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Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 3:20 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 3,806
Posted By Domino

Re: Benefit fraud team in Spain is recovering a record £5m of taxpayers’ money

I read the other day that she is supposed to have a life of 50 years - very few warships last much longer than 25.
Forum: The Barbie
Jul 9th 2014, 3:17 pm
Replies: 376
Views: 25,731
Posted By Domino

Re: Rolf Harris

just goes to prove that having a clear desk is a sign of efficiency. Get a file and then pass it on to some other sucker who has a desk full of them but is viewed as inefficient.

And if you...
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 3:12 pm
Replies: 2,666
Views: 132,477
Posted By Domino

Re: Gibraltar

You don't believe in dragons :eek: (hope you never get to Indonesia)
Because no one has shown you an alien doesn't mean there aren't any

just because no one has shown you one they can't exist...
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 2:26 pm
Replies: 384
Views: 55,391
Posted By Domino

Re: Costa Esuri MiniBus service

the system also isn't amenable to those who flit in and out and aren't on the town hall list as residents

but just a thought that a move towards an independent Brit reminding everyone including...
Jul 9th 2014, 2:22 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 9,925
Posted By Domino

Re: Reclusive expat seeks advice!

it is only a short while ago that we found (and shredded) the paperwork for buying a property on Virgin Gorda and somewhere else but name escapes me.
ISTR we felt that even then - 15+ years ago that...
Forum: The Barbie
Jul 9th 2014, 2:17 pm
Replies: 376
Views: 25,731
Posted By Domino

Re: Rolf Harris

surely there are others who could head the enquiry who do have a similar CV but are not related even twice removed
:confused:

or is this all part of the cover up.

If it was you, me, or him the...
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 2:06 pm
Replies: 384
Views: 55,391
Posted By Domino

Re: Costa Esuri MiniBus service

are you standing - even as a protest ??
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 2:03 pm
Replies: 2,666
Views: 132,477
Posted By Domino

Re: Gibraltar

and now you have posted of course the viewing figures will have shot through the roof.
Jul 9th 2014, 11:51 am
Replies: 30
Views: 9,925
Posted By Domino

Re: Reclusive expat seeks advice!

I suppose it happens to us all at one time or another that we get bored with what we are doing but the rut is so deep we have no idea how to get out of it.

It isn't everyone who manages to get a...
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 11:21 am
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 11:16 am
Replies: 30
Views: 3,806
Posted By Domino

Re: Benefit fraud team in Spain is recovering a record £5m of taxpayers’ money

presumably that would be because all the council/housing assoc properties have all been allocated to immigrants who come for the streets paved with gold.

ISTR that the courts can make a claim...
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 10:43 am
Replies: 26
Views: 25,837
Posted By Domino

Re: Banking in Spain (La Caixa)

OK, my fault, but being a trusting soul I believed what I was told by my local branch when Linea Direct told me that the annual insurance on my car had been returned to them unpaid. My branch told me...
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 10:30 am
Replies: 2,666
Views: 132,477
Posted By Domino

Re: Gibraltar

and yet only a couple of posts ago you were agreeing with me about the way diplomacy works.
You really must get your head round that because something isn't reported in a newspaper it doesn't mean...
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 10:23 am
Replies: 2,666
Views: 132,477
Posted By Domino

Re: Gibraltar

perhaps they are sitting back laughing and waiting for you to expose it all for them
:rofl:
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 10:19 am
Replies: 112
Views: 6,955
Posted By Domino

Re: The caliphate of Andalus.

I'm supposed to be retired, having an easy life, but I still keep trying to learn Spanish which is hard enough.
I also take an interest in languages and their roots and found it interesting you...
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2014, 10:08 am
Replies: 112
Views: 6,955
Posted By Domino

Re: The caliphate of Andalus.

you are being very magnanimous on that, I see it as a show-stopper, a way to start derailing the thread as they are bored with it

unless of course the poor misguided soul thought they were on the...
Forum: Spain
Jul 6th 2014, 7:37 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 25,837
Posted By Domino

Re: Banking in Spain (La Caixa)

the BH went to another bank (not La Caixa) and sat down with the branch manager, arranged as part of the transaction for a large payment to come into the account from the UK. Fully agreed that this...
Forum: Spain
Jul 6th 2014, 3:18 pm
Replies: 112
Views: 6,955
Posted By Domino

Re: The caliphate of Andalus.

sounds more like another well known Abrahamic religion
:zzz:
Forum: Spain
Jul 5th 2014, 8:07 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 25,837
Posted By Domino

Re: Banking in Spain (La Caixa)

Meg
my branch had huge posters advertising the Pensioner account. When I went in to open my account I was a couple of months short, they opened an account that cost €2.45 a month. When I had to...
Forum: Spain
Jul 5th 2014, 7:58 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 3,806
Posted By Domino

Re: Benefit fraud team in Spain is recovering a record £5m of taxpayers’ money

I am sure someone will come along and tell us how much it "cost", but I always feel the exact opposite about it.
the people investigating will be employees so their salaries will be paid whether...
Forum: Spain
Jul 5th 2014, 3:17 pm
Replies: 112
Views: 6,955
Posted By Domino

Re: The caliphate of Andalus.

I had to go to Glasgow in 1966, right in the middle of the seaman's strike.
The first place I have ever seen 4 policemen walking the streets together.
Still not sure if it was to provide adequate...
Forum: Spain
Jul 5th 2014, 3:08 pm
Replies: 112
Views: 6,955
Posted By Domino

Re: The caliphate of Andalus.

yeah, it is some years since I was in the US, but the first time it was Key West in Florida, where I and a couple of other guys were looking for a drink in a sunny alternative to Portsmouth, Plymouth...
Forum: Spain
Jul 4th 2014, 11:12 pm
Replies: 2,666
Views: 132,477
Posted By Domino

Re: Gibraltar

but you cannot draw any new posters into the discussion so whatdoes it prove other than people drop by, think "Oh my golly gosh, those two are back again" and go away laughing.
Forum: Spain
Jul 4th 2014, 10:04 pm
Replies: 2,666
Views: 132,477
Posted By Domino

Re: Gibraltar

you are getting more and more childish as the discussion goes on, especially with the bad habit of posting photo's which don't prove anything - picked up from TIO.
Forum: Spain
Jul 4th 2014, 9:53 pm
Replies: 112
Views: 6,955
Posted By Domino

Re: The caliphate of Andalus.

"HBG: Whenever I walk down the local streets now, you can smell the hostility of the new occupants, you can see the hatred in their eyes merely because you are a white person. There are very few...
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