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    The UK debt.

    It's all relative- you complain about having no shoes until you see someone with no feet. None of us are starving!
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    Public Transport

    Compare like with like and consider Season Tickets- you don't always have a group travelling. Example, daily travel to Manchester in a car costs me £8 in diesel plus £4 parking, i.e £12 but this does not include depreciation, Insurance, Road Tax, Servicing and repairs so the true cost is...
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    Tax Rebates

    It's not dishonest to put cash under your bed, but it's immoral and illegal not to pay your fair share of tax- for starters if you cheat everyone else has to pay more and where do you think the money comes from for your hospitals, schools, Police, Armed Forces etc etc? Mick Hucknall, (Simply...
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    RIP Marco Simoncelli

    Haven't seen the crash but it is reported his helmet came off- how did that happen? You would know if your helmet was loose as soon as you set off.
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    Save Money On Your Shopping: Swapping This For That

    Things will be like in Greece? Can't wait for some sunshine!
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    Save Money On Your Shopping: Swapping This For That

    ALDI pork sausages are excellent at 89p. LIDL do a 5 blade razor which is excellent, and replacement blades are £1 instead of £2.50 for Gillette. LIDL shaving foam is as good as any & only 89p. Try things for yourself, the cheaper stuff is not always inferior.
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    Historical Vecin, er Vercini, er vincity. Blast it - Areas

    Another few miles along the towpath and you could include Manchester City's stadium, whatever it is called nowadays.
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    best dart board to buy?

    It will go down on you as well!
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    UK and US forces rescue ship from Somali pirates

    You mean Parrots surely?
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    Tanglewood Guitar Problem

    For MM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitesnake
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    Tanglewood Guitar Problem

    Do you mean one of the 6 individual machine heads/tuners or the single truss rod bolt? If you are talking about the truss rod bolt the neck is Fu**ed.
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    Tanglewood Guitar Problem

    If it is electric the machine heads (to tune each string) can be replaced- they just bolt on.
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    Teenagers.

    A teenager went to see his GP, feeling lousy. The doctor said "I want you to take this, twice a day with water" "Ok" he replies "What is it?" Doctor says "Soap"
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    Speed of light beaten - time travel possible!

    Someone is quick at wikipedia! From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light In late September 2011, physicists working at CERN obtained results that seemed to suggest beams of neutrinos had travelled faster than the speed of light.[46] These findings have yet to be independently...
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    Speed of light beaten - time travel possible!

    That's ok! I don't understand it either, except that none of the claims have yey been verified. So they will run more experiments to find out whether the data is corrrect (or not) over the next 6 months.
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    A joke ......

    HMRC vs. Granddad The HMRC decides to audit Granddad, and summons him to the HMRC office. The HMRC Inspector was not surprised when Granddad showed up with his accountant. The Inspector said, 'Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, Which you explain...
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    Speed of light beaten - time travel possible!

    From the CERN website: The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (CDMS) employs a total of 30 germanium and silicon detectors at the Soudan Underground Laboratory to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their scattering from the target nuclei. Previous CDMS results...
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    Victim of aggravated burglary charged with murder

    It's nice to see a patient & diplomatic response to a post rather than just insults!
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    Dear Admin

    To return to the original thread- I fail to see why anyone is upset by Plumbers having a closed forum. I can't go on an 18-30 Holiday to Ibiza but I still sleep at night.
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    locked out of car

    If it is that close to a wall how did you get out? Is this a wind up?
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