A thought crossed my mind. Do the shopping channels on TV, which feature what are basically long commercials anyway, have their programmes interspersed with commercials? I've never watched one long enough to find out.
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A thought crossed my mind. Do the shopping channels on TV, which feature what are basically long commercials anyway, have their programmes interspersed with commercials? I've never watched one long enough to find out
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He could have jumped onto the track and ordered them to stop. I'd pay good money to see how that would end.Originally Posted by archiesdad
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I reckon those shopping channels do most of their business in the wee small hours, when tiredness and/or alcohol lowers folks' resistance to the cack they're peddling. Like with the online casino ads. Evil buggers.A thought crossed my mind. Do the shopping channels on TV, which feature what are basically long commercials anyway, have their programmes interspersed with commercials? I've never watched one long enough to find out
Several years ago I bought a battery operated robot from one of these channels, similar to the tin plate jobbies we got as kids in the 60s. It was only after a couple of years that I remembered, "Hey, I never got my robot". Couldn't even remember what shopping channel it was. Only cost about a tenner iirc.
Had one like this as a kid. Wish I still had it.
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
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Most of the time I can forget about my advancing years, but this last couple of weeks has brought a healthy dose of reality via the letterbox.
2 weeks ago the NHS sent me my bi-annual shit kit, which has just come back as 'normal'. Hoorah! Last week I got invites for Covid booster and also a 'flu jab. Also an appointment for later this month to have a scan for AAA (nothing to do with my modest alcohol consumption, but something to do with aneurisms).
Better news today though: Apparently I become "normal retirement age" in January (forgot all about this), and a private pension from my dim and distant past will be paying me a lot more than I expected. Which is nice. With a lump sum on the front of it.
Mrs. P's reaction: "I can see what you're thinking, no chance!" I've no idea what she's on about
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
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Echo Dot, Arcam A75 integrated, Monitor Audio R852 MD speakers
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Good news that mate, two pensions, see if you can syphon some of it off.
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Yes that would be nice. Although state pension doesn't kick in for another two years. I quite like the idea of going from working six days a week to just four. Or less. But that's not the road to Focal Kanta-ville, so we'll see
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
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Checking the power reduction after switching off an old freezer.
Well it looks like somewhere around 40p a day. But will need to average it out over a week.
It's old but a decent freezer.. maybe over 40yrs, not sure. Certainly over 30.
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You'll pick up more tax alas. They get us no matter what you do unless your richMost of the time I can forget about my advancing years, but this last couple of weeks has brought a healthy dose of reality via the letterbox.
2 weeks ago the NHS sent me my bi-annual shit kit, which has just come back as 'normal'. Hoorah! Last week I got invites for Covid booster and also a 'flu jab. Also an appointment for later this month to have a scan for AAA (nothing to do with my modest alcohol consumption, but something to do with aneurisms).
Better news today though: Apparently I become "normal retirement age" in January (forgot all about this), and a private pension from my dim and distant past will be paying me a lot more than I expected. Which is nice. With a lump sum on the front of it.
Mrs. P's reaction: "I can see what you're thinking, no chance!" I've no idea what she's on about
Regards,
Grant
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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I also have just done a faecal occult blood test (love the sobriquet "Shit Kit"Most of the time I can forget about my advancing years, but this last couple of weeks has brought a healthy dose of reality via the letterbox.
2 weeks ago the NHS sent me my bi-annual shit kit, which has just come back as 'normal'. Hoorah! Last week I got invites for Covid booster and also a 'flu jab. Also an appointment for later this month to have a scan for AAA (nothing to do with my modest alcohol consumption, but something to do with aneurisms).
Better news today though: Apparently I become "normal retirement age" in January (forgot all about this), and a private pension from my dim and distant past will be paying me a lot more than I expected. Which is nice. With a lump sum on the front of it.
Mrs. P's reaction: "I can see what you're thinking, no chance!" I've no idea what she's on about) and have an appointment for the covid booster and flu jabs. I had an AAA screening several years ago (I had to look it up), with the result that the batteries didn't need changing!
Good news on the pension front - don't spend it all at once!
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