Big J
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To the person who stole my glasses: I will find you. I have contacts. My wife asked me if I'd seen the cat bowl. I said No and to be honest I didn't even know it could play cricket.
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It's a 'clean jokes' thread so not for everyone! I do like a good dad joke, I'll admit
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Thinking of doing a Victor Meldrew impersonation? a) don’t b) leave it
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(I found a jokes thread on a cycling forum I'm on so I'm putting the ones I find funniest on here) I’ve just put a load of John Lennon memorabilia on eBay! Imagine all the Paypal…
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I put a marquee in my garden, with funky music and flashing lights. Now is the winter of my disco tent.
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His addiction was getting out of hand. First it was the Shakespeare but now he was doing poetry. He’d gone from Bard to verse…
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The Greek Economy is so bad... they've had to cut production of houmus and taramasalata. It's a double-dip recession.
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So, so glad I'm not on the Isle of Skye. 550mm of rain so far this month (yes, 50mm per day on average) and this is the 36hr total currently:
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Our nearest SMHI station is Målilla and they recorded: September: 20mm October: 36mm And our rain gauge at home has recorded 18mm so far this month. It's all a little drier than the average, and certainly a lot warmer. 6 years ago here was 6 inches deep snow.
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He's from East Anglia, so about as dry as the UK gets.
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Blue skies this morning and very mild. Winter has yet to make an appearance yet here in Sweden. So glad we're not in Devon anymore though. My friend's rain gauge (just down the road from our old house) has recorded 28 days out of the last 29 of rain, totalling just over 180mm. Poor bastards! 😄
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We just got our bill for electricity for last month. The price has come right down due to Europe filling up with gas ahead of winter. It only came to £126, which covers almost all our heating (we use the stove occasionally) too. We have been making a bit of an effort not to use the tumble dryer. It has been fairly mild though, and winter hasn't yet started. At present kw prices, we might see £300 over winter for a month, but I doubt it'll be more than that (unless the price hikes again).
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I agree, to an extent. It's a depressing situation where the agencies meant to be providing checks and balances are utterly corrupt, devoid of architectural or planning skills and allow 95% of all new building to be objectively substandard. How do we get from this state of affairs to one where responsible, environmentally friendly and socially acceptable building is promoted?
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I know. But the vast majority of England isn't built upon. It's not a population density issue. It's a land inequality and awful infrastructure issue. Planning laws are anachronistic and promote cronyism. Councils are in the pockets of a few big developers. Land owners drip feed land into the market in order to keep prices sky high. House buyers have got almost no choice when it comes to purchasing new homes. Can a few people that choose not to follow these conventions really be blamed, given the often negative outcomes?
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I haven't come across him myself. I don't see what the problem is personally. It's his land and it's a modest structure. It's providing holiday let rental without taking a home for locals out of circulation. Us Brits spend far too much time worrying about what other people are doing rather than focusing on being happy in ourselves.
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That may possibly be the case, but there is a huge labour shortage and no prospect of rectifying that. How do you tackle that without additional people? There are a thousand other points to make but I'm wiped and going to bed! 😁
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It's not a question of shaming anything away, IMO. Our forebears fought for a noble cause with the hope of a better future. That has largely been the case. But times change, three generations have passed and the future isn't exactly looking great. It's important that people have the right to try to improve their situation, and the freedom of movement we had within the EU afforded that. But I am biased, as I'm anti-Brexit and I've recently left the UK!
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I appreciate that your location means you're at the focal point of one aspect of UK immigration. But seen as a whole, we don't take many. Go to Devon for instance, and it's a much less diverse affair.
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Away with you and your facts Beau! How dare you spoil a good story with the truth?! 😁
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In the South East, just east of Vetlanda
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Haha! Couldn't resist. Sweden is lovely. Very relaxed and it's nice to have so much more space, both in our home, but also in our surrounds. The kids are settling in fairly well - their language development is being slowed slightly by the fact that everyone speaks English! Work is proving slow to get started, mainly as setting up a business takes some time here. Getting there though.
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I do believe that I have already filled that role! 😆
