Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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Windows 7 was well liked by IT pros as was reliable and secure.orraloon said:Waiting in the consultancy room in the NHS hospital today, desk has a current model thin wide screen in standby mode, saying Windows 7. 7! That's the one after Vista in the late 00s... how retro. How's their security levels etc?
But support did end in 2020 so it is a bit of a risk for sure.
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That Italians have high-rise cemeteries to store coffins of the dead.
Don't they get a bit whiffy?
Anyway, some are falling down.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/coffins-left-hanging-in-air-after-second-naples-cemetery-collapse-this-year
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Catholicism does present land use issues over time. It is a sensible solution, if suitably engineered.0
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First.Aspect said:
Catholicism does present land use issues over time. It is a sensible solution, if suitably engineered.
Things do have a habit of collapsing in Italy... a cemetery here, a bridge there, a dam somewhere else...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleno_Dam
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Indeed. At least on this occasion no one died.briantrumpet said:First.Aspect said:Catholicism does present land use issues over time. It is a sensible solution, if suitably engineered.
Things do have a habit of collapsing in Italy... a cemetery here, a bridge there, a dam somewhere else...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleno_Dam0 -
First.Aspect said:
Indeed. At least on this occasion no one died.briantrumpet said:First.Aspect said:Catholicism does present land use issues over time. It is a sensible solution, if suitably engineered.
Things do have a habit of collapsing in Italy... a cemetery here, a bridge there, a dam somewhere else...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleno_Dam
Well, they did, but prior to the collapse.0 -
I wonder what the average age of the regulars on here are 'cos they seem to all go to bed before 11.
It's tumbleweed town after then.
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I start work at 06:30 so I can finish early. Can I be excused? 😉pinno said:I wonder what the average age of the regulars on here are 'cos they seem to all go to bed before 11.
It's tumbleweed town after then.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
What is the point of 'Red Velvet' cake? I've never had one that actually tastes of anything at all...0
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Do you also wait until you get to work before you take a dump?Pross said:
No-one is paying me to post before 9am and after 5.30pm so think of anything outside those hours as unpaid overtime.pinno said:I wonder what the average age of the regulars on here are 'cos they seem to all go to bed before 11.
It's tumbleweed town after then."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Whenever possible. Before I started working from home it was even better as I got to use their paper.Stevo_666 said:
Do you also wait until you get to work before you take a dump?Pross said:
No-one is paying me to post before 9am and after 5.30pm so think of anything outside those hours as unpaid overtime.pinno said:I wonder what the average age of the regulars on here are 'cos they seem to all go to bed before 11.
It's tumbleweed town after then.
I used to work with someone who seemed to genuinely do that, regular as clockwork he would come in, put his stuff on his desk and head off with his newspaper. It would then render the toilet unusable for the next hour.0 -
We had an IT guy who was a gamer and stayed up all night gaming quite regularly.Pross said:
Whenever possible. Before I started working from home it was even better as I got to use their paper.Stevo_666 said:
Do you also wait until you get to work before you take a dump?Pross said:
No-one is paying me to post before 9am and after 5.30pm so think of anything outside those hours as unpaid overtime.pinno said:I wonder what the average age of the regulars on here are 'cos they seem to all go to bed before 11.
It's tumbleweed town after then.
I used to work with someone who seemed to genuinely do that, regular as clockwork he would come in, put his stuff on his desk and head off with his newspaper. It would then render the toilet unusable for the next hour.
It became apparent he was nodding off in the toilet quite regularly.
Had he done it one of the communal toilets, he may have got away with it for a bit longer.
Using the single toilet upstairs was a bit of a giveaway when it was engaged for loooongggg periods of time.
As he was a temp. he was a bit stuffed when found out.0 -
True, occupational hazard of work bogs is there's always some smelly bar steward with gut problems in the office. Best get an early log inPross said:
Whenever possible. Before I started working from home it was even better as I got to use their paper.Stevo_666 said:
Do you also wait until you get to work before you take a dump?Pross said:
No-one is paying me to post before 9am and after 5.30pm so think of anything outside those hours as unpaid overtime.pinno said:I wonder what the average age of the regulars on here are 'cos they seem to all go to bed before 11.
It's tumbleweed town after then.
I used to work with someone who seemed to genuinely do that, regular as clockwork he would come in, put his stuff on his desk and head off with his newspaper. It would then render the toilet unusable for the next hour.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
But doesn’t that make you the person that ruined the toilet for everyone else?Stevo_666 said:
True, occupational hazard of work bogs is there's always some smelly bar steward with gut problems in the office. Best get an early log inPross said:
Whenever possible. Before I started working from home it was even better as I got to use their paper.Stevo_666 said:
Do you also wait until you get to work before you take a dump?Pross said:
No-one is paying me to post before 9am and after 5.30pm so think of anything outside those hours as unpaid overtime.pinno said:I wonder what the average age of the regulars on here are 'cos they seem to all go to bed before 11.
It's tumbleweed town after then.
I used to work with someone who seemed to genuinely do that, regular as clockwork he would come in, put his stuff on his desk and head off with his newspaper. It would then render the toilet unusable for the next hour.0 -
Who was it recently needed a blender to clear their log?
Don’t fancy that in an office environment.0 -
Depends whether you're a smelly bar steward with gut problems.morstar said:
But doesn’t that make you the person that ruined the toilet for everyone else?Stevo_666 said:
True, occupational hazard of work bogs is there's always some smelly bar steward with gut problems in the office. Best get an early log inPross said:
Whenever possible. Before I started working from home it was even better as I got to use their paper.Stevo_666 said:
Do you also wait until you get to work before you take a dump?Pross said:
No-one is paying me to post before 9am and after 5.30pm so think of anything outside those hours as unpaid overtime.pinno said:I wonder what the average age of the regulars on here are 'cos they seem to all go to bed before 11.
It's tumbleweed town after then.
I used to work with someone who seemed to genuinely do that, regular as clockwork he would come in, put his stuff on his desk and head off with his newspaper. It would then render the toilet unusable for the next hour."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
This is more like 'what I have learned today' but...
For whatever trigger remembering as a child / teenager hearing the Scotland supporters chant of '6 foot 2, eyes of blue, big Jim Holton's after you', he played for Man U and others, and doing a google. Poor bugxer died of a heart attack aged 42.0 -
These frequent spambot type posts on this forum. There's one from a 1 poster dasiminick0 on the mortgage fix thread just now. Is the moderation / access on this forum now so open that spammer factories are testing their bots' ability to assess content and post in context-ish stuff?0
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People who put their house on the market but don't even do some basic tidying up before the estate agent comes around to take photos. Some look immaculate and I tend to flick through all the photos and closely read the description, others have unmade beds and clutter everywhere that makes me cross them off more or less straightaway. Also, what goes through their heads with decor? I don't mean where it has obviously been owned by an old person and never modified and I know taste is personal but one of them had quite a nice new kitchen with some horrendous wall paper with a brick pattern. Also deleted from the list was one where there was some form of Leave EU certificate taking pride of place on the wall!0
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Now I thought I am intolerant but would never rule out buying a property because I thought the current owner was a tvvat.Pross said:People who put their house on the market but don't even do some basic tidying up before the estate agent comes around to take photos. Some look immaculate and I tend to flick through all the photos and closely read the description, others have unmade beds and clutter everywhere that makes me cross them off more or less straightaway. Also, what goes through their heads with decor? I don't mean where it has obviously been owned by an old person and never modified and I know taste is personal but one of them had quite a nice new kitchen with some horrendous wall paper with a brick pattern. Also deleted from the list was one where there was some form of Leave EU certificate taking pride of place on the wall!
But then I am the only person in the world who would rather view a property empty as I can picture how I would live there, also looks twice as big so they would have more chance of mugging me off0 -
You are not the only one. Current decor is irrelevant as it will be changed or freshened up at least anyway, unless current owner happens to have identical taste. #raresurrey_commuter said:
Now I thought I am intolerant but would never rule out buying a property because I thought the current owner was a tvvat.Pross said:People who put their house on the market but don't even do some basic tidying up before the estate agent comes around to take photos. Some look immaculate and I tend to flick through all the photos and closely read the description, others have unmade beds and clutter everywhere that makes me cross them off more or less straightaway. Also, what goes through their heads with decor? I don't mean where it has obviously been owned by an old person and never modified and I know taste is personal but one of them had quite a nice new kitchen with some horrendous wall paper with a brick pattern. Also deleted from the list was one where there was some form of Leave EU certificate taking pride of place on the wall!
But then I am the only person in the world who would rather view a property empty as I can picture how I would live there, also looks twice as big so they would have more chance of mugging me offThe above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Both the houses I've bought have been empty. I didn't let the wallpaper put me off...surrey_commuter said:
Now I thought I am intolerant but would never rule out buying a property because I thought the current owner was a tvvat.Pross said:People who put their house on the market but don't even do some basic tidying up before the estate agent comes around to take photos. Some look immaculate and I tend to flick through all the photos and closely read the description, others have unmade beds and clutter everywhere that makes me cross them off more or less straightaway. Also, what goes through their heads with decor? I don't mean where it has obviously been owned by an old person and never modified and I know taste is personal but one of them had quite a nice new kitchen with some horrendous wall paper with a brick pattern. Also deleted from the list was one where there was some form of Leave EU certificate taking pride of place on the wall!
But then I am the only person in the world who would rather view a property empty as I can picture how I would live there, also looks twice as big so they would have more chance of mugging me off
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That is quite the thing.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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It was a slight exaggeration, I’d already ruled it out for a couple of other reasons. I’m only half looking and it has to be close to exactly what I want to go through the whole hassle of the process. I want a large garden or bit of land but the house still has to be right, the alternative is something with maybe a smaller garden but where I can get straight out into the countryside. There used to be a lot of that sort of thing in some of the valleys towns and villages near here but nothing much is coming to market.surrey_commuter said:
Now I thought I am intolerant but would never rule out buying a property because I thought the current owner was a tvvat.Pross said:People who put their house on the market but don't even do some basic tidying up before the estate agent comes around to take photos. Some look immaculate and I tend to flick through all the photos and closely read the description, others have unmade beds and clutter everywhere that makes me cross them off more or less straightaway. Also, what goes through their heads with decor? I don't mean where it has obviously been owned by an old person and never modified and I know taste is personal but one of them had quite a nice new kitchen with some horrendous wall paper with a brick pattern. Also deleted from the list was one where there was some form of Leave EU certificate taking pride of place on the wall!
But then I am the only person in the world who would rather view a property empty as I can picture how I would live there, also looks twice as big so they would have more chance of mugging me off
We did see one we liked a few weeks ago where we would have compromised on only having 2 bedrooms but it sold before we took in any further and I saw a place I love today but it would be stretching the budget at a time where stretching the budget doesn’t seem wise.
I do look beyond decor providing I can change it without too much work but still can’t understand people not tidying up a bit before getting the publicity shots done or having the house cluttered so it looks small.0 -
briantrumpet said:
Both the houses I've bought have been empty. I didn't let the wallpaper put me off...surrey_commuter said:
Now I thought I am intolerant but would never rule out buying a property because I thought the current owner was a tvvat.Pross said:People who put their house on the market but don't even do some basic tidying up before the estate agent comes around to take photos. Some look immaculate and I tend to flick through all the photos and closely read the description, others have unmade beds and clutter everywhere that makes me cross them off more or less straightaway. Also, what goes through their heads with decor? I don't mean where it has obviously been owned by an old person and never modified and I know taste is personal but one of them had quite a nice new kitchen with some horrendous wall paper with a brick pattern. Also deleted from the list was one where there was some form of Leave EU certificate taking pride of place on the wall!
But then I am the only person in the world who would rather view a property empty as I can picture how I would live there, also looks twice as big so they would have more chance of mugging me off
why did you do the shelves??2 -
rjsterry said:
That is quite the thing.
So are migraines. Fortunately the paper had been attached with little more than a bit of hope, so it all came off, almost in entire pieces, in about 10 minutes.
I probably missed a trick by not turning into some French conceptual art.0 -
What was it like before you decorated?briantrumpet said:
Both the houses I've bought have been empty. I didn't let the wallpaper put me off...surrey_commuter said:
Now I thought I am intolerant but would never rule out buying a property because I thought the current owner was a tvvat.Pross said:People who put their house on the market but don't even do some basic tidying up before the estate agent comes around to take photos. Some look immaculate and I tend to flick through all the photos and closely read the description, others have unmade beds and clutter everywhere that makes me cross them off more or less straightaway. Also, what goes through their heads with decor? I don't mean where it has obviously been owned by an old person and never modified and I know taste is personal but one of them had quite a nice new kitchen with some horrendous wall paper with a brick pattern. Also deleted from the list was one where there was some form of Leave EU certificate taking pride of place on the wall!
But then I am the only person in the world who would rather view a property empty as I can picture how I would live there, also looks twice as big so they would have more chance of mugging me off
Ah, beaten to the obvious joke by SC0 -
Pross said:
What was it like before you decorated?briantrumpet said:
Both the houses I've bought have been empty. I didn't let the wallpaper put me off...surrey_commuter said:
Now I thought I am intolerant but would never rule out buying a property because I thought the current owner was a tvvat.Pross said:People who put their house on the market but don't even do some basic tidying up before the estate agent comes around to take photos. Some look immaculate and I tend to flick through all the photos and closely read the description, others have unmade beds and clutter everywhere that makes me cross them off more or less straightaway. Also, what goes through their heads with decor? I don't mean where it has obviously been owned by an old person and never modified and I know taste is personal but one of them had quite a nice new kitchen with some horrendous wall paper with a brick pattern. Also deleted from the list was one where there was some form of Leave EU certificate taking pride of place on the wall!
But then I am the only person in the world who would rather view a property empty as I can picture how I would live there, also looks twice as big so they would have more chance of mugging me off
Haha. The shelves were the crowning glory.
In fact, this was one of just three photos the notaire had, and they were the sole selling agents. When I asked if they could take some better ones before I decided whether to travel down to see it (their office is just 10 minutes down the road, and there was only one other photo of the house, and one of the garden), the curt answer was "Non". Maybe why it had been on the market for two years and dropped 20% in price (and they still took an offer 5% under that).
Still, that paper was worth travelling 1700 miles for.0 -
