Moving !!!!

[Hardcoreruss]

Finally moving, thank **** for that.

Not sure what I am more excited about, getting a nice big house after living in this shit hole of a flat for two years or the 42inch plasma and 7.1 sound set up that are currently winging their way to me. Oh right, its the ******* home cinema

Just getting my last dose of broadband internet for the next 10 days , now that IS going to be hard and none of my pc's have 56k modems so I am restricted to the net at work (no battlefield vietnam ) Anyway speak to you lads soon.

Russ

[teegee420]

Happy moving, mate.

[Hardcoreruss]

Happy moving, mate.

If there is such a thing

[teegee420]

Happy moving, mate.

If there is such a thing

That pretty much means " hope you don't break too much shit". :P

[Hardcoreruss]

I am sitting here now, removal men turn up in 3 hours (its 6 am here) and there is still shit load to do but her royal highness has not moved yet so nor am I....

p.s the silly bitch packed the bog roll, and our local shop does not open for 31 mins, its gonna be tough

[glockjs]

hey im moving too! allz i have to say is....never again

[Hardcoreruss]

Yeah it is shit, the stress I have gone though, had our first house fall through and cost us over a bag.

Was convinced this one was going to aswell and I will not be calm until we move in.

[glockjs]

well you got more worries than i have as far as getting a house. thats for sure. but i still hate packing my shit just to move it a few miles to unpack it of course my journey is more like 260 miles away. its still the point that i gotta move my shit around. pain in the freakin ass.

[Hardcoreruss]

260 miles that is worth it. I am moving 2 , and in that short distance a four bed house goes from 155,000 (where I am now) to 247,500 (where I am going to) , not going to be going out for a while methinks.

[glockjs]

wow, the price to pay to live on the greener side.

on a happy note, i just went and got my mail. and i got a jury summons. i guess there's pros to moving out of state

[teegee420]

Jury duty is a bitch to get out of in CA. I hope you fare well.

[Hardcoreruss]

So that means you don't have to go , if so quality

[glockjs]

ahhh its not too hard to get out of anywere. just say your racist
and for me, not hard at all. i had a plan. people have way off perception of me. shave your head and grow a long go-t and i guess it could happen to anyone im not racist, but for jury duty. i would go out and buy a confederate flag t shirt. stroll into the court. start talkin some racial slurs. and bam, no court duty.

movin out of state means i do not have to go 8)

[teegee420]

I was watching Conan O'Brian a while back and he had on comedian Sarah Silverman. Very cute chick, by the way. She was talking about getting out of jury duty and she mentioned that a friend advised her to just say that she hates "chinks". Sarah replied with "I could never say that. I love chinks". She got into a lot of trouble for that one. :P

[Capmaster]

Moving blows. I personally think the best deterrent to crime would be to sentence offenders to move every weekend for a year. That'd set 'em straight

As for jury duty, I must be different because I didn't like the inconvenience, but I liked serving on a jury the three times I was picked for a trial. The first time was a murder case and it was fascinating. Second was wife and child beating, and the third was a civil suit over a traffic accident and injuries - a little more boring than the criminal trials, but fun nonetheless. Also, I was elected jury foreman for the civil case

[flaninacupboard]

i won't ever be called up, the government seem to have forgotten i exist (who's complaining?)
everyone else in the house got postal ballots beginning of the week and i haven't

downside is i was expecting a cheq where i was overtaxed last october and it hasn't appeared

[pacmania_2001]

I've been summoned once for jury duty and was looking forward to doing it until they sent out what dates they wanted me for, was right in the middle of my exam periods so I got out of it.

We sold our house and have to move out soon, luckily the new owners haven't sold their house yet so they've rented it back to us for a couple of months so I don't have to move quite yet.

Not looking forward to it one bit, having to live in a rental house most likely without broadband internet.

[flaninacupboard]

most likely without broadband internet.

ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!


But it will take several seconds to load the vhelp forums! how will you survive?

[pacmania_2001]

I think I'll just have to move into the university library whilst the house is being built, having the T3 pipes pump down the VideoHelp forums.

I already sleep in there sometimes.

[flaninacupboard]

That sounds sweet.

I worked at a uni library for a little bit back in (uses fingers) 2000, it was amazing how everyone caught me on my lunch break and my lunch break was a different time every day
i was amazed to see D/load speeds of 100KB/s, because i was on 56k at home still back then

[pacmania_2001]

When Jack Valenti talks about downloading a movie in 5 seconds he isn't far off from some of the speeds I've seen on our uni network.

I've seen full programs that are around the size of a DVD rip being pulled down in roughly a minute.

[flaninacupboard]

Cool. i remember the uni had two campuses (campi?) with a microwave link between them, and that was SUPER fast. one campus had a big cd-rom server (each title on a seperate partition, and a whole heap of machines) and it was hooked up on the microwave link. you could see all the incoming and outgoing traffic and it was just mental numbers. that room was the only on in the building to have air conditioning, great place for geeky library people to hang out in summer.

downside was the giant microwave tower stopped radio broadcasts being received, and knocked out some mobiles too

[pacmania_2001]

The uni I go to has a similar sort of setup but we have 3 campuses, the main one in Brisbane, than 2 smaller ones in surrounding cities which are linked up to the main campus by microwave link.

I'm not sure what the main campus has but then the smaller 2 campuses also have multiple T3 pipes going in and out as well.

Their was quite an internal piracy network going on, including custom P2P software to search it but when other universities in Australia got investigated the system admins decided to shut most of it down.

[Craig Tucker]

Good luck Russ. I have still not got a ******* moving date yet, still waiting for our buyer to get his mortgage offer. He decided to change lenders so this is now holding things up, along with all the other **** ups that have happened. I hope we get a date soon, this has been going on since January.

[offline]

What is it with moving in the U.K. ?
Try any of that in Australia and you automatically lose your
deposit (10 -15% of property price) , are ripe for suing including costs
and you can, in some circumstances, be forced to pay a % of your stamp duty (around 14k for ave. house).

Average house sale -> empty - > occupy = 60 days
but can be as low as 30.

[Craig Tucker]

The system here it shite, there is no deposit to be paid by the purchaser, thats part of the problem. Someone can put an offer in on your house and pull out at any time upto exchange of contracts without any reprisal. Same goes with the seller, if the vendor of the house I am buying suddenly changes her mind and decides not to sell, there is not a damn thing I can do about it. And I will be out of pocket by about a grand for solicitors fees, survey fees, etc.

[flaninacupboard]

about a grand for solicitors fees, survey fees, etc.

And there's the root of the problem. everyone tres to make as much money as possible out of their house, as do all the estate agents and solicitors. they're a giant bag of wankers. it's why property prices are so messed up, people get a survey and an esitmated price. then they ask someone else for an esitmate. they then "shop around" until they find the estate agent who suggests the biggest number. of course someone will be willing to pay it no matter what so the house still gets sold. it does mean that every day estate agents out quote each other to stay in business, and people like me simply cannot afford to live anywhere. here's hoping for a crash next year