The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Been to the pub......they do a really nice bowl of chips.
Nipped to Aldi while I was out, save going tomorrow.
Also nipped to the Spa for milk**and tv magazine.
**they sell that Cravendale milk which I am partial to. They had it on offer at 2x 2 Ltrs for £3,50.
Done my dishes.
Can chill out now.
BTW tea will be curry and rice.

 

[Dirk]

Purely out of interest, what do you mean by "low mileage"?
I know that low mileage for diesel is different to low mileage petrol but beyond that it gets hazy for me.

General condition and full service history is more important than mileage.
I bought my Honda 6.5 years ago with 100K on the clock.
The Freelander I went to look at had 76K on it but had already been sold unfortunately.

 

[numbnuts]

I've been to a wheelie bin meeting, four years ago they were going to put in a area for our wheelie bins
and four years later we are still waiting, and she could even tell us a start date for the new area !!!

 

[PeteXXX]

I've been to a wheelie bin meeting, four years ago they were going to put in a area for our wheelie bins
and four years later we are still waiting, and she could even tell us a start date for the new area !!!

Did you say "Has we wheelie bin waiting 4 years!" !?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

My gas engineer is a young female

When I was first teaching people it was at an FE college in North Wales - Rhyl actually

I was teaching IT to a bunch of adults that were training to be gas engineers
Yes - I know - but the college got a grant for it

anyway
one of the adults was a young woman
the proper gas teacher reckoned she would be able to get a job easily - the big companies were always after women who were fully qualified
she was not so sure - she was short and just didn;t have the strength to lift a boiler
but apparently they are never supposed to do it alone anyway

but whatever

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Dear Groupon - and others


WHen I order a year's supply of something
e.g. hay fever tablets

there is naff all point in you sending me emails every week asking if I want to reorder the same thing
there is a damn good chance that I won;t want any more for a while
probably a year or so I think

than you for your attention in this matter

 

[PaulSB]

We went to a funeral yesterday and then on to the pub with others. I sat with some friends one of whom returned from the var muttering about this being an expensive pub. I thought it a touch inappropriate to remark under the circumstances.

I went to the bar returning with a J2O and lemonade and lime.

"How much was that?" asked our friend.
"£4.45"

He had been charged £7.45 for a lemonade and lime. No wonder he thought it expensive!!!! 🤣

 

[PaulSB]

I heard from a friend today who travelled on business with a colleague to the US. Both are UK born, British passports and work for a US company in the UK. On arrival, yesterday, his colleague was detained by ICE for 6 hours before being deported with no reason given.

He believes this happened because while a minor his parents took him to Pakistan.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I heard from a friend today who travelled on business with a colleague to the US. Both are UK born, British passports and work for a US company in the UK. On arrival, yesterday, his colleague was detained by ICE for 6 hours before being deported with no reason given.

He believes this happened because while a minor his parents took him to Pakistan.

One wonders what colour their skin is and whether this might have made a difference?

(other comments deleted as this is not in "the other place")

 

[Paulus]

I heard from a friend today who travelled on business with a colleague to the US. Both are UK born, British passports and work for a US company in the UK. On arrival, yesterday, his colleague was detained by ICE for 6 hours before being deported with no reason given.

He believes this happened because while a minor his parents took him to Pakistan.

My son has been detained by immigration officials the last two times he has been to the USofA.
His passport, and phone was taken, the first time for nearly 5 hours, the second for 4 hours.
No explanation was given when the items were returned and he was allowed entry.

 

[BoldonLad]

My son has been detained by immigration officials the last two times he has been to the USofA.
His passport, and phone was taken, the first time for nearly 5 hours, the second for 4 hours.
No explanation was given when the items were returned and he was allowed entry.

I have not visited USA for approximately 15 years, Immigration officials at that time were rude and arrogant, I can only assume that things have become much worse.

My grandson (16) visited USA recently, on a School trip, 7 hours to get through immigration, he is not impressed by USA.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I have not visited USA for approximately 15 years, Immigration officials at that time were rude and arrogant, I can only assume that things have become much worse.

My grandson (16) visited USA recently, on a School trip, 7 hours to get through immigration, he is not impressed by USA.

Only been once
a cruise from Vancouver up the Alaskan coast on a cruise ship

amazing cruise and the views were just unbelievable

but we had to "enter the USA" because the ship stopped off at US ports

we were warned it could take a long time

we were sitting in a huge warehouse on very basic chairs for about 5 hours

and the immigration official seemed to think we should be shot because I had not separated 2 parts of a form judging by his attitude


we will not be going back unless there is a damn good reason
there are a couple of bucket list things that we would like to do - such as an autumn trip following the changing of the leaves in Vermont (or wherever it is)

but there are too many other bucket list things we want to do in countries that are not so aggressive to visitors

 

[PaulSB]

One wonders what colour their skin is and whether this might have made a difference?

(other comments deleted as this is not in "the other place")

The clue is one was taken to Pakistan by his parents. The other, my friend, is Anglo-Saxon.

 

[mikeIow]

I heard from a friend today who travelled on business with a colleague to the US. Both are UK born, British passports and work for a US company in the UK. On arrival, yesterday, his colleague was detained by ICE for 6 hours before being deported with no reason given.

He believes this happened because while a minor his parents took him to Pakistan.

Ahhh….after the last 30 years of my so-called career were spent with US companies, I won’t be visiting until serious regime change there. The place is toxic 🙄. Several US pals (& one UK one who emigrated there) tear their hair out at the ludicrous thngs the orange one has done.

In happier news, some new chainsaw & reciprocating chain/saws arrive to enable more serious tidying before some fencing is done next week….& we came 4th out of 9 teams at the pub quiz, despite wiping out on the wipeout round: a fair bit result!