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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
My mate's a solicitor and deals with property and leasing.
When he bought his first house, by the end of it even he was cursing bloody solicitors.
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 17 Dec 2014, 14:36,
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latest was 10 years ago)
Why didn't he do it himself?
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 17 Dec 2014, 14:37,
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He weren't quite qualified to at that point or summat.
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 17 Dec 2014, 14:38,
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It's just tedious admin in lawyerspeak, I'm sure most people could do it if there wasn't the option to pay some prick to do it.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 17 Dec 2014, 14:41,
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it's an absolute piece of piss
my baby brother did his conveyancing when he was doing property development and he's barely an idiot
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old man river possible lesbian, Wed 17 Dec 2014, 14:43,
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Of course he did
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Mr Udagawa, Wed 17 Dec 2014, 14:44,
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the only people who think it's tricky are solicitors and that's only because they're generally pretty thick
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old man river possible lesbian, Wed 17 Dec 2014, 14:50,
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I can't think why they get paid several hundred grand a year to be able to understand and enforce multi jurisdictional legal agreements stradling property, construction, and commercial heads to delivery multi billion pound infrastructure projects
I just can't quite fathom it really
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Mr Udagawa, Wed 17 Dec 2014, 14:57,
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that looks fascinating and if I live to a hundred and everything else goes to shit I might even read it
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old man river possible lesbian, Wed 17 Dec 2014, 15:03,
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It's ok, I've pitched it slightly above a 'Russell Group' intellectual level.
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Mr Udagawa, Wed 17 Dec 2014, 15:10,
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fortunately they'll all be replaced by computers within five years and be working in Tesco or B&Q
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old man river possible lesbian, Wed 17 Dec 2014, 14:38,
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