Attitudes to gap years!!!!!!

[slowmotion]

He really is an appalling w***** who doesn't have the wit to read a tide table.

Yep! That prissy clenched-buttock style of writing really grinds my gears.

 

[slowmotion]

My colleague Eugene used to buy a copy of the Times every day. I would sneak it off his desk to write "Twat" across Parris' forehead everyday. Simple pleasures.

You are Paul Whitehouse and ICMFP.
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[Rhythm Thief]

You mean you don't rely on a satnav?

Nope. I use a sextant.

 

[asterix]

Nope. I use a sextant.

Then you must have one of these?

As lot more stylish than a satnav I agree, but a bit tricky doing the noon-day sighting without forward planning. And having to rely on dead reckoning on cloudy days must be a drag.

 

[screenman]

Started school at 4 and planning for a gap year when I reach 65.

Lucky chap, I am hoping to get one in at about 75, pensions not gone as planned.

 

[steveindenmark]

I took 2 gap years when I was a police officer. I was taken off my motorbike by a 17 year old boy racer and it took me just over 2 years to recover enough to go back to work.

I was bored to death.

Steve

 

[screenman]

Is it right to have a gap year when you spend all you earn and a bit more, then complain you cannot get a deposit together for a house or flat.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Is it right to have a gap year when you spend all you earn and a bit more, then complain you cannot get a deposit together for a house or flat.

We took our 'career gap' in our forties (well just before I turned forty) and have never been able to afford a deposit for a house despite both of us working from the word go after uni, so I can't see it would make much difference.

My sister only managed a deposit for 'her' house because our parents gave us all £10,000 pre-inheritance each and my sister used that and the fact she was buying our mother's old house (which she & my youngest brother were living in) to be able to afford to buy it - our mother did the 'moving out' thing instead. Any other house and she would not have been able to get enough of a deposit or afford it.

 

[screenman]

Weird thing this education, both of you went to uni and could not afford a deposit, I got expelled at 15 no further education married at 18 survived on a single income and put a big deposit on a house at 24.

Having said all that I am glad 2 of my boys have degrees and more and the third a good trade.

 

[Julia9054]

Bought my first house in 1995. Deposit was £3000 (5%)
Same house today would need £10000 for a 5% deposit. More first time buyers are asked for 20% deposit these days I believe. Can't see my lad being able to save £40000 in the next 8years to be able to buy at the same age I did. Young people don't have it at all easy.