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10-Oct-16 22:44

Astronomy Picture of the Day[^]

Looks like some kind of Renaissance/abstract mashup of painting styles to me...

"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"

Palash Mondal_11-Oct-16 2:52

Palash Mondal_

11-Oct-16 2:52

Nice

Regards,
Palash

glennPattonWork311-Oct-16 3:11

glennPattonWork3

11-Oct-16 3:11

Know what you mean!

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz11-Oct-16 5:17

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

11-Oct-16 5:17

You're repeating yourself. No need for "OTD"

#SupportHeForShe
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Mel Padden11-Oct-16 21:59

11-Oct-16 21:59

In the words of Rainier Wolfcastle; "Dat's de joke"...

"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"

CCC OTD 2016-10-11 - Solved

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz12-Oct-16 3:55

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

12-Oct-16 3:55

uhuh

Duncan Edwards Jones10-Oct-16 22:10

Duncan Edwards Jones

10-Oct-16 22:10

A little devil’s performance results in a collision

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modified 11-Oct-16 4:41am.

Mel Padden10-Oct-16 22:14

10-Oct-16 22:14

Impacting

Imp - Little devil

Acting - Performance

"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"

Duncan Edwards Jones10-Oct-16 22:40

Duncan Edwards Jones

10-Oct-16 22:40

Hurrah - you win Smile | :)

OriginalGriff10-Oct-16 22:16

10-Oct-16 22:16

I was hoping this wasn't IMPACTION as it has less pleasant meaning which comes up first if you google it... Unsure | :~

But I suspect it is! Laugh | :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

pkfox10-Oct-16 22:21

pkfox

10-Oct-16 22:21

I think it's impaction

We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

Duncan Edwards Jones10-Oct-16 22:41

Duncan Edwards Jones

10-Oct-16 22:41

Impacting - not impaction Smile | :)

(No - I'm not going to be tricked into googling it)

Mel Padden10-Oct-16 22:41

I hate it when they do that.

10-Oct-16 22:41

That's actually the first thing I thought of, unpleasantly... There was no way I was submitting it as a guess though!

"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"

OriginalGriff10-Oct-16 20:36

10-Oct-16 20:36

Ordered Herself's Christmas present late on Sunday night from Amazon - and since I have Prime, it arrived yesterday.

And today I get an email from Amazon saying "You looked at this, buy one now, it's on sale, 25% cheaper".
Rub it in, why don't you? Ooooo...... Mad | :mad:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Pete O'Hanlon10-Oct-16 20:47

Pete O'Hanlon

10-Oct-16 20:47

So return it and get the cheaper one Poke tongue | ;-P

This space for rent

OriginalGriff10-Oct-16 20:57

10-Oct-16 20:57

Clearly I need more coffee, or to be more devious... Laugh | :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Wastedtalent10-Oct-16 21:43

Wastedtalent

10-Oct-16 21:43

Last time it happened to me I just e-mailed customer services and they refunded the difference. It's cheaper for them than you returning and re-ordering.

OriginalGriff10-Oct-16 21:57

10-Oct-16 21:57

Ah! That's a solution that fits my moral compass a little better... Laugh | :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Johnny J.10-Oct-16 22:05

Johnny J.

10-Oct-16 22:05

Understand exactly what you feel. I had a somewhat similar and really annoying experience just the other day: I normally prebook new DVD releases from one of the biggest online suppliers here in Sweden.

There was a TV series box I prebooked 3½ months ago, when they first announced that it COULD be prebooked.

It's still not released, but the release is imminent, and the other day, I got a customer mail from them: "If you prebook this box now, you get £5 off the price"

I sent them a REALLY pissed off mail: "I spend a lot of money on your site, both for DVD's and books, and I prebooked this box 3½ months ago, but I have to pay full price, while people who are booking it NOW gets a discount? I expect you to deduct the £5 from my price anyway, or I'm booking my DVDs somewhere else in the future"

Sent 2 mails so far, haven't received any reply. I have already started using another supplier.

It's quite obvious what happened, though: They've ordered a certain amount of the box and not gotten the number of prebookings they had expected. Thus they're trying to get rid of the possible overstocking by lowering the price... But I'll be damned if I'll be treated like that! Mad | :mad:

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modified 11-Oct-16 4:10am.

Nagy Vilmos10-Oct-16 22:20

Nagy Vilmos

10-Oct-16 22:20

I ordered some school books for the girls the other day and Amazon said it would be 3-4 weeks delivery to the UK. They arrived yesterday at Mrs Wife's London office and should be with is next week. Smile | :)

veni bibi saltavi

OriginalGriff10-Oct-16 22:28

10-Oct-16 22:28

Can you not get them delivered direct? Or does that cost silly money?

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Nagy Vilmos10-Oct-16 23:00

Nagy Vilmos

10-Oct-16 23:00

It's too complinated. I'm paying with a UK card and they keep blocking transactions because I want them here. Amazon won't deliver some things across borders, so inside Europe is fine but not here in the Sunny Southern Med.

veni bibi saltavi

OriginalGriff10-Oct-16 23:12

10-Oct-16 23:12

You're going to be there for a while, so open a local bank account. It's got to make quite a few things a lot easier, even if it isn't your main one.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Nagy Vilmos11-Oct-16 1:36

Nagy Vilmos

11-Oct-16 1:36

OriginalGriff wrote:
open a local bank account. It's got to make quite a few things a lot easier

No, no it won't. Outside of online everything, and I mean everything, is cash. Mrs Wife's work has an account and card if we absobalylutely have to make a payment but it in't worth the hassle. We tried to book flights on BA.com back to UK for Christmas, but the card blocked it; this time as it was too much - 4 flights @ ~£250 each. I went to the BA office in town and the tickets were cheaper as I paid with good old fashioned folding. Even the school fees of £5k had to paid cash.

The only draw back is we're back to the old days of trying to make sure we have enough beer tokens when we go out so you end up taking more than you'll ever need.

veni bibi saltavi

OriginalGriff11-Oct-16 1:40