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diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.12.22 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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12. I recently put in a Delay Repay claim for a family trip and EMR paid up on one and rejected three, then approved two of the appeals and needed an email to customer service before they paid the fourth. I'm not sure the effort justified the reward. At least it came by bank transfer.
martin | 01.12.22 - 7:12 a.m. | #
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5: I’d no idea that all council’s had cancelled their displays. I thought it was just ours. How sad.
Dan | 01.12.22 - 7:26 a.m. | #
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22 The schadenfreude is strong with this one, sorry!
Al | 01.12.22 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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6. I don't have that problem with my tweets
25. A heavy bird landing on the back perhaps
Ian | 01.12.22 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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28. Tax Free For Overseas Visitors is an long obsolete offer which might one day be valid again so perhaps collectable too.
Mike D | 01.12.22 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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22 - my local supermarket has decided not to sell fairy lights - no one can afford to run them
25 - the large bird option
Still Anon | 01.12.22 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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8. You're to be the next Bond? Or maybe on BGT next year.
14. Mick Herron's Slough House book series is good, although the latest (Bad Actors) wasn't to the standard of the others.
23. The point of the sign may be to prohibit folding bikes being taken aboard unfolded, which is absolutely a thing.
30. The news coverage of the tournament has been OTT. Maybe to justify the huge number of correspondents (and goodness knows how many technical personnel) having been sent to Qatar.
Frank F | 01.12.22 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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1. Wettest November ever for some parts of the UK, hope we can see a post from you soon with a London view
10. No timer at all? This would lead to many burnt pizzas if I wasn't reminded that I'd put something in to cook!
15. Just as well they didn't put anything up to celebrate Ms Truss' promotion, as it would have easily outlasted her!
TomH | 01.12.22 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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14: The TV adaptation of Slow Horses is silly but gripping, and has the unusual benefit that much of the London location filming actually works geographically, so they aren’t eg driving out of Trafalgar Square on to Tower Bridge. The recent Trigger Point bomb disposal series was particularly bad at this, with Vicky McClure “racing” to a UXB in the East End by driving round and round Canary Wharf.
Philip Downer | 01.12.22 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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14. I didn't like the Herron book. It depends on one of the main characters being the eccentric Super Magic character. That's really tiresome. OTH the Anthony Horowitz series with Hawthorne and himself is lovely.
marmaduke jinks | 01.12.22 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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23. It's the best way of showing on a 'no reading' sign, that unfolded bikes are not permitted.
mikeH | 01.12.22 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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10. This reminds me of a time at university when I popped a pizza in the oven to be ready "when the Neighbours theme music starts at 5pm". Cue missing the beginning of Neighbours, but being reminded of the pizza by the music at the end. Suffice to say, the extra 25 minutes at 180degC had made in inedible :(
jonnus | 01.12.22 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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20. But if you hover the image it clearly says where it is - or is that a red herring ?
Caroline | 01.12.22 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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30 the BBC lives wasting our licence money like that.
Last time I heard they sent 450 people to the Glastonbury Festival.
Joho | Homepage | 01.12.22 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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22 - An electrifying tale of heroism in fairylight form.
cau1khead | 01.12.22 - 10:15 a.m. | #
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22 - way too early if you had been trying to unpick Christmas Lights for a week!
Mikey C | 01.12.22 - 10:48 a.m. | #
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23. With the demise of proper education, proper use of language in public service (where they used to know how to read and write) is fading fast. One of my sayings at work (white-collar) is WHAM - Words Have A Meaning. These days, it is up to the reader to figure out the intention of the writer of instructions.
international reader | 01.12.22 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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28 - they are simply letting potential customer's know that that the owner of the shop has a pierced ear.
Gran't | 01.12.22 - 10:56 a.m. | #
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20 - "Nothing of note..."
ap | 01.12.22 - 10:58 a.m. | #
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23. I never realised how ambiguous “unfolded” was. It might mean something which has been folded but currently isn’t, or it could mean something which has never been folded. Problem issues are things which cannot be folded, and foldable things which have never been folded.
Kev | 01.12.22 - 11:12 a.m. | #
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3. The Puzzler was popular in our house too. Such a novel idea combining several different puzzles in one publication.
4. Our library was giving away free copies of the 1st book if you booked to Ben Aaronovitch's free talk. Best set of freebies ever!
6. Some people use the 'like' function to indicate they've read it.
8. Are you EVER going to tell us what IT was???
10. I'm a 'have a vague idea of when it went in and does it look about done' kind of person!
13. Yes!!
16. Cool! Do you get to choose who you throw it at?
22. Oh the perennial frustration of tangled, non-working fairy lights!
25. Extremely overweight pigeon?
26. Finding the same in WH Smiths. Was hoping Ryman's might be cheaper, but it appears not.
30. f o o t b a l l, news, f o o t b a l l, news, s p o r t s, weather. Local news: same as main news because London news is also national news
Cornish Cockney | 01.12.22 - 11:24 a.m. | #
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23 See also "Dogs must be carried on all escalators"
Mike D | 01.12.22 - 11:25 a.m. | #
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(23) I once heard an announcement that said "there is no service in both directions"
Gary Johnson | 01.12.22 - 12:36 p.m. | #
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7. Will did very well. No shame in losing to Marianne who's a past Mastermind champion.
Less said about the fuss that kicked up after the final the better except to say it showed the BBC making one of its worst judgement calls.
Mark | Homepage | 01.12.22 - 1:13 p.m. | #
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12. I used to go for the voucher option, until train operator 2 refused to accept train operator 1's vouchers. Bank transfer does not face this drawback.
26. There are good value options in Tesco.
Man of Kent | 01.12.22 - 1:16 p.m. | #
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6. They're still doing it.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.12.22 - 1:20 p.m. | #
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26. Just bought my (A6 one page per day) diary in Paperchase for £10 exactly; also a substantial increase on previous years.
28. And incomplete parentheses? Or maybe just the angle from which the photo was taken.
30. I think 'never' is a bit harsh - or benefits from hindsight. Betting markets had them as high as 0.89% (0.0089) probability of winning the tournament in the summer, and they were still a 1000/1 shot after their first 2 matches.
Andy, Herts | 01.12.22 - 1:31 p.m. | #
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9 - TfL didn't forget. It was a deliberate decision later changed under public pressure. If TfL and the DfT had only managed to agree on an overall fares policy that didn't make it cheaper to pay separately for different bits of a journey then there wouldn't have been any need for them.
20 - I assume the occupant was happy with photos being taken, unlike the grumpy monkey puzzle tree owner the other Monday.
27 - I would expect Rail Replacement Buses to call at every stop being served without ringing the bell as they're rather further apart than on a normal bus route and it's unlikely no-one would want to get on or off. It can also be hard to tell when you're approaching the stop being used, the station not always being visible from the bus.
Andrew S | 01.12.22 - 1:47 p.m. | #
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14 - I quite enjoyed the TV adaptation, and if you haven't seen it perhaps worth punting £5 for a month's subscription (or using a free trial). There are a few other series on Apple TV+ that are pretty good such as For All Mankind.
Adam | 01.12.22 - 3:13 p.m. | #
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20 - There's what appears to be an English Heritage blue plaque on the house, but it doesn't look quite right.
Bob L-S | 01.12.22 - 4:47 p.m. | #
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13 - Brentford could be nice if they made a decent riverside path from Kew Bridge to at least Syon House. Middlesex's county town was once a lovely place but the Victorians did for it!
Tones | 01.12.22 - 5:11 p.m. | #
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20 - Bob L-S "British Heritage Nothing of note happened here"
infacked | 01.12.22 - 5:24 p.m. | #
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7. I saw Shakatak at Bailey's back in the day. Or was it Shalamar?
Cottonsocks | 01.12.22 - 6:23 p.m. | #
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20. I don't mind Superman.. he is out of the way. But the front garden looks like a a total mess.
Hels | Homepage | 02.12.22 - 12:49 a.m. | #
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Days which have not inspired comment:
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(but the majority have, cheers!)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.12.22 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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10: I too try to remember what time I put something in the oven and when I need to take it out. I've yet to work out how the timer on my oven actually works.
26: Am I the only one here still using a Filofax (which I've had since the 1990s)?
30: Much as I enjoy the World Cup, I do think it's given too much prominence in the TV news. Just stick it all in the sports section at the end.
Alan S | 02.12.22 - 9:16 a.m. | #
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13. I have limited sympathy for Brentford. Its increasingly derelict riverside could have been improved bit by bit at any time in the past several decades, but never was. Now something is finally being done, everyone complains! Of course the new development could all have been done a bit better, but at least it's something, and a great improvement on the abandoned wharves, half-sunken boats and other extensive eyesores we've had to put up with since whenever.
ActonMan | 02.12.22 - 10:03 a.m. | #
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14: A friend who’s a local tour guide thinks she’s found the actual building that inspired Slough House (it’s not the one used by Apple as a location), but unfortunately I wasn’t able to go on the guided walk of the area and, as she’s sworn to secrecy, now I’ll never know where it is.
Labourer | 02.12.22 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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18. As deduced
20. Not far off, there are Spiderman, Superman and Batman figures along the roofline of a house in Wildwood Road (NW11)
Entertained | 02.12.22 - 3:40 p.m. | #
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13: I have similar thoughts about Wembley.
22: Made me laugh out loud. A DG classic.
Bakerloon | 02.12.22 - 5:14 p.m. | #
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29. The Secret Santa Dairy Milk has now arrived at its destination, so if you didn't get it it wasn't for you.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.12.22 - 6:58 p.m. | #
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