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Buying a house..., GRRRR |
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Feb 24 2014, 08:42 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Feb 24 2014, 04:54 PM) I might add my old school cap. Vintage 1962. Claret green.
ce Perhaps you might rethink that colour. Or, are you talking about a quartered Claret and Green cap. Be careful you don't upset my colour wheel, I'm very sensitive.
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Feb 24 2014, 08:44 PM
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QUOTE (Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera @ Feb 24 2014, 05:49 PM) I personally feel immensely uncomfortable with such statements being made in a public forum. I hope that offence was not meant? I don't see the offence. Nothing Much was just acknowledging the "Nigerian Scam" that OtE had tempted him with.
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Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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Feb 24 2014, 09:11 PM
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Phew! Thank goodness for a Town Council meeting.
Of course,Mr R and others, no offence was intended. As is apparent from the web, such attempts to exploit others seem to have been largely carried out from that fine country. I have only had one letter from that part of the world many years ago. And indeed only one from a long lost relative who passed on intestate in Hong Kong. Again from web information most of the present internet activity derives from the USA. Still the name seems to stick.
Beware of Young Turks and Greeks bearing gifts, Spanish Practices,Roman Holidays, and Vintage Claret Cups.(Especially Green ones) I don't know why I thought that was amusing. The cap was green,and not vintage claret at all. Sorry about that.
My only other Nigerian contact was with an extremely well spoken and eminent surgeon who operated on my late wife. ce
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Feb 24 2014, 11:45 PM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Feb 24 2014, 11:40 PM) Surely the race card should not have been played, considering attendance of the pub the other night? To be fair the race card hasn't been played, RUP said he had been offended, he did not say why. We assume race, and it probably is, but let's wait and see. We know Ruwan is at a meeting tonight and won't have seen this yet.
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Feb 25 2014, 10:54 AM
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I personally take nothing NM says with any offense at all. quite the lovely chap he is as well. Thanks MM, cupcakes are on me, ce
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Feb 25 2014, 11:25 AM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Feb 24 2014, 11:40 PM) Surely the race card should not have been played, considering attendance of the pub the other night? That's just the point, no one was playing the race card at all.
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Feb 25 2014, 12:21 PM
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NM said Bleedin' Nigerians get everywhere. Ruwan said he was uncomfortable with that statement. That's fair enough. Imagine if a real life Nigerian living in Newbury stumbled onto this forum and that was the first thing they saw, they'd feel marginalised, wouldn't they? Without context it's easy to read 2+2 and get 5 (or in MM's case 400x4 and get 2,000 ), I know NM meant no harm so I have no issue with what he said, neither do I have any problem with Ruwan voicing his protest.
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Mar 3 2014, 05:04 PM
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QUOTE (motormad @ Feb 25 2014, 01:24 PM) BTW MotorMad, you won't find many shared ownership properties on the usual sites like primelocation- although they do make an appearance, these sorts of places are over subscribed so tend to sell almost once they appear. You need to go on the website for the local housnig association for the district you want to live in. Thatcham and Newbury I believe is Sovereign, and Basingstoke is Sentinel. I also remember using the "homebuy" group website some years back so you may want to try there. I feel your pain entirely. I saw one of the places at the racecourse the other day which you can buy with a 5% deposit. The thing is, they're £375,000 to start with and well above the asking price for a simil;ar sized proerty not next to the racecourse (which I also see as an advantage). For that money too, you get ridiculously pokey rooms and gardens the size of stamps. I think our next one will be a bit of a project.
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