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    IKEA Closing in Coventry

    Prostate clinic??
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    Holiday 2020 thread

    How long did you take doing that, OlderSB?
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    EU procedure update

    True - but it looks like if they don't act within a month, they are deemed not to have acted!
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    Holiday 2020 thread

    It seems quite popular to stay in "Aparthotels" (essentially an apartment, with a kitchen area and bathroom). We had one 30 seconds off the main square, and i recall it being dirt cheap. It's essentially self-catering, but they work with a Ukrainian cafe just down the street to do nice...
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    EU procedure update

    According to the Commission guidance on how to manage state aid (including complaints relating to it):- "The complainant shall in any case receive a substantiated preliminary assessment letter within one year of the receipt of the complaint." The complainant then has one month to act. I'm not...
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    Things that annoy you

    Thanks for putting me straight, Rich - i must have been labouring under some humungous misapprehension all these years!
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    The 'not so obvious' hot babes thread!

    As a regular viewer of Ski Sunday on the BBC, i have known of her for about three years. I think she is too pretty to be regarded as "not so obvious" - i thought that was the criterion for inclusion, that's all, rather than "little known hot celebrities"
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    Things that annoy you

    Yeah he does sounds of the 70s. Has some pretty good guests to talk to as well. Such a relaxed style. The consummate professional. Used to love his R2 drivetime programme (pre Chris Evans and Simon Mayo)
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    Things that annoy you

    Bruno Brookes? Hell's teeth, it was Johnnie Walker in my day who did the lunchtime show on Radio 1. Tuesdays were chart day, and he played the new Top 5 between 12.45 (when Newsbeat ended) and 1.00, when he did the full run-down (with Time is Tight by Booker T and the MGs as the background...
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    HS2 Get on it!!!

    Irrespective of the environmental impact and monumental waste of money of this ridiculous vanity project, there will be work locally in the skilled trades for the next 15 years or so. I lived near Heathrow when they were building Terminal 5, and you couldn't find a decent bricky, carpenter...
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    Things that annoy you

    Maybe it's an excuse and they actually hate me!
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    Things that annoy you

    A lot gets said about "sexualisation" of young girls/teenagers, and yet what passes for school "uniforms" in terms of short skirts these days verges on the obscene. If they'd worn stuff like that when i was a lad, i'd have had a permanent boner at school! But the boy looks ... he gets accused of...
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    Things that annoy you

    Yeah but see how quickly they run crying to mummy if that attracts someone they turn out not to like! Gives women who have genuinely been assaulted a bad name and a tough ride.
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    Holiday 2020 thread

    The ones we did see like that were pissed up British harridans ...!
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    The Schofield story

    I know that a lot of these comments will be "tongue in cheek", but I hope that we aren't falling into the trap of generalising gay men as being more promiscuous and predatory, just because of a few high-profile cases.
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    Holiday 2020 thread

    We were normally too stuffed from the generous portions in the restaurants to trouble the kebabists!
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    Holiday 2020 thread

    Is that for skiing?
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    Holiday 2020 thread

    "And here is some more salt ..." does get repetitive after two hours when all you're interested in is having a piss!! I think we were reasonably lucky with our tour group in Auschwitz, although there was a Scandinavian family (i guess they don't do tours in Swedish?) who would not control their...
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    Holiday 2020 thread

    Tommo we went to Krakow in July. Auschwitz is unmissable but take a tissue! And don’t think about not doing Birkenau while there. If you have a spare few hours in Krakow, take a tram out to the site of Plaszow labour camp, which was the one featured in Schindlers List. Most of it has gone but...
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    Holiday 2020 thread

    We're hoping either the driver, the guide or the cook have a rifle!! Never mind the spiders in your boots; Hyenas often frequent the sites, apparently!
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