Cinema tickets (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and some Ibuprofen meltlets
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Had brunch with a colleague at a nice new cafe near work. Great coffee and food and easy to while away an hour or so lazying around reading the papers or whatever. This place will become a regular haunt, for sure. Anyway, come the time to leave, we walked out and went our separate ways.
Fifteen minutes later, as I'm busy driving to another workplace, I suddenly realise: "Hang on. We didn't pay!"
I call up my colleague who happened to still be near the cafe and ask him to go back and please cover the bill.
OK, so technically that was a "non-purchase" but I hope it counts for this thread. And it reminded me of this...
Fifteen minutes later, as I'm busy driving to another workplace, I suddenly realise: "Hang on. We didn't pay!"
I call up my colleague who happened to still be near the cafe and ask him to go back and please cover the bill.
OK, so technically that was a "non-purchase" but I hope it counts for this thread. And it reminded me of this...
Mine too!
I spent like €400 on copper tubes this weekend.
It's not even fun! I want to buy fun or shiny stuff!
Home improvements?
Pipes for central heating...
I bought myself a ruin, and now I'm trying to make it habitable!
Nibs doesn't have a "k"
I bought $100 of groceries this weekend...hopefully it'll last.
I bought $100 of groceries this weekend...hopefully it'll last.
It does here *shrugs*
Apollo 13 Blu-Ray
^ Awesome choice. Just watched a special on NBC Sunday night about that mission. It had the surviving astronauts and control room people on it. It was pretty amazing.
Ever seen the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon? That's even better. But unfortunately not on Blu-Ray yet.
^ Pretty sure i've seen parts of it, but not all of it.
Lemme know how Apollo 13 looks on blu-ray. I had it on VHS but we no longer have any VCRs. It it looks really good, i'll go for one myself.
Lemme know how Apollo 13 looks on blu-ray. I had it on VHS but we no longer have any VCRs. It it looks really good, i'll go for one myself.
This is an interesting one, and encouraged me to spend a couple of minutes researching it. The etymological origin appears to be from "neb", so a k doesn't seem indicated even in archaic English.
However there's at least one - albeit outdated and US - dictionary reference to "knib". I suspect it's one of those words where a wrong spelling has acquired sufficient popularity to be a "sort-of-accepted" variant. Like how dilemma is very commonly mispelt dilemna even though there's no real etymological root to that. Though I suspect the pool of those spelling it "knib" is a smaller percentage than those spelling it "dilemna" and probably decreasing over time.
That's a great price for that much merriment. If it wasn't repeated so frequently on ITV3, I'd be very tempted.
^I wondered about the variant spellings since I did a degree in English and hadn't come across it before.
I could have been wrong.
I could have been wrong.
I know it's repeated on ITV3 but it never, ever seems to be when I'm around!
I'll also be able to lend the DVDs to my parents, they're big fans.
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