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    [Sussex] Nextdoor local message board....

    The asking for a nominal amount for stuff you should be giving away free is to get rid of wannabe Del Boy types who take EVERYTHING and end up dumping what they can't then sell wherever they can get rid of it for free - ditches, playing fields, whatever. But even then, 50p is your nominal...
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    [Albion] Imagine being called this

    I'm fairly sure there's *someone* in Newscorp who knows a lot about Australian property, but he might not be that interested in doing journalistic work!
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    [Albion] Imagine being called this

    They list plenty of people who don't disclose details; but generally they have known holdings in listed companies or have made declarable share sales etc so they can extrapolate from that. Only the more attention seeking give info, usually bollox too I'd expect.
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    **** Official middle-aged man's Craft Beer thread ****

    The few % market share seems to have rattled the bigger brewers hugely. Heineken knock out some awful ales with rip-off branding from established craft producers here and C&C (Tennants, Magners etc) produce fake "local" branding for their own piss-poor ale and generic lager to try get the...
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    [Finance] How much can you live on ?

    Had to do some severe belt tightening a few years ago as my partner went back to college and there wasn't an option of taking on debt. Freesat/Freeview for TV; SIM-only phone; Lidl/Aldi/greengrocers/ethnic supermarkets instead of Tesco all came in and I still do the lot of them despite the tap...
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    [Politics] Thread closed ???

    Until the early 1990s SF didn't talk on a constructive basis to anyone - well, officially. There were back channel conversations going on but little was ever achieved and SF and later the DUP only went to the table when they thought they might get left behind. Eventually the SDLP and the UUP...
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    [News] RIP Avicci

    Going to guess at potential liability for a prescribing doctor. Its a UK inquest due to dying in the UK and I don't know the rules about them. Was only 46 because she was VERY young compared to the rest of the band - came in to an existing band as a new singer/songwriter when she was still in...
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    [Offers] Mostly legal and mostly pikey ways you have saved money

    Until you eventually get sick of having spiced turkey sausage rolls three meals a day? Having 366 Starbucks or Subway cards gets a similar bonus, until the staff notice you. Or so I've been told!
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    [News] RIP Avicci

    Avicii retired from most stuff a few years ago due to chronic health issues, presume they caught up with him. Hugely succesful and a crossover act at that - did a few semi-country tracks that shifted huge volumes. Relatively young and the inquest has been adjourned repeatedly but media...
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    [Albion] Porto

    Despite the general disdain for Spain the Spanish games on may take precedence; its on SportTV3 and they do seem to use the channel numbers for importance. Would go a bit away from the centre to find bars more likely to show it; there isn't really the central tourist huge bar district that...
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    [Offers] Mostly legal and mostly pikey ways you have saved money

    Years back there used to be an engineer code number that went straight to the Eircom (BT equivalent ex-govt owned telco in Ireland) dialup ISP, but for free. Worked great on landlines, but I used a new entrant mobile firm that just threw hard to handle numbers out to the local exchange to their...
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    [Offers] Mostly legal and mostly pikey ways you have saved money

    Years back there used to be an engineer code number that went straight to the Eircom (BT equivalent ex-govt owned telco in Ireland) dialup ISP, but for free. Worked great on landlines, but I used a new entrant mobile firm that just threw hard to handle numbers out to the local exchange to their...
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    [News] Return of the Milk bottle.

    Useless milkman. Still have delivery here but the glass bottles went away in the early 1990s; Tetrapaks are delivered ~7am. After breakfast they may as well not delivery.
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    [Misc] Where is the strangest place you have ever bumped into someone you know?

    KFC on the Damrak in Amsterdam, group of about 10 I was in secondary school with.
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    Bell Cheeses at work

    Senior management have decided that everyone should be ITIL certified. Because Thatcher-era British government practices are a thing to aspire to, clearly. So far they've managed to send nearly everyone who has any managerial work to do on the course, as well as most senior engineers. As a...
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    [Albion] Jurgen Locadia is an actual RECORDING ARTIST.

    I would have considered it closer to electro-house, at least the chart electro-house of a few years ago. Too slow for trance for starters.
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    [Misc] I'm a real man. Simple things you've done that makes you feel like a god

    Replaced the drain hose on my dishwasher - connected internally and an absolute bollox to get out/get the new one in. I do have an engineering degree of sorts but now nearly entirely do non-physical or managerial gubbins work so it felt far more important than it really was.
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    Bell Cheeses at work

    Most of my team in work have the cameras taped over on their laptops due to an incident that's only spoken about in hushed tones and even I haven't managed to figure out properly after 18 months. Safe to say that it involved Lync, a group meeting, a video presentation and "something" that I...
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    [Misc] Best bargains you've found

    A house in need of a deep clean that was so nasty to be in that it scared away all the other potential buyers. About 100k sterling then and after about 20ks work it'd be about 250k now. Beats the majority of Homes Under The Hammer profits easily. On a cheaper level, a 2005 bottle of Jameson 18...
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    Dublin / Ireland any must see do things?

    Finished in December. That was 4 grim years of grumbling about why the hell we ever got rid of the original tram system in the first place.

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