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03 Dec 14
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I look in to this programme most days, to see where the 'poor dears' who can't find what they want, so they rely on the BBC to help them spend their c.£800,000 wisely.
I think it's more of a 'Look how much spare cash I've got' programme myself.
Nonetheless, I get annoyed at some of these people over their habits.
Every single woman wants a larger kitchen than the one the BBC find for her and her beloved. Even ones who 'don't entertain much'. You've already asked for a dining room, what do you want a giant kitchen for?
Every man wants a study.
No you don't, you want a house with one more bedroom than you really need, and you turn that into your study.
Nobody, and that includes all those those who want flower beds, to those that want to grow their own vegetables, ever asks for a south facing garden.
I wouldn't buy a house unless the garden faced south.
Who the fack would want a north facing garden?
An eskimo?
Why do you never see a young couple buying for the first time with a budget of £150k on there? A normal pair that don't want 3 acres for the dog to run round, a wood, a lake, a kitchen the same size as Lichtenstein, and at least 5 bedrooms?
Now for my main moan, and Mrs CMAT agrees with me.
Bad manners.
Last week, Nicky Chapman had a couple up here house hunting in Norfolk, with a budget of £600,000.
The first property they looked at was £535k.
It was pouring with rain, Nicky Chapman had an umbrella while the couple wore hats and wax jackets.
Straight into the entrance hall, no stopping to remove wet shoes, or wiping of feet, no taking off the jackets, they proceeded in to the house drip rain and leave footprints all over the floors and carpets.
Somebody has over half a million quid invested in this house, and they treat the floors like that.
How rude.
I think it's more of a 'Look how much spare cash I've got' programme myself.
Nonetheless, I get annoyed at some of these people over their habits.
Every single woman wants a larger kitchen than the one the BBC find for her and her beloved. Even ones who 'don't entertain much'. You've already asked for a dining room, what do you want a giant kitchen for?
Every man wants a study.
No you don't, you want a house with one more bedroom than you really need, and you turn that into your study.
Nobody, and that includes all those those who want flower beds, to those that want to grow their own vegetables, ever asks for a south facing garden.
I wouldn't buy a house unless the garden faced south.
Who the fack would want a north facing garden?
An eskimo?
Why do you never see a young couple buying for the first time with a budget of £150k on there? A normal pair that don't want 3 acres for the dog to run round, a wood, a lake, a kitchen the same size as Lichtenstein, and at least 5 bedrooms?
Now for my main moan, and Mrs CMAT agrees with me.
Bad manners.
Last week, Nicky Chapman had a couple up here house hunting in Norfolk, with a budget of £600,000.
The first property they looked at was £535k.
It was pouring with rain, Nicky Chapman had an umbrella while the couple wore hats and wax jackets.
Straight into the entrance hall, no stopping to remove wet shoes, or wiping of feet, no taking off the jackets, they proceeded in to the house drip rain and leave footprints all over the floors and carpets.
Somebody has over half a million quid invested in this house, and they treat the floors like that.
How rude.
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Cmat, I too like the program, but remember to be on it you have to apply to "beonashow" so the list of twáts applying must be enormous.
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'beonashow'??
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Yep it's true
.http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/beonashow/escape   |
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Personally if I'm gonna watch a house orientated prog I prefer "A Place In The Sun : Home or Away?". Well provided Jasmine Harman is presenting.
Do you think they have to refilm scenes cos some guy has been looking at her t&ts a bit too obviously??? https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jasmine+harman&biw=1680&bih=881&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=F5x_VNfnEILTaP2XgNgK&sqi=2&ved=0CI4BEIke |
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My garden faces up. Is that South?
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I have had my garden slabbed, not sure if I had it slabbed facing south.Does this mean I can never sell my house, **** i'll just have to live in it then.
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No. It just means that now you've done your bit to promote surface flooding, you'll be appearing on the local news in your wellingtons asking why the government doesn't do something about it and demanding compensation.
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the phrase that really grates with me is "the wow factor" - these twats are more worried about impressing their visitors than having a place to just feel relaxed in
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What gets me is woman takes a glance round a perfectly adequate, fairly modern, nice sized kitchen, turns her nose up and says, 'This will need to go'
Probably about £30k to replace it. The world has gone mad. |
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Surely shows like APITS is dated now anyway, in an advanced internet age you don't need to contact TV stations to do the dirty work because the work is not that dirty, seems like pure exhibitionism
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agreed, definitely for attention-seeking twats
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I'll wager some of 'em get a culture shock when they move. Wouldn't "escape" to the f00kin country if ya paid me.
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^^^ mug
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I remember the episode that CMAT was on . A bloke sells his council house in Newham, the brief is find him a house as far away from darkies as possible.
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The trick is to live in area where there isn't any in the first place , virtually no housing association places and generally too expensive for them to afford.
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agree with CMAT, there are benefits in living in a city but the benefits of the countryside and no Grevilles far outweighs it for me.
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Thin and Crispy 04 Dec 14 17:33
I remember the episode that CMAT was on . A bloke sells his council house in Newham, the brief is find him a house as far away from darkies as possible. Long running programme then. My council house was sold in 1982. |
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Notice he doesn't correct me about the "darkies" statement
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Quite right, I didn't.
Show me the law in the statute books that says I have to like them, or live near them. If I wanted to live somewhere where blacks and asians outnumber the indigenous white population by at least 2 to 1, I'd have move to Lagos or Delhi years ago. |
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Well said taxi...glad your not an apologist for all the wet wipes on here..glad your happy to stand up and be counted.
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The best thing about Escape to the Country is Johnny Irwin
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twizzle
I'll stand up to the shower of luvvie shyte on here all day. |
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My Mrs is black but I still wouldn’t be seen dead living in an ethnic area.
They’re generally dirty , crime ridden sh&tholes, and I wouldn’t be paid to live in a Muslim area like Whitechapel . An ex lived there (only for a few months years since before the invasion was in full flow) and she got no end of hassle from the muslim scum living there cos she was hot , white with long blond hair and didn’t walk around with a sheet on. CMAT is exactly right , you are in no way obliged in any way shape or form to like people, interact with them or want to hang out with them. |
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CMAT is exactly right , you are in no way obliged in any way shape or form to like people, interact with them or want to hang out with them.
unless of course you are an "ethnic", in which case you are expected to integrate... good old double standards |
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they don't integrate, they do take over...
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cmat is right, some are much than others though.
the difference is it's OUR country NOT theirs, that's the bit the luvvies and the dross that turn up seem to forget. |
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the luvvies don't forget
they don't know they don't live in those areas |
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I've watched a few of these programs, (I don't like the makeover shows), and they are nice in a sort of "If I win they lottery" way. But what annoys me is that even when they seem to FIND some lovely property on budget, and the couple seem to like it, at the end they mostly seem to say in the voiceover that it wasn't right for them and are still looking.
Is the success rate of this program like 2%?! Are the people on it just there to get on telly as they are often retired and bored? |
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a lot of the folk have possibly sold their London home and are cashing in - don't blame them.
Posh folk though in top jobs are academicly bright but generally clueless - i feel envious about their wage packet but wouldn't want their day to day life .It would annoy me . Seems they have a problem changing the light bulbs without help . I've met a fair few btw |
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talking here of course about the possibly of a spare room to a study - common sense for most ,but not for all
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Pair on yesterday.
Budget c£800k Location: Cumbria Missed the 1st property, I was outside. 2nd property had 3 reception rooms, 5 bedrooms with 4 of them en-suite 2 acres of land the kitchen was roughly 35 feet by 15 feet £700k. and she said 'It's about the same size as the first kitchen, it's not very big. Just how big a kitchen do these cloth-eared bints need? The stupid woman. For the 3rd property the hostess said 'We're crossing the border into the National Park itself, where properties are more expensive.' She may as well have talked to the wall. The third property was smaller than the 2nd, it needed decorating throughout, and there wasn't as much land. Her estimate was £600k, which shows how much research she hadn't bothered with. It was priced at £850k, should have seen her face as it was over the posers budget. 'I did tell you...' said the hostess again. They fronted it out by going for 'another look round' the property, but in the end they said they'd keep looking at other properties. A run down house, out of their price range, how embarrassing. |