The Elite:The Good, The Bad and the Glitchy

justmaz

Thank you so much everybody for the birthday wishes. I have had a lovely day but will be celebrating properly on Saturday as we try to behave on 'school nights' :beer:

rhosynbach

i have a new bank card and my account is up and running :T:T

and just been to Anglesey to look at some gypsy cobs with gorgeous little foals :D

Claire1972

Shortfatscotsbloke wrote: »

My son is in year 2 this year so gets free school lunches. As of next year (September), lunches for both my kids will be £25 per week. I know I am saving a few quid chatting to you lot all the time, but £100+ per month for a bit of pasta and some lumpy custard is not my idea of value..:rotfl:

I bought 30+ 6 packs with a use by date of March 2016, so they will all be used in my kid's packed lunch boxes over the next few months.

I just found out today that THE FRIDGE is on holiday in Barbados for 2 weeks so I did 9 apg shops in my local this afternoon to celebrate..:D Funny thing is, all the staff now seem to know me. They know that what I am doing is legit, they have a laugh with me in the shop and they say hello in the street. The whole situation has turned bottom over busom and now I feel fine spending my apgs because most of the staff know me and think that I am doing nothing wrong. Just need to avoid THE FRIDGE..:rotfl:

Totally agree about school dinners, i couldn't afford to spend that, plus you don't know if all of it has been eaten or not. At least with a packed lunch you know exactly what is left when it comes home.

I am still putting glitchy cereal bars in the girls lunch, just finished last Special K box, now might move onto these ones. Is it the iced gems that is the invisible trigger?

Thanks x

aau1

scamps1966 wrote: »

!!!!!!. :mad:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3162259/Businessman-awarded-500-000-taxpayers-cash-help-recoup-money-lost-fraud.html

The judge pointed out that Mr Mirchandani had saved the Government money by pursuing the whole case privately rather than using Crown prosecutors.
He said: 'He is not in a good state of health and there comes a time where perhaps there should be some reimbursement from the State who have avoided very significant expenditure in prosecution and confiscation costs.'

henlans

scamps1966 wrote: »

!!!!!!. :mad:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3162259/Businessman-awarded-500-000-taxpayers-cash-help-recoup-money-lost-fraud.html

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.


I have a idea.. if you have over 25 million in the bank you pay your own prosecution costs


Legal Aid for the poor has been either cut or removed and a judge gives him 500k crazy world we live in.

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

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[...]Next time, I think I'll calmly swear at the machine:rotfl::rotfl: (but not so that anyone over the age of 24 or under 2 and a half can hear:rotfl:).
:rotfl::)

I'm just back now from dinner - dinner tonight as we went out - it's dinner when we go out for an evening meal but tea when we stay in:D - just to try to confuse you by adding a little spanner into the works there (no, not really).

I was wrong, wasn't I? Should have been "as long as there's only a 94-year-old like Prince Philip there", although I doubt whether he would stop at Tesco:rotfl:.

rhosynbach

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I'm just back now from dinner - dinner tonight as we went out - it's dinner when we go out for an evening meal but tea when we stay in:D - just to try to confuse you by adding a little spanner into the works there (no, not really).

I was wrong, wasn't I? Should have been "as long as there's only a 94-year-old like Prince Philip there", although I doubt whether he would stop at Tesco:rotfl:.

so what is it if you have a takeaway ;):o

mhoc

Yes I want a clear answer about Stoke as well - if I am looking at a store locator website sometimes it comes under the West Midlands - obviously it's not. Sometimes it comes under the north west - is it ??

We are 20 mins drive from Stoke and classed as in the North West so where is the border line?

So if we agree Manchester is in the north west where actually is the dividing line - we are about an hour out of Manchester and there is a lot of leafy affluent Cheshire. between here and there that have more in common with the south west than the north west.

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Otherwise, I may be in an ill-defined boundary between north and not very south. For example, "Sheffield" may be clearly in "the north" but what about the very north of North East Derbyshire? Is the whole of Lincolnshire in "the Midlands", including that which is on the coast, or is part of Lincolnshire in "the north" or, indeed, is part of it actually "East Yorkshire" and, therefore, in "the north" as the whole of Yorkshire is in "the north". Is Buxton in the North West (of England) (being covered by North West Tonight on BBC TV) and, therefore, as part of the "North West" is "the north" or is it in Derbyshire and, therefore, the East Midlands? I.e. central England rather than north or south.

What about Stoke? Is that in "the north", being mentioned in a song by the KLF called "It's Grim up North" in the early 1990s, or, as part of Staffordshire is the Midlands of England, not the North West? Parts of it get Midlands Today from Birmingham (clearly neither "north" nor "south") but other parts get North West Tonight and are "north" but some get both, so where are they, and some even manage to get Wales TV yet clearly are not in Wales!

In the hypothethical situation that I live in any of the areas mentioned:rotfl:.

It's not clear to me whether I am a "north"erner or not, as I don't know the precise boundaries of "the north" or, for that matter, "the south". In fact, there is not any precise boundary and different people's views, if they have any, differ. And, of course, I may have moved from another area to the place I am now. Perhaps I can be an honorary northerner if not.

EDIT: Indeed "Sheffield" - in quotes as what does the term "Sheffield" mean? What about Hathersage in Derbyshire - Derbyshire is normally considered East Midlands and therefore part of Central England than the north - that recently featured on a news item - about 10 miles from Sheffield, not part of the metropolis but might want to join Sheffield as part of a northern metro. area if there was any benefit to the village. However, it is part of rural Derbyshire - so, does it align with Derbyshire - a mainly rural county - or does it look to Sheffield which is about 10 miles away? Is "the north", like any other "region", defined by counties and (former) metropolitan areas or by postcode regions or, probably, neither?

Anyway...can't stop to keep talking about this, must move on!;)

TrulyMadly

streetlights wrote: »

Hi Trulymadly I hope you are well. I wish I did get lunch up there. I ate squashed peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches, whilst walking around the top. After walking two big mountains in two days my calves are very tight now.

Did you walk home between mountains or just hang around at the bottom?:D

frequent

Anyone watching nightmare tenants, slum landlords on Ch5 ?