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14-06-2012, 01:10 PM
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Well going back to an earlier thread, is it any wonder they need a lift these days?
Can you imagine how many tiny little steps it must take to walk 25 metres?  |
Glad to see I was right. It's not their brains weighing their trousers down .
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14-06-2012, 01:13 PM
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Todays grumble is toilet roll perforations that don't match up!
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I've just stuck a new roll up at home and guess what? The perforations DON'T BLOODY MATCH UP. It's not rocket science.
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14-06-2012, 01:20 PM
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I've just stuck a new roll up at home and guess what? The perforations DON'T BLOODY MATCH UP. It's not rocket science.
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Todays grumble is toilet roll perforations that don't match up!
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I remember years ago when I were nought but a lass, seeing Jack Hargreeves on "How" resolving this problem - and it works and I have done it hundreds of times over the years. Just take the top thin layer of paper and roll it back on itself so you have two different lengths of paper on the roll - the perferations should match now and problem solved  .
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14-06-2012, 08:18 PM
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I remember years ago when I were nought but a lass, seeing Jack Hargreeves on "How" resolving this problem - and it works and I have done it hundreds of times over the years. Just take the top thin layer of paper and roll it back on itself so you have two different lengths of paper on the roll - the perferations should match now and problem solved . |
I don't understand the problem and I don't understand the solution 
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15-06-2012, 01:32 PM
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It seems the older I get the smaller the things are that set me off . I paid good money for that toilet roll, I shouldn't have to spend time sorting out where the perforations go. 
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15-06-2012, 01:36 PM
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... Jack Hargreeves on "How"
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He was the old one, wasn't he? Grumble of the Day ( for today, at least ). Why can't I remember the name of the woman in "How". There again the one I'm thinking of could have been in "Magpie" - or never have existed at all 
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15-06-2012, 03:29 PM
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He was the old one, wasn't he? Grumble of the Day ( for today, at least ). Why can't I remember the name of the woman in "How". There again the one I'm thinking of could have been in "Magpie" - or never have existed at all
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Yes he was the older chap with the pipe.
She was called Bunty, the other two were John someone and Fred Dineage. 
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15-06-2012, 05:06 PM
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Noooow I get it - it is all in the wrist action when taking the first piece!
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15-06-2012, 05:38 PM
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Absolutely (I think )...........but only if the perforations (of the 2 thin layers that make up a sheet ) match up in the first place!
If not, like me, you may still be deciphering gooseys solution for a while! I must admit it did take more than a while for the penny to drop but as 'How' was for children I knew I should be able to fathom it out in the end!
And funnily enough I didn't remember Bunty either, I can see all the others as plain as day but could not recall the woman at all. 
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15-06-2012, 08:48 PM
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16-06-2012, 06:06 PM
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Just had a look at those clips to reminisce about the good old days, and in the comments on one of them I was depressed to read that Susan Stranks is now 74 !!  How on earth did that happen?
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18-06-2012, 12:23 PM
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Just had a look at those clips to reminisce about the good old days, and in the comments on one of them I was depressed to read that Susan Stranks is now 74 !! How on earth did that happen? |
74? . One more "Lust of my Life" gone west
Chris ( feeling sad and ancient )
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21-06-2012, 02:48 PM
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Why are hills taller on the side you go up than on the side you come down?
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27-06-2012, 03:17 PM
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Todays grumble is people that wander through the kitchen, stir a pan and then think they've cooked the whole meal!
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29-06-2012, 01:54 PM
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People who walk 3 or 4 abreast down the pavement - then act offended when you won't step into the gutter to let them past
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29-06-2012, 06:45 PM
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I totally agree!
I wish I could be that determined but I usually find myself stepping off the pavement, into the path of an oncoming car and then saying sorry.
It's like when you open a door for someone and they just barge past without saying thankyou, most rude.
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03-07-2012, 01:16 PM
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I'm not being sexist with this but ............... women who look at you as though you're a pervert when you stand up and offer them your seat on the bus. Hells bells, it's just common courtesy.
Chris
p.s. ( Thankfully there are still some older women around who are secure enough to to accept. )
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p.p.s I've been down in 'New Babylon' a.k.a London for a couple of days.
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03-07-2012, 01:39 PM
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People who walk 3 or 4 abreast down the pavement - then act offended when you won't step into the gutter to let them past
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Variation on a theme, include the use of a pram as an offensive weapon on the pavement
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03-07-2012, 02:20 PM
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..........It's like when you open a door for someone and they just barge past without saying thankyou, most rude. |
Worse is when you hold the door for one person then a long stream of people come through .... and none of them give you a tip ....
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04-07-2012, 11:55 AM
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Variation on a theme, include the use of a pram as an offensive weapon on the pavement |
I'm not sure if it's still on the statute books here in the UK but ........ it used to be illegal to push pram on the pavement as they were classed as 'four-wheeled carts' which had to be pulled allong the road. There again I can remember them, in the 1960's, repealing the law that allowed you to legally kill a Welshman if you found him within the city walls of Chester after dark and it's only a few years ago that the same thing could be done to a Scot in York.
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04-07-2012, 11:56 AM
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.... and none of them give you a tip .... |
That's the part that really gets me foaming at the mouth. Tight bu**ers.
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04-07-2012, 12:12 PM
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There again I can remember them, in the 1960's, repealing the law that allowed you to legally kill a Welshman if you found him within the city walls of Chester after dark
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Noooow I understand why I have always had an uneasy feeling
whilst walking in Chester at dusk
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05-07-2012, 11:56 AM
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Noooow I understand why I have always had an uneasy feeling
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Felltith Saeson
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10-07-2012, 12:11 PM
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I've got a cracker. 'Celebrities'. What the hell is that all about.
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10-07-2012, 01:25 PM
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Anyone in particular got your blood boiling or just 'celebrities' in general?
Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne have a horrible effect on me and make me reach for the remote everytime they make an appearance.
(Incidently, do you remember when we actually had to get up to turn the telly over? Now when they do a disappearing act we find ourselves searching around the house for a good hour just so we can change channels rather than put our hand round the side and do it manually. How did we ever manage before? )
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