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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

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  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,268 Forumite
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    michaels wrote: »
    I for one would be flattered :)

    Cold has now caught up with me (builders turned off immersion fuse yesterday and forgot to turn it on again so luke warm shower this AM and even though I have not lifted anything today or even twisted awkwardly my back has gone into spasm making any movement pretty much agony. And DD2 has picked up the vomiting bug going round her school while DW is getting emotional blackmail from her big son who has had a more than generous pay out for his car that someone drove in to but can not be bothered to sort himself out a replacement. Also still no sign of the builder sorting out the boiler but I am in no state to confront him about it.

    Maybe now is the time to take a well-earned bargain break weekend at a local hotel? Plus some Ibuprofen to relieve the back inflammation?
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • sss555s
    sss555s Posts: 3,175 Forumite
    It's Friday night! (almost) and time for some awesomeness from Michael Winslow (Jones from Police Academy).......

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxcCC2g1Ke0


    :T
  • misskool
    misskool Posts: 12,832 Forumite
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    I've just committed a spend of £32k today and I don't feel anything. that is wrong.

    I should feel something :/
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    misskool wrote: »
    I've just committed a spend of £32k today and I don't feel anything. that is wrong.

    I should feel something :/

    Er... don't tell MSE Martin. Poor chap would have a heart attack:money:.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • silvercar
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    misskool wrote: »
    I've just committed a spend of £32k today and I don't feel anything. that is wrong.

    I should feel something :/

    Happy ? New car?
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  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    JonnyBravo wrote: »
    On a Friday??
    Got to be a good chance you won't see him again today.

    Just got home. The shower screen is up. :D So is the mirror next to it. :) The huge gash in the wall in my bedroom (where the pipework for the shower is) has been filled in with plaster. :) Several rooms have curtain poles/tracks. :) My bedroom door opens in the correct direction. :) The wall over the half landing is the same colour as the ones either side of it. :)

    Hoping for good news soon on the rest of the curtain poles/tracks, the hole in the laminate floor, and the bathroom radiator.
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
  • PasturesNew
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    PHEAR my knowledge: http://i51.tinypic.com/1zflpxt.jpg
  • misskool
    misskool Posts: 12,832 Forumite
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    silvercar wrote: »
    Happy ? New car?

    No, work related spends.

    But just wondering how people get used to dealing with money in such large amounts without bothering them.

    It's strange.
  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,268 Forumite
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    misskool wrote: »
    No, work related spends.

    But just wondering how people get used to dealing with money in such large amounts without bothering them.

    It's strange.


    It's somebody else's money? Easy-peasy! The real trouble occurs when they start wanting little kick-backs for spending that money. It starts with the office manager ordering coffee and keeping the free gift that comes with it. And it ends with this little story from my cousin, who was in the oil business.

    "Why does <tiny country> have 7 oil refineries, when 2 would do? So that the president could take a kick-back on the other 5."
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    Re geography games. Spurred on by all the sss's one, found these:

    http://www.easytorecall.co.uk/how_well_do_you_know_your_world.htm
    This one's a game against the clock as much as anything else. It is evil.

    http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/gamespages/jigsaw.html
    These are map games from Ordnance Survey to put counties in a map. You can choose England, Wales, Scotland, etc...
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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