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Wordle 1,014 4/6
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5/10 Thursday. Every guess wrong.
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Wordle 1,013 4/6
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7/10 in the cup @Eednud
8/10 Wednesday.
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Wordle 1,012 3/6
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10/10 Tuesday. Lucky guess on Shakespeare, educated guess on the cartoon.
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Wordle 1,011 6/6
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33 minutes ago, BFTD said:
I'm busy, so someone else ask about who kept the front garden tidy.
I need a deputy.
Part of the reason it didn’t work out in the end, I decided the grass was greener elsewhere and went to mow those lawns instead.
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22 hours ago, Florentine_Pogen said:
Just a wee addition to VG's post. My situation is almost identical and I have always liked to think I am not materially / consumer driven and that I try hard not to begrudge those who have been lucky to have been handed a better set of 'life cards'.
However, the one time when I struggled to keep the heid was when my daughter was at uni and she moved into a flat in Edinburgh which had been bought for her pal by her parents, but they were only keeping it for the duration of her course. There were 5 students in this place, I'm positive they didn't apply for an HMO licence, and four of the students were covering the mortgage.
Blood pressure was through the roof for a few days.
Going back around 15 years ago I was seeing an Irish girl who was studying in Glasgow. Her old man bought her a flat that was paid for by renting out the spare rooms to people she studied with. I ended up moving in and paying my fair share. I wasn’t complaining, it was in the city centre, literally a 2 minute walk from my office on Bath St, and I was paying far less than I could have dreamed of if I’d been trying to rent somewhere comparable privately.
As far as I know her youngest brother moved in when she moved out and they repeated the cycle until he graduated and they punted the place.
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Eggs go in the fridge, beside the bacon.
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7/10 Monday. Last 3 wrong.
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Wordle 1,010 6/6
More or less pure luck there. Had nothing else left that could make a word.
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On 11/03/2024 at 13:25, Ross. said:
Seems my work fucked up on the corporate entry for the Zurich marathon, and the c**t is now fully booked. Might need to wait until Luzern in October before going for a full marathon.
Yeah, so this is definitely not happening. We were meant to be a corporate sponsor and I was in on that basis. We decided late on to sponsor another event happening elsewhere and by the time they told us, Zürich was fully booked and they aren’t for giving out sympathy starts. Have registered for Luzern later in the year, unfortunately it’s a tougher course than Zurich with a few hills involved, so with that in mind I’ll be mostly running round the forest until October:
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Wordle 1,009 4/6
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Wordle 1,008 3/6
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Merge this with the inheritance thread.
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6/10 Friday. First 6 correct.
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Wordle 1,007 4/6
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Wordle 1,006 5/6
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13 minutes ago, ICTChris said:
We have a friend who moved back with her parents about ten years ago to care for them - her dad was in end stages of cancer and he died shortly after, her mum is very frail and needs someone there to help her. She has several siblings, who have spread out over the world and have families of their own so don't see much of them. After a few years, her mum wanted to change the will to give her daughter the house outright when she died - it's her home, she lives there has done for years etc. One of her siblings objected, said that they need the money for long term planning. I don't know legally where they stand but it's just appalling behaviour IMO. There is a lot more they'll inherit rather than just the house but they want to squeeze every last few quid out of it, no matter the impact on their sister who has looked after their parents for years. The house is not some country pile, it's a completely normal family home.
3 minutes ago, hk blues said:It's a difficult one - I'm a great believer that when it comes to parent's assets they should be split equally except in exceptional circumstances. Doing otherwise can just drive a wedge amongst siblings even though it's done with the best of intentions.
I don’t think it’s too difficult. The sister looking after the mum should just tell the sibling acting the c**t that for reasons of long term financial planning she will need to start charging for time worked as a carer, and send the c**t a bill for their share of everything that has been done so far.
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Wordle 1,005 4/6
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More fool them. Short term gain but long term damage. From your perspective it’s perhaps a good thing that you can put their name in the drawer marked “c**t”.
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The All New Occasionally Aussie P+B Quiz League and ☕ Occasional Cup ☕
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7/10 Friday.