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jim8flog

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Problem with pub quizzes is that the quizmaster's word is final, even when they're wrong.

A few years ago one of the rounds was "which was the first band for these famous people".
The quizmaster was a Marc Bolan fan, so the answer he required was John's Children.
He then announced the answer for Phil Collins was Genesis, and when I pointed out that if he wanted to be pendantic about Bolan, then Collins' first band was actually Flaming Youth, he got very snotty.

Yes I once got deducted points for insisting Morse's first name was Endeavour (long before the Sean Evans series).
 

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I'm off playing golf as the supermarkets open. I'll drop in on the way back but I suspect the shelves will have been stripped by then 😔
I hope you remembered before going that all supermarkets are closed on Easter Sunday.
Even the town Greggs was closed so no coffee for when out for my Sunday stroll.
At least all the bookmakers were open for those still wanting to gamble.
 

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Most supermarkets are shut today 🤪
I hope you remembered before going that all supermarkets are closed on Easter Sunday.
Even the town Greggs was closed so no coffee for when out for my Sunday stroll.
At least all the bookmakers were open for those still wanting to gamble.
Doh, of course you are both correct. As it happens, I was so cold after playing, 14c and full sun my backside, that I didn't even bother dropping in to check. Saved myself the embarrassment 😳
 

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Point is, I shouldn't have to install 3rd party software to use a simple forum.
It's their forum, their rules, and it's not as if you have to do anything hard or strenuous.....download and install some free software and you're done.
Plus.....it doesn't just work on this site. I've just clicked on Curry's homepage and adblock stopped 11 pop-ups.
 

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It's their forum, their rules, and it's not as if you have to do anything hard or strenuous.....download and install some free software and you're done.
Plus.....it doesn't just work on this site. I've just clicked on Curry's homepage and adblock stopped 11 pop-ups.
Indeed. Doesn't make it any less irritating.
 
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