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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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Samantha Brick can go to Mordor. She really will be the most beautiful woman around there.
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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People who trade in their brains when they get a sat nav. Who won't listen to simple directions and say they will use the sat nav even when they previously got very lost and nearly missed a funeral following the sat nav when three simple directions would have got them there....especially when they always want you to find the postcodes for them.. and especially when they posess a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award and have done a four day expedition in remote terrain and there fore should reasonably be expected to read a streetmap...not that you need one for this particular journey. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh hhhh
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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I know exactly what you mean! People follow their sat nas (or GPSs, as we call them here) like robots. Plus, those GPSs are often outdated, or they don't show things to the detail that you need. And if the GPS gets the route right, it's probably a route by the slowest and least convenient streets - when you can go just a block farther but get there much faster as a result. And the most annoying thing about the latest inventions is that they speak! Every two seconds in that annoying voice: "right turn in: 200m", "right turn in: 100m", "right turn in: 50m"....just shut it already! We get the point!
I think that if you need something to tell you which way to turn in X meters, you really shouldn't be at the wheel.
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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I swear I am tempted to get the post code of somewhere up a narrow lane... what is so hard about take the second turn on the right after the roundabout? Is that so difficult? Fair enough I can see it might be useful in some circumstances but this person comes down here regularly and everytime she whines for post codes for places that don't have them because they are in a forest or a fort on a spit in the sea and they are all well signposted. Gah..
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: The Elvenking's Halls
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I assign people who buy costumes for Halloween, rather than making their own. And people with cutsy costumes; it takes all the fun out of Halloween! and cheaping out on candy, that too. It's not a fun-size candy bar unless it's big enough to conceal a razor blade!
Yeah, I've begun working on my costume, in case you haven't noticed... (The Witch-King of Angmar) ![]()
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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You are making me a little nervous here... is this early preparation for this year or harbouring resentment from last and "big enough to hide a razor blade in" is a somewhat sinister reference unit of measurement....
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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The obsession of children aged 3-12 with Pokemon. The attachment has it in a nutshell.
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