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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 17:38
Quote: "When I was looking at Florida a while back it was unbelievable how cheap the houses were. "


I watch a lot of home buying programs, and it looks like Florida is cheap, you can get an island with a reasonable sized house for £1.5m okay, I haven't got that, but when an apartment in London goes for £800k - you know that's cheap. I haven't seen anything under £200k here that isn't dingy, which is odd, 10 years ago this house cost us £50k and now it's worth £200k, which is disgusting IMO.

I'm so looking forward to leaving home, high rent or a huge mortgage, sounds like my cup of tea So what are the house prices like in Cyprus then Dazzag?

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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 17:45
Quote: "which is odd, 10 years ago this house cost us £50k and now it's worth £200k, which is disgusting IMO."


It's not disgusting if you want to sell it and downsize or move somewhere cheaper ^-^ 150k pounds sounds like a nice profit to me.

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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 17:49
Quote: "or a huge mortgage"
Then you had better hurry up. When I bought 7 years ago I was on a decent enough wage and the 3.5x your salary deal worked out fine. I couldn't afford the same house now. Not even close. Still, apparently they are talking about 5x (they sort of did it on the side when I was buying) and above, plus mortages that last more than 25 years, like in Japan, where you can get like a 75 year mortgage to leave to your decendants. Nice.

Quote: "So what are the house prices like in Cyprus"
Well it depends. They have gone up a lot in the last few years, but I bought a decent sized flat (3 double bedrooms, good sized kitchen etc) for £100kGBP on the nose. Thats in the middle of town and about a mile and a bit from the sea (I have a sea view, yay!). Where I used to live (Ascot area) I looked and found smaller flats were about £300k. Villas on the other hand are a bit more pricey. My sister bought a 3 bedroom offplan (not built yet) development for about £150kGBP, but now, depending on location, you are probably talking about £200kGBP+ for a decent sized villa with big pool and good location (my sister rents one with a spectacular view of the sea).

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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 17:51
Quote: "150k pounds sounds like a nice profit to me"
I may have done pretty well with programming for a living, but really the house price increase is the main reason I can be here. If I hadn't have saved up to buy everything for my first house (so no debt, like I was taught....) and got everything on 0% loans instead then I would have moved about a year or two earlier. Doesn't sound like much but I reckon I would have between £30k and £40k more money now if I had. It really was crazy at the time. Buy or die basically

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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 17:54
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It's not disgusting if you want to sell it and downsize or move somewhere cheaper ^-^ 150k pounds sounds like a nice profit to me."


Indeed, but it's a disgusting house price raise in general, if it were mine to sell, I wouldn't be able to get much value for money, as similar houses are at the same price, downsizing means going for a crappy house in the middle of town.

Quote: "Then you had better hurry up."


Hehe, can't, still gotta go through university first (the prices there have doubled in the last 5 years, just to note )

Cyprus sounds interesting, but to be realistic (Same with my alternatives) is I'll need a place good to work too, I wanna be a writer, so I'd need to live near magazine, newspaper or printing companies, unless they let me work entirely from home. Or I become a rich novellist.

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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 17:58
Quote: "What's winter in California--- a light drizzle? I hear the schools close down in Cali when it rains.

Went to Disneyland one year in May and found everyone wearing sweaters and jackets. To me it was quite warm and I was quite amused by that."


Nah, but yeah, the only rain we get is usually in the Winter, and it gets pretty rainy around that time. Schools down here never close when it gets rainy.. But I like winter only because of the very coldness and rain. I love rain.
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 17:59
Quote: "I wanna be a writer"
I would bet you right now that a high percentage of people on this forum do too. Me included. Gotta find more time...

Quote: "still gotta go through university first"
Then hope for a crash. There is bound to be one soon. Personally thats what I'm hoping for here so I can buy another place (for an investment and extra income). Either that or be a genius and come up with something like that Million dollar website guy. What an idea.... Somebody give him a green from envy slap from us if they ever meet him...

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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 18:00
Quote: "I love rain"
Then come to the UK. Give it a few years. It changes you....

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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 18:01
Quote: "Then come to the UK. Give it a few years. It changes you...."


Why is that?
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 18:24
Quote: "It changes you...."

Quote: "Why is that? "


It makes you wet.

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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 18:51
Quote: "I love rain"


Obey those intelligent people above you and move over here to sunny old england. *hits head on desk*


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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 19:07
Quote: "Why is that?"


Because you'll get some much rain you wish it was summer, then realise that it is summer, it's hot and it's still raining...Minds you last year we got a lot of draught and not so much rain, but it seems the rains has come back (except for today)

Quote: "I would bet you right now that a high percentage of people on this forum do too. Me included. Gotta find more time..."


It's something I've always done, since I was a kid and always recieve praise for- People seem to like my writing style as well, Derby university complemented me on my personal statement which only took me 3 drafts to write (whilst others rewrote and rewrote). Although I need to brush up on my grammar a little bit, but grammar was something poorly taught in my secondary school, but I've been studying grammar in my spare, so I'm getting the hang of it.

So I'm pretty comfortable with this career choice, I know my weaknesses, which will be cured (hopefully) with 3 years at university studying Creative Writing with English - and doing all in my power to get rid of those weaknesses.

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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 19:18
Rain is good.
It's raining right now...woot no yard work for me
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 19:23
Haha, working out in the rain isn't too bad - there's nothing wrong with getting wet. I suppose Rugby in the rain is the best thing. Even if lots of rain is annoying.

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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 19:50
Quote: "What's winter in California--- a light drizzle? I hear the schools close down in Cali when it rains."


The winters up north here in the high desert are quite unforgiving. I know we are in California and I know we are in a 'desert', however we can have some pretty nasty blizzards up here. It is really unpredictable at times too, it depends a lot on the fronts that move in. In February we had 3 feet of snow, the next week we had highs in the 80(F)s. Most of California is warmer in the winter than we are here. A friend of mine in Riverside had never seen snow in his life till he moved here

Dazzag - I think the houses in Florida are really cheap, even in the more expensive areas than anywhere in California. I think that people there are tired of the repeated 'Pound-me-in-the-Recturm' hurricanes, and finally got the bright idea to move on.

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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 23:07
Your joking me right? Canadas blistering these days, you would melt outside.

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 11:56 Edited at: 2nd Jun 2007 11:59
Taken last December. A friend took this while playing with my phone.

Me on the left.



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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 14:17 Edited at: 2nd Jun 2007 14:18


Me playing drums with a street performer when I was in Washington D.C. I Photoshopped everything but me out though.

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 15:17
Quote: "Rain is good"
Not "our" type of rain. Not UK rain. Oh no...

Quote: "'Pound-me-in-the-Recturm' hurricanes"
Yeah, whats with the make everything out of wood attitude anyway? May be cheap, but erm?..... I mean we don't really get hurricanes in the UK (well, maybe a smallish one about once every 2 decades or so) but even then everything is made out of brick.

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 16:16
level 6 water restrictions here soon, worse drought in ten years.

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we've started to get tornados in the UK, there was a mini tornado when I used to live in hampshire, I believe it was in the Gosport area, then a couple more in Birmingham, scarey
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 17:46 Edited at: 2nd Jun 2007 17:46
Yeah, but it's not going to blow your house down mate.

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tell that to the people in birmingham who lost their house due to a tornado ;(
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 19:09
Same day as the Birmingham one there was one up towards where I live, in Peterborough, but it was a mere force 1 tornado. We've had the odd mini tornado. But unless they're really devastating, then it isn't something to worry about too much as they are rare occurences in the UK.

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it's raining today, too......
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Me...


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I think most of the forums members are under 15 years old, you all have baby faces
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 19:36 Edited at: 3rd Jun 2007 19:37
Talking of tornadoes, I must live somewhere near Seppuku, as in Moulton (Near Spalding, a chip-shop town in Lincolnshire) there was high winds that almost destroyed the church...

Hmm... Nothing really when you compare it to what they get in the USA, but there was a story about a man getting crushed by his garden shed.

Anyway, enough about storms, heres me:
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Another thing about this is it's funny to see people who seem to "hide" behind their assumed internet characters, like indi and seppuku etc.

It's funny to see who they really are!

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 21:57
Quote: "tell that to the people in birmingham who lost their house due to a tornado"
First I've heard. Most I've heard about are a couple of weak buildings were took down. ie. not your standard house. And even *if* one whole brick house went down (and I doubt it did unless a lorry was blown into it or something) it's hardly the image you normally get of every single house in the area blown down with only the toilets left.

I heard that apparently we got more twisters and the like in the UK than in the US for the size of the place. Plus they are normally nowhere near as strong. Google Earth has got a nice picture of one on Limassol beach if I remember rightly (where I live now). Should be fun to look out for (it gets pretty windy here).

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Here's a picture of Raven I was forced to post



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Quote: "Nah, but yeah, the only rain we get is usually in the Winter, and it gets pretty rainy around that time. Schools down here never close when it gets rainy.. But I like winter only because of the very coldness and rain. I love rain."

We didn't have any rain in Southern California this year...


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Me
Edit: Ok it's smaller now
Edit: Ok it's not a BMP now! Its a GIF so the colors are wacky but o well...


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Please people, if you're 13 we don't want to see you. No offense if I've mistaken, of course.

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I haven't read much on this thread, just looked at the pics!
It's pretty unfair to just look around, so here's me:

Geeky ain't I?

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No, you should look at some of the real geeks, the ones that do look like geeks
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I'm older than that, but the point is taken


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I've been a secret viewer of these forums for years, never really felt i had much to give to the community, anyway here is my pic', at least i contributed something hey.


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heres kind of old one of me. it makes me look so much yungr.


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Well all right then I've got an up to date picture:

'scuse the spots, I've always been prone to the stuff - no matter how much I wash my face.


And of course the reason why I wear an Opeth bandanna...because my hair's a bloody mess.


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So THATs what you look like ...

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Indeed, put you off of your food don't I?

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It doesn't put me off my food mate! I can eat through anything! One day you'll get sick of that hair and shave it to the bone, but until that day, wear it with pride!!!

Here's a crappy one of me in the dark next to tha beast after a good old rag around the countryside. Yes! Posing like a muppet!




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Ive always wanted dreadlocks , but when i found out that they cost heaps to do and maintain, and they just go away after a while, and your hair stinks, i wasnt as keen on getting some =)

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Here's a pic of me in North Korea last week. The pounding rain really added nicely in my opinion



And another of me and one of our local guides, Miss Chae.



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Hai!

I'm afraid I don't have any newer photos than this one available:

We had one or two spectators that night.

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the falls in the first pic looks beautiful..

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Great pics Jeku, the waterfall looks like a great view.

Quote: "One day you'll get sick of that hair and shave it to the bone, but until that day, wear it with pride!!!"


Haha, well probably not, I'm going to be bald one day so I say make the most of hair whilst I can. And trust you to post a pic of yourself and your sexy lady, I mean car.

Quote: "Ive always wanted dreadlocks , but when i found out that they cost heaps to do and maintain, and they just go away after a while, and your hair stinks, i wasnt as keen on getting some =)"


Not entirely true now, I've had mine for a year, I still have the £20 dreading kit I bought originally. (From Dreadhead HQ) I've only had to do 'maintenance' twice now, though they're a bloody mess now and will need one before I head to uni. As for smelling, you can get dreadlock shampoo that tightens your dreads (Rather than loosening them as most do) - but you have to dry your hair immediately after using it - so you'd probably be sitting there for half an hour with the hair dryer as they soak up water like a sponge. But dread shampoo is only recommended when you're dreads are already tight, otherwise (from experience) they may loosen up again. Though the downside is, they take hours to do and maintain - and isn't comfortable to have done as any other hair style - but there's nothing wrong with that because I hear getting a tattoo is far less comfortable (especially as I hope to have a full on back one when I can afford that much)

Lukas, you sort of look like my friend, except a less red face, thinner, longer hair and a normal guitar rather than a bass.

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twenty pounds eh?.....

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My thread lives... lol. This is getting old now, not the picture sharing, but the thread itself.



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