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Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:30 pm
by MuddyWitch
Royal Weddings
MW
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 4:18 pm
by The Riff-Raff Element
MuddyWitch wrote:Royal Weddings
MW
Nothing little about them I fear.
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:33 pm
by pelmetman
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:41 pm
by The Riff-Raff Element
I doubt the French government will be adding to our modest tally of public holidays, somehow.
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:04 pm
by pelmetman
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:01 pm
by oldjerry
Well 3 million or so will be.......and the day before......and the one after........and the one after that......etc.etc.
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:59 am
by TheGoodEarth
I think they only have a few public holidays but make up for it by having 25 strike days a year
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:03 am
by The Riff-Raff Element
TheGoodEarth wrote:
I think they only have a few public holidays but make up for it by having 25 strike days a year
Hang on - I'm counting: New year, Easter Monday (but not Good Friday), May 1st, May 8th, Ascension, PentecĂ´te, July 14th, Assumption, All Saints, November 11th, Christmas day. I think that's it - so 11.
How many does the UK have these days? Haven't a couple been added in recent years?
I'm not alloiwed to strike
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:33 am
by pelmetman
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:48 am
by Millymollymandy
However in France if a holiday falls on a weekend then tough. Unless of course you work weekends.
Also there is no Boxing Day and only one day off for Easter, so I think you are better off in the UK.
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:01 pm
by Rosendula
Here's one that's been annoying me today. When I was young, I over-heard a friend of my parents tell them the following riddle:
Someone is looking at a photograph and is asked who is in the picture. He says, "sisters and brothers have I none, but this man's father was my father's son". Who is in the picture?
Now many of you will have heard this one, but for anyone who hasn't and wants to work it out, I'm going to make you scroll down before I blurt it out.
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Well, after much umm-ing and ah-ing, my parents were told "it's himself". Everyone accepted that, and thought it was a wonderful little riddle. Now, for some reason, I have found myself, some 30 years later, pondering on it and worked out that was the wrong answer. The guy in the picture isn't himself, it's his son
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Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:33 pm
by Millymollymandy
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:10 pm
by Thomzo
Well I won't get any choice. Yet another day when I won't get paid.
Zoe
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 4:25 pm
by TheGoodEarth
Thomzo wrote:
Well I won't get any choice. Yet another day when I won't get paid.
Zoe
Same here Zoe, haven't managed to get to work all week because of the weather so 5 days pay down the tubes. That is annoying!
Re: Little things that really annoy you!
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 4:28 pm
by TheGoodEarth
Has anyone mentioned excess packaging yet?