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#91
General Discussion / Re: Man killed by Tiger
Last post by klondike - October 14, 2026, 11:06:20 PM
Sadly all too believable in his case.
#92
General Discussion / Re: Man killed by Tiger
Last post by Dextrous63 - October 14, 2026, 11:03:18 PM
Yep Mups.  Assuming it's not "fake news", it suggests to me that he is way way beyond any spectrum I know of and is in the world of sociopathic abnormalities.  

I try to accept that everyone has a warped view of things at times and not use these occasional outliers to judge too deeply, but in this instance, it takes the entirety of McVities products!!
#93
General Discussion / Re: Attack on Saudi
Last post by klondike - October 14, 2026, 11:01:19 PM
There's also the possessive as in greengrocer's apostrophe which is often used to point out misuse.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greengrocer%27s_apostrophe
#94
The Games Room / Re: Two Words But You Just Cha...
Last post by Mups - October 14, 2026, 10:38:16 PM
Good  Instinct
#95
The Games Room / Re: Make a New Word.
Last post by Mups - October 14, 2026, 10:37:11 PM
Sonata
#96
General Discussion / Re: Man killed by Tiger
Last post by Mups - October 14, 2026, 10:25:31 PM
I heard that about Trump doing that on the news tonight, Dex.
Unbelievable.  
#97
General Discussion / Re: Man killed by Tiger
Last post by Dextrous63 - October 14, 2026, 09:57:11 PM
I've just (accidentally) seen some of the original footage which Trump has allegedly put up on his TikTok account, and an AI generated variation.

I was freaked out by the thought of the event, but having seen some of it I'm crying.  Horrible, horrible, horrible.  The poor fella.  The poor family. 😢😢

What sort of twat would put the video in the public domain, what sort of numbnut would make a parody of Trump winning against, and hugging the tiger, and what sort of human being in high office would post it on his own account for self aggrandisement??
#98
General Discussion / Re: Attack on Saudi
Last post by Dextrous63 - October 14, 2026, 06:47:29 PM
Thanks again 🙂
#99
The Chat Room / Re: Big switch on
Last post by Mups - October 14, 2026, 05:33:30 PM
Now then Scrumps -  it was sheet changing day today,  so I got all the bedding off and the clean ones out of the airing cupboard,  then decided I would do like you did,  and put my winter duvet on while I was at it.

Now wait for it . . . . .   I not only changed the duvet,  I changed the mattress protector,  and then got carried away and even turned the mattress around and over too.

So I have now turned the mattress, put a new protector on,  changed the sheets, and put my winter duvet on too.     Beat that!    

I don't do things by half, do I.    :grin:
#100
The Chat Room / Re: The boring thread.....
Last post by Mups - October 14, 2026, 05:25:54 PM
Something lovely happened this afternoon.    Well I thought it was, anyway. 

I went to collect my mobile back from the menders, then drove to the garage to put some air in my front tyres  -  but I couldn't do it for some reason.
I didn't know if it was my fault,  or if the machine wasn't working,  so I called a young fella from the car wash  over to see if he could help me.     
Strangely,  he couldn't get it to work either,  and in the end,  he said he would get his boss to come and have a look.

His boss came,  and fiddled about for a while,  but he couldn't get any air to come from the machine either,  and my tyre pressure was dropping down and down with them keep pressing on the tyre's valve.
I was worried, because if the machine was faulty,  how was I going to drive home now,  with one tyre nearly flat to the rim?

In the end,  he looked closely at the machine and saw it said to pay £2 first.   I have never, ever had to pay for air before.
So I fiddled about looking for my purse,  but that lovely chap said he would pay for it for me!   :shocked:
I said No, and that I would do it,  but he insisted and paid with his phone.

Immediately the machine worked,  so that was obviously what had been wrong.
He went on to do all the tyres for me,  then wished me a good day, and went back to his work.
Bless his heart.   Wasn't that kind.

I know it will sound really daft,  but that simple kindness just caught me unprepared,  and to my embarrassment I could feel I was about to blub! 
I had noticed he had a bottle of fizzy orange in his hand,  so went in the garage's shop, and bought him another bottle of orange,  and a little chocolate reindeer to munch on to thank him for his kindness.

Little things like that don't happen to me every day,  what a nice kind young man, ey.