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So did I as it happens, left school on the Friday and started work on the following Monday, but I was just trying to illustrate the point that for many people in the UK life was dreadful. I did have a couple of weeks at the start of the January with no work at all, had to sign-on which I found...

Fair point, losing my job as a milk monitor at the age of eight when she snatched the milk away kind of coloured my opinion of her, one that I never managed to change...leaving school in the mid 80's with the best part of 4m people on the dole...yeah, life was easy, we never had it so good.

Born in Buckinghamshire, moved to Sussex when I was 5 and lived there until I was nearly 20, moved back again for several years in the early 90's and became a weekly commuter, then moved away again. I have moved around a fair bit since and now live the closest to Sussex than I have since 95. I...

I answer my phone with "hello"...if nobody says anything sensible within five seconds the receiver goes back down again.

Several possible solutions provided by NSC, a job well done...I now have a lovely warm feeling, although that might be the curry I just had for my dinner!

Surely there is some kind soul on here who would be willing to swap tickets with you, even if it meant you sitting in a slightly less expensive part of the ground but with easier access and still seeing the game.

I'm guessing that they add a handling charge...no way that anyone would charge the cost price, unless it was best-mates rates!

I thought you might just tell Uncle C to pipe down!

I would agree with that, having paid around £2300 four years ago for a new boiler, to replace an antique version. Although a fair bit higher than your quote, that price included relocating from the kitchen to an upstairs bedroom (in the space the hot water tank had previously been), replacing...

Hey Ronaldo...if I stick my finger up your arse it makes your shorts smaller!

So this may be even more complicated if, for example, the dog owner had tied it up in their garden and it somehow managed to free itself and go walkabout. If that was what happened then surely there might be a case for mis-treatment of a domestic animal that ultimately led to its death.

Lady above, sat on the left, is that the England rugby badge on her...err, scarf...somewhat appropriate in that case as most rugby fans think they played like tits at the World Cup!

I once left my heart in San Francisco!

Something like £42 for a week as a waiter in a hotel in 1984, went up to £46 after four weeks when I had learnt silver service...which to begin with was a bit hit and miss, the odd customer ended up with a potato in their lap!

Seems unlikely to me too. I was a passenger in a car a few years ago that ran over a dead dog lying in the road, it made a hell of a bump accompanied by a sensation similar to driving over a low kerb, twice...front and rear wheel. The conversation with the driver went something like this: Her...

How about Everton then?

If that person is charged and convicted with killing a dog he won't have an easy time in prison. A couple of years ago there was someone in our local prison who had been jailed for chucking a dog off a high-rise building, he was put in with all the child abusers, paedophiles and wife-beaters...

Wigan? ...other than all those who have never played in it.

Amazing isn't it, we started the thread with a serious question about racial abuse and it has descended into an argument about shopping in different parts of South London...maybe I shouldn't be surprised, this is of course NSC!

This, more likely to want teams in the Europa League to win, be that Fulham, Brum or Stoke, etc...the games are generally more entertaining than the Champions League anyway.