Your stupid vote it costing me money and stopping me sitting in the sun. What are you getting out of the deal? What benefits are you feeling today? You’ve split the country,led to a rise in racism and sunk the economy.
Thanks a **** million.

Satisfaction at your displeasure maybe? I didn’t realise that we had to vote in line with what’s best for you. If only you’d made that clear at the time.

Well there’s no need for anyone here to speculate since the victim’s family are in this exact situation and said they didn’t want him jailed. Presumably they know more about the case than we do.

I wasn’t speculating about the victim’s family, unless they’re subscribers to STW. I was referring to those on here. Does one family’s viewpoint apply to all families?

We read about cyclists killed through the actions of motorists on here and the pack are baying for blood. They don’t seem so tolerant and understanding when the perpetrator is behind the wheel of a car. Lash out at a long standing friend and it seems to be OK. Could happen to anyone. So could a moments inattention when driving, but that seems to be another ballgame.

Whatever your views, and your welcome to them as I am to mine I do not think that I would be happy if he killed a member of my family and was treated in what I consider a lenient manner.

I’d hope so. Certainly in this case, the family DO feel that way and I really admire them for that. It’d be so easy to hate, in these circumstances.

Let’s hope you never have to put it to the test.

I for one don’t think that the sentence was long enough. He struck out at someone and they died as a result. Whatever his intentions, and I’m struggling to understand why you’d punch a friend in the face, the result was death.

He wasn’t defending himself, he attacked someone.

For those arguing in his favourite, I assume you’d feel the same if it was one of your family who died?

Mumsnet is a vile place.

They do seem to be the biggest bunch of self righteous, sanctimonious, hypocritical wazzocks on the net.

Apart from this place, of course :D

Well done. I drink very little, but a couple of beers once in a while is nice.

Not sure I’d want to give it up completely, but chateau to those who can.

Keep it. I bought a Garmin 820 yesterday. I’ve got the 200 too. Even though I only use it for speed (disappointing :D) distance and time, which the 200 does admirably, it’s nice to see your progress on the screen before you.

I’m sure I’ll use some of the extra funations in time, but a new gadget is always fun.

Trying to decide whether to sell the 200 or keep it as a spare?

Keep it, you’re worth it as some bimbo tells us regularly.

Mrs Z and I have had the house to ourselves for 7 years now. It’s heaven. We can do as we please. Go to the pub if we wish. Slob out for the weekend with no-one to worry about or answer to. Sleep in one of the spare rooms if the other is having a restless night.

We love them dearly, grandchildren too, but thank **** they’ve gone.

I live in fear of one or both :oops: of them wanting to come home.

I’ve just got a giffgaff sim. Credit doesn’t expire provided the phone is used once every six months. Calls texts etc are dearer than the 3 tarrif, but as it’s for emergencies only it’s not an issue.

Got a cheap unlocked Motorola flip phone from my local CEX shop. £12.

Wife thinks I’ve got another woman on the go. Chance’do be a fine thing!

You can’t con an honest man as someone once said. Why Sam Avarice would risk everything for around 10% of his salary beggars belief.

He can’t be short of a bob or two.

I suffer a bit and use Simple soap and deodorants.

No troubles since I’ve been using them.

Surely they will reclaim most of the gas? They won’t just vent it off?

It didn’t look that way to me when they deflated it in the hanger. Looked like they just undid a valve and let it out.

£25,000 a time to fill it up if I heard correctly.

Can’t afford to do that too many times. I wonder if he’ll have another go at it. Seems a waste of all that effort if not.

Your dad’s better between the sheets than you……

In a similar vein, Mafeking has been releived.

I’m still not going to wear a helmet though.

Ask him if he can pick me up a longer dipstick for my Citroen. Mine doesn’t reach the oil.

Temperature gauge – my Mrs genuinely didn’t know which one it was and when I pointed it out to her she had no recollection of ever having seen it before…..she’s been driving for twenty years and had that particular car for two of them!!

My wife’s the same with the fuel guage…… :D

Try engineengineering.co.uk for a quote.

This is more like it….

Just bought one of his U2 mini lights. Very well made, Damn bright and very good service.

Whatever I type seems naff at the moment. Wishing you all the best for the battles ahead.

Lost both my parents to the big C. That was 42 and 32 years ago. The options are much better now so fingers crossed that your partner fares well.

Or, perhaps you’ve said nothing at all.
Again.

Ditto

I spend up to £1,500 on something in good condition and low mileage. Buy them when you see them. Had a £900 Skoda Felicity with 27,000 miles on it. Sold it when I saw a Peugeot 406 on a dealers forecourt for £650. Low mileage, one owner car in mint condition. Knocked him down to £600 :D

I loved that car, smooth, comfortable and spacious. Mrs Z wrote it off twice. Once I paid the difference in the repair bill and the insurance payout. The 2nd time I didn’t.

Then got a Citroen C5 which she also wrote off. She reckons it was cos they were red! Now have a £1,500 Xsara in blue. 12 years old and 50,000 miles when we bought it. We’ve had it 2 years so I expect a prang any time soon.

Get them serviced on schedule and you shouldn’t go far wrong. Get a huge bill and scrap them and buy another. Not always one around when you need them, but it saves tying up thousands in a depreciating asset. Especially as Mrs Z tends to treat them as disposable.

I’ve often wondered if she might look after them more if she bought them. Life’s to short to suggest it to her though :P

Come the Apocalypse I think I’d pop down to Southampton and steal a nice yacht and live on that in the Sloent. I’ve always like Newton Creek, myself.

The buggers can’t walk on water, can they?

For close quarters combat one of those samurai swords looks to be quite suitable.

Is it not worth looking at South of the River?

I went out with a girl from Dartford when I lived in Grays.

It worked out cheaper to marry her and buy a house in Grays than keep paying the tunnel crossing fees, and it was only 25 pence each way then.

Still paying for that decision now though :-)

Grays is a shithole, and I speak (or type) as one who was born there and lived there for 30 years.

Last time we went back there, a couple of years ago, we couldn’t believe how run down it was. Even the upmarket parts of the town, the further north you go, the better, looked uncared for.

Find somewhere else if at all possible.

Don’t dip your pen in the company ink.

Another vote for the U2 mini from Torchy boy. A very well made light, more than powerful enough for my needs.

It flopped around a bit until I tightened the screw to stop the mount pivoting, doh.

Excellent service and very quick delivery. A fair price for a quality product.

Listen to the radio.

I do wonder why, if your driving licence is so important to you, people behave like idiots behind the wheel time and time again.

As has been said, one plea for hardship, but to continue to hold the law in such disregard, tough.

Enough with the leniency, time to get tough.

Oh well, that’s all right then.

Should you be mown down deliberately by someone who doesn’t like you, balance will be restored to the universe.

You think that there’s balance in the universe!

What harm was done to Vine? He was spouting off about having to ride 3 feet from a car. There’s no rule or law that says that. He’s just a bell end spouting the same sort of crap in real life as he does on the radio.

The lady didn’t do herself any favours, but in her defence it was that waste of air time Jeremy Vine. I cannot stand that ****.

You’re making probably the biggest financial decision of your life and you’re asking strangers of the internet for advice!

Don’t buy a house, buy these magic beans that I have for sale.

Have I stumbled across the Viz forum by mistake :P

Thanks for the replies. It seems that there’s not much wrong with Mrs Z’s hearing. Something I’ve learnt over the years. :D

A few good ones already mentioned. To add to those would be Wolf Creek, but not in a good way. It’s the only film that has properly freaked me out. Its about 12 years since I watched and I still can’t bring myself to watch it again. I remember shouting at the TV, “get the **** out of there, no don’t go back, what the **** are you doing”. Financially there’s not much chance of me going to Australia but as long as I can remember Wolf Creek there’s no chance of it happening.

Good call. I remember being amazed that there were old mining towns so remote that they could not be found. Just how remote can a place be :D

Who could forget “head on a stick”

Also, the scene in The Wild Bunch where they decide to go an rescue Angel. They’re aware that they are probably going to their deaths, but do it anyway.

A few years ago we sold a sliver of land from our front garden. About 15 feet long and 2 feet wide at its widest tapering to nothing. It enabled the neighbour to lay a driveway as they had no off street parking otherwise.

He paid £2,000 and our legal fees.

It’s added way more than that to his house value.

It was sraightforward. A letter or two to the building society and the solicitors did the rest.

Steal the dog and put it in your garden. See how they like it.

We had them for work use but the were becoming less and less accepted so we cancelled them.

Good rewards set up though. We had some good weekends away on them.

I feel that once you’ve been banned for using drugs you should not be allowed back into the sport.

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It’s so he can hide his drugs under it. **** hypocrite.