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You're having Turkey?

How frightfully proletariat. I presume you're being ironic. Just make sure your guests are made fully aware of the fact


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:00 pm
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As it's so cold, I'm finding I can't use my iPhone when I wear gloves.

My man servant has the same complaint. My problem is whether to fire the old duffer before or after Christmas. 😐


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:02 pm
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As it's so cold, I'm finding I can't use my iPhone when I wear gloves.

Neil. You've clearly not read the 'Spurious First World Christmas Presents' supplements in Saturdays G2

[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Etouch-Touchscreen-Blackberry-Samsung-smartphones/dp/B005RP7NZI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355320881&sr=8-1 ]TA-DAAAAAAAAAA[/url]


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:02 pm
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Just read the electricity bill from my green supplier (good energy)and found that my consumption has doubled since I had a hot tub installed.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:03 pm
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Just been called a liar for not sending a cheque to someone....

I don't believe you either. Who the hell sends cheques these days?

As it's so cold, I'm finding I can't use my iPhone when I wear gloves.

You can get special gloves now that work with touchscreens.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:05 pm
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Can't find a necklace remotely close to the design i have in my head that i wanted to give to my girlfriend as a christmas present. It would apear it is now to late to get something cutom made.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:07 pm
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Rusty - you tried the studio's in [url= http://www.craftanddesign.com/ ]here[/url]?

I reckon you'll get something sorted there


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:12 pm
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[i]I've never had to queue at my local Waitrose. [/i]

My local Waitrose is in Cirencester. Believe me, it's popular; the car park is a sea of Range Rovers and the interior is a sea of tweed.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:13 pm
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Just been called a liar for not sending a cheque to someone....

I don't believe you either. Who the hell sends cheques these days?

Tell me about it... apparently the internet is not a safe way of me sending money so had to be a cheque !!!!! deeply unimpressed !!!!


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:15 pm
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It would apear it is now to late to get something cutom made.

Can't you just knock one out on the day?


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:15 pm
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You can get special gloves now that work with touchscreens.

Do they come in Lesser spotted Angolian minkskin in purple?


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:21 pm
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PERVERT!


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:44 pm
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</obscure reference probably no-one will get>


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:45 pm
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Do I take 2 bottles into the shower or not?


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:46 pm
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second bottle will be undrinkably warm by the time you get to it


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:48 pm
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My bro in law wont lend me his new car as he thinks my driving is unhinged!


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:49 pm
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Unhinged? I suppose driving at a steady 40mph in the outside lane, with a tartan blanket on your back shelf could be referred to as that, yes


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:51 pm
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My glasses steamed up on the way back from the Pub today after one of our "thank you's" and I'm now typing in thick fog.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:58 pm
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My local Waitrose installed some eletrickery automated self-scan system - no one uses hence it has large queues for the few tills with staff.
I've had to shop elsewhere...

Additionally the LoveFilm internet service doesn't have anything near the range of the CD service, it's jolly annoying


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 3:59 pm
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My boss insisting I do some work instead of living on STW.
The cheek!


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 4:00 pm
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Unhinged? I suppose driving at a steady 40mph in the outside lane, with a tartan blanket on your back shelf could be referred to as that, yes

I know! Why can't you convey that to him. Tell him!! Funny seeing his face when I said it was easy to get a four-wheel drift in his old Golf 😀


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 4:02 pm
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As it's so cold, I'm finding I can't use my iPhone when I wear gloves.

+1, except i couldn't use my HTC in Sweden this morning as it was minus 13 and my hands were f'king freezing after being on the phone for ages without gloves..

im now also delayed 2 hrs coming home 🙁 - that is my first world problem...


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 4:16 pm
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Were you on a frozen lake at the time? You'd have trouble drifting a shopping trolley!!! 😆


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 4:23 pm
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Waitrose have sold out of the proper sauscisson sec

The fact you're buying it from Waitrose suggests it's a third world problem. Clearly your gentleman's gentleman should be having it brought over from the continent.

Over the weekend I had to visit two delicatessens to get all the things I needed. Quite why they can't agree some overlap on products is beyond me. Oh and the barman in the restaurant across the way from me gave me the wrong drink. It's not like I had to ask for it as he knows what I drink while I wait for my take-away but clearly doesn't care enough to get the order exactly right.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 4:32 pm
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Were you on a frozen lake at the time? You'd have trouble drifting a shopping trolley!!!
I don't think Ian who lives in Chorlton would ever get into a car with me again after I 4-wheel drifted and was busy looking at him laughing than where I was going 😀


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 4:37 pm
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I don’t actually know which site I will be working from in January. I may be staying here, I may be going to our head office. It doesn’t really matter, it’s the same job, possibly same boss possibly different boss. I’ve only got 3 working days left before the Christmas break, so at this rate I’ll just be guessing which site to turn up to on 2nd Jan.

And our bean to cup machine is broken. Again.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 4:37 pm
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Some satsumas taste delicious & contain zero pips, while others from the same bag are insipid, just tough skin & full of seeds...!

How is this acceptable?!


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 4:42 pm
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One of my heated wing mirrors has stopped working - oh the humanity! 🙁


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 4:46 pm
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I don't think Ian who lives in Chorlton would ever get into a car with me again after I 4-wheel drifted and was busy looking at him laughing than where I was going

Chorlton and the Wheelies! *s****s*


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 4:56 pm
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One of my younger collegues so loves our new instant messenger for work (lync) that i cant go five minutes without him filling me in on how its going, its driving me insane!


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 4:58 pm
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Currently sat in the BA T5 lounge hoping to get home at somepoint. Frankly the selection of old world white wines is disappointing.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 5:30 pm
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I've just plugged in a Freeview box, only to find the Adult channels arn't as free as I expected them to be.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 5:36 pm
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You get a free ten minutes at midnight.
You even get a countdown timer.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 5:39 pm
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[i]only to find the Adult channels arn't as free as I expected them to be[/i]

Dont worry, loads of good stuff stuff on the internet is free as you like, ahem, or so I read in the Guardian arts supplement.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 5:41 pm
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You get a free ten minutes at midnight.

That should be plenty................. Shouldn't it?


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 5:45 pm
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The local bakery took my order at 9.30p.m for a small wholemeal loaf and a large granary, both to be sliced. Collection by me at lunchtime.

At 12.15 precisely I go to collect ordered loaves, to find they haven't been sliced. Shop girl argues (infront of a very busy shop) that 12.15 does not constitute lunch time.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 6:19 pm
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One of the wheels on my chair is slower than the others, this causes me to describe a gentle arc when I roll backwards rather than to go straight, this means I need to execute a further manoevre to get to my bookcase as it's slightly out of reach.

I am troubled by this


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 6:29 pm
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Tesco seem to have changed where they get their Royal Gala apples from. They taste different and the skin feels funny in my hand 🙁 The multipack also costs 10p more now. TEN. PENCE. MORE.

Oh, the humanity!


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 6:46 pm
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I have spent the last 3 days at a new job sat opposite the most beautiful girl I have ever seen, I mean THE most beautiful


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 6:55 pm
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I picked up a jar of smooth peanut butter instead of crunchy - didn't realise my mistake until I got home. I'm still having nightmares.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 7:34 pm
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I picked up a jar of smooth peanut butter instead of crunchy - didn't realise my mistake until I got home. I'm still having nightmares.

That is a terrible situation to be in. I feel your pain 🙁


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 7:37 pm
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On the way home at dinner time, after six hours riding on the frozen moor, which was definitely 2 hours longer than I should have stayed out..
Freezing cold, completely empty of calories, sore in the shoulders and spirit and starting to bonk.. Knowing that dinner would be from the freezer and uninspiring at best this evening I had to endure the torment of smelling every delicious home cooked meal that wafted from the houses in town..

horrendous, I actually wept a little


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 7:47 pm
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I picked up a jar of smooth peanut butter instead of crunchy - didn't realise my mistake until I got home. I'm still having nightmares.

Has this got "American Pie" style connatations?


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 8:31 pm
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I seem to have run out of Tupperware.


 
Posted : 12/12/2012 8:35 pm
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Eurggh! I looked it up on Google No, not American Pie stylee.


 
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