Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Turned into a lovely afternoon, marred only by the terrible news on the tv. What is the world coming to?
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ooh, I forgot that I'd ordered a couple of things. The Amazon delivery van is just round the corner and headed this way... Modern tracking systems are pretty impressive!
Mo1959
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- Perthshire,Scotland
Shocking. The thought of anyone going to work and not coming home because of something like that is awful
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I DID get up. I only did a very quick ride over one hill and round the town to get a Metro, but it felt pretty nippy so I headed home for brunch. I may nip out again to pick up supplies, but probably not since I have enough in to last until tomorrow.
That brings back happy memories...
You're disgusting
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Shocking. The thought of anyone going to work and not coming home because of something like that is awful
Terrible news. You have to feel sorry for his poor family as well.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Perhaps the usual suspects will think twice before sowing their hatred and division with comments about nasty parties and such. People should just grow up and act their ages and think about the consequences of the language and rhetoric they use.
Anyway, thats as far down that road as I go, for obvious reasons. I just hope we don't see any more of this horribleness, although I sadly suspect we will.
I just pray my chums on cyclechat remain safe and well.
Anyway, thats as far down that road as I go, for obvious reasons. I just hope we don't see any more of this horribleness, although I sadly suspect we will.
I just pray my chums on cyclechat remain safe and well.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
[Quick check...] Oh, yes - terrible news!
There seem to be so many really angry people about. I had one pair of nutjobs scream abuse at me in Exmouth on Tuesday when I made a mistake on my bike. Yes, I turned in front of them. My bad... The reason that I hadn't spotted them coming round the mini-roundabout towards me was partly due to them doing some crazy speed in a built-up area. Rants, fist waving, threats. A similar thing earlier today. I was coming up to a blind RH bend and one idiot overtook me just before, thus endangering the other idiot who was coming at speed and wide in the opposite direction. The 2 idiot drivers stopped and screamed abuse at each other. FFS, just apologise and move on!
On to more cheerful subjects... My Amazon delivery was made exactly halfway between the 'delivery between xx:xx and yy:yy' times.
Well done Amazon for not using a huge box to deliver a Garmin mount. I don't blame you for boasting about that on the cardboard 'envelope' that it came in. Yes, that did use less paper. You could use an awful lot less than that though by not using a 36 cm x 24 cm envelope for an item which is only 8 cm x 3 cm in size!
There seem to be so many really angry people about. I had one pair of nutjobs scream abuse at me in Exmouth on Tuesday when I made a mistake on my bike. Yes, I turned in front of them. My bad... The reason that I hadn't spotted them coming round the mini-roundabout towards me was partly due to them doing some crazy speed in a built-up area. Rants, fist waving, threats. A similar thing earlier today. I was coming up to a blind RH bend and one idiot overtook me just before, thus endangering the other idiot who was coming at speed and wide in the opposite direction. The 2 idiot drivers stopped and screamed abuse at each other. FFS, just apologise and move on!
On to more cheerful subjects... My Amazon delivery was made exactly halfway between the 'delivery between xx:xx and yy:yy' times.
Well done Amazon for not using a huge box to deliver a Garmin mount. I don't blame you for boasting about that on the cardboard 'envelope' that it came in. Yes, that did use less paper. You could use an awful lot less than that though by not using a 36 cm x 24 cm envelope for an item which is only 8 cm x 3 cm in size!
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Mrs D ordered an eye liner pencil thimg fro Amazon.
It arrived today in a box the size of a shoe box
It arrived today in a box the size of a shoe box
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Mrs D ordered an eye liner pencil thimg fro Amazon.
It arrived today in a box the size of a shoe box
Typical. I must admit that they are starting to send things in paper postage bags rather than jumbo boxes that are nearly the size of a house and contain an item that is the size of a box of matches. And about time as well.
classic33
Leg End Member
Amazon were tracking you, how'd they do that?
How did you know?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Well, of course, they do track us (our activities, using cookies etc.) - just search for something and see how often after that you see adverts for that thing... often for days or weeks after you have actually bought whatever it was!
Obviously, I was in fact referring to tracking the delivery van... I tracked where it was and it appeared to go offroad at one point. I just Street-viewed where that happened and there is a big MOT garage there which I had never noticed before. The van must have driven up their driveway to the doors of the building.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Right, I have just seen an example of these companies tracking us...
I have been down in Devon visiting my sister, niece and nephew. My nephew has just bought a Bearded Dragon lizard. I had never heard of them. He is constantly searching for information on them on his domestic wifi, on his devices. I have NEVER searched for any information on them. He did NOT use my laptop. What has just popped up on YouTube on my laptop back oop north on my domestic wifi... videos about Bearded Dragon lizards!
I used the same wifi as him for a week and that seems to be enough to make Google think that I might be interested in those lizards... Creepy stuff!
PS This is the video...
His young lizard is only about 8-10 cm long. I didn't realise that they grow THAT big!
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ebikeerwidnes
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- Z’ha’dum
I have moaned about Halfords abit from time to time
so time to redress the balance
I discovered a few days ago that the reason that teh cycle computer on my wife's folder was not working was that the magnet on the spoke had fallen off - somewhere
so today I asked the LBS if they had one apparently not - they sometimes keep one around if they get a bike that is scrap and they dismantle it for parts - but none at the moment
so - after I did some shopping - I was passing Halfords and decided to try there - I knew I could get one for £3.99 on Amazon but I thougth I would try
The bloke I asked said he had NEVER been asked that before (it will be my 3rd magnet!!!!)
so he went to ask 'him' in the back
came back with a perfectly good magnet
refused to take any money for it
apparently it was a case of give it to me ot it goes in the bin
I got an inner tube for the folder anyway
but - well done Halfords!!!
so time to redress the balance
I discovered a few days ago that the reason that teh cycle computer on my wife's folder was not working was that the magnet on the spoke had fallen off - somewhere
so today I asked the LBS if they had one apparently not - they sometimes keep one around if they get a bike that is scrap and they dismantle it for parts - but none at the moment
so - after I did some shopping - I was passing Halfords and decided to try there - I knew I could get one for £3.99 on Amazon but I thougth I would try
The bloke I asked said he had NEVER been asked that before (it will be my 3rd magnet!!!!)
so he went to ask 'him' in the back
came back with a perfectly good magnet
refused to take any money for it
apparently it was a case of give it to me ot it goes in the bin
I got an inner tube for the folder anyway
but - well done Halfords!!!
classic33
Leg End Member
Right, I have just seen an example of these companies tracking us...
I have been down in Devon visiting my sister, niece and nephew. My nephew has just bought a Bearded Dragon lizard. I had never heard of them. He is constantly searching for information on them on his domestic wifi, on his devices. I have NEVER searched for any information on them. He did NOT use my laptop. What has just popped up on YouTube on my laptop back oop north on my domestic wifi... videos about Bearded Dragon lizards!
I used the same wifi as him for a week and that seems to be enough to make Google think that I might be interested in those lizards... Creepy stuff!
PS This is the video...
His young lizard is only about 8-10 cm long. I didn't realise that they grow THAT big!
They're only "moderately sized lizards native to Australia."
carpiste
Guru
- Location
- Manchester
Right, I have just seen an example of these companies tracking us...
I have been down in Devon visiting my sister, niece and nephew. My nephew has just bought a Bearded Dragon lizard. I had never heard of them. He is constantly searching for information on them on his domestic wifi, on his devices. I have NEVER searched for any information on them. He did NOT use my laptop. What has just popped up on YouTube on my laptop back oop north on my domestic wifi... videos about Bearded Dragon lizards!
I used the same wifi as him for a week and that seems to be enough to make Google think that I might be interested in those lizards... Creepy stuff!
PS This is the video...
His young lizard is only about 8-10 cm long. I didn't realise that they grow THAT big!
Dog damn!!! I watched the video so now I`m going to get a plethora of Bearded Dragons!!
