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If you’re going to try and scam me by text, at least put some effort in to try and find a bit about me first!

I got possibly the least convincing scam text I’ve had in ages today:
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Let me firstly point out that I’m 22 years old, so not even close to being eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment! Not to mention that the posted deadline was 2 days ago… why would the DWP send me a text late?

I’d like to think I’m becoming reasonably wise to scams, but sometimes, I’ll admit I can admire how well-crafted some are, because they’re actually quite convincing. But this one just smacks of having had no effort put into it at all!
 
People who use stuttering when they are texting.
For example, 'I-is that OK?'
It would be easier if they just wrote out what they wanted to say normally.
 
Yeah, they don't have adverts on the BBC. Apart from when I occasionally turn on Radio 2 and they're always banging on about Strictly or whatever their main show is at that time. Then there's the One Show that's always advertising their own shows. Then all the adverts for their own shows during the breaks on TV and Radio.
 
Try Breakfast on BBC1 every morning.
Latest Panorama special, Strictly, or Traitors.
When I stop shouting at the daybreak clouds, I start shouting at the telly.
 
Something that gets me... how people don't seem to use the word "an" anymore.

"I bought a HDTV"
"This ride needs a SRQ"

You need the an for the words to flow together, because it's "...an aitch..." and "...an ess..." It's actually quite hard to read without one!

NuttySquirrel said:
Every day now when I look at the BBC news headlines on their website there is a "news" article about Celebrity Traitors.

A TV show is not news.
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You never know, someone else might have broken wind!
 
Why on Earth is clothes sizing so inconsistent, even from the same shop?

I ordered two new pairs of jeans from Next that came today. I ordered the same pair of jeans in two different colours, in the same order… yet they both came, and one pair was probably nearly an inch longer than the other (when you consider that trouser sizes go up in 2” increments, I’d argue this isn’t insignificant)! The only thing that was different between the two pairs when I ordered them online was the colour; they were the exact same cut, and for all intents and purposes the exact same product aside from the colour, so I find the length discrepancy baffling!

It would make clothes shopping so much easier if sizes were more consistent… as it is, it makes it hard to know if something will fit sometimes! Under most agreed measurements, my trouser size is ostensibly a 28R (28” waist/31” inside leg), but the definition of 28R seems to vary quite significantly between the different pairs of trousers I’ve owned and tried on…
 
Matt N said:
Why on Earth is clothes sizing so inconsistent, even from the same shop?

I ordered two new pairs of jeans from Next that came today. I ordered the same pair of jeans in two different colours, in the same order… yet they both came, and one pair was probably nearly an inch longer than the other (when you consider that trouser sizes go up in 2” increments, I’d argue this isn’t insignificant)! The only thing that was different between the two pairs when I ordered them online was the colour; they were the exact same cut, and for all intents and purposes the exact same product aside from the colour, so I find the length discrepancy baffling!

It would make clothes shopping so much easier if sizes were more consistent… as it is, it makes it hard to know if something will fit sometimes! Under most agreed measurements, my trouser size is ostensibly a 28R (28” waist/31” inside leg), but the definition of 28R seems to vary quite significantly between the different pairs of trousers I’ve owned and tried on…
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You think you have a hard time finding jeans which will fit?

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Matt N said:
Why on Earth is clothes sizing so inconsistent, even from the same shop?

I ordered two new pairs of jeans from Next that came today. I ordered the same pair of jeans in two different colours, in the same order… yet they both came, and one pair was probably nearly an inch longer than the other (when you consider that trouser sizes go up in 2” increments, I’d argue this isn’t insignificant)! The only thing that was different between the two pairs when I ordered them online was the colour; they were the exact same cut, and for all intents and purposes the exact same product aside from the colour, so I find the length discrepancy baffling!

It would make clothes shopping so much easier if sizes were more consistent… as it is, it makes it hard to know if something will fit sometimes! Under most agreed measurements, my trouser size is ostensibly a 28R (28” waist/31” inside leg), but the definition of 28R seems to vary quite significantly between the different pairs of trousers I’ve owned and tried on…
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Because they are cheaply made in factories that have to churn them out quickly with little quality control. Also even if they are the same design they might be made in different factories or different production lines.
 
My local Co-Op has a new policy: At 7pm, they lock the tobacco cupboards. From then, until close, if you ask for a pack of cigs, or anything else in there, they have to radio for someone to bring it from a locker out the back.
I stood there waiting for a good four minutes, holding up a line of old biddies, thanks to this daft rule.

I shall be purchasing my smokes elsewhere in future.
 
Any shoplifter who is too old to be in school uniform* should be shot.

*Because who didn't swipe the odd Mars bar when you are forced to wear a blazer with those biiiiiiig pockets?
 
Our coop has the spirits locked away, you have to press a button to summon the staff so it can be unlocked. Saw something similar in New York last year

Also, this new fad of all supermarkets having each staff member with an ear piece. No objections to it. Could they actually use it for something other than having private conversations.
 
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Nice wet week forecast.
Volvo gone off to find reverse and top gear.
(I know I put them down somewhere...)
Zero gardening.
So work starts for the day at six, finishes by six thirty...all week.
Perfect excuse for a boozy weekday trip to the Beach in the pouring rain on the train.
Excellent.


What?
Weekends only from today?
Oh come on.
And I can't even swear on here anymore...

Looks like drunken pinball in Preston, together with the W&G show in the museum, and spectating on the stupid Spud Bros queue right next door.
Poor substitute.
 
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