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I haven't carried my NI card since I got it. I just memorised it and threw it in a drawer, cos that's how Players roll. For ID I quite like having my Drivers License card. It's quite useful in banks and that.
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I don't carry a wallet. Stuffed into my pockets in the manner of a schoolchild, however, is
Amazon Mastercard Lloyds Visa card Telephone Some keys
That's it. No money, no other membership cards, nothing. Like Jack Reacher I live off The Grid (except for the cards, and the phone).
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quote:Originally posted by Deep Freeze: if he was that big, he might have his own protective atmosphere, and yes froopy, his own gravitational field.
We could test this theory by dropping objects in Michael Moore's vicinity and observing their trajectories. You know, because's he's rather like a gas giant.
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quote:Originally posted by Deep Freeze: if he was that big, he might have his own protective atmosphere, and yes froopy, his own gravitational field.
We could test this theory by dropping objects in Michael Moore's vicinity and observing their trajectories. You know, because's he's rather like a gas giant.
It's worth bearing in mind that the area around Jupiter is subject to enormous amounts of electromagnetic radiation. Probably more than even a giant, Unicron-sized human being would be able to stand.
It's also highly unlikely that a human would be able to sustain an atmosphere, no matter how large, as the gravitational pull of a human would be much lower than that of a comparably sized planet, or even a much smaller planet with an iron core such as Earth.
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That's not my minimum load out, mind. Sometimes it's just the Visa card and the keys. Lo-fi stealth, like a ninja. If I'm going to London, I'll add an Oyster card to the mix. It's a versatile system. Each loadout precisely tailored to the missions I'm leaving the house to accomplish.
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We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.
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O noes! My handbag has just collapsed into a black hole!
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Someone needs to come out with a line of Black Hole™ Handbags.
Even better, as a gimmick you could position sales teams on street corners in major cities. Every salesperson would be seated in a wheelchair, Hawking them.
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eyethankewe, we'll be here all week...try the veal...
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Thorn is like the very antithesis of Hippy. He is the anti-matter to her gravitationally miraculous bag.
As for me (wallet/purse only): Coins, including random cents (US and euro) Boots advantage card Capital One credit card (zebra pattern) Lloyds debit card HSBC debit card Post-it with telephone number on it Borders reward card only valid in US. Useful Curry restaurant reward card Two BiTE discount cards - 20% off food at railway stations Cafe Nero reward card Three Leon reward cards Clarins reward card HSBC internet access number thing Lloyds internet access number thing Neals Yard acupuncture appointment card from two years ago Card about a carpet National Trust membership card South Bank membership card
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quote:Originally posted by McDirts: SNorton, why do you carry your NI card around?
Like some others on here, there's no particular reason. When I was working in Zürich there were plenty of forms I had to fill in, some of which required a myriad of otherwise pointless details - NI number, name of the gnome at the end of the garden, etc.
I think the NI card has remained in my wallet since then, along with the Austrian Schilling which became useless in early 2002.
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CAN NO ONE JUST REMEMBER THEIR ni NUMBER? tHEY'RE GOING TO NEED IT all their lives, best to commit it to memory. (sorry about the caps lock unpleasantness)
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quote:Originally posted by McDirts: CAN NO ONE JUST REMEMBER THEIR ni NUMBER? tHEY'RE GOING TO NEED IT all their lives, best to commit it to memory. (sorry about the caps lock unpleasantness)
It's like nine digits long, with letters and numbers! Who the hell can remember that?
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Wallet fans will be excited to learn that I've just done a bit more investigating and I've discovered some petrol receipts in a seldom-used compartment of my wallet. Both dated August 2008
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quote:Originally posted by Deep Freeze: fucking hell, herbs is hitting the rewards. That's brand motherfucking loyalty right there.
Back in 2003 Deep Freeze went to see Michael Moore giving a sermon, and chopped up his Nectar card and put it in a bin bag that a helper was carrying round and he shouted 'I am not loyal to BT, I am loyal to me'. Most TMO posters have probably only ever seen Michael Moore in the cinema or - even worse - on TV. Deep Freeze went to see him in person.
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I feel that by having so many reward/loyalty cards it shows that I am in fact loyal to no one company, but take advantage of The Man for myself. Cunning, eh.
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There's something really queasy about the details that are left out of that story.
quote: He appealed for the mother to come forward so that she could receive appropriate medical attention.
"We may be looking at heavy blood loss and the sooner we can locate her the sooner she can get medical help," he said.
Exactly what is it about the situation that makes them think the mother's bleeding? And then it just creates a horrible series of imaginings that led to the baby being abandoned while its dying mother disappears somewhere, somehow.
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