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Rds1983

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  1. I'm not an accountant or financial advisor so couldn't say for certain. Just recommending you speak to one beforehand to make sure it's done right. Spend a little to save a lot kinda thing.
  2. There was zero balance to the midfield playing Gerrard, Beckham and Lampard together (even worse when Scholes was added in). They all wanted to be in the same areas of the pitch and to be the star of the team. Add in a Carrick or someone to sit behind them and play more of a diamond and it might have worked, but even then I think the egos and club rivalries would have got in the way.
  3. If you do decide to sell your house to your kids, assuming that you do it on the cheap then make sure you consider the potential tax implications.
  4. The next two week's of work are only 4 days long each, as there's a 4 day weekend in the middle.
  5. Same. I realised about a decade ago it would be worthless (mostly through my wife nagging) so pumped money into private pensions. Whenever I got a parish or promotion I'd pop part of it in to the pot. Think I'm currently on about 17% of salary which helps. One of my colleagues is on a final salary pension scheme though, she told me she'd just ticked into £1m in total which is ridiculous and something I'll never get near.
  6. This seems to be the key bit from what I've seen. My in laws don't really do anything but spend time with each other, no social clubs or part time jobs/hobbies etc. They see us and my brother in laws family but that's only two or three times a month at most (we live the closest but it's still 20 miles away).
  7. I think the issue people have with them is now a lack of trust. They invested years in watching season after season of the show, investing time and emotion into the characters and storyline, for a show many saw as the best ever, only to then feel betrayed at the final moment because the producer's had something better to do and phoned it in. A bad analogy but imagine it's the last game of the season, we're challenging for 4th and only need a point. Then the lineup is announced and we have a squad full of u18s and get tonked, all because the main players all went out partying the night before.
  8. That was a regular walk for us before we moved to Cheshire. Last time we walked across from Dick Hudsons and took in the various sites, we got to the Cow just as a rock climber fell off the top and broke their leg. Horrible sound. Rombald's being on the doorstep is one of the few things I miss from living in Riddlesden (that and Shimla Spice being on the door).
  9. That at the Cow and Calf?
  10. This sounds ideal. My concerns about it when I eventually retire are based off seeing multiple family members (on my wife's side too), who seemed to start deteriorating (physically and mentally) when they retired. It was like they'd aged 15 years in about 3. It might be coincidental but it also seemed to be the trigger for my Mother In Laws dementia, like once she wasn't using her brain for work it just kinda stopped working properly.
  11. I was disappointed when I discovered that the American game I'd seen on TV and was for hardcore drinkers, namely Edward 40 hands. Only involved drinking 4 pints of average (for the UK) strength beer (5%+). There's probably 12 year olds in the UK who could do that.
  12. Missed 'X number of football pitches' for size.
  13. I dont want Trump to win, but I'm also not comfortable with the fact that he's likely to lose because he has raised less money. Elect the best candidate/party for the job, not the one who is best at fundraising/lobbying.
  14. Why did you watch it again if you hated it?
  15. Data Quality is important so it's key to have a consistent naming approach (ensures it's always pulled through on any MI reports etc). Not actually copying what the Co call themselves is weird though.
  16. I called it on here year's ago (and was laughed at) that we were heading towards having a group of about 25/26 clubs that basically rotate between the top two leagues. The money is making it harder and harder for Championship clubs to compete and it's only getting worse.
  17. I'm watching DS9 again having done TNG recently. As much as I love TNG, I think I actually prefer DS9. The best contrast for me between DS9 and TNG, is the reaction you have when you realise it's a Ferengi episode. Either utter joy or utter despair.
  18. Enterprise did have the single best end to a Star Trek show ever though with killing a main character and Riker on the Holodeck. No wait. Hang on. That's backwards. That ending was flipping awful. I will give Enterprise some credit though. It's better than Discovery.
  19. No doubt will be a Birmingham Mail headline in the next few days.
  20. You know Stoke is a dump when it makes Crewe look nice.
  21. Weekly episodes and adverts. Streaming platforms forgetting what made them successful in the first place.
  22. I guess there's no right answer that makes everybody happy everytime. Just need to try and listen to other people's point of view, have an open mind and try to compromise. If anyone figure's out how to make this work for the world at large, let me know.
  23. She was very thin to begin with. That carrier bag she was carrying was probably to stop her blowing away.
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