the fistbump thingy cos it's less contact!!