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I'm sure this has already been noted, but people reading or texting while walking along a footpath, platform, etc. No, it's OK, I'll do the looking and dodging, you enjoy your book. Or on a bad day, I'll do the looking but not the dodging.

Personally, I don't think this one is irrational. This morning I caught the 8.36 from Denmark Hill. Half the train disembarks there, and the worst bit is by the stairs. I got really annoyed with the f***wits who decided that it was more important that they get on the train before everyone who need to got off. Was particularly incensed by one idiot who decided to get into the doorway and block half of it, thereby slowing things down even more. What is wrong with these people?


I waited till the passengers had got off, then walked halfway down the carraige and got a seat, before the train had departed, so there was plenty of time.

csaddleton Wrote:

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> This current baking obsession and cup cakes, oooh

> are't i cool and "vintage" for baking cup cakes

> this weekend and then posting pictures of them all

> over facebook.


It's comic relief season... something easy to do with little thought... simple! ;-)

???? Wrote:

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> on tv, when people are 'playing' poker and they

> always say 'I see your five quid and raise you

> xxxx'. This is a string bet and totally illegal in

> poker your raise would be disqualified and you

> would be held to a 'see'


Not unlike TV chess, when one player triumphantly moves a piece and declares, "Checkmate!" If the other player didn't know he was one move away from mate (and therefore would have resigned), he's a pretty poor player and barely worth beating...

:-) I said "not unlike" rather than "same as". I meant in terms of it being a completely unlifelike situation. I've just been Googling (in vain) to find out the last time there was a checkmate in a major tournament... I bet it was, er, a long time ago.

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