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I'm so excited, we've accepted an offer on our house for exactly what we expected to get. I need to reconfirm the mortgage offer from the bank then we can go shopping, there's basically three houses on our shortlist and I'd be happy with any of them. Top favourite has a double garage already  The main thing though is the kids will have their own rooms.
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jammyozzy posted:Just got offered an amazing job for a really cool company with a £5k salary bump within 2 hours of leaving the factory. Congrats, where you moving to?
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Feb 4, 2015 20:46
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Selling paperwork for the house has come through already, no chain, funding in place, solicitors already appointed. poo poo, this could be done in mere weeks  Just need to get the bank to confirm the mortgage offer and I can start putting offers in. The seller for the house I'm most interested in isn't doing viewings this weekend. Just give the keys to the agent damnit.
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Feb 5, 2015 19:49
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I'm watching death proof. Does it get good it is it just Tarantino masturbating?
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Feb 6, 2015 21:42
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Death proof: maybe 40 minutes max of action, don't bother. Wonder what else Netflix has, my wife is out tonight for the first time in like 12 months. E: 
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Feb 6, 2015 22:17
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Alaska does not sound like the sort of place to try and scavenge energy from the outside. $50,000 buys a lot of insulation and natural gas. E: assuming you have gas
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Feb 7, 2015 10:05
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Mat_Drinks posted:I want to say he doesn't and that the propane prices where he is (trucked in by Amerigas) are super high. I asked something similar when he posted about it previously because I forgot he was in Alaska. And I also asked about solar which would be LOL in winter there. Okay, then $50,000 buys a poo poo load of wood pellets, or coal, or whale oil or whatever the gently caress else burns at -40'c. How much do Russian surplus RTGs go for these days?
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Feb 7, 2015 20:23
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Moxie Omen posted:Why do I have to own 25+ year old piece of poo poo cars? Why can't I just drive them all to the junkyard, title and keys in the seat, walk away and buy an actual new car? Barf You can, you'll just have to deal with dealer bullshit then paying all your money for a dull as poo poo car. Unless you buy and dd an atom.
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Feb 9, 2015 00:11
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I just installed steam, goodbye cruel world. Then discovered I already have an account  So now I only need to know if spintires will work on the my laptop, built in Intel HD 3000 graphics only.
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Feb 10, 2015 21:37
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My wife knows if the perfect car pops up for the right price I'm getting it, regardless of lack of storage space or running condition. Also booking houses to view right now, which means the perfect car will pop up shortly and gently caress me in the rear end.
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Feb 13, 2015 12:42
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I went to see a new build today, 3 houses build on a little scrag of land, garage & 3br each, decent gardens & drive space, room sizes etc. We liked it more than any other house we've seen, even though it's at the top of our price range. And it's decently built, right angles & straight lines everywhere Probably helps the builder is local. He seemed nice.Gotta ring the bank tomorrow then reserve the one we want, if we get in early we have a little say on the kitchen & bathroom layout. I'm quite excited, I just need to figure out how to guarantee everything he said would be done will be. We can justify it being £15k more than any other house we've seen as it doesn't need redecoration, a new kitchen, new windows, rewiring etc I'm so looking forward to moving out of this grim bunker, I'll have to meet up with the Stoke goons when we get in. Could be 4-6 months.
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Feb 15, 2015 19:18
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Tomarse posted:Is there someone else in Stoke too? Thanks, its in Blythe Bridge, right where my wife wanted to be, schools are decent, travel time to work is greatly reduced. I thought there were more Stoke goons, I know there are a few outside AI but I haven't been in touch with the ones from Trad games for years.
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Feb 16, 2015 07:01
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Made an offer on the new build house, accepted. I'm so stoked, only a single garage but a nice amount of space all around. Top of my budget though, going into maximum budgeting mode asap to see if we can scrape another couple of grand together by the time it's done, every little helps. And all this networking talk made me realise the builder already ran coax through the house, wonder if it's too late to slip him a reel of cat6 and get it jammed in there too? More likely we'll have a central router and wifi everything, it's not a hardship to me.
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Feb 16, 2015 13:34
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I'm watching part 1 of Project Binky right now, oh god why did I wait so long? Anyone wondering what it is or not watching it yet, go, now, find it, watch it.
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Feb 19, 2015 19:10
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I drove a Prius+ at work the other day and I've got to say that for a £30-odd-k car it's the shittiest plastic interior I've ever been subject to. It reminded me of a base model transit but nastier. Also, episode 7, that lock mechanism 
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Feb 19, 2015 21:33
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The day i realise I'm going bald I'm shaving and never going back, it's the only self-respecting way to go
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Feb 20, 2015 13:29
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88h88 posted:I never got to have an in n out burger the last time I was in the US. Regret. We do now have 5 Guys here which are pretty loving amazing... I just love the fact they're no nonsense burgers, nothing fancy, just great quality. We've got loads of fancy pants gourmet burger joints and they all pale in comparison. It also makes me genuinely feel sorry for my vegan friends that they'll never eat something as loving beautiful. Wait what?!
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Feb 23, 2015 10:28
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My bank won't give me an appointment to turn my mortgage promise into a mortgage for another 8 weeks. Time to find another bank.
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Feb 23, 2015 21:48
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One thing is I'm nervous to go get another mortgage offer because what I want is reet close to what they said would be my maximum, I don't want loads of credit pulls that end up lowering what I can get. I'm sure I'm just paranoid though. I'll try another branch tomorrow, if I can't get in there soon it's new bank time. I don't mind switching all my accounts etc too, they make it stupid easy over here.
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Feb 23, 2015 23:54
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Tomarse posted:I had the same problem when I tried to do mine through my bank. Thanks, I'll check them out. freelop posted:Just be careful if you do this. I'll be leaving Halifax, no worries.
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Feb 24, 2015 19:01
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For those of you closing in on new houses, congrats and good luck. Our bank however decided to let me know we need 20% deposit, not the 16% we have, because of bullshit reasons around the house we want being a new build. I'm annoyed as hell because if I'd have known that I'd never have looked at it. There's an outside chance they'll lower the requirement, but I won't find out for a week. To paraphrase the UK megathread, All bankers are cunts.
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Feb 25, 2015 22:22
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NitroSpazzz posted:That's bullshit especially if you discussed the deposit earlier and they agreed on the 16%. Yes banks, bankers and credit unions are largely a bunch of cunts. They said i could go as low as a 5% deposit because I have excellent credit when I got a mortgage promise then dropped on me that new builds need 20% when I told them I'd found this house. I can't find anything on their website about this that would have prewarned me but I never thought to ask. Why would I? It all hinges on who the builder is affiliated with, and this guy is a small developer/builder who's taking his time and taking some care. He has all the necessary insurances/assurances, bonded warranties etc and we can scrape together 16%, family have generously offered a small amount that would bring or deposit up to 18.5% but if we cut all services and vices and went into saving overdrive we still wouldn't get the extra in time. It's very frustrating because we can afford the house with a reasonable deposit.
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Feb 26, 2015 07:13
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88h88 posted:I've never noticed one of the camo patterns they have is shaped like people, which is particularly fantastic. Good luck on the job, get me a roll of this if you get in 
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Feb 26, 2015 19:22
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Hell I choose to go in tomorrow to fix something rather than wait 2 weeks for general maintenance to do it. I reckon I can wrap it up in 3 hours, so I'll hardly miss any of the day.
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Feb 27, 2015 20:45
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bolind posted:I also know nothing about cars, but boy howdy, do I own tools, and I've just rearranged them so that even James May would be impressed: Ahhhhhhhh that stubby is throwing everything off fix it fix it fix it fix it  E: I'm jealous of your wera stuff btw.
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Feb 28, 2015 17:27
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Oh good chili chat. At least it's not more information about the internal states of goons bowels.
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Feb 28, 2015 20:29
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meatpimp posted:I make my chili with STUFF, too. Including black, pinto and kidney beans. I would eat this chili. Remembered I had a £10 screwing gift card expiring today, and my angle grinder buy the dust a while ago. They had an offer on as well so my new angle grinder ended up costing £10, score.
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Feb 28, 2015 22:58
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Tide posted:loving Swype/autocorrect Yes that's clearly the problem. Got a panicked call from work earlier, vacuum leak in a machine, no o-rings (3x1mm). The only place I can get them is a suppliers warehouse in Dudley. Getting them delivered to work will be £100 and they'll get there midday tomorrow. So I just drove to Dudley and got passed a baggie through the car window outside an industrial estate, planning to go in early and fit them before production starts tomorrow. Unsurprisingly got stopped by the police
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