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Post by lillielangtry on Feb 7, 2023 2:46:27 GMT -5
I tried to organise foreign health insurance via my usual insurer. Put in all my details. Got right to the end - error message. Called the insurer, a bit irritated. They picked up in less than a minute and the nice lady informed me the reason I can't take out foreign health insurance is simply that I have already taken it, and in fact the money left my account on 2 January. I checked and she is quite right. Oops. Well, good on the insurer for being so efficient, and not taking my money twice.
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Post by sprite on Feb 8, 2023 5:40:06 GMT -5
I'm listening to a podcast about CHatGPT for a student. at the 1:00 mark, we hear an excerpt instructing you on how to remove a PB sandwich from a VCR--in King James Bible style. CBC Radio 'Day 6'
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Post by rikita on Feb 8, 2023 18:44:18 GMT -5
I tried to organise foreign health insurance via my usual insurer. Put in all my details. Got right to the end - error message. Called the insurer, a bit irritated. They picked up in less than a minute and the nice lady informed me the reason I can't take out foreign health insurance is simply that I have already taken it, and in fact the money left my account on 2 January. I checked and she is quite right. Oops. Well, good on the insurer for being so efficient, and not taking my money twice. i actually have two foreign health insurances, but with different insurers - because i forgot i had one, and got another one (and both of them renew yearly). i think i forgot about both a few years later and tried to get one again, but that time with one of hte insurers i was already with, so they told me ... but well, as it is such a small amount per year, i keep forgetting to cancel one and only remember i should, when i see the amounts booked out of my account and then forget again ...
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Post by tzarine on Feb 8, 2023 20:42:39 GMT -5
some of the costumes i am seeing as the weather warms up the big deal bout the superbowl god, the coverage!
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Post by lillielangtry on Feb 9, 2023 1:59:43 GMT -5
Yeah it is very reasonably priced, rikita, and various small annual amounts left my account on 2 January - that's why I didn't notice.
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Post by sprite on Feb 10, 2023 12:27:31 GMT -5
On Saturday, we drove our car to a friend's home, which is very unusual for us. We've had it out twice since then (again, very unusual), but never been able to park it back in fron of our own house.
It's now Friday, and chaos reigns. Almost no one is parking where they normally can, meaning we all have to think about parking, and it's all down to us.
No one is complaining. It's not that sort of neighbourhood, with one exception
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Post by Queen on Feb 10, 2023 13:42:14 GMT -5
Someone accidentally sent an email to a mail list that will reach everyone in our company in this country (about 3000 people).
My mail box is close to unusable as a lot of colleagues responded with "please take me off this list", but using reply all, then someone added "stop replying" to the subject line but still used reply all, then HR added an explanation and asked people not to reply all, and so people then started saying sorry but still hitting reply all.
My systems started crashing and I was wondering how close we were to crashing the whole network...
And then some comedian responded with "can I be added to this list an extra time", you guessed it, using reply all.
I'm dying. Never thought I'd get to witness an full email spaghetti breakdown.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 10, 2023 16:28:18 GMT -5
the new holistic spa that promises clearer skin & better sex
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Post by groo on Feb 12, 2023 22:30:53 GMT -5
For Oz and Hal:
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 13, 2023 4:45:29 GMT -5
There’s only one person I could possibly vote for in the upcoming election, our current member, who had to swim for safety in the flood!
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Post by groo on Feb 13, 2023 18:41:07 GMT -5
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Post by kneazle on Feb 14, 2023 1:52:46 GMT -5
Just phoned to follow up on room service. Turns out I gave the number from my last hotel.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 14, 2023 3:45:58 GMT -5
Just phoned to follow up on room service. Turns out I gave the number from my last hotel. Are you in a different hotel tonight? Our news says all planes are grounded due to high winds.
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Post by wombatrois on Feb 14, 2023 8:39:46 GMT -5
Someone accidentally sent an email to a mail list that will reach everyone in our company in this country (about 3000 people). My mail box is close to unusable as a lot of colleagues responded with "please take me off this list", but using reply all, then someone added "stop replying" to the subject line but still used reply all, then HR added an explanation and asked people not to reply all, and so people then started saying sorry but still hitting reply all. This happens quite frequently in the public service sector - it is hilarious and annoying at the same time. What's making me laugh today is the follow on story from a good news story of three men who were saved after their boat capsized - they were found clinging to one esky (not sure what you call this where you live, but it's a box for keeping drinks and food cold). Fast forward a few days later - the upturned boat is found around 100 km west of where the incident occurred, with hundreds of kilos of cocaine still in the hull and one of the packages found washed up on a beach around 50 km west of the incident. Today's news item is - police are now looking for the three men!
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Post by sprite on Feb 14, 2023 8:42:37 GMT -5
I tried to use Google translate earlier today, but gave up because it wasn't working...
I've just tried again with a hotel review in German--and got a translation into Latin. Turns out I was doing it backwards earlier.
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Post by Queen on Feb 14, 2023 9:56:12 GMT -5
What's making me laugh today is the follow on story from a good news story of three men who were saved after their boat capsized - they were found clinging to one esky (not sure what you call this where you live, but it's a box for keeping drinks and food cold). Fast forward a few days later - the upturned boat is found around 100 km west of where the incident occurred, with hundreds of kilos of cocaine still in the hull and one of the packages found washed up on a beach around 50 km west of the incident. Today's news item is - police are now looking for the three men! Kiwis call it a chilly bin Less imaginative countries call it a cooler or a cool box.
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Post by psw on Feb 14, 2023 10:03:58 GMT -5
probably originally from Eskimo
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Post by kneazle on Feb 14, 2023 12:46:55 GMT -5
Just phoned to follow up on room service. Turns out I gave the number from my last hotel. Are you in a different hotel tonight? Our news says all planes are grounded due to high winds. Yeah I'd already checked out before my flight was canceled and it was just find me somewhere
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Post by wombatrois on Feb 14, 2023 18:22:56 GMT -5
Or more correctly a chully bun
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Post by tzarine on Feb 14, 2023 21:04:39 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 14, 2023 21:36:08 GMT -5
I accidentally opened the first page of this thread, so I decided to read Libby's "Abbott and Costello at the computer store" post, which made me giggle.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 16, 2023 19:51:34 GMT -5
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Post by sprite on Feb 17, 2023 8:18:44 GMT -5
Yesterday, pictures of the notes people wrote to quit jobs.
Today, laughing while banging my head. last week I created a document for a student to use as a writing prompt, but instead sent her a link which was a collection of stuff I'd c/p'd about teaching writing, for me to use as a guideline for some new student material.
She must be so confused.
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Post by Queen on Feb 17, 2023 9:49:38 GMT -5
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Post by sprite on Feb 17, 2023 11:03:03 GMT -5
That sounds like the medieval man-made hill in Cambridge, which is the highest elevation from there to the North Pole (in a direct line).
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 18, 2023 8:30:25 GMT -5
Radio was playing some kind of field recording of bees and flies or something, and pero turned it down. So then I said "hey I was enjoying that," which made me laugh at myself since that's a weird thing to enjoy.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 18, 2023 14:43:47 GMT -5
taking on a big nasty man w his airbuds, canada goose jacket sorry dude, i had right of way
it is funny to watch those who cannot walk in their hideous heels the 23$ usd croque monsieur
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Post by groo on Feb 19, 2023 16:07:29 GMT -5
Arise!
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Post by sprite on Feb 19, 2023 16:46:20 GMT -5
I have two "squirrel resistant" feeders. A couple of squirrels can still manage to painstakingly reach in and grab a seed at a time. The contortions are pretty funny.
HOwever, today, something managed to open the top of the feeder--and it didn't take one of the squirrels long to realise that the tube was a very comfortable size for a squirrel to slide down and stuff it's face...
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Post by tzarine on Feb 19, 2023 17:50:26 GMT -5
overheard in my trendy gentrified hood "i bought $200 sunglasses & i lost them the next day!"
"im still thinking about last nights dinner?"
people love to announce what overpriced resto they were ripped off by
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