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I think what money really 'buys' you is more free time and the removal of stresses. Like others with kids, we couldn't just move anywhere, but we'd immediately go and get my wife and I new cars, throw in the job, then start to hire people to free up our time. So a chef, a gardener, a housekeeper, e...

I don’t think paying someone’s mortgage off or giving them 100k is going to turn them into Ferrari driving coke heads. It’s a gesture taking a big worry away from them and giving the people who deserve it some financial freedom. Until one half of the couple decides they don't want to do their shitt...

I think what money really 'buys' you is more free time and the removal of stresses. Like others with kids, we couldn't just move anywhere, but we'd immediately go and get my wife and I new cars, throw in the job, then start to hire people to free up our time. So a chef, a gardener, a housekeeper, e...

Being 100% honest, if I won I’d wait till I saw the money in my accounts then go see a few people who mean a lot to me and pay off houses, buy them cars, just stuff you otherwise wouldn’t be able to do. without a doubt, no point being minted if your close friends and family are struggling in any wa...

mik wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:14 am

IanF wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:59 am https://www.fourseasons.com/privatejet/journeys/

Maybe I'm weird but a lot of that does nothing for me. Part of the appeal of going places for me is in planning what I want to do, myself. And as mik says, sod sharing that experience with others (apart from maybe the wife)

So, breakdown cover (with RAC). Had a renewal quote 24% higher than last year. Was going to bin the renewal and go down the cashback route (currently c£140 off higher cover levels with AA and RAC), but that tends to necessitate switching cover provider and then doing the same year on year. Phoned RA...

Swervin_Mervin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:06 am Oh good. I look forward to our imminent renewal then. We're limited to who we can go with because of underpinning.

And there we go. A 50% increase. Lovely.

So, now to do the merry dance.

RAC renewal has come through as well and that's similarly eye-watering.

I took a more practical viewpoint, buying property is not the work of a moment so that rules that out (although I would start looking for the right places both home and abroad). I'd probably buy an M5CS, that can happily sit on my current drive for a few months and take me about on the day to day a...

What the...

I think if someone who is non local imposes a title for that group then it is deemed automatically offensive. See Eskimo and in more recent times the re-naming of mountains. This also brings up something quite interesting in our language in which we rename locations to presumably be able to pronoun...

Our new house was supposed to come without a washing machine - we have a recent Samsung which my wife likes so we’re not swapping to someone else’s cast-off. Normally I’m very happy connecting washing machines (invariably fixing someone’s previous bodged connection) but I’m stumped with this: https...

RIP

I take it he hadn't recovered from the cancer then? I must admit I thought he'd had the all clear.

Rich B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:58 pm Yippee, more over-styled shit boxes....

That's a concept in the attached article.

Reminds me - had a R4 behind us the other day and he was thraping it - comical lean angles as he came around a bend

I shouldn't really say it as I provide them, but what's the point in a landline in a house these days? I get the point that it often works even in a power cut, but that normally relies on you having a hard-wired phone, which few people do these days (and a VOIP phone won't do this), but otherwise w...

If it's any consolation I just had my full fibre connected and my phone has been OOS since. I've been advised to turn the router and grey box off for ten minutes, as a reset. Quite enjoying not getting spam calls though.. It's going to be great fun next year when they start stripping out the old li...

Well, this is going swimmingly well so far... :( 1 week since our number ported and still haven't got our setup working. And because we've picked a device that's not supported by IDNet (because I didn't want a shitty Yealink) we're having trouble getting any assistance from them The issue seems to b...

I like it, but it’s still big and heavy for a small car with not much space. A sliding rear seat so you can occasionally take rear passengers with actual legs would have been handy. Yeah - I guess they're gambling that for 99% of use cases the rear seat space will be less important than boot space....

I would still really like a Honda E - for driving into town, parking at the station or whatever. Keep it plugged in when at home so it's always ready to go. Same. And an i3. And probably one of these or A210 when they come along :lol: Simultaneously?! That would perhaps be a bit silly :lol: I've ju...

Jobbo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:52 pm I would still really like a Honda E - for driving into town, parking at the station or whatever. Keep it plugged in when at home so it's always ready to go.

Same. And an i3. And probably one of these or A210 when they come along