Originally posted by uzlessSo, this Robin Howard guy went to school in the UK?
Sonhouse sent me a life size cardboard cut-out of himself with 2 inch holes cut out where his fist and mouth are....What am I supposed to do with the holes Sonhouse?
Have you tried www.friendsreunited.co.uk
See if the school is there, contact other ex-pupils. Loads of ways you can try and find someone you used to know via a mutual classmate/worker/whatever.
To join the site costs 5 measly quid or something like that.
If you go back to the UK, you can pay a company like Experian to do a trace on all known "Robbie Howlers", or whatever his name was.
Is this an urgent thing, or have you got a couple of years? I mean, you haven't exactly been wife-swapping with him for the past 10 years, have you?
Originally posted by c99uxEr no...
So, this Robin Howard guy went to school in the UK?
Have you tried www.friendsreunited.co.uk
See if the school is there, contact other ex-pupils. Loads of ways you can try and find someone you used to know via a mutual classmate/worker/whatever.
To join the site costs 5 measly quid or something like that.
If you go back to the UK, you can pay a com ...[text shortened]... ars? I mean, you haven't exactly been wife-swapping with him for the past 10 years, have you?
I'm writing a story and I thought: "Hey....it may as well have a plot".
So, the plot is finding this childhood friend.
For no reason what-so-ever, obviously.
Good plots only get in the way of bad writing.
Originally posted by shavixmirOK, here's a good one, you can try it if you like, but I'm not sure it would still work these days. And anyway it may be physically impossible for you as it involves getting shagged...
D'ya ken whur ma Robbie is??
When I was working for a debt recovery company, one of my colleagues actually moved to Sunderland and found a girlfriend who worked at the DHSS, so that he could "help her out in the office on Sunday mornings" because she was soooooo busy at work... He broke all records for catching runners-away by finding out where they were currently working or signing on...
Of course, you never read about it in the papers...
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Originally posted by c99uxThere's a higher chance of George W. Bush and Tony Blair admitting they're gay, getting out of Iraq (and admitting they were wrong) and donating all their personal wealth to an aids fund in South Africa than there is of me getting shagged.
OK, here's a good one, you can try it if you like, but I'm not sure it would still work these days. And anyway it may be physically impossible for you as it involves getting shagged...
When I was working for a debt recovery company, one of my colleagues actually moved to Sunderland and found a girlfriend who worked at the DHSS, so that he could "help her ou re currently working or signing on...
Of course, you never read about it in the papers...
It's a nice plan you have there, but there are serious draw backs.
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Originally posted by lauseyI got a disk with all listed UK phone numbers/address for a few quid at a computer fair. They are allowed to do this because it limits the way you can search the database. For instance I don't think you can search for the address belonging to a particualr number etc.
www.192.com is a good place to start. Although if the person is ex-directory, you would have to rely on the electoral roll (which you have to pay for).
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Originally posted by c99uxFekkin DSS - useless.
The electoral roll was a starting point, but the company I worked for also had a (ssshhhh...) link inside the Department of Social Security, so if the person was working or signing on, we could usually find their listed address.
I hope your companies contact is caught and prosecuted - complete and utter w*nker.
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Originally posted by cadwahI'm sure a running debtor would be more than obliged, given the opportunity, to pay a couple of hundred quid to avoid having a few thousand pounds, or perhaps more, of devbt catch up them.
Who off? The people who need them have no money to pay you for them.
And no, just because someone is in debt, it doesn't maen that they have no readies.