Well off pensioners are rare. Most of them who didn't leave on final salary pensions worked on the basis that the State would pay their National Insurance Contributions back to them as the State Pension, not blow it all on junk bank shares, MPs' expenses and printing cash.
"...the protectionist racket."
- Thread starter Walterp
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Well off pensioners are rare. Most of them who didn't leave on final salary pensions worked on the basis that the State would pay their National Insurance Contributions back to them as the State Pension, not blow it all on junk bank shares, MPs' expenses and printing cash.
I've never been actuallyA decent pot of tea and a smoke on the veranda at Raffles Hotel is my paradise moment. I’ve done it plenty, although admittedly not for a few years, and every time it’s lived up to expectations
it's just what a friend tells me its like....
ollie989898
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Ah another one of these threads.
Anyone remember the proceeding version?
Anyone remember the proceeding version?
Have you worked out what you've saved over the years by doing it yourself?
Say £10 per visit once a month £120 a year.. I've been hacking away at mine for 22 years £2640 less £50 for a set of clippers and £1.50 for a tin of 3in 1 oil =£2588.50
I'm putting £0 on my time as I would be sitting in a chair anyway, and I would tie in a trip to the bank at the same time.
A £2588.50 saving on hair cuts since I left home isn't bad!
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
And peanut shell on the floorA decent pot of tea and a smoke on the veranda at Raffles Hotel is my paradise moment. I’ve done it plenty, although admittedly not for a few years, and every time it’s lived up to expectations
' fraid it's a classic case. The enterprise is getting too big. Who would fancy keeping control of 200 Russkies ? ( locals are off to Uni gaining 'oliges BTW ) But small isn't allowed these days, it's all, or nothing. Can't see it's much to do with Brexit, unless the supply of Russkies drys up.
Anyhoo, I think when the franchise idea was first mooted 18 months ago it was £600k to get going IIRC. My thoughts at the time were.....I'd rather invest in 100 acres of land, potter about growing more corn, and more importantly, buy some more classic Fords to work the extra ground..
I can't be arsed to get Google to translate this into French, so you'll just have to put up with English.
Anyhoo, I think when the franchise idea was first mooted 18 months ago it was £600k to get going IIRC. My thoughts at the time were.....I'd rather invest in 100 acres of land, potter about growing more corn, and more importantly, buy some more classic Fords to work the extra ground..
I can't be arsed to get Google to translate this into French, so you'll just have to put up with English.
Lazy Sod
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- Location
- Warminster Wiltshire
As small boy, my mother always took me to a traditional gents hairdressers, sitting on a board put across the chair's arms. As an adult I continued to go there.
In the seventies, a young hairdresser from London bought the business. It went appointments only, unisex and he employed to a pair of blonde dolly birds to cut hair as well as himself. He insisted that all hair should be cut wet, so everybody had to have a shampoo.
All the changes did not go down well with the original male clientele. They didn't like the challenge to the male only (anything for the weekend sir?) culture.
He closed the business after about 20 years an did something else. One of the girls had her own shop, but now operates from her home. I visit her every 6 weeks.
I think that all the hairdressers in the town are unisex now.
In the seventies, a young hairdresser from London bought the business. It went appointments only, unisex and he employed to a pair of blonde dolly birds to cut hair as well as himself. He insisted that all hair should be cut wet, so everybody had to have a shampoo.
All the changes did not go down well with the original male clientele. They didn't like the challenge to the male only (anything for the weekend sir?) culture.
He closed the business after about 20 years an did something else. One of the girls had her own shop, but now operates from her home. I visit her every 6 weeks.
I think that all the hairdressers in the town are unisex now.
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Av Gorritt
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- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
Quite "off -this-topic" really , but does anybody know how to use a genuine working abacus ? I'm told that a real expert can at least equal a calculator , and in some instances , beat it . I've googled it and got no usable sense from that . I have a pal who's a "top weight" mathematicion at Man .Uni. Maths dept. and he tells me that there's a glass case there , with a small hammer on a chain - fire alarm type - in which there is an abacus and a notice that says "In emergency , break glass ". John Steinbeck said that Lee- Chong in the Chinese grocery used an abacus to calculate the customer's bills . Just sayin' (and curious)
SilliamWhale
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Cost of the basin to cut round?
Our school was so poor, it couldn't even afford an abacus.
To do adding ups, we had to use our fingers. And to do take aways, we had to have some of our fingers amputated.
FonterraFarmer
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- Location
- Waikato, New Zealand
First picture of the OP?
- Location
- East Sussex
Never was a fan of The Long Bar, tea is more my thing. There’s many worse places to be though
never been to a barbers but seen a few quartets
Mullet.
Been wanting to use this word in a post for ages.
Been wanting to use this word in a post for ages.
Muppet.
Been wanting to use this word in a post for ages.
ollie989898
Member
better off how ? Singapore is uncomfortably hot and humid most of the time ….
He is farther away than that bloke WalterP, that is the main benefit.
Spatchcock.
Another word I've been wanting to use in a post.
Another word I've been wanting to use in a post.
Spatchcock poussin mullet.
Enough for tonight, I think.