This Instant And Moment - 2025!

RxR said:
Cheaped out on dinner tonight. Made do with 2 fresh bread rolls and cheese with a cuppa.
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I could quite happily have that instead of cooking tonight but it's not worth the migraine and fake vegan cheese is vile.

Had a decent home cooked steak, chips and mushroom yesterday, as it was our 24th wedding anniversary.
 
Rroff said:
I have such little faith in humanity I try to avoid checked luggage if I can, obviously not always possible.
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I've never had any problems, but usually I make sure I have several days stuff in the cabin but this time I neglected to do so. Sods law, as usual.
 
413x said:
Went out camping last night to see the persiad meteor shower. This morning walking back to the car I saw a nightjar.

Only second time in my life I've we've seen one
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We went out to look for shooting stars last night. Didn't know there was a meteor shower on!

Saw 4 or 5 little ones and a couple of big impressive ones. It's a bit like a fireworks show where you get that reaction from a whopper!
 
Rroff said:
I have such little faith in humanity I try to avoid checked luggage if I can, obviously not always possible.
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Unfortunately I have to fly through Manchester T3 on a regular basis for work, and the prospect of having checked bags going through there is horrifying. Had it once when I did have a checked bag where they delivered our luggage to the international side of the terminal, which we couldn’t access as it was a domestic flight. So we waited by the luggage belt for 30 minutes after we landed, but there was no one at any of the customer service desks, and the number they had to contact posted on them just rang out. One of the chaps did spot a member of staff at about the one hour mark through the border gates, but when he tried to draw her attention she just walked off, so he went through the gate to speak to her, then, as someone was standing near the proximity sensor and the doors were open, he walked back through.

At that point airport security and then armed police descended en masse, and the chap was accused of ‘forcing the gate open’ by one of the airport security staff. When I interjected to point out that that was a lie, the Police officer I said it to got really arsey, just needlessly condescending and sarcastic. Furthermore, the security staff must have known we were there from the CCTV, yet chose to do nothing until that guy came back through the border gate. Did they not think it odd that people were waiting by an empty baggage belt for over an hour? Probably just couldn’t be bothered to get off their arses from the control room to do anything about it, or contact anyone else who could help.

Every interaction I’ve had with either Manchester airport’s own security or the police there’s been the same, it’s as if the airport make it part of their own selection criteria, and GMP offload the douchebag’s with a Judge Dredd complex on the airport so that the rest of the force don’t have to deal with them. That’s why when that footage emerged of the Police stomping that guy at the airport last year I was initially critical. I’ve seen it so many times with the GMP officers at Manchester where they go in heavy handed, or speak to people like **** and escalate a situation needlessly, for no good reason.
 
LuckyBenski said:
We went out to look for shooting stars last night. Didn't know there was a meteor shower on!

Saw 4 or 5 little ones and a couple of big impressive ones. It's a bit like a fireworks show where you get that reaction from a whopper!
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That's basically what I saw.
A few small ones and 2 massive ones that crossed half the sky.

Was hoping for more to be honest!
 
Hodders said:
Trying to get to sleep. Can't get past my son missing both his uni offers.

He's pole-axed, devastated.

Needed A* A* A, got AAA. Needed a cumulative extra 5%. 13 years of education boils down to 5%.

He's getting a paper remarked but is having to face an unplanned gap year and a missed offer from Oxford.
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Sorry to hear that. Heard from a friend that their daughter got her first choice of Manchester (quite surprised the Oxford educated mum didn't push her to go there).
 
Hodders said:
Trying to get to sleep. Can't get past my son missing both his uni offers.

He's pole-axed, devastated.

Needed A* A* A, got AAA. Needed a cumulative extra 5%. 13 years of education boils down to 5%.

He's getting a paper remarked but is having to face an unplanned gap year and a missed offer from Oxford.
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On the bright side, he’s got AAA, which is pretty fantastic.

Didn’t realise they did A* these days, let alone deal with placements on that basis… 90% or more, pretty darn hard - you’re probably rolling the dice on questions you get with that sort of score.
 
Nitefly said:
On the bright side, he’s got AAA, which is pretty fantastic.

Didn’t realise they did A* these days, let alone deal with placements on that basis… 90% or more, pretty darn hard - you’re probably rolling the dice on questions you get with that sort of score.
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Even worse, GCSEs are graded 1-9 now instead :eek:
 
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