grobyfox1990

It would be time rather destination wouldn't it. For one off trips the whole world is contextually cheap these days. Ambition would be an Antarctica cruise for 3 weeks or so

Try real betis as well, the other Seville team. Although I’ve never been to a match at either, the stadiums are like cathedrals and football is a HUGE part of the culture

Well I was wrong, the town near the Spanish border was really cool. Very unFrench which helps. Food is still sh1t but it’s france so what else do you expect. Suspect the food in Middlesbrough today will be better. People were v friendly, took a trip to the airbus museum yday which was excellent.

Seville is brilliant. If that was you posting above about culture, I’m not sure any of that exists in these British package holiday towns. Seville is exactly what you’re looking for, really cool place

Getting out to meet people is prob the main thing given you say you’re masters level and are an experienced hire. Everyone at your level is gonna be ‘good’ so the difference is prob gonna be personality and likeability. Also I forget how much business is done via alcohol in the western world. It’s vital to building relationships imo

Bahrain, Cyprus, Morocco. Depends how adventurous you wanna be

Reminds me of the mid 2000s when a job lot of us went to the ticket office with the same away ticket stubs one day after the other to all get into P1

It’s obviously a sh1t analysis but that’s not the point, it’s meant to rabble rouse! Don’t think you Aussies are any different to us brits in hurtful politics

Cash buyers are creaming it. Having no leverage and asking for a C.V. from a 24 year old couple who met at uni but now hate each other to rent your flat at all time highs must be amazing

Any landlords asking for sympathy are total idiots. Who’s doing that? Likewise any landlords making ANY money now and surely one of the minority. After rates, licensing, tax, insurance, maintenance, service charges and fees, who’s making anything? Point is, don’t hate 57 year old Bill from down the road who took advantage of being born in a gold-plated giveaway generation to build up his assets. Maybe ask why successive governments and middle England weirdos have failed to build enough houses for us all

But what else to do if you live in the first world? We commoditise everything, including our people. We know the price of everything and the value of nothing. The state isn’t going to look after you in old age so being prudent and building up diverse private pension holdings is smart, not scalping, imo. Do you have a private pension, workplace or otherwise?

Yeh agreed. That’s a deranged argument imo.

Yeh as per above. Most ‘mom and pop’ landlords can’t wash their face with their BTLs now. Those over leveraged are giving up their properties not because of EPCs but because of the huge increase in rates. Would be interested in the maths of ending a current early, locking into a 5/10 year and getting hit by an ERC v letting the lower rate ride out the term and overpaying as much as possible whilst on it. It won’t be that clear cut for some and it seems a lot of people panicked and got a new product as soon as Russia marched into Ukraine. Lower rates were never going to last so it was all about overpaying every penny you had whilst on a 1.19% product or similar

EPCs? That should be a minor concern especially as sunak has delayed the inevitable. Rates going up by 100s of percent, insurance tripling, service charges tripling. Suddenly a property with a decent yield of 10+% no longer washes its face. Leveraged landlords are losing money, tenants are being screwed over.

Yeh fair enough, I'm only saying 1-2-1 as it's noted as a weekly item titled '1-2-1' in our diaries with a few standing agenda items. But now you mention it, it is just talking to a colleague.

Christ a bit of sense at last. Existentially as well this sums up how infiltrated by the ruling classes we have become. We are all football fans getting collectively done out of our game, yet instead of sticking together and fighting back as one, we are justifying actual death by saying they were drunk and didn’t have a ticket so it’s ok, because we don’t like their team. And we’ve met a few of their fans over the years and they aren’t nice people. Madness

You are missing the main point which is they don’t deserve to die for going to a football match drunk and without a ticket, which is seemingly what you’re getting at. To reiterate, pre champions league final in Paris I saw at least 30 Real Madrid fans smash a metal barrier down and run into the stadium. Thugs, yes. deserve to die, no. I was in Texas last week and the pro gun locals said if anyone holds up a bar or robs a shop it’s ok as someone nearby will have a gun and will shoot them. You remind me of them, commit a transgression and you deserve to die

I have weekly 1-2-1s with my manager and need at least that frequency. Not an appraisal or check up but to see where the hell we are with things, progress of the team, internal/external updates etc etc

Sorry to hear that and hope your role is manageable Makes perfect sense, like you say the trade off is job security and a good pension. Imo these days there’s nothing more important

I don’t understand this process. Everyone gets a rise, the same rise, and there’s no bonus. Are they trying to get rid of people without having to pay redundancy? Sounds suspicious from them but also don’t understand why most people would stay

Exactly. Errors are always going to be made, there's so much money in football errors are blown out of proportion. Do cricket fans go mental when it's umpires call for LBW? I am not sure. There are undoubtedly less mistakes with VAR in place, imagine if Romero had stayed on the pitch and Chelsea didn't get a penalty yesterday. But people want perfection which will never happen so will always moan and come up with wild 'corruption' conspiracies. Thought Postecoglu came across really well in his interview yesterday.

Agreed and it seems you are talking about a minority of more mature elder people including yourself. The bulk of middle aged men who were mummy's boys and now are essentially mummy'd by their wives seem to get offended online all the time. Although i cannot see many usernames on this site you see it happen all the time. 'Get over it' straight after bobbing themselves when someone said something

Embarrassing and pathetic, especially during the best performance of their season. Saw a few posts on Twitter around this doing the usual ‘so easily offended just get over it’ rhetoric. Obviously written by Middle Aged men who are frequently easily offended and unable to get over comments directed at them on the internet.

I’ve loved it, proper drama. Imagine if Romero was still on the pitch. Although I am a neutral so it’s easy to say

Great point. I totally agree but not sure why..