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2 hours ago, SouthStandDan said:
Thinking of buying a mk2 MX-5 for £1,600. Only done 57k miles, everything looks original. It's in a horrid orange colour but I'd have it re-sprayed. And it still has a cassette player.
Anyone owned one before?
I used to have a 2000 year 1.6 in silver.
I've had much faster cars but I've never had a car that's as much fun to drive - just throw it at a corner at seemingly any speed and enjoy the ride (on a dry road, mind).
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40 minutes ago, David said:
Does that account for the natural sugar that’s in lemons?
There aint a lot of sugar in lemons. Have you ever seen anyone make fresh lemonade?. They need masses of sugar to make it drinkable.
I stick to water too.
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4 minutes ago, David said:
Where have you seen that? I know it has cane sugar in, but no percentages shown on the bottle
About a teaspoon of sugar per 100ml diluted.
Anything lemony will have to have a lot of sugar or sweetners in it.
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....like this one, for example:
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33 minutes ago, Bigfella said:
And another ....
Mine is people using of instead of have.
.....and "off of" instead of "from"
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39 minutes ago, Coconut said:
People who don't know the difference between less and fewer.
Or rather my pedantic brain and how annoying it is when I get lazy and fall into the same trap, so have to immediately correct myself even though it really doesn't bloody matter if someone says "Chelsea scored less goals than Arsenal last season" rather than "Chelsea scored fewer goals than Arsenal last season"!
Shove up for another one in pedant's corner.....
A pet hate of mine is when people say "revert back". Revert already means to reply back, so adding another "back" jarrs to me like a double negative.
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R.I.P.D.
imdb: A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.
Jeff Bridges & Ryan Reynolds
I like both main actors but this was just a poor Men-In-Black rip off with over used and fake looking CGI, though Mrs Wolfie liked it more than I did.
Me: 4/10
Her: 7/10 probably. What does she know.
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On behalf of the young lady I was watching last night in Lidl, I'd like to nominate self-service checkouts.
She had a drag-along basket full. A lot of household/kitchen utensil type stuff and a bit of food. I was queuing a couple of people behind her and quickly noticed that the red light was going off a lot on her checkout.
And when I say a lot, I'm not exaggerating when I say on every single item. Each time, she slumped her shoulders & looked blankly at the screen and had to wait for the guy to come over. Why he didn't stay with her, seeing what trouble she was having, I'll never know but this just added to the comedy in my eyes,l as he kept wandering off.
By this time I'd moved to the queue at the adjacent proper till - chuckling to myself the whole time - and the poor woman was still half way down her basket when I'd paid & gone.
Funniest thing I've seen in ages. It looked like comedy sketch or prank on her.
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33 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:
people quoting the poster that I've muted on this forum, ergo forcing to read that posters waffle! Grrrrr
Sorry.
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On TV dramas, why don't people ever drive up to the house or whatever and park close to where they want to be?. They always seem to park 20 metres or so away for no reason. I realise it's a dramatic construct but it's stupid and annoying.
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7 hours ago, eddie said:
Good Omens - utterly delightful.
I loved the book in my youth & so glad they've finally managed to adapt it.
I've only watched the first 2 episodes so far but I agree. I could watch Michael Sheen in anything and David Tennant hamming it up is great.
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11 minutes ago, Boycie said:
Is this Ripley?
Newark on Trent, fella.
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I saw a road-rage incident in the gym car park on Saturday morning, between 2 blokes I regularly see working out there - arguing over who got to park next to the building.
I see it there all the time: people leave their cars on the curbs or on yellow lines in front of the building instead of using one of the numerous free parking spaces about 20 metres away.
So, you're coming to the gym to get exercise and yet are unwilling to park a few metres further away and walk a few more steps to the gym?. Numpties.
- Alph and Steve How Hard?
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Please Sir. Summat's up with my notifications.
Old ones are coming back to haunt me...
As in, if I get one notification, I click on it and suddenly half a dozen are in bold - as if they're new ones.
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The Machine
Watched it on Prime Video last night. Never heard of this low budget British SciFi film before but enjoyed it.
Similar to Ex-machina in its intelligent themes of AI & androids.
Worth 90 mins of your life if you like this sort of thing.
Solid 7/10
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People who are always un-prepared.
Examples:
1. Yesterday went to an important meeting with one of our Directors. He had forgotten to bring important documentation that he said he was going to do, but luckily I had got 2 copies of everything with me.
2. A camping trip where the couple we were with both turned up at the start of the weekend with almost flat mobile batteries - with no electric hook-up for the tents. They spent the weekend borrowing my powerbank - which meant that I couldn't ensure that my family's devices were OK.
I'm a nice person and will always help out if I can but it doesn't half make me think I get taken advantage of by people who know that I will be prepared and organised & assuming I've got the bits in bold.
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26 minutes ago, StivePesley said:
Very well done
Very good indeed. If only Mrs Merton was still with us.
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43 minutes ago, coneheadjohn said:
People who get in the car when it’s warm and put the windows down.
I’VE GOT THE AIR CON ON
My dad's a bugger for that.
Mrs Wolfie also can't seem to get the hang of climate control...
On a warm day:
Me: Set the temp to 20C and let it do its thing.
Her: Set temp at 17C. 10 mins later: Oh, it's a bit cold - turn up to 24C. 10 mins later: Oh, it's a bit hot - turn down to 17C.......etc etc
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Random tunes that get stuck in your head.
I've just walked the 1/4 mile or so between our company's 2 buildings....humming "Vindaloo" for no reason. Half an hour later and it's still there. I now want to inflict pain on myself.
It's not even an earworm because I haven't heard the song in years. God knows where my brain has dragged it from.
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5 minutes ago, coneheadjohn said:
Frivolous use of dramatic words such as catastrophe or emergency.
"Devastated" is a favourite of mine in this respect when describing the effect of often "first world problems"
Reading a story about Marvel fans being devastated by End Game spoilers. Annoyed?, certainly. Disappointed?, undoubtedly.
Devastated, though. Really?
It's just another way of getting attention via clickbait unfortunately.
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1 hour ago, Paul71 said:
I think Wolfie should tell us how he knows how to determine someones age from his bum crack
A good assessment of many things requires a combination of all 5 senses.
Car you currently drive?
in The Jim Smith Room
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I've recently swapped my BMW F31 320D tourer (lovely car) for an 18 plate 2.0D X1, mainly cos Mrs Wolfie has chronic back issues and the extra height is ideal for her. I like the X3 but would have been hammered on road tax and the X1 is bigger than I expected - more boot & passenger space than the 3 series estate.
My X1 is just as economical and I would say still really fun to drive. It doesn't get the admirers like my black M Sport estate used to, though. I used to have a few comments about what a lovely looking car it was.