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mjmooney

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  1. I'm not quite as bad as Tony, diet-wise, but that African plate has zero appeal for me.
  2. I initially assumed that was satire, but he's serious, isn't he?
  3. No. My younger daughter and her partner are both employed, with two school age kids, and renting a very basic house. It's too small for them really, but they would jump at the chance to buy it, or one just the same. Absolutely no chance. They can't save enough to get the large deposit they would need, and the building societies wouldn't give them a mortgage without a big deposit. That said, it's true that some are over-picky, but that's not a new thing. We bought our first house in 1984 - a Victorian terrace that needed a lot of work (which we did, steadily, over several years). At the time, I had a slightly younger colleague looking to buy, and he asked me (and another guy who had also just bought) for advice. We both said the same thing - get a terrace in an unfashionable area, and do it up. He was aghast - "Ugh! I'm not living in an old terrace, it must be new, and fully detatched!" First time buyer on a modest wage? Good luck with that, we said. Never found out what happened. EDIT: My suspicion is that he borrowed way beyond his limit (because the building societies in those days were handing out 5% mortgages like confetti) and bought a tiny (but new, and detached) crappy house on a Barratt estate. And within two years, interest rates had soared to 15%. Whatever floats your boat.
  4. The posh people were ahead of the game, with their obsession with using 'one'.
  5. Even if found guilty he would simply deny it, cry fake news/smear tactics, and they would believe him.
  6. And Trump is not a normal candidate, he's a cult leader.
  7. Good assessment. Pretty much the way Beckham was (once he'd grown up a bit).
  8. mjmooney

    Do you read?

    Further than I've ever got with any Dickens.
  9. There's a hook? It's anonymous generic bleepy shit. Could be anything - that stuff all sounds the same! (Yes, I'm well aware that that's what my parents said about The Beatles and Stones).
  10. I had an ES-335 copy a few years ago, with a Bigsby. Didn't like it. Plus I couldn't get on with the tall frets, so I sold it, and bought a Gretsch G2622 - hardtail, medium jumbo frets, much better. Funnily enough, I've just bought myself a Strat with a whammy bar. I bottled out of blowing the money on a Fender (can't justify it), and went for a Squier - cheapest model, too, again because of the frets. It's OK, but nothing too exciting.
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