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Percy1983

Doozergirl wrote: »

My friends have double-barrelled.

What if 2 double barrellers get together, do they then go quad-barrelled?

Bob Smith-Jones marries Betty Taylor-Brown to become the...

Smith-Jones-Taylor-Browns

PasturesNew

How come I missed this warning of the end of the world last year?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/507480/Asteroid-Strikes-Earth-Damage-Nasa-Destruction

It all kicks off in 2 years.

Including gems like:

... could collide with Earth as soon as 2020, wiping out life as we know it and changing the climate for millennia. ....
400 impacts are expected between 2017 and 2113 ....
... a colossal "monster" is also heading our way, with one 'mega' asteroid threatening earth in just SIX years. .....

Back in a bit - off to buy some tin foil.

GDB2222

Tin foil won't help, if we are doomed.

lostinrates

Potential stopgap job for fir......three days a week for a year. Obviously budget slashing ( gulp....less than half, but works out better than that after tax) but think of the TIME we'd have!

Doozergirl

What an idiot.

As I drove towards DD's school I considered the surprise Godiva chocolate biscuits that endured a month long journey from Hong Kong fully intact and arrived in my hand this morning. Admittedly and thankfully I had taken the time to eat and enjoy some of them.

I realised that I had not left them safely and that it would already be too late. I arrived home to a rather guilty looking dog. I found the box, picked it up and he skulked off. I hope he appreciated them.

mystic_trev

PasturesNew wrote: »

How come I missed this warning of the end of the world last year?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/507480/Asteroid-Strikes-Earth-Damage-Nasa-Destruction

It all kicks off in 2 years.

Including gems like:


Back in a bit - off to buy some tin foil.

Same nutter that come up with this drivel. :rotfl:

Scientists have re-issued stark warnings ahead of what some have claimed is set to be the coldest winter for a century.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/528643/Winter-2014-weather-warning-snow-arctic-freezing-temperatures-forecast
What happened to our 'Arctic Winter' and the one we were supposed to have last year…….and the year before…?

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

What an idiot.

As I drove towards DD's school I considered the surprise Godiva chocolate biscuits that endured a month long journey from Hong Kong fully intact and arrived in my hand this morning. Admittedly and thankfully I had taken the time to eat and enjoy some of them.

I realised that I had not left them safely and that it would already be too late. I arrived home to a rather guilty looking dog. I found the box, picked it up and he skulked off. I hope he appreciated them.

Oh dear... I've googled those now. Can you claim on the house insurance?

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh dear... I've googled those now. Can you claim on the house insurance?

Lol! :rotfl:

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

My mother did this, my name isn't quite how I was registered - and it caused problems for years as people expected me to be a boy. I even got a blue bus pass sent by the school bus company.

Think of it like Robert or Roberta, to explain the difference it could have been making.

My first name has a less common spelling, I think because my dad dealt with the spelling whilst my mum was recovering from delivering me. I ALWAYS have to spell my surname, so I might as well have to spell my first name whilst I'm there I guess.

lostinrates wrote: »

a lady ( I'm not, I'm a woman, and proud of it)

I don't even like being called a woman (as Gen found out). I've done as much as possible to avoid being a proper grown up so, in my head at least, I'm still a girl.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I once organised a conference for scientists... sounds posh, but it was small and so I was also sitting at the registration desk handing out the badges and I knew most of the people in attendance. One young lady came along for her badge and I noticed she was with some nice chap in the department and I made a remark that she should marry him and she said she already had. She'd kept her maiden name for professional/work purposes as they were both scientists so she had stuff published under her maiden name so kept it.

I'd never come across that before, or since.

Well, I've yet to be offered anyone else's surname, but I do have to correct people as to my title. It's Miss.; not (in decreasing order of frequency) Ms., Dr. or Mrs. Ster.

Speaking of conferences, I've had some exciting conference-related news this week. Work are paying for me to go to what should be an amazing conference. And I'll be turning left when I get on the plane for the very first time ever :eek:

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Nikkster wrote: »

I'll be turning left when I get on the plane for the very first time ever :eek:

I used to do that a lot..... But the seats I had were a tad less comfortable.