French Run - posted on behalf of TOG

I went for the caps lock key when I saw what SteveH had written, then
thought I'd better read the entire thread.

"Aww, bless" is my comment on Granville.

 

My point exactly. Investors in Paperwork.

We're currently doing "Balanced Scorecard" (BS for short) at work.

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Platypus - (unreal)
VN800 Drifter, R80RT, Z200
DIAABTCOD#2 GPOTHUF#19
BOTAFOS#6 BOTAFOT#89 FTB#11
BOB#1 SBS#35 ANORAK#18 TWA#15

 

We did that 18 months ago - it's a crazy rock and roll life!

 

Did you miss the post where I divided your figure by two to get £250? I am
indeed paying for my own trip - completely on my own, from my own money
rather then a joint account with my partner or anything like that.

You're right though, I see no point in spending £50 a night on alcohol of
any kind to get blotto in a foreign country. I can do that in the UK if I
wished to and certainly view it as a waste of money to go all that way (at
the cost that it is) to then get pissed and spend all the daylight hours in
bed.

 

Yeah - get down the pub and get pissed.

 

Much of it seems to involve sitting staring at the screen, trying to make
sense of non-sequitirs transliterated into the patois of the Planet Zog, and
thinking "HTF do I fill this in?" for half an hour or so, then seeking
refuge in displacement activities like doing my real job.

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Platypus - (unreal)
VN800 Drifter, R80RT, Z200
DIAABTCOD#2 GPOTHUF#19
BOTAFOS#6 BOTAFOT#89 FTB#11
BOB#1 SBS#35 ANORAK#18 TWA#15

 

Maybe if you spent more time working rather then fighting you'd get better
wages?

 

The first rule of FightShop, is that nobody talks about FightShop.
The second rule of FightShop; make sure they're a bit foreign first.
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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..62743../..14835.../..3157./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17
'^'

 

[snip whatever]

all you "I've never bought anything on credit, always saved up yadda
yadda" brigade do ignore the fact that you've "lost" increase in price
of the bike/car/whatever between when you /could/ have bought it on
credit, and when you'd actually saved up the money to buy it. If
you're talking about a new vehicle, and can get 0% financing, then
you're actually saving money over saving up the money and buying for
cash.

 

self-control is over-rated. If I want something bad enough, I'll buy
it. Fortunately, I've never really bought anything that got me into
serious amounts of debt[1]

[1] unless you count a ~200K mortgage as a "debt" ;-)

 

I've got more disposable income and a better quality of
life now that I'm a "tied down type".

But then I'm not the one whinging...

 

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:36:35 +0000, Salad Dodger

And they use it for fundamentalist christian proselytising. <shudder>

 

I was reinforcing it. Short and to the point that's me.

 

ONE HUNDRED BILLION dollars you say.

Praise the Lord, for Jesus is my saviour.

<fx:awaits cheque>

 

Although I think in my case it's slightly different.

It may have been better put if I said "I've never bought from a dealer on
finance" because "I always buy old shitty bikes then work to make them
slightly less shitty with varying degrees of success" Which is more or
less what I'd put.

It wasn't a big moral high ground thing.

Look, face it, I'm spesh.

 

well, I realise that - I was speaking "in general" rather than to you,
really.

it appears to be for some people, though. Thinking about it, I've only
bought a couple of cars and one bike on HP, and one other bike with a
bank-loan; the rest have been cash purchases. But I've no problems
with buying stuff on credit if I want something there and then. My
mortgage is my only debt at the moment, though. Well, and my credit
card, but I pay the full amount off on that every month.

in so many ways, Simon.

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is that how you spell reading UKRM?

 

Don't forget, "company vehicle".

Although I don't know if Jen has done that.

 

It's bollocks. I've been better off since my girlfriend moved in.

The only cost that has really increased has been the Council Tax
because I used to get 25% discount for single occupancy. On the other
hand, we're paying half each now so it's effectively come down for me.

Every other bill has halved for me and food has become more cost
effective because we can buy in "bulk".

Of course things get more expensive if you want to do them together,
such as hobbies or going on holiday, but there is an easy solution to
that...

....have your own lives as well as being a couple.

 

Remind me how you bought your ZRX again?