Argh! Too much to catch up on!!
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Originally Posted by ~Helen~
(Post 435558)
Well so anyway...my car got keyed again last thursday (this time on the boot)...and oh again yesterday...again on the boot, right above last week's scratch
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Originally Posted by mszee
(Post 435585)
Sorry about your car, Helen...that keying is damn frustrating...
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Yes, yes it is, but at least it's a fairly old car (6 and a half years), it's only a peugeot 106 so nothing really fancy or expensive, it'd already been scratched on the bonnet by someone with something like a key, and down the side (albeit mostly polished out now) by some idiot with a green car who drove down the side of it on a car park...so these fresh scratches don't bother me so much as they would if it were new.
what I am more worried about though, is if someone does something to the vehicle that will cost me money - such as slashing my tyres or similar - since the damage to mine, I've now heard of a couple of other people who had their tyre's slashed on that street...and my mum noticed 3 other vehicles parked on the same street the other day, all of which had scratches on them similar to mine. anyway, since it happened twice, i reported it to the police. I've also put in for a visible presence with tameside's patroller service (who will now check on that street for a month) - who have got the police (well, PCSOs) involved as well...so hopefully, not only will this make our vehicles a little safer, but they might also catch the idiot that did the damage!
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Originally Posted by samurai7
(Post 435624)
just bought a new PC - am about to venture into the unknown territory that is Windows Vista... if it's shite, I'll wipe it and install XP :twisted:
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Originally Posted by RadioMaster
(Post 435660)
didnt everyone say XP was crap, back when it came out, and that youd better stick to 2000?
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Originally Posted by allrevvedup
(Post 435672)
I don't really think there's a big diff in xp or vista but that's mainly cause my use for it varies
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In my humble opinion (because I operate both Vista and XP at home, XP and 2000 at work, and also have PCs with Windows 98 and 95 tucked away somewhere)...Vista's main problem is that it doesn't seem very stable. Granted it doesn't crash as often as 98 did but it reminds me a lot of 98. Additionally it has that stupid hidden "computer administrator" account (as opposed to the "Administrator" account) which makes a lot of installations a tricky and (for me) nerve wracking experience! I think it took people a while to warm to XP because it was such a change from 2000. Once I got used to it, I didn't mind it at all...and in fact, having been pretty used to 98, I don't mind Vista all that much MOST of the time. I do agree there are problems with Vista, but I also think a lot of people's mistrust of it, is that it is different.
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Originally Posted by SamCat
(Post 435732)
Only 38 hours til i meet my half niece for the first time i'm so excited i can't believe we waited 2 years to meet up!!
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Originally Posted by SamCat
(Post 435743)
I think Kelly is in her early 30s its the first time i'm meeting anyone from that bit of the family so whether i get to meet the rest of them depends on how well Saturday goes!! At least my Mum is warming to the idea now lol!!
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That's really brill...I have a lot of my family I've never met or not seen for 20 years or more, and although I can imagine it would be incredibly nerve wracking, I would dearly love to be able to meet up with them...good luck, I hope it goes well! :-)
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Originally Posted by allrevvedup
(Post 435849)
Whoever came up with the mantra that the customer is always right should be shot out of a cannon...found 50 miles away put in another cannon shot back to their original starting point and be forced into this procedure 25 times per day...
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Difficult customer huh? Anyway, you misunderstood the mantra. the idea is to make the customer THINK you believe they are right (most customers believe they themselves are right anyway!!)
Anyway, kinda reminds me of something...my grandfather (who died on Christmas Eve 1990) used to collect the funny cartoon / comic strips / jokes out of newspapers. When he had a heart attack and we had to bring my Granny to the UK (they lived on the Isle of Man) we found the box of newspaper clippings, and whilst he was in hospital, I was going to put them into a scrapbook for him, to keep him amused (I was 9 at the time, he'd've appreciated it from a 9 year old, ok) but sadly he passed away before it was completed. I kept the newspaper clippings for a long time though, and had some of the ones that amused me the most on my wall. One of those was (blimey this is becoming a very long story!) a picture of a guy on stepladders, obviously in a shop, painting a very large sign which read "The customer is already right"...and behind him was an elderly lady...and the caption said "There are two t's in Right, young man". Ah well...amused me!
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Originally Posted by duke knooby
(Post 435876)
rumour has it (read it in the sun) the new cadburys advert is the gorrilla drumming to total eclipse of the heart lol
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Originally Posted by SamCat
(Post 435920)
Just seen it!! And the airport one with Living on a Prayer!!
It looks like the old gorilla one they've just slowed it down a bit lol!!
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Ooooh...anyone know of a link to it anywhere online? As I missed it!