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Just been watching Location Location in ED, Peckham Rye etc and it reminded me of the horrors of buying our current place...


The psycho vendor (let's call him Jason, that was his name afterall) told us shortly before exchange (and on the same day as my wedding dress fitting, the bastard) that he was taking all the antique doorknobs with him because they had 'sentimental value' for him (aka asset stripping). He very kindly left some B&Q basics brass door handles for us to fit at our leisure when we moved in. Sounds like a small thing, but under wedding stress that was tantamount to spitting in my face.


I've been carrying that for over three years now, perhaps sharing the forum will exorcise the ghost of Jason??

matthew123 Wrote:

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> You think that's bad, well I used to live in a

> house share and when some bitches were kicked out

> by the landlord the mean little cows took half the

> house light bulbs with them.



Girls react badly to skinny welsh landlords Matt....

That is nothing compare to my colleague, when he looked around there was wooden flooring throughout the downstairs but the day he moved in it was suddenly laminate! They also discovered a bed sgaped paint line where the previous owner couldn't be bothered to move the bed when he painted a room.


I still refer to the lady we bought our flat off as evil [insert name] for all the lies and crap she put us through. I think home buying is rarely trouble free.

We moved into one house to find not only bare wires where previously there had been light fittings but also holes in the garden where previously there had been roses and other shrubs.


Then, three years later, when we had to sell up to find somewhere we could share with elderly parents [here in ED] we received a letter from the previous owner accusing us of quote "making an excessive profit" on their much loved family home.

My Horrid Mother...



She bought a house from an Archiect, oh & how she crowed about it's loveliness ...



Well until the day she moved in that was, he'd stripped the place bare; handles, towel rails, thermostatic rad valves



He even took the flex from the light fittings...



She was a bit "miffed" to say the least...



( I was " surprisingly "overjoyed & if I ever feel down, that still makes me smile :)) )




W**F

cate Wrote:

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> American Robin, That word is one of the mildest

> used by Woof. Not a defense I know. Since he

> arrived standards have started to slip. And he

> takes up so much space on the page with his

> postings. I'd like to know if he speaks like that

> around his kids.

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Oh dear.....



Seems Cate's a bit "miffed" too




W**F



* measures post, checks directive on the use of virtual paper *

SteveT Wrote:

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> Sired by a cur,

>

> and raised by a horrid bitch..........

>

>

> Interesting lineage woof.


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SteveT..



Hardly a "cur" no....


W**F senior ( god rest his soul ) was a scholarship boy at Lancing college & won a queens award for industry by the age of 42.


Mummy dearest, was just plain ol' "horrid" I'm afraid



I do though forgive your ignorance, how were you to know ( other than assumption )



Lastly, how is the EX wife...?



W**F

American Robin wrote:-

What's going on with this use of the word "bitch" ? Post-feminism ? I think not. Please stop. It is offensive.

find the word used casually really offensive.


PGC has succinctly explained the position in her post.


Offensive or not the correct terminology for the female species of dog is the word "bitch" and if you don't like it, take it up with the producers of the Oxford English dictionary.


I think you have a brass neck to come here with the affrontary, the gaul, the audacity, the irony of a foreign national telling me how I should phrase my native language in my own country, to coin a phrase of another erudite lady forumista "how very dare you".


American Robin stop your bitching, if you do not like what is posted, stop reading it, you surely do not expect to change everyone to adhere to your inaccurate rules of prose.

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