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We're gonna need a bigger barcode!

Seems far too many people can't just "scroll on" or ignore things they don't approve of, but are legal/correct/whatever. I must confess to having been guilty of such once or twice myself, but I don't bother about much these days. 

There do appear to be a large number of keyboard warriors willing to get really cross over issues that 'ofend' them but they have not actual connection to, it is bizarre.

Equally weird are those who think the internet is personal to them, responses to Amazon product questions like 'sorry I don't know' what is the point of responding!!

I remember when a friend of mine was a young trainee manager for Kwik Save that they didn't price anything in the shop and the checkout operators had to learn and memorise the prices.

^ Bleedin' snowflake!

He's probably a member of the metropolitan liberal elite an' all!

I’m part of a trivia team in my local here in California.
We call ourselves UN after the United Nations, because in our first week, we had an American, Kiwi and an Irishman in the team. We’ve since had about 12 different nationalities on the team- there’s no limit on the amount of players.
We’ve been playing for about 18 months and usually finish in the top half of the table, mostly in the top 5, out of about 20+ teams most weeks.

This month, we won every game with the last one being on Monday. We were in 4th place going into the final round where you can wager up to 20 points. We were 8 points behind the leaders and the final question was to put the following Prime Ministers in order: Brown, Major, Blair and Cameron. I knew them and we wagered the full amount. Got the question right and ended up coming 2nd as the team in 1st place got it right too.

Felt like a massive loss, 3 wins and a 2nd place for the whole month was a good return.

Prizes are gift cards for the pub, so we’ve had a few cheap weeks drinking out of it!

You've not met many Americans have you? 

I heard one complain that saying "The EU and Japan" was redundant as Japan was in the EU. 

Nope, that's British insularity!

Just got back from a session circuit training in the next village. I think I am going to hurt tomorrow. It should do me some good though - I need something to offset my beer intake as I have noticed I'm getting porky again due to the lack of physical work.

I've also started intervals on the elliptical in lieu of getting the lycra out of the wardrobe.

My dad's birthday was 4th Nov so he always got fireworks and he passed that love of them onto me. I always liked buying my own fireworks and having my own display but that was once a year. Now we have fireworks on Diwali, 31st Oct, the days leading up to the 5th, the 5th itself, and New Year, so it can get a bit wearing if you you have pets who don't like them. 

It turns out the 6 I had is no longer supported so I've now got an 11. £24 a month, £380 up front for the 128GB which I think is a massive bargain.

Louisa has a 5S and hers got the new update. I suspect it's because it's quite a late model phone.

On the shelves in one of the shops selling souvenirs in Vancouver, there was a selection of jigsaw puzzles.

I'm very pleased to report that the one of the Fiat 500 was a 500-piece puzzle !