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6.40pm
1 November 2013
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Zig said
People who don’t take down their Christmas decorations once the holiday is over.
*cough, cough Joe cough*
Unless of course they are just getting a head start on next Christmas.
I didn’t see this until now
10.19pm
21 November 2012
Offline AppleScruffJunior said
Let’s all be friends!My pet peeve: The fact the Christmas tree (which is next to the glass doors)in my room doesn’t turn off until 12:10am grrr…
#2 The stupid Opal Astra ads with Claudia Schiffer “it’s a German”- BLAH!
I hate that add. I hate most adds actually.
Oh another pet peeve: Popularity contests on forums.
I was once voted something pretty mean and disrespectful on another forum. And recently, on another forum there was a ”most popular member” contest, and things really went wrong. It was a poll, and so people just made fake accounts. Very immature. And on here only the people who post the most ever get nominated. I know these things are supposed to be fun, but wow, yeah, lot of fun. Fantastic.
And what does it prove? Nothing. Nothing at all.
I’m in a bad mood, just ignore this.
10.36pm
8 November 2012
Offline Linde said
And on here only the people who post the most ever get nominated.
Doesn’t that make sense? That’s how you get to know people.
Also, the more people vote, the more variety we get in responses. Everyone had a full month to vote and were given plenty of reminders.
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10.55pm
21 November 2012
Offline Yeah what’s the point? It’s pretty predictable who will win what. Like last year.
11.15pm
8 November 2012
Offline Linde said
Yeah what’s the point? It’s pretty predictable who will win what. Like last year.
No, it’s not. There are some new winners. And some categories, as with last year, were decided by one vote.
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12.32am
22 September 2014
Offline Linde said
Yeah what’s the point? It’s pretty predictable who will win what. Like last year.
Cheer up, wouldya? At least you are the perfect image of health. *flips hair forward*
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Offline parlance said
Linde said
And on here only the people who post the most ever get nominated.
Doesn’t that make sense? That’s how you get to know people.
Also, the more people vote, the more variety we get in responses. Everyone had a full month to vote and were given plenty of reminders.
parlance
Yip. For one of my nominations i went with someone who is very much not a prominent poster.
If anyone wants to see my nominations i’m happy to make them public or do it via a PM. I have zilch to hide.
And its all a bit of fun anyway, taking it too seriously removes the whole point of it in my opinion.*
*Until i dont win at least one, then there will be some bitching and heavy sulking. 
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3.39am
8 August 2014
Offline parlance said
Everyone had a full month to vote and were given plenty of reminders.
I didn’t know this was even a thing until 2 days ago 
Look its a thingy! A fiendish thingy!
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Offline UnidentifiedFiendishThingy said
parlance said
Everyone had a full month to vote and were given plenty of reminders.
I didn’t know this was even a thing until 2 days ago
Parlance has been incredibly vigilant and posted frequent reminders in the ‘End of Year Awards’ thread starting from the first of December; even Mr Kite got in on the act. If folk have been on the forum yet didn’t know it was on i fail to see how or what else could have been done aside from Joe putting up a massive notice with flashing lights at the top of each page.
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17 December 2012
Offline I’m with @meanmistermustard, there was as much notifying as could be done without sending everyone who has posted in the last year a PM. parlance has done a sterling job, as we have come to expect.
I’ll admit, much to my regret, I didn’t vote. Not because I didn’t know, I couldn’t avoid knowing, but because I have been bleedy ill for the last two fecking weeks. Miserable Xmas. @Ahhh Girl will tell you. She rang me Xmas Day to wish me a Happy, and I coughed at her for five minutes before she had to accept this funking barsteward was in no state to do anything but cough at her!
I almost considered trying to sneak in a late vote, but illness has meant I missed the deadline. Much to my regret, I have to accept that.
We all had our chance, some of us missed it, but no-one should say they didn’t know!
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12.25pm
1 November 2013
Offline Linde said
Yeah what’s the point? It’s pretty predictable who will win what. Like last year.
To have an event like with any reward show yes it can be predictable but it is nice seeing people having fun. I think this is really the only event/contest on this forum ever.
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Offline When I saw that Ron Nasty mentioned me in Pet Peeves, at first I was afraid I had become a pet peeve 
I figured it was best to quit bugging you on the phone that day because it was irritating your throat and lungs trying to respond to the girl who talks too much.
@UnidentifiedFiendishThingy, do you have a suggestion for a way we could let more members know about the voting? I know people interact with the forum in many different ways.
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4.13pm
8 November 2012
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2014 results are posted here.
Next year, I’ll make one announcement in the Beatles News when voting begins, and another when winners are announced. But this isn’t something I want to make a big deal about, so, frankly if I need to do more than I have to make members aware of the existence of the awards, I’ll hand them over to someone else who wants to deal with the trouble. Otherwise I’ll just get cranky about it.
But many thanks to those who appreciate the effort and understand the light-hearted spirit in which they’re intended. 
parlance
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1 November 2013
Offline I don’t like the expression spic-and-span
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1 May 2011
Offline The idea that there weren’t enough notifications for the votes is nonsense and to be expected to do more is ridiculous. Reminds me of folk who didnt vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum and said that despite the endless tv, newspaper, internet and radio coverage, newspaper, radio and billboard advertisements instructing people where, when and how to vote, leaflets and pamphlets sent in the post, and folk talking about it incessantly they never knew and blamed the Scottish Government for not being made aware.
Moving on.
Running to the phone thats ringing only to find the damn thing stops just as you get there.
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29 August 2013
Offline “Running to the phone thats ringing only to find the damn thing stops just as you get there.”
Agreed – I have 3 phones about the house but it is a fairly large 2-storey place and I still miss it at times. I also have an answering machine but of course they are some folks’ pet peeve so I rarely get any messages when I do miss the call.
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1 May 2011
Offline I never bother to check my answer phone messages. I still go by the rule that if its important you’ll get hold of me, if not you want.
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4.57am
14 January 2013
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Beer water
I got reminded of this while I was tumblr. The Red Cross and other groups gave us this after Hurricane Katrina. Something to drink when thirsty dispite how horrible tasting. 
3.15pm
8 November 2012
Offline Sky999 said
Beer waterI got reminded of this while I was tumblr. The Red Cross and other groups gave us this after Hurricane Katrina. Something to drink when thirsty dispite how horrible tasting.
That’s interesting. Why would they give you this as opposed to bottled water?
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14 January 2013
Offline parlance said
Sky999 said
Beer waterI got reminded of this while I was tumblr. The Red Cross and other groups gave us this after Hurricane Katrina. Something to drink when thirsty dispite how horrible tasting.
That’s interesting. Why would they give you this as opposed to bottled water?
parlance
Thats a good question.
Only thing I can think of is that water was scarce and it was donated for a good cause…even if it was from Budweiser. Otherwise, I do not know.
They had a water jugs and ice at hand out location; however, when the meals on wheels came by (in your neighborhood vs traveling to the hand out) they would give us this.
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