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Number 1 Jasper said:
It’s probably because I normally act my shoe size not my real age .

As I said somewhere else the company I worked for ( 37 years ) are good to their employees when it comes to release packages .

Mrs j , ( same company )

Was approaching 60 , her small group had been offered 1 years money to go , she said , sod it im just going to wind the clock down and go .

then as she was coming up for normal retirement , they upped the offer to 18 months pay .

She took the package !
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Same with my wife, she was an uncivil servant working for Job Seekers in the DSS
 
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brb said:
Sounds like some good choices to me, I get annoyed with people that i've known who have worked until they've dropped, and they had no financial need to do so. Over the years, people that promised themselves so much, and kicked the bucket before they had chance. Once you rebalance the books and work out your numbers, there so many cutbacks we can make in life, to enjoy the latter years sooner. Even looking at that roof over your head, do we really need to be living in a grande house once the kids leave home, there are so many ways to open up your capital.
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This is why I do what I do, selling vegan **** to hippies from the back of my camper van. I had a career, nice salary, pension, and all the perks and status that come with a senior management job. But when my daughter came along and I was only seeing her for an hour a day in the mornings and I was looking at my colleagues 15-20 years older than me starting to burn out, I thought 'You know what, **** it, this isn't any life I want to be doing until I'm 65'

I think lots of people buy into that mentality that they've got to work like a dog until they are nearly 70 (and let's be honest, that's what we're told we have to do) then they can retire, relax and enjoy themselves. Trouble is, a fair proportion of those people are too old or unwell by that stage to go galavanting off on a trip around the world and they realise they should have done it 20 years ago.

I earn a fraction of what I did when I had my career, but I get to pick my daughter up from school every day, go to her school plays and I've got time to go surfing, biking, camping etc and I'm pretty much free to decide when I want to work and when I want time for myself and my family. There's no way I'd go back to a full time 9-5 job again, not for any money. I guess it all depends on how you measure your wealth.
 
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luvgonzo said:
Liverpool and Manchester majors trying to get the semi final moved from Wemberleeee. Transport issues.
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Makes sense, two clubs 30 minutes apart gotta travel 3 hours to London to play a match, plus the fans have no public transport, and Old Trafford is just sitting there near both of them.
I hated that they changed the semi finals to Wembley. I know they wanna milk as much money out of that stadium as they can, but it waters down the novelty of playing there, I preferred it when the semis were at a random neutral ground and only the final was at Wembley. Money grabbing ****s
 
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Bodinki said:
Makes sense, two clubs 30 minutes apart gotta travel 3 hours to London to play a match, plus the fans have no public transport, and Old Trafford is just sitting there near both of them.
I hated that they changed the semi finals to Wembley. I know they wanna milk as much money out of that stadium as they can, but it waters down the novelty of playing there, I preferred it when the semis were at a random neutral ground and only the final was at Wembley. Money grabbing ****s
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This :emoticon-0148-yes:
 
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The people need to revolt…too much white collar stupidity in our lives..the FA…the govt

Revolution is the word

big tings required to make big changes
 
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luvgonzo said:
Yeah but big TV's as well mate the masses will stay home.
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Thing is though, the stadium will fill, but it wont be true Liverpool fans or the 12 fans City have, it'll be a bunch of plastic fans from London or worse, Roy Keane's prawn sandwich brigade.
 
PINKIE said:
This is why I do what I do, selling vegan **** to hippies from the back of my camper van. I had a career, nice salary, pension, and all the perks and status that come with a senior management job. But when my daughter came along and I was only seeing her for an hour a day in the mornings and I was looking at my colleagues 15-20 years older than me starting to burn out, I thought 'You know what, **** it, this isn't any life I want to be doing until I'm 65'

I think lots of people buy into that mentality that they've got to work like a dog until they are nearly 70 (and let's be honest, that's what we're told we have to do) then they can retire, relax and enjoy themselves. Trouble is, a fair proportion of those people are too old or unwell by that stage to go galavanting off on a trip around the world and they realise they should have done it 20 years ago.

I earn a fraction of what I did when I had my career, but I get to pick my daughter up from school every day, go to her school plays and I've got time to go surfing, biking, camping etc and I'm pretty much free to decide when I want to work and when I want time for myself and my family. There's no way I'd go back to a full time 9-5 job again, not for any money. I guess it all depends on how you measure your wealth.
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About 10 yrs ago, we were in France, a fella from London came up for some advice, over the days we got talking, he worked for Lloyd's in the city, bloke was stressed out, 4 kids in private school, even with a bursary that's a lot of wedge, anyway he tells me he's on a 6 figure salary for 50-60 hours a week. He had to borrow a tent to go on holiday, wtf life is that
 
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Bodinki said:
Thing is though, the stadium will fill, but it wont be true Liverpool fans or the 12 fans City have, it'll be a bunch of plastic fans from London or worse, Roy Keane's prawn sandwich brigade.
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City fans will have the added benefit of being able to walk to the game if it's at Old Trafford, given that every single one of them lives in Manchester city centre.

Allegedly.
 
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Treble said:
Isn't judo just lots of tripping people over? <laugh>

We used to do that in the playground anyway <whistle>
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I have about a dozen "gold" medals from youth tournaments I attended across the NW as a kid/early teen... Judo helps, but it's not going to be very effective in street fighting. I wouldn't count on my judo to give me much of an advantage in a real fight.
 
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Blue and Yellow Potato said:
I have about a dozen "gold" medals from youth tournaments I attended across the NW as a kid/early teen... Judo helps, but it's not going to be very effective in street fighting. I wouldn't count on my judo to give me much of an advantage in a real fight.
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In a fight to the death probably not, but if you are looking to restrain someone, ie if you are a copper or a bouncer, then a lot of the judo throws and locks are quite effective
 
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