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Reply | Govt deficit: what would you do?
at 10:20 9 Jul 2025
In a similar vein I used to work for a local council and our small department would go on some big jollies aka 'team building' in Feb/March each year as we had some budget left. Naively I questioned this as, although I enjoyed all the days out, it seemed a bit wrong spending public money like this. I was told that we needed to use up all our budget that financial year otherwise we'd get a smaller budget next year. Absolute madness!
Honestly, there is so much inefficiency in the public sector.. |
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Reply | Anyone got a recommendation for a cheap package holiday please?
at 10:20 14 May 2025
Was looking a couple of weeks ago and they had holidays over the May half term for about £1000 for the 3 of us (taking advantage of the free child place) which I thought was complete madness as never seen during school holidays so cheap. Mainly Canaries/Balearics so assume the anti tourist protests are putting people off. |
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Reply | Weird haircuts
at 09:18 9 May 2025
To be fair they are marginally (very marginally) better than those mullet styles that are all the rage at the moment, the ones that make you look like a mid west American simpleton. Some of my son's friends are sporting that cut and I've told him no never. |
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Reply | Feeling rather gutted and a little down
at 22:10 23 Mar 2025
Yes the vendors of the house we'd had an offer accepted and detailed survey done on decided to put it back on the market after our 2nd buyer pulled out as they wanted to move quickly. Gave me great satisfaction that it was still up for sale well after we had moved into our new (and better) home. |
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Reply | Feeling rather gutted and a little down
at 19:38 22 Mar 2025
Don't want to give you false hope but keep in touch with the agent in case the buyer pulls out to make sure they know how keen you are. When we sold we had 2 potential buyers pull out for different reasons so it can happen.
However, in that time we lost the house we wanted to purchase. In hindsight, best thing that ever happened to us. Ended up buying a house better suited with fab neighbours and great local schools (whereas the catchment school at our 'lost' property now has a dreadful reputation.
Whatever will be will be and I strongly believe everything happen for a reason. |
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Reply | Berlin
at 09:23 21 Mar 2025
Aw we thought the TV tower was expensive when we went about 5 years ago so if it's increased massively it'd probably be out of our price range now. We did enjoy the DDR museum and from memory it was pretty cheap to get into. Have noted your recommended Alltag in der DDR for our next visit, find all things 'east' fascinating. |
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Reply | Berlin
at 08:38 21 Mar 2025
It's called the DDR museum and agree definitely worth a visit especially if you're of an age where you remember the wall coming down. We also enjoyed the spy museum and checkpoint charlie too and as RobMonk said the TV tower in Alexanderplatz was good. In fact nearly everywhere we visited in Berlin was good - we did the hop on hop off bus and saw most of the sights. |
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Reply | Trump
at 08:47 2 Mar 2025
Yep, an American friend who lives and holidays out that way posted about that on Facebook yesterday. He wanted to show there is opposition and he's highly embarrassed being an American at the moment.
As for Miller's statement that 'Millions of American hearts swelled with overflowing pride...' that honestly sounds like the kind of propaganda N. Korea or Russia would come out with although with them voting Trump in in the first place maybe it's true.
Hell in a handcart. |
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Reply | Axel Rudakubana….
at 13:33 23 Jan 2025
Just reading it and it's so horrific. One of the guys passing by who went back in with a policeman and then carried a fatally injured little girl out of the building 'screaming as he did so'. What an incredibly man but I can't imagine he'll ever recover from that mentally.
It's all so so awful beyond words. |
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Reply | ive not seen anyone talk about the Gavin and Stacey Finale on here
at 14:34 2 Jan 2025
It was watchable if a little predictable. Found the actors struggled to sometimes get into character, for example the 'speech' by Smithy at the end to Nessa sounded too much like James Corden doing one of his monologues on the Late Show. |
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Reply | Christmas Support Thread
at 09:43 24 Dec 2024
You're one of the good ones Swailsey and your post just shows that. Sending virtual hugs to you and anyone else who needs one x |
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Reply | Screen takeovers on here
at 12:47 13 Nov 2024
Yep I've been getting that occasionally too, had assumed it was just me. |
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Reply | Finding fully remote work
at 18:22 7 Nov 2024
If you're on Facebook it's worth following/joining this page
The Work from Home Hub UK
Where they post remote/hybrid vacancies they've found. |
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Reply | Things that make you feel old
at 17:35 24 Sep 2024
We play this when watching TOTP on a Friday evening. Kinda expect it with the 70/80s but rather depressing how many from the 90s episodes are now dead too. |
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Granted kid would miss a couple of days of school but not enough to get a fine.