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« Reply #4500 on: 23:21:40, 22-01-2008 » |
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I've moved my computer grumble to the computer thread, so I replace it, at no extra charge with the following two grumps:
1. The extractor fan in my bathroom doesn't seem to work at all and there is occasionally a funny smell (different every time) in the bathroom. Yesterday it smelled a bit like asparagus wee.
2. I can't work out if the new jeans that I've bought are long enough in the leg. The label says that they are but I'm not convinced.
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« Reply #4501 on: 00:39:10, 23-01-2008 » |
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The post from tinners has been removed at his request because he has re-posted it on the Computer thread.
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« Reply #4502 on: 12:04:39, 23-01-2008 » |
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I always have that sort of doubt whenever I buy a pair of trousers of any kind, hh.
Does asparagus wee?
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« Reply #4503 on: 12:07:52, 23-01-2008 » |
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I always have that sort of doubt whenever I buy a pair of trousers of any kind, hh.
Does asparagus wee?
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« Reply #4504 on: 12:11:31, 23-01-2008 » |
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Ooh. There are hems that can be let down...
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« Reply #4505 on: 12:14:26, 23-01-2008 » |
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Oh yes, another grump.
I'm teaching tomorrow morning in Durham and I have no idea what I'm supposed to be covering (well I have the general area, ethnomusicology - or rather ethnomusicologyology - but that's it). Gah!
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« Reply #4506 on: 15:22:16, 23-01-2008 » |
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2. I can't work out if the new jeans that I've bought are long enough in the leg. The label says that they are but I'm not convinced.
I always have that sort of doubt whenever I buy a pair of trousers of any kind, hh.
Seeing as I always have the opposite problem with new trousers and cut the bottoms off, just give me your addresses and I'll pop them in the post!  |
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« Reply #4507 on: 18:15:16, 23-01-2008 » |
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Thanks, MJ!  You can send your bottoms to: Top o' the Mornin Bottom o' the Hill Jeanstown W32 34L I'll be sure to share them out with hh. |
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« Reply #4508 on: 18:05:43, 25-01-2008 » |
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Not really a full blown Grump, more of a moan really but ARGGHHH!! Bluddy Haringey (substitute name of your local Council) are such nagging nannies when it comes to the question of refuse bins. Not to mention inept when it comes to replacing `disappeared` ones, but that`s another story  When they finally got around to giving us Wheelie bins 2 years ago, they have proceeded to send us letters scolding us because we put the bins on the pavement. Gasp! Then, at our expense, they produce four page leaflets with colour pictures instructing us precisely where to position out our bins ( "within four feet of the front gate of your property. The wheels of the bin should be facing outwards".) with some more pretty pictures showing us a bin with a cut away section to show us what rubbish should look like if we have put it in the bin properly  They then follow up with another letter telling us that if we persist in behaving like naughty children, they will take our nice Wheelie bins away and give us dustbins with half the capacity. The one thing that Mr/Mrs/Ms Burger Brain seems to have overlooked is that there is no room at the front of the houses for bins, unless the garden has been paved over. Still, I suppose it gives them something to do inbetween coffee, water cooler moments, Facebook, lunch, Facebook, coffee with a blueberry muffin, Facebook and then home. Mutter mutter. |
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« Reply #4509 on: 18:14:39, 25-01-2008 » |
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Still, I suppose it gives them something to do inbetween coffee, water cooler moments, Facebook, lunch, Facebook, coffee with a blueberry muffin, Facebook and then home. Mutter mutter.
I take it then that they've not been responding to your pokes or friends requests? There there mort, I'm sure they'll come 'round . . . . |
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« Reply #4510 on: 18:17:11, 25-01-2008 » |
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Looking at that day's work schedule leads me to wonder whether rather than a Mr/Mrs etc. BB. there might not be a similarly singularly initialled self-styled literary lord involved, Mort....
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« Reply #4511 on: 18:17:32, 25-01-2008 » |
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Oh Mort! We have the same problem here and have done for a number of years now. The bin has to have the handles facing the road and the lid must be properly closed so if your bin bags don't quite fit in, they won't take it. They leave a note. And this is fortnightly! I tried to get a second bin but I was told I didn't qualify. You have to be a family of 5 to have two bins. A family of 5 would need more than two for a fortnight! What happens to nappies and suchlike with a large family? Can you imagine what the bin would smell like after two weeks. Today mine was overflowing (and I had another sack which I couldn't put out) and the lid wouldn't go down. I watched them come and was ready to have a go if they came up the drive to complain. One of them looked up and saw me and they didn't say anything at all. Perhaps I was giving off angry vibes. I was told I could buy another bin for £40.00 from the depot. As if we don't pay enough Council tax!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR We fare better with the green bin collection. We have a green wheelie bin for compostable stuff and cardboard, a green box for plastic bottles, glass and tins and a blue bag for newspapers and junk mail etc. I went to the depot last year and lied to them - told them my green box had blown away in a gale - so I have two now. I need one for glass jars and cans and the other for plastic bottles, tubs etc. The blue bag is usually full but they will take a second binliner of papers. |
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Looking at that day's work schedule leads me to wonder whether rather than a Mr/Mrs etc. BB. there might not be a similarly singularly initialled self-styled literary lord involved, Mort....
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We fare better with the green bin collection. We have a green wheelie bin for compostable stuff and cardboard, a green box for plastic bottles, glass and tins
and a blue bag for newspapers and junk mail etc. Our GREEN bin is for the NON-recyclable waste  (which they burn in the incinerator in Coventry). For the grass and twigs we have another green bin with a BROWN lid. We have to put them on the edge of the pavement, wheels facing the road.Watching the bin men I can see why it's a good idea. Newspapers and cardboard go in a black basket with a net top. Glass is driven to a supermarket where there's a line of bottle banks. Metal and appliances we have to drive to Leamington or Coventry. |
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« Reply #4514 on: 18:41:14, 25-01-2008 » |
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What is it about local councils and wheelie-bins? PW towers is located in the centre of Patcham Village, a suburb of Brighton notable for its hilly landscape and the extreme age of many of its inhabitants (there's much to be said for living in a place where one lowers the average age and, God knows, there aren't many left). The house is on a hill and we have a steep grassy bank at the edge of the front garden (it's a bugler to mow, and our neighbours have got round this problem by not bothering, but that's one for another grump ). Consequently, when Brighton and Hove council decided to extend the tyranny of the wheelie-bin to our quiet suburb, problems ensued. As should have been obvious the combination of elderly folk, bins on wheels and hills is somewhat troublesome. It gets worse when one remembers that the pavements are narrow and there is a significant flow of those sit-on motorised trollies favoured by our older citizens. And we were informed that it was unacceptable on health-and-safety grounds for the binnies to mount the stairs to the top of our bank and carry the bins down to the truck (of course no such concern was extended to the householders struggling to get the bins on to the pavement). Moreover, the council's policy was that if it's not in a wheelie-bin, it won't be collected. Threats of prosecution would follow. It was only after a big public row - pictures in the local rag and random acts of wheelie-bin related sabotage - that sense has now prevailed and a number of householders are now allowed to put out bags instead. This went on for months, and after all that fuss ended up with the Council doing what they had said was not possible. Madness. Why do councils do this? |
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