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How the hell did you do that? lol jesus! lol

I've been averaging 12hr days and usually get about 50+ a month.

You're saying you are doing 13.5hr a day overtime? So im guessing your normal working day isn't 8hr as that would mean you're working 21.5hrs in 24hr lol

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20 hour shifts, sleeping at work and generally doing nothing but working and sleeping.

Edit: My bad not overtime just normal hours

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It sucks you don't get paid overtime for that! I'm lucky that i get 1.5x for the first 6hrs of overtime then double time for the rest in 1 week. 12hrs is too much for me though especially getting up at 5am so i dread to imagine what sleeping at work would be like!

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Just got the new Argos catalogue and these items caught my eye.




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Set you up for the day. :D

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The thought of drinking out of that cup makes me feel ill.:sick:

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Yummy!! :)

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OOOhhhh a marmite mug - I'm getting that :)

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I cannot say that I am surprised.:D

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I am quite predictable it must be said :)

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Here is the Marmite merchandise store for you.

http://www.marmiteshop.co.uk/

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Cheers :tu:

Right - I'm off to have a personal moment with that site I think ;)

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I have also found a Marmite lunch box for £5 including delivery.

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/...x/Product.html

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My happy thought is paying £7000 less for a 49 day old car rather than buying new!

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The milky bars are on you! ;)

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Meh, it's second hand then :p: :D

Hope you're happy with it :tu:

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Lend us £5 please lol

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Shhhhhhhhh but i've never bought a new car before so it'll be 3 months old when they let me have it so should be like new. :)

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I never have either, it should still smell new when you get it to.

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My old car which i bought that was 3 months old smelt new for a few years after.

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Well today was my 1st day, the day seemed to fly past.

I'm starting at 8am tomorrow as they want to teach me to do the tape back-ups, as a back-up to the person who should do it isn't 100% reliable.

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Now that sounds like a promising situation. :D

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Best of luck - hope it all works out for you!

Not givng the job to someone who's 1005 does seem like ageism though... :D

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Good luck Homer it'll get your foot in the door and who knows thwy may offer you a permanent job! :)

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Good luck Homer and great you had a first good day at the job. Hopefully it will lead to full time for you ;):D

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Good luck Homer.

My happy thought? Work related, I'm afraid.

We've been using a program to deploy OSX called DeployStudio (which is a brilliant system if you have multiple Macs to install) for a couple of years. Because we already had another system for deploying Windows on the Macs, I never bothered investigating how it handles Windows installs.

This year development ceased on the system we were using. While it actually still works for Windows 7 (in my experience, anyway), I have up to 90 macs to deploy with this system (71 student machines which will be deployed using this system, and 19 staff machines which may or may not be deployed using this system).

The system had it's first major test today, which I was rather nervous about. It worked well on every one of the 30 machines I tried it on. Well, apart from a couple that wouldn't pick up IPs (which should be sorted by tomorrow).

And to think they wanted to throw out the elderly PowerMac G5 it's running on.. :D

The downside is that it has a couple of bugs, for which I have had to find workarounds, but were fixed in the version released yesterday (unfortunately too late for me to consider upgrading the system before the start of term now).

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My lad's 19th birthday today, so we are all off to Jamie's Italian in Leeds for a meal after work - some beer may be imbibed.......

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I love Marmite but I'm not cluttering my house with Marmite accessories..That's a step too far.

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Got my Decree Absolute today after 6 years of separation... :)

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Have you got mixed feelings?

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Don't really want to go into details, but no.

Just happy it's all over...

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oh grow up will you :rolleyes:

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I've collected all the Lurpak stuff that they have given out over the years.

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I'm happy/relieved for you Cobby :)

A quiet night in? or is a celebration on the cards this weekend I wonder?

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You sound like my mother :rolleyes:

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Perhaps you should listen to her more.....:D

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It's nice to get the final line drawn underneath and move on. ;)

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Splashed out on a half price bottle of Cava from Sainsbury's... :erm: :D

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Congratulations Cobby! After 13 years of marriage I got my decree absolute on 13th May 1976. I met Mr Tink 2 months later in the July and we married same year on New Year's eve. We celebrate our 34th this year.:) What's that tune? Love is Lovelier......... I hope and trust you have the same good fortune.

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I suppose congratulations are in order even though I expect that you have some very mixed feelings about it, so have a few drinks and try and chill out as you still have the rest of your own life ahead of you.:)

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Congratulations Cobby. Now you can move on with the new life you have made for yourself. A celebratory meal is on the cards I imagine. :)

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Have a glass for me & I'll raise a glass of red to you in return :)

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Two weeks annual leave start today. :woot:

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And because I'm on leave I don't need to worry about the Popes visit to Scotland or the next Scottish Defence League demonstration. Yay!

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Done! :)

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& done :cool:

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In a great mood,

my gf has said I can take the job I have been offered in Germany as long as I call her quite often and come home at least twice a month and fly her and my son out now and then :) Sounds like she is warming to moving to Germany :)

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She probably realises that the oppurtunity is to good to miss especially with regards to the money.

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and the beer, don't forget the beer

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Wooooo! My 4,000th post!! https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/09/69.gif

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Good stuff :tu: :)

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Nice one.:)

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Nice one heero, but wouldn't that take up half the settee lol?

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Jeepers that's huge, is it an all singing and dancing model lol?

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Peter - 'I'd be upset if you died, but at least I'd get your laptop'

Well at least he'd miss me, presumably until he turned on the laptop

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Children have a very simplistic way at looking at life Dilli, at what stage do we lose that innocence I wonder? :(

Why not heero? Must be more people on here interested in models lol!
Mr Tink's just walked past me, looked at the screen 'Big leggo pieces them' he says.:dozey:

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Nice one :tu:

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Perhaps he'd have you as a screensaver...

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My happy thought is all Ben and Jerry's icecream is 1/2 price in Tesco!!!

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After months of trying to track some down my local aquatics shop got me the 2 glass shrimps I wanted for my cold water tank. :)

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Um - good? :)

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Sounds a bit fishy to me.:D

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Very good. My White Clouds now have a clean-up crew. :)
Shrimps are not fishy they are crusty. :D

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I like a nice fish sandwich.:D

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At £2.75 each my shrimp would make a tad expensive canapé.

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That's cheap. I paid over 5 quid the other day for a sandwich, packet of crisps and a can of Coke at lunch.

I wouldn't mind keeping Axolotls as they are so adorable. Trouble is they eat other other fish.

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My shrimp are only the size of my thumb nail so wouldn't go far on your buttie. :D
I wouldn't mind an Axolotis but knowing my luck the dang thing would probably end up metamorphosing and I would end up with a not so cute pet that lived for 15 years. :(

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Axolotls will transform into a Salamander if they are injected with Iodine (QI fact)

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Had a fantastic day out at Manchester airport today.

Saw the Emirates A380 arrive & depart plus had a tour of Concorde G-BOAC.

See Plane Spotters Corner thread for piccys...

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I was at Manchester Airport when G-BOAC came in for it's final landing, they waived the noise limits, ported the ATC Feeds through the main PA system, Grounded ALL flights while G-BOAC landed and gave them a Honor Arch from the fire trucks as it made it's way along the Taxiway to it's current resting place.

(Note - this was not the final visit publicised, this was it's final landing.)

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But don't they break easy though Jo? lol :dozey:

Amazing experience Cobby I imagine (celebrating the decree absolute perhaps?).

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I was doing some shopping in my local Sainsburys when I saw Bobby Jack & Freedie with their dad Jeff Brazier (Jade Goody's kids).

They look like just two oridinary Happy kids walking with there father, and nobody was hasstling him.

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It's good they seem to be having some peace and normality now.

My happy thought - have finished doing the dinner and am going to watch Emma on BBC2. :D

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That is so nice to hear. I'm glad that they are both looking happy. That was nice that people left them in peace shopping as the kids have been through so much

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Had a great two days away but so so happy to be home again. I'm just a home bird and love my own surrondings.

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Every woman says exactly that in my experience and cannot wait to hug their loved one again.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/09/100.jpg

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Masque is that supposed to be half a picture or a full one? :erm:

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Can you not see the whole picture.:)

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Nope it just goes half way and stops :(

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Spoiler removed.:D

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Sadly I have used two contraptions like that when I was a teenager and my mother put me in charge of doing the laundry as she had to go out work after my father died.

The novelty of a combined washer/spin dryer later was astounding.Now people think nothing of them..;)

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And there I was thinking you would replace it with a another one. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/09/66.gif

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I remember my mum using a twintub and then we were amazed when we got our first front loading washing machine.:)

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I could have but it would have been even more dated.:D

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It sort of beats that weekly stroll down to the river making sure that Hubby's loincloth is ready for another hard week hunting.:)

You just can't get the rocks nowadays.:angel:

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Being a man he probably wore it for a month or more as it was his lucky cloth.:erm:;)

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Depends on what it was luck for :D

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Like the old steamies? :D

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Got to go to Truro this am so a bit of retail is on the cards. :)

Ach nothing as modern as that contraption Masque lol, I was thinking more along the lines of this. ;)

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Yep I suppose there are things to be grateful for.It only takes a broken down washer for us to realise how much we rely on present day appliances to keep our lives at a much easier level.

Some can complain their mobile phone or PC or TV isn't working but when the washer packs up it's a whole new higher level of pain..;)

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Woohoo - I just got some breen transphasic torpedoes....

Um, good - I think :)

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I think you can get a cream for that at the Chemists

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/09/94.jpg;)

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It would be nice to use a cream :)

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They don't look anything like that in the game. MMMmmm

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I just googled it and that is what came up a transphasic photon torpedo.;)

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I blame the game makers - I bet they didn't look :)

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There's also this pic from one of the STO sites

http://sto-intel.org/images/4/48/Tra...Torpedo_10.png

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Looks more like a pessary..

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tastes like it too

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Not strictly speaking a Happy thought, but it is quite happy and certainly something I wasn't expecting..

One of my facebook friends (someone who I knew years ago, and still say hi to from time to time) has just posted photos from a pub that's just across the road from another friend's flat. And no, these friends have never met.

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You could have a threesome?

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A friend who has fought off cancer twice was worried it had recurred, but got the all clear yesterday. The symptoms were caused by scarring from one of the operations. :cleader:

Then to cap it all we won a dominoes competition against our nemesis team.

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Excellent :)

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My happy thought, hospital again. But today's hospital is a tame one so I'm quite happy about that. :)


Mind you that's assuming they pick me up today. ;)

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Happy thoughts indeed Angua, and congrats on winning the comp.:nworthy:

Keeping my fingers cross for you Dilli! :)

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.....well there are 45 minutes until my appointment so it's not looking good, time to start calling and see what's going on. Again :(