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I'm only messing. I would just have been terrified of you really. I once got sweaty bettied on the metro by a "tough boy". He must have chewed a whole five rider up - there was loads of it - and flung it at me as he was jumping off at Bede.

 

Splashed all over me Barbour. :lol: I wish I was joking.

 

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I feared for my life every single day I walked to/from school to be honest.

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I'm only messing. I would just have been terrified of you really. I once got sweaty bettied on the metro by a "tough boy". He must have chewed a whole five rider up - there was loads of it - and flung it at me as he was jumping off at Bede.

 

Splashed all over me Barbour. :lol: I wish I was joking.

Raincoat I hope and not the deerstalker hat. :lol:

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Swish. That's true of 99% of people in South Shields though...people from Ashgrove Avenue could feel superior when they walked through Horsely Hill.

My dad was born on Ashgrove Avenue :lol:

 

Stanhope Road representin' for me though ;)

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Swish. That's true of 99% of people in South Shields though...people from Ashgrove Avenue could feel superior when they walked through Horsely Hill.

Shields has just been voted as one of the ten most deprived coastal towns in the UK :lol:

 

I've worked South Tyneside for 2 years now and can safely say there's not many posh folk from around these parts ;)

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I'm not sure what class I am really? My mam stacked shelves in Presto's and my dad was a student nurse on peanuts when I was born. They earn about £70k pa each now, which in the NHS is good going.

 

Me and the wife are both nurses and live in a 2 up/2 down. We live payday to payday so I suppose we fall into working class, although we aren't hard up by any means.

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Do you have any of these first-world problems?

 

 

The study was carried out among 2,000 adults aged between the ages of 18 and 65. All were asked to name their own 'first world problems', and mark a subsequent list of the top 75.

Top 50:

•It's boiling hot outside but freezing in the air-conditioned office

•My personal trainer took the week off so I have to workout alone

•My wallet won't close because there's too much money in it

•I bought a dishwasher and now spend longer packing and unpacking it than I did washing up

•My Brie is too hard

•No semi-skimmed milk in the supermarket, just full fat

•Earphones getting tangled up in your bag

•Chipped nail varnish

•Warm Pimms

•The cleaner taking a day off

•Trying to keep electricals out of the sun while sunbathing

•Watch / jewellery causing unsightly tan lines

•Spotting someone wearing the same outfit as you

•Squeaky new shoes which hurt while breaking them in

•Snagging designer clothing

•Over / under brewed tea

•Remote control batteries running out

•A disappointing air freshener

•The wind blowing your summer dress or skirt up

•Stepping on something wet while wearing socks

•Hair sticking to lipstick or lip balm in the slightest breeze

•Updating your mobile phone and losing all your contacts

•Sitting on your designer sunglasses

•Getting a fishbone stuck in your throat

•Two Weetabix not fitting in a round bowl properly, resulting in one becoming soggy and the other dry

•Having to watch movies on a phone because the tablet battery died

•Wanting another car, but not having room on the driveway

•Wanting to take your laptop outside but the wire doesn't reach far enough

•The living room isn't big enough for a coffee table and recliner sofas

•Getting suntan lotion in your eyes while reading outdoors in the sunshine

•Getting popcorn in your teeth

•Forgetting your phone charger

•Cold leather car seats in the winter

•Car won't play MP3s

•The football match being on Sky and not terrestrial TV

•The hairdresser moving house

•Having to go to the Post Office to collect a parcel

•Being out when a parcel gets delivered

•Supermarket checkout staff scanning faster than you can pack

•Sky+ recordings clashing

•Having a restaurant table indoors on a sunny day

•Nail polish clashing with lipstick

•Batteries going in the Sky remote

•The cash machine giving you a £50 note

•The shop not stocking a coke bottle with your name on

•Heel getting stuck in the decking of a boat/yacht

•Living somewhere too posh for a cheap corner shop

•Having the last edition of the iPhone

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Well I'm not posh enough but I have a job in the City.

 

I think it works differently for skilled/experienced/techy jobs but even in a pretty laid back/diverse company like the one I work for, I can see the traits suggested in the graduate hiring programme.

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