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Brilliant ideas thread.
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Why don't banks send you a txt message evertime you spend money on your card. That way, if someone steals your card details, you'd know straight away.Comment
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why dont the banks text eveytime the wife spends money on your card, that way you can arrange to get it stolen by a drug crazed crack fiend who will invariably spend less than the missusOriginally posted by DimPrawn View PostWhy don't banks send you a txt message evertime you spend money on your card. That way, if someone steals your card details, you'd know straight away.
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Why don't fish and chip shops in the South sell gravy? I'm sure there is a mint (gravy) to be made.The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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Open a chain of fast food restaurants that serves only supermarket microwave ready meals that take < 5 minutes to heat up so that workers can have a different sit down hot meal every day. No expensive chef to hire.Comment
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Because gravy with fish is wrong, wrong wrong.Originally posted by Bagpuss View PostWhy don't fish and chip shops in the South sell gravy? I'm sure there is a mint (gravy) to be made.
Curry sauce? That's OK, but never, on any account, gravy.
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They do, but it's called a 'jus' down here.Originally posted by Bagpuss View PostWhy don't fish and chip shops in the South sell gravy? I'm sure there is a mint (gravy) to be made.
HTHScience isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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They are called "put whatever chain reastaurant name you can think of here"Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostOpen a chain of fast food restaurants that serves only supermarket microwave ready meals that take < 5 minutes to heat up so that workers can have a different sit down hot meal every day. No expensive chef to hire.Carpe Pactum
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Every member on CUK (active or not) to send me £100 every week for 1 yearOriginally posted by DimPrawn View PostPlease post any flashes of brilliance you might have here.
It's Deja-vu all over again!
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