Not sure that the ‘forum funding’ would be able to cover being sued for libel.
(especially as that’s the second time you’ve used the term publicly)
Would appear that the allegation was very dodgy.
Advise them to tune into ‘Boom Radio’ specifically for the baby boomer generation, available on dab or via smart speaker but not fm.
Another good reason for continuing to wear your mask to the supermarket.
Another good reason to have the cunts just deliver stuff to your door rather than trudge round their dreary dystopian shitholes with all the other zombies…
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I confess I’m curious to know whether the store they pick the deliveries from is any more (or less) likely to have the hard-to-find items on its shelves than my very local store is (or, more often, isn’t).
It does cheer my day up though if I go in and, for once, they actually have some of their own-brand ginger beer in the near-permanently-empty gap they leave for it on the shelf. Or 400g bags of wine-gums (months since I’ve seen those). There’s a GUM joke in there somewhere.
Or a gap on the shelf where one should be.
If it’s Waitrose* - then it ships from your nearest store; if it’s Ocado* they have a huge depot where robots drop heavy tins and bottles on top of crisps and salads, and availability is marginally better, but still LOTS of unavailables…
Funnily enough the unavailables always include things like the cheaper own-brand items and generics… Sure, there are supply-chain issues, but there is also quite a bit of urine-extraction going-on as well…
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*obviously I don’t shop in places that Common people go.
It’s Sainsbury’s. So close it doesn’t even make sense for us to drive there, let alone have them drive stuff to us.
By the way, I just noticed “Bounce Around with Edd’s Fitness” and “Didcot Private Detectives” towards the top of the aerial view !
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I’ve had a bit to drink, but just reflecting on the life of a friend who owns one of these
and some mental Ferrari thing and the most amazing (only, actually) nipple-dial YG sub I’ve ever seen, and and and.
He was a great company but a huge pain to go out with because the default position was simply to order the most expensive thing on the menu.
And he lost his son to an accident that was only possible with extreme money.
Stuff isn’t everything.
Sorry for rambling.
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Not like you to ramble so it’s obviously close to the heart.
Quite possibly one of the most beautiful cars ever designed (after the Healey 3000 and Mini, obvs)) mate of a mate had a specialist glass shop and had one of those in to replace the front and rear windscreens, in the flesh it’s a phenomenal car.
I woke up this morning with The Fear (what did I say? 
) - I guess it’s not too bad, just a bit maudlin.
I used to go out ratting with the guy to some pretty funky places - Berlin, New York etc. But he unsurprisingly disappeared and I haven’t seen him in a good ten years. I hope he’s found some measure of peace.
Another member of the same circle of friends is now paraplegic, again caused by access to spendy thrills. I guess there might be something to be said for being the rather boring member of the party.
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About 15 years ago I sold some shares for £40k that, had I held them, would have sold for about £6m last year. I was a bit gutted, as you can imagine.
However, there are a couple of things that need to be taken into account:
1 - the £40k was really useful at the time. It paid off all our debts and put us into a fairly comfortable financial situation. Had we not had it, the last 15 years would have been much more stressful.
2 - we actually have all the money that we need. I’ve just ordered an expensive car. We live in a house that we love, in an area that we love. We are never limited in what we do by lack of money.
I wouldn’t mind being able to afford holidays to Borneo and Japan, say, but that’s all I would want different about my life. And I’m not that bothered, really. If I really wanted to go that much I could, tbh.
All having loads of money seems to do is hugely increase your carbon footprint. There are still people with a lot more money that you can’t keep up with, financially. Happiness is found in yourself, not in your wallet.
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I think this money doesn’t buy you happiness theory is just another construct created by the rich and the powerful to stop the proles from beating the elite to death and taking their riches off them in the same way laws, the media, government and religion do. If i had loads of money I’d but a fuckton of land, plant trees everywhere on it and illegally import animals to rewild Scotland on the fly. I’d also consider taking out a contract on Sunak and his cabinet in line with my “only good tory is a dead tory” mantra. That would make me happy.
Ambitious. I like it.
Moar wolves please.
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It’s been (unofficially) tried at least 3 times since the 1970s that I know of. Just gives gamekeepers something extra to shoot at when they’re not killing eagles, owls, ravens - well… Almost everything that’s not a game bird TBH… 
I recall some research suggesting that this was the case, but only once you hit a threshold of something like £100,000 per year. Below that, it definitely did make a difference, both in terms of being able to do things you wanted to, and also in removing the stressors of not having sufficient funds to live.
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Reminds me of the Spike Milligan quote;
“Money doesn’t buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.”
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Yeah it’s that kind of number - if you’re getting £5k per month, spending £3k on housing and build, so about £2k a month spending money is enough, I reckon. You can divide that equally between kids, holidays, food and entertainment and you’re good.