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jema
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 11 4:03 pm Post subject: BBC news with its finger on the pulse as usual
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15197860

T.G

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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 11 4:09 pm Post subject:
I have so much I want to say, so much I could say and so much I probably shouldn't ... I'll place my energies in cleaning the keyboard Max messed up for me while he's sleeping.

Nicky cigreen

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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 11 4:13 pm Post subject:
good grief

12Bore

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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 11 4:17 pm Post subject:
Mutter mumble grumble, goes off to beat head against wall and wait for BP meds to fail..........

sgt.colon

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Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 11 4:22 pm Post subject:

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Kate and Jai do not have children, but Kate puts their large disposable income down to being good at financial management.

I don't. I put it down to you not having kids.

Shane

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Location: Doha. Is hot.

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 11 8:44 am Post subject:

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She spends �10,000 every couple of years to buy a new car and likes to go on two or three package holidays a year.

Hmm - hardly a good example of how hard it can be to make ends meet on two people's salaries, I'd have thought.

jema
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 11 8:53 am Post subject:
Indeed it is not a story about making ends meets, it's a story about leading a "designer" lifestyle on an amount of money which actually is "tight" for such a lifestyle

paul1963

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 11 9:03 am Post subject:
Good grief Poor hard done by little lambs

Shane

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 11 12:45 pm Post subject:
Indeed. Heaven forbid that they may have to cut down to one or two package holidays a year

ninat

Joined: 01 Feb 2009
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Location: Scotland

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 11 2:56 pm Post subject:
Came across as a rather jumbled piece of reporting which was little more than a page filler.

Green Man

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Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 11 2:59 pm Post subject:
Avarage wage stories just depress most of us

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