Quote: zooo @ February 24 2013, 12:12 AM GMTKids don't have any money spare nowadays!
Mortgages aren't 50p a month like they were in old people's days.
Oi !
I'll have you know my first house, brand new, was £4150 and cost me £8pm mortgage !
Caught her sh*gg*ng after a year married and sold it for £4450 ! A handsome profit with which I bought a Triumph Spitfire and went out on the Razz !
God knows. Maybe it was Henry the 8th.
Didn't mean she shagged Henry 8th.
Quote: zooo @ February 24 2013, 12:37 AM GMTWhen did mortgages start, anyway?
Google seems to think the 1930's. I think they just mean modern ones though. I'm sure they've been around for longer in some form.
Quote: Oldrocker @ February 24 2013, 12:40 AM GMTOi !
I'll have you know my first house, brand new, was £4150 and cost me £8pm mortgage !
You didn't know you were bloody born!!!
Caught her sh*gg*ng after a year married and sold it for £4450 ! A handsome profit with which I bought a Triumph Spitfire and went out on the Razz !
Quote: reds @ February 24 2013, 12:44 AM GMTGoogle seems to think the 1930's. I think they just mean modern ones though. I'm sure they've been around for longer in some form.
Thruppence an annum!
Quote: zooo @ February 24 2013, 12:47 AM GMTYou didn't know you were bloody born!!!
I was picking up about £32 a month !
I personally see no point in producing yet another human being when there are so many fine ones, already grown up and all to pick for adoption. Some years ago I adopted a 70 y.o. Swedish couple, brilliant folks.
@Oldrocker: in a couple of years you will meet all criteria to qualify for adoption. If you feel you could use an additional mum I'll be pleased. I'm non-obtrusive by nature and distance is a guarantee anyway
Quote: zooo @ February 24 2013, 12:37 AM GMTWhen did mortgages start, anyway?
Mortgages started in "merry old England"
The beginnings of a mortgage system have been found, as mentioned, as early as 1190. English common law included a law that would protect a creditor by giving him an interest in his debtor's property. According to this law, the mortgage was a conditional sale. Although the creditor held title to the property, the debtor could, in the event the debt wasn't paid, sell the property to recover his money.
Of course I knew this and didn't look it up at all 
Quote: chipolata @ February 24 2013, 12:09 AM GMTKid's are useful to pay to put you into a home at some point.
I think you have to sell your home and all your worldly goods before they have to start paying. Bye bye inheritance.
TTPYO: I've just written a loooong email of complaint to the people responsible for the terrible redesign of the local playground only to find that the two emails they provide on their website don't work and neither does their online contact form. They don't have a proper address to send letters to or a phone number. I've had to resort to posting my email on their website's forum in the vain hope that someone will read it, despite the forum only have 3 posts on it. So, now my very important complaints (safety issues) are reduced to an online rant in an empty forum. Think I'm going to have to write to the damn council about it, who will say "It's not our problem, you'll have to talk to the twats who designed and built it."
Quote: Harridan @ February 24 2013, 12:54 PM GMTTTPYO: I've just written a loooong email of complaint to the people responsible for the terrible redesign of the local playground only to find that the two emails they provide on their website don't work and neither does their online contact form. They don't have a proper address to send letters to or a phone number. I've had to resort to posting my email on their website's forum in the vain hope that someone will read it, despite the forum only have 3 posts on it. So, now my very important complaints (safety issues) are reduced to an online rant in an empty forum. Think I'm going to have to write to the damn council about it, who will say "It's not our problem, you'll have to talk to the twats who designed and built it."
Local MP?
Or if the website says which company designed it you could look up their own page to say the contact form isn't working?
Never mind emails and forums and computers and all that bollocks
March round there with a big f**k off placard and loud hailer
Mary Whitehouse didn't get where she is today by emailing pornographers and leaving comments on their bloody websites
Please don't compare me to Mary Whitehouse. I'm not trying to have playgrounds banned. They asked for feedback on the playground and my complaints are valid and reasonable.
If I had an address I would send a letter or go round there and ask to speak to someone, but I can't find any details.
Would this be something for an MP to deal with? The problem I'm having is that it's a local residents association who raised the money and redesigned it, but I can't find any information for them other than the wrong email addresses on the website. Bleh.
Won't bother next time.
Hmm.
You do know I was just pulling your leg?
Lighten up mate!
Everybody is pissing me off today. I'd leave me alone if I were you. I'll just go and do some hilarious ironic ironing to calm down.
Ah I didn't mean to piss you off mate!
Was just messing about
I appologise
Friends? 
Good
Now stick the kettle on sweetheart, I'm parched
JOKE!!!