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Jim Webster, (In On a Chance! )
My family is old money.Well, we would be.
Someone lost the whittling knife...
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M.T. wrote: "Yeh, I'm not exactly sorry for her. It's no fun being in debt but she must have been monumentally short sighted, she must have elevated short sightedness to an art form... Then again nobody but a raving hooray would, or ever has lived south of the river... not if they bought their houses or flats after about 1973...."Phrases like "He had been going through bank statements and discovered, in 1998 alone, he spent £30,000 on holidays, restaurants and gifts to his then girlfriend."
But I think it's summed up in
"But there are other, less palatable, causes. Like many of my friends, I have no capital to speak of. We never thought to save. We simply assumed our golden days would last for ever. I have a loan and a credit card bill which I know I will be paying off for years."
Basically they P*ssed it away when they had it and managed to run up debt
Poor young lady. If she could afford the ritz she should buy own brand crackers.
Actually the article pissed me off a little too much to make me laugh. Phnark. "We never thought to save."
Well you fucking should have done. Mwa ha ha hargh!
That said, I do know how easy it is to get into debt. A friend of a friend, who owed £1,000 on their credit card panicked, ignored it and hoped it would go away. After 18 months he ended up owing £15,000 in interest charges and 'fees'. I pay mine every month. One time something went wrong and the transfer didn't get there in time. They charged me £12.00 on a £5 parking payment. Because they stuffed it up my bank were kind enough to give me the money.
Also don't get me started on the bloke who ended up paying £40,000 on a £6,000 loan because the bank stuffed up... and then served him a writ while he was in hospital, paralysed from the waist down, having a MS attack. I think he managed to renegotiate but he'll be paying them for their error for the rest of his life.
What I'm saying is that I can imagine these idiots have run up the kind of debts that would leave Croesus skint and while they're fools, we should never forget what rapacious bastards the people who lent them the money are.
I guess the moral of the story. Never, ever borrow money from anywhere and never put more on the credit card than you can pay back the next month.
Cheers
MTM
I've vowed to never get a credit card, and my loan shark is my sister. There's no interest, so it's perfect!
I wonder if being brought up with blankets and clothing that still had the utility mark on helped? But yes, the saying 'neither borrower nor lender be' is a good one.
One of the best days of my life was when we paid the overdraft off with the bank.
A few months later, the bank manager's secretary phoned up to arrange the annual visit. My good lady said 'I assume we will not be charged for it, because we're not paying for it if we are.'
We haven't seen them since :-)
Here's that "O" I promised you Jim. Can I have the "P"?
OH... I really enjoy Shaun the Sheep :D
You'll still never live it down, David. There's no use trying to exchange letters.
Sandra wrote: "You'll still never live it down, David. There's no use trying to exchange letters."certainly there's no point in taking the 'P'
"certainly there's no point in taking the 'P'"It might be better than ripping the M Phnark.
Don't use the 'ripping' word with Patti about. She'll be wanting bodice rippers next!
I know I've come to it a bit late but crikey, I'd love to have a go at being *that* kind of skint!
I'm busily nicking bits of that for my current W I P.I estimate tht after tax, eighty grand comes out at 4500 per month in hand.
True poverty.
So she's either been immortalised or immoralised in Bk 5 ;-)Given that petronella can be derived from petronel, perhaps we could be reading about the antics of 'Musketoon Earp'
Victoria wrote: "I know I've come to it a bit late but crikey, I'd love to have a go at being *that* kind of skint!"I aspire to be that kind of skint!
If you really have to go...I guess it's better than what you usually do.
*Finger itches to paste Youtube link*Only joking, that ones old now and lost its impact. I need new material :~)
Cotton I think. The number of times I reuse the material it needs to be hard wearing :~)
Good choice. We'll have that packaged up and sent to you asap.
Probably a Shire...
Whilst I'll admit to rugged good looks, I'm not get that rugged or good looking. And he's at least ten years older than me (and tough years at that!)Don't think much of her shoes for the situation either to be honest.
Anyway I was just listening to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sRdwQ... so I'm feeling reasonably chilled about it all
I think the man pretesteth too much ;~)
choo choo choo choo wooooooooooooooooO!!!!!
Jim wrote: "Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Probably a Shire..."http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qUFDMUpk9jE... ?"
The one on the right isn't much of a weapon :~?
Jim wrote: "Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Probably a Shire..."http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qUFDMUpk9jE... ?"
So which one are you Jim?
Not sure how deep my thread has sunk, but I can't be bothered to dig it out tonight.
I'll find it and put a nice picture on it...
Does fracking work on Goodreads threads?
Good thing you didn't hear Patti on the Skype chat last night!
Rosemary was blushing! In fact her avatar, which was a daffodil, changed to a pinkish colour....
I had a perfectly sensible conversation with Geoff for over an hour, then Darren and Rosemary jois in, still fairly sensible. Then Patti joins in and it all goes horribly wrong.
David wrote: "Jim wrote: "Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Probably a Shire..."http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qUFDMUpk9jE... ?"
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certain not as Pratchett would have done him
Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Jim wrote: "Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Probably a Shire..."http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qUFDMUpk9jE... ?"
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I'm probably 'Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping But Secretly No Alcohol Lager'
Are you a late addition to the original 4?
I've tried to follow this and become confused.
Hell no! Dark clouds lurk around every corner.
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Yeh, I'm not exactly sorry for her. It's no fun being in debt but she must have been monumentally short sighted, she must have elevated short sightedness to an art form... Then again nobody but a raving hooray would, or ever has lived south of the river... not if they bought their houses or flats after about 1973.
Cheers
MTM