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One box [of chocolates] would be okay for normal beings but for Mrs Wife a shipping box with 8 boxes in it is required.
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I can understand that, especially if its something she likes and its hard to come by.
When I was younger I worked at a factory which produced coffee during the summers. They also sold coffee related items and some other stuff to coffee shops and as an employee you could buy what you wanted for the priced the company paid for the stuff + 10%. A few boxes of boxes with walkers butterscotch cookies was bought and consumed.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: There is a certain confectionary[^]
Mmmmmmm...chocolate....mint....
Nagy, don't we have an anniversary coming up? I'll even profess my dying love for, ummm, confectionary!
Marc
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No Marc, there are no chocolates. Or to be precise there will be none after she gets hold of them! 
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Hope all goes as planned, I'm sure it will.
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hmmmm
A home cooked meal and scare-quotes around waitresses.
Am I correct in assuming the serving staff will have more enthusiasm than professional experience.  
PS Conga-rats in advance.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The staff are indeed lacking in experience though they're getting better.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: [plus two 'waitresses']
The quotes around 'waitresses' has me worried...
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They volunteered* for the job.
* for a given value of 'volunteer'.
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"Santa would be umhappy if you say no"
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: * for a given value of 'volunteer'.
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I take it you wait until after eight before you give them to her?
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...that I may just have run across a rare picture of a Luton christmas tree[^]! Don't ask me why... 
(SFW!)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It's...[^]
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Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
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MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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So there's a petition to stop Trump visiting the UK because of things he said about Muslims. There's a petition to stop Tyson Fury being considered for SPOTY because he said things about homosexuals and Women.
If we ban people from saying what they think, how will we know who the dicks are anymore?
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I'm pretty sure that people are allowed to say what they think.
But...there are laws (in the UK at least) against making statements inciting hatred against any race, religion, gender, and / or sexual orientation.
Trumps little rant would break those, and render him unsuitable as a visitor to the UK.
Fury's comments would also break those, and render him a bad role model. So why should he be in the running for Sports Personality Of The Year?
We have similar rules here: if I started ranting in the Soapbox about the need to "keep Muslims off CP" or "ban all pooftas" then my account would (rightly) be closed so fast I wouldn't have time to make a coffee! And I wouldn't expect to get it back either.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: "ban all pooftas"
Rule No 6??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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1, 4, and 6, probably! 
And of course Rules 1, 3, 5, and 7[^] (Youtube, audio probably NSFW)
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I'll ignore the fact that you totally missed my last sentence.
OriginalGriff wrote: So why should he be in the running for Sports Personality Of The Year?
Depends on what the intention of SPOTY is
1.) If you go for the literal interpretation of the awards name, specifically, 'personality', he shows more personality than the rest of the contenders, and therefore should win by a mile.
2.) If you go of the BBC's statement defending his inclusion where they claim is is about "sporting achievement only", then he should definitely be a nominee, debatable whether he should win or not.
OriginalGriff wrote: I'm pretty sure that people are allowed to say what they think.
Not without impunity it seems.
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Quote: there are laws (in the UK at least) against making statements inciting hatred against any race, religion, gender, and / or sexual orientation.
Problem is the legal scope of the word 'inciting' there is a huge difference between 'I dislike xxxx' versus 'xxxx are disgusting - stone / kill / maim / blow raspberries at them'. I don't think the UK courts have yet really scoped where that dividing line stands amongst the grey area between the two. The impression many people get is that it is very close to the first example - possibly too much so, and to be honest, currently guided more by media assassination rather than by court of law.
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I would like to see Trump get the Republican nomination and go on to the White House. This is not because I agree with anything he says, I don't, but because our very own acid-mouthed bleached-blonde-bigot, Ms K Hopkins, has said that should he win she'll go to Merca!
Help us Merca! You're our only hope!
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He is starting to prove that what's in his head is slightly more hideous than whats on his head.
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Each year people argue about the SPOTY nominations, and then they argue about the winner and I'm amazed.
Amazed anyone still pays any attention to the nonsense.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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PompeyThree wrote: how will we know who the dicks are anymore?
Because there will still be politicians running for office in the US and you can hear them on Fox News.
Marc
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