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    the worst accident you have ever suffered

    oooh .. im gonna give me-self wrinkles if i keep reading this.. im looking like old man steptoe as it is im a bone man myself, ive broken loads of stuff but my kneecap was the worst pain by far. ive had a fair bit of blood in the past but none of that really dark, slow moving stuff...
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    Passport Application

    same person who would moan if there wasnt a procedure to follow. the same person who would moan if there were official tabs' on him the same person who thinks that he is exempt from any rules that dont suit him. same person that buys the lookie lookie dvd's then moans about the african or...
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    Insulating Walls

    thats not really fair woody. (i dont mean to be a miserable sod cos i know you were avin a laugh) cavities were never created to insulate, they were for water ingress as im sure you know. the cavity has become a useful place to place insulation but as the cavity is getting wider it makes me...
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    DEAD MANS ROADSIDE FLOWERS

    i wish anybody who moans about things like this would have just 5 minutes of the pain that the family and friends of the dead person has had. GET A LIFE. you would be squealing like pigs if it was someone you love. btw if you are so bothered about your council tax; do some civic...
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    Speed Limiter

    clarkson did the test :roll: im sure that was a 'fair' test then, ahemm :) :) i dont know this limiter system but i do know that cruise control saves fuel according to bmw tests. clarkson doing something sensible... i think even he would laugh at that suggestion.. (bit unfair i suppose...
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    skip hire

    my grab lorry man has a price for clean and one for mixed. £40 dearer for the tiniest bit of mixed :cry: worth asking. i use a grab whenever i can now, it works out much cheaper for me.
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    Building a Garage from concrete hollow blocks

    hollow blocks are a pain to lay compared to solid blocks. in simple terms. you have to weigh up how many trowel 'actions' it takes to lay wide hollow blocks. i reckon its about 9/10 trowel wipes as opposed to 3, and a little fuss, to lay a solid block. if you need to ask these questions then...
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    Pumping Dog

    please dont make me into something im not joe. i dont like that form of testing but i firmly believe that ALL the companies will test in this way, or, will buy those results. for my work, i had to go into a cat food factory. (the stench was truly unbelievable) part of the factory was...
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    Pumping Dog

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    Budget

    agreed. but it doesnt alter the fact that we are different, our rail is set up to make someone money rather than run as an efficient service. the police fire brigade and army are services. the people who run them try to run them as efficiently as the can but without trying to make someone a...
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    Red Light

    i followed a small lorry through the lights. this lorry decided to turn left without indicating and the struggled to get past a car waiting at the the lights on red. this left me in the junction because i could not pass the back corner of the lorry. by the time he got round i was in the...
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    Budget

    trazor i accept your us,china, india point of view. i meant that if they keep raising the tax cost on fuel, then make the trains better. i would much rather use the train on a long journey but the cost ratio between car and a train is too high. i remember a clever arrangement for loading...
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    surveyor or builder ? help please

    we will follow this up. money isnt everything to me and i hope he will feel the same. the son of a friend of mine has just become a solicitor and my nephew an accountant. my son didnt show the slightest flicker of interest in either of those jobs. i think the hardest part for the lad is...
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    Budget

    agreed :cry: but, when was that not the case. :) im not clever enough to understand the ins and out of a national budget but i would like to see the really rich pay at least the same in percentage terms as me, or let them claim some back if their money was spent on british goods or...
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    surveyor or builder ? help please

    thanks for that. i will show him your reply and let him have a look at the links. he will need to try and work out what each job, in this overall field, actually does, and if he can see himself doing that. most importantly, he needs to realise the amount of work needed to get there. i will...
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    dilemma

    fingers crossed for you.
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    Budget

    budget moans.. when was it any different ! english people moan about a few pence here and there; but spend ten times more on trivial s**t. i know 'you'- dont! but everybody you know does. :wink: only thing i truly resent is the tax, taken under the guise of being green, is not...
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    surveyor or builder ? help please

    i cant send him to uni for that :) i think he must be a bit of a SE' expert already then :oops:
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    surveyor or builder ? help please

    my son perked up when i mentioned this sort of field for him to work in. hes 15. i ask anybody, with a job that i might like my son to do, would they start this work now? do they like their job. if you think this applies, could you answer please. btw he grunts a lot but hes good at...
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    Advice About A Union

    is it possible that this person no longer wants to work there because sometimes a firm will pay the dismissal costs rather than have this person at their firm. im wondering if it would suit this person. i am surprised at the union response and i would go higher to see if the advice given...
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