Aardvark
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Post by Aardvark on Sept 3, 2022 10:29:33 GMT 1
There must be cheaper ways to convert water into urine.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2022 11:32:34 GMT 1
There must be cheaper ways to convert water into urine. I'm sure there are thousands of ways, including drinking water but who wants rusty innards. Have you seen the contents of a radiator after a year. Beurk.
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Post by pcpa on Sept 3, 2022 13:22:37 GMT 1
I've seen the contents of my puit, marginally more appealing than the contents of the fosse!
If you can hold off having a vidange for a year whilst drinking 20 pints a week-end thats very impressive, my radiators in the UK have the same water + Fernox that I filled them with 36 years ago. Not quite true as I had to drain down some to fit a combi boiler but used the same mix to refill.
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Aardvark
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Post by Aardvark on Sept 3, 2022 16:55:28 GMT 1
Fernox and a slice of lemon, Sir?
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Post by Nifty on Sept 4, 2022 7:07:24 GMT 1
Guinness & Orange please.
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Post by jardiniere on Sept 4, 2022 10:59:45 GMT 1
My pension goes into my UK building society account and I don't suffer the exchange rate until I transfer it to my French bank. Timing of the exchange is therefore in my hands. Tried that a few years ago and realised I wasn't temperamentally suited. Plagued with indecision about when would be the right time. Then eventually having no choice because the euros were running out. Now it's just que sera, sera.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2022 23:00:08 GMT 1
Nationwide is the UK's biggest building society. 22€ down on last month on a partial UK state pension. I'd guess that's about 35€ on a full pension. That was today. Stand by for even lower pensions next time round. £1 = 1.14€. Gotta love a PM that goes directly for devaluation. Watch the UK flourish as the new Bangladesh.
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Post by tim17 on Sept 17, 2022 6:26:01 GMT 1
Nationwide is the UK's biggest building society. 22€ down on last month on a partial UK state pension. I'd guess that's about 35€ on a full pension. That was today. Stand by for even lower pensions next time round. £1 = 1.14€. Gotta love a PM that goes directly for devaluation. Watch the UK flourish as the new Bangladesh. Having a source of income affected by currency fluctuations is always a risk, I can't imagine many people were complaining when it was at 1.45.
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Post by houpla on Sept 17, 2022 7:00:48 GMT 1
The double whammy, though, is that it's coupled with a hike in the cost of living here.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2022 11:37:03 GMT 1
Stand by for even lower pensions next time round. £1 = 1.14€. Gotta love a PM that goes directly for devaluation. Watch the UK flourish as the new Bangladesh. Having a source of income affected by currency fluctuations is always a risk, I can't imagine many people were complaining when it was at 1.45. That's a crazy statement. That's like saying the oil price is volatile so folk should accept €2 a litre because it use to be 95c and everyone was happy. And actually those of us in the Eurozone long enough probably were complaining at 1.45 because at that point the slide in the value of sterling was well underway. Goodness me, happy people don't complain. What a revelation.
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Post by tim17 on Sept 17, 2022 11:52:32 GMT 1
Having a source of income affected by currency fluctuations is always a risk, I can't imagine many people were complaining when it was at 1.45. That's a crazy statement. That's like saying the oil price is volatile so folk should accept €2 a litre because it use to be 95c and everyone was happy. And actually those of us in the Eurozone long enough probably were complaining at 1.45 because at that point the slide in the value of sterling was well underway. Goodness me, happy people don't complain. What a revelation. I'm off to the US in a few days time and both the £ and Euro have tanked against the $ so it's going to cost me more, should I whinge about it or is it the risk I took when I booked the holiday?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2022 12:23:36 GMT 1
That's a crazy statement. That's like saying the oil price is volatile so folk should accept €2 a litre because it use to be 95c and everyone was happy. And actually those of us in the Eurozone long enough probably were complaining at 1.45 because at that point the slide in the value of sterling was well underway. Goodness me, happy people don't complain. What a revelation. I'm off to the US in a few days time and both the £ and Euro have tanked against the $ so it's going to cost me more, should I whinge about it or is it the risk I took when I booked the holiday? That's your choice but in my opinion you and everyone else should "moan" or "whinge" because anything else is acceptance of a shit situation. There's a big difference between your US situation and someone living month to month seeing their meagre income diminish month on month because of economic and political incompetence in the UK. I'll remind you that the UK government has been sitting on its hands for three months now.
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Post by ForumUser2 on Sept 17, 2022 12:24:23 GMT 1
That's a crazy statement. That's like saying the oil price is volatile so folk should accept €2 a litre because it use to be 95c and everyone was happy. And actually those of us in the Eurozone long enough probably were complaining at 1.45 because at that point the slide in the value of sterling was well underway. Goodness me, happy people don't complain. What a revelation. I'm off to the US in a few days time and both the £ and Euro have tanked against the $ so it's going to cost me more, should I whinge about it or is it the risk I took when I booked the holiday? Whinge. Nobody will listen but you'll feel better.
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Post by tim17 on Sept 17, 2022 14:01:10 GMT 1
I'm off to the US in a few days time and both the £ and Euro have tanked against the $ so it's going to cost me more, should I whinge about it or is it the risk I took when I booked the holiday? That's your choice but in my opinion you and everyone else should "moan" or "whinge" because anything else is acceptance of a shit situation. There's a big difference between your US situation and someone living month to month seeing their meagre income diminish month on month because of economic and political incompetence in the UK. I'll remind you that the UK government has been sitting on its hands for three months now. Neither you nor I can do anything about the inactivity or incompetence of the UK government so in reality acceptance is a given, whinging from afar changes nothing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2022 16:18:31 GMT 1
You maybe. Not me.
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