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The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

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  • Jackmydad
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    chris_m wrote: »
    Could be worse - a friend's father managed to build himself into a flatpack cabinet he was trying to assemble. He thought it was easier to climb in so he could fix some cross-members in place, then couldn't get out again.
    Nor could he unfix the cross-members because he'd managed to put the screwdriver down in such a way that it rolled out of reach :rotfl:

    :rotfl:
    (I just read that as "flapjack cabinet"
    I'd build myself into one if it was full!)
  • chris_m
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    chris_m wrote: »
    Could be worse - a friend's father managed to build himself into a flatpack cabinet he was trying to assemble. He thought it was easier to climb in so he could fix some cross-members in place, then couldn't get out again.
    Nor could he unfix the cross-members because he'd managed to put the screwdriver down in such a way that it rolled out of reach :rotfl:
    Pyxis wrote: »
    Is he still in it then?

    No - but he did have to wait until someone came home and let him out ;)
    Jackmydad wrote: »
    :rotfl:
    (I just read that as "flapjack cabinet"
    I'd build myself into one if it was full!)

    ROTFLMAO :rotfl:
  • Pyxis
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    Imagine building yourself into a cabinet, and then needing the loo. :eek:




    Shame he wasn't a magician as well.




    His family could have charged an entrance fee for people to roll up and see the cabinet of curiosities aka the cabinet of how not to build an Ikea flatpack.

    ACTUALLY! They missed a trick there! They should have contacted Ikea, explained, and then they could have sent a film crew over for one of their zany ads!

    Or at the very least, put him on YouTube...... it would have gone viral and they could have made a packet-load! If not a cabinet-load!
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  • chris_m
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    It's raining here.

    Send some this way, would you, please.
    If we don't get some soon all my water butts, and the reserve bins, will be empty and I'll have to use "paid for" water on the garden :-(
  • CKhalvashi
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    Ive just had an email from my lunch to tell me it’s updated it’s privacy policy :rotfl:
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  • Pyxis
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    CKhalvashi wrote: »
    Ive just had an email from my lunch to tell me it’s updated it’s privacy policy :rotfl:

    Looks like these GDPR people are on a roll.
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  • Jackmydad
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    Looks like these GDPR people are on a roll.
    More likely a bagel.
    Only there seems to be more than one hole in the new rules.
  • Jackmydad
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    ^ It's a funny thing, but I was under the impression that part of our council tax paid for policing. . .
  • chris_m
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    Jackmydad wrote: »
    ^ It's a funny thing, but I was under the impression that part of our council tax paid for policing. . .
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    It does... but only if you can get an officer to be there when they do something

    Your ideal new place needs to have a donut store nearby, if not actually next door :rotfl:
  • LydiaJ
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    chris_m wrote: »
    Your ideal new place needs to have a donut store nearby, if not actually next door :rotfl:

    I had friends who once lived in a house just down the street from a prison, and covered by its CCTV. That part of town wasn't generally considered a "nice area" but that particular street had no crime, of any kind, ever. Well, I suppose there may have been some domestic crimes going on inside people's houses, but nothing that could be observed from the street or the back gardens. :)
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