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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3508   
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Toilet Rolls. Is it me, or since lock down, are toilet rolls getting smaller?
I keep a good stock in my toilet (we have a his and hers toilet arrangement) within a plastic box. It wasn't long ago that the rolls were very tight as I pushed them into the box for storage and in case of emergency. Unless my box has stretched in some way, my bog roll bounces around inside the thing now. I've also noted the amount of free board that there is around the loo roll holder on the wall and I seem to be getting through loo roll a lot quicker these days. No change in diet, consistency or regularaty so there has to be something happening, and it's got nothing to do with me and my constitution!! Now all of you people who were desperately stocking up on the rolls just before lock down, you probably haven't noticed as you still have four and a half years of stock left and no chance anytime soon of anyone sleeping in your spare bedroom - and it's got nothing to do with social distancing has it? 
Maybe you hoarders have had the last laugh? As the loo roll size diminishes the price doesn't seem to have reduced at all  |
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14th Sep 2020 9:51pm |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753 
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I noticed yesterday that B&Q have started selling bog roll , my local branch had packs of 9 rolls of Andrex on a special offer too! I don’t remember ever seeing loo paper on the shelves in B&Q before, must be a profit to be made stocking it as home decorating equipment. Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
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15th Sep 2020 7:24am |
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| shropshiredefender Member Since: 05 Jun 2017 Location: Shropshire Posts: 834  
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Getting very irritated by the adverts for cars using perverted and distorted rock classics to try to capture past values.
Born to be Wild - totally gutted into a lift music drone advertising a Volvo - just wrong. 21st Century Schitzoid man - advertising some sort of hybrid thing - plainly wrong. There are others. But Steppenwolf and King Crimson (and many others) should be left out of the advertisers fantasies. Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right. |
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18th Sep 2020 12:41pm |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753
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There is one manufacturer who is advertising their car being driven by a young girl who looks way too young to be driving, with a bunch of similar aged girls rammed into a car when they should be paying attention to distancing but also driving along using the car as a mobile disco, bouncing around inside it as they drive along. No wonder so many young people come to grief in accidents if that is how manufacturers portray how you should be driving. Grump over. Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
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18th Sep 2020 12:51pm |
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| Grenadier Member Since: 23 Jul 2014 Location: The foot of Mont Blanc... Posts: 5829  
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When did 'for sure' replace 'certainly', 'absolutely', 'definitely' and other similar adverbs during interviews with sports men and women? I'll forgive foreign sportsmen and women with patchy English but not their British counterparts or the handful of stars (such as the Scandinavian drivers in F1 and WRC) who speak otherwise impeccable English. Everybody says it now and it is unnecessary. It's lazy and for sure I find it hugely irksome.
 Monsieur Le Grenadier
I've not been everywhere, but it's on my list..... 2011 Puma 110DC - Corris Grey |
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19th Sep 2020 6:07am |
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| VVS210 Member Since: 12 Nov 2016 Location: Hampshire Posts: 953
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My recollection of the first time I heard 'for sure' was when a certain German F1 driver with a red car started using it. 😡
Today's grump though is the bloody council landscaping contractors who decided that 0740 on a Saturday. Owning was an appropriate time to fire up their 2 stroke hedge trimmers & strimmers & tidy up the bushes that have been over growing the path outside our bedroom window for the whole of the summer. Why do this so early on a Saturday morning rather than on a weekday!!!! "I don't believe it!" |
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19th Sep 2020 7:17am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17443 
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Double-time at weekends, well worth slipping jobs until Saturday to get more dosh.
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19th Sep 2020 7:31am |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3508
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Paid Overtime. That brings back good memories. Time and a half Saturday Morning till 1, then double bubble Saturday afternoon and Sunday. 37.5 hours paid for two 10 hour days. Double your wages for two days work (well not quite as we never worked a flat 7.5 hour day). It was great if you wanted to save for something. Not great for the social life.
Now I am expected to work overtime for no pay where required. No good for saving and still not good for the social life. How did that happen? |
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19th Sep 2020 7:45am |
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| Ads90 Member Since: 16 Jun 2008 Location: Cots-on-the-Wolds Posts: 812 
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Sven Goran Eriksson was famously a ‘for sure’ user back in the day, & was much impersonated at the time - might be his fault?
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19th Sep 2020 7:52am |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018 
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Is it that they can't do anything until September and then it's a mad dash around a large patch to get it all done before the weather turns nasty. |
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19th Sep 2020 8:18am |
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| Bian Considine Member Since: 25 Jul 2020 Location: Margate Posts: 53
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A few grumps from me.
I hate the "Americanisms" that are creeping into use... "sneekers" - we wear trainers. "flashlight" - we use a torch. & in the owners book that came with Mrs. C's new Ford Kuga - it refers to the "trunk", "hood", "lug wrench" & apparently it has a "gas tank" & "tires". ONE of the reasons it will be her last Ford. Oh, & another thing - all the car/vehicle adverts that show only LHD models. |
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20th Sep 2020 7:47am |
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| Mike c Member Since: 11 Aug 2017 Location: Maldon, Essex Posts: 930 
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"Can I get"
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20th Sep 2020 7:54am |
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| Slideywindows Member Since: 09 Sep 2016 Location: North Essex Posts: 1283
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The Coca-colanisation of the English language is not just the changing of our words, but also the pronunciation of English words.
If you speak American, the emphasis is always on the first syllable, eg: BAGHdad WEEKend REsearch. If you speak crown English, the emphasis is on the second syllable. It is a shame that most employees of our National Broadcasting Corporation have taken to speaking American. |
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20th Sep 2020 11:53am |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3508
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I struggle with English as I am born and bred in Norfolk
What does upset me is the way that local dialects are being watered down by TV, Radio and the media in general. Children are growing up listening to broadcasters, very few up until a few years ago have any discernible accent. There isn't much that can be done about it, but my parents generation were probably the last to have a true dialect. Although I speak Norfolk, my vocabulary has been tainted by the telly. The actress Jane Horrocks, if I remember correctly, was told by her drama school that she needed to lose her strong accent. What a crying shame it would have been if she had of done what they wanted. What would the world be if we all talked like Sue Lawley* *I have nothing against Sue, other than the way she used to pronounce the word issue. She said "isoo" whereas being a country bumpkin I would pronounce it "Ishoo". We were probably both getting it hopelessly wrong but it did used to wind me up. Apart from that, a very good old time journalist who gave you the news and informed the listener rather than giving her opinion  |
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20th Sep 2020 12:15pm |
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