I recently found a sister
She is one of the smashingest people I've ever met. Her courage in the face of adversity is inspirational, as is her integrity. She has the warmest heart and twinkly persona.

I love her to bits.

As little as 5 years ago, I would have regarded having to resort to the internet to meet new people as more than a tad sad. Now I'm eating those words.

Hurray for b3ta!
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 18:39, 10 replies)

Aaaw
You find the loveliest people in the strangest places I think, so why should the internet be any different?

My one foray into internet dating still gives me nightmares though *shudders* but perhaps I was unlucky!
(Penguins_Made_Me_Do_It is a dolt ... and she don't care, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 18:54, closed)

I feel the same. Can I have my cds back though?
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 19:22, closed)

You can fuck right off
I'm keeping your "Best of Deacon Blue". The least you can do after those two days I spent wearing a gimp mask and tied to a tree in the Forest of Dean

*sobs*
(Penguins_Made_Me_Do_It is a dolt ... and she don't care, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 19:41, closed)

Internet dating
Don't judge it by a single foray. It's a jungle out there, but be persistent and you will find that special someone eventually.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 20:10, closed)

thats fan feckin tastic
i'm sure we will get the whole story when you're ready

well done you with yer web based snoopery!

*nose crinkles*
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 19:27, closed)

sorry frisson has pointed out you meant sister in the sorrority as opposed to sibling manner
please forgive my lack of comprehension

i spent in total 4 hours today dealing with fucking arab pedants trying to finalise the simple purchase of a vehicle.

no im not being racist - they were actual pedants. the 24 forms and 100 or so signatures today were merely the end result of a solid month's faxing, emailing and delivering in person multiple copies of my: drivers licence, (UK & UAE) passport, visa, salary certificate, bank statements, employment details: contract of employment, employers address, nature of business, position in company, sponsors letter, trade licence.

AND the name and mobile number of 'a friend' in the UAE - i shit you not. a fucking 'friend'. Note 'mobile number' no one i know has a home landline. there are also (refreshingly you might) say no letterboxes on the doors of the extortionately priced flats (25K a year for a modest 2 bed job up a highrise) as there are no postal adresses. PO boxes only thankyou, we are medieval.

not to mention multiple visits to various disparate locations of offices, showrooms government departments etc. during which time i have driven over 150 miles on a road network in which the layout changes almost daily and 100mph tailgaiting is genuinely considered normal - the slightly impatient ones undertake you at 130mph on the hard shoulder - as do the police.

all in the pursuit of one fucking vehicle purchase

i had a boiled sweet for lunch then paid 50 quid for a crap meal this evening just so i could have a cheap bottle of plonk with it to celebrate.

naturally i still don't actually have the car - i'm assured it we be delivered tomorrow, or maybe the next day, Insha'Allah!

oh and i have to pay the taxi fare back for the delivery bloke

oh and when i got my UAE licence i was also given application forms for: a UAE drivers licence - yeah i know? Plus an application for a certificate detailing the contents of my licence - the contents being printed on the licence. Also a 'to whom it may concern' certificate application form, this, and i quote is a certificate to prove 'the non existence of a driving licence' how very fucking existential!

NEVER FUCKING COMPLAIN ABOUT THE UK AGAIN - it is a bureaucracy free oasis of calm, restraint, logic, manners and simplicity.

!
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 19:51, closed)

bless your sweet heart
what a cunt-bleeding pain in the floor pan.
May you soon be with wheels!

(I'm still shaking my head at you having to pay the delivery guy's taxi fare.....)

*shakes head*
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 23:13, closed)

.
"As little as 5 years ago, I would have regarded having to resort to the internet to meet new people as more than a tad sad. Now I'm eating those words."

This gets a *click * just for that phrase alone. Huraaaaah!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 20:09, closed)

I only eat my words now.
I've lost 12 pounds this way.




(She is kinda fabby isn't she).
( girlinthehole, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 21:27, closed)

Yes, she is.
She's like the big sister I never had. Except younger.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 13 Nov 2008, 0:02, closed)