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by Vermilion » Fri Feb 07, 2020 7:45 am

Green Gecko wrote:I think there was a case of someone trying to settle a debt using commemorative mints which are NOT legal tender (5 pound coins etc, except for the one with all the trumpets on it maybe which was actually put into circulation), you'll have to ask Vermillion about that.


Five pound coins ARE actually legal tender, it's just they're not intended for circulation which is why you never seen them used in that context.

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by Moggy » Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:13 am

Vermilion wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:I think there was a case of someone trying to settle a debt using commemorative mints which are NOT legal tender (5 pound coins etc, except for the one with all the trumpets on it maybe which was actually put into circulation), you'll have to ask Vermillion about that.


Five pound coins ARE actually legal tender, it's just they're not intended for circulation which is why you never seen them used in that context.


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by Vermilion » Fri Feb 07, 2020 2:20 pm

Moggy wrote:
Vermilion wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:I think there was a case of someone trying to settle a debt using commemorative mints which are NOT legal tender (5 pound coins etc, except for the one with all the trumpets on it maybe which was actually put into circulation), you'll have to ask Vermillion about that.


Five pound coins ARE actually legal tender, it's just they're not intended for circulation which is why you never seen them used in that context.


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by Green Gecko » Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:55 pm

Well I must have got that one backwards then. I only own two 5 pound coins after all.

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by Knoyleo » Mon Feb 10, 2020 4:32 pm

These strawberry floating Ola adverts in front of every single youtube video when I'm watching through the app.

I'm not interested in another strawberry floating gig economy ride hailing app, just strawberry float off.

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by Zilnad » Mon Feb 10, 2020 4:56 pm

Personally I'm strawberry floating sick of adverts for Audible :x

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by Blue Eyes » Mon Feb 10, 2020 4:58 pm

strawberry floating Peloton and strawberry floating Oral B and that strawberry floating William Hill advert can all strawberry float the strawberry float off.

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by Green Gecko » Mon Feb 10, 2020 5:59 pm

I found the one for Anchor very annoying. Read a great essay on Spotify's attempt to privatise the largely open podcast space, which is a Bad Thing. For anyone interested: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/will ... g/comments

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by Ironhide » Mon Feb 10, 2020 6:19 pm

Blue Eyes wrote:strawberry floating Peloton and strawberry floating Oral B and that strawberry floating William Hill advert can all strawberry float the strawberry float off.


I don't often agree with you but this is an exception.

See also ads for Corsodyl, the latest diet coke ad, and strawberry floating Sun Life.

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by Vermilion » Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:21 pm

Another 50GB 'update' for Modern Warfare today.

FFS! :fp:

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by Tomous » Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:29 pm

:lol:

What's the total size of the updated game now?

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by Vermilion » Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:42 pm

Tomous wrote::lol:

What's the total size of the updated game now?


When i last looked it was 120GB i think, but that was a while ago.

50GB though means i'll be lucky if it's updated in time for the weekend, so no team deathmatch for me tonight.

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by Moggy » Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:43 pm

50gb patches :dread:

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by Preezy » Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:45 pm

Annoying woman at work (the one who slurps her tea and starts talking to me when I have headphones on, even though I clearly can't hear her) has developed a habit of butting into conversations and making the person repeat their story. This is bad enough, but she then mishears what they say and goes off on a tangent asking questions or completely not getting the conversation, which means the person telling the story has to correct her or start again and everyone else just idles awkwardly. Very annoying.

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by Preezy » Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:49 pm

Preezy wrote:Annoying woman at work (the one who slurps her tea and starts talking to me when I have headphones on, even though I clearly can't hear her) has developed a habit of butting into conversations and making the person repeat their story. This is bad enough, but she then mishears what they say and goes off on a tangent asking questions or completely not getting the conversation, which means the person telling the story has to correct her or start again and everyone else just idles awkwardly. Very annoying.

Real life example of the above:

Normal person: "So this lady got arrested, I wonder if she was one of our customers?"
Annoying lady: "One of our customers got arrested? What did she do? I hope we aren't going to keep her policy in place? Have you spoken to the finance team to see if they can cancel her payment?
Normal person: "No, we were just saying that this woman had been arrested on the news and we were wondering if she was our customer."
Annoying lady: "Well we shouldn't be dealing with people that get arrested, I don't know who approved that, do you know when she took out a policy?"

**SIGH**

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by Moggy » Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:57 pm

Preezy wrote:
Preezy wrote:Annoying woman at work (the one who slurps her tea and starts talking to me when I have headphones on, even though I clearly can't hear her) has developed a habit of butting into conversations and making the person repeat their story. This is bad enough, but she then mishears what they say and goes off on a tangent asking questions or completely not getting the conversation, which means the person telling the story has to correct her or start again and everyone else just idles awkwardly. Very annoying.

Real life example of the above:

Normal person: "So this lady got arrested, I wonder if she was one of our customers?"
Annoying lady: "One of our customers got arrested? What did she do? I hope we aren't going to keep her policy in place? Have you spoken to the finance team to see if they can cancel her payment?
Normal person: "No, we were just saying that this woman had been arrested on the news and we were wondering if she was our customer."
Annoying lady: "Well we shouldn't be dealing with people that get arrested, I don't know who approved that, do you know when she took out a policy?"

**SIGH**


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It started when Welsh girl was reading out an email to somebody else for them to check it sounded ok. Welsh girl is pissed off that we have no anti-bacterial handwash.

Welsh Girl (WG): “And so I asked our secretary who said she isn’t able to order it”
Checker: “Should you call Sharon a secretary? We all work together”
WG: “Yeah good point. I’ll change it to “And so I asked our Sharon who said….”
Annoying Girl (AG): “"Our Sharon?" Haha that is so Welsh”
WG: “What’s Welsh?”
AG: “Saying “Our” like that, it’s really Welsh”
WG: “No it isn’t, it’s not just the Welsh that say it”
AG: “Well I have Welsh family and they all say it”
WG: “So?”
AG: “Well my English family don’t say it, so it must be a Welsh thing”
WG: “What the strawberry float are you talking about?”
AG: “I was just saying how Welsh that was”

They then kind of ignored each other, although Welsh Girl was throwing some filthy looks across the desks towards the Annoying Girl for an hour or two after that. :lol:

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by Tomous » Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:01 pm

It's definitely a Welsh thing to be fair :lol:

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by Moggy » Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:04 pm

Tomous wrote:It's definitely a Welsh thing to be fair :lol:


It is, but she’s right that it isn’t just a Welsh thing. Mancunians “alright our kid” for instance.

I was really hoping for a proper fight to break out though. This office needs some proper violence to liven things up a bit.

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by Jenuall » Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:13 pm

Yeah I wouldn't classify "our X" as a Welsh thing at all, it's pretty common phrasing in lots of regions.

Either way both AG and WG sound like great co-workers who must bring joy to all those around them each day.

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by Moggy » Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:17 pm

Jenuall wrote:Yeah I wouldn't classify "our X" as a Welsh thing at all, it's pretty common phrasing in lots of regions.

Either way both AG and WG sound like great co-workers who must bring joy to all those around them each day.


It’s endless joy here. ;)

My wife told me once that she was listening to an R Kelly song (back in the days when it was acceptable ;) ) and her mum asked what she was listening to.

“R Kelly”

“Our Kelly? Who is that? I don’t know anybody called Kelly”

It’s not just Welsh, the Jamaicans do it as well. ;)


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