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Post by geefe on Jun 2, 2023 18:22:17 GMT
Ah. I see. No. He would always eat cheap and I'd spend more. He wanted to go out but he wasn't spending much because he did it with most people. So he'd order one drink and something light - slice of pizza, etc. I'd spend £10 to his £5, for example. So when I said "let's just split so it's easier" he stopped wanting to go out all the time.
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Post by technoish on Jun 2, 2023 18:52:29 GMT
I mean fair enough? That's not strange at all. See that Friends episode where they argue about splitting bills.
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Post by knighty on Jun 2, 2023 19:16:27 GMT
I’m not sure I’d go out with someone who was saying they wanted me to subsidise them 25-50% of their meal every time, no, especially if I’m being sensible and ordering what I can afford.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 2, 2023 19:20:10 GMT
5 quid a pint here now for any half decent beer. Don't even have the "luxury" of a Spoons for a decent price anywhere near walking distance. It’s one of the reasons why it’s been actually fairly easy/I haven’t really had to try to give up drinking. I like beer fine but not enough to pay to have just one or two with a meal or just nip out for a jar after work. And I haven’t been in a Wetherspoon’s since 2016. |
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Post by sport✅ on Jun 2, 2023 19:54:29 GMT
5 quid a pint here now for any half decent beer. Don't even have the "luxury" of a Spoons for a decent price anywhere near walking distance. It’s one of the reasons why it’s been actually fairly easy/I haven’t really had to try to give up drinking. I like beer fine but not enough to pay to have just one or two with a meal or just nip out for a jar after work. And I haven’t been in a Wetherspoon’s since 2016. Why? What happened in 2016? |
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Post by technoish on Jun 2, 2023 20:02:16 GMT
Brexit perhaps?
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Post by Dougs on Jun 2, 2023 21:45:14 GMT
Civil service getting a £1,500 lump sum cost of living payment!!! Still non-consolidated and won't help going forward. Fuckers can stick it. |
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Post by sport✅ on Jun 7, 2023 8:20:29 GMT
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Post by dfunked on Jun 7, 2023 8:26:27 GMT
Finally world beating at something. Fuck yeah!
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Post by geefe on Jun 8, 2023 11:35:43 GMT
My mates are looking to get on the housing ladder, approaching 40.
2 weeks ago they had a deal of £650 a month on the table, for 30 years. Now that's £700 a month for 35 years.
Absolutely insane. I feel so bad for them. It's just ridiculous. How the BofE can justify upping the rates over and over. It'll cripple people.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 8, 2023 11:38:45 GMT
A fixed rate for the lifetime of the mortgage?
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Post by geefe on Jun 8, 2023 11:42:07 GMT
No I think it's a standard temp fix.
£700 pcm on a 35 year
£790 pcm on a 30 year
Assume 2-3 year fix.
They're both low earners, barely scratching £20k and trying to buy a 2 bed terrace.
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Post by dfunked on Jun 8, 2023 11:43:30 GMT
Aye, surely they'll only be fixed for x years.
Although I'd they can even afford it they've got the gamble of only signing on for 2 years fixed and things being worse, or 5 years and things still being utterly fucked (which I can honestly see)
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Post by Dougs on Jun 8, 2023 11:46:59 GMT
Was just the way it was written! 10 years is the longest I've seen.
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Post by geefe on Jun 8, 2023 11:50:51 GMT
Yeah it's quite brutal, really. Though I find it crazy they see £700 pcm between them as a stretch but then I'm earning about 3/4 more than they do.
They've also got dogs and such, which must hoover up money.
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Post by zagibu on Jun 8, 2023 12:19:05 GMT
They're both low earners, barely scratching £20k and trying to buy a 2 bed terrace. They must have saved a massive amount of money if any bank at all is even considering to give them a mortgage at that income.
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Post by geefe on Jun 8, 2023 12:23:43 GMT
Buying off the landlord at about £130k.
Not everyone is a London metropolitan elite.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 8, 2023 12:33:40 GMT
And probably still cheaper than renting.
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Post by geefe on Jun 8, 2023 12:37:22 GMT
Absolutely. I estimate their rent, or comparable properties, at around £700-750 for 2 bed terrace. Big rooms as well.
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Post by dogbot on Jun 8, 2023 12:37:53 GMT
Not everyone is a London metropolitan elite. Shit. What am I doing in Islington? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2023 12:41:55 GMT
Think Geefe just likes telling us he has more money than his friends.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Jun 8, 2023 12:59:46 GMT
Somewhere along the line it has become normal for me to think I'm living in dreamland paying just under £1.50 for diesel.
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Post by geefe on Jun 8, 2023 13:01:53 GMT
My local Tesco the other day put both prices up 8p at random. Completely flying in the face of the other sites nearby. No idea why. Just did.
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Post by baihu1983 on Jun 8, 2023 18:56:58 GMT
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Post by dfunked on Jun 8, 2023 18:58:35 GMT
It'll still have a date. It's just changing to best before instead of use by (if this is the M&S thing)
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Post by baihu1983 on Jun 8, 2023 19:00:38 GMT
Ah fair enough. Headline said they had scrapped dates and I've not registered with the BBC to watch the video.
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Post by zagibu on Jun 8, 2023 19:02:02 GMT
Also, milk spoils so fast, you'll have to drink it within a couple days anyway, so...
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Post by cubby on Jun 8, 2023 19:05:39 GMT
Cravendale lasts for ages, I've got one from last year that's still good.
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Post by Nitrous on Jun 8, 2023 22:34:04 GMT
UHT is the answer. Skimmed milk is what we have and nobody gives a shit when it's in a cup of PG or Tetley tea.
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Post by minimatt on Jun 9, 2023 5:50:43 GMT
wonder if there's any noticeable increase in food poisoning rates, with "the sniff test" working a bit better when most of the planet hasn't just been infected with a virus known for fucking up a sense of smell
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