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shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

« Last post by ToxicBilberry on Yesterday at 06:05:31 pm »

Keir Starmer declares he's a socialist but 'we can't afford to' raise taxes on the top 5% to pay for tuition fees etc. etc.  He has to be 'honest with the electorate'. 
Can't make this  up.

You’ve forgotten to apply the 1st rule of politics Brutus, run everything back through the reality inverter.

Socialism = expansion of the useless people under techno-feudalism

Humanitarian aid = forever war, resource stripping, globalisation etc

Health policy = making money from the misery of useless people

Etc etc

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shootin' the shit / Re: House Buying Beta

« Last post by webbo on Yesterday at 05:46:24 pm »

We once had to take out an indemnity insurance on a property built on land that was purchased from British rail. Our buyers would not proceed without this. Their solicitor was incredulous that they requested this but then again he was the solicitor for the first people buying it from the builder.
I would offer 50 grand or more below the asking price and if they even consider it, you know it’s dodgy.

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by yetix on Yesterday at 05:41:17 pm »

I think in a subsequent podcast will said sleepwalker (stand) was easier than ilse (sit) and therefore that he might have been wrong with ilse sit, I can't remember where I heard though.. Maybe the nugget interview he did shortly after?

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the log pile / Re: 180k cragx Mill Bridge

« Last post by tomtom on Yesterday at 05:21:11 pm »

tony/sam (are you the same person? Anyway..) - so what if this forum is a cliquey banter ridden cess pit that you don’t like?

Who made you the forum police? Why should your view be more important than anyone else’s?

If you don’t like what you read go elsewhere - or don’t read it!

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shootin' the shit / Re: House Buying Beta

« Last post by Tom de Gay on Yesterday at 04:50:12 pm »

One alternative is that the sellers provides or pays for an insurance policy to cover any future subsidence...

I think I've had this before with window in a house I was buying (a large window) that had no guaruntee/warranty and my solicitor chased it and the vendors forked out £50 for it..

I suspect they will baulk at this but it might be a last roll of the dice for you. And bear in mind this was 18 years ago and my memory isn't what it used to be!  :D

Are you sure that wasn't a policy for lack of Fensa documentation or Planning Permission, rather than the integrity of the window itself? Insurance policies with a one-time premium to cover gaps in building control/pp documentation are pretty common (in my limited experience), insuring you against a loss if the council were to making a retroactive claim on the work done by the previous owner. Insuring the thing itself every year is what your buildings insurance is for.

When I spoke to builders a few years ago about a potentially attractively priced underpinned property, they advised not to get involved with a house that has been underpinned on more than one side.

Good luck with the search.

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the log pile / Re: 180k cragx Mill Bridge

« Last post by Sam R on Yesterday at 04:42:34 pm »

Has he called anyone a cunt?

You don't need to call someone a cunt to be a twat.

So it would seem.

But do you not think Will Cunt's post above demonstrates flexible and adptable rules?

Further, you don't say say why Cunty is a twat, which goes some way to my point about the group coda.

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the log pile / Re: 180k cragx Mill Bridge

« Last post by remus on Yesterday at 04:33:13 pm »

Has he called anyone a cunt?

You don't need to call someone a cunt to be a twat.

That's the most poetic thing I've ever written.

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shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

« Last post by BrutusTheBear on Yesterday at 04:33:10 pm »

Keir Starmer declares he's a socialist but 'we can't afford to' raise taxes on the top 5% to pay for tuition fees etc. etc.  He has to be 'honest with the electorate'. 
Can't make this  up.  

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the log pile / Re: 180k cragx Mill Bridge

« Last post by Sam R on Yesterday at 04:29:28 pm »

Has he called anyone a cunt?

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the log pile / Re: 180k cragx Mill Bridge

« Last post by Will Hunt on Yesterday at 04:13:11 pm »

It's not as complicated as a flexible and adaptive coda of interaction, it's as simple as "don't be disproportionately nasty", which applies to all social interactions. If you look back through Tony's post history he's been needlessly rude quite a bit lately.

I too have met Tony in person a few times and he was fine.