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Jun 2013
6:27am, 12 Jun 2013
3,401 posts
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heebiejeebie
I also "did" Lord of the Flies. Shame, when Golding wrote so many better books.
Why do my cats think 5am is a good time to wake me up?
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Jun 2013
10:19am, 12 Jun 2013
859 posts
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Zorba
Sporting tour groups at destnation airports....You see them assembling at the luggage carousel ..And then the football/rugby ball surfaces from somewhere and before you can even think the word " tossers " the object of choice is pinging about and bouncing between them , much to their own ribald ( and deeply unfunny ) amusement ...No amount of open scorn or derision , incidentally , will deflect these weekend warriors from their task..
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Jun 2013
6:00pm, 13 Jun 2013
2,372 posts
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SusiesueH
companies who come over all touchy feely and claim that they want to 'help people' do such and such. No you don't you just want to sell me something and make a fat profit. Which is fair enough if you can get away with it. Just stop pretending that you're doing me a favour.
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Jun 2013
7:05pm, 13 Jun 2013
3,402 posts
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heebiejeebie
Smug people who "know" they are right and resist any evidence to the contrary.
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Jun 2013
1:27pm, 14 Jun 2013
289 posts
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Butterflies
When family in a family business, bother to turn up, then spend their time chatting about going to a spa and the treatments they will get, whilst non family members have to do more than their fair share of the work.
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Jun 2013
1:43pm, 14 Jun 2013
452 posts
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Fitz
Ah yes, Butterflies, how I miss the joys of working for a small family business.
"What, I only get three weeks holiday a year because we're a small company on a tight budget? While you and your wife (also on the payroll, for no reason other than to use her tax-free allowance) get to swan off any time you like and also spend much of the school holidays 'working from home?' Yeah, right."
And yet, I still stayed for five years!
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Jun 2013
4:41pm, 14 Jun 2013
297 posts
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Butterflies
My last place was the worst, the daughter worked 2 days a week, and always booked to have her hair done, or nails, or anything else she could think of, on the days she was meant to be at work! When she was there she spent the day on the phone chatting to her friends. The company I am with now is not much better. Non family can't have holidays at the same time, but 4 out of 5 of the family can and do. Moral is at an all time low. Work is not a happy place to be 
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Jun 2013
7:58pm, 14 Jun 2013
1,772 posts
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CStar
Duchess- on here most of us are *that* old
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Jun 2013
9:44pm, 14 Jun 2013
806 posts
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mr d
Just back from the Ipswich Pear Izumi Tour Series race in Ipswich with my oldest son. That didn't grind my gears, it was excellent.
What did grind my gears was going around town at lunchtime and hearing loads of moaning because for one afternoon there were barriers up and it wasn't as easy to get about as normal. FFSl The sort of people that probably loved the Olympics and Wiggins winning the TDF, but when they have a slight inconvenience it is all too much. Which is partly why the Ipswich half marathon is now on a tiny twisty turny multi lap route and the Felixstowe half marathon was shut-down to avoid closing a road for two hours on one Sunday morning a year.
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Jun 2013
9:56pm, 14 Jun 2013
2,444 posts
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run-forest-run
People in supermarkets who give their kids food they haven't yet paid for really annoys me !!
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