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PostPosted: 15:28 - 01 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Only got yourself to blame really. A place for everything...

The thing is ... those were the places for those things.


Somebody clearly didn't think so, which highlights the flaw in your logic.
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PostPosted: 15:45 - 01 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Somebody clearly didn't think so, which highlights the flaw in your logic.


But if it's not your thing and you don't know what it is, how do you know where it's place is?
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PostPosted: 19:15 - 01 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Somebody clearly didn't think so, which highlights the flaw in your logic.


But if it's not your thing and you don't know what it is, how do you know where it's place is?


It didn't have a proper place, so you couldn't expect it to end up there even if she did know what it was. You didn't even give her a slight chance, so you can't blame her if it ended up somewhere you wouldn't expect to find it.
Have you learned a lesson here? Laughing
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PostPosted: 20:41 - 01 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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It didn't have a proper place, so you couldn't expect it to end up there even if she did know what it was. You didn't even give her a slight chance, so you can't blame her if it ended up somewhere you wouldn't expect to find it.
Have you learned a lesson here? Laughing


Yes I can blame her, there was absolutely no need to be messing with them in the first place, they weren't in her way and she doesn't even walk past them.
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PostPosted: 21:22 - 01 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Divorce her then.
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PostPosted: 22:06 - 01 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Divorce her then.


That seems like a bit of an over-reaction. i went with asking her not to do it again.
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PostPosted: 22:13 - 01 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Asking them not to move your shit because you left it there so you could find it when you wanted it doesn't work.

Divorce would work but then you don't get access to the pink bits.

I'd rather live with the hassle of trying to find stuff than not getting 'little nobby' wet regularly.
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PostPosted: 22:24 - 01 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Divorce her then.


That seems like a bit of an over-reaction. i went with asking her not to do it again.


I was going to say kill her and bury her in the garden. I guess you wouldn't be up for that then?
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PostPosted: 22:50 - 01 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I was going to say kill her and bury her in the garden. I guess you wouldn't be up for that then?


That sounds like it would involve a lot of digging. I hate digging.
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PostPosted: 23:19 - 01 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nobby the Bastard wrote:
I'd rather live with the hassle of trying to find stuff than not getting 'little nobby' wet regularly.

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"Little nobby" wouldn't hide the damn stuff in the first place.
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PostPosted: 23:45 - 01 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I was going to say kill her and bury her in the garden. I guess you wouldn't be up for that then?


That sounds like it would involve a lot of digging. I hate digging.


Didn't you find a load of powerful chemicals recently? None of them highly corrosive?
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PostPosted: 05:24 - 02 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Didn't you find a load of powerful chemicals recently? None of them highly corrosive?


According to historical crime cases, there is always a bit of an issue disposing of solutions.
Many 'acid bathers' were undone due to heavier compounds and less soluables (fats, oils and greases) remaining at the disposal point. Even after many months.

I assume one needs pay attention to weather forecasts and choose a time that coincides with a deluge. That, at least, would provide favourable conditions to purge city sewers.
Our Victorian sewer systems leave much to be desired in that respect.

I hope this helps.
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PostPosted: 09:36 - 02 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

The mention of acid baths always puts me in mind of the first series of Breaking Bad where they try to dispose of a body in the actual bath Laughing
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PostPosted: 14:46 - 03 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

The constant whinging about interest rates and mortgage payments.

3% is still a historically very low interest rate. Before the 2008 crash (which everyone seems to harken back to with misty-eyed longing as being when things were "normal"), the interest rate was 5.5% and even that was comparatively low. It never dropped below 6% until the mid 90's and was in double digits for most of the 70's and 80's.

We've been living through a period of incredibly low interest rates but it appears people have been carrying out their financial planning based on this situation continuing indefinitely. 3% is not a normal central bank interest rate. 6-7% would be a more normal situation. Double digits aren't unheard of.

Do people not plan ahead before committing to a massive 25 year loan? (rhetorical question, clearly not). I looked at what the repayments would be if rates hit 15% (which they did in 1981 and 1989) before I took out a mortgage.
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PostPosted: 17:49 - 03 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
The constant whinging about interest rates and mortgage payments.

3% is still a historically very low interest rate. Before the 2008 crash (which everyone seems to harken back to with misty-eyed longing as being when things were "normal"), the interest rate was 5.5% and even that was comparatively low. It never dropped below 6% until the mid 90's and was in double digits for most of the 70's and 80's.

We've been living through a period of incredibly low interest rates but it appears people have been carrying out their financial planning based on this situation continuing indefinitely. 3% is not a normal central bank interest rate. 6-7% would be a more normal situation. Double digits aren't unheard of.

Do people not plan ahead before committing to a massive 25 year loan? (rhetorical question, clearly not). I looked at what the repayments would be if rates hit 15% (which they did in 1981 and 1989) before I took out a mortgage.


Bad choices = big profits, from mortgages to what people have for lunch, the evidence is all around us but capitalism innit, or is it ? Thinking
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PostPosted: 19:58 - 03 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The constant whinging


Just this, actually.
I've stopped reading the press, and I've just about stopped watching the telly again.
It's not just a "whingeing pom" thing, either. Kiwis are whingeing, Canadians are whingeing, Americans are still ghastly and Italians hate everything anyway.
Except football, food and sex, which isn't a bad way to divert yourself from the woes of the world. Thinking

I am extremely insular - what goes on outside the elysian fields of planet* hellkat is pretty much unknown, although I keep abreast of things in a general world-view kind of way.

Why are they making jokes about Liz Truss and a lettuce, though? I haven't understood the reason for that.


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PostPosted: 20:00 - 03 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 21:11 - 03 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Why are they making jokes about Liz Truss and a lettuce, though? I haven't understood the reason for that.


Because she was the U turn queen, and people thought (rightly) she'd probably rapidly U turn on the idea of being Prime Minister due to public and parliament pressure. The daily Star posted a live stream of a fresh lettuce, the idea being that lettuces go off over a set period of time, with the question being can Liz Truss outlast that lettuce.

The lettuce prevailed, and we now have Rishi.
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PostPosted: 21:28 - 03 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

At least it wasn't Boris (again).
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PostPosted: 21:35 - 03 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nobby the Bastard wrote:
At least it wasn't Boris (again).

Indeed.
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PostPosted: 21:36 - 03 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you Marjay Wub
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PostPosted: 15:31 - 04 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
The constant whinging about interest rates and mortgage payments.

3% is still a historically very low interest rate. Before the 2008 crash (which everyone seems to harken back to with misty-eyed longing as being when things were "normal"), the interest rate was 5.5% and even that was comparatively low. It never dropped below 6% until the mid 90's and was in double digits for most of the 70's and 80's.

We've been living through a period of incredibly low interest rates but it appears people have been carrying out their financial planning based on this situation continuing indefinitely. 3% is not a normal central bank interest rate. 6-7% would be a more normal situation. Double digits aren't unheard of.

Do people not plan ahead before committing to a massive 25 year loan? (rhetorical question, clearly not). I looked at what the repayments would be if rates hit 15% (which they did in 1981 and 1989) before I took out a mortgage.


Well, quite. Was it MacMillan who said 'You've never had is so good' in teh early 60s - which lets face it was a lot grimmer than today? Also, as a fan of Talking Pictures TV I watch wryly at the 1970s Roger Marshal style situation dramas of folk (of all ages) in bed-sitters, shared bathrooms, a baby Belling in the corner to cook on etc.. Times were tougher without doubt (outside lav and no CH in my first house). Of course in an ideal world we should progress and we should all be enjoying a better standard of living that 40 years ago, but in an ideal world they'd be no Covid and no wars to contend with either.

TL/DR - shit happens and you can prepare or whinge - but be warned whinging doesn't get you anywhere.
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PostPosted: 16:29 - 04 Nov 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

The thing we had from the late 60s was cheap N. Sea gas to generate lecky and heat homes. It was nothing to have the bedrooms and living Room like an oven. When you've to go down stairs with a bucket and shovel t' bring coal in there weren't as many rooms being heated. And the funny thing is no kittens died from cold.
Kids, mums and dads gadding about their house in shorts, underwater and goonies is no way to save a bob or two on energy.
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The thing we had from the late 60s was cheap N. Sea gas to generate lecky and heat homes. It was nothing to have the bedrooms and living Room like an oven. When you've to go down stairs with a bucket and shovel t' bring coal in there weren't as many rooms being heated. And the funny thing is no kittens died from cold.
Kids, mums and dads gadding about their house in shorts, underwater and goonies is no way to save a bob or two on energy.
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The thing we had from the late 60s was cheap N. Sea gas to generate lecky and heat homes. It was nothing to have the bedrooms and living Room like an oven. When you've to go down stairs with a bucket and shovel t' bring coal in there weren't as many rooms being heated. And the funny thing is no kittens died from cold.
Kids, mums and dads gadding about their house in shorts, underwater and goonies is no way to save a bob or two on energy.
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