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#3529660 21-Sep-2026 09:53

Eva888:

Spring cleaning, up and down ladders using glutes and thigh muscles that imagined they had retired, but are all now screaming ouch with every movement. So it’s a hair of the dog today with another round of torture.

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Wife and I went for a walk around the rocks and pathways from one beach to another yesterday (5km round trip), which we used to find fairly easy and quite enjoyable.

Whilst we enjoyed it, we didn't find it that easy and this morning, we are both feeling like knee and hip replacements might be needed!

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#3529718 21-Sep-2026 13:31

Cyclists riding on the street holding traffic up and not using the separated cycle lane that the CCC has just installed.

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#3529719 21-Sep-2026 13:44

Cyclists terrorising pedestrians on the footpath when there is a cycleway right next to it.

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#3529771 21-Sep-2026 14:04

Aotearoa needs more mature attitudes around cycling from all sides. Roads, footpaths and cycle lanes are not places to play games and squabbles, life's are at stake.

Normal ain't coming back, the crazy stays.

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#3529776 21-Sep-2026 14:45

Just when spring has sprung, I catch some kind of viral sore throat.

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#3529786 21-Sep-2026 15:28

>Just when spring has sprung, I catch some kind of viral sore throat.<

You ain't the only one .... wife & I succumbed 3 days ago!!

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#3529891 21-Sep-2026 19:36

My local New World has Maccas-style paper drink cups, and straws... but no lids. I don't mean they've run out, but rather that they apparently only stock two thirds of a complete drink cup set.

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#3530032 22-Sep-2026 11:24

Device OEMs that believe that they own the device you have purchased and graciously allow you to use it. Looking at you insert OEM of choice. Then listening, recording, sharing .... even when apparently one clicks on NO.

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#3530035 22-Sep-2026 11:27

Using messenger on Android - obviously lists your conversations in order of last message (with new at the top). But also horizontally along the top it shows other contacts which are usually people you contact frequently but over the last couple of days I've had a lot of people I don't recognise appearing. I go into the conversation and it's someone I once sold something to on marketplace 8 years ago, or even someone who just messaged and never went through with the purchase etc.

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#3530080 22-Sep-2026 13:05

Behodar:

My local New World has Maccas-style paper drink cups, and straws... but no lids. I don't mean they've run out, but rather that they apparently only stock two thirds of a complete drink cup set.

After struggling to find lids for sale anywhere, apart from in multiples of 1000, I ended up going left-field. I popped into KFC and asked for some... and got them.

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#3530089 22-Sep-2026 13:44

Behodar:

After struggling to find lids for sale anywhere, apart from in multiples of 1000, I ended up going left-field. I popped into KFC and asked for some... and got them.

I wonder if they will now be overrun by people wanting free lids?

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#3530094 22-Sep-2026 14:02

Annoyed that Geekzone spelling check is American English.

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#3530097 22-Sep-2026 14:10

That'll be your browser settings. The spellchecker works correctly at this end.

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#3530099 22-Sep-2026 14:14

Rickles:

Annoyed that Geekzone spelling check is American English.

We don't provide a spell checker. That's on your browser settings.

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#3530100 22-Sep-2026 14:17

freitasm:

Rickles:

Annoyed that Geekzone spelling check is American English.

We don't provide a spell checker. That's on your browser settings.

Well who the hell has been spelling for me all these years!?

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