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One day Zeity is going to come on to TPD and announce that he's just given the lustee a damn good seeing to, and that'll be the end of all this innuendo.

I don't approve of fireworks, but even I'll be firing off rockets when he does!

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Evening denizens

Got my new glasses today

There's a brilliant pun on chimpanzees and spectacles that I'm dying to use, right now.

I wonder what it is?

[BrowneIssue]

An aunt (my uncle's second wife, and he was her second husband) died last week. As previously arranged, she is to be buried with her first husband up North.

The undertaker wanted to charge an extra £300 or so for the journey. So her son from her first marriage has decided to take her there himself in his estate car

Well it's got to be more reliable than ParcelFarce or CityFink.

Actually, that's not a bad price for guaranteed specialist delivery. And if her son does his back in moving the box, he'll be kicking himself. Well, he won't, but you know what I mean.

I think I'd have paid the £300.

[BrowneIssue]

Got my new glasses today

The distant-vision ones make things fairly close look smaller and have distorted my depth perception, with the result that I have so far missed three door handles

Ah well, I'll get used to them eventually, I hope

Have you worn specs before, or is this the first time?

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Hey, where is everyone?

All cleared off after the kilopost, I see.

[NickFitz]

Have you worn specs before, or is this the first time?

Been wearing them since I was about thirteen, but I've always had the one pair (for short sight) before now. They said back then that if I also used them for reading, even though I didn't need them for that, it would help stop my sight getting worse too quickly.

Over thirty years later, I'm finally at the point of needing both distance and reading glasses

I hadn't had my eyes checked in thirteen or fourteen years. Looking at the road signs today, I concluded that I've probably been driving with inadequate sight correction for several years

[NickFitz]

Well it's got to be more reliable than ParcelFarce or CityFink.

Actually, that's not a bad price for guaranteed specialist delivery. And if her son does his back in moving the box, he'll be kicking himself. Well, he won't, but you know what I mean.

I think I'd have paid the £300.

Should give the RAC chap a bit of a shock if he breaks down on the M6

[NickFitz]

Hey, where is everyone?

All cleared off after the kilopost, I see.

I'm clearing off to the pub now

[BrowneIssue]

Been wearing them since I was about thirteen, but I've always had the one pair (for short sight) before now. They said back then that if I also used them for reading, even though I didn't need them for that, it would help stop my sight getting worse too quickly.

Over thirty years later, I'm finally at the point of needing both distance and reading glasses

I hadn't had my eyes checked in thirteen or fourteen years. Looking at the road signs today, I concluded that I've probably been driving with inadequate sight correction for several years

Hmm. I'm in a similar place.

Suddenly needed them at 10 years old. My prescription has barely changed since. Yet now, quite suddenly, I cannot see things that are close up.

I suppose I ought to go get some new ones...

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I'm clearing off to the pub now

Good-O!

Have a few for me.

I'm going to bed soon 'cos I've got a headache, I ache, I'm sneezing and coughing.