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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

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  • Spirit_2
    Spirit_2 Posts: 5,546 Forumite
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    You have all been very busy today, it has taken me a couple of hours to catch up.

    Thanks to some posters it felt like I had wandered on to a Benny Hill appreciation thread .


    Doozer...cute dogs. It is always a good story when it is someone elses belongings that are destroyed.

    I have a couple of winter coats. My best coat is worn to work as it is very light and warm, a Jaegar cashmere coat. I regularly drive with the belt hanging out of the car door.:( Fortunately the belt has hand washed well.
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    My winter coat is red. It is full length and nice and warm, but needs a scarf with it because it doesn't come up to the neck very well at the front, and can be a bit scratchy at the back of the collar. I got it from freecycle. :) I too have never bought a new sofa, and wouldn't be surprised if I never do. Depends whether DD does any more damage to the suspension of the one I inherited from LNE, though.
    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.
    :)
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I probably won't bother buying a coat, I don't like them very much and I have a few if I slim down :( or can wear drizabone). Who needs elegance?
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,783 Ambassador
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    michaels wrote: »
    That is exactly what i was thinking but too polite to say so....


    So I'm the rude one??


    I know (from DS2) that it really isn't possible to weigh under 8 stone and be that height.
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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Yorkie1 wrote: »
    You do need to be a bit careful with properties that have been on the market fewer than 6 months if you're buying with a mortgage, as lenders often won't lend in this situation.
    I know that, but I am not getting a mortgage. It's strange I ended up finding so many houses like that though.
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,080 Forumite
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    edited 7 November 2013 at 11:55PM
    michaels wrote: »
    Doozer Does Droitwich - I think I may have seen that one

    Haha! Indeed. The best fun since Waitrose opened...

    Stourbridge tomorrow. We may have to use our proper name to alliterate that :grouphug:
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,080 Forumite
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    Farage on the TV. I call him La Farge because I get him muddled up with plasterboard :o
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    edited 8 November 2013 at 1:52AM
    Doozergirl wrote: »
    Farage on the TV. I call him La Farge because I get him muddled up with plasterboard :o

    Thank heavens I missed that....

    Very few things get me angry enough to throw things at the telly, but Farage and the Kippers are good news indeed for anyone holding shares in TV manufacturers.

    I absolutely detest everything he stands for.....

    And the smug attitude and just, well, hideous wrongness of what passes for a thought process in the minds of his kind really winds me up.

    Doesn't the man realise his populist claptrap is playing with fire?

    And risks plunging our economy and society into a genuinely dangerous position?
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    There is a tiny, tiny, tiny road up behind bath, where a star used to live in a house that's a hotel now. Its a tiny road.

    The tiny ness of he road cannot be emphasised enough, not the unluckily ood of there being mush passing traffic at all.

    Anyway, its there I saw the biggest ukip support banner anywhere I have seen. Why?
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    I quite like Farage. He seems to have made a living out of going to the pub and saying how much he likes doing so. However, I wouldn't listen to a word he said for the same reason that I wouldn't pay any attention to the incomprehensible ramblings of any of the pickled regulars in my local.
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