The totally off-topic thread

[amaroo]

Tv ad - Dyson hair dryer $565 incl postage.
Just use a towel

Cheese and kisses got one the other day ... bargain as the daughter also uses it

 

[mannej]

Just as the QF site was down this morning, so is the Nespresso site.

Convenient it is during a free postage period...

 

[Pushka]

Wonderful R&D rebates they have in the UK.

The ones in Australia arent too bad either..

 

[TheRealTMA]

And Diana, but the whole inbreeding thing was a long time ago

They didn't "diversify" with Diana. The Spencers have almost as long a claim to the English Crown as the German lot.

 

[serfty]

They didn't "diversify" with Diana. The Spencers have almost as long a claim to the English Crown as the German lot.

How can you tell?! (Royal Family Tree | Britroyals)

 

[Pushka]

They didn't "diversify" with Diana. The Spencers have almost as long a claim to the English Crown as the German lot.

True. But my personal opinion is that she diversified the gene mix

 

[TheRealTMA]

True. But my personal opinion is that she diversified the gene mix

Yes. There have been several suggestions that she did diversify the mix from the Windsors.

 

[Pushka]

Jeez. Lucky I checked. Found three kids and a pet rabbit inside.



Yes. I’m at the Laundromat. I currently do not have a laundry.

 

[rogerkambah]

we are planning to go - the purists have been knocking it, as too lowbrow for the NGA, but I am looking forward to it

Any watches?

 

[Quickstatus]

How can you tell?! (Royal Family Tree | Britroyals)

I think...
Stuart line, James II (AKA James VII Scotland I think)
Spencers connected to this line via illegitimate Royal mistresses. Yes there were Royal mistresses
Apparently Mary and Anne were the legitimate heirs and female so really considered as chattel. But Charles apparently had a lot more illegitimate offspring.

Very confusing.....

 

[love_the_life]

Any watches?

Yes, there are quite a few (mainly women's I think but don't quote me) and clocks also. Some are really interesting. There is a small section with famous men and Cartier (lot of big photos but from memory some watches there as well).
The NGA site has a few photos and there are watches and clocks among them.

 

[JohnK]

When the cops arrived I asked that she be breathalysed and they questioned why I would want that since if she was found to be drunk, her insurance wouldn't pay to fix my car!! I was adamant, because I was livid and I did not care.

Wouldn't your insurance still cover you if you can identify the other driver? If their insurance doesn't pay then they are liable and that would be for your insurance to chase up.

 

[ALH]

Yes, or... I was in an accident once and I was livid about it because the woman drove through a stop sign and we were all lucky I was able to slow down enough to hit her rear quarter panel and not plough my mother's Saab into the back seat where her kids were screaming. When the cops arrived I asked that she be breathalysed and they questioned why I would want that since if she was found to be drunk, her insurance wouldn't pay to fix my car!! I was adamant, because I was livid and I did not care.

I just ran the question by my Insurance Broker.

That is correct!

If the other driver was found over the limit, or was uninsured, AND I had alcohol in my system that night, my insurance would not have covered me either. Even though I was not at fault. Scary

 

[rogerkambah]

Cheeky question. Second upgrade this year yesterday afternoon and only April. Daughter wasn't in booking but she comfortably slept on my arm in business.

I don't understand how your daughter was allowed on the plane if not in the booking. Surely the a/c manifest has to be an accurate record of all POB?

Won't be long now before you have to pay for her.

 

[rogerkambah]

Never under underestimate the uses of duct tape when on hols.

As an alternative to Imodium?

 

[Denali]

5.15am is not fun, when you've been waking without an alarm clock for a 3 weeks.

 

[love_the_life]

5.15am is not fun, when you've been waking without an alarm clock for a 3 weeks.

And is MrD recovered?

 

[RooFlyer]

I don't understand how your daughter was allowed on the plane if not in the booking. Surely the a/c manifest has to be an accurate record of all POB?

Another 'trick of the trade'?

 

[Flying mermaid]

Awfully sad, and so easy.

We were sitting 3 mètres from the pool with friends, when one of their kids quietly walked into the beach area of the pool and slid under. Mr ALH was the only one who saw her disappear, he knocked over his chair and suddenly sprinted into the pool. Not a sound was made, not even a ripple on the surface. Despite all her swimming lessons, she was basically lying underwater and doing nothing to save herself.

NOTHING works around pools except supervision.

i was standing in the shallow end of the pool with Ms FM when on hols. Chatting to someone on the edge but keeping an eye on her. She walked a little away from me and the water went over her nose and she just froze - she didn’t attempt to move back or anything. I grabbed her and pulled her back, but I reckon she would have just stood there and died if no one was watching. She was about 18 months and on returning home I immediately put her into toddler swimming classes.

 

[Pushka]

I just ran the question by my Insurance Broker.

That is correct!

If the other driver was found over the limit, or was uninsured, AND I had alcohol in my system that night, my insurance would not have covered me either. Even though I was not at fault. Scary

Insurance companies must love the alcohol ‘get out clause’. I’d hope you’d have to blow over the limit before they could use it though.