mike morley
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Has anyone ever encountered a form of technology that was less user friendly than a supermarket diy checkout?
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Never mix different brands of sausage. They are likely to have very different cooking characteristics that leaves you with a breakfast that includes one seriously over-cooked and another seriously under-cooked sausage!
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Five migraines in five days. Can I have some new blood vessels, please?
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Windows 10 is awful. And Microsoft Edge is even worse!
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The taped Xmas music playing in Sainsbury's is not only too loud, it also includes a track sung by a man whose voice is seriously off-key.
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I get the feeling from my latest attempt to buy my grandson's Xmas present that if you are a previous customer of Amazon it's Amazon Prime or not at all. (After three attempts I chose Waterstones)
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If you havent the slightest interest in cars it becomes very difficult to buy one. I end up wandering around dealers forecourts, taking photographs of anything that takes my fancy then Googling it to read the test reports. Do that for long enough and you come to the conclusion that there isnt a car on the market worth buying!
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I remember the first time I looked at a Kia Sportage, it looked huge next to our Citroen Picasso, until I saw the pitiful excuse for a boot.
We took a sample of our suitcases to the garage and tried them out - wouldn't fit so we bought a CMax instead.
Then the kids stopped coming on holiday with us and the Sportage would have been fine - always the way.
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The end might be nigh. The Yamaha has failed it's MOT.
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Opens box containing new Hornby Collett 3rd for first time. Extracts contents. Drops carriage on floor, damaging one end. 10 seconds, start to finish.
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Just had a new king-sized mattress delivered and have discovered that as 60 approaches getting it up the stairs is now beyond me.
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Until six weeks ago I'd never seen a Police car chase. I've now seen three.
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Two hours to set up a new printer. Remember when all you did was connect them and Windows did the rest?
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Road tax refunds. Does it happen automatically when you notify the DVLA of change of ownership? Their website is frustratingly ambiguous on the subject.
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Make sure you both retain the V5, duly filled in with the new owner's details, date of the change and signed at the bottom. Then send it off yourself. Give the new owner the V5C2 (Green slip) so he/she can tax the vehicle and once DVLA receive the change of ownership (V5) you should automatically receive a refund of any unused months.
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There is a knack to airbrushing: you've either got it or you haven't. I've just spent an extremely stressful half-hour reminding myself that I haven't and that in my hands an airbrush is simply an expensive tool used for ruining models.
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I've not been to Missenden but I have used the ones by The Airbrush Company, down in Lancing:
https://airbrushes.com/product_info.php?cPath=400_405_195_199&products_id=21875It's only a day and focused on Airbrushing so better value than Missenden for what it is. if you take the airbrush you have got the should be able to give it the once over to make sure it isn't that which is causing the problems.
Luke
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I started with a cheapish single action, but for N it was just a bit too coarse. I have now invested in an Iwata double action, and the difference is worlds apart. I run a compressor (with reservoir) bought from Aldi with a filter regulator downstream of the compressors built in one. Getting the paint thinning right is half the battle, and I have found some acrylics don't stay mixed well for very long. Why not get a couple of cheap Airfix style kits to practice on, more challenging than painting flat surfaces.
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Why is it that you only notice the spider in the bath after you've got in with it?
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The stuff they give you to tackle the affects of prostate cancer comes with long lists of the likely side affects, none of which mention the destruction of your taste buds and the resulting ability to turn an expensive Sunday dinner that took many hours to prepare into a meal indistinguishable from something bought from a caravan in a lay-by.
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A colleague at work who has complained about rarely getting a lunch-break (once every ten days, if we're lucky) has been threatened with disciplinary action for bad attitude.
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Actually, thanks to previous action by the often slagged off unions there is at least a LEGAL requirement for a break of 20 minutes in a 6 hour shift. https://www.gov.uk/rest-breaks-work
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I've just spent a couple of increasingly frustrated minutes searching for the paintbrush I was holding in my mouth. If this is getting old, I don't want anything to do with it!
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Was in the midst of easing a crosshead into place when Amazon Man knocked to ask if I'd take a packet for next door. Now I can't find the crosshead..
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Just been discussingthe disappointing blandness of the goats cheese I've just bought. "Perhaps how strong it is depends on whether it comes from a male or a female goat." She mused.
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Why is it that at least half the people found in a filling station at any one time bumble slowly around with the bemused air of those who have never, in their entire lives, previously encountered a fuel pump or replenished the tank of a vehicle of any kind?
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You've defrosted the Bolognese and the garlic bread. You've managed to find somewhere selling pasta to top-up your dwindling supplies. You've bought a bottle of Valpolicella to go with it. You've set the pan of water for the linguine on to boil. You open the Tupperware box of Bolognese . . . and realise instantly that its actually a chicken curry you quite definitely aren't in the mood for.
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If cooking chicken and chorizo for dinner, it helps to establish whether or not you've got any chorizo BEFORE putting the chicken into the oven.
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What is that moment called when you discover you've dripped epoxy all down what, thanks to the enforced inactivity of the last few months, is now the only pair of trousers that still fit you?
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You have to wonder about the quality of the algorithms used by internet advertisers when someone who achieved notoriety by getting sea-sick aboard a boat that was tied to the bank on the Thames finds himself inundated with adverts for cruises.
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To be honest though, a number of companies have worked in a basically similar way for ages.
A number of years ago, I worked in a university. One of my colleagues was in a house share at the time. The guy whose house he was sharing was receiving lots of unsolicited Tesco clubcard offers on certain lines - and politely tackled Tesco about this:
"I wonder why you keep on sending me clubcard offers on pork and alcohol."
"We'd noticed that you weren't buying them from us - and wondered if you might be interested."
"I don't think so."
He then went on to explain that there were religious reasons why he wasn't buying these lines - and wasn't likely to in future - mainly because he's a Muslim. Not surprisingly, Tesco's then got very apologetic at this point.
I must admit, though, to really liking this guy's restraint. I would have liked to have handled this stuff in a similar way - I would probably have managed to - but I can't say for certain.
It surprised me that Tesco had "tripped themselves up" in this manner - especially in view of what little I know about the guy who started the company.
