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Need to take some crayons as well: Amazon.com: Color My Boobs!: A Titillating Coloring Book for Adults (9780937609606): D.D. Stacks, Billy Armstrong, Chad Powers III: Books“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by Ketchup View Post2 recent reads i can recommend are:
Nothing To Envy
and How to get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
I will be very surprised if the latter is not on the Man Booker longlist announced next week.
Annoys me when kindle version is dearer than paperback, so have gone for the former.Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostBoth look good.
Annoys me when kindle version is dearer than paperback, so have gone for the former.Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostTa. Have got the 2nd one - seems very topical for my holiday reading
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Originally posted by Ketchup View PostThis always used to be because eBooks incur VAT whereas physical books don't. But this may have changed since I stopped working in publishing
Paperback: £6.52
Kindle: £8.99
Even with my maffs, I reckon that's more than 20%.Comment
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostI am sure they have already bottomed out the whole "marrying well" route to filthy lucre without your advice though sas.
Hardly surprising though, given what you had to offer in the brains department.
Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostIt seems that "marrying intelligent" was beyond you
You ought to be safe anyway, no self-respecting criminal will be venturing out in the deluges you will be subjected to in the steaming mangrove swamp you have selected for your hols.“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostAt least I got to choose for myself. And of course intelligent people never get their pockets picked, do they?
You ought to be safe anyway, no self-respecting criminal will be venturing out in the deluges you will be subjected to in the steaming mangrove swamp you have selected for your hols.
But it couldn't be anything else, given the accuracy of my previous post, eh?
The thing is you're still insisting, like the country bumpkin you are, you are that losing a passport and expecting it to be replaced the same day is a reasonable expectation.
So no, intelligent people take precautions about getting their pockets picked.
The thing is pickpockets know to target the gormless looking.Last edited by sasguru; 17 July 2013, 08:41.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostThe thing is you're still insisting, like the country bumpkin you are, you are that losing a passport and expecting it to be replaced the same day is a reasonable expectation.
We are all in the gutter sg, but some of us are looking at the stars!
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