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colhint

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  1. Having recently watched one love. It got me thinking, how would those people who fear being misgendered react to a rastafari, whose use the phrase I and I which means everyone exists as I people, if they use the wrong pronoun.
  2. There is a second part to that story. My best mate was offered a job to run a bit bonded warehouse in islington. Really old company been around for well over a hundred years. This company had loads of customers. Not the big chains like asda and the like, but plenty of co op and local corner shops, plus some restaurant chains. It also stored plenty of product from nobility. Often people like Lord x would phone up and ask for a couple of cases of vintage claret for the shooting season. Now in a warehouse it's wall to walk racking. And people would look for a particular vintage, and if they picked a 76 instead of an 82 and realised they had made a mistake and put the bottle down in the next bay, which might only be a foot away. Well the next time Lord x asked for a stock check, they only checked his bay, if bottles went missing well they credited the lord. Now heading this had been going on for decades, loads had been written off. Not just the expensive stuff, but cheap shop cheap wine. When Mitch went in he thought this was a load off balls. So he organised a complete stock check for everything. They found loads of stuff they didn't know they had. Including some vintages from the 30s. Now these had already been paid for. The really expensive stuff they found he contacted the board and he put through Sothebys any thing under £500 he disposed of he did this by mixed bottles in a case £20. I get the phone call, Col I need you to spend £200, what on? Mixed cases of wine, Why, I'm the boss I can't buy any. So we split it 10 each. Now in it we did get some £500 bottles and also some cheap shite. Nisa sweet white wine is the finest thing I've found to clear flies from a windscreen. What there was though in my cases were 7 bottles of midori melon liquer. Tried it, sickly shite. Tried it Ice cold, sickly shite. I started giving it away. Come round my house have a bottle, nah don't like it. Your having one anyway. I have it all away bar the one id opened, this was down to the last dredges. So why do I mention this. Well after dinner with Juan the ladies of the house clearing up, the two of us retire to the verandaf. Warm evening full belly good company. Juan asks it I like margaritas. Yeah really nice. He makes the finest drink I've ever tasted. I told him it's fantastic but doesn't taste like normal margarita. No Col I add my own special ingredient. What's that Juan Midori
  3. I worked a while in San Diego plenty of Mexicans. Had cause to promote one. Great guy, anyway the next day he came up to me a bit sheepish and said his wife had insisted that he invite me for dinner. I gladly accepted. He told me to come in a cab. I turned up and it was just like a movie, they all greeted me, then the young boys were went to their rooms the mom and daughter sent me and Juan out to the verandah and cold beers brought out. We just chatted on the swing chair, mainly about football (he was Mexican doesn't call it soccer) when dinner was served it was some of the finest authentic Mexican food I've ever tasted.. He'd heard of Aston Villa. Good lad
  4. That's because they tend to look after their staff.
  5. One other thing which maybe useful for the future. When the cops came around, they said they already knew who it probably was, and they had evidence from the other break in. Bear that bit in mind. When they called me later saying they had found the car they asked if they could check for fingerprints etc. I said yes. Now I would say no. The car was less than a mile from my house, but now was at a different location. Two things I had to pay a £100 towing fee Whatever they use looking for prints never comes out no matter how many washes or waxes, you could still see the marks.
  6. When we got robbed the kids were in primary school. They were a bit upset. Silly sod who did it rented a one bed flat in the village, with the help of the authorities, hed just been released 2 days. Feds came round and 4 hours later they nicked him. He robbed the house next door and our house. Took our TV and car. Found my car on his drive. Now this all happened on school sports day. So I went to watch. All the kids were lined up in different teams as the parents walked past. I saw my daughter close to the front of her line. I shouted across to her that they had caught the burglar and the whole school cheered. Both kids were ok after that.
  7. Bloody horrible feeling. People can be shite
  8. What do you say to a non binary person who's just been misgendered They're ther.
  9. And they didn't pay a lot for players. Vardy came from non league, Dewsbury Hall came from the national trust.
  10. You don't need a parachute to go skydiving. You only need one of you want to go twice
  11. The blackcurrant one by Hendrix is amazing.
  12. I think much like the bond dealers, people are likely giving less because so much of what they have been giving has been used on other stuff like paying for legal cases.
  13. A bit like the early days of the internet Go to WWW.
  14. Don't think there are that many mid table teams this year. There's 8 European spots if the coefficients work well that takes us down to Bournemouth in 13th 7 points behind current 8 th place. Then maybe palace are not quite clear of relegation on 29 points so maybe them. Everybody else is in the relegation scrap.
  15. Life expectancy in the U.K. Is 78 for men and 82 for women. I'm going to transition when I'm 75.
  16. Why don't they both go and leave Rashford at home.
  17. I hope they go for Trump towers first.
  18. Where I'm staying the boss and her boss and the area manager came out to the garden for fresh air. They come over and had a chat. I had those two porn hub maps on full screen, God knows what they thought.
  19. I think part of the problem is what people think of right wing comes from large bodies like political parties. But there are loads of people now on social media who have millions of followers who get loads more attention than perhaps is warranted. Take the trans movement. It involves less than .05% of the population. But creates an awful lot of noise compared to the gay population which is 7 times greater.
  20. Just looked at the map. There is a village Samur right on the border, right on a motorway. Population 2388. I bet it's a bit like a goldrush town now.
  21. I read it as although we are not trading with Russia.Russians are still getting stuff, albeit through Azerbaijan
  22. I want to thank many posters on this thread. What we read or see in the press rarely covers this sort of background info. The last few posts typify this. Thanks guys.
  23. Didn't Bleasedale write it in 1978 about a tarmacing gang from liverpool, hence Yossers accent.
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