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It's not something I think I could bring myself to talk to my ex about. Thing is, me and the guy in question are like brothers. It really f**king sucks because I know he didn't go out with the intention of doing this, he's just weak. I asked him last night how he'd feel if I slept with his ex (he was with her for five years) and he said that he wouldn't care as he's over her. I know he’s over her but it WOULD bother him a great deal. He says that at the mo they're just seeing each other and not after a relationship (ie just screwing) but I can see that it will grow. It's not the sex thing that bothers me that much as I'd never even dream of wanting to sleep with her again (or any girls for that matter). She's had another bf since we split up and it didn't bother me in the slightest. I even invited the both of them to my 21st. Thing is I know it's going to be sooo awkward if my friend starts seeing her on a regular basis and she starts coming out with my group of friends, and it’s an inevitability.

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We were together for two years and we've been split up two years. EDIT: And yeah, it bothers me a fair bit. I don't even go out with girls any more (preferences have kinda changed) but the fact we were so close for two years really gets my goat. It breaks the unwritten rule of f**king friends gfs and exs. Would that not bother you?

...and be back at square one?

She sounds like a bit of a helmet, especially after you went out of your way for her. Let someone else endure her wrath! She'll be the one regretting the fact she was taking someone who cared for her for granted. On a different note, I found out last night that my best friend is sleeping with my ex of two years.

Blur rule. Oasis would be good as a supporting band . Warm the crowd up a little. Out of all the music I've lost lately (damn laptop) my Blur collection hurt the most.

I'd change "and business, the business " to "and business as the business" although I'm only skimming because I'm still at work. I never did a personal statement because I suck. EDIT: and a comma after especially at the end. Double EDIT: Ignore me actually as I'm reading it backwards and I'm an asshole when it comes to proof-reading hehe.

Nice statement, well written. I'd get some work experience in finance before going through with it. It's a little.....mundane.

Yes.....quiz.

Ok bitch-fist, who's been doing the riding lately? . Where's this boot-lid you promised?

Count me in for sure.

Guernsey is a bit of an exception when it comes to jobs and housing because of the finance industry. There are over 1000 job vacancies in Guernsey at the moment and only 60,000 people living here. Check out this and this. It kind of shows you how much some property costs due to high demand and lack of space. The second property is probably the worst value house I've ever seen for sale in the island, so it's a bit of an exception. Not sure quite what they're thinking. Construction has been booming for the past 15 years over here. A lot of the waterfront and many of the old hotel buildings have been converted into offices and high value apartments. This has come to an almost complete standstill in the last two years or so. A lot of the migrant workforce has gone back to Latvia/Poland/Portugal as the benefits of working in Guernsey are less prominent for several reasons (including the pound, new business etc). I used to work in construction (for 5 years in a builders merchants and a while labouring) and from what I hear now it's a whole different world to what I was used to. A number of the customers I used to deal with just lurk around the builders merchants not up to much in particular. In addition, they're taking smaller, less profitable jobs and downsizing their workforce. I'd imagine if this sort of thing is happening in Guernsey, it must be magnified in the UK.

Ditto, and ditto. Hehe.

I regret not buying HBOS shares too (I was watching them for hours at work hehe). I just figured there's only so much risk you can take sensibly. I've got rent to worry about too, and the only way I could have done it would have been to take it out of my uni savings fund for next year. Would have been a nice extra lump for it. I guess there's no point in moaning about what could have been. The frantic buying and selling of shares for personal gain is actually a fairly large contributor to why these companies get shafted once the downward spiral begins. It would happen sooner or later anyway though.

Lets just hope Mr Wood has found a different vocation. Imagine how many people are pissed at him! I bet there are thousands of stoooopid yanks that feel like right nobs for listening to him and people barking the same crap he was. P.S. I have to say I bought Societe Generale shares in July of last year. I was a bit silly. They're a little over a third of their original worth now. Luckily I worked for them at the time and it was highly incentivised. I've only lost about 20%, but still! Damn Jerome Kervial set it off for those guys hehe. Think I'm just going to keep them a few decades until they recover.

I just don’t understand the mentality behind most modern political groups. They screw themselves over to get re-elected and leave themselves in even more shit. Their popularity begins to wobble when the masses (who basically believe anything that makes it in any semi-reputable newspaper or on the television) suddenly realise they’ve been conned into supporting a group of people who are only interested in staying in power without taking into account the damage they are causing the country. They’re just in power for the sake of being in power, limiting the scope of anything they can change with every round. Articles like this are indicative of how cushioned people feel (/felt) because of the false sense of security a given government lures them into. Personally, I profited out of Lehman Brothers quite nicely. Towards the start of the year when their share price initially tumbled (same time as Bear Sterns), I gambled that they had enough assets/insurance etc to recover. Even though in the long-run I was wrong, I made back 50% on top of the initial investment in 24 hours – completely tax free (Guernsey is good for something hehe). I think I may have to declare some US tax or something somewhere along the way, but pfffft I’ll wait for them to get to me. I’m sure they’ve got bigger things to worry about. Glad I didn’t get greedy and try it again last week. Either way, I’m staying the hell out of debt and away from buying property for a long while yet. Very few people understand the underlying causes of “the crunch” (behind the “sub prime” bollocks, which is just a knock-on effect), let alone how to fix it. I heard some lawyer quoted on newsnight the other day saying "There's a hole in the markets, everyone knows that. No one knows where it is though." The majority believes everything is on the up and up. Weren’t they saying that six months ago? And nine months ago?

Having read both incarnations of that post, I can see what you're saying. The only thing is that the UK is becoming more of a welfare state (not just welfare, just all things fluffy and nice) and this costs bare £££. These are things that people have become used to (such as CSO's etc) and political groups would rather overspend in order to get re-elected than do what's right and become unpopular. I'm more legally/politically minded than economically, so I may well be way out of my depth here hehe.

I understand what you're saying, and I can imagine the balance being very hard to find. However, surely if the government embarks on numerous construction projects, it's paying more money out to public sector workers (ie creating more money) thus driving up inflation. Are they not damaging the country by doing this (not just the private sector)? And by raising interest rates surely then unemployment in the private sector continues to rise.

But surely with the governement in rather a pickle when it comes to debt (not so much as the US government obviously), surely they still need the capital to put into projects? EDIT: I'm not saying it's borrowed from commercial firms, but they can't just keep throwing cash they don't have into stuff can they?

To be fair you'd fairly short-sighted to buy a house at the moment (or even in April). Wait until the market bottoms out. There could be a long time to go yet, and you don't want to go paying a mortgage on something that's worth far less than what you borrowed. I've got soooo much to say about the "credit crunch" and the actual cause behind it, but I'd end up going on forever and getting fired for spending too much time on TF hehe. Although, this is a post I made in a related topic last week in the SM forum: * Counties build up massive stores of USD to buy oil

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Get rid. Simple. (Before you get more emotionally involved and f**ked up by it)

Is it just pictures or have they further bastardised the English language?

I'd rather skin my own penis and dip it in a cup filled with salt and vinegar than watch it. Nathan Barley was genius, screw the Boosh.