[Chris]

At least the image everyone needs to see to complete registration provides some compensation for their spam:

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[dimtimjim]

Well, his last show was on Saturday.

Aye, and t'was this which caused me to share. I hadn't noticed the article date - couldn't see it through the tears.

Leg. End.

And yes Andy, I had noticed he was shamelessly plugging away. Funny shiz!


Drop the bomb.

[Nicola_Red]

Got halfway to work, put my hand up to my ear to adjust my earphones and suddenly realised I only had one earring in. Can't figure out if I've lost one en route or if I'm so tired I only put one in this morning. Bad times.

[chrysostom]

WTF moment of the day, my ex just got engaged to the guy she left me for.

[bmstinton93]

Got a feeling that's gonna happen with my ex tbh...

[The Deadly]

My ex moved to the other end of the country yesterday. I dumped her, ruined her life, humiliated her in court and now take full credit for her moving (despite it having nothing to do with me).

Women are interchangeable guys. Chin up.

[The Deadly]

Men are interchangeable too just for balance. Love is for the weak of mind.

[Yudster]

How did you humiliate her in court? I'm assuming she deserved it of course.

[The Deadly]

I worked with her. It was a work relationship between boss and regular work that was always destined for failure. I broke up with my long term girlfriend who I have kids with in 2008 and after a couple of months I got with a much younger girl at work and to be honest it was pure rebound. So about a year and a half later things are really bad with us and it spills over into work and I find out she had slept with someone else we worked with. The guy she slept with was fired for an undisclosed offence leaving my then ex girlfriend and me still at the company. She had moved up to a supervisor role at this point so it was harder to get rid of her but she gave us the ammunition we needed by completely going off the rails and quite literally waiting until nobody else could hear her and she would then insult my son by saying things like and I quote " if I ever had him at Christmas I'd lock him in a cupboard", "if I was looking after him I'd leave him in a road" and my favourite "you should get a DNA test because he's definitely not yours". Now I don't hit women but that's a about the closest I've been.
Anyway moving on a bit I was working one day and went to check on her department as I do with everyone. I stood very deliberately away from her but in full view of the security camera with my arms folded. She came over to me and started pointing her finger in my face, swearing and shouting etc. What she hadn't realised is a queue of customers had assembled behind her and seen the majority of this happening. It all ended with her shouting "* off, just * off". As you can imagine I'm delighted by this as I now have witnesses and more than enough to have her fired so I did.
Wind on a couple of months and she actually tried to sue the company for unfair dismissal claiming I'd physically provoked her into being verbally abusive. She said I'd pushed her in her injured shoulder despite being in full view of the camera at all times with my arms folded. The footage was shown in court and still not a flicker of embarrassment from her. Long story short the tribunal took 7 minutes (we timed it) to find in our favour and they am essentially called her a complete liar when they summed up the case.

[dimtimjim]

Yeah, one of my mates went through divorce recently. It went to court to settle things, as she wasn't happy with what was being offered (he had taken on paying the mortgage for the joint house, and taken on over £30,000 of debt) and wanted more (she was pushing for not only child maintenance but also living allowance (read: 'spendo') for her too AND wanted him to be lumbered with an additional £7,000 of debt which was entirely hers, but from there time together).

it was in court for less than 15 minutes. The judge said "so he's taken on £30,000 of debt and you want more money?" and when she mentioned he should also be handed the extra £7,000 the judge just asked her "why? that's your problem" and told her she was lucky to not get charged with wasting the courts time.

a woman scorned and all that... luckily the 'no win, no fee' system abolishment is helping put a stop money grabbing solicitors encouraging people to try for more than they should be.

the irony of the whole situation being she only left him due to money issues (her wanting to spend money they didn't have, hence the £30,000 debt) and since she left he's had two pay rises and been given a company car - approx £15,000 p/a better off now! short-sighted cow.

Sorry, rant over.

[The Deadly]

A job that I was really looking forward to doing has just fallen through. I'm on the verge of giving up.

[Nicola_Red]

she only left him due to money issues (her wanting to spend money they didn't have, hence the £30,000 debt)

If she left him for that reason, she didn't want to be married to him in the first place. If you really love someone, you'll want to stay with them regardless of their financial situation. For richer, for poorer.

[chrysostom]

People don't just get married for love though. Also, people change throughout the course of a relationship, let alone a marriage. The spending issues will likely have caused friction between them, as well as made her feel that he was a barrier between her and happiness (if spending made her happy).

Don't be so quick to judge!

[The Deadly]

Chrys you forget that Nic is in the "nothing will ever go wrong stage" of her relationship. She can only see the positive in everything. Give it a few years and she'll change her tune.

[Nicola_Red]

You're right that I am very positive about my impending marriage - it would be odd to not be, don't you think? I'm 38, I wouldn't be getting married if I didn't believe wholeheartedly in our love. But it's also true to say that I was assuming the person Tim spoke of married ostensibly for love, and that was an unfair assumption. People do marry for other reasons and I should acknowledge that.

[dimtimjim]

If you really love someone, you'll want to stay with them regardless of their financial situation.

I can neither confirm, nor deny her motivation.

Also, people change throughout the course of a relationship, let alone a marriage. The spending issues will likely have caused friction between them

Agreed.

S'all about different viewpoints from Men and Women.

You know the old expression; Men are from Mars, Women are completely mental...

[Uglybob]

Martin Lewis is a hero.

ahh, post dredging, i miss it. married to lara lewington, the easy on the eye former channel 5 weather girl

[dimtimjim]

^^^ Wtf, UB.

[chrysostom]

EVERYONE IS ILL.

Including me. Rubbish.

Also, the Mail's attach on Ed Milliband's father is shocking. Even for them - what's worse is the refusal of apology and reiteration of how much they hate him!

[The Deadly]

The people I'm supposed to be shadowing at my new job won't reply to text messages or phone calls from me or head office. I've wasted 3 hours trying to find them.

[bmstinton93]

Everything is getting worse by the day. Still hugely suffering from the break up and am still making far too many mistakes at work. Argh This year was supposed to be so good!

[Bonanzoid]

You know what might help get over the break up? Not speaking/thinking about it all the time.

I think I've said this before.

[chrysostom]

Come on Ben, you need you appear strong externally. It will creep into your internal psyche. When you post that the break up is tearing you apart on a public forum, you are admitting to yourself that this hurt is part of who you are - and a part which you're happy to define yourself as.

[The Deadly]

Ben you weren't in love with this girl as you don't know what love is at your age but I'd take a bet she was probably the first girl you had any real feelings for. The first break up is always the worst one to go through as you feel like nobody could match up to her but they really can. From what you have mentioned she sounds like a right * and you just need to focus on the things that make you happy. Go to work and do your best every day. By letting her affect your work life you're giving in to her and allowing her to influence your life even though you have no connection any more. Think about the kind of advice you'd give to a close friend if they were in the same position as you. What advice would you give them?

[bmstinton93]

I would give precisely all that advice and I know exactly how much I'm not being myself but its just massively hard to stay in control of your own actions in these situations.