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Yeah, I was just being a bit facetious with passengers.

Well, there was no compunction to retain funds in an account in those days, so I imagine that money has long since been spent. But I agree with you. For GBP 17T or so, of much more concern to me is the rate at which funds are transferred. The 800b on my account went in at just over 46 a few years ago. The rate is now bumbling around 41/42, so to do monthly transfers at that rate plus charges is more costly. I can live on other savings plus low top ups but unlike with monthly transfers I can sit there and wait for an appreciation in the rate. Heineken is right that savings rates are better in the U.K. but even they are slipping right back gradually. On GBP 17,000 it's hardly a king's ransome. And there are other factors like convenience, legality, quick access to funds, opening UK fixed deposits etc. It's really horses for courses and everyone has different needs, so I wouldn't criticize anyone's methods. If the exchange rates plummet or they change the rules I might think differently but at the moment I'm content with my situation.

Actually a dollar and a half to enter a tree museum isn't a bad deal. 🙂 But we digress.

Passengers is such a silly word anyway. Who passenges by train? You travel by train. If u have to change it just use the word travellers which includes everyone without perceived prejudice.

You must be new to the old man, expat whining forum. Lol. It's all done to aggravate and divide.

The Foundations. God, my memory is awful. Getting old.

No. Mod/Ska/TwoTone. The Specials were a multicultural group, a response to racist stereotypes much like The Equals and another group whose name eludes me at the moment in the 60s. Not everyone with a short haircut is a skinhead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_power_skinhead Some were. Big enough to be a violent movement that spread across Europe.

Well that's diplomatic. Lol I don't think you quite understand what diplomacy is.

A reminder if needed.

So what's to stop Trump in 30 days saying, right, now we've got this we want this and we're re-instating tariffs until we get it. You can't bow down to bullies. They'll just get worse.

Whatever your views on Rowling she's crossed a line there. Saying that Norton supports rape and death threats is potentially libelous. She's made the mistake of imagining that free speech allows wrongful personal attacks, something that she's always complained about herself. Laurence Fox for one found that out to his cost. But I imagine that Rowling is now too rich to sue.

Is this true? Up until I left for Thailand I was commuting from the suburbs to the City. I did that for 28 years. Long before I left, station announcements were calling passengers the more cynical 'customers', which irked a few frail souls. Did they change back to passengers? I can assure you that the average commuter couldn't care less what they were called as long as there was a seat and the trains ran on time.

I apologize. I think I got that from another poster. However, arriving is not a crime. Trying to stay in the country without processing is. That's why the 20% increase in those processed and deported is better news.

And there we have it ladies and gentlemen. What this is all about in reality. It's not concerned citizens worrying about our country. It's racism and bigotry. Thanks,Tommy.

A 20% increase in deportations doesn't mean 80% of arrivals haven't been deported. Lol. It means a 20% increase in the number of deportations above what the Tory party were managing. Clearly with the legacy of the Tories system of trying to gather them up and transport them to Rwanda, it's going to take time to get this done. I'm sure that if they implemented your hate filled and inhumane system of turning guns on them it would be quicker. Incidentally, before Brexit we had the right to return any immigrants that arrived from an EU country back to that country for processing. That has now gone. I'm all for deporting illegal immigrants but Brexit and the Tories have made it harder. Fact.

Charming.

It made me laugh when he posted a speech by Stalin. He seems blissfully unaware that Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda was Stalin's Marxist Head of Secret Police. Well, he was until he had him shot. I wonder if they're related. 🙂

I have no idea what you're on about above. Once again, who are you calling paedophiles? Your evasion of the answer is quite telling.

It's a simple question. Show your cards.

It's a bit rich (sic) of The Telegraph to criticize the rise of median prices for houses when they're bemoaning the end of double-digit price rises for property this year on their money page. Affordable housing is probably the most crucial issue for the young now, and the problem can only be rectified by getting wages higher and housing costs lower.

Just to be clear. Who are you calling paedophiles?

I haven't tried this one yet. I did try the Snowy Weizen but I was a bit dissappointed. The Snowy IPA is good though.

Lol. Thank you. I avidly await your next grunt.

What nonsense. A beer expert who can't tell the difference between water and Guinness is obviously not a beer expert. Or appreciates beer. Or has any taste buds.