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Theres a game show in Japan where you have to sing Karaoke while being jacked off by some random woman and you have to try hit the notes, its messed up.


I don't think I would be able to get aroused enough to be effectively jacked off while a bunch of TV cameras are focused on me and I'm trying to sing Karaoke.
 
I don't think I would be able to get aroused enough to be effectively jacked off while a bunch of TV cameras are focused on me and I'm trying to sing Karaoke.
same, tho it might depend how hot the woman is lol
The Japs are ****ed in the head tho, some of the stuff they come up with
 
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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.

Yep. Just saying on another thread, I retire this week (using my leave up now). No debts nor mortgage, good pension, a little nest egg. Got used to taking home, after tax, £50k a year on top of my pension - but the shifts, at my age (61) were just killers, even if the work was not too bad when I got there. But seven 12-hour shifts on the bounce, getting up at 4,30am, is too much for an old guy, and even if I did only have to work 17 days in 35, I thought EXACTLY what you put about working like a dog till 70, as my old feller did, and died of liver cancer a month before he was due to retire. And on the subject of dogs, that's the trigger point - my 12-year old lab is riddled with arthritis and other ailments - his poor face when I went out to work and he knew he wouldn't see me for 13 hours was heartbreaking.

BUT - is there ever a good time to give up that money? My daughter was just got her new energy bill (Scottish Power). Gone up from £105 pcm to £275. I'm with Ovo - I haven't got my bill yet. But I can see that nest egg dwindling soon. May have to get a job at Tesco stacking shelves, 'suppose, though the reason I worked on after drawing my pension was to avoid that. That said, on a broader point, I'm sure there's many now in my daughter's situation (and mine), and I shudder to think what will happen to the economy. And that brings it back to where we started - is there ever a good time to get off the money-go-round? You can always find a reason not to.
 
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

Live to your means innit. I’ve had times in my life when I’ve been pretty well off and times when I’ve been absolutely brassic

As long as you’ve got enough to pay the bills and aren’t stressing about money, that’s enough for me really.

People choose lifestyles where they end up needing to earn £50-£60k per year to pay for all the **** they buy on credit, massive mortgages, a new car every 2-3 years monthly subscriptions, and on and on it goes and they just get trapped in that way of living until they drop
 
All this talk of retiring. Lucky bastards, doubt I'll ever get to.

My state pension age was raised from 65 to 66.5 about five years ago (not that I'll notice, as I take a level finally salary pension anyway). My daughter (26) is looking at 68, though I'm sure that will rise as she approaches it. And that's the point - us at the *** end of the Baby Boomers are having a little shock, but basically, it's you and my daughter's generation that are paying the full whack. And your pensions will be ****e too.
 
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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

Indeed. Learned judo in my teens, and it's served me well. The one bar fight I was in in the 80's (Magaluf), and there wasn't room for high kicks and swinging punches anyway. And I learned how to fall without injuring myself too much - great skill when you fought like me. :bandit:
 
My state pension age was raised from 65 to 66.5 about five years ago (not that I'll notice, as I take a level finally salary pension anyway). My daughter (26) is looking at 68, though I'm sure that will rise as she approaches it. And that's the point - us at the *** end of the Baby Boomers are having a little shock, but basically, it's you and my daughter's generation that are paying the full whack. And your pensions will be ****e too.

I don't even have a pension mate but yeah given the way the age is rising and that we'll be paying for this pandemic for years then I don't expect to ever retire.

No guarantees that I'll even live to the age tbf <laugh>
 
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My state pension age was raised from 65 to 66.5 about five years ago (not that I'll notice, as I take a level finally salary pension anyway). My daughter (26) is looking at 68, though I'm sure that will rise as she approaches it. And that's the point - us at the *** end of the Baby Boomers are having a little shock, but basically, it's you and my daughter's generation that are paying the full whack. And your pensions will be ****e too.

Sadly I agree with your last point ( not disagreeing with the others at all ).

I have a 29 year old god daughter who works in the nhs ( Southampton General Hospital ) .

She has bought a flat , but only because it was her grandmothers and her mum and dad have been kind …


I also have a 12 year old niece and 11 year old Nephew , I genuinely worry for their future !
 
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same, tho it might depend how hot the woman is lol
The Japs are ****ed in the head tho, some of the stuff they come up with

You spunked your load inside a blow up sheep mate. So you’re in no position to criticise the Japs <laugh>
 
All this talk of retiring. Lucky bastards, doubt I'll ever get to.


It's what keeps me in my current job. 28 years for full pension equal to my highest three earning years (adjusted up for future inflation). It would take a lot before I jumped ship with that reward at the end of the tunnel.

I'm already 10 years in... So just 18 years and I can retire without taking a dip in lifestyle. (I'll probably work a few years after that though, something easy, so I get more from Social Security too).


None of my previous employers offered a pension like that and so I thought I'd be stuck having to work into my seventies too.
 
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Indeed. Learned judo in my teens, and it's served me well. The one bar fight I was in in the 80's (Magaluf), and there wasn't room for high kicks and swinging punches anyway. And I learned how to fall without injuring myself too much - great skill when you fought like me. :bandit:


The two times judo has rewarded me were both pretty identical situations. Running through the woods tripped in a tree root and sort of instinctively fell into a forward roll and back to my feet- like we would practice at the start of each lesson (minus the tree roots)... I guess muscle memory... Smooth as hell... <laugh>. Of course the second time it happened I stumbled into a tree after rolling back to my feet... Thankfully no one around to see it.
 
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Pogba leaving on a free in the summer

done United out of a fee twice now

Did you see the interview today? Reminded me of Stan Collymore back in the 90's when we tried to buy ourselves back on our perch every window : "Wah, it's everybody's fault but mine!'. <wah>

Whingy ****. Still, United will miss the shirt sales. They should get Kim Kardashian signed to replace him. Football is ****ed. :emoticon-0138-think
 
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