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Thread Author: Armel Coussine Replies: 22
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New Mon 21 Jul 14 22:24 
 Electroménagère - Armel Coussine
I went to collect tthe vacuum cleaner from the electrician today. It had stopped needing new brushes.

There was a lady before me talking to the guy about her washing machine. And her dryer. And her fridge and her deep freeze and a few other items of white goods. She said what time she got up in the morning and what time she went to bed. She digressed at inordinate length on what she would have to do with the contents of the deep freeze while it was turned off. Plastic bags and a cool place or ordinary fridge, she seemed to think.

I sat down and had almost fallen asleep when the lady left. I wondered aloud to the guy whether it would seem very uncharitable to hope for a white goods glitch resulting in a just non-fatal case of food poisoning to concentrate that lady's mind.

The guy laughed. I paid the 30 quid and left. Have people nothing to do or occupy their 'minds'? It seems not sometimes.
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New Mon 21 Jul 14 22:47 
 Electroménagère - Roger.
I guess if had been fitted with new brushes at the electrician's, it would indeed have stopped needing new brushes?
I'll get my coat............................ :-)
Last edited by: Roger. on Mon 21 Jul 14 at 22:47
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New Tue 22 Jul 14 01:11 
 Electrom�©nag�¨re - Armel Coussine
>> I'll get my coat............................ :-)

I often omit commas if I think the sense will be clear without them. Too much finicky punctuation seems a bit American to me.

But there's always some brainless pedant to point the finger.

:o}
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New Tue 22 Jul 14 06:55 
 Electrom���©nag��� - Ambo
>>It had stopped needing new brushes.

You definitely need a comma after "stopped".
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New Tue 22 Jul 14 08:34 
 Electrom���©nag��� - Cliff Pope

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>> But there's always some brainless pedant to point the finger.
>>


When you are in hospital there will be a doctor's note about your heart:

It has stopped needing resuscitation.

And a little comma might have saved your life. :)
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New Tue 22 Jul 14 18:47 
 ElectromÃ���Ã��Ã�Âï - Runfer D'Hills
I've often wondered where the comma should go if I were to write of having opened the front door in my pyjamas.

Erm, what's going on with the thread title?
Last edited by: Runfer D'Hills on Tue 22 Jul 14 at 18:50
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New Tue 22 Jul 14 22:13 
 ElectromÃ���Ã�¯Ã�¿à - rtj70
I wondered about the thread title yesterday... Getting longer and more corrupted all the time. I wonder if I reply to the thread Humph replied to if we get the same at that level. Wird.
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 07:45 
 ElectromÃ���Ã�¯Ã�¿à - Zero
Depending on who you reply to
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 07:45 
 ElectromÃ���Ã�¯Ã�¿à - Zero
>> Depending on who you reply to

hmm but then again its not.
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New Tue 22 Jul 14 22:13 
 ElectromÃ���Ã��Ã�Âï - rtj70
... it seems I did get the same string.
Last edited by: rtj70 on Tue 22 Jul 14 at 22:14
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 07:43 
 ElectromÃ���Ã�¯Ã�¿à - Zero
I Like the title, I love it when stuff goes wrong
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 07:43 
 ElectromÃ���Ã�¯Ã�¿à - Zero
I like the fact each title is subtly different
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 08:06 
 ElectromÃ���Ã�¯Ã�¿à - Cliff Pope
It's just AC's little joke, a poke at electronic gadgetry.
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 09:01 
 Weird Stuff - Slidingpillar
Sorted...

:o)
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 09:03 
 ElectromÃ���Ã�¯Ã�¿à - Fenlander
>>> Have people nothing to do or occupy their 'minds'? It seems not sometimes.

It always amuses me in the local PO queue folks will be grumbling about the time taken to get their turn and the lack of staff. Then once in pole posn they undertake a series of small, non crucial and long winded transactions accompanied by unrelated chat causing the very issue they hate.
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 09:33 
 Electroménagere - Robbie34
Just delete the funny script.
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 10:17 
 Â¢ÃƒÆ’�¢ââ�¬Å - sherlock47
WTF?
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 10:25 
 Ã‚¢Ã�Æ��Ã�â��Ã�¢Ã - Zero
Indeed
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 10:34 
 Ãƒï¿½Ã‚¢Ã��Ã��Ã�¯Ã�¿à - Pat
A search box appeared in the top left hand corner of the forum page too.

Can I start a campaign to get the 'forum' tab back where it was please?

Pat
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 13:07 
 Ãƒï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ãƒï¿½Ã‚¢Ã���Ã�ï - VxFan
>> A search box appeared in the top left hand corner of the forum page too.

I noticed it too, but when I refeshed the page it vanished again. I thought it might have been something left over from another site I was looking at beforehand.
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 13:27 
 Electroménagère - Armel Coussine
I am intrigued by this multiplying code when all I did was put the correct accents in the title.
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 13:32 
 Electroménagère - Slidingpillar
But when you reply to the post with correct accents, you get the start of the silliness!
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New Wed 23 Jul 14 13:37 
 Electrom�©nag�¨re - Manatee
I didn't do nuffink, honest!
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