it say absolutely nothing about me, which suits me fine.
Good point. I never understood the whole thing about you being what you drive. I choose my cars on the technical merit. Top of the list is being able to stow a bike in the trunk.

Also agree about folk who seem to see 90% of their monthly, evaporate in payments for their possessions, which results in them walking/driving around with 50p in their pockets.

It aint for me.

I just pay cash. I’ve one 13 month and one 7 year old car. Both being Audis they possess an almost unimaginable potential to generate bills of a biblical proportion. I just live with it. Choosing to face a large bill when I have to, rather than seeing a DD coming out of the bank each month.

Judging by the number of newish cars I currently see on the road and by what I hear in the office. Many of those cars are leased.

Leasing a car seems like madness to me, but ho-hey, each to their own.

Yes, some insurance policies, I’ve been informed, do include legal assistance. Chat to your insurer too.

fasthaggis – Member
It has taken me 19 hours to decide whether or not to read this thread.Such a dissapointment to find that Kryton wasn’t the second post. 

More a relief, I’d of thought.
😉

@Dazz.

Go to a solicitor. Won’t be cheap, but when you win, neighbours will get to pay your costs.

I don’t spend too long agonizing/researching and I can be quick to hit the buy button. Only then to experience that sinking feeling of guilt that I’m going to receive another CC bill.

After my experience with STW I don’t have much faith in reviews and reports for products. One of my main reasons for no longer subscribing.

Friend of mine in the office spent 2 weeks researching tyres before buying. Drove me nuts.

tazzymtb – Member
Solo the big S…hitter
Not after being NBM for 48hrs.
😆

Northwind – Member 
<waves at TJ>

[tjmode]
No, no you didn’t!
[/tjmode]

Hora, Njee20, in “Big hitters, be hitting” shocker!
You should soon receive that feeling of having your heads knocked together. Or at least being temporarily dispossessed of your ability to continue, pointlessly bickering.

Stop it!

**is posting from death bed, while suffering a touch of the Aztec two steps**

The person responsible for his banning is though
That’s not technically correct though. But don’t allow that to distract you from whatever you’re doing.
😉

Just for DD:
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/our-forum

njee20 – Member

I think he was implying that he’s still here, ie you’re not missing him…

Would you consider a polite request to become an STW forum Ploderator?

hora – Member

My very first words to you (not even hello) ‘**** me your a big lad arent you

I do hope you weren’t standing in the Men’s room, at the time.

tazzymtb – Member

Sorry solo..I really liked TSY
That took you a while, bit of a poor effort though, I’m disappointed.
You’re trying too hard, you’re not supposed to take it seriously, remember?

-although some of the big characters really aren’t in person
A forum of dwarves?

You kind of tailed off into Hora-drivel, shortly after that line.
Carry on!

tazzymtb – Member

I miss TSY
Oh, I don’t think you do and neither do I.

emsz – Member

works both ways, Hun

Useful only for the amusement, when someone of such limited experience, etc, attempts to exchange posts.
Although I should be thankful for the change of “tune” compared with the usual drivel you post, I suppose.
😉

spawnofyorkshire – Member
I miss Jamie
You’re not trying hard enough. Close one eye and align both parts of the sight.

Drac – Moderator
I notice that Jamie has gone a bit quiet since he got his ‘Freeloader’ status.
He had that for over a year before he disappeared.

Actually STW gave him a title along the lines of
“Freeloader, but we still like him“
Which endured for some considerable time before STW spotted the error of their ways.

Better late than never, I suppose, although one does wonder why STW bother when they knowingly allow some of the bad’uns to return with new IDs, after a ban…
Perhaps the ban hammer has been replaced for a very small rubber mallet with a sparkling tassel, hanging from the handle?

Who actually represented the workers.
That shit is sooooooo old, please.
🙄

voting against a party that you don’t like is childish and irresponsible
That’s Junky, if you’re going to come here, it would seem that you have to accept it. Junky hasn’t changed and won’t change, no matter how many times he’s hammered.

Junkyard – lazarus
No lib dem can be proud of those first few weeks in govt where he displayed neither backbone nor principle
Au contraire.

binners – Member
What planet do you inhabit if you actually believe we live in a meritocracy? I mean… Seriously?
There was more social mobility in 1910
I’m tempted to ask what specifically would be a definition of meritocracy, but I’m not sure whether there’s enough in the froth reserve.

Can’t stand the whinging, incompetent, dogmatic left in any form. Our system ain’t perfect, but goodness I really would not lament the total evaporation of the left and all it’s misplaced sense of entitlement and social justice, yadda, yadda.

globalti – Member

Update: the winner is 49 and doesn’t want to retire so is going to continue in the same lab job until 55. The good thing is that she’s a thoroughly nice person so everybody is thrilled for her.
Ah! A happy ending. I like happy endings.
🙂

(obviously you’d have more spare time). Personally my brain would rot if I didn’t work.
And time, as some wise member mentioned earlier, is the real gift for winning £1M. So while some might shoot the dough in a way that would keep them working and feel fine about that. I wonder if folk here might consider the “flip side of the coin”.
How important, how much more enriching would it be to your family and their lives, if you could afford to remain at home?
As for brain rot? Well, whatever.

curiousyellow – Member

Listen to what I mean, not what I say!
Yes, the dumb indicator for this thread has now turned to yellow.
😉

I personally wouldn’t move elsewhere in the UK just to find cheaper housing although others do.
You’re just “me, me, me, me, me“.
😛

hora – Member

I know there are a few bitter types on here but **** me- £1m doesn’t buy you much these days?

I’d be very very over the moon if I won £50,000 let alone £1,000,000.

**** me.
I’ve got a nearly new C/H headset you can have for a cool £100K, It’s a bargain, by London standards!

You do know without London you’d be in the shit up there in your woodburning room with a view, don’t you?

I believe it was because of London that we all got screwed via the recent financial debacle/recession.
Thanks.

wrecker – Member

Lighten up dude!
This, too.

as it is the centre of Stupid
Certainly sounds that way to me.

curiousyellow – Member

Time is the most precious thing we have in this world.
Apparently not if you don’t have the right house and car.

So yes, it is a life changing amount if you choose it to be
Correct.

As for university, the current generation are fighting for an ever dwindling size of the pie. Who knows if university is even the right choice for them to help them achieve lasting happiness/success?
Very good point. And if happiness is a means of travel and not a destination, then having the means to travel that £1M affords you could be viewed as a useful sum of money.
😉

I feel 40k would be a fair wage for that role.
I suspect you’d get arrested if you tried that stuff!

trail_rat – Member

Somebody up there mentioned the jones.

Yeap, here:

Kryton57 – Member

The decent 4 bed we’d like is not too far away from our current address but is circa £500k. The cars we’d like add up to £100k

Elaborate?

DrP

Don’t be lazy. And anyway, stop posting on here and get busy making some more of that luck you are so well known for. If you have any left over, throw it my way.
😉

you just have to visit any Spanish town and see the half-built and unsold shells of new housing to see what a real property bubble looks like.
I guess you didn’t hear about the construction bubble in Ireland then.
But anyway, lets stay on topic folks. I reckon £750K for a house gets the fool it deserves.

I’d like to see the socialist utopia you could create for £1million!
Me too, especially when you consider the rental costs for all those choosing to live in London.

Pretty depressing really.
Something like that. £750K, really?.
I sometimes wonder if the rest of the world laugh at the English and their totally bonkers obsession with trying to afford crazy priced housing.

I reckon I could find a place I’d be happy with for less than £400K

Is your TV listening to you?
It doesn’t have to, if it can lip read….

keeping hold of your million in the bank would be a full time job in itself. I’ve heard of people having to split it between as many as 50 bank accounts. Try keeping on top of that lot!
😯

What if you bought 5 btl properties and then rented them out at cost to deserving families

make sure my old age is not going to be one of poverty and misery.
Best you switch supplier to someone other than Eon, otherwise you’ll need all your winnings just to pay for the hot water.

hora – Member

Wow!! A million IS ALOT of money.I bet she’s in shock.

I’d wisk my in-laws off on holiday asap then think
I think I’m spotting a flaw in your plan….somewhere.

There are far nicer houses available round here for much less money.
Yeah, but that’s because nobody wants to be your neighbour.
😛

Lifer – Member
Solo – Member
Well, with all due respect. I think you’ll find that the coke, booze and hookers gets a little boring, after a while.
UR doing it rong. HTH.
Funny, I’ve had that opinion about your entire life.
HTH 😉

New caravan

teamhurtmore – Member

Quite a lot of falling for rich men’s’ toys (after paying off the debt) – what happened to the socialist utopia and putting the money to good causes? This is STW….
Ha, well, you see the thing about our resident altruistic types is while they’re poor, they aspire only to make everyone else as poor as themselves, taxing the rich and such.
However, should lady luck ride into town, then its “see you later, suckers!”

Some of you must be realy rich if that sort of money isn’t life changeing!

Well, with all due respect. I think you’ll find that the coke, booze and hookers gets a little boring, after a while.

Edit;
Buy a very nice house
What? and then hand the rest of your winnings over in council tax.
Nooo way.

MrSmith – Member

Errr…. yes. It is.

no it isn’t. it certainly wouldn’t stop me working (but then i love my job) i would either spend none of it and take the interest or it would buy a reasonable property in a ‘middle class’ area of london
Presumably you’d still continue to argue online though 😉

I also wouldn’t leave my job.
Oh, I most definitely would… And I don’t even know what job you do.

If this story is true. Then yes, good luck to the winner. I hope they get what they want from the win.
🙂

hora – Member

Who were they sold off to?

Plenty haven’t.

Which reminds me of an R4 program I heard a few months ago. During the program a lady described how she came to live in a flat the council provided for her, in London. After a while the lady decided to exercise her right to buy from the council at a price much lower than market value. She then sold the property later for a price in excess of £500,000.

FWIW those signing on JUST for NI contributions get the most grief as they are the most likely to sign off and give up as they are not even getting any money. Those who are getting money and who depend it on will put up with a lot a more.

This wasn’t news to me, I’ve known for many years that the system exercises an immoral bias against those deemed to be able to suffer.
Of course, the immorality is people are forced to finance the system via their tax contributions, while being told that the safety net is there, should they ever need it.
However, if or when that time does come along. They are given grief as some sort of stress test against how determined and likely they are to push a claim for assistance, all the way through to resolution.
A process of making life for someone who finds themselves out of work, even more stressful as they learn that the safety net they have been forced to fund, isn’t going to be provided for them, after all.

Therefore at this point, the DwP seem to have forgotten that entitlement should include consideration for those who have contributed. The flaw in the system is the individual bias and discrimination held by staff dealing with those who seek to claim.
They make personal judgements based on their own sense of politics and perceived need and then choose who they provide complete assist to and who they allow to struggle with the system.

If you have contents insurance and you make a claim. AFAIK, the insurance company don’t take into account whether or not you can afford to have them not pay you out. It’s your insurance policy and you are entitled to payment under those T’s n C’s.
But somehow the Gov gets to have it both ways.

(In 2010 I had reason to claim. All contributions in place and as they should be, but because I had no idea how to exploit the system and because staff exercised an default bias against my type, claiming anything. I went without)

Yes, the woman in question is suffering a misplaced sense of entitlement. I’ve no idea where she got the impression that the state will forever fund her choice of lifestyle.

Also, I appear to have missed any mention of the father of her children, the traditional “bread winner”.