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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!
 
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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