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lacloss
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:48 am
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Location: Marbella Spain
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you pay your social and get the benifits
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm
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I don't know how it works to be honest, what taxes are and are not paid back in the UK. 
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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Well they managed to deliver this morning. Two days later than expected. _________________ He fights for the users.
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
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Location: Newcastle
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My parents fail at planning
They didn't get a present for me in time so get nothing from them until January apparently
Kindof miffed off as they epicly fail at Christmas, either they buy me the same book in consecutive years (twice they have done this) or they manage to mess up on this scale
Wouldn't be so annoyed but it always comes across as if their failures are my fault
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
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I hate it when people try to pin the blame on you when its clearly their own fault.
For presents, I just tell them what I want. Otherwise I get some useless knick-knack that I have to place on a shelf/window sill and leave for a few months until I can get rid of it.
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veato
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:17 am
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Location: Nottingham
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My parents bought me a sat nav one year then proceeded to have a go at me for not telling them I already had one. Brilliant.
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HeatherKay
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm
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Location: Here, but not all there.
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We don't do presents any more.
It was a mutual decision among the main family members, as we're all spread around the country now, but chiefly because it's difficult to buy stuff when there's little anyone really needs. My sister is very good at buying odd little things, though, so she occasionally buys somethings for everyone.
Money seems to be the main gift, the argument being you can buy whatever you want then.
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm
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Location: IoW
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Thing is, if you all send each other money, you may as well not bother; and just buy yourself something nice. We buy for the kids, obviously, but we only get each other a small gift; so the kids can see us open something on xmas morning. Having said that, I'm about to leave work to go pick up one of those Table Football things, 'for the kids'. 
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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I think we just tend to ask each other what they want. eg mother might ask my sister but I'll get the present for her (so it's still a surprise), or we find out from each other eg I told my sister I was going to buy a photoprinter (just in conversation) and she said "leave it with me". We all get what we want (ish) but with the benefit of that feeling when you're giving presents.
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vdbswong
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm
Posts: 603
Location: Durham, UK
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bleh.
Accidently left the MP3 player in my Hoodie pouch when it went to wash... it's now dead as a dodo.
Also, the bearing on my GPU fan is acting up causing it to overheat and shutdown if it's stressed... all the while it has the most grating whine/buzzing sound as it constantly reminds me that the cooler needs changing.
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
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Location: Newcastle
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Boxing day sales.... It doesn't count as a sale if you put the price up £400 the week before so you can reduce it by £350...  _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
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Location: behind the sofa
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james016
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 5:52 pm
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Starting to replace McAfee at work with Kasperksy. But the arses at McAfee have decided that when their software is un-installed it still leaves a file system filter driver which blocks Kaspersky. [LIFTED]. Have to do a reboot or use a clean up tool as McAfee can't do proper software removal.
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am
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Location: Peebo
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Wouldn't that be one for trading standards? For some reason I was under the impression that they had to have been charging the non-sale price for a month or so before hand. In any case, it's false advertising if it's a £50 price increase.
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
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Location: Newcastle
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One of the amazon deals.. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004 ... ROKL5A1OLEthen look at the pricing for it http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Sony-KDL3 ... B004S9DXZ8(brilliant site btw for tracking Amazon prices) So unless it's more than £30ish off it's nothing special, in fact you could have done better before christmas There was a big panasonic one day, that was more expensive than it was at the start of December _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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