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 This helinox chair zero is definitely worth its "weight" in gold. 
 The Coven are complaining that there's more spiders at Download this year. I may have imported a load of @emfSpiders in the tent. You're welcome. 
 MaccieD's might have to do a bit of damage control.

Morgan Spurlock (bloke who did Super Size Me) has died of cancer at 53. 
 My mate has been on about borrowing my Quansheng for months.

Of course now he's picked the week that I'm going to be away with it. 
 Nah, I'd rather him borrow mine so I can disable the Tx first as he won't know what he's doing with it. 
 Aye, plus whatever else he can pick up. He hasn't got a license so I don't want him transmitting. 
 #EMFCamp shift sign up is now live. HINT. 
 It was a pain in the arse trying to find some shifts that work around the talks I wanted to see but I've made some sacrifices. And got the early ones because I like being in bed early because everything hurts and I'm old. 
 I also need to time it right so I'm round ECHQ when @MrJoshua soils himself. 
 https://www.emfcamp.org/volunteer/schedule

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 After just viewing an obscure website* it's just occurred to me that we're soon going to lose a lot of old websites that have survived the geocities demise that were a labour of love for the then middled aged people who started them and kept them going as these people start dying of old age and their family don't keep them going. Time to start scraping for posterity.

*British Telecom vehicles and liveries from the 1960s-1990s as you didn't ask. 
 I don't fucking believe it. Could everyone stop getting shot? 
 Fuck knows. Too late to know know but I've done everything she wanted that I was aware of. 
 Ironically I have an appointment with my doctor for high blood pressure today. It's through the roof today as well. Shame I have to reschedule.

I'll probably be the only person in history trying to do the phone queue at 0830 to try and GIVE UP an appointment. 
 I can haz interesting paperwork.

Should be fun dealing with the bastard banks that want it though. 
 Met the Wrexham people on the train platform after they'd been waiting there for a while for a late train.

"How do you always just turn up in time James?"

Maybe I should tell them about RealTimeTrains. But nah. 
 I fecking love the black country. I'm currently listening to two old fat white men arguing about how to make garam masala.

They're both wrong... And both right. 
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 Aaaaaand I've just remembered I have a boxful of old BT branded DECT phones somewhere. 
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 If it makes any difference the staffing at Download isn't much better. 
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 There's loads of clashes for me this year. Perhaps I should have fewer interests. 
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 We have... problems with throwing things out. And problems with Ebay addiction. 
 I also have a container full of.... useful stuff. But I only have a small house

My excuse is that it's somewhere to keep camping stuff and the kayaks but also a load of old junk^H^H^H^Husefull stuff. 
 Just a 20' then? 
 I've never known one that opens at both ends. 
 Cool. We could make a worthy contender to challenge the magnificent Bude Tunnel. 
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 I have almost absolute zero trust in that prediction 
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 I had the same once although it was RAF rather than Navy. How come you ended up with the Navy? 
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 It's ok because a lot of people add a slice of lemon to the water. Mmmm. Citrus flavoured bacteria. 
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 I'm avoiding him like he has spicy rocks down his pants.