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Messages	Author	Time
World’s finest…....[more]	Denc 🗡	23:28:49
RIP Frank Beard, the unbearded ZZ Topper....[more]	Hamsterwheel	22:57:55
21st august 2015, Here Comes The Moon! Extended cut. Filmed on a cheapish Sony DV ... [more]	LP12	22:54:19
Here you go LP12…...[more]	Hamsterwheel	22:11:31
>> I bet that has converted lots of people.	Denc 🗡	23:17:19
>> It's no laughing matter, but no matter. GOod gag earlier about the copper and the ... [more]	LP12	22:57:00
Nike...[more]	Hamsterwheel	21:44:01
>> I bought my first Nike shoes last year in Hong Kong when I realised I had ... [more]	Denc 🗡	23:25:43
Birmingham......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	19:52:43
>> Kind looking innit	Denc 🗡	19:57:58
Suddenly AI seems attractive ...[more]	Hamsterwheel	19:32:14
Have Mercy......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	19:20:41
>> Take home Shirley. Yes , I was paid cash e ery Friday. £3.19.6d per week.	Denc 🗡	19:55:19
>> I remember it as a Thursday. ...[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	21:57:20
>> Holes so you could check it without opening.	Hamsterwheel	22:12:17
>> Hamstress took a duvet to laundrette recently. Found a 1946 sixpence in the ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	20:18:12
>> Manic Mechanic......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	19:30:11
nm...[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	19:19:07
Of the original members, I met one. Baz, who suspect is pushing up the daisies. ...[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	18:53:41
>> pepi and OP met up in med/spain area round 2019ish, I taught his son french for 2+ ... [more]	LP12	23:28:55
>> Ah Bazeel? Gone (from here at least) but not forgotten	Mike Mike	22:27:40
>> I think he must have left this mortal coil.	Denc 🗡	23:24:03
>> He smoked at lot as I remember.	Free Thinking Doggie	19:41:11
>> Susan, if you are out there, hello.	Free Thinking Doggie	19:25:13
>> I met Joe (Kevin) once. Sufficient.	Hamsterwheel	19:07:42
>> Only Opti Wotsit has met me.	Denc 🗡	19:45:51
>> And Slim who posts occasionally	Denc 🗡	19:59:10
>> And Slim who posts occasionally	Denc 🗡	19:59:02
'Justice' in Sweden......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	16:39:28
>> May be Denmark in fact.	Free Thinking Doggie	18:57:49
From the comments,.. a reply to a comment saying market going to crash...[more]	LP12	15:15:10
>> If you own your home you are a fixed and easy tax target. If you rent you are to ... [more]	Denc 🗡	17:44:51
>> In 2000, I had about £200k in cash. I should had bought 5 flats in London with ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	18:37:08
>> I remember shopping at Sainsbury's on Tottenham Ct Rd. They were offering BTL mortgages. ...[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	18:47:08
>> OP is the expert of course.	Free Thinking Doggie	18:43:28
>> But then I had to rent a place out in London once. A total effin' nightmare. ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	18:41:28
>> Pay an agent 10% is the answer.	Denc 🗡	19:47:21
>> Apart from some nurses flats we owned way back I have only let one house. ... [more]	Denc 🗡	19:48:27
>> We used an agent. No problem really.	Denc 🗡	19:52:31
>> Strangely enough a few bits they bought ended up here. Some tasteless ... [more]	Denc 🗡	19:53:20
re: AI, data centres in space {centers} and also interesting cha chatta from Boss re ... [more]	LP12	14:54:23
A policeman spots a black guy dancing on the roof of a car....[more]	Hamsterwheel	14:37:17
>> lol, not bad	Denc 🗡	17:41:36
Futures pricing in 390 odd points off the NDX. - 36 SPX.	Free Thinking Doggie	13:43:19
>> 30 year 5.31 %.	Free Thinking Doggie	14:06:28
>> A phenomenon of the developed world isnt it - but what a race to win....[more]	JonH🍕	14:15:06
>> ......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	14:23:37
>> Suspect this isnt some kind of resistance level.	JonH🍕	14:29:10
This will no doubt be studied in the universities in the future.....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	12:46:57
>> always annoys me to see 'developed world' instead of what they really mean, the ... [more]	LP12	16:30:11
>> We have higher charges. But I would say we are moderately developed.	Denc 🗡	17:40:54
>> It has been said before…...[more]	Denc 🗡	15:59:06
>> By the prescient…....[more]	Denc 🗡	16:06:24
>> Yup, but despite my continued position I’m still castigated on here for every ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	16:55:42
>> Rightly so.	Denc 🗡	17:38:56
>> It is one of the most stupid energy policies of all time. As I have said ... [more]	Denc 🗡	17:48:03
>> 'In a new report released by think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, analyst ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	12:52:57
>> Boys a fcuking genius, Hoodathunk	Denc 🗡	15:59:57
>> Yet they tell us the power network needs massively upgrading. Obviously the ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	14:40:00
Jason Andy cause of death revealed to be smoke inhalation…...[more]	Hamsterwheel	12:45:25
Google......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	12:35:20
State of this feeble Twat. Local govt officer in the real world,,...[more]	JonH🍕	12:26:22
>> Look at the state=of the fcuker.	Denc 🗡	15:55:27
>> Decent cooked breakfast would finish him off	JonH🍕	16:37:42
>> Gaylord even puts MP in his signature! ✍️ ...[more]	Hamsterwheel	16:03:30
What are the chances that Trump starts rolling back the rhetoric on Iran as the ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:58:23
>> Iran playing the long game. Thing is they have their own problems with refined ... [more]	JonH🍕	12:24:22
>> They will be starving soon enough	Denc 🗡	15:53:41
>> The Trump Iran related stuff will go quiet. Republicans will insist.	Free Thinking Doggie	12:30:16
>> Nuking the Islamic republic out of existence would be a huge vote winner	JonH🍕	13:06:01
>> I doubt that. Americans more concerned with the price of stuff they have to ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	13:09:47
Not bad for a mill…....[more]	Hamsterwheel	11:46:26
>> It’s for a poxy little appartment not the whole gaf.	Denc 🗡	15:42:32
>> No Shit 🕵️	Hamsterwheel	16:00:11
>> But not the entire villa. Como is beautiful though. Last there last summer.	Free Thinking Doggie	11:50:39
>> As I said, not bad for a mill. Suspect all 5 would be worth acquiring as total ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	11:53:05
>> If I could re-run my last 25 years, think Italy would be my choice....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	12:00:22
>> You certainly like their cuisine 🍕	Hamsterwheel	12:46:04
>> Best on the planet. It's a funny country, as the South & the North are ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	12:49:23
>> Repetitious and if you don’t eat pasta you are fcuked. I say this as the ... [more]	Denc 🗡	15:47:17
>> Not true at all.	Free Thinking Doggie	16:09:21
Police armed with radar on the cycle lane on the Prom this morning. As I said, some ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:39:51
>> My leccy Brompton does 50kph. Would be confiscated if a Plod stopped it.	Hamsterwheel	11:42:52
>> You might lose a few Kg if you removed the motor.	Free Thinking Doggie	13:33:53
>> Bought no 2 a second-hand racer when he left for Uni. Genesis like mine but Al frame. ...[more]	JonH🍕	13:56:00
>> I have a non electricity version too, and my mountain bike.	Hamsterwheel	13:36:26
>> Limit is 20 I think.	Free Thinking Doggie	11:40:21
Thousands of liberal leftist morons gathered in London today to honour a man was a ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:10:46
>> Morons.	Denc 🗡	15:50:40
>> Can remember a time before George Floyd, DEi and unfettered illegal immigration, ... [more]	JonH🍕	11:39:31
>> Exactly. We didn't think about it in the UK in the 90s, it was an American thing....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:44:20
>> All so concerned that they left him on his own to end it.	Hamsterwheel	11:13:29
>> Most won't have heard of him until he made the headlines. His Phd Thesis ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:26:03
>> Wasn’t his error, he copied someone else’s	Hamsterwheel	11:32:59
>> That's OK then.	Free Thinking Doggie	11:40:43
>> Some great comments.	Free Thinking Doggie	11:11:55
Saw this striking image of Trump yesterday, thought, hmmm (quite a few things, air ... [more]	LP12	10:31:47
That's a relief then......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	08:24:26
>> I hate people who call electricity 'electric'. ...[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	08:51:44
>> Best thing about English is the way it changes, so tough!	Hamsterwheel	11:11:55
>> It's incorrect. And it's illiterate....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:14:49
>> I would get your money back on the shaver.	Denc 🗡	15:44:00
>> Not incorrect if in common usage, which it is.	Hamsterwheel	11:17:25
>> If I hear an individual use that phrase, I know they are not too bright. ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:23:23
>> Worrabout Gary?...[more]	Hamsterwheel	11:28:08
>> Good job you weren’t policing Shakespeare’s words.	Hamsterwheel	11:18:16
>> Priceless	JonH🍕	08:26:37
'Japan’s 30-year bond yield has spiked to 4.05% - the highest level on record. A ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	07:45:46
Angola - the new frontier for o&G...[more]	JonH🍕	07:18:13
>> So much for peak oil. We keep finding more.	Free Thinking Doggie	07:40:03
>> Peak oil was a lefty warmist con.	Denc 🗡	15:37:50
>> And peak demand - it is decades off. Meanwhile the diesel crack is now > crude itself....[more]	JonH🍕	07:42:31
>> Yes saw that regarding diesel. The global economy runs on diesel.	Free Thinking Doggie	07:46:44
>> Something big brewing for both oil and bond yields?	JonH🍕	08:18:09
>> Well Sept is known for volatility.	Free Thinking Doggie	08:22:26
ai world...[more]	🌞🤢	00:34:47
>> ai is destroying the internet. Still a good clip, but it is the worst thing to ... [more]	LP12	01:01:28
>> dunno about that 🤔 ...[more]	🌞🤢	01:20:27
>> I mean graphic/image and video modification in particular	LP12	09:19:39
>> In The Big Ball of Wax AI/virtual reality enables you to shag anyone you want with ... [more]	Denc 🗡	00:38:00
>> i'm sure it will...the tech can't be far away now	🌞🤢	00:43:38
>> Authorities will never permit such pleasures	Hamsterwheel	11:15:43
gotta love some of these tiktok floozies!...[more]	🌞🤢	00:27:41
>> Must have spent her divorce settlement already	Hamsterwheel	11:24:24
>> Very good. But apart from that what is she bringing I wonder. I would be prepared ... [more]	LP12	00:56:26
>> lol	🌞🤢	01:11:49
>> Honesty is the best policy, however, I didn’t hear ironing. So no thanks luv.	Denc 🗡	00:35:13
>> there is that 👍	🌞🤢	00:38:45
the extraordinary leaf sheep sea slug...[more]	🌞🤢	00:02:48
>> Yeah right.	Denc 🗡	00:20:35
>> Right ...[more]	Hamsterwheel	10:49:04
the economies of the eu 😄...[more]	🌞🤢	23:50:12
>> eu just bailed out Japan lol	LP12	00:22:21
>> apparently not...[more]	🌞🤢	00:30:45
>> right ...	LP12	00:39:31
>> It’s good because Japan is now cheap like Greece ( nearly)	Denc 🗡	00:34:09
word of the day...[more]	🌞🤢	23:35:35
another one with no beard...[more]	🌞🤢	23:31:12
>> Point of order on the technicals, at the end she says isn't it time we stand up ... [more]	LP12	00:18:18
>> Actually it’s time to shoot the politicians and have a coup.	Denc 🗡	00:23:21
>> It kind of actually is. Then lawyers/lawmakers on legal aid/human rights ... [more]	LP12	00:32:45
>> A benign dictator but I can’t think of anyone who could do it except me. And I ... [more]	Denc 🗡	00:29:27
>> Fear not, consultants such as ourselves would be needed. Wisdom, good taste ... [more]	LP12	00:36:43
>> you win 1st place for the best legs 😂	🌞🤢	00:34:14
>> A career as a drag artiste awaits	Hamsterwheel	10:50:34
>> Tarts legs. lol quite weird on an 80 year old northern knockabout.	Denc 🗡	01:17:43
>> definitely...there are women who'd die for legs like that!	🌞🤢	01:40:56
>> I wouldn’t mind an in depth meeting with Poppy. No beard - talks sense. My word I ... [more]	Denc 🗡	23:52:36
>> 🤪	🌞🤢	00:27:57
re how much did dougnut pay for his flat and look at the state of it here with this crap....[more]	LP12	21:50:07
>> I would not know what to do with myself in such a place. At least here I can cycle ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	08:48:31
>> I wouldn't mind a move, but the expenses of that are pretty high, unless I sell ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	08:54:02
>> Cheap French houses . It’s tempting to buy one just cos they are. You could do a ... [more]	Denc 🗡	22:01:04
>> Looks the part. I did see a nice place last night more in my price range. I ... [more]	LP12	22:15:47
>> Is that a well in the garden? Get some solar panels / batteries and you could ... [more]	JonH🍕	07:16:22
>> marked on advert, 69k. 8% fee on top of that. 5,500. 863€/sq m .. hardly ... [more]	LP12	10:25:34
>> from my calcs below fr house prices round here, up 6fold since ......[more]	LP12	21:59:51
>> which means if doughnut paid 40,000 for the flat it's now worth 240....[more]	LP12	22:04:31
>> Er... there was a parking garage offered with it for 25k back then. Eur 45k ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:42:51
>> Remember the pound to euro was 1.50 at the time so £ bought you more.	Denc 🗡	22:14:19
>> Was 1.59 when I was looking.	Free Thinking Doggie	07:19:16
>> Remember the pound to euro was 1.50 at the time so £ bought you more.	Denc 🗡	22:14:18
>> right. good point. So .. we could be looking at he had a budget of 45,000£, ... [more]	LP12	22:24:13
>> my guess is he paid around 120k and it's now worth around 500k!	🌞🤢	00:04:27
>> Getting warm. ...[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	06:19:13
>> I did look at another top floor apartment in the same street, was nice ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	07:42:09
>> I had some cash......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	07:28:59
>> when did you buy the flat in Islington, 199..6 I'm thinking. A good ... [more]	LP12	10:18:27
>> 1998. It was a steal at 84k. Nice Georgian building. everything ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:02:45
>> [ituh]	LP12	14:40:39
>> Some pretty significant falls happening on leasehold flats. Not just in London....[more]	JonH🍕	09:34:14
>> I'm too old to return to the UK. Well, maybe in an urn.	Free Thinking Doggie	11:06:35
>> Also it has changed so much that I'd feel like a tourist (which ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:30:33
>> No chance, way off, not even close, ur dreamin'!, give/over! come on!!	LP12	00:27:49
>> we will probably never know!	🌞🤢	01:28:31
>> Not that much. Go to green acres the French web site and check prices in Nice.	Denc 🗡	00:21:50
>> I know the area, not seafront but not very far from the beach. A bit ... [more]	Denc 🗡	23:47:55
re: the dead young cyclist. I think I did mention the exact same thing happened to a ... [more]	LP12	20:53:00
>> actually he might not have lived here in the village but did stuff here including ... [more]	LP12	21:04:33
>> Dangerous pastime…...[more]	Denc 🗡	21:13:55
>> ...	LP12	21:40:56
Muzzas hopping mad about BBQ ban...[more]	Hamsterwheel	19:55:36
>> I hope that was a bomb gone wrong.	Denc 🗡	20:51:09
>> And his bollox went with it.	Denc 🗡	21:10:18
re: 'Ukrainian Casualties & Ratio Dynamics Casualty Ratio: Driven heavily by ... [more]	LP12	19:45:53
>> wounded ....	LP12	19:49:10
Putin proudly stated that now "Russia has one of the lowest unemployment rates among ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	19:36:32
>> What’s the total population done?	Denc 🗡	20:24:55
>> AI thinks it’s declined by 3 million.	Denc 🗡	20:29:54
>> I would question whether Russia is a “ developed country “ It’s like India and ... [more]	Denc 🗡	20:31:53
>> In terms of raw materials and oil & gas, Russia is the richest country on ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:21:24
Cycled down the coast tonight. Set up my camping chair by the water's edge, not a ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	18:54:16
>> Theres There’s the difference see. Private sector, camper chair, public sector , ... [more]	Denc 🗡	01:14:40
A salutary tale. My mate ( the Harrow one ) had a nice life, living here on about ... [more]	Denc 🗡	18:01:36
>> How does a 63 year old still have a mortgage ?	Free Thinking Doggie	18:35:14
>> OK that's a choice but I wouldn't want to have a huge dept at that age.	Free Thinking Doggie	18:41:27
>> Indeed	Denc 🗡	18:53:48
>> Since 1975 I only bought houses for cash. And cars. Neither quite as good ... [more]	Denc 🗡	18:56:55
>> Lotta folk have got very used to low interest rates.	JonH🍕	19:11:20
>> Yeah, imagine the late 70s early 80s , 15% at times	Denc 🗡	19:19:02
>> Think anything close to 10% now would wreak havoc. High interest rates ... [more]	JonH🍕	19:35:52
>> Paid cash for my Nice place in 2003.	Free Thinking Doggie	19:05:37
>> I think i gave up asking how much	LP12	19:46:37
>> I remember sending him examples of flats at about £35_40 grand	Denc 🗡	20:24:03
>> Quite a lot more than that. A garage at that time was 25 - 35k.	Free Thinking Doggie	05:56:02
>> really, 03 u could get a .. 1bed 50 sq meter flat there 4that?!...[more]	LP12	21:26:50
>> My pad in the MBDA in 1999 was about £120 grand. Just ... [more]	Denc 🗡	22:05:00
>> Sold for €380,000 euros 11-12 years later.	Denc 🗡	22:05:59
>> My pad in the MBDA in 1999 was about £120 grand. Just ... [more]	Denc 🗡	22:04:54
>> 350K I mean ... this is UK prices almost if you take out the *o*l...[more]	LP12	21:38:37
>> They were cheap then so you did well.	Denc 🗡	19:10:16
>> Mates who started a finance co same time as we started CSY, lived in a ... [more]	Denc 🗡	19:04:46
>> I bought the first CSY house for £87,000. I spent about $120,000 ... [more]	Denc 🗡	19:09:41
>> Legend	JonH🍕	19:11:50
>> It’s really fairly simple stuff. People are greedy though. Want the ... [more]	Denc 🗡	19:15:09
>> As far as I recall I have bought only two new cars in my life, the ... [more]	Denc 🗡	19:17:32
>> The paint was 6 grand, auto similar, the cream leather was ... [more]	Denc 🗡	22:17:22
>> When I started CSY I arranged a £30,000 overdraft facility. I ... [more]	Denc 🗡	19:22:55
>> To be fair he does have 1million, plus a house to sell, and can start doing ... [more]	LP12	18:24:54