Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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Jalen Ngonda. Wasn't aware. Watched on Piano Room on the iPlayer. That is A Voice.
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I hope he's getting proper voice coaching, as I suspect his voice won't last long like that if not... he can certainly do a lot with it at the mo.
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I got a spam call at 7:30 am supposedly from HMC&E with a recorded voice with an American accent.
Do these idiots really think the tax office is calling people outside office hours and a bastion of the British government would use an American to record their message.
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They must have their victim profiling all wrong if they're calling you 😉
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
How much money will be spent on the house 'in' the water in the photo... it was sold for about £1.5m two years ago, they've had to pour hundreds of tonnes of concrete to underpin it (apparently one could hear water underneath the floorboards at high tide before), it's been completely gutted and mostly rebuilt from scratch copying the original, and after 12 months of intensive work it's still only half done. And it's not actually that big... I think it was only three bedrooms when sold.
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Hopefully they're making it flood resilient too? Surprised they could get a mortgage on it to be honest. No doubt if it floods someone else will be at fault. That said it looks like the land is lower on the other side of the estuary. I'm all for buying for a location and getting the house to suit afterwards if you can afford to but this does seem extreme for a not partcularly special looking property.
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I've not inspected closely, but I guess that the boundary wall will double as a bund, and that they'll install decent pumping equipment inside.
Doubt it's on a mortgage - I suspect it's someone with shedload of cash wanting something unique, and maybe not quite realising when they bought it quite how much work was needed. Or if they did, money was no object.
There's a house the other end (southern) that (I think) sold for £3m (or in that range), but that's a much bigger house, and had been thoroughly modernised about 10 years ago. Certainly another unique location.
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That one looks much better, with the other one I think I'd have knocked it down and started again.
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They kind of have, bit by bit, but it's listed.
C18/C19. Sail-loft or similar building converted into dwelling house. Many antique ¨features¨, eg Dutch gable, wrought-ironwork and stone gateway. Walls of old quay or jetty are of stonework and remain attractive. The building was converted in 1920, dated on rainwater head. Limestone with pantiled roof. Iron casement windows. Interior modern, Included for group value.
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I'm afraid I wouldn't buy any house next to water these days. We even avoided one or two just in low lying ground or where we thought there was a risk of storm run off flooding them.
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There are plenty along the waterfront at Topsham which still demand top $ but will become uninsurable very soon, I suspect. Thankfully mine is about 12ft higher than the highest tide and hiding behind quite a few other houses. A tsunami would get me though... at which point I'd go to the house 500m asl.
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Genuinely do wonder what's happened to Andrew Neil, and more generally why people tweet easily disprovable stuff.
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He’s such a good barometer for boomer radicalisation.
Isolated in France so spending too much time online and not enough meeting people. Happens to a lot of people. Seen it myself.
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The comment he was replying to was plainly bollocks too. How many Germans can buy a new BMW every year even when there isn't a recession.
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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
I think that comment might just possibly have been tongue-in-cheek.
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Tangentle note - Germans really are obsessed with the company car allowance.
Not sure if anyone's done any hiring or been hired in Germany, but both the expectation and the importance put on the company car allowance is something else.
Always a critical component of any negotiations, not joking.
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Client of mine in France now pays 90% of travel to the office, regardless of who or where they live. Paris based, they've got people moving out to Bordeaux, Brittany, all over the place. Remarkable.
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.......why my daughter and I started to watch Shaun of The Dead on ITV4 last night along with the adverts when we have the Blu-Ray version and can stream it?
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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Landline call charges.
Notification from my broadband supplier of CPI + 2% price rise, not a surprise. However in the message detail was info on call charges. (I have a landline number allocated, never used, don't have one of those plug in dial box things as per 1970s.)
outside of any package deal, call costs are 22.8p per minute, plus a std connection charge of 29p. Eh? Wtf? My SIM is a simple PAYG with O2, calls cost 3p per minute. Who on earth would instead pay 7+ times more? Are they targeting Rick C's fav boomers?
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Even my pre-boomer Dad uses a mobile phone at all times.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Yeah, I'd been stung with call charges on the Talktalk landline (the mobile signal indoors here is rubbish), but now I've got full fibre and a VoIP, landline calls are free to other landline numbers. I read this as them wanting to get people off the copper network as it's going to be phased out in the next few years.
Essentially the new deal was the same price (£30pcm) to triple my broadband speed and have free landline calls.
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Nah ta. Was on Giffgaff for a while, then they started passing through high cost, £4.50 per spam texts, despite my account settings say 'bar such shite'. Complained, organisational shrugs, kept happening, binned. Btw that was a SIM in a v old def not smart Sony Ericsson handset I used as a work phone when doing mucky physical gardener work, robust as so no risk of damage. And no I couldn't have 'accidentally subscribed' to some dodgy website from a phone with no internet access...
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Fairy nuff. Odd though. O2's only sales pitch to me was to try to persuade me to a higher tariff when I suggested they were overpriced compared with Giffgaff.
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Someone is trying to recruit volunteers for a study at Exeter Uni looking at loss of muscle mass in older people. Seems a sensible thing to be looking into, but one of the things they want to do, if they have volunteers...
We are looking to recruit healthy middle-aged adults (35-65 y) to take part in a ~two-week metabolic study, that includes the sampling of blood and muscle, whilst adhering to a controlled diet where energy intake is manipulated. Volunteers will also, optionally, undergo three days of single-leg immobilisation, preceded and succeeded by an MRI scan.
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Not sure if I'm missing something and about to get a 'whoosh' moment here but I assume they just want to see how much muscle deteriorates in the leg that doesn't get used. I remember how much my (already very skinny) 12 year old arms wasted away when I broke them both and had them in plaster for 6 weeks - I could slide the casts off in the end.
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No, that's exactly it... I just can't imagine (m)any people volunteering to have a leg immobilised for three days!
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I had my left ankle and calf in a cast for 3 months following a snapped Achilles Tendon. That calf withered away to almost nothing. 6 years later and normal service has still not been resumed. I suspect 3 days would be barely noticeable and recoverable fairly quickly. I'd volunteer my right calf. 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0
