stuart_75

1 hour ago, lapal_fan said:

When viewing the retirement/pension topic I saw a few people mention houses etc.

I've always been interested in house prices and the movements etc.  

I'm about to start a new job in July, and I'll be earning a decent salary, so you always think "I wonder if this will allow me take a step up the ladder, house wise". 

The short answer to that is, no.  House prices are famously expensive now, but when I see things like this:

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/64748641/?search_identifier=d85dc712ac9002f1d56fb93dc9e50812a7bb2f517251a86f40228e16c9e58f08 (the valuation for a house near my mom and dads house and it's previous listing price)

It kinda makes my blood boil. 

How can you not extend, and essentially redecorate and put in a new kitchen/bathroom and in, and make £300k in less than 5 years?  It's also literally a grey hell hole, no personality or anything.. white and grey.. everywhere. 

Small garden too.  

Sad to say that this isn't uncommon either, it's happening in a lot of deceased houses around my area.  Buy them, strip them back, paint white/grey, install lower-middle quality kitchen bathroom, astro the garden, deck the rest - boom, a profit of around £150k..  It's incredible and I can't wait for the bubble to burst.  

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/64748641/?search_identifier=d85dc712ac9002f1d56fb93dc9e50812a7bb2f517251a86f40228e16c9e58f08 (the listing of the house) They haven't even gone over the garage extension either.. 

Edit.  It isn't just  the price of the house either, it's the interest rates of around 5.5% which means that house would only cost you £2,900 a month..   

Something has to give, surely? 

Half a million quid for a gaff in Halesowen, Jesus H Christ.

Is that purely because of the distance to B'ham?

1 hour ago, DCJonah said:

I have friends who get company cars, shares in the company, private health care and gym memberships, 3 hour lunches in the pub, flexible working hours etc.

I need a job at this place!

Re-watching Better Call Saul. God damn, Kim is 100% MILF

8 hours ago, villa4europe said:

I bet that word removed isn't from Manchester

Of course he's not.

Warwickshire.

The only work around to get the stream on a larger screen is an Android emulator on the PC, not all work mind you.

26 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Even so, it seems like a pretty good (and unexpected) deal. Obviously, the close season is a blank, but next season's Premier League up to the end of November for free is OK. I'm just looking for the catch. 

There's no catch, other than the size of a phone screen to watch the channels.

I have one of these now TV sports deals for mobile only. One word of warning it's just premier league no cup games or championship games.

I have used the mu mu Android emulator on my PC and the app will run on the big screen.

14 hours ago, rjw63 said:

Did manage to catch Glenroy Mommy's Boy who was out in his car, probably taking Mommy shopping again. 

It seems during his call the "ice cream van" parked next to him, the one that sells green "Ice cream". 

Mate. 

I heard him grovel for forgiveness after swearing on-air the last time he rang in. I imagine his mother made him send in a written apology if he had the crayons to do so.

The ice cream van in the background was just plain weird. Was he actually working and selling Mr Whippy's to the young street urchins of Small Heath while dialing in??

3 hours ago, Follyfoot said:

Wow, what a gem of a film, a little bit of Eastwood style 'man with no name' Western, a little bit of Rambo 'going to need some more body bags and do my own stitches'  and a fair sprinkling of Tarantino type storytelling. 

Great way to kill (Nazis) for an hour and a half 

Just about to post the same thing. Cracking film!

The 2007 reissue with the extra tracks.

Season 3 of Godfather of Harlem is great. New fella playing Malcolm X this season, and he's pretty good.

14 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Just ordered the first and only series of Manimal on DVD 

 

Speaking as a child of the 80's, I grew up on this, Street Hawk, TJ Hooker and Automan.

Great shows.

10 hours ago, rjw63 said:

Ffs WM, the Polly thing really needs to stop now.

She met the new owner but didn’t have the drink he was buying everyone because she’d already had one, a lemonade. Oh the excitement.

Wants “our Jookie” to stay even though he’s 49 (silly old word removed should know he’s got another year on his contract and no one else is desperate enough to want him).

Only watched the BAFTAs because she wanted Cillian Murphy to win, no prizes for guessing why.

The only way this show can get any more braindead is if they get Rakeeeeeeeeeeeeem to present it.

Matey matey mcMateroonie.

In town?

King Kenny in the VAR booth tonight

On 10/05/2023 at 21:26, DCJonah said:

Ted Lasso season 1 was brilliant. 

I gave up in season 2 because it was shit and wasn't really about Ted anymore. 

I agree with you on season 1, I thought season 2 was ok, but season 3.....good lord, its bad, really bad. Just get in the bin. Truly awful TV.

15 hours ago, Paddywhack said:

This thread has been so dry the last 12 months

How’s everyone’s running going? Did anyone do the Great Birmingham Run on Sunday? What races you got planned for the year?

I did it. 5th time now, probably my last (I've enough of the t-shirts!).

Not entered anything else for this year. I did a 50km ultra last year and I told myself 'NO MORE RACES'!

I heard some nose on here last night, he seemed to be able to string together words into sentences so I had high hopes.

Well, all he seemed happy about was the "Shelby" connection with the new takeover group. That's all he was bothered about.

Moron.

Mate.

I managed to jump on the Octopus Gas tracker in Feb before word got out and they started putting everyone on a (6 month) waiting list.

@Milfner were you waiting long for the invite to Electric Tracker?

34 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

Could be an argument to scrap 1 and 2p coins.

 

A few years ago this was suggested and the Daily Mail and its readership went into meltdown.

4 hours ago, Seat68 said:

Watched Dungeons and Dragons yesterday, I swear they may homage to the old kids cartoon during the maze scenes, but my memory is hazy on the characters from it. 
Enjoyable film all told. Rattles along at a good pace, not too much to think about. 

I thought it was decent as well, Chris Pine brought in just the right amount of humour.

Can't believe the Tories lost control of Bromsgrove. They've had an iron grip on it for 24 years!

7 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

I've never been massively into Ted Lasso, at it's best it's a 7/10 show for me, but this season has been absolutely dreadful.

The last couple of episodes he's basically a B character in a show about a pr firm I couldn't give a toss about.  Half of the season feels like filler. I'm watching it with the other half but can't wait until it's done.

This season feels like a huge drop off in quality and I'm only on episode 2. I find that Keely character very annoying now she seems to be centre stage.

I'm sure Daz said that Chuck was one of our players out on loan last night when he was reeling off our younger prospects. Complete tool.