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    [Finance] What is the best or worst career decision you've ever made?

    Best was moving from Managing a Team in Operations to working on Strategy, technical projects, snd representing the organisation on European Projects. Worst was hanging around after losing my role in a restructure and trying to get Voluntary Redundancy. I had big mortgage, no savings and 3...
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    [Travel] car/mpv hire - Rome sept

    I've hired from Rome Ciampino airport twice before. Avis, enterprise, dollar, etc, check the rates. Wasn't too bad a price 6 or 7 years ago. Be careful you photograph condition and any blemishes, but saying that I didn't have any problems. Traffic on Ring Road was surprisingly OK, much less...
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    [Albion] Modestly good moments at the Amex

    The Burnley game for me. The atmosphere in the second half was something else, and as said earlier, was when we, the fans took the Amex as our ground. Never to be forgotten.
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    [Albion] FA Cup 4th round ticket sales

    Just brought the 2 seats next to me for my daughter and her boyfriend. Their first visit to the Amex:). No queue but a few tickets shifted in the 15 minutes between me asking and her confirming she is up for it.
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    [Finance] How to get pre-paid MasterCard balance to a bank account?

    Can't you use it for internet food shopping? Sounds like you can draw down the amount and don't have to spend all the £100 at the same time, so a couple of food shops and you've saved your £100. Or just use it to buy a few birthday or early Xmas presents thus saving £100 worth of future...
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    [Finance] How to get pre-paid MasterCard balance to a bank account?

    Surely as a prepaid mastercard it should be accepted at all places that take mastercard, i.e petrol stations etc. If you can't use it in store then how are you supposed to spend it?
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    [Football] Potter [NOT] at Chelsea

    So Chelsea lose to Fulham and we have a new dilemma. Do we want Palace to lose, or spank Chelsea and see the once great Graham struggling for survival ???!!! Oh happy days..
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    [Brighton] Dryrobe 'culture war': which side are you on?

    Given the weather last night I fully understand anyone wearing anything that keeps them dry and warm. Presume those on display had the waterproof outer, and not the full towelling ones!
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    [Film] Best films with one word titles.

    WALL.E Carrie
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    [Misc] I have £160 John Lewis vouchers - what shall I buy?

    New earphones. If you truly don't need anything then buy food and donate it to your local food bank. They and the users will really appreciate it.
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    [News] Greta 1 v 0 Tate

    It gets better. Apparently Andrew Tate's video reply to Greta Thunberg's put down was filmed in the house he was living in and he'd left a pile of pizza boxes on the table. The boxes had the address of the Romanian Pizza shop visible, which police used to track him down and arrest him. Greta...
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    [News] Charging guests for Christmas dinner

    My wife's great grandmother apparently used to 'charges' her children when they came to eat. To be fair they were extremely poor, and some of this would have been during rationing, when It was much harder to get hold of food let alone worry about the cost of it. But in this day and age, you do...
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    [Music] Headphones 2022... State of The Nation

    Are the Sony WF-1000XM4 as good as the magazine reviews? I'm looking for something for my son, but don't want to replicate my airpod pros 2 as he'll nick mine when he cant find his. He's a radio producer, so vocals, good noise cancelling and good ear fit for running are important.
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    [Music] Headphones 2022... State of The Nation

    I've not tried any planar magnetic or dynamic drivers, but I do hear good things. My Stax were an ebay punt and needed £80 of tweaking from a specialist to get the balance on the energiser right, but now they sound amazing. A good mate used to have some serious high end Stax Headphones when...
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    [Music] Headphones 2022... State of The Nation

    Apple airpods pro 2 on the move and a pair of vintage Electrostatic Stax SR5 for the HiFi. Like Bozza I'd tried a couple of sets of cheap ear buds and was so disappointed. A small bonus from work and I treated myself to the Airpods pro 2 and haven't looked back.
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    [Finance] Paying energy bills by direct debit - scam?

    This is pretty much the same as me. My monthly bill of £260 (smart meter & dual fuel) came in yesterday, but I'm still £960 in credit with a monthly DD of £192 (after the govt £67 is knocked off). But with this cold snap and a low power generation from my solar panels, big bills for Dec / Jan...
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    [Finance] Paying energy bills by direct debit - scam?

    Be very aware of this report. The following appears at the end of the BBC news website:- ' The experiment was only able to produce enough energy to boil about 15-20 kettles and required billions of dollars of investment. And although the experiment got more energy out than the laser put in...
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    [Albion] Faulty Boiler question

    It must be the programmer not linking with the boiler properly. The boiler only fires and runs or not, the programmer (and thermostat(s) tells it when to fire and when to stop. Best get a plumber or electrician in.

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