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I had heard cruise ship companies were branching out :giggle:
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A guy has just been in with a little engraving. Nowt much hateful about that.... :D

But he brought with him a framed one and wanted it exactly the same. :roll:

The moulding was a 1/2" hockey stick - nothing exotic, but I had to explain that to source that moulding would be
a mammoth task and even if I did find it, it would mean buying a minimum amount/carriage/pay though the nose/etc.
The job would, in reality cost me 100s and it's maybe worth £10 profit. Of course to the customer it appears that I am
just not interested in the job. Bad impression. :evil: Also the mountboard looked a bit distinctive. I could spend a few
hours trawling around a few colour charts and not find it. And if I did it would be disco'd.

It's like driving your 1975 Ford Capri to the Ford factory and asking them if they could make you another one.

I've got 100s of feet of the plain moulding that shape. I could and would finish it to the same colour, but it wouldn't
be an exact match. I suggested reframing both, which would have been a viable option, but he has a whole collection.
So away he goes in a slight huff to try elsewhere. I wish him sincere good fortune. :D

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Call centres who say " I'm putting you on hold for a sec. "
And then keep you waiting 2 mins.
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:lol: I haven't had any sales calls for ages. Not after what I said to the last one. :swear:
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Glass sealed with tape around the edge in a picture frame, the number I get in for reglazing, the customer tries to help by trying to pull the glass out of the frame from the front, so it's all sticking up like it's exploded out, so you can't lay it face down to take the back off to remove the broken glass, you have to do it with somebody holding the frame in an upright position while you work on the back :head: :head: :swear: :swear:
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On rural trunk roads with few over-taking places, being stuck in a queue behind a driver nervously pootering along at 30mph and then seeing them accelerate to 60mph when we all get to a wide straight bit!
Oh, and people on BBC news who say con-Tri-bute instead of con-Tribute.
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American pronunciation. Most of the time it doesn't bother me too much. But one word really niggles me.
I watch documentary channels on Sky a lot of the time. There are a lot of WWII docos which are very well done.
BUT when there is an American narrator, they always say "A-dolf". As in Hitler. The rest of the world including
Germany says "Add-olf". What is the problem???? :evil: Why doesn't someone tell them? :lol:

** There was a YouTube clip I saw about the MI6 HQ in London. That huge Lego building that doesn't exist officially.
It's called Vauxhall Cross. The narrator insisted on saying "Vow-hall". Americans are famous for getting totally baffled
by British place names and in some cases they can be forgiven. Have they never heard of the famous British car make? :roll:

If I can pronounce "Poughkeepsie" then surely they can say Vocks-hall. :D
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"Skimpy mounts" :(
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Prints with sticky labels on the back that proudly proclaim: "This Label is Acid-Free". :twisted:
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featurepiece wrote:
Underpinner jamming
What instrument, I would love to hear that!
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What instrument, I would love to hear that!

No you wouldn't, it's all punk rock and terrible language!
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IFGL wrote:
Underpinner jamming

What instrument, I would love to hear that!

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :lol: :lol:


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customers who are late for an appointed time or who don't turn up at all, one reason why I sell mostly online.
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New toilet rolls that you can't 'start' because they're so glued down.

A local pub charging almost £6 a pint, when a Wetherspoons a couple of doors down charges £2.40 for the same beer.

Drivers on opposite traffic lights still coming over when yours has gone green.

Predictive taxt :wink:

'Golfers' who don't replace their fairway divots / repair their pitch marks on greens.

Buying something pricey, then seeing it on offer soon after.

Pull rings on tins (usually fish) snapping off when you're starving hungry.

(And none of the above even make my top 10 :giggle: )
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Smart phones - hate them - haven't got one.

Sat. navs - hate them - give me a good sheet map any day.

Gossiping women who spend their "pamper days" standing in the middle of the pool when the members are trying to swim lengths - aaaarrrgh.

The population of Ashford who approach 3 of our roundabouts in the left-hand lane and turn right. Why, oh why would you do that? Idiots!

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Calling 'Smart' phones Smart when they should be called Clever Phones. Are we American?
'Smart' to me means well turned out or presentable. :P

My phone isn't smart. It's a bit tatty though carrying it in my pocket.

It is quite clever though. :D
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Thanks Prospero, you,re quite right & while we’re at it, trainers, diners, planters, strollers etc. are people who train, dine, plant stroll - in UK!

Then there’s the, so called, “smart motorway”. There’s absolutely nothing smart or clever about them!
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'Buzz' words in advertising. :cry:

I'm sorry Mr.Dyson but your vacuum cleaner does NOT have a digital motor. There is no such thing. It may be a superb design and
well engineered but it's no more digital than any other electric motor. You may as well have a gas TV set. I know you can have a
gas powered TV or radio, but the 'works' are still electrical.

Another ad proudly proclaims that their steam-cleaner is High-Definition. :o In what sense I wonder..... :roll:

Iconic. Everything today is iconic. :|
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It's only a cheep thing, I don't want to spend any money on it! 'pulls out an A1 poster and thinks its going to coast £20 to frame! Turner Framing www.turnerframing.co.uk
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............That's why I have a box of drawing pins on hand. :lol:

Or for more affluent customers - Blue Tack.
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