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Title: Own up!
Post by: floo on January 03, 2016, 04:06:44 PM
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Post by: Shaker on January 03, 2016, 04:36:37 PM
1. I'm really far too modest considering how fantastic I am  ;)
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Post by: jeremyp on January 03, 2016, 04:40:47 PM
My perfection sometimes irritates other people.
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Post by: Free Willy on January 03, 2016, 04:45:36 PM
My perfection sometimes irritates other people.
Since I frequently wipe the floor with the previous two contributers.....what can I say?
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Post by: Shaker on January 03, 2016, 04:47:26 PM
Since I frequently wipe the floor with the previous two contributers.....what can I say?
Well, for a start you could point to an example, any example, of "wiping the floor" with anyone.
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Post by: SusanDoris on January 03, 2016, 04:48:29 PM
Nice OP, Floo, made me laugh!

~Can't think of anything to put just now - I'll have a think!

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Post by: jeremyp on January 03, 2016, 04:48:46 PM
Since I frequently wipe the floor with the previous two contributers.....what can I say?

I suffer a fool too gladly.
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Post by: Free Willy on January 03, 2016, 04:48:56 PM
Well, for a start you could point to an example, any example, of "wiping the floor" with anyone.
see all posts passim.
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Post by: Shaker on January 03, 2016, 04:51:35 PM
see all posts passim.
No, I said an example of wiping the floor with anybody.
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Post by: jeremyp on January 03, 2016, 05:06:24 PM
No, I said an example of wiping the floor with anybody.
If Vlad is anybody...
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Post by: Gonnagle on January 03, 2016, 05:08:16 PM
Dear Floo,

Procrastination, I always leave things to the very last moment then get frustrated at myself for doing so, or maybe I am just a lazy bugger :P

Gonnagle.
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Post by: SusanDoris on January 03, 2016, 05:32:32 PM
I'm quite a good organiser. I'm the one who runs the tap class, organises our annual lunch (January), keeps the Old Girls (from school) group in touch and organises our occasional meetings.

I think I can safely say that I do not fuss about, or fear, anything.
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Post by: jeremyp on January 03, 2016, 05:43:50 PM
Dear Floo,

Procrastination, I always leave things to the very last moment then get frustrated at myself for doing so, or maybe I am just a lazy bugger :P

Gonnagle.

Yes, I was going to cite procrastination as a fault, but then I thought I'd wait for a bit.
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Post by: Gordon on January 03, 2016, 06:43:29 PM
This is a secret - right!

I've always been a fan of a long soak in the bath, with a book, the radio (subsequently iPod + speakers) and some alcohol (beer and/or whisky, but usually both since I retired). I'm serious about soaking and some years ago Mrs G bought me a thingy that you plug in (it has a circuit breaker), attach to the side of the bath, and it skooshes out water into the bath (with an option for bubbles): mucho relaxio!

Anyway, to fast-forward to now, since all three of our kids have (thankfully) grown-up and moved out, 'tempus has fugitted' and we now have 3 grandchildren (13, 9 and 2 years old - with a 4th due next May) and since they were young they have stayed with us 2/3 nights a week - at first because of my daughter/son-in-law's work commitments, but latterly because they wanted to (the older two anyway), but they come as a package.

Now, the youngest loves his baths, just like his grand-dad, and he has some bath-time toys that stay here when he doesn't - and I have to confess that not only do they join me in the bath I've found that if I carefully angle the 'skooosh' bit of the thingy I can make the wee rubber ducks do a circuit of the bath.

How cool is that!   
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Post by: Gonnagle on January 04, 2016, 12:29:48 PM
Dear Gordon,

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Now, the youngest loves his baths, just like his grand-dad, and he has some bath-time toys that stay here when he doesn't - and I have to confess that not only do they join me in the bath I've found that if I carefully angle the 'skooosh' bit of the thingy I can make the wee rubber ducks do a circuit of the bath.

Absolutely brilliant ;D ;D a second childhood, there is a theory that us men never grow up, I can live with that ;) ;)

Gonnagle.
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Post by: bluehillside Retd. on January 04, 2016, 12:32:42 PM
Feeding the troll...
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Post by: Udayana on January 04, 2016, 12:58:57 PM
Are you prepared to list your faults and failings?
..

No.
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Post by: ippy on January 04, 2016, 01:04:49 PM
Impatience, I wish I could be more patient, I can hold back a little more as I have got older.

Things like we stand around in the supermarket checkout queue while the person in front goes through, I get my money or debit card to hand while I'm waiting.

The amount of people that have pushed their goods through, then into their trollies and then seem so surprised that they will have to pay for their goods so again we wait for them to start looking for money or cards, when they could have done the sorting out while waiting their turn, it doesn't take much thought.

It's things like that, that irritate me, I know it shouldn't, but I can't go on being perfect in every other way, without upsetting another group of people, life's so hard.

ippy 

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Post by: SusanDoris on January 04, 2016, 02:10:54 PM
I do tend to respond to what people are saying without waiting for them to finishbut do try, especially as I've got older,  to stop myself doing this. Hmmm.
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Post by: Aruntraveller on January 04, 2016, 02:16:32 PM
Impatience, I wish I could be more patient, I can hold back a little more as I have got older.

Things like we stand around in the supermarket checkout queue while the person in front goes through, I get my money or debit card to hand while I'm waiting.

The amount of people that have pushed their goods through, then into their trollies and then seem so surprised that they will have to pay for their goods so again we wait for them to start looking for money or cards, when they could have done the sorting out while waiting their turn, it doesn't take much thought.

It's things like that, that irritate me, I know it shouldn't, but I can't go on being perfect in every other way, without upsetting another group of people, life's so hard.

ippy

Indeed Ippy - it still astonishes me that people don't realise until they have boarded a bus that they have to pay for a ticket!
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Post by: Gonnagle on January 04, 2016, 02:36:26 PM
Dear Susan,

Yes, just listening without interrupting is quite difficult for me, I think it is an ego thing, what I have to say is far more interesting than other mere mortals.

Gonnagle.
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Post by: OH MY WORLD! on January 04, 2016, 03:07:03 PM
"...even though we can well afford it." 

That's it, Toot your own horn!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znP1h2I6IAQ
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Post by: ippy on January 04, 2016, 05:18:54 PM
"...even though we can well afford it." 

That's it, Toot your own horn!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znP1h2I6IAQ

Try this one woody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-SwpDKkHko

I'll bet you've got one in your back garden ("back yard" in Canadian speak).

ippy
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Post by: Bubbles on January 05, 2016, 12:58:47 PM
I won't, not because I'm perfect but because my post would be so long I'd probably crash the site

:o

Plus I can't think where to start