Originally posted by oddoneout
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A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Thanks for the clarification. It may just be that whenever I hear the word spoken, it is always pronounced "conservAtor", whereas to me the stress sounds best on the second syllable, even if it makes him or her sound like a conservative!
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
Yes that makes it sound rather like a machine doesn't it? I've only ever heard it/ used it with the emphasis on the second syllable - conservator.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by DracoM View PostListened to R5 interviewing Brit teens - counted use of 'like', so in a two minute exchange with BBC presenter - kid used 'like' EVERY FOUR words - after one min, 16 'likes'...........crumbs!It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Whoever saw me coming held the door open for me at the pharmacy this afternoon, probably thinking, "Poor old bloke - looks so dischevelled, must've got caught in the rain". "Thank you", I said, "I'm glad to see there are still SOME gentlemen around today". "Oh don't worry, I get called all sorts of things" she replied.
Men working on a roof extension at the end of the block had erected a shelter out of old timbers and a tarpaulin looking like something knocked up in the ruins of Gaza City. Becky, the flat holder, had emailed all the other residents apologising and explaining that it was there to serve as a temporary workshop due to there being insufficient space to undertake the work in their flat. I emailed back saying it would probably be OK, providing Suella Braverman did not get sight of it.
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostWhoever saw me coming held the door open for me at the pharmacy this afternoon, probably thinking, "Poor old bloke - looks so dischevelled, must've got caught in the rain". "Thank you", I said, "I'm glad to see there are still SOME gentlemen around today". "Oh don't worry, I get called all sorts of things" she replied.
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I visited the library yesterday and on the way out picked up this winter's list of warm places in town. All the usuals were there but a new participant caught my eye - a local funeral service's premises. "If there are no clients" a warm room and hot drinks are available...
Not sure how much interest there'll be, but I can see there might be fuel for the local rumour mongers and sticky beaks if it is used.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostI visited the library yesterday and on the way out picked up this winter's list of warm places in town. All the usuals were there but a new participant caught my eye - a local funeral service's premises. "If there are no clients" a warm room and hot drinks are available...
Not sure how much interest there'll be, but I can see there might be fuel for the local rumour mongers and sticky beaks if it is used.
Having just returned from the local shopping centre (just under a mile away) it never ceases to amaze me how shopping patterns can vary so widely at this time of year with regards to everyday needs. Midway through yesterday afternoon I popped into the local Sainsbury's, just to see if they were stocking my usual brand of vapes. The place was absolutely crammed - so much so that the queue for the self-service checkouts was snaking all around the isles and back to the entrance so you could hardly get into the premises; the outside shopping trolley area was bare. I then made an unsuccessful circular trip to different outlets normally stocking the vapes which included West Norwood, Herne Hill and Sydenham. Ten minutes after that first stop, the Sainsbury's branch in W Norwood had just four people queuing; similarly Tescos in Herne Hill ten minutes later, and Sydenham mini Tescos, where I found what I was looking for, twenty minutes after that. Today, similar: Upper Norwood Sainsbury's once again crammed full. So I went round the corner to Iceland. I really should have the sense to use Iceland more often: they are cheaper than Sainsbury's or Tescos, have almost everything I usually get apart from the brown bread I like best, including a wider and in some respects more interesting range of deep frozen produce, particularly fish. Today there were only four other customers present, and just the one checkout person needed - a friendly middle-aged woman; none of the fiddly self-check nonesense. The bill, which included 5 single convenience microwaveable items, double choc digestive package, half pint of milk and some Greggs pastries, amounted to a mere £20.20, including for the 10% over-60s discount I don't think other firms offer. I don't normally make comparisons between retailers, but I reckon I would have paid at least 10% more for my usual Sainsbury's and Tescos foodstuffs. Why the place isn't attracting the numbers going to the Sainsburys five minutes' walk away, goodness only knows.
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