The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

#15921 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:10 pm

G CPTN. A hundred yards from our Costa Coop we have McD discards. They must drive home and dump just before getting home. Probably easier than opening their wheelie bin

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

#15922 Post by ian16th » Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:24 pm

G-CPTN wrote:
Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:07 pm
Although we are 17 miles from the nearest McDonalds (across 'rural country' and with only one return bus from there each day), we, nevertheless suffer litter therefrom.

It makes you wonder . . .
I wondered why we don't have a Micky D's here, when I asked a long time resident, he proudly informed me that we used to.

But it went bankrupt and closed :-bd

The nearest one is 100Km away.
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#15923 Post by handsfree » Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:28 pm

We get the McD litter dumped by the roadside in the village.
I haven't even got a clue where the nearest outlet is to here.

I'm just settling down to listen to Big Brother's statement to the plebs at 20:30.
I've poured my whisky (Glen Ord) and the revolver is ready on the table
awaiting orders from above.

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#15924 Post by boing » Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:38 pm

Yup, if you are going to do it do it with a Webley. Right and proper but usually used when you bring disgrace on the family. Careful if the revolver is an antique because blood will remove the bluing finish.

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#15925 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:20 pm

UAE24 B77W EDI-DXB just flown over here.

I couldn't see how many Pax there were.

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#15926 Post by OFSO » Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:27 pm

Suddenly gone quiet in Islington. Only one doorstep cat, Mina, out tonight. I just did my one permitted exercise walk per day. Tomorrow have one permitted exercise walk plus one permitted walk to pharmacy to collect asthma medication, plus one permitted shopping walk to collect essential food, to whit, smoked salmon and bagals. Exhausting !

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#15927 Post by llondel » Mon Mar 23, 2020 11:09 pm

Afternoon all, dry but overcast here. Managed to get the teenager to go mow the weed patch. It's where the dogs pee but they don't like being tickled when they squat to do their business.

I left the property for the first time in ten days today. Dropped off a package at the local UPS store and then braved the local supermarket for fruit and veg, which turned out to be quite civilised. Everyone kept their distance, checkout was done with minimal queueing and I washed my hands when I got home before doing anything else.

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#15928 Post by ricardian » Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:27 am

ian16th wrote:
Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:24 pm
G-CPTN wrote:
Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:07 pm
Although we are 17 miles from the nearest McDonalds (across 'rural country' and with only one return bus from there each day), we, nevertheless suffer litter therefrom.
It makes you wonder . . .
I wondered why we don't have a Micky D's here, when I asked a long time resident, he proudly informed me that we used to.
But it went bankrupt and closed :-bd
The nearest one is 100Km away.
Nearest McD to me is in Aberdeen (I think) so we don't see McD litter. Alas, some dog owners - even on this little island - seem incapable of cleaning up after their animal has been emptied. Our two shops remain in business but only take orders by phone or email. Post Office in one shop is open but has an elaborate hygiene ritual for customers; as I only use the Post Office for drawing occasional cash or buying stamps at Christmas it's no hardship. Hotel bar shut but takeaways are available in the evening. Kirk and RC chapel are shut for the duration.
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#15929 Post by OFSO » Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:23 am

Mornin', all. Cold but sunny day in London. Mrs OFSO got everything to go into storage boxed up and now brother-in-law unable to get over with his truck to collect it, so house will look like an amazon warehouse for next months. Oh well. Worse things happen at sea, my mum used to say.

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#15930 Post by handsfree » Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:57 am

Another beautiful start to the day. Chilly +1C.

All the shops, restaurants and pubs in the village shut. The two Coops are both open as is the post office.
I assume the local takeaways are still doing business as well. My local pub is functioning as a takeaway.
Phone your order - anything off the menu and they plate it up - and they will dispense draught beer into you own container
to be taken off the premises.

EGNX is neigh on dead during the day but the freighters are still going in and out during the night but even that is reduced.

Good luck to you all, wherever you may be incarcerated, and keep safe.

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#15931 Post by Ibbie » Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:18 am

Morning folks.

More torrential rain, temperture 12c.
At least the rain will be washing the virus, such is the force it has been coming down at.

Still a few flights to South American counties passing overhead.

Out on a shopping expedition this morning.

Mrs IB has made me two face masks.

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#15932 Post by Ex-Ascot » Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:42 am

Morning folks. No MacDonalds here. Two hour flight to the nearest one in S.A. Some good rain overnight the lagoon/puddle is visibly higher. Life pretty well as normal until the night guard arrives and we are reminded of it all again. He slipped on a wet path last night on his rounds and destroyed our only torch. Will try some glue. Nursie thinks that I have a cracked rib. Only hurts if I move or laugh.

Saw in the Mail on line that people were queuing at MacDonalads, how sad is that?
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#15933 Post by Capetonian » Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:08 am

Queuing for MuckDs, that almost epitomises 'sad'.

How time flies. Years ago I went on a business trip to Moscow, and MuckDonalds had just opened their first MuckOutlet there. I checked the year and it would have been 1990. In those days I had a fairly generous budget for entertainment to invite the staff for lunch , so I asked them where they wanted to go, having suggested a nice Russian place I'd eaten at one evening not far from the office. There was a lot of muttering and conversation and I kept hearing : MacDonalds. In those days, it was a big novelty and by Russian standards, rather expensive. They really pigged out, I don't mean that in a nasty way, but clearly enjoyed it. I had a box of chips and a milk shake.

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#15934 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:14 am

Ibbie two faced, who've know 😀

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#15935 Post by Wodrick » Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:25 am

Morning all,
Gris, nothing like the rain over the other side, only 1cm since 15.30 yesterday in three heavy showers.

Dogs went out at 0715 and were back just over an hour later, in recent behaviour this is a record, we expect three hours plus.

Shopping for me today too.

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#15936 Post by barkingmad » Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:43 am

I read somewhere the suggestion that the drive-in fastfood takeaway joints should append the car registration number to the food & beverage containers and when the debris is subsequently recovered from the roadside or wherever a hefty fine should be levied on the car owner.
An automatic number plate camera and direct printing machine would take the drudge of this task off the burger flippers and could be a licensing requirement to operate such a franchise?
Alternatively our prisons are full of reasonably fit young low-lifes who could easily be chainganged and supervised in orange overalls on litter-picking duties. Much more humane than the stocks or a test run on my guillotine as a contribution to the ongoing design refinement.

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#15937 Post by Capetonian » Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:12 am

An even simpler solution would be to apply a £5 surcharge to the box and £1 per container, against which a token is issued. When the consumer returns the stuff + token to an outlet of the same chain, they get the money back.

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#15938 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:27 am

barkingmad wrote:
Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:43 am
Alternatively our prisons are full of reasonably fit young low-lifes who could easily be chainganged and supervised in orange overalls on litter-picking duties. Much more humane than the stocks or a test run on my guillotine as a contribution to the ongoing design refinement.
Driving down to the Keys we passed an orange suited female chain gang litter picking, a salutary lesson I would have thought and a suitable deterrent to those borderline law abiding citizens.

Offence to the ECHR as a degrading and demeaning punishment. Bit like the change in wording from Community Service to Unpaid Work (I think the terms are correct). Our Crims used to wear tabard until the lefties complained.

Shame really, one of my colleagues was awarded 200 hours but didn't have to dress up :-q He should have been asked to resign, subsequently he was promoted to sqn ldr and awarded an MBE.

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#15939 Post by Ex-Ascot » Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:38 am

Cape, the first time I went to Moscow the new MacDonalds was the only decent place we could find to eat but you needed to pay someone to queue for you. Did you stay in that massive square hotel near the Kremlin with big fat hairy female guards at each corner on every floor?

10 Sqn Association have asked for volunteers to be available to be phoned when members are sitting in isolation at home and want to chat to someone. I have volunteered! Never know.

Oh dear, just been onto the 10 Sqn Association website and made the mistake of looking at obituaries.

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#15940 Post by 1DC » Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:44 am

Got back from Oz at the weekend bit of a delay due to aeroplane fault but we were looked after very well, all flights were full as people tried to escape back home. Consider ourselves fortunate to come home early, we were due to return at the end of the month and with airlines shutting down the way they are we would have been trapped, i reckon.
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Shocked to hear about the ExAscots, i hope that they catch the ring leader it seems to be more than a burglary thing with him and he needs to be put down for a long stretch. Nobody will stand up to it better than the ex A's and i hope the full recovery is not faraway.
UP is certainly a lucky man to have had such a magnificent cat and i hope the memories sustain him in his loss..
Just heard from Oz daughter looks like she will lose her two main contracts in the next two weeks, this will be hard on her.
I quite like an egg McMuffin and hash brown, a good breakfast when on a long drive..

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