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Not for the first time I stand corrected! I didn't know that. I assumed it was a made up name to sell Mudlarking clothing/boots/equipment etc etc to people!

::glances awkardly at his technical mudlarking boots::

😂👌 I KNEW IT

Well, hate's a strong word but I can't bear Amanda Holden.

Never has there been such an attention-seeking, talentless and overpaid personality. When she comes on the telly, out comes the remote.

There, I've said it :-)

'I can't bear Amanda Holden'

Bare Amanda Holden is something else entirely

:-)

I’d love to go mudlarking. Are you allowed to use a fuck off big magnet?

No.

Can I magnet fish in the tidal Thames?

Magnet fishing in the tidal Thames is not allowed -- even with a Foreshore Permit. This is because of potential hazards to navigation, the environment and the safety of individuals involved and other river users.

You also need a permit. Details at https://www.pla.co.uk/Environment/Thames-foreshore-permits

Other rivers are available

Hard agree. Plus she cheated on Les Dennis and ruined his career. No wait, I think I like her!

Her whole being caught cheating on Les was a set up PR stunt. I knew one of her co stars on Cutting It. Holden knew her marriage was over but wanted to capitalise on it so he PR arranged for paparazzi to “catch her affair”. Then there was the “Amanda puts a brave face on it” weekend away with her co stars in Spain, orchestrated by her PR firm and the journalists and co stars were flown out by her management company.

Calling customer support for pretty much any big company. Get routed through umpteen different automated systems, finally get to speak to a person in a call centre in India, because the sound quality is now so crap being routed through several systems it's almost impossible to understand each other and there is a huge delay. The Call centre people have standard scripts they have to follow so you get asked the same questions over and over without actually getting to the point where you are able to have someone understand what your problem. In the background it either sounds like a party or everyone else in the call centre saying "Hello? Are you still there? Can you hear me?"
On hold for what seems like hours at a time listening to really REALLY shitty music at a terrible quality due to aforementioned multiple-phone-systems routing.

Then you get cut off randomly and have to start all over again.

there's no such thing as actual service anymore. companies are just all doing the barest of minimums to extract the maximum amount of profit. they'd rather put money into pretending to offer supporting their customers than actually support them.

Ahem, this is up in our living room. ms_com used to work in the Museum of London and was given this

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Boooooo re no magnets. A neighbour was proudly showing me all the stuff (shit) he’s pulled out of canals near us. Mostly building waste and drain covers but the odd coin/tankard.

Coooool maybe start a thread with your finds would love to see them.

Edit... There's a thread isn't there illl utfs

Soggy bread on tinfoil is a recipe for ending up chewing tinfoil

Totally agree here - of course a burrito needs some scaffolding but it needs to be carefully done so you don't get a mouthful of metal.

That's really nice!

Picking up their shit isn't though. Many people think babies are cute but would probably be less keen if their shitty nappies were regularly lobbed into their garden (although I would need to find out who owns the cats to test this theory out).

@JWestland that is tempting but I'm not sure if I could get one that can tell the difference between foxes and cats.

So you like picking up fox shit? Anything targeting cats and foxes indiscriminately is a win:win.

And so the War On Animal Garden Poo begins... ;)

If a cat craps in my garden do I have the right to take my dogs for a dumpathon in theirs? Are shit for shat responses legal?

My smart meters.
Too damn smart for me.
Too many buttons in sequence to remember how to display anything remotely informative and even then it’s not something useful like units consumed since the last bill.
In short, post price hike, the power companies have carte blanche to charge me what they please and I won’t have a clue if I’m being shafted.

shit for shat

well done, sir. 👏

Chrome mobile's 'tab groups' 'feature' 😬

I'd also prefer it if they didn't shit in my garden (or, as it was the other day, in my shoe) but at least they're wild animals rather than someone's toy.

You can disable that :)

I have tried and failed.