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This is why most of my socks are all the same
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Offline Annadog40 said
This is why most of my socks are all the same
If I washed them they wouldn’t be for long 
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I’ve pretty much given up caring if the socks i wear are a matching pair; as long as they are close to each other its not worth investing energy into.
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Offline meanmistermustard said
I’ve pretty much given up caring if the socks i wear are a matching pair; as long as they are close to each other its not worth investing energy into.
Same. I have a couple of sets that have the day of the week on them in nice colours – I can’t even manage to match them nowadays, so I am no longer able to glance down during the day and check if anyone asks me what day it is (so I guess I would badly fail any tests for senility).
And yes, my son asked today; he is on his school holidays for 8 weeks and has lost track of the month, let alone the day. I had to check my diary
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14 January 2013
Offline Talking to state people over the phone or requesting something by mail. They go so slow. 
This weather where I live. I normally love it because I hate the heat and very cold weather. But, its just too damn warm to be Christmas. I’ve tried getting into the Christmas spirit, but it really doesn’t feel like it. I mean fricken 69 F degrees 3 days before Christmas. Its like the polar opposite of last year and the beginning of this year when we had snow, which is a rarity around here. Before last January, the last time it snowed was 2010. And the last time it actually STUCK (before this time) to the ground was in 1996!.
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thisbirdhasflown7.24pm
28 May 2014
Offline Sky999 said
Talking to state people over the phone or requesting something by mail. They go so slow.This weather where I live. I normally love it because I hate the heat and very cold weather. But, its just too damn warm to be Christmas. I’ve tried getting into the Christmas spirit, but it really doesn’t feel like it. I mean fricken 69 F degrees 3 days before Christmas. Its like the polar opposite of last year and the beginning of this year when we had snow, which is a rarity around here. Before last January, the last time it snowed was 2010. And the last time it actually STUCK (before this time) to the ground was in 1996!.
Sorry @Sky999, but I have to disagree. If i was in 69 degree weather at Christmastime, I would be overjoyed. Here in Southern Indiana, we are blessed with the gift of four seasons. But I just hate the concept of snow. I know several people love Christmas snow, but to me, snow is an inhibitor. Particularly on the snow days when school closes. Why get a day off from school when it has snowed so hard you cannot step outside your house without freezing to death when you can take the same day off when the weather is nice outside and you can go out and do things outside? That’s my personal opinion of snow.
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14 January 2013
Offline We have three seasons: warm, hot, cool: Spring, Summer, and Autumn.
Summer is my least favorite. I have become accommodated (somewhat) to the weather, but I am still not use to it. I’ve had heat exhaustion a few times, not fun. When you open the front door during the summer, the heat just hits you and your literally dripping in sweat.
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thisbirdhasflown7.47pm
28 May 2014
Offline Agree with you there. I hate very hot weather as well. “Today’s forecast is 100 degrees with a heat index of 110.” “Oh, crap.” I hate hot weather, and I hate cold weather, I like it just right (like Goldilocks). Unfortunately, it’s too expensive these days to be a snowbird so I have to make do while I can, which is not fun. Surprisingly though, the weather has been pretty good this year. Not too much snow.
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Offline Hot weather and snow are great. Its the crappy cold, wind and rain i cant stand – so basically what we get in Scotland from October thru to mid-March.
Folk who stand in a queue when shopping yet aren’t ready to pay and so spend 5 minutes hunting around for their money/bank card. What do they expect to be asked by the checkout worker?
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Offline Round where I live we have two types of weather: cold, depressing, buckets of rain(buckets of tears) or no rain at all- which is generally during our “summer” of 4 days of fine weather where we will then return to the rain.
To add to the thread:
People repeating the same thing over and over again (here’s looking at you dad 
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14 January 2013
Offline AppleScruffJunior said
Round where I live we have two types of weather: cold, depressing, buckets of rain(buckets of tears)or no rain at all- which is generally during our “summer” of 4 days of fine weather where we will then return to the rain.
To add to the thread:
People repeating the same thing over and over again (here’s looking at you dad
We have that also during the summer. It really sucks when there are tropical depressions/storms or worse hurricanes out in the gulf. I complain about the rain here, but then my dad and husband keep reminding me if I go the UK get use to it. 
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Offline meanmistermustard said
Hot weather and snow are great. Its the crappy cold, wind and rain i cant stand – so basically what we get in Scotland from October thru to mid-March.Folk who stand in a queue when shopping yet aren’t ready to pay and so spend 5 minutes hunting around for their money/bank card. What do they expect to be asked by the checkout worker?
Reminds me of one of mine; sitting at the traffic lights while the car in front seems oblivious to the fact that they have turned green and have been that way for a while now.
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Offline That peeves me too, but so does the driver who honks the millisecond the light goes green. In LA, you don’t ever go the moment a light turns green, because you’re likely to run into someone running the red.
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22 September 2014
Offline thisbirdhasflown said
Sky999 said
Talking to state people over the phone or requesting something by mail. They go so slow.This weather where I live. I normally love it because I hate the heat and very cold weather. But, its just too damn warm to be Christmas. I’ve tried getting into the Christmas spirit, but it really doesn’t feel like it. I mean fricken 69 F degrees 3 days before Christmas. Its like the polar opposite of last year and the beginning of this year when we had snow, which is a rarity around here. Before last January, the last time it snowed was 2010. And the last time it actually STUCK (before this time) to the ground was in 1996!.
Sorry @Sky999, but I have to disagree. If i was in 69 degree weather at Christmastime, I would be overjoyed. Here in Southern Indiana, we are blessed with the gift of four seasons. But I just hate the concept of snow. I know several people love Christmas snow, but to me, snow is an inhibitor. Particularly on the snow days when school closes. Why get a day off from school when it has snowed so hard you cannot step outside your house without freezing to death when you can take the same day off when the weather is nice outside and you can go out and do things outside? That’s my personal opinion of snow.
Hey, @thisbirdhasflown, you don’t know how good you’ve got it! I lived for 40 years in Northern Indiana, within spitting distance of the Michigan border and staring right down the barrel of heavy lake effect snow from Lake Michigan. Last year, my former neighbors had a total of 120″ of snow throughout the winter season. I don’t live there anymore. Where I live now it was 81° today. Sure, it was a little warm, but I bore up.
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17 January 2013
Offline parlance said
That peeves me too, but so does the driver who honks the millisecond the light goes green. In LA, you don’t ever go the moment a light turns green, because you’re likely to run into someone running the red.parlance
People run reds here a lot too. I see cops doing it too which REALLY irks me. The rules don’t seem to apply to cops, cab drivers, or bus drivers. 
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28 May 2014
Offline georgiewood said
thisbirdhasflown said
Sky999 said
Talking to state people over the phone or requesting something by mail. They go so slow.This weather where I live. I normally love it because I hate the heat and very cold weather. But, its just too damn warm to be Christmas. I’ve tried getting into the Christmas spirit, but it really doesn’t feel like it. I mean fricken 69 F degrees 3 days before Christmas. Its like the polar opposite of last year and the beginning of this year when we had snow, which is a rarity around here. Before last January, the last time it snowed was 2010. And the last time it actually STUCK (before this time) to the ground was in 1996!.
Sorry @Sky999, but I have to disagree. If i was in 69 degree weather at Christmastime, I would be overjoyed. Here in Southern Indiana, we are blessed with the gift of four seasons. But I just hate the concept of snow. I know several people love Christmas snow, but to me, snow is an inhibitor. Particularly on the snow days when school closes. Why get a day off from school when it has snowed so hard you cannot step outside your house without freezing to death when you can take the same day off when the weather is nice outside and you can go out and do things outside? That’s my personal opinion of snow.
Hey, @thisbirdhasflown, you don’t know how good you’ve got it! I lived for 40 years in Northern Indiana, within spitting distance of the Michigan border and staring right down the barrel of heavy lake effect snow from Lake Michigan. Last year, my former neighbors had a total of 120″ of snow throughout the winter season. I don’t live there anymore. Where I live now it was 81° today. Sure, it was a little warm, but I bore up.
@georgiewood I’ve known how it feels like up in Northern Indiana. Once I had to go to Fort Wayne for an exhibition and while we were there, the weather was all dark and snowy and windy. We were driving up I-69 and we could barely see two feet in front of us. It got so bad we had to stop just outside Anderson for the night. It was awful, and I bet if we’d kept driving to Fort Wayne, we might have gotten lost in the snow. That exit in Anderson was the last exit for a long distance. It was really awful. Lake Michigan is a cold, and unpredictable mistress, quite literally.
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Offline Interviews which consist of little more than intense sucking up and leave you feeling sick. Reading thru the Christmas edition of the Radio Times and a couple of the articles are unreadable in how much they fawn over the person and layer on just how wonderful, marvelous, talented, suave, sophisticated, generous, grounded and beautiful in soul and spirit they are.
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28 May 2014
Offline meanmistermustard said
Interviews which consist of little more than intense sucking up and leave you feeling sick. Reading thru the Christmas edition of the Radio Times and a couple of the articles are unreadable in how much they fawn over the person and layer on just how wonderful, marvelous, talented, suave, sophisticated, generous, grounded and beautiful in soul and spirit they are.
Not so much flattery in interviews, but flattery in general. Distinctly the kind of flattery in our local talent shows where they give the prize to the attractive girl who really didn’t do as good as they thought she did while ignoring the left-handed guitarist who is trying to make it in the music business. I like to call them “anything-but-talent” shows because a lot of times they present a lot of talentless acts.
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