Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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And now back to Earth.... Where have all the £2 coins gone? Not seen or had on in change for what seems like 2 years. Is it just me?
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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The £2 coins are for sale on fleabay for £9.99, plus postage.
Intriguing me today: a letter, old school indeed, from Nationwide informing that the interest rate on their credit card will increase from 15.9 to 20.9%. Not interested in that as such, bankers gonna bank, replace 'b' with 'w' as appropriate. And that interest rate appears minuscule compared with some other 'providers'.
It's that I've never knowingly paid interest on a credit card. Always pay off in full, the credit card is a means of holding off deducting monies for up to 6 weeks. Mayhap I'm some sort of weirdo but, I've never 'spent' money I don't have. Ignore mortgages and the like, this is about day to day living transactions. Live to one's budget. And if one needs extra funding, don't pay rip off levels of monthly interest. Or am I missing something?
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My brother in law lives off finance, credit cards etc.
His idea of budgeting is basically looking at ingoings and outgoings and measures his costs on that basis.
So he won't really look at the total cost of something, or at least, that is lower down the priority order.
But say he has £5k a month coming in and he has £4.5k going out - he has £500 a month spare to spend on say, a financed car.
He'll get those credit cards where if you pay off x amount you don't have to pay interest on the rest. That just goes into the monthly in-out calcualtion.
He would never just buy a car cash because overall it is £2k cheaper (like I just did).
Good for him. He's driving around in a fancy merc and his wife a fancy SUV - their child is kitted out with all the nicest things - prams, toys etc.
They combined earn about 1/3rd I do and they have all the fancy stuff and I don't. He sees that as a result for him.
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Until he is made redundant.
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1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Yeah. I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.
Hell I get stressed about the upcoming £6k of expenses I’m about to rack up on my credit card - and I’m getting that paid back!
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Clearly not a typical one...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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My best man (also an accountant) used to live his life according to next year's salary. He wised up and somehow managed to retire aged 40. Marrying an accountant who still works might have had something to do with it.
How does Prudence, your sister, see it?
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She's a classic yorkshire women, so a good match for the Dutchman in me. Deep pockets, short arms.
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Just to reiterate this quasar star is 600,000,000,000,000 brighter than the sun and it gobbles up a sun a day. Doesn't that just make everything seem trivial?
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yer but tiz a very, very,very, very,very, very,very, very,very, very, long way away and I want £2 coins back in circulation.
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Something that has zero impact on me, anyone I know and probably no-one at all feels about as trivial as it gets
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Basically, zero shits are being given.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Well, I'm not very happy about your collective agnosticism towards the greatness of a quasar star SIX HUNDRED TRILLION times brighter than then sun !!!!!!!!!
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Screw your poxy two quid coin :p
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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 -
At least I expected was was a bloody wow!
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But it's not as big as TON 618 or Phoenix A.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Despite its impressive size, it is still smaller than TON 618. Therefore, when it comes to size, TON 618 reigns supreme as the largest known black hole. The mind-boggling magnitude of its mass serves as a testament to the awe-inspiring enigmas that our universe holds
Nice Stevo. That is blood big, wow!
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It's lucky we have Elon Musk to push humanity to the stars and learn more about the universes incredibleness.
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Last effort did give us something to laugh at. There's a positive attitude. 😉
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Phoenix A is the new Daddy - 100 billion solar masses.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
What's 90 miles as a fraction of Phoenix A?
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To any sensible number of decimal places.
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