The Retirement Thread

[gavroche]

If . What transport do they use? Harness a horse to the front bumper 😄😄😄

When it gets to the UK, it takes another 10 days or so for the paperwork to be done and then a transporter to your dealer who will also take a couple of days to register the car with DVLA and get it ready for you to collect.
What colour have you chosen ?

 

[pawl]

When it gets to the UK, it takes another 10 days or so for the paperwork to be done and then a transporter to your dealer who will also take a couple of days to register the car with DVLA and get it ready for you to collect.
What colour have you chosen ?

Dark grey She who shall be obeyed chose it .Thanks for the information re the delivery process
Had to have my Renault Captur MOT today was hoping I would be the owner of the Stepway before the MOT was required .

 

[pawl]

I discovered that my Apple Watch does a similar thing. Certain vigorous bodily movements (don't ask) cause it to send a message telling people I have fallen down, and, require assistance.

I had the same thing happen while wearing my Apple Watch while cycling

I hit a pot hole quite hard which resulted in a bleeping from my left wrist Stopped after a after a few yards as it was still bleeping Message have you fallen do you need help.
The only time I have actually fallen not a sound

 

[Mo1959]

Not looking good for her.
Did you keep any chocolate for the match?

Oh well. Garcia definitely deserved it.

Andy Murray next I think.

 

[BoldonLad]

I had the same thing happen while wearing my Apple Watch while cycling

I hit a pot hole quite hard which resulted in a bleeping from my left wrist Stopped after a after a few yards as it was still bleeping Message have you fallen do you need help.
The only time I have actually fallen not a sound

Yes, despite @Dirk 's insinuations, I was gardening, honest

 

[Mo1959]

I see the new 105 group set is 12 speed with di2 and disc brake only. Would have been nice to have a manual option and rim brakes but seems to be the way things are going.

 

[ColinJ]

You can legally buy chocolate bars in many states, Colorado being one, that contain a lot of THC. They are pretty popular with chemo patients, and often a little chunk the size of a dried pea is plenty. Scoffing the lot could have serious consequences! Unfortunately, they only come in dark chocolate or gummies. Sorry Mo....there is prolly a lot of caffeine in the chocolate ones.

My ex's mum went to a party in a local hilltop village once. She had a very sweet tooth and was seen in the kitchen scoffing multiple slices of a delicious-looking cake. Unfortunately, she chose the 'wrong' cake...

She didn't really know why she ended up swaying hypnotically to music that she'd never heard before, laughing hysterically, and finding the pattern on the wallpaper strangely fascinating! Someone eventually explained to her that she had eaten about a quarter of a cake that was laden with cannabis, and was intended to be eaten in small pieces by people who were used to it!

 

[pawl]

My ex's mum went to a party in a local hilltop village once. She had a very sweet tooth and was seen in the kitchen scoffing multiple slices of a delicious-looking cake. Unfortunately, she chose the 'wrong' cake...

She didn't really know why she ended up swaying hypnotically to music that she'd never heard before, laughing hysterically, and finding the pattern on the wallpaper strangely fascinating! Someone eventually explained to her that she had eaten about a quarter of a cake that was laden with cannabis, and was intended to be eaten in small pieces by people who were used to it!

My MIL was a bit of a chocoholic She saw what she thought was in bowl Coffee Cream chocolates until she bit one and found out that they were chestnuts

 

[ColinJ]

Speaking of my ex...

She called round to see me earlier. After a chat, and a mug of tea each, we ordered some stuff on Amazon Prime, then off she went. About an hour later I got a call from her asking if she had left her keys here. She had! Would I ride over with them, pretty please? Otherwise it would mean her catching another couple of trains/buses to come and get them...

It looked like rain but I agreed to do it. I actually managed to get ready and do the 7.5 kms to her house in 25 minutes. Considering that I had been relaxing with a crossword and a freshly made pot of coffee when she rang, I don't think she could complain at that!

I cycled back, put my bike away, and then it started raining. I just got away with it.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Speaking of my ex...

She called round to see me earlier. After a chat, and a mug of tea each, we ordered some stuff on Amazon Prime, then off she went. About an hour later I got a call from her asking if she had left her keys here. She had! Would I ride over with them, pretty please? Otherwise it would mean her catching another couple of trains/buses to come and get them...

It looked like rain but I agreed to do it. I actually managed to get ready and do the 7.5 kms to her house in 25 minutes. Considering that I had been relaxing with a crossword and a freshly made pot of coffee when she rang, I don't think she could complain at that!

I cycled back, put my bike away, and then it started raining. I just got away with it.

Someone I know has been married several times, last week he and his first ex wife shared a bottle of Vodka to mark what would have been their 50th wedding anniversary had they stayed together 😎

 

[Tenkaykev]

Well that was fortunate! I had an email this afternoon advising me that the 10k I'd entered has been cancelled. It was to be run on the morning after our friends 50th wedding anniversary bash so the gods must be smiling on me.😎

 

[classic33]

Supermarkets sell milk at below cost price from the dairies as a loss leader.
Your local dairy sells it to you at the price, plus costs that it costs to produce.

Tends to leave the farm around the 15p a gallon* mark, to the big buyers-sellers.

To watch a tanker pouring it down the road, because it got a bit warmer than it should due to a blocked road, is cruel.


*Eight pints in a gallon.

 

[classic33]

If . What transport do they use? Harness a horse to the front bumper 😄😄😄

Pedal power, how else!

 

[classic33]

And they still don't believe you, next time I'm going to ignore them.
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I said none of them believed you.

Truth be told I don't think they've watched any "reality TV". If they had, they'd no why.

 

[ColinJ]

And they still don't believe you, next time I'm going to ignore them.
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A friend who lived 5 or 6 floors up in a tower block once told me that one his neighbours had been watching an unlicensed set when the TV licence people knocked on his door. He asked who it was and they told him. He shouted that he didn't have a set. They shouted back that they could hear it through the door. He opened the window of his flat, picked up the set, tossed it out, and closed the window again. Then he opened the door and let the licence inspectors in... "See - I told you I ain't got a TV!"

I always doubted the veracity of this tale, but then I moved to Salford... I went out for a run one evening, took a wrong turn, and ended up on a rough-looking estate with several tower blocks. At the foot of each building were several shattered TVs that looked like they had fallen from a great height!