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  1. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    "Hole pincher" may yet turn out to be the typo of the year. Oh dear, sorry mate, your points as ever are well made but this has got me giggling. Apologies...
  2. duffer

    Advice Please: Summer Jobs for Student?

    I just popped back onto this thread to say thank you for all of the helpful advice. Of course, kids being kids, everything I've suggested has been completely disregarded and she's found herself a job at the Uni over the summer. Again though, I really appreciate everyone who has taken the time...
  3. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    I kind of hope he does really...
  4. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Sorry Boris, I'd love to talk to you, but I don't have time today to fully disinfect the phone afterwards...
  5. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    So he committed 'inappropriate behaviour' but wasn't "guilty" of it. Presumably his hands just do their own thing without any conscious control. (I have this exact same problem when I'm trying to hit a ball with a cricket bat, in all fairness). The only reason he's not on the sex offenders list...
  6. duffer

    America

    Other than Boris, obviously. The Tory party in its current form is beyond parody.
  7. duffer

    Wasps downward spiral...

    The fact that a large part of the bond went to paying back Richardson, and that he's clearly not intending to loan them the money back again, should tell Wasps supporters a story. Their 'white knight' has had enough, and for all of the upbeat statements about refinancing the bond repayments...
  8. duffer

    How we all doing troops

    Sorry about the covid, mate, hope you're feeling better soon. "Sweating like a Wasps bondholder" is classic though, I might as well admit now that I'll be stealing that line for future use.😁
  9. duffer

    Wasps downward spiral...

    No worries, a few minutes with a belt sander should get that right off for them. Failing that, there's always the angle grinder... 😁 Hmm. The report you're quoting about how much money the Commonwealth games brings in, is paid for by the people who run the commonwealth games! Forgive my...
  10. duffer

    Desktop PC

    For that kind of money I think you'd get a very high spec desktop. In fact I reckon you could half that, and still get something entirely functional, with maybe a 1Tb hard disk for storage plus a smaller, faster, SSD to run the operating system. It's been a while since I bought a desktop, I...
  11. duffer

    Lady Godiva

    Dibs on Aethelred. I'm pretty sure we could frame the return to old English names as a Brexit benefit. I'll write to Jacob. 😄
  12. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    I'm no expert on pensions, but this might be a good place to start for free, impartial, advice... https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en
  13. duffer

    Wasps downward spiral...

    Maton is very much pro-Wasps. He was the one they put on the radio to cheerlead the project. A slimy, disgrace of a man who hugely diminishes the office of Lord Mayor. Everything that's bad about politics is neatly captured in the incompetence and corruption of this council. And they're supposed...
  14. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Relevance? It's a politics thread. The point isn't solely to highlight your personal success, lovely as I'm sure that is for you, it's also to discuss the flaw in the policy. You'd say you've bettered yourself, but politely, as I see it you've not exactly pulled yourself out of the gutter by...
  15. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Please point me again to the place where it was called immoral? What I would say is that if you're supporting the party who are about to buy some votes by doing it again, then it's obviously up for challenge and might justifiably be considered selfish or short-sighted. In the meantime, stop...
  16. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    And just to add, most countries have far more secure tenancies as well. We seem to live in a country of insecure rented housing, provided by individual buy-to-let landlords using them as a personal pension/investment plan, rented by people with diminishing job security. I don't know who this...
  17. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Hold up a moment here. I'm not for a moment saying what you did was wrong, but what you actually did was took advantage of an opportunity to buy publicly provided housing on the cheap, and then sell it later for a substantial profit. Individually that might be fair enough, but if that housing...
  18. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    I think you've mistaken the English electorate for people who give a fuck about policies. They don't. Similarly, I think you've mistaken a man who looks half decent in a suit, with a tidy haircut, as someone fundamentally honest and trustworthy. He isn't. What will do for the Tories is simply...
  19. duffer

    CCFPA

    Must. Resist. Obvious. Joke. 😁
  20. duffer

    Wasps downward spiral...

    And the remaining 37p went towards making them the richest, most successful, and best-supported club in the world, obviously. 😄
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