urban_hymn
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Here you go grade A at retail level
XL - 73g and over
L - 63 to 73g
M - 53 to 63g
S - under 53g
Thanks for that. If they've got any scales in Maplin tomorrow I'll buy 'em and see if my hunch is correct.
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that's actually a 'nail on the head' kind of point... whether you are shopping in a supermarket, looking for car insurance, buying electricity or gas etc. etc. it seems like the whole process becomes more and more complex.
I'm sure that supermarket eggs are being described as "Large" when they are nothing of the sort. I used to work with someone who kept his own hens and the eggs he brought in to sell (very cheaply I might add) must have weighed twice as much as the "Large" eggs in Sainsburys, Morrisons et al.
I think I might get some of those precision scales that are advertised on eBay for weighing "herbs" and get checking the egg scene in the supermarket.
I would love to dob 'em in to trading standards.
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Used to use Waitrose a lot when I lived in London. They only have a serious presence in the South/South East? London is still booming evidently and the rest of the country can go to hell in a hand cart no doubt!
Update: out of 35 stores, four are in London.
I thought 35 seemed a bit low so I checked their website. They have 243 stores apparently.
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"he lost €10 million pounds "
Some confusion of currencies going on here.
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Room dimensions to 3 decimal places. I doubt the bricklayers and plasterers work to such tight tolerances!
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“This is the largest annual quarterly decrease since quarterly reporting began in 1995"
Has the output really fallen to a 16 year low or is it just the largest fall in 16 years? Big difference.
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How do you know that? I didn't read her quoted as stating that.
The Daily Mail article stated:
"She wanted to build up her savings for her old age but fell foul of the law by failing to declare her assets when she applied for means tested benefits."
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I think people have got this wrong.
I think you may have misunderstood her motive. She was saving in order not to be a drain on the public purse at a later date.
Unfortunately her extreme frugality has gained her nothing.
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Did anyone else see this thread title and think about those splendid lines?
No - I thought to myself that the toad is a dry and warty creature devoid of slime.
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Star managers have suffered, notably John Paulson, whose main Advantage fund was down 47 percent to the end of November, while Crispin Odey's European fund is down around 15 percent to end-October, despite big gains in the autumn rally.
Paulson managed to lose money on gold which given its 14% rise this year must take a rare talent.
Without a bull market to hitch ride on these "star" managers just look ordinary.
Even our own Anthony Bolton has feet of clay after all.
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It could be just down to someone having fat fingers somewhere. Probably a genuine error, still unacceptable though.
I wish someone would "fat finger" some money in instead of out!
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Another one has just come in today and despite her not using online banking someone and ATM's infrequently has used her card to buy £400 worth of stuff of stuff at New Look and the Hut.
Nobody ever has acces to my debit card except me but a couple of weeks ago £850 was mysteriously spirited out of my current account to a payee called "B M Mortgages" via my debit card.
When I queried this with Lloyds TSB they said "it's your mortgage payment", I said "I don't have a mortgage". They then tried to suggest I had been careless with my card and PIN number which I denied vigorously. To be fair they credited the money back the very next day.
Only I know my PIN number so how can this type of fraud happen?
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Would advise you to invest in a set of victorian brass sovereign scales, can be obtained for about £50.00. Plus they are cute and dinky, as well as acurate.
Happy stacking.
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You can buy digital scales on eBay for well under a tenner. They can be set up to weigh grams, ozs, troy ounces etc. as well.
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I agree with this for the few who can make this work to their advantage. I'm technically not a ftb but given half the chance I wouldn't hesitate to use my 60k pension pot to help in buying a house.
It also circumvents the risk of getting to retirement age and finding your pension wholly inadequate.
Better a bird (house) in the hand than two tins of cat food in tomorrow's bush.
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How about the Stafford Railway Building Society. Britain's safest apparently! Run on very conservative lines (unintentional pun)
Old link!
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Just what China's neo-capitalist home buyers aspire to have - a communal parking lot full of identical BMW 116s.
Are they really 116s? I had one for a week as a courtesy car. It was one of the slowest cars I've ever driven. Could barely get past a determinedly driven transit van. P.O.S. it was.
No incentive to buy a flat whatsoever.
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They won't be "new jobs" as such but just further work for those who already have the experience. There won't be many NEETS plucked from idleness to do these projects.
Still it's encouraging news for all those Poles, Sikhs, Albanians etc. who thought the UK construction industry was a bit flat at the moment.
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I am the one in five, perhaps four.
In Tottenham it's something like 1 in 2.
Most of the band UB40 were declared bankrupt last month. Astonishing really, they must have made a shedload in the 80s.
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There are many, many businesses desperate for cash who they simply won't lend to as they don't meet their 'criteria'.
I'm surprised that there are "many, many businesses" out there that can see opportunities for expansion for which a loan would be required. They're obviously a lot more optimistic about the economy going forward than most HPCers on here.
Is it not more a case of increased overdraft facilities to prop up doomed concerns a little longer?
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Global wide debt write offs.
So Porsche finance will ring me up and say - "good news the outstanding balance on the 911 has been waived, happy motoring!" (hypothetical scenario)
Or I'll have to buy my house off someone who got given it in the jubilee. Time to get in debt it would seem!
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You seem to have a 'transaction mentality' in this. Have you taken a psycopath test?
Have you taken a spelling test?
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Wasn't that long ago that everything M&S sold in their stores was 100% British made...fact...there was a thriving " rag trade" in London that now no longer exists...fact.
In the 1970s and 1980s a lot of their stuff was made in Israel to my certain knowledge. You're saying they moved the manufacture back to the UK after that? Seems unlikely somehow.
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Barclays is dropping like a stone and at this rate it will not be that long before it is testing 2008 lows. If this becomes a banking crisis again then it really could get nasty..
Look at Lloyds TSB - all time low 32p! The stock will be worthless in a couple of days at this rate. A high street bank now just a penny share. I'm going to lighten up my current account balance held with this dog.
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Apart from electronic components, I think just about anything will be better than fiat currency as a store of wealth. I've got a batch of toy Matchbox cars (Mattel) bought for £1 each for example.
One of the best performing items in my portfolio is a Roland Jupiter 8 analogue synthesizer. Bought for £800 in 2005 now they're going for about £3000+ on eBay. Shoulda bought more :0(
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About £1 I would guess?