Paging the current and ex USA ex-pats

Hob nobbing with a VP of Oracle and Schmidt in his Novel days, using
Ellison's limo and driver and Novel's private jet to zip around USA, felt
pretty fucking good to me.

 

I rarely see a bill of less than £80 in Waitrose and I'm probably in there 3
times a month and that's for 1 anna half.

 

Hide everything. Give up work for a while. Lean back on the State. That'll
**** her right between the eyes.

 

Only in so much as one would travel in order to laugh at how the poor people
live

 

£4 max IWHT. Some hospitals are doing it for £1 a day, according to
the DoH.

 

Yeah but the food is absolute fucking slop. WUN's pigs wouldn't want it.
and in other news...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...with-the-Spanish-Portuguese-and-Italians.html

 

Perhaps we're just more efficient.

 

It's about double the national average. Believe it or not

 

You should be ashamed of yourself.

 

Oh, I can believe it. I still don't think 8 quid is excessive.

 

You're pretty much on the money. Last figures I saw were about £55 per
household per week, and there are (I think) about 26 million
households in the UK.

Average size of household...

<Googles>

about 2.5 people. So yes, that's about right.

I remember seeing the figures for prisons, a decade or so ago. I think
it was then £1.15 a day.

<Quiick Google>

£1.87 a day in 2006.

 

Oh I am. *I am*

Go for it D. Go for it.

I'd already offered to hide his Ducati, before it went down.

 

I enjoy other things about travelling, but whatever floats your boat....

 

Ouch. Oysters are cheap, but they're not *that* cheap.

 

put it *down*!

 

CT escribió:

What do you mean by "here"? I live on bugger-all "here".

 

That almost leaves me speechless, knowing you fly cattle class. I can't
comment on hospital food, not having had any since I was 5.

 

"Some" hospital food is just fine

 

So you're suggesting someone dodges their responsibilities and pushes
the cost onto the taxpayer.

Not good.

 

TBF I think it's the other way. The ex would go for ready meals and
that sort of shite, on my own I was spending considerably more or
better stuff[1]. The current SO insists pretty much on fresh
ingredients so I reckon my food sending has about doubled over recent
times. FWIW it was £69 yesterday to restock the fridge knock of the £8
for beers and a bit for bogrolls etc it was still >£55 on food.


[1] Switching from supermarket bread to the local bakers means it's
£1.90 a loaf or so.