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kk Posted Oct 27, 2010
Update on irking: all going well enough until Mum said to Herr that he'd have to bring Son and DiL to the Leeds pub as well. When Herr asked why, the answer was that they're brothers. Herr persevered, asking what that had to do with anything and she said 'Well, you've treated kk so why not them? It's only fair'.
I made sure I gave Herr the money for my meal and said that he could say I'd paid for my own meal. He reckons she'll have forgotten all about lunch by the time they got home. I'm not so sure; forgetful Mum remembered my name, in the middle of the meal, and when no-one had used it for at least half an hour iirc.
Now my friends are a wee bit irked too, as they'd invited me and expected to pay for my meal (as, in truth, they always do). Still, what's a bit of mild hissing between friends? 
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kk Posted Oct 28, 2010
"Thinking people often convert."
It's true that I can do mental arithmetic: currency conversion, metric to imperial and vice versa, tot up supermarket shopping so I can check the till total ... and so on.
Does this mean (gulp) I'm a thinker? Should I ignore the times when my mental arithmetic arrives at a different answer to that of an electronic calculator? Some things are better left rhetorical, eh
BTW why is offering a UK drug user £200 to be sterilised worthy of huge amounts of hot air, whilst other schemes having been running successfully in India for some years offering men £10 and a transistor radio if they have a vasectomy? Last night I located this, and I did gulp in RL:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3593874.ece
(All this may have been discussed; I haven't followed the thread.)
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kk Posted Oct 30, 2010
Dress Circle Anoraks announce the departure of two members to Newhaven Marine next Thursday evening ... unless it's pithing down, in which case the expedition may need to be postponed for 24 hours.
If this doesn't come to pass, then it will all be deferred until BtJ's return from Nepal (he leaves the following Sunday)
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kk Posted Oct 30, 2010
Cheers!
Well, we're not real anoraks, BtJ and I, or we'd be in the stalls with the rest of 'em ... it's to do with the link I forwarded, and Stockport-Stalybridge is also on our list 
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kk Posted Oct 31, 2010
OK, ok, so I wuz wrong 
Hardly a red letter day, me being wrong. If it was, then we'd all be drowning in a sea of red letters (waves white flag) ... not drowning, just surrendering 
Psi ... 
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kk Posted Oct 31, 2010
Mose Tunfair!
Why is it that everyone says I won't admit to being wrong? I admit to arguing until my pov is understood, but that doesn't mean it has to be agreed with (especially as I've already changed my mind).
In fact, it's getting to be so rare for me to be right about anything that my specialist subject could be Faulty Judgement
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