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Nefarious wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 7:43 am So was the whole Greenland thing just another insider trading scam like the first round of tariffs?

Look for his links to Ronald Lauder.....

In a similarly "unbelievably cheap" vein, I watched a program over Christmas about the Oslo to Bergen Train. You can stay in a Hotel up in the Hardanger Plateau (For military historians, that Hardanger Plateau from Operation Grouse / Heavy Water Operation) for Christmas - 7 days, all meals ...

That's not far from me, and cheaper than some in the area.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

That'd also work well as an AirBnB type place.

Although 2nd bedroom doesn't need a window it won't get signed off as a bedroom without one, so couldn't be marketed as a 2 bed flat in the future

Depending on the size of the rooms, and how much work you want to put in:
Keep the back bedroom
Turn bathroom and kitchen into 2nd bedroom
Pinch the top part of the living room to create a shower room
Remove chimney breast from living room to help add an L shaped kitchen
Remove dividing wall ...

Depending on the size of the rooms, and how much work you want to put in:
Keep the back bedroom
Turn bathroom and kitchen into 2nd bedroom
Pinch the top part of the living room to create a shower room
Remove chimney breast from living room to help add an L shaped kitchen
Remove dividing wall between ...

Indeed. And likely lower pay rises, etc.

Edit: possibly those employers who are generous enough to offer an amount great than the auto enrollment minimum but re-think, so potentially a reduction there

Yes, but the amount you sacrifice still goes fully into your pension. You (and your employer) just get a hit in the pocket, unless you decide to reduce your contributions, which may well happen of course. I'd bet the bigger knock on effect will be how employers try and save the extra NI costs that ...

It's been poorly explained by the govt. but it shouldn't result in less going into your pension, unless your employer was giving you the NI savings as well, surely?

Does 100% coverage mean buttering both sides?

Closest we've had in recent years was 2020 when Pogacar got the better of Roglic on the penultimate stage TT and took the race lead.

I enjoyed that! Great crowds, good to see there were no accidents. The wet weather added another dimension - as Ned and David said, WvA was able to take more risks on the downhill wet bits - as well as having less to lose than TP at that point (he still had to finish, right, to win the GC, even ...

It was originally 120km or so, now down to 95km-ish.

It does lend itself to more attacking racing, especially between Red bull & PostalNI, but UAE & Visma will probably want to try and control things

Still, should be a good watch again

I reckon Lipo & Onley, and Roglic to an extent fighting it out as well. There's still the Col du Pre & Cormet de Roseland first, so UAE and Visma going full gas up those will thin things out pretty quickly leaving the leaders to fight it out to the finsh if they want. Will be interesting to see ...

Shortened stage today, reckon it'll be flat out racing to the finish.

https://www.letour.fr/en/news/2025/chan ... ne/1331722

All sorts of combinations of who needs to attack and who needs to chase.

Another great stage of racing

He properly took him out.

One of the comments suggested a baton through the spokes would be the better option

Couple of big mountain days coming up, Vingegaard will be going on the attack for sure.

Yeah it was pretty epic

Was Wout van Aert looking across going 'damn, you beat me', or 'WTF are you celebrating like that for, it's only third, mate'?
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/from-a-dislocated-shoulder-to-thinking-he-had-won-the-stage-julian-alaphilippes-wild-day-in-the-tour-de-france-breakaway/


Probably both ...