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10. He keeps it all sweet.

9. Thanks, I hadn't realised their were windows there.

8. He wanted to sack him, but then remembered he had no-one left.

7. I swear, it'll be confectionary that brings down the government.

6. Infatuation isn't a great word to use when talking about a relationship.

5. If he's a role model, why does he have to take his shirt off?

4. She's got biscuits coming out of her ears, even the beds have them under.

3. They come and go, but you can always get a new cleaner.

2. The phone I have seems to have turned into the devil on my shoulder.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. No, it was the one where they froze Harrison Ford.

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10. I don't like to quote yourself back to you, but here you go.

9. We need to start the fight back.

8. I had tuna, I bloody love tuna.

7. He should get the sack, you can't get away with that for that long and not get caught.

6. If you're in charge you need to dress the part and not look like a tramp.

5. All the predictions are that we'll be drinking lots and falling over.

4. That bus is always packed with really wealthy pensioners, there's none wearing anoraks.

3. Her face is always everywhere, you can't get away from t.

2. That's what they've been told, but it's not the truth.

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1. It's like there's a prison in the brain there, with only one inmate.

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10. They were hanging on for dear life.

9. Trump is a racist, but will anyone stop him.

8. I returned them for recycling and they gave me back a fiver.

7. He drinks like George Best on a day off.

6. It's a real money-spinner, you can't lose.

5. She kept messaging me, but all sent back were pictures of panda bears.

4. They have the right smell, but I'm not sure about the flavour if I'm honest.

3. If it pours with rain I don't mind as it means I get to spend more time with the dog.

2. It would appear that you're right, which is my least favourite thing to say.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. I don't have to like him, he just has to do the job.

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10. It seems to be that no-one cares about him when he's being a twat.

9. Those jeans will go with that top and that top will go with Saturday night.

8. You can keep that drink for yourself, it's disgusting, it tastes like putrid socks.

7. That's a bold assumption to make when you're wearing that outfit.

6. I thought I was in 1996 all over again, I had cargo pants on.

5. The Snapchat to me is the end of humanity.

4. I liked his pictures and he liked one of mine from months ago.

3. The traffic seems to have been diverted through their front garden.

2. They keep painting them different colours to little benefit.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. I know a stable genius, my horse does The Times crossword!

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10. I was sick all over it.

9. Talk about a revolution.

8. It's a cream bun, that's all.

7. I'm fed up of diets, I'm just going to eat all the way through to March.

6. No-one in the household even likes mince pies, but we've got them for some reason.

5. We don't buy each other anything, and it's such a relief.

4. I'm off now until the 15th of January, I'm going to take an evening class.

3. The Christmas party ended so badly he has had to leave.

2. They've got to get a new manager before the place becomes bankrupt.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. They've even bought a helicopter, but I don't know where they keep it.

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10. I must have been dreaming.

9. He's really not interested in any work of any kind if he can avoid it.

8. It was when there were letters being sent back and forth.

7. Iceland have them all in one set, they don't taste great, but you can't argue on the price.

6. I fell asleep straight after I put it in the oven, I don't know what happened after that.

5. She didn't get the role and got all emotional, as you'd aspect.

4. I'm not letting him get a phone, it'll make him antisocial.

3. Mostly it's just decorative, you can't eat it, I think.

2. I'm going to defrost it under the hedge in a bucket.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. She doesn't really love him, but she's not worked that out yet.

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10. I've always liked blue in that pattern.

9.  Everything's been bought apart from a present for myself, that I always do.

8. I put a gin in my flask and no-one found out.

7. It felt so naked, for all the good things about it.

6. Trust is the most important aspect of it all.

5. It'll rain and then it'll freeze and it'll be a deathtrap.

4. The shift finishes at 2, but Jason was there until 4 as he couldn't find his locker.

3. I forgot the cheese, what am I going to put on the jacket potatoes?

2. They agreed to go for a drink, I don't know who was less enthusiastic, hr or him.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. There's a call centre in hell apparently and I'm working in it.

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10. It's all bought, but I don't like any of it if I'm honest.

9. The Post Office was full of my ex's family.

8. What a nice looking lady she is.

7. The bright orange one that looks like a Quality Street.

6. I opened the door to find a rat on the doorstep.

5. Jason will go to the pub and the beast will return.

4. He had wellies on and it was 25 degrees.

3. I better see what disastrous set of biscuits you've bought.

2. I don't like like her, only a bit.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. Don't send my love to them.

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10. It's a Snapchat situation truly.

9. I don't need you to explain everything to me you know.

8. You are so mundane.

7. All he does it gossip.

6. I was laughing so hard at her saying the wrong thing and getting dumped.

5. She didn't do much work when she was at work, so it's not much of a loss.

4. £25 that's all I've got till Thursday.

3. It was covered in salt and had to be washed off first.

2. Plenty of bottles of wine, but no opener, we started to groan and I swear I heard a cry.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. The telephone was not invented for you to take selfies, it was invented for me to take selfies.

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10. It happened to six people I've worked with and it took years for something to be done.

9. Starting is much easier than finishing.

8. Write it off, we all have.

7. Had tinsel all over the garage.

6. There wasn't enough food, so we ran to Tesco and filled three trolleys.

5. Instagram isn't the answer to everything.

4. You're working it well.

3. I'm not going to give you her name, she doesn't like you.

2. Katie just kept on drinking and it's obvious she has a problem.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. It's such a strong view to have I just stopped talking to her, full stop.

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10. I've bought it all, but I don't know what it actually does.

9. There's no fun in there, believe me.

8. He expected me to be excited, but I wasn't and I still am not.

7. It's sheer, which makes keeping warm in the frost quite tough.

6. I punched him out, then he weren't laughing.

5. No, she got on the other bus, she can't stand to look at me.

4. It's so dull I fell asleep and woke up when they'd all died.

3. At some stage I'll look up and not know where I am.

2. A watch that doesn't even tell the time, a revolution.

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1. They've already had their party, only two went, they took all the food home.

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10. Going is sort of worse than not going.

9. Stupidest person imaginable.

8. All the presents are done.

7. I've decided to turn on them as a surprise.

6. Nothing has been produced at all.

5. Nando's apparently, chicken and something.

4. Stuck there for 5 hours with nothing interesting to Snapchat.

3. It had cake all over it, so I just did my coat up and carried on.

2. The fundamental problem is, no data left.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. Please keep it a secret amongst just us here.

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10. I won't know until January.

9. I don't want to sit with other people.

8. It makes you look like a pixie.

7. That one I can answer without lying or making anything up.

6. Christmas can be cancelled as far as I'm concerned.

5. Halloween is not from America, people just don't read history.

4. She should be careful not to break her hip.

3. Sarah thought she was being so smart and quite frankly she wasn't at all.

2. Very entertaining, I laughed at all the wrong moments.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. Why don't you and your sister put down your weapons, I mean your phones.

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10. I'm going to let it run to it's conclusion.

9. I protect you from harm, I sopped you buying that dress.

8. Brave enough for the whole town, but not going to actually do anything.

7. So much chocolate in the shops already.

6. He was ringing to change his phone plan and got through to a chatline.

5. A big guy, with shoulders like a coffee table.

4. Socks, that's the trend for winter.

3. We bought the fireworks already, storing them under the oven.

2. It's so badly designed, every time I turn off the light I set off the burglar alarm.

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1. Irresistible to women everywhere, including my wife.

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10. I haven't seen what I can't talk about.

9. People think he's hot, I think he's dead boring.

8. It's just a backpack, no need to get like that.

7. Experts think it's worth over £200.

6. What's wrong with them, why wear white?

5. I owe him money and he doesn't take cards.

4. I never sit there, I can't get out if someone sits next to me.

3. Subway always has that strange smell, I don't go in there any more.

2. The points added up, but I still missed the level and so I lose them all now.

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1. I was so disappointed I nearly woke up.

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10. I've really been holding out for it, but to no hope, really.

9. I'm on Sylvia's side in this, she deserves someone who just acknowledges her.

8. She's done all her shopping up until the Spring.

7. They drank a lot, and he really hates it, but he always does it.

6. They're perfect together, but they need to know where their limits are.

5. I never really thought about him when I was away, bad isn't it.

4. God gets talked about all the time, I'm sure he's bored of it.

3. No I got fish, which hardly anyone in our street seems to buy.

2. It'll run mostly empty all day, but they'll never give the route up.

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1. That one's unresponsive, you'll have to try further south, down here.

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Excited Council in the Market for a Cheap & Quick Erection

A plan for a 15 storey block of flats with no parking in a town centre would get a careful objective look you'd think.

Not in Swindon. Not when the point of having a planning system seems now to be pointless, with councillors and officers now in agreement, as it seems anything goes. That goes for a cheap and quick erection, especially if the threat of having to pay costs after it's in the other's favour.

Councillors positively salivated at the council meeting that approved it, as if it's the most exciting event since the last round of councillors pay increases or budget cuts.

The best of the show was the parish council for the area, highlighting the pokey nature of the size of the flats in the block, along with the shadow the building will cast on it's neighbours across Commercial Road, the lack of any car parking and the the look of the building.

From an official SBC point of view, there's no point having any 'Affordable Housing' designated in the block as it's not likely it's what council tenants need and want (you want to go down to page 62 in the link).

Makes you think if the council don't reckon they could rent out the flats, what hope the private sector?

No mention was made about the block going against the Swindon Town Centre Masterplan that any development should "complement the scale and massing of the surrounding town centre buildings" (page 109 if you can find a copy). Things have certainly changed since the council strongly objected and rejected plans before based on the appearance of the building.

Stan 'your local, but not quite' man got very excited and compared it to the David Murray John.

Stan really should know better than to compare a block of flats designed in a couple of months to a vast town centre rebuilding plan that was decades in the planning and building.

The irony seemed to be lost on all the councillors that the view of the town centre's landmark, the DMJ from Deacon Street , will now be lost when the 15 storey erection goes up in front of it.

One word of warning that the council seems to have missed comes from the owner of Signal Point at the railway station. Network Rail have been blocking that being turned into flats as it will make it more difficult to demolish and redevelop later. Is the council boxing itself into a corner with approving all the office to flats conversions in the town centre (two in nearby Farnsby Street in just the last year) making demolition far more difficult if something better comes along?

I'm not sure most councillors are that bothered, by that time they'll all be staring longingly, shivering in their macs at the vast cheap erection surrounded by illegally-parked cars, in the shadowy wind tunnel of Commercial Road with empty restaurant units.

One cheap and quick erection, coming soon!

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10. I'll haunt ya.

9. There's only about 10% of people who give a toss.

8. It's still being resurfaced and will be finished when I'm dead I believe.

7. Brilliantly he didn't notice when his pants were undone.

6. Something else, about couscous, but it wasn't clear.

5. A photo a day of you eating breakfast, that's what I'd like to see.

4. I was knocking them back and Snapchatting her.

3. Of course I didn't go on the training course, I know how to open doors.

2. Perspective is a wonderful thing when you've quit your awful job.

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1. She got attacked by a load of hashtags.

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10. He suffers in silence, apart from when he talks about it.

9. Sorry, that's all the money I have in the world.

8. It turns left, then two rights and straight over the junction.

7. Just calm down and keep it to yourself, I don't want those lot sat up front to know.

6. It's a shocking injury when you consider I can still move it.

5. They're going to sell it all off to the highest bidder, not that there'l be much interest.

4. Keep all that evidence in the bag and we'll get it out when we get there.

3. Steve said he'd tell me what happened in the meeting when I go for lunch with him next week.

2. Well I can afford taxis each day, it doesn't mean that I should be taking then just because I can.

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1. It was not long after I'd been married for the second time around.

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10. The hours really are slipping by.

9. If it depends on Des then we're all going to be in big trouble.

8. I could barely hear it, it was that low.

7. Did you see that in that window, she had just a hat on.

6. There was a scream that sounded like he was being tickled.

5. Me leaving is for the best when it's all said and done.

4. It got thrown up and over and right towards the front door.

3. There was a small guitar left in the room and the next day someone had taken it.

2. Tightened so tight I couldn't feel a thing below my neck.

And the number one overheard phrase on Swindon's buses from last week is...

1. It's delayed for another few weeks, they didn't realise how old the road is, could have looked on an old map, twats.

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