United Kingdom chat thread V3: We still miss our empire
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[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52597516]as I was saying has anyone been to [B]LIVERPOOL[/B] on a day out, just looking for some recommendations x[/QUOTE]
aye there's an airport there that takes you someplace nicer
otherwise there's that liverpool museum which was pretty cool (and a whole bunch of other museums if you like that sort of thing) - when i went i mostly just wandered around
Just go to The Krazyhouse and cry when The Smiths come on
fuck this im not goin
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52598110]fuck this im not goin[/QUOTE]
I offered you legitimate help and you will accept it!!!
yeah I felt bad because that was a genuinely helpful post :v: any type of pub is sound, not so much of a club person myself. world beers are fine with me, also
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52598163]yeah I felt bad because that was a genuinely helpful post :v: any type of pub is sound, not so much of a club person myself. world beers are fine with me, also[/QUOTE]
I'll PM you a list of my recommendations momentarily.
As someone's kindly brought up Lime Street Station though, that reminds me. If nature calls don't use the toilets there. Instead, follow the signs to the toilets and turn left when you get to them. You'll see the entrance to a Wetherspoons, use their toilets instead. The Gents is up the spiral staircase near the entrance: spacious, lots of cubicles, seldom used, often cleaned. The Ladies is down a staircase towards the bar, but I can't vouch for it because they won't let me in.
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52597998]truly epic banter lads... when will you make your appearances on the LAD bible?[/QUOTE]
Hey, you get £150 or w/e for making appearances mate so might be able to afford like 4 drinks LADS!
[QUOTE=zeromancer;52598545]Hey, you get £150 or w/e for making apperences mate so might be able to afford like 4 drinks LADS![/QUOTE]
you're more likely to appear on a special needs documentary with that spelling
Food here is much cheaper than the UK but there is not a single Cadbury bar in sight :s:
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52598592]you're more likely to appear on a special needs documentary with that spelling[/QUOTE]
Fuck you was in the middle of a raid and couldn't miss the british meat boys even for a second in this thread.
Besides, if I'm going on LADBible, got to keep up appearances for the general audience and that.
If you and your mates are willing to wait, I'm smashing a Gilmore Girls quiz night in Liverpool next month. I'm gonna fucking win that shit, dressed up and all.
Having just come back from holiday in the Scottish highlands I can sympathise with this van driver:
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found out my mate has a cushy internship that nets him £10 an hour... and most days he gets to work from home ie sit and watch videos, play games, all that shit. like fair play to the guy, but I can't help but feel rubbed the wrong way, especially after his comments when I mentioned I was going for a warehouse job.
the perks of nepotism, eh? pays to have a dad that can land you a cushy internship where you don't actually have to work. £1400 a month and most days he gets to stay at home, or he gets to call in sick or miss / turn up late for work without any issues. made me ask my dad if he could sort the same out for me with the engineering company he works at, and he told me to make my own way in the world, and he wouldn't want to land me an internship, cause he knows I'd be treat better than normal and most likely get to sit on my ass doing barely any work whilst still being paid and spending most of the time chatting and lazing about. he said doing jobs like warehouse work / retail would broaden my life experiences and do me good, and he told me never to be ashamed of taking on a job (this was after I told him in an embarrassed way that it was nothing special, just a "warehouse job for Tesco"). made me realise my dad is a boss, and a really good advice giver.
sidenote: does anyone else get pissed off when it comes to lending friends money? it's not so much the money I lend, it's the fact that people can be shitheads and go out of their way to not bring it up ever again. if I ever borrow money from friends, I either pay it back the next time I see them (which I try and make as quick as possible), or if I know I won't have it for a while, I'm regularly messaging them to let them know I haven't forgotten. 3 of my friends have borrowed small amounts of money, and it just sits really badly in my stomach that they don't even mention it ever again. it's a small enough amount that bringing it up is just tacky, but damn, makes me realise their kind of personality. one friend promised he'd pay me a tenner if I helped him move shit from his apartment to another apartment, then once I'd done it, he never brought it up again, even when I asked him "you ever gonna come through on that tenner?". I paid for another mate's meal once, that was a tenner as well. again - nothing ever heard about it again. and most recently, a friend messaged me saying he was in real bad need of cash and could pay me back by midnight that same day, I sent him £20. next morning, I messaged him saying "you gave me your word, what's up?" and he kept making excuses. didn't see the money til about a week and a half later. such a scumbag thing to do.
[editline]23rd August 2017[/editline]
casual 8am salt
I just stopped lending money to friends when I started learning they were blowing it all on weed, ketamine and booze and never paying me back.
Also not friends with them anymore since they've turned into petty criminals to fund their drug habit.
[QUOTE=loopoo;52603444]found out my mate has a cushy internship that nets him £10 an hour... and most days he gets to work from home ie sit and watch videos, play games, all that shit. like fair play to the guy, but I can't help but feel rubbed the wrong way, especially after his comments when I mentioned I was going for a warehouse job.
the perks of nepotism, eh? pays to have a dad that can land you a cushy internship where you don't actually have to work. £1400 a month and most days he gets to stay at home, or he gets to call in sick or miss / turn up late for work without any issues. made me ask my dad if he could sort the same out for me with the engineering company he works at, and he told me to make my own way in the world, and he wouldn't want to land me an internship, cause he knows I'd be treat better than normal and most likely get to sit on my ass doing barely any work whilst still being paid and spending most of the time chatting and lazing about. he said doing jobs like warehouse work / retail would broaden my life experiences and do me good, and he told me never to be ashamed of taking on a job (this was after I told him in an embarrassed way that it was nothing special, just a "warehouse job for Tesco"). made me realise my dad is a boss, and a really good advice giver.
sidenote: does anyone else get pissed off when it comes to lending friends money? it's not so much the money I lend, it's the fact that people can be shitheads and go out of their way to not bring it up ever again. if I ever borrow money from friends, I either pay it back the next time I see them (which I try and make as quick as possible), or if I know I won't have it for a while, I'm regularly messaging them to let them know I haven't forgotten. 3 of my friends have borrowed small amounts of money, and it just sits really badly in my stomach that they don't even mention it ever again. it's a small enough amount that bringing it up is just tacky, but damn, makes me realise their kind of personality. one friend promised he'd pay me a tenner if I helped him move shit from his apartment to another apartment, then once I'd done it, he never brought it up again, even when I asked him "you ever gonna come through on that tenner?". I paid for another mate's meal once, that was a tenner as well. again - nothing ever heard about it again. and most recently, a friend messaged me saying he was in real bad need of cash and could pay me back by midnight that same day, I sent him £20. next morning, I messaged him saying "you gave me your word, what's up?" and he kept making excuses. didn't see the money til about a week and a half later. such a scumbag thing to do.
[editline]23rd August 2017[/editline]
casual 8am salt[/QUOTE]
The nepotism thing is annoying and shit but you've just got to suck it up.
I've got friends making money that they've worked hard for and I'd never begrudge them or find jealousy in that.
But it's a bit harder when it's just been handed to them. I've got a friend making bank working for her mum, and even as kids she always had money to do stuff with, her partner also works for them, getting a full salary doing 3 days a week. And despite only doing 3 days a week they have a cleaner. They don't really know the value of money, they've got access to whatever they want. They've got a wedding coming up, the stag and hen dos were abroad, the wedding is abroad. It's costing everyone a fortune and taking up a good chunk of everyone's holiday and they don't seem to realise. It's as if they think everyone lives like they do.
And this is just a personal dig, and entirely unrelated but they don't even shower everyday. If I could afford a fresh bathroom I'd be making use of it.
You've just got to accept it and find satisfaction in knowing you've worked for what you've got. Like, you might drive a shit car but you worked for that.
nd on the plus side you have the privilege of making remarks behind their backs.
And honestly if you're mates are going to make comments about where you're applying to work, then you really don't need that sort of person in your life. It shouldn't matter what your mates do, whether they're bankers or bin men.
[editline]23rd August 2017[/editline]
As for lending money, I've never had a problem with lending to mates. We always paid for each other casually and get them back another time.
imo people who constantly keep asking "you got that £3.42 you owe me?" aren't worth being friends with
[editline]23rd August 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Doozle;52603689]The nepotism thing is annoying and shit but you've just got to suck it up.
I've got friends making money that they've worked hard for and I'd never begrudge them or find jealousy in that.
But it's a bit harder when it's just been handed to them. I've got a friend making bank working for her mum, and even as kids she always had money to do stuff with, her partner also works for them, getting a full salary doing 3 days a week. And despite only doing 3 days a week they have a cleaner. They don't really know the value of money, they've got access to whatever they want. They've got a wedding coming up, the stag and hen dos were abroad, the wedding is abroad. It's costing everyone a fortune and taking up a good chunk of everyone's holiday and they don't seem to realise. It's as if they think everyone lives like they do.
And this is just a personal dig, and entirely unrelated but they don't even shower everyday. If I could afford a fresh bathroom I'd be making use of it.
You've just got to accept it and find satisfaction in knowing you've worked for what you've got. Like, you might drive a shit car but you worked for that.
nd on the plus side you have the privilege of making remarks behind their backs.
And honestly if you're mates are going to make comments about where you're applying to work, then you really don't need that sort of person in your life. It shouldn't matter what your mates do, whether they're bankers or bin men.
[editline]23rd August 2017[/editline]
As for lending money, I've never had a problem with lending to mates. We always paid for each other casually and get them back another time.[/QUOTE]
yeah it's shit. I feel that working minimum wage, especially in something like retail or waiting on where some customers can be total wankstains, helps you appreciate the value of money
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52603732]imo people who constantly keep asking "you got that £3.42 you owe me?" aren't worth being friends with[/QUOTE]
But it's their money, not yours?
Yeah if I buy someone a pint, I'm damn well going to remind them a month later at the pub.
[QUOTE=UzumakaiPatch;52603766]But it's their money, not yours?[/QUOTE]
fuck em
no but seriously, I suppose I'm used to my group of friends being willing to let negligible amounts of money slide, by negligible I mean really low stuff like 50p.
obviously if they honestly wanted it back I'd accommodate them. I guess my original post was poorly worded
Reminds me I owe my mate a tenner :v:
Gotta do that this evening.
If it's small change I don't normally care to get it back, although I am fortunate in that my wages are pretty comfortable. Would maybe be different if I was minimum wage.
But the people I was talking about kept asking for £10 for 'job center appointments' and just spent it all on drugs and I never saw any of it back
With my friends, buying each other pints is the unspoken hallmark of friendship. We tend to pay each other back but nobody's exact about prices. At the end of the day friendship outweighs a couple of quid, but maybe that's because we're not struggling for money.
I think it comes down to whether it was a loan i.e. they have to pay it back exactly, a gift in which case they have no obligation or just based on an understanding that you'll pay for each other approximately in which case you just need to make sure it's going both ways.
[editline]23rd August 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;52603872]Hi I'm your mate
[editline]23rd August 2017[/editline]
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Liar! Hezzy, he is trying to scam me pls help :v:
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52603732]imo people who constantly keep asking "you got that £3.42 you owe me?" aren't worth being friends with[/QUOTE]
Aye but if you are struggling with money yourself, That £3.42 can net you a few dinners from aldi.
All about the person asking in my opinion.
Thats a good point, it depends on their situation, I've got mates who I know if I lent a fiver, it might be a struggle for them to get back. For those guys I don't mind paying for stuff, like I might go round a mates and pay for a takeaway or if he treks across town to mine, I'll pay for his taxi home so he don't have to sit on the bus for an hour.
I've never been that tight with money, always happy to help if I can, i might nudge someone if they owe us, but I won't go on about it. I won't keep reminding them if I know they really need that money, life might dealing them a shit hand at the time, the last thing they need is stress from someone they can trust.
I'm not actually a terrible person. I think growing up everything I had was shared with my siblings and all of my friends were from different economic backgrounds and all my family is different colours. I'm grateful to my parents for instilling that in me, that it doesn't matter what you do or earn as long you're honest. Money and class shouldn't mean shit
I don't have much money and I'm always happy to buy pints for my dear chums, sometimes you gotta chase up for a couple of my friends to return the favour if they're getting cheeky with it.
Tactically waiting for me to finish my drink so I go the bar for them etc.
Generally speaking I never lend anything I cant afford to lose, so I'm not too fussed. I have some friends I know dont have a huge amount of money and eg if I go drinking with them then more often than not, I buy more rounds. That's fine by me. I know the friends that can afford to pay me back will, the ones that are cant wont and there are just a couple who... don't. But that's fine I consider that part of the give and take of friendship.
The toilets at London Waterloo station are free until the end of the engineering works (next week), it's great if you're like me and never have 30p when you need it most
[QUOTE=The Genie;52606012]It baffles me that we have to pay for certain public toilets anyway.[/QUOTE]
The revenue from public toilets is reinvested back into the railway generally
[QUOTE=The Genie;52606012]It baffles me that we have to pay for certain public toilets anyway.[/QUOTE]
I don't mind there being a small fee to use public toilets, as long as the fee is worth it and the toilets are well maintained, clean, and don't have broken shit all over the place.
Paying 30p and then walking into a toilet with piss all over the floor and skid marks in every toilet bowl is a bit rubbish
[QUOTE=metallics;52604620]Generally speaking I never lend anything I cant afford to lose, so I'm not too fussed. I have some friends I know dont have a huge amount of money and eg if I go drinking with them then more often than not, I buy more rounds. That's fine by me. I know the friends that can afford to pay me back will, the ones that are cant wont and there are just a couple who... don't. But that's fine I consider that part of the give and take of friendship.[/QUOTE]
I'm exactly the same, I'm not a tightarse and will happily cover for friends. I never charge gas money either. But it's just the principles of it. Like no matter how well off someone is, if they buy me a round, I'll buy them a round back. If they cover my dinner one day, I'll pay back the favour the next time we're out to eat. I guess it's better to realise people are shitheads when it comes to money and only lose a tenner, instead of trusting them and lending a lot more and getting fucked. Better yet, if you don't have the cash, don't tell me you'll pay me something for help and then bail on your word.
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