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Minger: Is this the world's stinkiest cheese?
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CharlieOneSix » Fri Dec 08, 2023 3:26 pm
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Somehow the name seems appropriate and very descriptive - a minging cheese! =))
The word 'ming' comes from the old Scottish English word for a bad...
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I bought a revoltingly stinky French cheese in the hyper last week. The wife kept saying to me that the sewer u bend was blocked and needed rodding....
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Last post by OFSO
Mon Dec 11, 2023 4:09 pm
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*Ibbie*
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Wodrick » Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:39 am
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I have a mail from Kath, *Ibbie's wife.
*Ibbie* (Dave Ward) died in a Nursing Home yesterday afternoon.
For the moment that is all I know.
Another...
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Thanks for following up on Ibbie. Sounds like it was a real cluster!
Flatmate's father passed away. He had a reputation for being notoriously late...
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Last post by limeygal
Mon Dec 11, 2023 11:08 am
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Christmas dinner
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Hydromet » Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:45 pm
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As just the two of us are at home, and the two daughters and their families are spread around, for the last couple of years we've had a quiet...
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We've had goose for the last 3 years
This year it's a stuffed heritage breed turkey crown from an organic farm oop in t'Yorkshire (same outfit who...
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Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:16 pm
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When it's just the 2 of you...
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Opsboi » Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:54 pm
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...do you have dinner at the table (no telly) or on trays (in front of the telly)?
Or some other arrangement?
Just curious, no judgement either way
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Since we both have itchy feet and are always dashing about, Mrs Jim and I try to make 7:00 p.m. a time when we actually sit down together: a fixed...
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Last post by Opsboi
Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:53 pm
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What A Fiasco - Three Year Cruise Canceled
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PHXPhlyer » Fri Nov 24, 2023 7:35 pm
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The three-year cruise is canceled
They had signed up for the experience of a lifetime: three years traveling the world from the comfort of a...
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My medical friend says cruise liners are floating petri dishes. I don't think he's far wrong.
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:44 am
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Nolotil
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OFSO » Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:53 pm
See post on sick bay section.
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Last post by OFSO
Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:53 pm
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Last post by OFSO
Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:21 pm
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Holidays - Some from Hell!
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OneHungLow » Wed Jul 12, 2023 8:38 am
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I can remember going on some grisly family holidays as a child. Holidays adorned with memories of bluebottle stings, heat rash, an allergic reaction...
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I am sorry but the DM article is fake news.
We don't know how big a house 60-year old Richard has, nor how many children.
Same goes for Jan Bendall,...
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Last post by Dushan
Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:10 pm
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T3 to Reading
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talmacapt » Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:00 pm
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Advice required.
Mrs TC, and I, are visiting UK and arriving LHR Terminal 3 (Finnair as BA no longer operates the route).
My son usually picks us...
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Thanks for the replies.
Had a think about it and decided changing trains at Hayes will involve changing platforms.
Unless it has changed with the...
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Last post by talmacapt
Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:05 am
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I realised Civilisation was falling when ......
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Hydromet » Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:37 pm
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As suggested by Fox3
I realised Civilisation was falling when the local bakery stopped selling steak & kidney pies.
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... when ALL politicians are seen to be unelectable and the only alternative is, 'none of the above'.
+1
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Last post by llondel
Thu Oct 26, 2023 12:58 am
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Knysna, Western Province
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Opsboi » Sat Oct 14, 2023 11:51 pm
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Going for my nephew's wedding next week
Any musts or mustn'ts?
Will be renting a car but as we have an apartment in K for 2 weeks, day-trip...
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Stopped by police for a random stop and search on my way back from Plett to Knysna
When asked to show my driver's licence, I said it was back in my...
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Last post by Opsboi
Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:35 pm
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North Sea Rig loses anchors - helicopters sent
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CharlieOneSix » Sat Oct 21, 2023 4:41 pm
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Helicopters have been sent to assist a North Sea drilling platform which lost anchors during Storm Babet.
Stena Drilling said four of the eight...
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More than half the staff manning a North Sea drilling platform have been airlifted to other sites after several of its anchors came loose during...
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sun Oct 22, 2023 9:39 am
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Some more John?, you are welcome!
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EA01 » Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:56 pm
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A couple more coming back to you John!,....hopefully..... :)
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Thanks for that, the page won't open for me but somehow I do not think I missed much.
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Last post by John Hill
Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:43 am
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Car diagnostics
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Boac » Fri Oct 13, 2023 5:10 pm
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Can anyone recall a thread on readers/scanners? I was prompted to consider buying one when my garage wanted £60+VAT to read my engine codes.
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I have the Autophix OM126 scanner. Easy to use and cancels an occasional engine warning light telling me that the variable valve inlet system is not...
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Last post by izod tester
Mon Oct 16, 2023 11:00 am
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Things you never see on TV any more...
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OneHungLow » Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:33 pm
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Things like wrestling on UK TV. The true theatre of the absurd...
One day it was there and then the next it was gone, and along with it wrestlers...
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That's why they don't do it any more - they've all died! :(
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Last post by tango15
Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:02 pm
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Looking for a photo.......
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CharlieOneSix » Sun Oct 15, 2023 1:31 pm
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A few months ago I saw a photo on t'internet, possibly on this site, of a wooden sign which said Beware of the D-- . Most of the lower half of the...
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Oh brilliant, OHL, that's the one - thanks very much!
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:26 pm
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what its all about for me now....
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EA01 » Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:01 pm
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.....So happy with this... :) ...truly helping people and making a difference!
I just wanted to leave a glowing review for (EA01) at (XXXX Clinic)....
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Well done! I know how you feel. I had a call from a client who had just received his commission, a keepsake box, to say how pleased he was. It's a...
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Last post by Hydromet
Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:53 pm
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Cooker Woes
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OFSO » Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:16 pm
A few months ago we (I) bought a new cooker, model Beko, a product of the Ottoman Empire. It has some strange characteristics. The front left burner...
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Last post by OFSO
Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:16 pm
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Frasier Reboot
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OneHungLow » Sun Oct 08, 2023 4:52 pm
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I was a huge fan of Cheers (am I showing my age?) and even more so of Frasier, having had a huge teenage crush on Roz Doyle, remember her? Anyway all...
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Very much +1 for fancying Roz Doyle (Peri Gilpin)! Such a shame it’s on Paramount+ as it’s a subscription channel. I don’t know how many times I’ve...
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sun Oct 08, 2023 6:27 pm
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Emus outdo Ammo!
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OneHungLow » Sat Oct 07, 2023 3:41 am
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Just imagine if the foreign cane toads, camels and rabbits made common cause with the indigenous emus! :-o
Australia’s emu war: John Cleese outrun...
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I'd never seen that before - thank you! :))
:-bd
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Last post by OneHungLow
Sat Oct 07, 2023 5:46 pm
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Unfortunate Names
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frostbite » Mon Nov 28, 2016 5:45 pm
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I was introduced to a lady named Phoebe today.
The name always makes me chuckle inwardly as we had a girl blessed with the name Phoebe Beaby in my...
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Bill Anker You have to wonder why his parents hated him so much at the Christening. Like Richard Head (RAF Herc driver).
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Last post by Boac
Fri Oct 06, 2023 3:36 pm
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Ecclesiastical Duties
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G~Man » Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:41 pm
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Some know, others do not, but I am ordained in the Church of The Latter Day Dude .....or more commonly refered to as a Dudesit Priest .
Church of...
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They all look like fun, G~Man, as they should do.
Re weddings & funerals, when I first started selling my woodwork, many of the boxes were wedding...
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Last post by Hydromet
Thu Oct 05, 2023 10:42 am
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Major Owie From a Wedgie
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PHXPhlyer » Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:05 pm
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Disney sued over ‘severe’ injuries allegedly caused by ‘wedgie’ from water slide
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is facing a lawsuit related to an...
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It is amazing how dangerous some of these parks are.
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Last post by OneHungLow
Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:49 pm
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Has this site just gone to sleep or is it dying?
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OneHungLow » Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:16 pm
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I like this place but it sure has gone quiet these days...
We need more life here...
If I am wrong...
Bugger it... wake up!
UHL
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The fact that I couldn't get my printer to print just paled into insignificance.
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Last post by 1DC
Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:16 pm
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The Sphere
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PHXPhlyer » Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:02 pm
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Las Vegas’ Sphere venue debuted this weekend with concerts by U2. Here’s what it was like
Vegas Baby!
If there weren't enough ways to blow money...
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First U2 had The Edge, and now they have The Sphere! Is there no end to the cosmic geometry of this band?
Could it be that The Edge has become The...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:23 pm
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