Mundane facts about your day...

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Glam

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Glam said:
Just seen a Peugeot 206 pulled over by the Police. No tax on it so it's been towed away.
Tax ran out a month ago. Mot till March 2020.
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proactive said:
I regularly drive around in an untaxed, no mot vehicle.
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He was parked at the front of the queue out here, just waiting for the traffic lights change when they pounced.
I had time go the tip and back before they towed him.
 
staffordjas

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Studio Tan said:
Would that be a vehicle registered before 1979 ?
(In which case it doesn’t require tax or mot)
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Had an argument the other night when hubby said a 1964 Zephur didn't need to be taxed as it was classed as 'vintage'. Could have sworn I had to tax my 1963 mini....:q:

Glam said:
Bit rude! He could have waited till you'd got your meal! xx
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I was wondering whether the meal he'd been preparing at the time still went out ....I was ordering Hunters Chicken ,glad we hadn't already just been served, might not have noticed if the bbq sauce had any extra blood coloured flavouring :barf:

With hubby away for a couple of days with work, I stayed around sons all day and started back late tonight...forgot the M5 is often closed off after 9pm. Turns out the M5 , A5 AND the M6 were closed tonight. Along with a lot of other road closures, a lack of diversion signs ,and a dug up dual carriageway which workmen closed behind me as I was blindly driving down not knowing where I was and hoping I was heading in a northerly direction. Tom Tom gave up trying to get me to return to the closed M5 , told me to turn right down some dark lanes and then decided to go on strike and stop speaking to me! Eventually found the M6 , only to get have to get off again at the next junction:roll: Remained remarkably calm throughout , but.....tomorrows project is getting a map and working out a proper diversion route off every junction :D
 
Carole

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staffordjas said:
when I'm with son and his friends it's like a foreign language. Have to keep asking him what so many words mean :roll: . At least I'm only half old fashioned now, having learnt quite a lot of the youngsters 'Speak' ..
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My curiosity is piqued.

What “words” is your son speaking that you don’t understand?

I’m only asking because I have a son in his 20’s, my friends have children in their 20’s.
With the offspring and the various partners we find the family/friends/ village get togethers we are occasionally outnumbered by young people but in the conversations I’ve never not understood them.

I’m genuinely interested in the new words, just so that I can stay ahead of the game.
 
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Tilly

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#Mamma's got a brand new bag!
#Gonna groove it the whole night long!
#Mamma's got a brand new bag!
#Right on, baby! Get down, baby!
#Let's get it on now, baby!
#Lay it on me, brother!
#Later!
#Outta sight! Far out!
#Hnnngh!


Circa 1976
 
Lucy

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To be fair, I quite often struggle to understand some younger people initially, and I like to think I'm quite young still!
 
staffordjas

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Carole said:
My curiosity is piqued.

What “words” is your son speaking that you don’t understand?

I’m only asking because I have a son in his 20’s, my friends have children in their 20’s.
With the offspring and the various partners we find the family/friends/ village get togethers we are occasionally outnumbered by young people but in the conversations I’ve never not understood them.

I’m genuinely interested in the new words, just so that I can stay ahead of the game.
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When he's speaking to me, he speaks 'proper english' as he knows I'm going to keep saying " What's that mean?" "Does that mean good or bad ?" etc
I've got this bookmarked now for when I'm watching telly.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4074004.stm



I have to keep reminding hubby now, when he sees an athletic person running past and admiring their running speed/style , he mustn't keep saying they are 'fit'

There again , my mum used to keep saying people were ' Gay' meaning they were happy ....
 
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staffordjas

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Now for really mundane facts. After putting the 'Red sauce' as I call it back into the fridge after my bacon sandwich (I hate the word 'sarnie' ) , just had to google out of interest why it's called Ketchup...

You can tell hubby is away, and who makes the mess. I've got hardly any housework today as it's still as tidy as when I tidied after he left yesterday morning. Bored....Got the car........ off shopping :D
 
BobClay

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Starting to go mad because I'm trapped in the house … every time I walk out the door half the Atlantic drops on my head .. :eek: So earlier this week I dropped £200 on a HackRF 1 SDR radio. This is a Swan Vestas matchbox sized Software Defined Radio as pictured below with the mouse to give it some scale. (Sorry it's upside down but the aerial is on one side and the computer the other.) It tunes from 1 MHz through 6 GHz, an enormous chunk of the human used radio spectrum. There was a time when anything above 1 GHz was known as 'witchcraft frequencies' in the trade, now they've got it into a matchbox !!!
Been testing it out today on the PC, will demodulate pretty much everything from Morse upwards. Also, you can actually build your own digital signal processing projects with downloadable free software (for Linux only as yet.) It transmits as well … but I'll need to research that one because you're getting into grey waters legally on anything outside the Amateur Bands.
It's pretty though, you must admit with all those spectral waterfall displays (all done in free downloadable software.)

SHIT I need to get out more … :o

HackRF1.jpg
HackRF2.jpg
 
staffordjas

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Got drowned in town when the heavens opened.Made worse as hubby chose that moment to ring from Leicester saying they're eating lunch outside in the sunshine. Got back to Wildwood to find its not rained here at all.

This afternoons brave project ...

De- mud- ifying a festival tent sons had stuffed in his car boot since god knows when and can't get back properly into the bag. (Asked him if I can attack it for something to do to stop me eating from boredom)

Will either be spruced up nicely, or end up in the bin.
 
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BobClay

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Yes the weather is not without interest. God is peeing on the world. It/he/she is pissed off with our world leaders I suspect. I'm kind of sympathetic to that, although I'm not even remotely religious. (Well OK, I did do a bit of Sun worship at one time long ago, I got a f****** malignant melanoma out of that, which curbed my enthusiasm just a tad. :gonk:)
I can't help but think the way things are going … a hell of a lot will "end up in the bin." (Cheerful mode re-engaged. :heyhey: )
 
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