Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Mmmmm just checked...no thanks from Chucky for moi.....mmmm..
All said with a smile of course.:D
In case someone takes me seriously...you never know...

Hey, he called you respected somewhere else here...

lostinrates

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hs=NQu&resnum=0&q=hermes%20winged%20saddle&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

the winged saddle was second result on google image. TBH, I remember it a bit nicer.

dopester

lostinrates wrote: »

I can't believe both chucky and doepster thanked a post written about the vanity of johdpurs and a hermes ''fantasy'' saddle.

It is such a strange but nice word. Probably common knowledge to most people, but after checking it out, they were originally worn in a city in India (Jodhpur) after which they were named.

Also I thanked it because of the mix of info about the fashion scene/active horse-riding use, it is nice to know you are healthily active in the horsey scene and caring for animals, and the "riding Pegasus" jokey description gives a picture of some very fancy saddle.

lostinrates

dopester wrote: »

It is such a strange but nice word. Probably common knowledge to most people, but after checking it out, they were originally worn in a city in India (Jodhpur) after which they were named.

Also I thanked it because of the mix of info about the fashion scene/active horse-riding use, it is nice to know you are healthily active in the horsey scene and caring for animals, and the "riding Pegasus" jokey description gives a picture of some very fancy saddle.

Hey, I wasn't complaining Sweets.
The pronounciation we use in UK is jod-purr, where as my godmother, who lived in India says Jode-pour. I tend to say ''breeches'' or ''Jods''.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

zoopla?

People in the westcountry, as near as 8/ten years ago were obcessed with ''incomers''. Some firends of mine had bricks through their windows, their gretest crime offering to pay for some trees to create a treelined avenue in the village (as it was historically) ''them fancy incomers, wantin' to prettyry things, its not ust thems playground, its a workin' village'' :rolleyes: there were two price lists under village shop tills. there were various pranks played.

National parks do have bigger ''issues'' created by there stutus in what is still working land and more share of both the benefits and pitfalls of tourists and ''incomers''. I know someone on the moor who is very angry at their portrayal. Also heard an interview on radio 4 with Liz and a local woman: Liz complained, rather petualntly in a retaliative comment that things were ''friendlier back in London'' didn't seem to see she was making a rod for her own back.

I've never had too much trouble here. But then, I know what a midden is and understand the multiple uses of udder cream. Its fair to say there are pockets of resentment.

...oh?...... go on then.......multiple uses for Udder Cream (which I guess is like Sudocrem or Vaseline for cows?) for this weeks Facts from the Forum list....all those odd things one learns on here.

Did you ever find out the abbatoir cost of killing a cow? I was thinking about £100 per beast excl cutting it up.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Hey, he called you respected somewhere else here...

I was kidding about.
Read about your bid and your re-assessment of things. I think '' if in doubt, wait it out''...at least until DD gets his raise next year.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

...oh?...... go on then.......multiple uses for Udder Cream (which I guess is like Sudocrem or Vaseline for cows?) for this weeks Facts from the Forum list....all those odd things one learns on here.

Did you ever find out the abbatoir cost of killing a cow? I was thinking about £100 per beast excl cutting it up.

Udder cream is exactly what it sounds like....a bit like hand cream: which its also reasonable for, if a bit prosaic and very messy. But for udders its totally essential. I also use it on the bc of my horses'legs through out winter: its an exceelet wter repellant and prevents sores which can develop in part due to standing in mud.

I forgot about finding out about costs, will get to it and let you know.

ETA: costs tome locally would be ITRO

£95 cow
£18 calf
£ 17-30 pig
£14 lamb

fc123

I forgot to write on this..I can't believe I guessed correctly the cost of killing a cow within £5. I win £5.:D

Anyways.....a Liz Jones article was posted on LemonJellys thread so I thought I would update this one.
I am feeling a humble book coming on and, wouldn't surpirise me if she does a bit of research on the DFW board at some point.
ML needs to do her a telly money makeover.

So here are some juicy bits for the thread. BTW she spends £800pcm (every single month of the year) on her appearance.

Hard times: Liz Jones tried to get by on benefits for a week

I am exhausted. I cannot move or think. I look terrible, ugly. I feel completely humiliated. The reason? I have just spent a week trying to live on benefits.

I revealed in the Mail a couple of weeks ago how hopeless I am at living within my means, and that despite a hefty salary I am £150,000 in debt (not including my horrendous, interest-only mortgage; I don't even have a pension).


I am pursued by credit card companies and HM Revenue and Customs men (trust me, they are the Taliban of the money-collecting world, really aggressive and nasty) and Santander bank ('Bloody Spaniard!' I yelled incongruously at one of their operators the other day).

So having realised that, what with the £8.95 toothpaste and the £26,000 bat sanctuary, perhaps I was overdoing the spending, (FC; :rotfl:)
I decided I'd see whether I could survive on far less.


And if I was going to do that, why not go the whole hog and pretend I was unemployed? Now, at the end of my experiment living on the bottom rung of the ladder, I feel very ashamed.

I have a good salary, an education, I am a homeowner. I am also broke, and I am certainly reckless and stupid, but I am not poor.

Do you want more???


Oh go on then

At the start of my experiment I could not have told you how much a litre of petrol costs, or a pint of milk, or my broadband service, or a bar of soap. I had never thought about it.

And this woman is really selling her soul for a story now...I cannot believe this bit is true...no way.

The most humiliating incident of the entire week happened when I went to a pawn shop in Islington, having decided I would part company with a string of pearls given to me by my dad when I turned 18.


The nice Indian man inside told me business was booming. I extracted my velvet-lined case from my designer handbag which, having cost £1,000, I was beginning to resent, like an ex-wife hanging around my neck demanding alimony.

He took the necklace away. I felt a lump in my throat. He came back. 'These pearls are not real,' he said. 'They are plastic, maybe worth a pound.'
'Are you sure?' I said.

He pushed them back under the thick security glass. I started to cry.

Not because my dad had bought me plastic pearls, passing them off as real ones. But because my parents had been unable to buy nice things.

PasturesNew

I started to cry.

Not because my dad had bought me plastic pearls, passing them off as real ones. But because my parents had been unable to buy nice things.

I can't believe I just read that .... I can't believe somebody wrote that ... I can't believe that is somebody's real life.

Good lord. I hope I don't meet people like her when I move .... I'd be too brutally straight with her.

£800 to look good. That's a fortune in a year, never mind EVERY month! That's a whole month's salary for thousands of people ... fc ... will I be expected to spend £800/month looking good when I move??? I hope not

She really needs a slap with some reality. Real reality, not her version.

JanCee

£800 per month on her appearance and thats what she looks like!!! Good grief I actually feel sorry for the woman, she has been robbed.