So today I’ve popped my cherry...,

[Digger]

I'm close to a half century, and yet to break a phone screen. Pah!!

Yet...

[OddCat]

alorotom said:

And smashed my mobile phone screen ... first screen in 20yrs!! So annoyed! It fell out of the tread of my tyre...

Blimey. You must have deeply treaded tyres ! Do you drive a monster truck ?

[Eyersey1234]

Had a first today, my first safe driving badge at work (5 years)

[PAULJ5555]

J4CKO said:

My son returned from his uni trip to Japan with his new passport and between him and the missus washed it, I paid £80 for it and now get to pay for another one.

Not having a Pop (pun-see thread title) Wow Uni trip to Japan how do kids afford to do this with the massive student debts they already have. Maybe the folks pay but what about the poor families not really fair on them if its compusary to do the trip, if not why do students bother, I would just want it paid off towards my debt.

[alorotom]

PAULJ5555 said:

Not having a Pop (pun-see thread title) Wow Uni trip to Japan how do kids afford to do this with the massive student debts they already have. Maybe the folks pay but what about the poor families not really fair on them if its compusary to do the trip, if not why do students bother, I would just want it paid off towards my debt.

Depends on the size of the debt. If it’ll clear it then yeah but if it’s not even likely to make a dent and make minimal monthly contribution impact then objectively there isn’t really much point

[Frank7]

Gargamel said:

Never put diesel in a petrol car or vice versa.

Never been breathalyzed

Never broken a screen

I once put one litre of petrol in my diesel Black Cab, swiftly followed by maybe forty litres of diesel, fortunately all was okay.
I was breathalysed in the U.K. and it was negative, I was breathalysed in the U.S., and it was positive, but the cop for whatever reason decided to let it go, he led me to a supermarket parking lot, then drove my wife and I back to our rented house.
I’ve never broken a screen on any cell phone that I’ve owned.

I was misled by this thread title, I didn’t expect a blow by blow account of someone’s first time, but I thought that it would more interesting than breaking cell phone screens.

[Strudul]

Tempered glass screen protectors are 99p on ebay. Another 99p for a silicone case. SMDH.

[anonymous-user]

I smashed my phone screen, first time. Spent ages replacing it only to drop it again after I replaced the screen.

[Kermit power]

PAULJ5555 said:

J4CKO said:

My son returned from his uni trip to Japan with his new passport and between him and the missus washed it, I paid £80 for it and now get to pay for another one.

Not having a Pop (pun-see thread title) Wow Uni trip to Japan how do kids afford to do this with the massive student debts they already have. Maybe the folks pay but what about the poor families not really fair on them if its compusary to do the trip, if not why do students bother, I would just want it paid off towards my debt.

Depends what the purpose of the trip is, surely? I spent a year in Spain on my Uni course (International Business Studies & Spanish), and there were guys doing the same course with Japanese. It's tricky to learn much of a language (especially one like Japanese!) without living there, and sure, the flights aren't cheap but once there, they were just in halls of residence, and not much more expensive than the UK would've been.

What really takes the piss in my mind is my daughter's school having just run a £2,700 ten day trip to Japan for Year 10 students who aren't even studying Japanese!!!

We're not talking an expensive private school here, either. This is a State Comprehensive where the headmistress just doesn't seem to understand how unreasonable and potentially divisive that is.