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midlifecrisis

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CatmanV2 said:
Totally. Like I give a **** if I'm shopping for my elderly parents and myself, and they get confused if they don't get their own receipt.

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I got told off by my staunchly independent 90 year old neighbour if I didn't account for every penny of change when I shopped for her during lockdown, I'd round it up to the nearest pound in her favour.
She also told us off for not buying ourselves a bottle of wine for shopping for her.
 
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And some people have dyslexia..........
I am glad its not my spelling / grammar you are picking up on, I went through years at school being made to feel useless and inferior because I could not make sense of words and numbers.
wouldn’t appreciate it in my adult life ;)
 
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Scaf said:
One person infront of me in the coffee shop :D
Ordering 11 cups of coffee :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
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Oops was that me? Last time the office a few weeks ago I got sent out for the coffee run and had an order for 12 nearly all being different I could feel the queue behind me seething
 
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Saigon said:
It’s quite amazing how some on here go off on a strop and continue moaning and complaining if a post contains anything to do with color, nationality, race etc. But acceptable to take the p1ss out of something such as dyslexia.
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This seems like a very weird 'whatabout'.

Someone could certainly argue that making a mild joke about dyslexia is (just about) as bad as making a similar joke about race, but I think what some people were 'moaning about' on here was primarily posts that seemed to be defending, denying or dismissing actual racial prejudice, not people making jokes.
 
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Saigon said:
It’s quite amazing how some on here go off on a strop and continue moaning and complaining if a post contains anything to do with color, nationality, race etc. But acceptable to take the p1ss out of something such as dyslexia.
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is it if it is self deprecating? Dyslexia for me has massively widened my vocabulary over the years as ironically I’m better at spelling long words than I am at short ones! In the same way Aspergers has probably been a bonus and managing a stammer has made me work on speech with coping methods. To the point I doubt any on here have even noticed it when we have met.
 
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Testing when coming back to UK is a f/ing farce.
Especially if it happens to be a weekend or bank holiday.
So, the law states you have to test on day 2 and day 8. You can opt to test to release on day 5 by paying for another test. £157 on tests.
So, I came back Fri 28th, which makes day 2 Sunday 30th, and day 8, the following Saturday.
The kits I have received say, do not tale test until 2 hours before posting and don’t post between Fri 16:30 and Monday 08:30. (Which technically means I’m breaking the law because they don’t work weekends or there isn’t any postal service)
Which makes my day 2 test day 4 only it was bank holiday so in affect day 5.
This makes my day 8 test, day 10, because it’s a Saturday.
As I type my day 5 test hasn’t turned up because the company doesn’t post on a Sunday or BH.
So, if it gets here today (day 6) they won’t test it until day 8.

Of course this is just my experience with the companies I chose.
Others may fare better, as do I now I’ve shared the pain.
 
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