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Blocked by my work security lot. Can't change it.

**** you all. I'm taking back my internet and going home. i.cr3ation.co.uk/dl/s1/gif/maystigg3.gif

12 currently do it going down to 6 .....technically its not re-application its "diminution" but potayto/potarto. Local authority cuts blah blah......

All right, so I paraphrased. It doesn't make me a bad person.

The fact the deadline to essentially reapply for my own job is today...... thats taken care of. Only to be told that the window for other jobs within the "new structure" close at noon on Monday. Thats my weekend **** now. Thanks. Pricks.

I agree completely Wiggs but I'm afraid Stevo knicked that one so.... Stevo

Texas?! "Only two things from Texas steers and queers - now which one are you boy?" An Internet available for the film.........

That really hasn't helped.

Both. Depends on the mood. The dark is REALLY good with cheese. The blond for general drinkage.

Gareth..... what the **** does your signature say? I've copied it and zoomed it but still can't read it.

Very well put Jon lad. Seconded. Although replace "music" with "porn" and "chill out" with "masturbate furiously" and jobs a good'un. Your not even joking are you!? Nope. 8) :oops:

If it's 15 pints of Leffe, I'll be booking you in for a liver transplant :shock:

Very well put Jon lad. Seconded. Although replace "music" with "porn" and "chill out" with "masturbate furiously" and jobs a good'un.

Sorry to hear about that mate. Not sure.... because the paper licence should be sufficient - it contains all of the same details. See the attached link - its 3 years old but basically says it doesn't revoke your ability to legally drive but it COULD leave you open to action from the DVLA for "failure to surrender" your licence. (Max £1000 fine) If you've already tried to renew before the DVLA become aware you should be fine though. Clicky As for the insurer, if its ok with the DVLA the insurer should be fine too but check their T&Cs very closely. Good luck mate.

Good luck mate hope its all ok.

Saving for a house is no doubt extremely important but surely a nice wedding is equally imperative as well. After all, you get to do it only once in your life (at least in theory) and it is a major juncture in life so it has to be done memorably, imho. Sure. But "nice" and "memorable" doesn't necessarily equal "expensive". We got married in her parents' village in Devon, in a little mediaeval church. The reception was in the skittle alley of the village pub. It was a fine sunny day, the village was en fete for its annual carnival (as I have mentioned in another thread recently), and we had a great time. There's a little picture somewhere in the TV thread funnily enough. People still talk what a great day it was. We had one week's honeymoon self-catering in North Devon (travelled by bus!), and it was lovely. We didn't have much money, and neither did our parents, but even if we'd been loaded we wouldn't have considered getting married abroad or hiring a big flash venue. Wasn't what we wanted. Can someone explain to me why my mental image of this is in sepia, and I can hear Dvorak's New World Symphony in my head?

Bollocks. Just a silly rule invented by girls. Be clever, do what I did, go to the Carribean when the $ was 2 to the £. Buy a ring at a massively discounted rate not paying 20% sales tax and other bits. Fly home and immediately double your money. Mrs E's $900 engagement ring is now worth about £3k 4 years later. 8)

^^ Yep agreed. It would be a totally selfish action by a gaggle of self interested clearings in the woods. Would be worth it to watch Eddy squirm over that one though.

I didn't come here for a lecture on successful relationships. Bollocks. Thats £30 less in MY beer fund. **** manicures......

It is very very nice. MIL won't let me have a go in it though. Miserable cow.

Had nothing but good experiences with BMW when we had the Mini. Nice bit of stuff at Mini: "Sorry Sir we don't have any Mini's to give you as a Courtesy Car, but we have one of our BMW demonstrators for you if thats ok?" He's me expecting a 1 series..... and yes... thats an M3 for the day. Me: "Yeah that will do I suppose". VW here are tossers though.

it's not about the fawning but I always expect a good level of customer service when i go somewhere ( for want of a better word ) .. I'll walk out of shops if I don't get served in about 30 seconds ( I don't mean if it's busy and staff are all occupied , but if they are sitting about scratching their arses ) .. I'd gone in prepared to buy the Evoque or plan B another XF , i hadn't even considered another other options at that point ... really in that class of car it comes down to the XF or a 5 series , I'm not 87 so wouldn't consider a Merc .. and the 5 series is , well it's a 5 series isn't it , but the Evogue had intrigued me and gone to the top of the list and then I was a little underwhelmed by them both .... a salesman may have persuaded me , told me how the ride was so good that it wouldn't matter that the wing mirrors look like they were cast from dumbo's ears , the reliability , the blah blah blah ... that nobody even bothered to speak to me meant I went home and looked on the interweb for alternatives that I hadn't even considered before i.e Audi So in your case, my comment above would have netted them a sale? To that JLR dealer you were an open goal, a sitter..... interested in not one but two possible options - a coffee and a chat would have sorted the deal. Instead, ze Germans again succeed where we fail.

But surely every walk in is a potential customer, and in JLRs case its likely to be upwards of 30k a pop? Wouldn't you make the effort to make customers feel valued and special? (I have no knowledge of retail on any level - so for all I know the real motto could be "The Customer is a Dickhead 99/100."