UKMT February 2021 - No deal is better than a Baddiel

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Tsietisin: Jul 2, 2004; Time passes quickly on the weekend.

Lungboy posted:

https://twitter.com/telebusiness/status/1357639718620581888?s=09

Rents going down while house prices are going up? I can't see that lasting.

Rents may be going down on London, but they are going up everywhere else as people and businesses realise you don't actually need to sit in an office to do most jobs.

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Tsietisin: Jul 2, 2004; Time passes quickly on the weekend.

OwlFancier posted:

Twisto I found the subject of your next megapost.

I've got the book this picture comes from. Pretty sure it's a Smith & Jones book.

Edit: I'm also not 100% sure that's not the picture I took myself some years back.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2021 00:21

Tsietisin: Jul 2, 2004; Time passes quickly on the weekend.

Mebh posted:

I really miss German healthcare. Mostly because every private practice was available and wait times were practically nothing.

Thanks to the thread a month or so ago I started investigating the possibility that i have ADHD.

So I was the same except I had Bupa private health insurance. Their paperwork States that they cover mental health issues so I rang them to get an appointment with one of their ADHD psychotherapists.

Only I got told that they don't cover that mental health issues as it's a learning disability and they won't pay for me. So all the money I had paid into the plan was pointless.

And that's the problem. You can be denied the healthcare you want because some person with the purse strings days so, not whether it may be medically necessary or not.

Also, when I ended up in hospital with Sepsis (caused by an sore tooth that a private dentist refused to treat) the insurance company provided me no extra. It was the NHS that kept me alive.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2021 18:54

Tsietisin: Jul 2, 2004; Time passes quickly on the weekend.

It's not so much the deposit that's an issue. It's the salary multiplier.

It's a problem if 4x my already over national average salary will literally not get anything near where I live.

The average house price is 10x the average salary. That's the problem.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2021 09:50

Tsietisin: Jul 2, 2004; Time passes quickly on the weekend.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Here's a question:

Why all the facebook pages suddenly giving away million pound houses? I'm not talking about scam pages, I'm talking about legit pages like charities, that post the sponsored post and then go back to posting normal stuff, so it's not a hack either.

I was just reminded of it on a youtube video with the host saying it was sponsored by Omaze giving away a chance at a fancy looking house. And quickly googling "why is everyone giving away million pound houses" it seems like Omaze are usually involved.

I'm assuming the technicalities of the scam revolve around this:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8175132/three-million-house-raffle-mark-beresford/

(Apologies for the Sun link but it's the only link I could find that wasn't actually advertising the house).

Omaze are a decent company and have been doing stuff like this for years.

Unlike many of the house raffles its part of their terms and conditions that no matter how many tickets they sell, they will give away the house and have also guaranteed a minimum amount to charity.

Pretty much every other house raffle is a scam though.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 00:21

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