Originally Posted by Aimee:
Don't people do this kind of thing when they are trying to make it look like they live here
But surely they could find some nicer place than where I live 
Ohhh and a wrong thread snaffle 
Originally Posted by Jenstar:
Sounds iffy to me Cinds, either that or they were trying to look better off to family back home than they were.
Casing the joint 
Originally Posted by SazBomb:
Originally Posted by Jenstar:
Sounds iffy to me Cinds, either that or they were trying to look better off to family back home than they were.
Casing the joint
OH MY GOD! They're after my shoes.
As suggested they may be trying to impress someone. Other scenario is more worrying, what if they're interested in your car and took photo to show car and house so a friend of theirs will know which house they'll find the car at to steal. Really hope it's nothing like that but best to be aware the next few days.
YR, I do think that's all it was rather than anything dodgy.
i'm a bit late to this - ( problems with my lappy)
Cinds if I were you I'd call the police just to discuss it with them - they may have heard of it happening before and can shed some light. What might have really freaked the pair of them out would be if you'd taken their photo. Hindsight is a wonderful thing - then again forewarned is forearmed - (a couple of clever dick sayings thrown in for good measure ). I'm not just a pretty face.
I would also have a word with the Guards. In theory there should be an officer or a PSO with a specific local interest.
The main police station for Newcastle is right next to the estate we live on, so they're always wandering around.
The local ITV news have some stock footage of two police officers walking that they use every now and then and they are always walking off our street. 
Originally Posted by Cinds:
Originally Posted by SazBomb:
Originally Posted by Jenstar:
Sounds iffy to me Cinds, either that or they were trying to look better off to family back home than they were.
Casing the joint
OH MY GOD! They're after my shoes.
Originally Posted by Cinds:
Originally Posted by SazBomb:
Originally Posted by Jenstar:
Sounds iffy to me Cinds, either that or they were trying to look better off to family back home than they were.
Casing the joint
OH MY GOD! They're after my shoes.
Cinds you MUST send me all your shoes for safe keeping. Just for a year or so because you never know how far in advance they plan these shoe knappings. I'll look after them
OK
Fed up with this bliddy summer cold,I cough all night!! 
I do hope I am up and out tomorrow.
*Cinds I will take great care of your shoes*
I think the shoes should come to me what size are you? 
Originally Posted by Aimee:
I think the shoes should come to me what size are you?
Aimee ..you break things!!
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by Aimee:
I think the shoes should come to me what size are you?
Aimee ..you break things!!
oh I forgot about that 
Michigan couple raise female deer like a child of their own
awww- odd but cute
watching From the Basement on Sky Arts .. Seasick Steve is bloody brilliant
Slinks, I have heard Seasick Steve for a while on radio 2. Love him.
As for all the ladies after my shoes, sorry I mean offering to look after them for me. They are all well and safe in their boxes, and have been moved to a safe house. Only the FEDS know where they are
When you have to ask yourself 'am I too old to be wearing that/those' then that means YES you are, doesn't it? I mean, the fact you had to ask yourself that in the first place means you know deep down you are too old
I still want hi-tops though.
Originally Posted by Ells:
When you have to ask yourself 'am I too old to be wearing that/those' then that means YES you are, doesn't it? I mean, the fact you had to ask yourself that in the first place means you know deep down you are too old
I still want hi-tops though.
I think you're probably right Ells.
When did you have this pic done Cinds?
Just saw this story on DS - what do you make of it? We do live in a very odd world - the 'blame' culture - make em pay etc. don't we? A lot of people seem to be unable to take responsibility for their own problems/shortcomings don't they? Or am I simply unsympathetic /cynical?
IMO - a very unhappy/unstable person - very sad but ...........is this reasonable?
errrr WTF Suzy? Does she also want the DJs to bring up her kids and deal with everything else she has left behind?! 
Soozy I saw that a while ago and was disgusted by it.
I wrote a lot more than that but deleted it.....let's just say my sympathy for her was minimised by reading that.
No Soozy you're not unsympathetic.
the more I read about that story - the more sympathy I have for the DJs
It would have been Jade Goodys 32nd birthday today.
Happy 32nd up in heaven Jade 
xx 
Just seen Jeff Brazier's tweet about buying chinese lanterns for her 2 boys ... bless him, how sweet 
Originally Posted by Ells:
I wrote a lot more than that but deleted it.....let's just say my sympathy for her was minimised by reading that.
same here
Originally Posted by SazBomb:
Originally Posted by Ells:
I wrote a lot more than that but deleted it.....let's just say my sympathy for her was minimised by reading that.
same here
Me too. Some things are better left unsaid.
I've just fired off an email to Cex and made myself look a right dick but they have really annoyed me. They didn't send a game I bought for my son....it only cost ÂĢ2.50 but it wasn't the money I was annoyed about it was the way they don't answer emails which made me send more emails 
which they 'forwarded to the relevant department' who never bothered to reply etc. So I sent them this:
This has still not been resolved. Firstly this isn't about a measly ÂĢ2.50 that cex has stolen from me (yes, it's stealing when you take money for goods which you don't send and you fail to reimburse once you know the item hasn't arrived) but more the fact that cex has just refused to refund the money or send the game which was paid for and keeps fobbing me off with emails saying it's been forwarded to the relevant team. The team isn't very good at it's job if it takes so long to read an email and respond. I find it unacceptable that it is taking so long to resolve this. I had wanted a replacement game at the start because my son had been waiting for it but now I no longer want the game, the refund or to purchase anything else in future from Cex.
I have in the past purchased hundreds of pounds worth of video games and accessories from Cex as I have 3 boys at home who are big game players but recently have switched my business to 365game who have brilliant customer service and know how to treat customers. Not that they have ever sent me a parcel with games missing unlike yourselves you have done it NUMEROUS times and have also sent double disc items with one of the discs missing.....but I have never complained before because of the cheap prices but as this wasn't the first (or second, third, fourth or fifth) time I had paid for items which I never received I thought I should email and ask for the replacement or refund but now I realise that Cex makes their money by ripping customers off.
As I said before, I no longer want the refund or replacement, Cex obviously needs the money more than I do. I just wanted to let you know how awful the service from Cex is and will obviously let others know too. After all, I wouldn't want you to have to deal with these very difficult emails (they must be difficult......the relevant team can't seem to be able to read them and resolve the problem) from people who have the same problems with your company.
They will probably have a right good laugh thinking I am going mental over ÂĢ2.50 but I feel better now that I've sent it and honestly won't buy from them again. I've been in their shop at least twice a month since they opened buying everything from sims for the laptop (every bloody disc for sims 1 and 2) to black ops/fifa for early full price but won't bother with them and their shitty discs again.
And breathe.....
Originally Posted by Cinds:
And breathe.....
I'm calm now. I had forgotten all about it until the eldest asked me to order him some games online and wanted them cheap from cex.
I'm hoping for a rather funny response and nothing formal at all.
Ells i've only been in Cex once..... It stunk BO and hang over breath..... The computers (tills) had gone down and they were having to hand write receipts. The queue was round the whole shop and out the door and if my my son hadn't been adamant he was getting the game in his hand i would have walked out. Just as i was served their receipt book ran out (the queue was still massive
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So yeah once was enough for me, be sure to post any response you get.
I won't hold my breath for a reply Jen They are awful, the discs don't work sometimes and as I said to them, they send games that are supposed to have 2 discs with one missing so it's useless!
I am thinking there might be a 'here's your ÂĢ2.50, go buy a pack of Kalms' type response, if any
Oh. Dear. God.
Got one of those 'we missed you' cards from the postman today so went to the sorting office to collect what I thought was my order from Peacocks. The guy goes to the back room to get the parcel and he comes out with a white [added envelope. I bloody well knew what it was before he even handed it to me.
The game from Cex. The one I had just emailed about. More than 3 months late. I am mortified now that I sent that email. FML.