Phil xxkr

That's not HMG, that's there in place of adverts 🤣

You are being offered sound advice here especially around Relax. My advice is negotiate! If you are willing to pay, as I did, three services ahead there is scope for reduction. Furthermore, as I mentioned previously pay for it with a credit card thus you are covered for any eventuality and if you get a 0% credit card it can be spread over a couple of years. Amex had a good cashback offer but check first if the dealer accepts Amex.

Renato, your linguistic dexterity is wasted on this site 😉 apply for a post in HMG Westminster you would fit in perfectly 😂

Do you offer a similar in-depth analysis to the pic I posted earlier? 😂

I'll drink what you're drinking Malc 🍻

Apologies Stuart, back in the day we called Invincibles Big Teds 😁

The thing is Ed whilst we focus on the "top-line" cost of fuel the real issue is taxation my particular bete-noir 😱. As an example for the 40% taxpayer to be able to put £40 of fuel in you need to earn apx £100. Of the 40 apx 86% is duty and VAT so you are left with the princely sum of 14p for hard won money. So when politicians call for those with the broadest shoulders to pay more, just how much more I wonder?

Then propose taxation at 100%🤯. As Thomas Sowell eloquently stated "it fascinates me being called greedy if I want to keep the money I have been earned but not greed if I want to take it off someone else"

Not far off what I paid in Jersey for Tanqueray and EMA and Jet2 particularly good but buy on the way out.

Crayons or pencils? 🤣

Fantastic buy, I remember trying RYJ's to replace cigarettes but it became ruiningly expensive as 1 a day became 2 and then 3 😱

Ditto Stuart, although I prefer self-tie bows in the winter. Having said that I recently bought a selection of Western scarves and they are much more preferable to having an open neck casual shirt and learning to tie a Buckaroo knot 🤠

Big Teds, a great cigar. Made by Swishers who also did an X70 panatella dipped in rum and molasses5🥳

Totally

Never quite sure if they are a myth or a mythis or is that now mythz 😅 or just a communist plot!

Ah, Phil, so I presume you also have a view on eating garlic or strong curries or fish ? As to sartorial elegance what could be finer 😎 witness Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. I don't smoke personally but have observed the first person to object to smoking is also the first to light a BBQ 🤯

So is the unforgettable wearing down of the front teeth 🤣

Oddly enough Steve QmH gave me by far and away the best quote 🤔

Well I have, a LOC member from Kings Heath Birmingham had his taken from the drive earlier this year. I only know this because he had spare rubber mats which I had from him. He replaced it with a Range Rover 😕

But as you said earlier Ed, it's all about priorities. In my twenties I had ambitions to "have it all" but knew that it would take time, hence hand me down furniture and evening DIY classes after work. But I sense that today the "yoof" aren't prepared to do that and prioritise spending in other areas. For example years ago the total spend on mobile phones exceeded that of mortgages. And who would dream of spending £200 plus on a pair of plimsolls (trainers) to last you six months when a pair of Barkers would last you 6 years plus. As I understand it a significant proportion of students will never pay back their loans and to be honest who in their right mind would want to buy a new house, they are a maintenance money pit in the making?

Fascinating how people have different opinions re new/pre-owned cars yet are pretty much in unison when it comes to house purchases! 😁

Are you quite mad Steve 😅. SOCO don't come out these days for murders do they? 🤣

Yes Steve, some years ago I had a Rover 216 se that was stolen by doing something to the passenger side headlamp which disabled the alarm 😱

Not a comment on lexus dealers per se more on an individuals sense of morality where money is concerned. The true indictment is this overwhelming feeling of, if the government doesn't steal your stuff some scrote will 😕