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  # 2251729 5-Jun-2019 08:18
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When you can't find your wallet at home and need to leave for work.




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  # 2251735 5-Jun-2019 08:35
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Apparently self-obsessed or self-important people who work for councils or a port or power company and drive a ute with a temporary yellow flashing light clipped to the roof - who drive around the streets with the light flashing for no real reason or when they’re just going down to the bakery to buy a pie for lunch.

 
 
 
 


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  # 2251743 5-Jun-2019 08:50
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Shops that decide for no apparent reason, at least to us who get to wander round looking for stuff thats moved 4 isles away. Yes I'm looking at you Countdown.




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  # 2251745 5-Jun-2019 08:51
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freitasm: When you can't find your wallet at home and need to leave for work.

 

and your wife asking where you left it




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  # 2251747 5-Jun-2019 08:54
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vexxxboy:

freitasm: When you can't find your wallet at home and need to leave for work.


and your wife asking where you left it



Almost. Went to petrol station last night but paid with phone. Wallet not in my jacket or jeans. Called BP nd no wallet handed.

Could have fallen from pocket and collected by someone. Time to cancel a couple of cards.




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  # 2251761 5-Jun-2019 09:20
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freitasm:
vexxxboy:

 

freitasm: When you can't find your wallet at home and need to leave for work.

 

and your wife asking where you left it

 



Almost. Went to petrol station last night but paid with phone. Wallet not in my jacket or jeans. Called BP nd no wallet handed.

Could have fallen from pocket and collected by someone. Time to cancel a couple of cards.

 

 

Wife found wallet in the car...




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  # 2251774 5-Jun-2019 09:25
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freitasm:

freitasm:
vexxxboy:


freitasm: When you can't find your wallet at home and need to leave for work.


and your wife asking where you left it




Almost. Went to petrol station last night but paid with phone. Wallet not in my jacket or jeans. Called BP nd no wallet handed.

Could have fallen from pocket and collected by someone. Time to cancel a couple of cards.



Wife found wallet in the car...



Shouldn't that be in that smile thread?

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  # 2251776 5-Jun-2019 09:28
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paulchinnz:

 

freitasm:

 

Wife found wallet in the car...

 



Shouldn't that be in that smile thread?

 

 

Possibly... Just posting an update to the situation here. Also I don't post in that thread. I never smile, despite of what my avatar here shows.




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  # 2251777 5-Jun-2019 09:29
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freitasm:

 

Wife found wallet in the car...

 

 

Wives aren't usually encumbered by the y chromosome induced cerebral inhibition of visual surveillance and recovery, aka "the man look".

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  # 2251812 5-Jun-2019 10:07
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paulchinnz:

 

freitasm:

 

Wife found wallet in the car...

 



Shouldn't that be in that smile thread?

 

 

Not necessarily... it depends what she found in the wallet. 🤨

 

 

 

 

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Air-conditioner remotes. Doesn't seem to matter the brand they're always aweful.

 

Its gotten to the stage where the next aircon I purchase will probably be chosen solely on whichever has the best remote.

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Trying to get prices for tyres on-line.  All the mainstream sellers want you to call them or fill out a bl**dy form and they'll email you a quote.

 

Just show me the prices and if it looks appealing I'll call you and we can negotiate from there.




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  # 2252717 6-Jun-2019 01:25
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Air-conditioner remotes. Doesn't seem to matter the brand they're always aweful.


Its gotten to the stage where the next aircon I purchase will probably be chosen solely on whichever has the best remote.



Heatpumps seem to be about the only appliance where the remote saves the operating state of the appliance.

And that is before you have to deal with poorly chosen control algorithms. Such as not being able to tell the unit to stay on a fixed louver setting. My heatpumps always go to horizontal louver setting when they sense that the room is heated. By the time the ceiling gets cold enough that the unit switches back on. The rest of the room is much colder. So it will often ramp up to max output to get the room back up to temp.





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Stupid advertisements: "The [insert product name here] that everyone is talking about."

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