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From: Kevin Stone on 17 May 2010 11:35
> He's about to hit 17 and wants a 125.
>
> Which insurance comp will be cheapest?

For those who are bickering below, he's funding this himself! It was just
easier for me to ask.

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Kev


From: Ace on 17 May 2010 11:48
On Mon, 17 May 2010 16:18:50 +0100, steve auvache
<dont_spam(a)thecow.me.uk> wrote:

>In article <g9n2v51cpddlgs3nica3n70ancsut88pso(a)4ax.com>, Ace
><b.rogers(a)ifrance.com> writes
>>On Mon, 17 May 2010 16:05:58 +0100, steve auvache
>><dont_spam(a)thecow.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>A fiver for TPFT on a 125 LD when I was 16. Wages as an apprentice was
>>>5 guineas.
>>
>>Per year?
>
>No.

*whoossh*

>I didn't get a proper salary until I was 18. Up to then it was a
>weekly wage.

I was on an annual salary at 16, paid monthly into my bank, then
between 19 and 22 was weekly-paid, then back onto monthly.

>Which in itself marked me out as something separate from
>the Working Classes who were on an hourly rate.

Quite so. Your middle-class, bourgeois, roots are all too obvious.

From: ginge on 17 May 2010 11:55
On Mon, 17 May 2010 16:16:43 +0100, R C Nesbit <spam(a)ukrm.net> wrote:

>Beav spoke:
>> > Anyway, why do you care? It's his bike, his insurance, his problem,
>> > right?
>>
>> Don't you have any kids?
>
>As expected, the Dinkies come screaming out of the woodwork to exclaim
>that you don't have to have kids of your own to know how to behave as a
>parent!

You're forgetting, everyone was once a kid, and knows how their
parents behaved.
From: ginge on 17 May 2010 11:57
On Mon, 17 May 2010 16:18:50 +0100, steve auvache
<dont_spam(a)thecow.me.uk> wrote:

>No. I didn't get a proper salary until I was 18. Up to then it was a
>weekly wage. Which in itself marked me out as something separate from
>the Working Classes who were on an hourly rate.

Where did it all go wrong, mister?
From: R C Nesbit on 17 May 2010 12:02
Ginge spoke:
> >As expected, the Dinkies come screaming out of the woodwork to exclaim
> >that you don't have to have kids of your own to know how to behave as a
> >parent!
>
> You're forgetting, everyone was once a kid, and knows how their
> parents behaved.

You're forgetting the gender gap, not to mention shifts in society,
incomes, expectations overt he years.

How *your* parents behaved is not necessarily how *you* would behave today
with your own kids.


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Looks like Rab C Nesbit.

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