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Totally agree, dealing with a smarmy salesperson face to face (in a showroom full of prospective customers) is definitely the way to go.

We had a couple of 'issues' when buying our car, after listening to inane bullcrap excuses for 5 minutes I (very) loudly said to the wife "come on let's go somewhere else, these people just make promises they have no intention of keeping. I like the car but won't deal with liars"

whoooosh, very quickly escorted into the managers office where the 'issues' were dealt with to my satisfaction.

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We were looked after at Wakefield by a lad named Louis. The car had warranty services included and aftercare communication. They transferred everything over to a dealer closer to my aunty in Brighton where she was looked after although a change of wiper blades made my eyes pop out. £80 :LOL: before she traded in they advised to change one tyre. The salesman at Worthing said you'd be better off changing all 4 so they are equal lol long story short he then knocked the cost of tyres off her new purchase.

At Wakefield was a finance employee with a fat round arse. Very pretty. :romance:

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£80 for wiper blades. lol

Should have bought some Bosch from eBay or Amazon and fitted herself.

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You'd be amazed at the amount of 'drivers' that can't change a wiper blade ;)

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2025 model 42 inch C5 LG OLED to sit on my PC . Is is capable of 120 hz native 144 vrr so should be nice. Got it for a bargain price of £600 coming tomorrow

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Does Google know you're building a Data Center better than theirs? :D

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You'd be amazed how tricky some are to figure out, its like they design them to be complex puzzles.

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Would rather do wiper blade than headlight bulb :D

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Yup, I think you have to remove the front on the car to change the bulbs on my 16 plate Mondeo.

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A bird table, just waiting for it to be delivered

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Get Ahead of Being Dead: Your Handy Planner for the End of Life - Evie King

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/180419378X

It's like Viz Top Tips, but for before you discorporate... :D

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Just reading the premise of that book has bought me well down

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When you're nearly 70, and recently had to sort out the aftermath of an aged relative's passing, you might think differently... ;)

We don't want our kids (in their 30s now, but still our "kids") to have to go through what we did.

And, which is the main reason I bought that book, is she does it in a humorous way...

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Books, quite often found to be the only 'humour' that hasn't been sanitized yet

;)

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The problem with being perpetually miserable is that it becomes a recursive feedback loop.

I have recently watched lots of funny TV programs and films, so I would beg to differ with your proposition…

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. . and you have every right to, but I find humour - the laugh out loud sort - sadly lacking in anything produced over the last <insert number of choice> years.

. . . and don't get me started on everything, everything, now has the common trend of being over the top with morals, goodness & light, and (excuse the word) wokeness.

it's just stale regurgitated political correctness padding out a 15 minute story into a 90 minute film :dozey:

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? ;)

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Lemon party :rolleyes:

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Sometimes the 'eye of the beholder' sees things that others don't see, the bits that are missing, (possibly because others have a 'mote' in their eye), in which case the beautiful thing isn't quite as beautiful . . to him ;)

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And we're back to...



Anyhoo, as long as you're happy being miserable, that's all that counts... ;)

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Miserable? Just because I don't like something that you do? :D

The wife absolutely loves 'love Island', I hate it . . does that make me miserable? nope, but it makes me wonder about her mental state :rofl:

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No, being different and diverse in our likes/dislikes is what makes life/discussions interesting.

Moaning about lots of different things, and rarely being positive about anything - that’s what makes you miserable… :p:

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when you reach a certain age it's your right to be miserable and moan about every thing and every one,it gives you something to live for tomorrow:)

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There's lots of things in the UK I'm positive about, for instance . . err . . . erm . . hang on a minute . . err . . um . .

Well . . . seems like being a miserable old duffer is all there is :D

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and don't get me started about bloody football and all those racist flags

oh yea i bought a blood pressure monitor

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Had a blood pressure monitor for years . .

. . which reminds me, had a text from Doctors yesterday asking me to submit BP readings, it seems my name has come up in their 'random patient to contact' computer program :D

I might send them 188/96 and see if they bother following it up

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A 276 year old farmhouse , thankfully not listed, it’s in an area where there’s no virgin media, there’s no FTTP or even FTTC and the broadband speed is approx. 3mb so starlink it is then…..

What could possibly go wrong……

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any 5G masts about? ya never know

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AOL dialup

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and then Joanna Lumley says "You Got Mail"

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Growing up my dad steered clear of ADSL like plague for some reason. It was cable or nothing. I use to laugh at people that said right the phone is going dead now for the internet :LOL: my dad knew best :Yes: then God created the microfilter ha

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you are quite young compared to a lot of the posters here. You were 10 when I first signed up to AOL and run up a huge bill that never got paid haha there was no other option then

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How so? Was there an allowance? Cable had fair usage policy knocking the speed down to 2meg

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in 1999 there was only pay as you go dial up as far as I was aware. By the end of the year I had moved my BT line which I still had to a company called Screaming.net that had inclusive net for 2 hours before you were kicked. It was still dial up

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Oh damn. I had a computer at that age but no internet. Microsoft works lol telewest blue yonder Motorola surfboard modem was my first bit of interweb kit. Did you ever own the blue Linksys router?

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Composite front door, UPVC doorframe, and fitting…

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I still have a fully working blue linksys router running Tomato and OpenVPN

Software I enjoyed back then was BodyWorks, Encarta, Encyclopaedia Britannica stuff like that in the early days with Quake II multiplayer on 56k haha

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Possibly? I’d need to check , fttp is meant to be delivered by the end of this year but I won’t hold my breath

Nope , no 5g coverage from any provider, starlink it is

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least the costs are not as stupid now

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I presume you mean in your area, I had cable installed in June 1999 (Diamond Cable, who were taken over by NTL)..

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yes in my area as soon as cable was enabled I had it. A lot happened over a short number of months tbh

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I remember Freeserve I think it was 1p a minute and then I got on a BTinternet dialup for £10 a month which saved me a fortune and the phone line was permanently engaged back in 1999 when I was at home with me playing Quake2.

I then got 600K Cambridge Broadband around 2000.

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my new panama hat arrived last night,so i can potter around the garden without burning my bonce,aaaannd it's raining

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I bought 4 pillows from Temu "Hotel Quality Side Sleeper Bounce Back Bed Pillow, Premium Filled Soft & Supportive Sleeping Pillow, Plush Comfort Pillow for Bedroom, Neck & Shoulder Support".

They can be crushed totally flat between 2 palms, fingers outstretched, with almost no effort. So definitely not "side sleep" compatible.

I complained and was reimbursed 100% with no quibbles within seconds.

Now I just have to find ones that are as they say.

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I think that fact is you bought them from Temu for a few £s is your problem, you will be far better off buying branded ones on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adam-Home-P...31&sr=8-6&th=1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slumberdown...64&sr=8-8&th=1

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B&M sell cheap branded stuff. I got a silentnight double duvet 13.5tog for £8 and 4 silentnight soft cloud pillow pack for £7.50

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that'll be cosy when it's 35c :)

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He's probably still sitting on his fans.

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Magic carpet :naughty:

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We once (for a very short time) had a magic rug in the hallway . . when you stepped on it you flew across the room :D

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You should stop stepping on your pussycats tail :(

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car insurance £216 with Aviva

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This got delayed over the weekend but has since been dispatched. Just in time for the really really hot spell :D

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Reolink Omni V3 Security camera. It has 3 cameras 2 wide angle that stitch and by golly it is wide angle and a standard zoom PTZ with auto tracking. The wide angle tells the zoom where to look all very clever . PoE and uploading to my host via FTP. Best part £175 down from £249 real price saving not Amazons BS Prime Day deals haha

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These suck. It's nowhere near the velocity I thought they would be but they are handicapped by the low power usage so I don't know. Better than nothing I guess.

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turn it around then it'll blow:)

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Say no to drugs ;)

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With this heat, I have no regrets with the Meaco 1056p fan. A fan that actually works due to the power of it. And it's pretty much silent too.

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I had to buy a new battery for my car, close to £300 from the RAC with fitting. I tried to get quotes from local, remote fitters but no-one wanted my business and the battery is so flat I didn't want to risk the drive to the closest centres that could do the work.
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Also just put the deposit down for the appliances for our new kitchen:
2 Neff N90 ovens
Neff N90 90cm gas hob - (pacemaker = no induction)
Neff N70 wall mounted extractor with re-circulation kit - no outside wall access
Bosch Fridge Freezer

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just ordered some boxer shorts from Manchester lets see if they give me a burnham bounce ;)btw that's a joke

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I thought you was a g string type of guy ;)

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how long have you been fantasizing about my undies;)

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It's never too late to try new things old man. May be a jockstrap for Christmas :D

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Send him yours.

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Very fitting coming from you sniffing scent :p:

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Well my new fountain pen "Thomas Slim" via kick starter will soon be dispatched, It should be here early August
I went for the Brass one at £58


It was fully funded in 2 hours

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Our lad loves Peperami smoky ketchup. B&M had loads reduced to 40p, so I bought a dozen bottles. all dated in mid-2017.

3 packs of smash burgers at 50% off from Aldi has sorted tomorrow's tea, and a couple of lamb burgers for the missus who won't eat beef.

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Is that a typo?

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So much preservative it wouldn't make too much difference.

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Yup, sorrry!

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A nice heavy base as I was gifted a nice big parasol for my slowly developing garden

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you'll need it in this weather:tu:

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tbh the sun hits the front first but from about 4pm the patio gets full sun till we say night night to the sun so for evenings it will be a life saver

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A bloody pressure upper arm monitor because I went for a respiratory test at work and the first thing they do is check your blood pressure, well I failed it so they wouldn't do the test!

So they have asked me to buy this and take 2 readings a day for a month before they see me again, so I'm hoping I'll be ok doing it in a home environment when I am relaxed because I could feel high blood pressure having to do something like this at work.

Not brave enough to use it yet!

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how do you fail a blood pressure test unless you are dead

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I failed at a recent annual checkup. A raised reading is no good, strokes and stuff. This year I refused to wear the weekend monitoring device. The nurse ended saying just lose weight. Easier said than done.

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top tip. if it tastes good cut it out of your diet

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Lol.

By the time I rushed out the clean room got my suit off then rushed upstairs to the meeting, my heart and pulse were racing, so this increased my blood pressure because I wasn't relaxed at all.....and I definitely wasn't dead. Hehe

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In that case I'd eat nothing.

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I don't like sugar. It's like salt, gives a weird reaction in the body. You'd think I'd be in shape saying that. :shrug:

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A sugar coated Doughnut is heavenly food!

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I've never had a thing for donuts. Bland dough with sugar sprinkled on top.

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Don't forget the jam.

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It's always raspberry no blooming strawberry filling

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doughnuts never have jam jam doughnuts have jam custard doughnuts have custard. Doughnuts are just doughnuts haa

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Sorry couldn't resist it.

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Ok I forgot the word Jam. :D

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:nono: :drool:

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Blood sugar tester.
My 3 month level was just over the "allowed" limit so I decided to check mine for a couple of weeks.
So far its confirming the original blood test result - generally just over the top of the "normal" range.

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So I did my first home blood pressure test at 8am this morning and both readings are over the limit so I'll be making an appointment at doctors in 2 weeks time after ive taken a week of readings, I then have a week off work so not going during that.

I'm hoping it's simple to fix because it's freaked me out a little.

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Tablets, for as long as needed (which is usually the rest of your life). I take a combination of two.

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I'm with Paul, but would add it can take a little bit of tweaking to find what works for you.

On Saturday mine was 117/71. Looking back the worst reading a couple of years ago was 151/91, and the worrying thing was I felt fine when it was that high.

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Is blood sugar like a diabetes thing?

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the thing with home blood tests is you have to get yourself in the zone,don't do at just after a coffee or tea or just after eating ,sit quiet and relax for a few mins before testing, i took my readings to the doctors and she said is your BP always this low is said you put me on lots or pill to lower it :shrug:

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Yes I think I'm in the correct zone when doing it and avoiding eating food or drinking or moving around too much before a reading. I really hate taking readings I hate the feeling on my arm.

I think it's only a little high so not too worried now, I'm sure the docs will fix me up.

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You'll be all good after he sticks a thermometer up your arse :D

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My blood pressure is always on the high side, and I'm very good now at home testing.
I submitted some test results a month or so back, not heard a thing from the doctors. Maybe they think the tablets are still working, although if they checked the records it would show I haven't renewed the prescription for over 9 months now . . .

. . . which makes me think asking for home test results every once in a while is just a box ticking thing to hit targets

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BP reading - take 3 in morning and 3 in the evening, resting for 15 mins before reading. Submit the lowest reading in each set.
Mine can fluctuate but are usually below 130/90, even down to 113/74 in one set. It can peak higher though.

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£56 worth of petrol, and I hardly go anywhere . . is the damn stuff evaporating in this heat? :D

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what's that about a gallon and a half

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In old money, I think it's somewhere between "I'll just have a couple" . . and . . 'falling off the bar stool' :D

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Basically yes - Diabetes is high blood suger.