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I'm in Bridgwater.
:(
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:20, 128 replies, latest was 10 years ago)
Any reason?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:21, Reply)
Car's getting rolling roaded and set up.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:26, Reply)
Was there nowhere closer to London to get this done?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:43, Reply)
Isnt Millbrook round your way (ish)

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:02, Reply)
Could be worse, you could have a head like a bullock.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:22, Reply)

u o
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:26, Reply)
Or a bollock shaped like a head

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:33, Reply)
I'm going to Slough later.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:23, Reply)
You have my very sincere condolences.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:26, Reply)
pwnd

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:26, Reply)
Good lord man thats dangerously close to Wales

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:26, Reply)
Worse than that
It's close to Weston.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:27, Reply)
Oh man the bad news just keeps on coming
On the plus side its only Pierre so does anyone really care.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:31, Reply)
Unlucky Pierre

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:35, Reply)
You could visit the Brick and Tile Museum

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:37, Reply)
HOT DAMN!

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:41, Reply)
Ah, not open on Fridays
www.somerset.gov.uk/libraries-and-heritage/museums/somerset-brick-and-tile-museum/

Sorry to get your hopes up.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:44, Reply)
Why is it that whenever I need a wee in a public convenience, somebody does for a forest first?
I was just about to get up and some old guy went in. I can't be sure, obviously, buthe took ages and when he came out he looked knackered. Imma give it a minute
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:40, Reply)
Fuck this, I'm off to Aldi's
Anyone need anything?
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:47, Reply)
Some of their excellent cold meats and very good value vegetables and fruit please.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:50, Reply)
Any tasty red wine required?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:54, Reply)
I thought it was Lidl that was good for wine?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:56, Reply)
Bottle of Courage bitter please

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:23, Reply)
You dont have the Stones for that

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:34, Reply)
I eated too much cake and now feel a bit sick :(

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:49, Reply)
I ate too much cake last night. And then I didn't get any sleep so I feel rotten today.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:50, Reply)
Kids are shit, aren't they

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:52, Reply)
What is the fucking point in them, they just leach off you for years
and then they leave and keep leaching off you.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:53, Reply)
Train them to get cans from the fridge

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:54, Reply)
She's not even a metre high
she can't even reach the top of the freezer.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:56, Reply)
Put the cans lower down then
Sheesh, do I have to think of EVERYTHING?
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:11, Reply)
Doesn't stop Battered, etc etc etc, try the veal.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:12, Reply)
I do enjoy a good leech when I visit my parents though

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:02, Reply)
Me too.
I intend to leech some money off them when I move house. Hey, it's not my fault, I didn't task ask to be born!
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:12, Reply)
WOAH.
Careful, I was there a few weeks ago and I died.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 11:59, Reply)
ooooooo edgy

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:02, Reply)
That's me, sharp as a knife.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:12, Reply)
Leftover curry for lunch!

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:11, Reply)
Too full for lunch :(

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:11, Reply)
Cold pizza for breakfast this morning!

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:12, Reply)
yes!

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:13, Reply)
I find it very hard to resist eating all the pizza, so I very rarely have this.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:13, Reply)
this^

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:14, Reply)
Im so sorry.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:14, Reply)
Thanks "Morrissey"

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:15, Reply)
Bigmouth strikes again

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:16, Reply)
Bastard colleague has abandoned me to go buy a PS4
We were meant to be going to the chippy for lunch, and he's let me down.

Boo.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:24, Reply)
Clickin dis

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:27, Reply)
Wo wants to buy my house then?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:32, Reply)
bit shit that the 2% stamp duty on 250 to 300k didn't happen innit

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:34, Reply)
Yep

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:34, Reply)
is yours on at 260?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:35, Reply)
£250000

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:38, Reply)
so you're looking for 249,950?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:38, Reply)
yep

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:39, Reply)
I see.
Can you not just rent it out again or is it unlikely to hit 300k?
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:41, Reply)
I want the equity by Feb/Mar next year so dont want to get a new tenant in

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:42, Reply)
6 month AST then rolling, then serve two month's notice.
Done.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:45, Reply)
Didn't want the fuck on of new tenants TBH
Sell it then keep the cash
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:47, Reply)
so you'll opt out of capital appreciation plus rental yield just for less hassle?
Seems legit.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:51, Reply)
Its at the top of its value.
If I can sell now and my tenants are moving out I can get rent on a property I dont even own any more
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:52, Reply)
yeah true
How long do sales take where you are?
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:54, Reply)
Hopefully not too long
We bought ours in less than 6 weeks
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:55, Reply)
Subthread of the year right here

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:57, Reply)
Oh yeah

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:57, Reply)
also yeah
Wait for the ISA limit to go up to 15k in July, bang 15k of the equity in a stocks & shares ISA and the balance in the same funds via an OEIC.

Keep until Feb/March, job done, in the correct funds you'd be looking at minimum 10% growth in a year, even with 5% over the 9 months or so you''ve pissed all over inflation.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:58, Reply)
That I might well do
I'll drop you a gaz should we sell for some ideas
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 12:59, Reply)
the value of an investment, and any income from it, can go down as well as up and you may not get back the amount invested
Past performance is not a guide to future performance.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:01, Reply)
pfft
small print
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:01, Reply)
same font size and prominence as the main body text

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:03, Reply)
Have you got any advice regarding pensions?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:07, Reply)
pay in as much as you can so that you max out the tax relief
And as a rough rule of thumb your contribution as a percentage of your income should be half your age.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:08, Reply)
Really?
Fuck, that means I'm woefully underfunding my pension pot.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:20, Reply)
I'm in my lounge.
Or living room, if you're common. About to LUNCH. Or dinner, if you're common.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:08, Reply)
'lounge' is common.
It's a sitting room.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:13, Reply)
I'm standing though.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:16, Reply)
how common.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:20, Reply)
I'm in my "work chair"
I'm farting
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:15, Reply)
Wow me too
its like we are bros or sutin
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:17, Reply)
PARP

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:18, Reply)
I have to go to a meeting in Newcastle next month.
That will be fun I have no doubt
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:18, Reply)
Shout up if you fancy a pint

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:21, Reply)
im still not meeting you tomorrow, yeah?
Haha! Imma be on a proper crawl starting in The Gate and ending at Digital.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:43, Reply)

at with several al +s up my bum
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:48, Reply)
wut?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:49, Reply)
I've crossed out the word 'at' and replaced it with 'with several', then I've crossed out the last part of the word 'digital' and replaced it with an 's' and some other words
Perfectly clear
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:02, Reply)
its the at bit Im not getting
Ah who cares
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:06, Reply)
FFS jaysum
...starting in The Gate and ending with several Digits up my bum
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:08, Reply)
Jokes are always funnier if you have to explain them

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:09, Reply)
TGGI

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:18, Reply)
May well do mate,
it seems to be near (ish) Metro central (not that that means anything to me)
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:58, Reply)
?
The Metro Centre or Central Metro?
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:59, Reply)
the latter

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:00, Reply)
There's a rather good bar there called The Centurion
Really cool Victorian tiles. It used to be the first class lounge at the station but was boarded up for years and forgotten about
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:03, Reply)
interesting
I have to say I have no idea where I am going in Newcastle,
been years since I was last there, and even then the inlaws drove us in.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:08, Reply)
That's the gay zone

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:59, Reply)
Central Metro is, yes

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:00, Reply)
yay \0/

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:00, Reply)
so we're on our way to heathrow, to pick up a hire car
my friend thought I'd booked it and I thought she'd booked it, so here we all are, toddling off to heathrow, and no car is waiting for us....
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:19, Reply)
cool story zzzzzz

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:21, Reply)
I know, imagine being cool enough to have a big gang of friends to go away with
you probably can't
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:23, Reply)
yer I have exactly zero friends it is true

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:25, Reply)
You have your hamster though. It's a start.

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:29, Reply)
yer and my thesaurus eh

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:31, Reply)
MNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:21, Reply)
it is not a good start

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:23, Reply)
Also, why are you going to Heathrow to get a hire car?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:23, Reply)
Its the area of Greater Heathrow.
Or Slough, as it used to be.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:28, Reply)
im logged in on my mobile and stupid property chat has fucked up the screen
There should be a proper app
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:44, Reply)
^perpetual tenant

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:45, Reply)
who am I leaving my property to when I die alone?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:48, Reply)
I also like the freedom of being able to move as I please

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:48, Reply)
But you can get married from tomorrow?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:15, Reply)
how are you going to pay rent as a pensioner?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:49, Reply)
I'll have my parents house then. or at least the money
I could go council or I could die.
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:51, Reply)
Your parents will have sold the house and gone on a round the world bucket list by then

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:01, Reply)
nah Dads already said its mine.
Im the last in my family. What a legacy im leaving behind!
*cue rory*
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:04, Reply)
Thats the point... lulling you in to a false sense of security
then WHAMOO no inheritance, house has been on lease back and they have spunked all the money on drugs and wrinkly swinging
(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:09, Reply)
"That'll teach wor jayus f'deprivin' us of w'grandkids, hinny"

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:11, Reply)
TGGI^

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:15, Reply)
As a northerner his father will be genetically predisposed to dislike "the gays"

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:16, Reply)
sounds like a poison.....

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 14:10, Reply)
Are you still there?

(, Fri 28 Mar 2014, 13:51, Reply)

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