Fae_the_'briggs
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Before she was famous?
I think you are using the term "famous" rather loosely.
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Wrestling looks to be too much like hard work even if it is only acting. Being a politician however involves less physical exertion, the chances of building up a nice retirement fund through salaries, expense claims and bungs is far better. You only need to work about 2 half days a week at Westminster and maybe one Saturday morning every month to talk to your constituents, aka moaning timewasters, about their petty problems that you have no intention of dealing with anyway unless there is something in it for you. You are also safe in the knowledge that as a politician no-one will be surprised if you don't carry out the promises that got you elected and will probably elect you again anyway.
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Yep, the story goes Ollie had a bit of a fondle of his nob* before they filmed the scene so it would look a bit bigger.
*his own nob, not Bates.
Pity for him that CGI wasn't around at the time or special effects could have enhanced his "reputation". Still there's nothing wrong with a bit of self help.
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I'm Oliver Reid, he's Master Bates.
Ollie Reed had the smallest tadger of the two men (so I am reliably informed by someone, I didn't look too closely), so I quite believe your "boast".
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Your arse is on fire, m8.
His superpower was to be a dragon but ended up blowing fire from the wrong cheeks.
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Barely the end of the 1st week in November and already I'm pissed of with the christmas adverts on the tv. Why are they all so totally OTT. Also christmas themed films have been shown for more than a fortnight now. I like christmas eve, christmas day and boxing day other than that christmas can GTF.
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You don't need an FA to do this, all pension companies do this to avoid the misselling / stupid c**t makes an arse of own finances and sues angle.
Pension companies do not need to know what you are doing with the money and what your income / out goings are, that's the FA covering their own arse.
Basically, you were told to see an IFA and you did, if you had sent back a response with you don't want an IFA you were OK as well as you are admitting liability.
Should read the money saving expert site. It's covered on there
To be fair the Financial Adviser did admit a lot of the information she was asking for was merely to satisfy the Financial Conduct Authority that she had carried out a satisfactory financial assessment in case of any complaints arising from the advise she was giving me. It would have been more beneficial (to me) if she had asked me to sign a waiver saying that I was offered the advise but declined to accept.
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If you can provide us with your shoe size, favourite colour and postal address we can take your enquiry further.
If the money I was supposed to have won on the Nigerian Lottery had come through like they promised I would not need to cash in my pension, and the only information they wanted were my bank details to pay the winnings in. Maybe time to get back in touch with them as it's been about 18 months since they told me of the good news.
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Being a bit over the magic age of 55, I've decided to cash in some of my private pension pot which isn't exactly a fortune to begin with. On contacting my pension provider with my request I was informed that to do this I must go through a Financial Adviser. After 1 free consultation and another 2 meetings with the Financial Adviser during which I have had to fill in various questionnaires about my salary, personal expenses, reasons for wanting to withdraw the cash, how much I spend on holidays, groceries, utilities, council tax, etc, progress is being made to get the money released. The Financial Adviser also has a set fee of 500.00 pounds coming off my already limited funds (I was already aware of this as it was mentioned at the first free consultation). I could understand the need for all these questions if it was a loan I was after but it is my money I am trying to get out to spend as I please so why do I need to divulge all this information. Why does a comparatively simple thing like getting your money back have to be made so complicated.
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Prior to the games V rangers and Livingston Mr. Fowler was naturally interviewed by the Press for his thoughts on the respective games. In both cases, certainly in the papers I read, he spent more time "bigging up" the opposition, barely mentioning his own team or putting any positive slant on what he expected from the games. Obviously rangers are by far the best team this season, their start to the campaign bears that out, and the papers are not slow to point this out at every opportunity, so I don't need to hear our manager telling us what we already know. I want to hear him trying to at least sound like he is taking a positive approach to the game. It was similar prior to the Livingston game, he was coming out with the old cliches about them, "bottom of the table but false position", "good players who can hurt us if we don't approach the game right" blah blah blah, with hardly a mention of his own team. Of course he has to be diplomatic but first and foremost he should be trying come across as positive in his approach to the games, talk about what he wants his own team to do, and hopefully encourage more supporters to come along. If the Manager comes across as a bit negative in the build up to games, as he sometimes sounds to me at least, it's no surprise that it seeps down to the players and ultimately the fans..
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Pay at the pump then, problem solved
None of the pumps at the Tesco Express near me have that facility. It's about another 2 miles into town to the next petrol station with pay at the pump facilities. That; a) means using more petrol to get there; b) most time takes me further in the opposite direction that I intend to travel; and c) probably takes up about as much time as standing in a queue at my local petrol station. Separate tills for those who are only buying petrol is my solution.
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Petrol stations/mini marts: I go in just to get petrol and there's a queue at the tills because some people decide to do the weekly shopping when they pop in for petrol, holding everybody up. There should be a till for people who only want to pay for their petrol. Even if you do manage to pay quickly 9 times out of 10 the driver of the car at the pump in front of you will take ages to get back to their car 'cos they're shopping or yakking and there's a queue of cars behind you so you can't reverse out to get away. This always seems to happen when I'm in a hurry, never when I've got plenty of time.
Also people in supermarkets who can't read simple signs like "7 items or less" or "baskets only" and start unloading a trolley full of stuff onto the belt, and of course they are so apologetic when you point it out to them, but do they load up and move to another till? Do they hell as like.
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I'm still using the slippery smooth IZAL that you pull out from a box like paper hankies. Slips over your arse cos the papers that smooth but at least my fingers don't burst through it. Either that or cut up telephone directories hanging on a nail.
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Getting a face full of that vapour cloud from an e-cigarette. Fag smokers and their modern offspring are ignorant b*****ds.
Give them those wee sweetie cigarettes with the red tip that parents used to buy for their kids (they were called weans back then).
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Such a waist
FTFY
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A couple of earlier posts have reminded me that I should add Mr. Bean to my list of PTTGOYN. Just can't stand that character. I liked Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder but I don't find Mr Bean funny at all.
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My sister-in law said one of her pet hates was her sat-nav which she had returned to the shop because she had to keep switching it off. The shop assistant managed to keep a straight face when my sis-in-law asked what's the point of having the machine when it frequently instructed her to turn off at the next junction.
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Yinited have a manager in mind. ..
And their Chairman has also stated that any new Manager can be assured that the club will never sell their best players to rival clubs.
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The Granny's Soup brand was actually founded by childless spinster Ivy Titeone, who, when faced with possible prosecution for misleading advertising, had to change her christian name to Granny.
The globally successful Heinz food brand was named after the musician who played with The Tornadoes on their 60's hit Telstar.
Dumfries born actor, John Laurie, probably best known for playing Private Fraser in Dads Army, is believed to have coined his catchphrase "We're doomed ah tell ye, doomed" after following Queen of the South FC during the Willie Harkness era.
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The Loch Ness monster is just a tourist trap, Nessie doesn't exist.
The SNP government have secret building application records that show that Nessie's (not her real name) skelton was used as the sub-frame for the Forth rail bridge, I've seen the documentation dated 3rd June 1880 between the Inverness & Lothian regional councils. Inverness residents had been complaining for a good few weeks according to one document I read about the "horrific" pong emanating from the Loch, Apparently Lubie the local monster had croaked & her rotting carcass was creating a proper stenh over the region. The Lothion council was after bridging the Forth to allow the new steam locomotions up North. A compromise was agreed betwixt the 2 councils & a large consignment of industrial strength acid was flown (air baloon obviously) over the Loch & dropped around the site of the dead monster that stopped the rotting flesh smell but ecologically it was far worse, but the council only discovered this eco-tragedy after the skeleton was uplifted to Queensferry. The Invernss council tried to sue the Lothian council but omitted (in their haste to get rid of the rotting monstrosity) to read the small print which allowed the Lothians absolution from any eco-mess, mainly cos at the time no one in Inverness knew what it meant. Inverness regional council & Lothian council have not spoken since. Any negotiations are done through Dundee council.
The skelton could only be moved at night, which proved quite a challenge but they finally got there & by 1882 the bridge was completed, unfrtunately the bridge between the 2 councils is a bridge to far.
Grimbo
Eta - I am only revealing this because I was spurned by the 1st minister after she choose her career over our 1 night fling.
Nessies skelton should not be confused with the bone structure of TV presenter Helen Skeleton.
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I do iron my own gear. She's not one for ironing, irons nowt.
I'm no expert but won't that ruin it or at least greatly devalue the price you can get for it. I always thought a spoon over a naked flame was the right way to heat "gear" up.
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There's a big roundabout at the by pass in Dumfries (see above). 3 lanes in every direction. One direction is the A75 the other takes you into the toon or on the road to the A76. The car in the pic is coming from the toon but for arguments sake I'll pretend he is coming from the other side (heading into the town as opposed to away). When I come out of there I go into the middle lane if I'm heading towards the town. I've started at this point indicating right. I know it's not necessary, but the amount of times cars have pulled out in front of me who are sitting at the A75 part, is infuriating. So I do it to make sure the b*****ds know I'm coming
I followed a car into town last night on the A701. 2 mini roundabouts, 3 big roundabouts and 2 junctions and the driver never used the indicators once before I turned off. Then I parked in Morrisons, there were 4 empty spaces on one side of my car, 1 empty space on the other side then another car parked which had about 6 empty spaces beyond it. Up drives this car, not the same one that I followed, and it pulls into the 1 empty space between me and the other car. The passenger got out, hitting my car with her door then catching my wing mirror with her arm as she walked away. Meanwhile the driver, not a slim man, struggled to get out of his side of the car banging his door into the car parked at that side. What goes through these peoples head when they are picking a parking space? Morons.
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Now that's just wrong. Number 2 is of course RB.
Don' tell me, tell the gaffer.
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Motorists who don't bother to, or don't know how to signal on roundabouts.
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Borderline well known at best. I can't see the tabloids offering great sums for the exclusive. (unless there were pictures)