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bubbs

Tinyshoes wrote: »

What a nightmare bubbs, certainly has taken the shine off of having a caravan. It's because of those bloomin trees, the back panel had green mould on. I haven't used bleach or detergent just warm water to get worse off I didn't want to damage waterproof. It looks a lot better than it did but you wouldn't believe only one season old.

We have thought hard about asking to move but we really benefit in the hot summer sun especially if DD1 comes to stay and pitch is slightly bigger so room for tent as well and we still have grass area in front of us. Other pitches are not so lucky.

We are going to try pitching forward about metre next year but not sure whether that will put caravan on too much of a slope but may stop some of the drop off from the trees hopefully.

I am waffling sorry.

You carry on waffling:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
We are covered in leaves:mad: the decking is full of them but our other leaf blower/sucker had it and waitng on new one coming, just need to be careful going out the door and down the steps as can be very slippy and not getting any younger :rotfl::rotfl:

bubbs

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Savvybuyer

ROCKINGHAM wrote: »

Any chance of the barcode TIA.


Hope all have recovered from last night - been foggy most of the day here. Went out for a late breakfast with DD, very misty with loads of cobwebs still glistening from the dew - quite !!!!!ish in fact.


Don't know why I have been !!!!!! the word used was G H O U L I S H.

Obviously doesn't like you using G H O U L L L L L L L L ...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Maybe we have to be sppppoooooooooooookkyy and length it like Hallowe'en.:D

On another, but related, matter - I was already, coincidentally (ooh, spooky!), about to post about this - so skip if you don't like me going on about such matters;) - and, before I start posting what I was going to - actually it's the remaining part of that exclamationed word that would potentially offend me more - given that the three letter word remaining, which they haven't seen fit to replace, has been used so much in radio versions to replace another word (that begins with the letter S) - actually, now, everytime some says that, which used to mean "approximate" or "about", I now think of the swearword. So, everytime someone now says "two o'clock-ish" (or whatever), even though it doesn't cause me offence, they may as well be saying "two o'clock" and then the swear. This didn't used to happen and it's only happened since the mid-1990s when radio versions of music started using that in replacement, to such an extent that it may as well now mean it. Obviously, I know "two o'clock [approximate]" doesn't mean the swear, but I think of the word because of how much, in other contexts, that's now become associated with that. This was never the case prior to the mid/late 90s, when the replacement for the swearword had never yet been devised. So, all it's done, by creating a supposed euphemism (that, for me, never was one) is make matters worse. It's amusing therefore that the MSE censor system has chosen to target something that isn't even offensive on its, usual, wrongheaded approach and then has left the only objectionable part visible. I do wish, indeed, that people wouldn't say the three letter suffix around me, even in innocent contexts, because it now unnecessarily makes me think of the swear. Please say "approximately" instead.

On the matter I was to post, it's again, actually, the same thing - the policies of organisations and how irritating they are/wrongheaded and try to dictate our behaviour to us - usually whilst carrying out more wrong, offensive and inappropriate behaviour themselves. That's just a general point and I'm not applying it to any individual organisation.

Now the specific matter. Apparently we can't use so-called "offensive" words in passwords on the Nectar website anymore. I've noticed this a couple of days ago as, yes, I previously used (without any issue being raised by the system before - so it now contradicts their previous position - inconsistent organisational policy as well!:eek::eek: - but then again when any policy is changed you could say it was inconsistent with the previous policy) a password with what might be regarded by some as a fairly mild swearword in it. I did so because it would be easier for me to remember! It was actually the other part of the password that I forgot and I tried to reset it to something similar. It now came back with a message that I could only use a "non-offensive..." password (it never said this a year ago when I first had the previous password that I chose). So I reset it to something else - after it had merely wasted my time - and that was that.

The system's approach however is wrong to me on several counts. Firstly, what it completely ignores is the context. This is not like me ringing them up and shouting it at them down the phone. Instead, it is a private password, seen only by me (or, in fact, not even seen even by me as it doesn't print out what you are typing as you type a password) - unless it is that Nectar staff have access to user's passwords.

Secondly I doubt that the actual word in question, that was used by Jasper Carrott over twenty years ago (along with visual gestures of moving a hand from his head outwards), would be regarded as offensive in most contexts today. And, yes, I have been called it once by a complete stranger on the street - and did it cause me emotional offence? No. So, it isn't therefore "offensive" (especially not when the only person aware of it is the user, me).

Moreover, I note that the Collins Dictionary, which marked this word as "taboo slang" in 1994, now marks it merely as "slang" and it does not say that it is offensive. So, there is not even any evidence to support the contention of their system (that implies that it is offensive when it tells me I can only use a "non-offensive..." password when using a password with it in).

So what have I done? I've now gone back, two days later, and purely because their system is so wrongheaded, I've now changed my password again - this time to one that uses an extreme racially offensive word within it. I'm not racist at all but have done that purely because the system only allows what it considers to be non-offensive passwords.

And it's let me use the word in my password no problem! So there we are - wrong on all four of four counts. It didn't let me use the words that, I think, would generally be the first, second and third most offensive racist words - however it has let me use this word - the fourth one now in my password - with no problem at all! I note that - now I have gone and looked it up - Collins Dictionary has a definition for this word (which I won't link to) and that it defines it as "an offensive term for...". Ha ha ha. Well done wrongheaded new Nectar computer moralist password detector. My password now is far far worse than it ever was at any time in the past. It would be way way more offensive if I were to go up to someone and call them what is now in my password.

And what if, hypothetically, I was offended by being told I couldn't use a password that, it was implied, was offensive? Would they apologise to me for causing me that offence and would they ensure that their system was changed so that it did not cause offence to anyone on any occasion ever? You know, you'd better not start with the Asperger obsessive... if you start creating and then saying something is against a rule, I can be (and really really am:o:o) a sticker for rules sometimes and will complain and insist on absolute and complete compliance with every aspect of that rule on every occasion. And the point is that I will be completely and absolutely right and justified on every occasion (so annoyingly for them from their POV!:D:D). So, now that a "non-offensive" password is the rule, according to them via their system I think (I'm not going to contact them btw), then they'd better ensure that absolutely every possible offensive password was disallowed completely and entirely - why not just ban the entirety of the English language and every other language (I wonder if it allows foreign swearwords)?

None of this was ever an issue before their system raised it. And my password now is no longer as innocuous as it once was.

bubbs

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rhosynbach

tweets wrote: »

Rhos are they allowed chocolate bars in their lunchbox or are you talking about older boys in work ?

Its ok they are 15 and 21, my younger lad while he is still at school he is allowed to eat what he likes as he us badly under weight because of his stomach problems. and older Lad at work.

ellie14

Has any one received their Ideal Home tickets yet.
I am going to the Manchester show.

zagubov

Here's a nice choon for the evening shift. Had a right foggy day here in SW London/Surrey borders.
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