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Post 16601

Icy North

Buy the 15-16s and live on Chinese takeaways for a week.


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Post 16602

Bluebottle

I'll have the chicken chow mein and chips.smiley - ta

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Post 16603

Teasswill

Yes I hate multi sizing too. It's often small 10 - 12 or medium 14 - 16 & I fall between the two.


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Post 16604

Bluebottle

Most of the t-shirts I get when entering a smiley - run. They ask you to state in advance whether you want a S,M or L. Sometimes an M is really what I'd consider S, sometimes it's L – but as there's no chance to try them on in advance I've accumulated a wide variety of different sized tops that all claim to be an M.

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Post 16605

SashaQ - happysad

Yeah, I am lucky in a way to be small enough to buy children's clothes, but the range is rather limited for 15 year old boys, sadly...

Waistband-wise, it's not too bad as there is adjustable elastic inside (although I need to pull it in further than I did yesterday). The main problem is that the legs are long and somewhat voluminous, so they're not as smart as they could be, but they are comfortable, that's true.


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Post 16606

Icy North

That size range 10-12 or 14-16 is a petty hate. It excludes by definition everyone who is a 13.

Remonds me once when I checked my horoscope, Sagitarrius ended the day before my birthday and Capricorn began the day after it. I felt completely disenfranchised.


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Post 16607

Bluebottle

Does that mean that:
A.) You have no future, or
B.) You are the tall, dark stranger that everyone else is meeting?

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Post 16608

Icy North

I felt as if Canis Major was rising in Uranus, to be frank.


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Post 16609

Baron Grim

Maybe you're an Ophiuchus.


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Post 16610

Pink Paisley

I don't think I mentioned this before. I did mean to.

Bludding shopping (anytime, but especially) when the supermarket online shopping order gatherers are swarming round the shop pushing their supersized trolleys around doing other people's shopping.

PP.


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Post 16611

Cheerful Dragon

Regarding T-shirt sizes, I always look at the target market. I'm XL in the UK. If the T-shirt was made in/for the US I'm L. I've visited Middle Eastern countries a few times and I'm at least XXL there - they don't seem to have obesity in those countries. In Asia XL is usually a good fit, although I can be XXL in India.

I have far too many T-shirts as we tended to buy at least one from every country we visited. Having said that, I wear T-shirts every day so I'll get through them all eventually.


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Post 16612

Cheerful Dragon

Really Petty Hate: Watching a film or TV programme and realising that I haven't read an associated book for a long time. This has happened four times in the past two weeks. I already had four books on the go.

Not so Petty Hate: finding that one of the books is a paperback over 700 pages long and I no longer have the strength to hold it open without breaking the spine. Replacing it with the Kindle version costs more than I feel like paying right now.


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Post 16613

Baron Grim

Speaking of Kindle, I D/Led a free book yesterday after hearing a story on the radio about it. _The Boy Mechanic: 700 Things for Boys to Do_. It was published in 1913 and opens with an image of a boy about to launch his own glider, a similar design to one that killed its designer. It features lots of electrical and explosive experiments. Also a lot of photography. One project I caught while flipping through it online was how to bleach over exposed photos. The main ingredient in the "bleach" is potassium cyanide.

Besides all the dangerous projects, there are some very handy (and perfectly safe) ones as well. One that made me grin was how to build some sleeve holdbacks. Basically these are stiff wire "Y"s on the front edge of a sink to prevent one's long sleeves from getting wet while washing one's hands.

You can find it here or free on Kindle: http://archive.org/details/theboymechanicvo12655gut


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Post 16614

Sho - employed again!

I commute by train. I usually love my train, a rather old but quite spiffy double decker.

but the last couple of days one whole carriage has been a first class one, with one of those café/bars in it (unstaffed)
The carriage has been empty and remained so for the entire journey. Meanwhile people are at standing room only - even upstairs. when they're standing upstairs and on the stairs it's sardine time. smiley - grr


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Post 16615

Pastey

Sounds like they're trying to persuade people to buy first class tickets smiley - erm


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Post 16616

Sho - employed again!

nah it's a commuter train - they just have to use them somehow. smiley - sadface


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Post 16617

winnoch2 - Impostair Syndromair Extraordinaire

Music streaming services that are so dumb that they consider you to like an artist because you've listened to 10 seconds of one of their tracks (long enough to establish that you definitely don't like them). Yes I'm looking at you Napster (Rhapsody in the states).

"Because you like , we've chosen for you too listen to"

In 2017 is it really too much to expect that an algorithm would be able to differentiate between a browse through the new releases to sample of music you don't know and sustained listening to a number of tracks from the same artist ?


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Post 16618

winnoch2 - Impostair Syndromair Extraordinaire

On a similar vein; we're constantly told how facebook algorithms are so sophisticated that they can virtually read your mind, yet I still get recommendations to 'like' Donald Trump and related right-wing nonsense groups, despite, like most other posters in the UK, only mentioning his name to ridicule and laugh at the orange dictator.

smiley - shrug Seriously, facebook; is that the best you can do in discerning my tastes ?


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Post 16619

winnoch2 - Impostair Syndromair Extraordinaire

In *another* similar vein smiley - winkeye, google trying to sell me virtually anything I search for that isn't a sentence.

Urban decay



88% off urban decay !!
sale now on urban decay reduced by 50% !!

smiley - grrsmiley - rolleyes


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Post 16620

Deb

Hmm, can you get urban decay in a range of colours?

smiley - rofl

Deb smiley - cheerup


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