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« Reply #11070 on: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 14:06:12 » |
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Talking of fetching a parcel from Royal Mail, the collection point at Hawksworth annoys me. Serving the entire town centre and Old Town, yet there are only 2 parking spaces and never has enough staff on.
It doesn't serve the entire town centre. The side that is closest to it (ie Faringdon Park area) has to go all the way to fucking Dorcan! Absolute piss take. |
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Sippo
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« Reply #11071 on: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 14:09:07 » |
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And North Swindon.
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If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit...
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Ardiles
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« Reply #11072 on: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 14:37:47 » |
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My head still hurts. But I'll be damned if I'm missing the game tonight.
(Would just appreciate it if the rest of you cheer quietly when we score. Thanks.)
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« Reply #11073 on: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 15:25:46 » |
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After converting the Grandchildren's old trampoline into a chicken run my garden now looking like the Somme (and Before any of you scallywags say, no the the chickens aren't bouncing on it)  |
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Red Frog
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« Reply #11074 on: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 15:29:54 » |
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After converting the Grandchildren's old trampoline into a chicken run my garden now looking like the Somme (and Before any of you scallywags say, no the the chickens aren't bouncing on it) Ah yes, as they used to say on the Somme: "It wasn't the mud, or the cold, or the constant danger; it was the bloody trampolines that sapped morale more than anything." |
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Tout ce que je sais de plus sūr ą propos de la moralité et des obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois. - Albert Camus
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« Reply #11075 on: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 15:36:46 » |
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Ah yes, as they used to say on the Somme: "It wasn't the mud, or the cold, or the constant danger; it was the bloody trampolines that sapped morale more than anything."
Especially when the springs snapped, mind you it would have made the snipers job a bit harder, now you see me, now you don't, now you see me, now you don't. |
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pumbaa
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« Reply #11076 on: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 10:50:21 » |
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I keep trying to blow my nose into one of the two tea bags on my desk. Its annoying me as I think they are tissues....
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #11077 on: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 10:57:36 » |
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I keep trying to blow my nose into one of the two tea bags on my desk. Its annoying me as I think they are tissues....
If your tissues look like tea bags I suggest its time to get a new box. |
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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« Reply #11078 on: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 11:10:22 » |
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My head still hurts. But I'll be damned if I'm missing the game tonight.
(Would just appreciate it if the rest of you cheer quietly when we score. Thanks.)
Lucky for you we didn't score then |
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pumbaa
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« Reply #11079 on: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 11:18:05 » |
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If your tissues look like tea bags I suggest its time to get a new box.
Thats part of the problem. I don't have a box at work, just a growing collection of screwed up tissues (now disposed of appropriately) and a lessening pile of tea bags. Out of the corner of one's eye, they look similar..... |
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Bob's Orange
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« Reply #11080 on: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 08:50:48 » |
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The whole transfer window pretend rumour thing - 'I have seen Lionel Messi shopping in Harrods, believe he is signing for Fulham today, blah blah'
Bored of it now.
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
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« Reply #11081 on: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 09:35:20 » |
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Tax returns and leaving them to the last minute. Looks like I'm in for a fun evening  |
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« Reply #11082 on: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 10:12:19 » |
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Talking of fetching a parcel from Royal Mail, the collection point at Hawksworth annoys me. Serving the entire town centre and Old Town, yet there are only 2 parking spaces and never has enough staff on.
It'll be even more fun when the whole of Swindon is being delivered out of Dorcan... West Swindon and Hawksworth offices are being wound down, hawksworth costs over a million pounds a year in rent... Enforced cutbacks, not the fault of the people working there. Its being prepared for sale by the government.
Remember the days when there were 2 main post offices in town and twice daily deliveries. Like the Tories destruction of public services etc,The Royal mail is getting taken backwards too.
Tories have fuck all to do with the emaciation of RM, it can be placed firmly at the doors of Labour. As soon as they came into power in '97 they took a payment holiday from funding their pension plan (hence the massive deficit) and continued to strip any money they could out of the business until the mid-2000s when they realised it had gone to shit. then they allowed competition to enter the market, whilst not making them offer full network coverage that RM has to by law. Cherry picking ensued, RM only get about 11p per letter that they carry, sort and deliver for TNT/UK Mail/DHL/whoever else, all they do is pick it up and give it to the nearest RM office. Tories are blame-free from the mess that is Royal Mail... |
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Fuck you Leggett, fuck you.
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LucienSanchez
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« Reply #11083 on: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 10:15:00 » |
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Wow, that rent is extortionate - the County Ground is peanuts by comparison
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We made a promise we swore we'd always remember... no retreat, baby, no surrender
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« Reply #11084 on: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 11:19:08 » |
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It'll be even more fun when the whole of Swindon is being delivered out of Dorcan... West Swindon and Hawksworth offices are being wound down, hawksworth costs over a million pounds a year in rent...
Tories have fuck all to do with the emaciation of RM, it can be placed firmly at the doors of Labour. As soon as they came into power in '97 they took a payment holiday from funding their pension plan (hence the massive deficit) and continued to strip any money they could out of the business until the mid-2000s when they realised it had gone to shit. then they allowed competition to enter the market, whilst not making them offer full network coverage that RM has to by law. Cherry picking ensued, RM only get about 11p per letter that they carry, sort and deliver for TNT/UK Mail/DHL/whoever else, all they do is pick it up and give it to the nearest RM office. Tories are blame-free from the mess that is Royal Mail...
the Tories are preparing the Royal mail for sale now. They are overseeing the closures you mention now. he toriesTories were also dipping into the pot generated by Royal mail long before labour took over, but labour did nothing for the Royal mail apart from the few back benchers who fought to keep it public. You won't be getting that now. |
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