I've had enough of........

[mockney piers]

Chavvy type young girls who wear micro mini skirts and tiny crop tops on freezing cold days who walk aroung(sic) hugging themselves to stave off the effects of hyperthermia.

?! Que? And the problem?

[Brendan]

People!

[atila the gooner]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Chavvy type young girls who wear micro mini skirts

> and tiny crop tops on freezing cold days who walk

> aroung(sic) hugging themselves to stave off the

> effects of hyperthermia.

>

> ?! Que? And the problem?

To look at great, but I'm talking about the sheer stupidity of these "young ladies"

[mockney piers]

You should go up north, it's a point of pride there, no hugging themselves or looking cold. I do wonder how they manage when I've got a hat, scarf and gloves on a night out on the Tyne, and they're wandering around happily in underwear.

I'm guessing copious amounts of Bacardi Breezer helps.

[georgia]

Cyclists who go over red lights on Borough High Street and nearly run me over every day

People detoxing in January (or any month) ;-)

[blinder999]

Pedestrians who step into the road right into the path of my bicycle outside Vauxhall Station every morning without even looking, despite the red man/green light.

See also: Victoria Station, and in fact, everywhere between ED and Kensington (6).

[barrymarshall]

House prices!

Front page of the Times Online this morning: house price growth slowest for a decade. Font page of Guardian Online: Prices up as 2007 ends ... every single day there is a story about house prices or mortgages. Enough!

Similarly, I am sick and tired of the endless news stories about how we haven't shopped enough this Xmas, the High Street has been hit badly, M&S profits are down, Next sales are down. So what? Are we supposed to feel guilty? Because if we are, why then the next day do we read stories about how we are overburdened with debts, and how this is disastrous for the economy, etc.

[Brendan]

House Prices! I know what you mean. I?ve had enough of people talking about them constantly. In the fucking pub, at parties, around the dinner table! Enough already, I?ve got a house, you?ve got a house. This is a nice thing as neither of us gets wet when we are sleeping. Now can you shut the fuck up about it and talk about something interesting!

Or is that all you got?

[KalamityKel]

The "average" wage... Seriously who earns 30k and above?

[mockney piers]

That piqued my curiosity

mean and medians broken down by parliamentary constituency

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/ASHE_2007/2007_work_pc.pdf

30k mean is almost spot on for Tessa's constituency.

Nationally it's 24k mean, 19k median.

[lozzyloz]

So, in answer to your question move to Linlithgow and East Falkirk and stay away from Berwick-upon-Tweed!

[Ant]

Hm, yeah... 19k does seem pretty mean.

(boom, and indeed, boom.)

[Brendan]

It would be fine if you didn't pay ?3.50 for a beer, ?9 for a burger and ?300 000 for your 2 bed flat. These privilages seem to be the reserve of those of us living in London.

[Brendan]

That's ?300 012.50 and all you've done is go out for a burger and a a pint and gone home to a roof over your head.

[*Bob*]

Why is owning your own home assumed to be some sort of 'right'?

It isn't. It's no more your 'right' to own your own home than it is to own six cars, or go on holiday eight times a year.

[KalamityKel]

19k? 19k? :o I fink I need to talk to my boss!

[Brendan]

It all depends on the overall housing strategy of the country you live in. Owning a home may not be a right but for many people it is a necessity.

But I?m not flogging this horse again.

[lozzyloz]

My first proper weekly wage was ?17.50 (?910 pa) and ?8 was gobbled up by the rent on a shared flat in West Hampstead. No wonder I turned to a life of crime!

[KalamityKel]

:o ur a traffic warden?

[lozzyloz]

No, I paint the White Lines marking out football/rugby pitches in the park.

[Brendan]

My first job was 15 years ago as a lifeguard in South Africa and I got paid 3.50 South African Rands an hour. I worked 30 hours a week which meant I got R105 a week. Which converted to Pounds at the current exchange rate (which I know isn?t relevant but this is just for fun) is ?7.73. Which all works out to a grand total of ?401.96 a year.

I did however get to sit around in the sun all day and look at girls in bikinis.

[barrymarshall]

sounds like a fair wage to me >:D

[rifleman harris]

Ah but Brendan, did they look at you?;-)

[Brendan]

Nah I was a scrawny spotty-faced 15 year old.

[KalamityKel]

Squeaky soprano singers :s