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From: SteveH on 17 May 2010 12:04 ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: > Kevin Stone wrote: > > Hi, > > > > He's about to hit 17 and wants a 125. > > > > Which insurance comp will be cheapest? > > There's only one way to find out. 'Fight!' -- SteveH
From: ginge on 17 May 2010 12:48 On Mon, 17 May 2010 17:02:37 +0100, R C Nesbit <spam(a)ukrm.net> wrote: >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. Gender gap? But I had a mum and a dad that's one of each gender - where's this gap you're on about? >How *your* parents behaved is not necessarily how *you* would behave today >with your own kids. Actually I don't reckon I'd change much at all.
From: R C Nesbit on 17 May 2010 13:38 Ginge spoke: > >You're forgetting the gender gap, not to mention shifts in society, > >incomes, expectations overt he years. > > Gender gap? But I had a mum and a dad that's one of each gender - > where's this gap you're on about? Look, it's *spelled* gender, but it's *pronounced* Generation, what are you, sydlexic or something? > >How *your* parents behaved is not necessarily how *you* would behave today > >with your own kids. > > Actually I don't reckon I'd change much at all. hmmm.... Swot I fort. -- Rob_P UKRM(at)indqualtec.co.uk uppercase(d) BBIWYMC#1 BOG#11? MRO#31 IBCDBBB#1(kotl) FJ1200, CCM130 Benelli Cabriolet (gone) Looks like Rab C Nesbit.
From: Andy Bonwick on 17 May 2010 13:59 On Mon, 17 May 2010 17:02:37 +0100, R C Nesbit <spam(a)ukrm.net> wrote: snip> >How *your* parents behaved is not necessarily how *you* would behave today >with your own kids. I tend to use my parents as role models when it comes to how I treat my kids because I never had a reason to fall out with them over how I was brought up.
From: Higgins on 17 May 2010 14:37
Switters wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:45:41 GMT, Beav wrote: > >> "ogden" <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote in message >> news:MPG.265b2c96eedc6a4b98a2ff(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>> Kevin Stone wrote: >>>>>> Mine is only �70 fully comp. >>>>> You're not a 17 year old on a 125, are you? >>>> Probably not... >>>> >>>> I did pay over a grand when I was about 21 though, so it's only fair. >>> Anyway, why do you care? It's his bike, his insurance, his problem, >>> right? >> Don't you have any kids? > > Don't tell me: he couldn't possibly understand otherwise? Au contraire, before I had kids I knew all the answers too. |