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Stephen Fry did put Room 101 into Room 101 when he was a guest, back in the Paul Merton era of the show.
“Stephen Fry did put Room 101 into Room 101 when he was a guest, back in the Paul Merton era of the show.”
I’ve never watched it, so didn’t know this – thank you.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I don’t believe it. Have had a message from Currys to say they’re delivering me another fridge tomorrow. I had asked to be reimbursed for the damaged fridge as I only actually needed it for Christmas. Please don’t let it be the original fridge working it’s way back to me. On top of that I bought another mini fridge from another company that guaranteed next day delivery. It did arrive but doesn’t seem to be working. I did put it in a room that got very cold and I realised that it needed to be in a room over 16 degrees C so I don’t know if I damaged it. Does anyone know about fridges? I told them I’d put it in a warmer room and it still didn’t work so they advised me to put it in a colder room. I think I’m going mad….
Fridges do take time to settle.
Remember its a mini and it’s a totally new home and it is probably got a bit warm under the collar and frightened. You may find it works in the morning when it has settled more in.I would like to put queuing to have a bet at racecourse betting pitches in Room 101.
It used to be a bear pit like the floor of a stock exchange and was so much better then.
Fortunately, I don’t bet in the ring at Flat and Jumps pro tracks any more, but this queue nonsense has infiltrated Point-to-Point betting rings now and I’ve lost count of the number of picnicking family Dads who’ve moaned at me for pushing in at the front to get my bet on at a stand-out price.
My stock reply is: “I’m terribly sorry. I was very badly brought up. I’d suggest you take it up with my father, but unfortunately he’s dead.”
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"The fridge might be there Moe, you just need to hurdle over your glasses and get hubby to lift them on.
Road closed signs that appear after you’ve driven for 2 miles past an alternative route.
Happened to me twice this week on my way to visit my husband in hospital.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Can we put the Honours system in Room 101 please?
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Moe I have also had problems in delivering a large electrical item just before Xmas from Boots who are white good suppliers of AO. I insisted on a £55 discount for removing old item and installing new and free delivery. This paid for my rather expensive turkey. DONT ASK DONT GET – DONT ASK – INSIST.
ROOM 101 – Two man delivery teams who sit on their *rses chatting away all day instead of calling customers. Also the software that breaks down they say infrequently that advises customers wrongly where they are in the queue. Drivers do not always pass on their mobile numbers or their names when they take over a van from another driver. Put their mobiles in 101 and make them do sign languages as they spin about in the large black hole for ever and ever.
Anyone who says it was “a great training performance” whenever a horse wins first time out after a year off the track.
No, it was not necessarily a great achievement. Some horses run better after a break. It also happens so often now thanks to modern training methods that it is nothing out of the ordinary. If a trainer cannot get a horse fit, they should look for another job.
I am sitting in a coffee house right now and would like to chuck all coffee house sprogs into 101. They cannot even enjoy the drug.
I tend to walk the streets with my head down – that way I find things. If something is found on the pavement and my beady eye sees it there is then an assessment period which includes a pitched battle between desire and morality. Desire often wins.
Three years ago I found a pair of black new looking unboxed Nike trainers lying forlornly at a bus stop I was walking by. I passed them allowing enough time for the assessment period, then walked back and pretended to look for a bus as my feet did a shuffling movement. I decided to believe in destiny and as I tried them on and they fitted like gloves I truly felt they were a personal gift from the almighty. I must say I wore them every day for three whole years and they felt like walking through Heaven’s Gate.It was last week, I was in the same spot but passing by the bus stop on the other side of the road. It was about 1645 and the sky was beginning to darken. In the half light stretched out on a hedge, rather like the spreadeagled body hanging high in the film Hannibal, was a superior quality looking woolen overcoat. I checked that the coast was clear and had a close butchers. It was a Dunhill and very heavy fine wool – herrinbone and with a black and white contrast. I tried it on nervously and it fitted like a large glove and was more than overjoyed at this almighty booty, and knowing the cost of such a coat of this quality to be in the region of three thousand pounds – I felt the one on high had really shined on me at an appropriate time – as the trainers had recently found their way into the bin. Not the heels but the material slightly split on the top right shoe.
I got the thing home and put on the light. I was horrified that an unwelcome guest had already got there before me – I would have preferred vegetable or mineral but it was A MOTH. Not just the sleeves but the front of the coat had been despoiled by the wrecking creatures.
I put the coat away in a plastic bag and in two days time I returned to the scene of the moral dilemma and replaced the coat, cleverly without being seen, back on the hedge at exactly the same time 1630 and just like Hannibal. I returned to the grimy scene at 1730. Woe and Betide, it had been picked up possibly by another opportunist or a hobo – I laughed all the way home.ALL OF THEM – 101
“My stock reply is: “I’m terribly sorry. I was very badly brought up. I’d suggest you take it up with my father, but unfortunately he’s dead.””
Ah yes.
Got that quite a few times myself at bigger meetings in particular.
Am fairer than you though Ian.
Or may be more calculated.
Used to say “sorry mate, if it wins I’ll pay you the difference to your bet”.
Usually the punter would then say not to bother or bookie hears and keeps his price for the smaller bettor.Value Is Everything
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