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Kin posted:Also, is it worth getting a financial adviser too or are they just gonna tell you to pay off debts and max out your ISA/Pensions or do they tend to lean more into investment advice, etc? Not worth paying for most of the time no. There's a UK Personal Finance thread somewhere around. They refer to the flowchart from the UK Personal Finance reddit. That basically says... Emergency fund, pay debts, ISA/Pension. And when buying the ISAs just make sure the lowest fees possible because noone knows how to beat the market in the long term. Buy the market and low fees aka get a Vanguard S&S ISA.
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OwlFancier posted:This one? The old East Anglian accent is pretty similar to west country. This is how my nan used to speak and a couple of my aunts have a softened version of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTVwdv9Pzo8&t=121s
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Lady Demelza posted:If I win big on Euromillions tonight Then it's definitely a fix
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Then it's definitely a fix I will also buy a wall calendar and impractical small biro with which to cross off the dates so I know what day it is.
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Oct 11, 2021 21:24
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So my company recently issued *completely ridiculous* targets for the pharmacy and my boss, whom I get on really well with and enjoy working with, has resigned over it. loving great.
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Kin posted:How much is your/a mortgage adviser? Remortgaged a couple of times with a really good advisor, didn't cost us anything because he gets a fee from whichever bank gets out business in the end.
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The Saviour posted:Catching up to the thread today. Wanted to chime in though I'm well behind to say i enjoyed the recent praxiscast episode on Scotpol, and the discussion about the Scottish Greens sliding into mediocrity was really insightful. what's this about a scotpol podcast?
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Lady Demelza posted:If I win big on Euromillions tonight I will pay off my mortgage as the sensible thing; pay for cosmetic surgery as the frivolous thing; and pay to have a baby as the long-term investment. If you do win big on the Euromillions tonight, I will be impressed. The draw is on Tuesday and Friday.
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Oct 11, 2021 21:42
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Watching this retrospective on Blair and Brown for some reason and Tony's definitely gotten weirder in his delivery - lots of random Shatner-esque pauses. And its not like he's pausing to think of his next phrase, the pauses appear in the middle of stock idioms like "[Scandal] comes in all. .. ... shapes and sizes" Maybe he was thinking about coming in all something else, idk
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Oct 11, 2021 21:46
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Mycroft Holmes posted:Need a player for the British Commonwealth in my space race game, so I'm posting here. What exactly is the game, and will I be allowed to use the word "boffins" a lot?
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This just popped up on my radar, and I haven't been able to find anything on Twitter about it yet. Firefighters 'pulling people out of woods and spraying them' at Sheffield Park Hill flats incident quote:Firefighters are spraying people down at the scene of a major incident at Park Hill Flats in Sheffield, say eyewitnesses. e:  It sounds like it might be a Breaking Bad incident... fuctifino fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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Oct 11, 2021 22:18
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Could be Kwasi Kwarteng's small modular reactors off to a strong start.
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Oct 11, 2021 22:26
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fuctifino posted:It sounds like it might be a Breaking Bad incident... I dunno, I think I saw that X-Files episode and it didn't end well for Krycek
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Oct 11, 2021 22:27
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https://twitter.com/VirtualAstro/status/1447624755398549505 Major geomagnetic activity tonight that might result in visible northern lights as far south as the Humber. Oh and also could result in the complete breakdown of the electrical grid but at least you'll have something to look at before the hordes arrive. e: This and the story from Sheffield are giving me The Event - or at least one-off British-themed X Files episode - vibes now
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Could also be that someone didn't get the memo about not mixing ammonia and bleach.
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fuctifino posted:This just popped up on my radar, and I haven't been able to find anything on Twitter about it yet. Some lad cooking up the old Mustard Gas? Ricin could be doable but it works best when ingested. Or do we have a sneaky Novichok event in progress? Crazy Ivan.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/VirtualAstro/status/1447624755398549505 Typical, overcast and wet out. Still never seen the Aurora despite living this far north
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Sad Panda posted:Not worth paying for most of the time no. There's a UK Personal Finance thread somewhere around. They refer to the flowchart from the UK Personal Finance reddit. If anyone is interested in the UK Personal Finance thread in BFC it's here - https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3887120 Note I need to rewrite the OP a little, was planning on doing so after the budget
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It's just been reported that the people who were stripping off and being hosed down were emergency response workers.
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I wish someone would strip me down and spray me with a hose. A very very powerful hose
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Speaking of which, BBC radio Sheffield in the morning is basically this thread but on a local level. Right now they are exposing a scandal over 100k being given to set up four markets, only the only one which has materialised got cancelled last second because no one closed a road. Big issue is that it was a food market so thousands in stock from small businesses got ruined.
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fuctifino posted:This just popped up on my radar, and I haven't been able to find anything on Twitter about it yet. “Chemical incident” The four officers who entered the flat first are in hospital.
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learnincurve posted:“Chemical incident” drug raid and someone threw a bag of fent at them maybe that or they had a few too many lines of what they were seizing and panicked
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DesperateDan posted:drug raid and someone threw a bag of fent at them maybe ahhhh you may not be wrong there  . They found a guy in the flat unresponsive, [something happened] and then four police get hospitalised.
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Park hill has been featured in BBC radio recently, how lovely and gentrified it is now they've stuck orange panels all over it. Lol a woman inside talking about how she looks at the scars of former exposed pipes and blockwork and likes to imagine she was poor and had to live in a poo poo hole. Guess there's still a few hold outs though.
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There's not been a single case of fentanyl poisoning of cops anywhere in the world has there? I know it's a favourite claim of the boys in blue stateside to make the world seem scarier.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Park hill has been featured in BBC radio recently, how lovely and gentrified it is now they've stuck orange panels all over it. I lived in manor top and on the why and I am ONE HUNDRED PERCENT behind the gentrification of these absolute poo poo holes. Oh my god, just moving the big doctors, Asda and the library directly on the Supertram route from peaks into town is bloody amazing. Sheffield has a surplus of decent council housing stock run by housing associations so this isn't like London where the poor got forced moved from one terrible situation to a worse one. If richer people want to live in a small flat with no garden then let them go for it, plenty of housing going the Renishaw, Kilamarsh and Eckington end 
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Reminds me of the people who loved the Tricorn centre and never wanted it pulled down, but didn't actually live anywhere near it and couldn't smell the piss.
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I lucked into a 5yr fix at 1.64% with First Direct just before the 'rona hit and every single mortgage product disappeared. No arrangement fees, no limits on overpaying and no early repayment fees. More recently I was auto-renewed on my electricity tariff with Octopus - 13p/5p - just before the energy markets went mad and every single cheap deal was pulled. *Someone* up there currently likes me, so I bought some EuroMillions tickets.
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Oct 12, 2021 08:58
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Streets in the sky man, streets in the sky
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Total Meatlove posted:Reminds me of the people who loved the Tricorn centre and never wanted it pulled down, but didn't actually live anywhere near it and couldn't smell the piss. 1970s vision of a central court with shops and barbers so the people only need to get a lift down to get anything you need quickly deteriorates into many open air toilets and one spar charging £1.76 for an Apple.
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learnincurve posted:1970s vision of a central court with shops and barbers so the people only need to get a lift down to get anything you need quickly deteriorates into many open air toilets and one spar charging £1.76 for an Apple. It makes me wonder what the estates currently being built will deteriorate into. All well and good paying £2m for a 3 bed 2 bath in Battersea now, but when the only human level thing in the place is a lovely plaza with planting what happens when it goes?
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if I win the jackpot, anyone who can get to heathrow with a passport and a toothbrush can come to las vegas to immediately lose it all
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Oct 12, 2021 09:36
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Gambling is bad and you shouldn't waste your lottery winnings on it imho.
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kecske posted:if I win the jackpot, anyone who can get to heathrow with a passport and a toothbrush can come to las vegas to immediately lose it all But.. what if you *win* in Vegas?
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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
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Just stuck £20 on various horse races today because gamblings great everyone should do it more often * *this Ppb was paid for by the Labour Party ** I'm the guy in the Limmy sketch that spends all of the family holiday money on booze and online bingo keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Horse racing is great because sometimes you get to shoot the horses and steal their horse drugs. - K, 59
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