bobmac
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''Met Office weather warnings as snow brings 'never before seen' chaos''
''Met Office weather warnings as snow brings 'never before seen' chaos''
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Rubbish sport day, results wise.
Son's team lose 2-1.
Watford hand a struggling side 3pts again.
England turned over by France big time.
Son's team lose 2-1.
Watford hand a struggling side 3pts again.
England turned over by France big time.
venger
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Amazon Fire Stick deciding to take 20 minutes to install an update.
HeftyHacker
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I remember, back in the 80s and working at Sainsburys during the summer, being made to be " security" as one of the female cash office workers carried a holdall of cash to the bank once a week..about half a mile through the middle of Wycombe....unreal....
My ex's dad was once doing a bank run with the lads wages for the week. Parked up outside a Coral bookies in deepest darkest Salford to place a few bets and see if they came in. Got out an hour or so later to find he'd left his car unlocked with about £16k in a bag under the seat.
As others have said there's no reason for cash nowadays unless its for nefarious purposes.
ColchesterFC
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At Uni in St Andrews (mid 90's) I was in halls with a guy who's dad ran a pawnbrokers. He was meeting someone at The Old Course Hotel to possibly sell four Rolex watches and arranged for me to go along with him as "security" which I thought was strange as I was 5ft 9" tall and about 12 stone dripping wet. At the end of the meeting he would either still have four Rolex watches or would have several thousand in cash after selling them. He told me that I had to wear trainers and my job wasn't to protect him but if it turned out that it was dodgy and he got jumped on the way home I was to run away as fast as I could to the bank night safe and deposit the watches/cash. Turned out to be a genuine meeting and the guy bought all four. We walked back to the night safe and deposited the cash. Easiest £100 I've ever made.
Pin-seeker
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Lineker & his buddies absolutely milking it now.
GreiginFife
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2.5 hours in a queue to clear border control at JFK yesterday.
usually fly to Newark and never seen it that bad.
Few thousand people and only two desks open. Madness.
usually fly to Newark and never seen it that bad.
Few thousand people and only two desks open. Madness.
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
Literally unprecedented hyperbole from news broadcaster.
His smugness will be off the chart if the BBC back down
Having to go into the office because my work mobile is on the naughty step
IanM
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A breach of an organisation's social media guidelines is usually instant sacking. (Accuracy of statement or otherwise is not an admissable defence)
We had 2 such cases in my last job. Mind you, the folk sacked were not celebs.
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PJ87
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Problem is the social media policy doesn't apply to others / him and they have said as such before in replies to peoples complaints about Andrew o Neil and Chris packem for example so they need to change that policy to reflect if they want to going forward punish lineker
IanM
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One of the cases I referred to wear to Tribunal. He had a similar disclaimer on this page...he lost.
I guess the rest of the discussion about the impartiality of the BBC and presenters "other jobs" will be political and best left off here!
I guess the rest of the discussion about the impartiality of the BBC and presenters "other jobs" will be political and best left off here!
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Patster1969
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In the Sainsburys I worked at, we had to stand on the door armed with a whistle whilst they went round the tills collecting the money. They must have done this 4/5 times a day - for £1.26 an hour, I wasn't blowing the whistle if someone was sticking a shotgun up my nose.I remember, back in the 80s and working at Sainsburys during the summer, being made to be " security" as one of the female cash office workers carried a holdall of cash to the bank once a week..about half a mile through the middle of Wycombe....unreal....
My wife also told me that when she worked in Lloyds, they had two branches in the town (one was a main branch and the other was a sub) and they used to just have two girls bring a load of money back to the main branch at the end of the day in a carrier bag.
Orikoru
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So, now that we have a baby mother's day is a double hit for me. Just spent 70 quid on flowers & cards.
Bdill93
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So, now that we have a baby mother's day is a double hit for me. Just spent 70 quid on flowers & cards.
Yeah it hurts a bit more
You do now get a present on fathers day though!
Orikoru
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You know what the worst thing is? Both my mum and my wife's birthdays are in March as well. How has this happened??Yeah it hurts a bit more
You do now get a present on fathers day though!
Bdill93
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A cousin of mine used to work in the Knightsbridge branch of Barclays in the 80's. They used a scruffy looking man, deliberate get up, carrying plastic bags full of money between branches. Same thinking really, who would suspect those people would be carrying tens of thousands, maybe more, of pounds? Clever, but also crackers at the same time.
Imurg
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Probably for the umpteenth time....UPS and their godawful tracking.
" your parcel will be delivered between 10.04 and 2.04....."
A 4 hour window, during which I've had to be in when I've got stuff to do, and they can't hit it....
And as for trying to physically track the van....more chance of snow in the Summer....
Tragic.....
" your parcel will be delivered between 10.04 and 2.04....."
A 4 hour window, during which I've had to be in when I've got stuff to do, and they can't hit it....
And as for trying to physically track the van....more chance of snow in the Summer....
Tragic.....
