Can we do Xmas first and the Last Supper in a few months time please. I want to see the look on Mary’s face when having finally got the kid to sleep a non-present-bearing urchin with a drum appears on the scene. Hope he isn’t quite as enthusiastic as some of our terrace fayre of yore.
I’ve quite enjoyed this to be honest. So far Dev has been the snarkier but hasn’t landed a knockout blow. Is Bargey trying ropeadope, waiting for Dev to land a low and libellous blow before unleashing his legendary legal action threat counter-punch?
Excellent entertainment. Well played gentlepeople. Where were you on those long international breaks though?
Genuine question @bargepole - why the late(ish) life decision to move into law? (And feel free to pass on answering).
And also another genuine question - and absolutely no disrespect intended - have you been tested for ASD? (It feel it fits with the tone and content of a lot of your posts). (Ditto on pass)
When I retired from full time work in sales and marketing, I decided to do an Open University degree course in Law, as I'd always been interested in it, and had dabbled with trying to help people. I started my company in 2017, and enquiries came flooding in, mainly because most solicitors won't touch small claims cases, as there's no money in it for them. I charge a reasonable fee of £295 per case, and that provides me with a steady income to top up my pensions.
As for ASD, I've never been tested for it, but am probably on the spectrum, as I can remember my home phone numbers from all the houses I've lived in, and the registration numbers of all the cars I've owned. My daughter can memorise the order of a pack of cards in 10 minutes, and one of my grandsons age 11 can tell you the capitals cities and flags of all the countries in the world. So I guess it runs in the family.
Some tremendous feats of memory, undoubtedly the most remarkable your daughter’s ability to memorise the order of a complete (presumably shuffled) pack of cards in ten minutes . Phew 😥 .
My own claims to fame in the Leslie Welsh stakes are much more limited. My most distant memory is that of our home telephone number (Maidstone 3461) in the late forties/early fifties.
Excellent @bargepole . Very honourable of you to answer the questions posed and I sincerely hope you will have many years of enjoyment on the gasroom. 👍
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Should definitely limit both to that one thread.
We could have a dedicated 'Adventures In Red Tape' thread for us all to
ignoreavidly read.What time is Dev's open-top bus parade?
Perhaps Bargepole and DevC should try to beat the 11min 20Sec face-off between Usyk and Fury at half time on Friday.
Can we do Xmas first and the Last Supper in a few months time please. I want to see the look on Mary’s face when having finally got the kid to sleep a non-present-bearing urchin with a drum appears on the scene. Hope he isn’t quite as enthusiastic as some of our terrace fayre of yore.
Does that mean there are also three wide men in the terrace?
I meant *wise - I don't doubt that there are three wide men in there.
This town ain’t big enough for the both of us.
btw thanks for the idea for my listening tonight.
“……..& it ain’t me who’s gonna leave”
said Dev and Bargie both!
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I’ve quite enjoyed this to be honest. So far Dev has been the snarkier but hasn’t landed a knockout blow. Is Bargey trying ropeadope, waiting for Dev to land a low and libellous blow before unleashing his legendary legal action threat counter-punch?
Don't knock Ron. One of the very few people who stood up to Saville and stopped him taking a young girl 'behind the scenes' at Top of the Pops.
We are all wise on the terrace, whether it be matters of tactics or having a fair idea of who ate all the pies.
Some area of the terrace are more Morecambe and Wise
Excellent entertainment. Well played gentlepeople. Where were you on those long international breaks though?
Genuine question @bargepole - why the late(ish) life decision to move into law? (And feel free to pass on answering).
And also another genuine question - and absolutely no disrespect intended - have you been tested for ASD? (It feel it fits with the tone and content of a lot of your posts). (Ditto on pass)
When I retired from full time work in sales and marketing, I decided to do an Open University degree course in Law, as I'd always been interested in it, and had dabbled with trying to help people. I started my company in 2017, and enquiries came flooding in, mainly because most solicitors won't touch small claims cases, as there's no money in it for them. I charge a reasonable fee of £295 per case, and that provides me with a steady income to top up my pensions.
As for ASD, I've never been tested for it, but am probably on the spectrum, as I can remember my home phone numbers from all the houses I've lived in, and the registration numbers of all the cars I've owned. My daughter can memorise the order of a pack of cards in 10 minutes, and one of my grandsons age 11 can tell you the capitals cities and flags of all the countries in the world. So I guess it runs in the family.
What. The.fuck. has .gone.on. here !!!
Ahhh the old famous gasroom 'I'm a better expert than you are' thread... won't bother then.
I always think to myself there should be a gasroom party at election time, as everyone on here knows more than everyone else
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Thanks. That is actually quite an impressive and honourable thing to do.
I appreciate the reply and there is a lesson in there for me in responding to posts in the past without sufficiently thinking about the recipient.
Impressive stuff, @bargepole.
Some tremendous feats of memory, undoubtedly the most remarkable your daughter’s ability to memorise the order of a complete (presumably shuffled) pack of cards in ten minutes . Phew 😥 .
My own claims to fame in the Leslie Welsh stakes are much more limited. My most distant memory is that of our home telephone number (Maidstone 3461) in the late forties/early fifties.
Excellent @bargepole . Very honourable of you to answer the questions posed and I sincerely hope you will have many years of enjoyment on the gasroom. 👍
Only £295 fee to hope to wriggle out of a £100 parking fine.
Verily @bargepole is the modern day Robin Hood of the gasroom......
Actually come to think of it, by the standards of the legal profession, he probably is.....
I echo @Blue_since_1990 post. Never take life too seriously
To be fair, it was a gilt-edged opportunity to show off. But what a mind-boggling (literally) array of unusual family talents.
And kudos to @bargepole himself for what he has achieved at an age when most of us would hope to be putting our feet up, at least metaphorically.
I asked ChatGPT who the best poster on the Gasroom with a car based username was and it still didn’t pick me.
Sam Altman 🖕 .
I asked ChatGTP for the best poster including the sound 'Ev' and it said 'DevC'.
Did you hold the MorrisItal1 account or even just MorrisItal? And then forgot the password?
Or did you nick someone else's username?
Ahh, so not just most posts versus games attended then.
Genuine laugh out loud there! More of an involuntarily chuckle, but it was audible.
Surely it could come up with trevor?
Touche!