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Post by crabbyoldgit on Apr 8, 2024 19:22:16 GMT
Marginally good personal news for me, with today's 2 capital repayments my lifetime interest repayments now just exceed my remaining stake in the site including non recoverable loans.So if I now lose the remaining lot completely I can delude myself Peer to peer cost me nothing.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Apr 6, 2024 19:31:02 GMT
Just had a call from Microsoft about a virus I have picked up, difficult I do not have any windows based devices. Has nobody on the planet not been tried to scam with this old chestnut or is not aware of the scam, god the daughter of an African general will offer me money to get her dead father's money out of her country next or similar .
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Mar 28, 2024 19:23:52 GMT
Seems to me that the present lesson of the Ukraine Russian conflict is the dominant killing weapons are not expensive super machines of neither side but cheap knock off drones that can be printed in an almost a cottage industry setting at very low cost, in large quantities. The big ticket items may take out important targets but on the ground and its boots on the ground that counts, the drone is the new King. Also this is first generation war drones ,mainly based on cheap Chinese recreational kit, but even these are carrying larger munitions further, for longer than only a couple of years ago. Soon as swarming capability software is integrated into the control function watch out nothing within range will be safe.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Mar 28, 2024 18:37:29 GMT
Russians reported to have lost another su35 to friendly fire, cannot see what's exactly friendly about that but,hey ho
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Mar 27, 2024 19:06:11 GMT
Mse suggests fixing. I'm with octopus on standard tariff using about 2000kw a year. May go up as I might drop use of log burner. Is it really worth fixing? Mogish if you are planning to space heat using electricity your consumption is not going to go up by a bit unless you live in a shoe box or heat to 10'c. Keep the log burner .
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Mar 22, 2024 21:51:11 GMT
So have I got this right , the orange man is going to sell a company at an inflated artificial value to pay a fine for valueing other assets/companies he owns at inflated, artificial value so as to get low interest loans fraudulently. Learnt a lot from experience has he not.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Mar 12, 2024 18:21:31 GMT
Absolutely it's well known world wide he is one of worlds biggest dicks.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Feb 25, 2024 18:04:10 GMT
If she is that scary, Ukraine's secret weapon, send her back enlist her and Putin finished.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Feb 14, 2024 11:19:59 GMT
God it gets worse , just found out Steve Wright was a tta (trainee technical apprentice) with post office telephones same as me, joined probably same day in 1971 .Off to arrange my funeral .
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Feb 14, 2024 11:16:07 GMT
Nothing again same as last 30 odd years . Anybody want to give some away
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Feb 13, 2024 19:09:15 GMT
Very good memories, Saturday and Sunday hauling lobster pots at the Hood entrance Portland 1/2 speed listening to Steve , very funny , 4 or 5 lobsters in the boat and then a quick shower off to the pub payed for with a few whelks and crabs to the waiting regulars. Such simple easy times , long gone and now regulated for ever into the past But bugger 69 my age ,feeling very mortal.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Feb 8, 2024 9:26:25 GMT
A fee for over one withdraw a month would be acceptable to me, it's what I do. I can also see a deterrent to prevent people withdrawing very small amounts every day is not unreasonable , it costs to do anything. But one free withdraw every 3 months does not aline with AC requests to actively manage money in your cash account out of the platform.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Jan 30, 2024 19:27:53 GMT
Can someone please enlighten me why we have to accept boiler needs to be replaced after 10-15 years when well maintained cars last longer for decades? Is it because the manufacturers stop certain parts to increase sales? Is there any part in the boiler can’t be fixed after certain time? Or is it our gas engineers aint capable fixing a broken boilers? Simple our average gas engineers ain't capable or interested in repairing any boiler fault , evidence well I work 3 ish days a month repairing/ servicing fish and chipfryers and about a year ago we had a full day inspection by a a gas safe inspector who was more than impressed with our technical knowledge and standards , in a frank and honest talk he gave a appaling review of the maintainace skills of the average boiler installers. Repairers technicians they ain't at any standard and having gone to some of the chip shop sites they have without the required training or certification to work on I will not allow any of them to work in my house unless I watch over there work. The last idiot thought a full service was plugging in a gas flue gas tester and that was it, 75 quid good by, was horrified when I made him do a full proper service to the manufacturer spec. It's simple, change a boiler like ish for like , one days work with the discount trade on the boiler 1000 pound gross profit , I joke not. Fitted at a reasonable standard the garrentee say 5 years is the manufacturers, their engineer will attend no further responsibility take the money and run. Yes parts are available and cheap and fittable , ok some boiler models are just and repairing would just open up a future liability to the customer that is bad news but they are few and far between. So let's say your expansion tank is gone it's a time limited bit of kit and it's an absolute bitch to change in your particular boiler, 5 hrs a nuts time, say 500 quid plus parts say 75 quid compared to an instant 1000 pounds no come back no responsibility. Just to give a view a friend, qualified boiler man who comes to me to fault boilers who the customer insists are repaired and it is a bit unusual in it's symptoms, attended a couple of years ago a local caravan holiday site who opened up there units and got caught by an unexspected freeze, 4 like for likes replacement boilers a day made him near 30000 quid in two weeks, say no more. Ficationbeen servicing
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Jan 29, 2024 18:13:46 GMT
Sadly the truth is most gas engineers have few faulting skills or interest in repairing any boiler. They are boiler fitters and can make far more money with much less risk or hassle just replacing old for new. My boiler 7years old is starting to drop the hot water temp and its temp also fluctuates a bit, I live in a very hard water area and the odds are the plate heat exchanger is scaled up to a degree. Part is 30 quid maybe 2 hrs work. Three gas safe engineers asked for price , you need a new boiler mate is the price in every case. Diagnosed remotely over the phone no visit required. Next door had a boiler replacement for a failed expansion tank, if they did not want to replace the one within the boiler they could have fitted an external one along side in the garage.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Jan 20, 2024 15:36:59 GMT
Except of course the vice captain of the team in possession of the ball at present is the captain of AC, an interested party. Let's see more attacking drive and goal scoring play from his lead and influence in the team play.
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