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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Which idiot, which complete moron, designed this rig without a dump valve in the sandtraps?
Design Fail!!!!!!!
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Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:08 am |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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And I thought Asda's site was bad before - just about everything you click on now gives a buffering symbol, only to reveal that you can't even sort by price for example, and that you have to continually drill down through drop menus to get to an 'aisle'. Leads to 'Jesus, what are they classing soap as?' thoughts if you're just browsing, seeing what's out there.
Properly awful.
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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I find that I do most of my grocery shopping done via mysupermarket it seems better than the supermarket sites. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk.
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Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:04 am |
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am Posts: 11039 Location: London
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I can't be doing with internet shopping for food. My experiences of it made me lose the will to live. I quite enjoy sauntering round the store looking for bargains so much so I have been known to go to 3 different supermarkets to get the best deals (when I was very skint). They are all a short distance from each other so I'm not completely bonkers 
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Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:05 am |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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My local bakery. Wandered up there first thing to buy some bread & stuff for breakfast. Spotted a couple of very nice looking mini Victoria sponges so decided to have them too. Shop assistant carefully put them in one of those fold up card boxes. Bags everything up, I pay and off I go.
Arriving home I open the bag to find she'd packed the box containing the cakes in the bag vertically I.e. on its side. The result is I have a card box half-full of something that looks a bit like Eton mess, rather than two separate cakes.
For Pete's sake.
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Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:14 am |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:03 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Earlier I got an email from Paypal notifying me that my monthly transaction statement was available. It also asked me whether I wanted to share on Facebook.
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Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:55 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:17 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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David Cameron tweet links to parody Duncan Smith account http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23312691So he doesn’t know if his cabinet ministers do or do not have Twitter accounts. I would expect him to know this AND to have strict guidelines about how those accounts could be used.
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Mon Jul 15, 2013 10:29 am |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Mon Jul 15, 2013 11:35 am |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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Recently, the NHA Party - a campaign group aiming to raise awareness of the privatisation of the NHS have been circulating this image on Twitter:  I have been politely pointing out the typo on the image, Can you spot it? OK - so until today, they have been doing noting about it. However today, someone has been taking me to task about this because instead of just seeing that the typo is really, really poor, they are banging on about me being obsessed with a type and not the message. My argument: if you want to be taken seriously, and to appear professional, you need to check for spellings and typos before releasing material. Everyone else does it. So, for now, this image with the word "bankin" is doing the rounds. No one seems to have the wits to fix the problem.
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Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:52 am |
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EddArmitage
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm Posts: 5288 Location: ln -s /London ~
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Barking? (Not that I disagree with your point - it does look really sloppy - but this amused me! (8-D )
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Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:59 am |
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm Posts: 6355 Location: IoW
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Are you sure the typo isn't "other"?
Shouldn't that read "Amazon, Google, Starbucks etc..?"
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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Hmm.... I know - autocorrect fail there (now corrected). I am incensed. Not by the error, but by the idiot on Twitter who has been telling me that it’s not important. I would have let them get away with a mis placed apostrophe, but this is a simple spelling mistake that should have been picked up before it was released. They should, at least, have had the wits to fix the error before repeatedly posting it on Twitter. According to the person I’m trying (and clearly failing) to convince of the need for professionalism in such things, it’s not important and the world is obsessed with appearance and not facts. Also, I am (apparently) a "grammar nazi". He misses the point that I am trying to help, and that right now that image is doing them a disservice. I have emailed the NHAParty about the image in question. They have a press officer who should see sense.
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cloaked_wolf
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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I completely agree with you. I often proofread our leaflets and posters because poor SPAG conveys an unprofessional image. The subject in question inherits an air of trust or suspicion, which, IMO, reflects back on the source.
Edit: Or put simply, if you can't spell, what else have you done wrong?
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