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| Author: | Warhead [ Tue Jul 12, 2011 23:35 ] |
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I appear to have a new job with the National Centre for Social Research, subject to not making a dick of myself on the induction course at the end of the month. |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Tue Jul 12, 2011 23:41 ] |
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W00t!
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:19 ] |
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Warhead wrote: I appear to have a new job with the National Centre for Social Research, subject to not making a dick of myself on the induction course at the end of the month. Old job become a liability? |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:44 ] |
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It's a long and complicated story, but what it boils down to is that we can't compete against the big players in this industry, so we're moving into a niche area which takes a long time to make any money. But we need some income now, so we're both taking on full time jobs and doing the niche work in the evenings. We're licensed to operate until Feb 2012 so we'll keep going until then and then decide whether or not to renew our license, depending on whether it's profitable to do so. We're also moving out of our premises, as we can't really afford to stay here, and we don't need them for the way we'll be operating from now on. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Jul 13, 2011 21:19 ] |
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Achievement unlocked!  Booked a honeymoon! |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Wed Jul 13, 2011 21:28 ] |
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God that looks gorgeous! Where is it? 
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Jul 13, 2011 21:28 ] |
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Nice! Uh - where? |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Jul 13, 2011 21:37 ] |
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Santorini. One of the Greek islands. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Wed Jul 13, 2011 21:38 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Santorini. One of the Greek islands. My in-laws have been there. Beautiful place. Lots of steps
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Jul 13, 2011 21:42 ] |
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Good tomatoes. |
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| Author: | Plissken [ Wed Jul 13, 2011 22:22 ] |
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Saw the pic, instantly knew it was Santorini. Went there in 2001. Beautiful island, loved it. The trip out to the volcano is very cool, plus you can go and have dinner on a boat in the caldera. Black sand beaches. Good food. Excellent wine. But above all, you must, simply must take the opportunity to watch the sunset at Ia. Sitting there with one-day-to-be-Mrs P was spine-tinglingly beautiful and perfect. A fantastic choice for your honeymoon. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Jul 13, 2011 22:46 ] |
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Ooh -- thanks for the tips, Plissken. We'll definitely make the trip out to Oia then. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Tue Jul 19, 2011 20:22 ] |
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I have fresh nephew! MiniPaz part 2! |
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| Author: | KovacsC [ Tue Jul 19, 2011 20:54 ] |
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 That is cool.... |
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| Author: | Kern [ Tue Jul 19, 2011 21:07 ] |
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DavPaz wrote: I have fresh nephew! MiniPaz part 2! Yay! |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Jul 20, 2011 0:47 ] |
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Congratulations DavPaz! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:30 ] |
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It's pay day! Thank God. This month I'm going to actually try and figure out what the fuck I do with my money each month. |
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| Author: | Malabelm [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:05 ] |
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Grim... wrote: It's pay day! Thank God. This month I'm going to actually try and figure out what the fuck I do with my money each month.  I bought an app an' everythin'. Oh. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:09 ] |
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Grim... wrote: It's pay day! Thank God. This month I'm going to actually try and figure out what the fuck I do with my money each month. I did this. Now I have money! Extra, spare money for stuff that's not essential! Amazing! |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:10 ] |
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Also Grim..., may I humbly suggest that the 100Mb broadband may be a tiny drain on wages? 
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:12 ] |
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DavPaz wrote: Grim... wrote: It's pay day! Thank God. This month I'm going to actually try and figure out what the fuck I do with my money each month. I did this. Now I have money! Extra, spare money for stuff that's not essential! Amazing! I've been doing this a lot this month, having more money coming in doesn't seem to be making me any better off, stupid car doesn't help. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:08 ] |
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I've not got to that level, but I have made sure I spend less by thinking abotu the necessity of every purchase - even down to "do I really need to buy this can of coke, or could I just drink the free water in the office?". That old saying about pennies and pounds may be trite, but it's true. |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:12 ] |
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I went through a phase of managing my financies in ridiculous levels of detail. Then I realised that I'm genetically bound to blow all my money on stupid crap that I don't need, like cars, iPhone-controlled quadracopters, MAME cabinets, pool tables and cleaners. Frankly, I'm amazed I'm not living out of a cardboard box. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:17 ] |
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Malabelm wrote: Grim... wrote: It's pay day! Thank God. This month I'm going to actually try and figure out what the fuck I do with my money each month. I bought an app an' everythin'. Oh. Heh! Hey, you've got to spend money to make money! Or something. |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:16 ] |
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The gammy leg stocking is off. Hooray! I've been doing spectacularly, unintentionally well with money. Well, I was until I blew £620 on a painting for Hel, for her birthday and our one year anniversary and also am taking her to Australasia tomorrow night where they do tiny fillet steaks of wagyu beef (not even from Japan, it's Australian) for £40. She deserves it for putting up with me. |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:44 ] |
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Hooray for removed gammy leg stockings. My opinion is the reason you're careful with money is so that you *can* do the stuff you want with it, like treating your missus to a slap up meal out. You don't have to skip many takeaways and coffees and pointless bits of tat to get a decent night out that actually means something. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:39 ] |
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DavPaz wrote: Also Grim..., may I humbly suggest that the 100Mb broadband may be a tiny drain on wages? Maybe I think it's £60 a month. |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 15:20 ] |
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Squirt wrote: My opinion is the reason you're careful with money is so that you *can* do the stuff you want with it, like treating your missus to a slap up meal out. You don't have to skip many takeaways and coffees and pointless bits of tat to get a decent night out that actually means something. Actually, I think it's more the case that I've forgotten how to buy vast quantities of shit. I haven't a BluRay in... months, now.
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 15:21 ] |
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You haven't what a bluray? |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 15:28 ] |
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Bought. Weird how that happens. |
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| Author: | flis [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 15:35 ] |
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Grim... wrote: DavPaz wrote: Also Grim..., may I humbly suggest that the 100Mb broadband may be a tiny drain on wages? Maybe I think it's £60 a month. Is that a lot? We have to pay about £30 for 16Mb. Our monthly phone bill varies between £150 and £200. Because our mobiles are on the bill too. And I'm naughty... Everyone with broadband is on 16Mb over here, the only difference is what download limit you have. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 15:44 ] |
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flis wrote: Our monthly phone bill varies between £150 and £200. Because our mobiles are on the bill too.  Bloody hell!flis wrote: And I'm naughty... Chat lines? |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 15:48 ] |
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It's shitloads (edit: oh, unless that includes TV and phone as well?). I pay £18/mo for 40mbps with a 40GB cap, though it'd be £28/mo for "unlimited" and 'up to 10mbps' upload instead of 2mbps, and it's one of the more expensive non-cable packages. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 15:56 ] |
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We pay c£60pcm for Sky, phone line and calls, and unlimited 1.5meg broadband. |
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| Author: | Plissken [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 16:12 ] |
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Telephone interview passed, face to face interview tomorrow. Then fly off to Dublin tomorrow night and heading down to Cork and Kerry for a week. |
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| Author: | Malabelm [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 16:14 ] |
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Plissken wrote: Telephone interview passed, face to face interview tomorrow. Then fly off to Dublin tomorrow night and heading down to Cork and Kerry for a week. Awesome. Good luck! |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 16:17 ] |
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Plissken wrote: Telephone interview passed, face to face interview tomorrow. Then fly off to Dublin tomorrow night and heading down to Cork and Kerry for a week. Nice work. |
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| Author: | JBR [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 16:45 ] |
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Malabelm wrote: Grim... wrote: It's pay day! Thank God. This month I'm going to actually try and figure out what the fuck I do with my money each month. I bought an app an' everythin'. Oh. Ha! If you're in front of a computer often enough, I recommend the free Gnucash. Little bit of setting up, but give it some broad categories (rather than trying to categories absolutely every purchase) and it'll soon be obvious where the cash goes. Plus once you're sorted you can see your net worth go up month on month*. *No guarantees, like |
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| Author: | flis [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 16:50 ] |
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Grim... wrote: It's pay day! Thank God. This month I'm going to actually try and figure out what the fuck I do with my money each month. I got paid today too! Woo! And is was child benefit payment day too! Double woo! I know have £204 available cash in my current accounts until next pay day. And my credit card balance is -£245. Fucking pay day....All it does is remind me how poor I am. |
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| Author: | Plissken [ Fri Jul 29, 2011 16:59 ] |
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I can has verbal contract offer. Six months, in Liverpool. Right next to Paddys Wigwam. Which means an end to our little Irish adventure. I'll miss living in Dublin but I'll be able to travel to work on the train and come home to be with Mrs P, and that is what really matters. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri Jul 29, 2011 17:00 ] |
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Plissken wrote: I can has verbal contract offer. Six months, in Liverpool. Right next to Paddys Wigwam. Which means an end to our little Irish adventure. I'll miss living in Dublin but I'll be able to travel to work on the train and come home to be with Mrs P, and that is what really matters. YAY! |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Fri Jul 29, 2011 17:04 ] |
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Yay! "Boss"! |
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| Author: | Plissken [ Fri Jul 29, 2011 17:07 ] |
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Well, it could be your job. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Fri Jul 29, 2011 17:09 ] |
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Plissken wrote: Well, it could be your job. Good, I could use a break
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Fri Jul 29, 2011 21:00 ] |
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Excellent news Plissken! I got a pay rise, back dated to April.
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| Author: | GazChap [ Sat Jul 30, 2011 16:38 ] |
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Good news Plissken and GJ! In similar job related matters, my directorship and shareholdership (is that even a word?) is now official and I've signed all the documentation to bring it into effect. Woo! |
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| Author: | Zio [ Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:42 ] |
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Car: sold! I am a bit gutted about it, I have to say, I bloody loved that car and I didn't get quite as much for it as I would've liked, but then it did need a few things doing. One of the tyres needed replacing immediately (the guy that bought it took it straight to a local tyre place as it wasn't so much bald as a racing slick), one of the side skirts needs realigning, the bonnet arguably needs a respray (many stone chips)... anyway, it's done and my financial position doesn't look quite so glum. True to his word, my amazing younger brother (who I'm living with at present) immediately got on the phone to his insurance company and added me to the insurance for his '98 Toyota Celica. Even better, he has actively discouraged me from buying another car just yet, as he's told me that to all intents and purposes I can just take it as and when I like, which I wasn't expecting. To be fair, the guy works in London and rarely ever uses his car, it can literally sit on our drive untouched for months at a time, so in a way I think he's just glad it'll be getting some use. All he wants in return from me is for me to pay for the tracking issue to be sorted out (it veers very slightly to the left at the moment) and to give it a clean. Other than it being a bit grubby and the radio not remembering stations programmed in (I'd imagine it wasn't installed properly), the car is great and drives brilliantly, certainly I can't argue when it's being provided effectively for free! Adding to the awesome, I was talking to my family about how surprisingly lovely to drive my bro's Celica is. My dad then took me to one side later and told me that if I wanted my own, bearing in mind that even the latest shape Celicas are not too pricey nowadays if you're happy settling for the 1.8 VVTi, he'd gladly help me financially to buy one. I'm going to leave it a few months at least though, see how things go with sharing my brother's car. But wait: there's more! I've spent the last week or so chatting to a really lovely girl online who lives fairly close to me, we've been getting on brilliantly and are planning to meet up on Tuesday. Also, she's a trainee manager at Kwik Fit and reckons it'll cost about £31 to sort out that tracking problem!  Could it be things are finally starting to work out a bit nicer for me? In fact the only downside lately is I've been ill since last Monday night, originally with stomach bug symptoms, now with flu-like symptoms. Not sleeping very well with endless fever-dreams, constantly feel like I'm running a temperature, it's a bit shit. But hey ho, hopefully I'll recover in time for Tuesday. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:46 ] |
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Congrats to Pliss and GJ and Zio! And: Zio wrote: the radio not remembering stations programmed in (I'd imagine it wasn't installed properly) It probably doesn't have a permanent live, or the permanent and switched live connections are the wrong way around. It's easy to fix if it bothers you.
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| Author: | Malabelm [ Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:53 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Congrats to Pliss and GJ and Zio! And: It probably doesn't have a permanent live, or the permanent and switched live connections are the wrong way around. It's easy to fix if it bothers you. Woah, back off, rookie. Zio, I'd PM Joans on this one if you actually want it fixed. |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:00 ] |
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Zio - that's brilliant news, I'm really pleased that things are working out for you now. Malabelm - 
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