MML. Just got IDd. Buying chicken satay skewers. Apparently the bamboo skewers maybe sharp…
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… the ECB… RAISING interest rates…
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To 0.0%…
WOW!
So no longer throwing money at inflation…
Raising rates to zero is a real indication of how shafted monetary policy really is.
Makes me poop myself with laughter.
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Trying to have one currency for 17 different countries with 17 different central banks with different taxation policies will the failure of the euro. It was launched as monetary union but not fiscal union without debt transfers between states.
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MML-Someone in Tesco had swapper a load of medium eggs into the XL carton. So presumably they have paid for medium and filled it with XL eggs. I went to pick up a box of XL and checked for cracks to find a box of very small eggs. And the next box, and the next one. About 5 boxes all swapped over.
The Tesco employee found it just as amusing as I did!
Why did they go it all that effort…
Just scan it through as carrots like the rest of us!
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MML (kind of) hose pipe ban on the way. Got into work this morning and the water main out the front is leaking, causing a small river. Reported online and on the phone, still no one has turned up to even look at it…
Could be worse, you live in Islington
The whole concept of hosepipe bans when water companies can’t control or reduce leaks is a laugh.
Yes, and no.
Yes, they should fix the leaks.
But equally, how much water is lost to leaks vs the total consumption of hosepipes?
1 hosepipe =~ 1000ltr/hr.
Total UK leaks =~ 125m ltr/hr.
Total leaks =~ 125,000 hosepipes.
How many hosepipes are not being used due to the ban? Probably more than 125,000.
MML the GF is getting really irritated because she cant understand how much i hate the movie Grease and the band Queen
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How dare you say that on the day of O N-J’s death 
Its what triggeeed it…its an over rated film with an awful sound track.
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Greased lightening GO!
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To add
It eould neee to be 3million hosepipes not in use
As a leak is 24hrs/day (until fixed) thus 125,000 hoses used 24hrs/day = 3,000,000
But that of course implies rach hoses is on for an hour…i can’t say we use ours that long of each day.
With a population (not number of residential properties) of 1.9M in Hampshire (who have a hosepipe ban) the numbers get tricky
This is a good point, but your logic is flawed.
A leak is 24/7.
A hose pipe is for a fixed time, not usually more than an hour i would imagine!
So 1 hose pipe would need 24 hours use to match 1 leak.
Thats a lot more hosepipes!
Edit
@steve679 you beat me to it.
Fair. It’s late. I should sleep.
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Grease i understand.
But Queen… WTaF.
Get out.
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Get in the Sea
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O N-J in the last bit of the film was the ONLY reason teenage boys and I imagine many men went to see Grease. When I told my now wife I’d seen Grease, she laughed.
And as for Queen over-rated who without Bohemian Rhapsody would not have got the status they did. I remember watching this on TOTP and it was a game changer.
The original play is better. It’s actually meant to be a satire, the film ignored that crucial aspect and made it serious.
I particularly dislike the end of Dirty Dancing. What is an otherwise serious period film about American conservative sexual repression is ruined by the utterly anachronistic inclusion of a song written over two decade after the rest of it was set.
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