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    Things that piss you off that shouldn't

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    On 25/06/2017 at 18:50, Xela said:

    Had the 'two bob bits' all day and now my arse is red raw. The usually soft quilted toilet tissue is like sandpaper sprinkled with gravel and glass shards on my poor butthole and crack :(

    I've not even had anything spicy or dodgy! 

    FML :mellow:

     

    It's the Ulcerative Colitis that is.  Get some Salofalk foam enemas, jobs a good un

    Trite Observations About the Housing Market

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    7 minutes ago, magnkarl said:

    I think this is a very hot topic that will show huge breaks between generations. I started off with a minging flat in Erdington when I got out of uni in the late 70's, it cost me literally all my money a month to keep up with the interest alone, but after a hell of a lot of graft and work I managed to pay off enough and work hard at renovating so that I could sell that flat and move to a nicer semi in Tadley in Hampshire. I got a job in Twickenham and sat on the train for what felt like an eternity for my commute. After about 5 years of doing what I did with my original flat I flipped again and moved to a little village just outside Winchester. All in all it took me over 20 years to get to a decent place - and I had so many sleepless nights about how to manage to get there.

    I get that it is a lot harder for young people to get on the ladder these days, but I really don't see the same sort of spirit to move anywhere, and I mean anywhere, to get a job and a place to live these days as back then. From my year 10-11 in a small school outside Dudley only 1 of my friends have stayed in the area. The rest have scattered throughout the UK and the world. That is what we had to do to get on the ladder. When I look at my kids' friends and their kids again I see very little urgency in getting on the ladder unless it's by skipping those horrible 10 years that I had to go through. The thing is that a ladder doesn't start half way up. That might sound harsh but it is reality - the best advice I ever gave my daughter was to move to Reading to find a job and stop looking in Winchester. She's now got a great job and have been given the opportunity to work in Southampton - none of which would happen if she insisted on working 5 minutes from our door.

    Just on a personal note which village just outside Winchester?  Both my children were born in Royal Hampshire Hospital and I commuted everyday for 10 years into London from a sleepy village in Wiltshire?  Pm if more appropriate.

    The Thread of Dreams

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    2 hours ago, Xela said:

    I actually dreamt I was posting on the forum last night and getting involved in a heated argument with a few posters over the merits of a particular car over another. 

    I won't name the posters as I will be monitoring their behaviour to see if they become as aggressive on here in real life as they are in my (sad) dreams! 

     

     

    A Granada over the Rover SD1, you word removed :D

    Totally useless information/trivia

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    7 hours ago, BOF said:

    Back in the day (as in when my Dad was a wee lad), there was such a thing as sugar sandwiches.  Not so popular now obviously, but I imagine it's along the same lines.

    I can remember vividly having fried bread topped with sugar as a Sunday morning treat.

    Virgin Media

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    14 hours ago, NurembergVillan said:

    It's ok.  I was with them and was really pleased at first, but was on the old TiVo box which was rubbish.  Internet speeds were great but the hub meant poor wifi coverage in the house.  I recently moved house to one that doesn't have Virgin - they're charging me £240 for breaking the contract.  I was 14 months into an 18 monther.  Left a sour taste.

    We have recently moved from Virgin to Sky, mainly because of the lack of technical care they showed us.  We basically lost all functionality on our boxes as they were not talking to the server.  This lasted a couple of months, no series links, no TV guides and no catch up, all services they claimed were added value at no extra cost, which was untrue if they even bothered to look at the bills they were sending out.

    I cancelled my contract with them and they wanted to charge us the £240 for breaking the contract, after numerous e-mails and letters using the resolver online service, and pointing out that we were only still in contract due to the fact they blew our homehub up when they launched superfast broadband, they cancelled that bill.

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    Manchester Arena Explosion

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    As @Xela and myself have said today has been quite an emotional day.  I think I have just realised why, my son is at Manchester Uni and him and his sister have been to many concerts at the Manchester Arena, and even my wife and daughter went to see Disney on Ice there before Christmas.  A similar age demographic for those attending last night, even in my wildest nightmares did i not think to say be careful and come back safe and that is what thousands of parents will be thinking today.  I remember watching a documentary on 9/11 and a fire fighter saying always remember to tell them you love them as you leave, so true.

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