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What grinds my gears...

By Daggers, in General Chat

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ajthefox

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I am financially ****ed - one of my house-mates decided to throw a ****ing chair at the glass front door and it's now very smashed up inside. Bloody accommodation services will just add the repair bill onto our rent though. :mad:

Me and my 3 housemates are having to split £2000 in rent because our fifth housemate failed last year, isn't coming back and is practically incontactable because he lives in the Republic of Ireland so is in a different jurasdiction.

And that's us getting lucky because we have a sound landlord who is writing off the next 6 months of his rent and getting us a new contract.

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BoneDog

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I f*&king know there's only 10 days to Crimbo. Yesterday I heard "only 11 days to Crimbo" about 40 times and I've already heard "10 days..." about 10 times today.

I suppose it's my own fault for having GEM 106 on my kitchen radio, but I'm a sucker for 80's pop.

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lavrentis

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I f*&king know there's only 10 days to Crimbo. Yesterday I heard "only 11 days to Crimbo" about 40 times and I've already heard "10 days..." about 10 times today.

I suppose it's my own fault for having GEM 106 on my kitchen radio, but I'm a sucker for 80's pop.

Absolute 80's is for you then El Empty :worship:

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z-layrex

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I am financially ****ed - one of my house-mates decided to throw a ****ing chair at the glass front door and it's now very smashed up inside. Bloody accommodation services will just add the repair bill onto our rent though. :mad:

Why don't you just make him pay for it?

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BoneDog

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Absolute 80's is for you then El Empty :worship:

Was just gonna say I might buy that when I go Sainsbury's in a minute but just checked and it's a radio station! Will give it a listen later and have a party. :trumpet: I saw an advert yesterday for an 80's Ministry of Sound album. Sounded good.

Why don't you just make him pay for it?

Yes. Force him to pay with a Boston Crab! And tell them not to do it again else next time it'll be a Scoop Slam.

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Fox92

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Seeing people walking around in jeans half way down their body so their arse is half out. Don't care if it's fashion. You look like a knobhead!

Yeah I hate that. And there are also some people that will walk around with their hand's down the front's of their trousers. I hate that as well.

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Alexikokopops

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Lincolnshire.

I'm sorry to Bilo and whoever else lives there, but...

How can a county be so large but so devoid of character?

Most of all the small towns manage to be old-fashioned yet completely absent of the charm usually associated with 'olde worlde' places (Horncastle, Market Rasen etc). They're just backwards.The larger towns are like an assortment of the terrible results of some sick social experiments (Grantham, Boston etc.) and are as attractive as Hiroshima in the early fifties. The hamlets are a mixture of run-down utilitarian farmers' cottages and horrific 70s bungalows that look like if you asked a five year old to draw a house.

The South of the county is flat and featureless like some depressing desert of shite and, if you're stupid enough to come off the road (which is very difficult considering you will be stuck behind a tractor doing 20mph), you'll end up in a dyke. The middle bit has the Wolds, which would probably seem very interesting and charming if you'd spent your life in the fens. The North is characterised by Grimsby and Scunthorpe, which I don't even need to mention. There are no decent roads, so getting anywhere takes absolutely forever - unless you want to get to Grimsby from Doncaster (which you don't) in which case you have the M74 with it's noisy surface and no proper services.

For a job, you can either work for the RAF mopping the floors of the aircraft hangers or go and pick cabbages in the fields.

In terms of accents, some Lincs folk will get very excited about the local dialect, which is not particularly characterful. In reality, people who live in Grantham sound like they're from Nottingham, in Boston and Spalding they sound like they're from Lithuania (because they are) or maybe Kings Lynn if they're unfortunate enough to be born locally, in Scunthorpe they sound like they're from Hull. If you're from Lincoln or the surroundings, you may have a more archetypal Lincs accent, which is essentially a generic, softened-down East Mids accent but with more lingering on the vowels for no apparent reason.

I apologise again, but this is just how I see it! :ph34r:

Having grown up in Lincolnshire I can't argue with too much of the second part lol Thankfully I'm from near Lincoln which is the best bit :D I'd argue Lincoln has a lot of character if you get up to the old part near the top of the hill. Much more than Leicester anyway :whistle:

I live in London now, it's a touch different.

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Corky

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When playing the 'top' teams, fans in the home ends wearing the oppositions shirt.

Sure i've just seen a someone in amongst QPR fans wearing a Man Utd shirt. Cringe.

Was it a kid?

If it's an adult then they really should know better.

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