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thetapeworm said:
Tom _M said:
Someone on ours asked for the best curry house in the local area… There are now 185 responses of people repeatedly naming basically every curry place within a 5 mile radius, with some people saying one place is great, and others then saying it’s horrible. So basically no help at all.
We get this two or three times a week, always with the same unsubstantiated list of every place in the area.Similar happens on the regular "can any salons do me a <whatever> tomorrow?" where people just randomly name places with no visibility of their diary.
Our local bakers is closing. I've bought stuff from it a few times, but found it generally off-putting. The decor is like the shop from Open all Hours and the staff are either sullen teenagers or haggard women with the charm of GP receptionists. The only thing more galling was the obvious change of tone when Auld Tam, Wullie or Davey turned up for his four bread rolls (pronounced 'breed rolls' in these parts) and the haggard women suddenly become charming because a regular had turned up. I'm guessing Tam, Wullie and Davey have all died off now, or been told to knock it off with the baking, as the bakery has discovered that their local shop for local people business model has stopped working.
Cue an outcry from the sorts of folk who have twelve aunties and uncles living in the same street as them. Apparently the shop didn't look dated, because they repainted it recently. The baking was chic and contemporary because one of their mince pies contained both black pudding and pepper. There apparently used to be six bakers in the high street (the fact that Scotland is an obesity and diabetes black spot is a mere coincidence) but this decline is all the fault of newcomers to the town not shopping on the high street. The strange irony is that our high street is very busy and full of places selling baking; the staff in these places are friendly without you having to line their pockets for twenty years and the interiors have been update since Macmillan was the prime minister.
Cue an outcry from the sorts of folk who have twelve aunties and uncles living in the same street as them. Apparently the shop didn't look dated, because they repainted it recently. The baking was chic and contemporary because one of their mince pies contained both black pudding and pepper. There apparently used to be six bakers in the high street (the fact that Scotland is an obesity and diabetes black spot is a mere coincidence) but this decline is all the fault of newcomers to the town not shopping on the high street. The strange irony is that our high street is very busy and full of places selling baking; the staff in these places are friendly without you having to line their pockets for twenty years and the interiors have been update since Macmillan was the prime minister.
Fane said:
thetapeworm said:
Tom _M said:
Someone on ours asked for the best curry house in the local area… There are now 185 responses of people repeatedly naming basically every curry place within a 5 mile radius, with some people saying one place is great, and others then saying it’s horrible. So basically no help at all.
We get this two or three times a week, always with the same unsubstantiated list of every place in the area.Similar happens on the regular "can any salons do me a <whatever> tomorrow?" where people just randomly name places with no visibility of their diary.
Great collection on ours this morning -
We’ve a gala on today and we’ve had so far:
How much are the rides?
Do the stalls take card as I can only pay by card and my card isn’t the type you can take cash out with, or get cash back etc (have no idea what that could be)
And 6 photos of the sky declaring chemtrails.
We’ve a gala on today and we’ve had so far:
How much are the rides?
Do the stalls take card as I can only pay by card and my card isn’t the type you can take cash out with, or get cash back etc (have no idea what that could be)
And 6 photos of the sky declaring chemtrails.
Bear-n said:
Great collection on ours this morning -
We’ve a gala on today and we’ve had so far:
How much are the rides?
Do the stalls take card as I can only pay by card and my card isn’t the type you can take cash out with, or get cash back etc (have no idea what that could be)
And 6 photos of the sky declaring chemtrails.
Set up a WiFi network called “chemtrail monitoring station”We’ve a gala on today and we’ve had so far:
How much are the rides?
Do the stalls take card as I can only pay by card and my card isn’t the type you can take cash out with, or get cash back etc (have no idea what that could be)
And 6 photos of the sky declaring chemtrails.
Play the long game and wait
We did something similar when we lived in a block of flats with ridiculous selfish neighbours
Something like “FWnoisemonitor”
First Wessex were the housing association
We believe it actually worked as it really died down a few days later
Spare tyre said:
Set up a WiFi network called “chemtrail monitoring station”
Play the long game and wait
We did something similar when we lived in a block of flats with ridiculous selfish neighbours
Something like “FWnoisemonitor”
First Wessex were the housing association
We believe it actually worked as it really died down a few days later
My WiFi network was renamed to "Undercover Police Van" by my teenage son Play the long game and wait
We did something similar when we lived in a block of flats with ridiculous selfish neighbours
Something like “FWnoisemonitor”
First Wessex were the housing association
We believe it actually worked as it really died down a few days later
One of my local groups recently has people asking what the bright lights are in the sky along with loud bangs and what sounds like gunfire, the fact they live very close to Salsibury Plain appears to have passed them by, even if they have recently moved there, who moves to a new town without doing any research on the area?
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