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BritGAF |OT3| It's good, but it's not right.
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Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
Sister has a boyfriend and has made it her mission for me to never find out
she failed
I'm gonna lose my shit
she failed
I'm gonna lose my shit
phisheep
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Gradually getting back to normal life here following the aftermath of the wedding and the robbery (and all the associated ironing/appeasing etc that goes with one or the other of them).
Very strange day in the shop today. Pretty quiet (steady and profitable but quiet) until about four in the afternoon - when it normally goes dead and I can read the paper - but instead I got in rapid succession:
- a gaggle of about 8 14/15 y-o girls from a local school, of the nice-but-noisy kind
- three rather bemused older ladies
- a rastafarian guy who reckons his favourite business model is to sell screws and nails (and only screws and nails)
- a bloke in a pink T-shirt with a (real live) green parrot (I think it was an Amazonian one, but didn't ask) on his right shoulder
- a brownie guide leader (do they still call them Brown Owl?) after beading supplies for 24 brownies
- about three of my regulars who seem to have set their watches wrong
- a dog. Who was very upset and woofy that I was locking up the shop and not letting him in. Upon consulting with his owner I find he came to the shop last week and liked it a lot - he'll be back tomorrow morning.
Might have missed a few out. It was a crazily busy couple of hours. The joy of retail, all in one.
Very strange day in the shop today. Pretty quiet (steady and profitable but quiet) until about four in the afternoon - when it normally goes dead and I can read the paper - but instead I got in rapid succession:
- a gaggle of about 8 14/15 y-o girls from a local school, of the nice-but-noisy kind
- three rather bemused older ladies
- a rastafarian guy who reckons his favourite business model is to sell screws and nails (and only screws and nails)
- a bloke in a pink T-shirt with a (real live) green parrot (I think it was an Amazonian one, but didn't ask) on his right shoulder
- a brownie guide leader (do they still call them Brown Owl?) after beading supplies for 24 brownies
- about three of my regulars who seem to have set their watches wrong
- a dog. Who was very upset and woofy that I was locking up the shop and not letting him in. Upon consulting with his owner I find he came to the shop last week and liked it a lot - he'll be back tomorrow morning.
Might have missed a few out. It was a crazily busy couple of hours. The joy of retail, all in one.
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
How? I can only assume you were too busy asking the important questions of "Do you always carry a Parrot with you?" "Can it talk?" and "ARE YOU A PIRATE???".
How old is she? Why do you object?
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
Little Old Man
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Or unless she is like 15 and/or he is a prick what need is there to be involved? Her business.
NinjaBoiX
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How old is she though Tash? Is it inappropriate or something? Is the guy a tool?
I'm intrigued, I have an older brother, this protective sibling affection thing is foreign to me.
Thanks for answering both of my questions so articulately.
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
She's 17 and the man is dumb as a fucking plank, but he seems pretty harmless, Will note I wasn't being serious with the being over-protective but ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE she has depression so I'm a bit more protective of her as a shitty breakup would destroy her right now, even Anti-Ds aint doin' much, so I have had a little chat with mateyboy and he seems okay about my threat of mashing his face in with a brick if he fucks with her head ^_^
NP
phisheep
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There's an easy way around this, Tash. Just make sure that the (potential) boyfriends get along with you much better than they do with your sister. That will be an immediate turn-off for both of them.
Probably.
P.S. Perhaps I'm being a touch naive here, but have we acquired a few new members with spelling errors in the last few weeks or so?
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
Right, you are deffo noffles' alt
lol I know this so well, an old school trick indeed ^)^
to your question...... I can't understand what you mean
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
mike and coldman are the only two manboys i permit to date my sisters
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
guys chandler and monica are getting together who would of thought!!!!!221
Little Old Man
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Hot Coldman
Banned
NinjaBoiX
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Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
pfft, first me must discuss the payment of cattlePM me some pictures then.
Get over here bro, come and experience feels
I've got three, so it's going to get worse as time goes on
YOU DON'T YOU BASTARD!
just a mean hayley jif
Little Old Man
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Just watched The Road.
Crap, now I feel down. Good film though.
Crap, now I feel down. Good film though.
Have you read the book? Film is great but I felt the books ending had a little more positivity with the epilouge.
bobs...onGaf
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"game of moans" - stay classy metro
They are a Daily Fail spinoff and it shows.
NinjaBoiX
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That's never the headline this morning is it? Is this something kind of social experiment or something?
You spoiled one of the biggest TV shows in the country, without warning, and less than 48hrs after the fact, and you think people were simply "moaning"?
Arseholes.
Now lets try to spoil everyone on the front page instead., do you don't even have to pick up the paper. Have to say I found it a bit funny when I saw it this morning.
ElzarTheBam
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So, this is where you hide? Hmmmm
JonathanEx
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In terms of numbers, they'd piss more people off by spoiling whether or not someone wins the jackpot on Pointless today.
NinjaBoiX
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Join our brethren. Only if you're British though. We have this one dude Jackben, he's not even British. He's pretty cool though, I think he's funny. But he doesn't belong here.
I'm joking of course.
It appears their editor is of a similar opinion. He made a poor decision, and instead of apologising, he mocks those annoyed by it. What a guy.
My sister used to hang out with folk at school who would constantly mock her and poke fun at her expense. Thing is, she'd put up with it because she had nobody else to hang with. As much as I was unhappy about this I let it slide because it was her choice to hang out with whoever she wanted to hang out with but there was this one time one of the guys in her group cracked a really vile snarky comment while I was around and I just burst out at him. I'm not usually a guy going out aggravating/starting fights but I couldn't let that one slide.
EDIT: Damn, already mentioned but here's for the folk who haven't seen this morning's Metro.
Obtained from FB feed said:
Little Old Man
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No, but I've heard it's very good. I'll have to check it out as the film didn't give me much hope at all.
We are all talking about it, people are reading it just to see the drama, Chinner nailed it, fabricated bullshit to stir up shit.
Do so, it's cheap, short and covers more than the film did with a hint, a faint glimmer of hope at the end, in some way, perhaps...maybe.
Spoiler alert for those who haven't read the book or seen the film:
I love how the apocalypse is never really explained, in the book he runs a bath because he see's lights in the sky or something, it's not a nuclear war as they would all have radiation. People melted into tarmac at one point suggest some kind of solar event...
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