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I ran through a few permutations but "cock-up" and "low-ball" just didn't work.

I have no wish to know about your privy passage, sir!

Hetzner?

Nige has them running scared. A nonaggression pact would be the start of a slippery slope, one that could see Farage running the country. 😱

Under the tariff plan announced Sunday, the products that will now face zero import duties when entering the U.K. also include pasta, canned pineapples, fruit juice, coconut oil, plywood and plastics.

It's definitely an interesting approach - if Europe and other countries scrapped/lowered tariffs it could help invigorate world trade and keep costs down for ordinary folk. It might also help sideline the US.

Shifted a ton of glass from an old greenhouse out into the car and off to the skip.

Brave move shifting all that glass.

Dad liked it because it was jaunty without the whacky uncle vibes you'd get from, for example, a Tasmanian Devil tie.

If I lost the wife and kids in a freak combine harvester accident

🤔 Seen this?

Turn one of the two bollocks into a home office and have the other bollock for a bedroom. Just not sure if I’d want to sleep in the top bollock or the bottom bollock, though.

Depends on your bladder. Bottom bollock bedroom gives quick privy access.

Hope this helps:

Seems we are going to find out.

And to keep things joined up: !PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world

I have a black one for funerals and a silver one from my brother's wedding, so I am not a tie aficionado.

Anyway, I thought I'd better show off the tie:

Giraffes.

I don't have many ties, and the one I was going to wear turned out to he dirty (dry cleaned my shirt and suit, overlooked the tie), so I grabbed my Dad's favourite tie which he would have worn if he'd still been with us. So it was a lot more meaningful and close family understood the symbolism. The waiter must just like giraffes.

Oh indeed. I've not given up yet.

About time but not far enough. We sold British Steel for a quid and it is loss making, so we should give them a quid for it.

Cousin's wedding on Monday, considering he is 69, never been married and is a drunken shambles of a man (not a bad bone in his body), it went like clockwork, all credit for that goes to his new wife (who is an old hand at this marriage lark). I think the sit down meal had more courses than I've had in my life - starter, sorbet pallet cleanser, main meal (a massive lamb shank), dessert (a selection of three mini desserts), enough cheese to guarantee we all get gout (there was so much left over, everyone was getting silver foil from the kitchen - we left with more than a wheel of Brie and close to a wheel of Stilton), followed by coffee and tea with chocolate truffles. A waiter was so impressed by my tie that he didn't focus on what he was doing and poured tea on a cousin's husband. I got to meet a lot of new additions to the family and have a tonne of homework to do updating the family tree over the next few weeks. Only downside is my brother didn't go - he is my cousin's godson, so I felt he should go but, as he has a wife and two kids, I was easier to fit in (how to make everyone feel special). I did message him on Monday, but there has been radio silence and I know not to prod the bear.

Other than that fairly standard:

• Curry Night Wednesday - delicious vegetarian curry house in town. We ate too much, again.
• Movie Night Thursday - Death of a Unicorn, decent enough but far too much was given away in the trailer.
• Pub Friday and Saturday - nothing worth reporting.
• Today - getting chores done, sorting various things out and batch cooking.

The worst in my old place was when he got drunk one Summer night (when all the windows were open) and played The Entertainer over and over again for hours. Not quite Guantanamo but everyone was up, prowling around going "should we go round and ring the bell?" We didn't. Years later one of their daughters came up to me in the pub and said: "we can hear you when you laugh". So perhaps I'm the nightmare neighbour.

Further evidence for that is that the woman below me hates me and has left a note asking me not to slam the door when I go to the pub and to stop dragging furniture around - I don't do either. I'm tempted to show her this, but she might think I was taking the piss. I might well be.

When was he cancelled.

Yeah, comedy series come and go, the Benny Hill Show's time had passed with alternative comedy helping refresh the humour landscape. It wasn't cancelled it just faded away.

In the next two weeks, similar documentaries will look at the 'cancellation' of Kenny Everett and Fawlty Towers, despite the latter barely being off screens.

Same for Kenny Everett and my understanding was they didn't want to do any more, I imagine they had offers to do more.

!neodb@lemmy.zip - Fediverse alternative to Goodreads, IMDb, etc.

It's diminishing returns as those most amenable to the message are now here.