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Yes, maybe it is Karma - who knows.

Over 25 years ago where I was living there used to be a well known Porsche driving drug dealer. A nasty piece of work.

Around 6 year's ago, I was in my GP surgery waiting room, & who came hobbling in on crutches looking very ill?

The same person who was a scourge all those years ago.

I was gratified.

1 minute ago, simon43 said:

Commenting on the Himalayan salt sub-sub-topic, see Sheryl's excellent post above.  Salt is broken down into the 2 ions Sodium and Chloride.

 

For crystal shards of salt to possibly form, one would need these ions to recombine somehow in the blood into salt crystals.  How many atoms are there in 1 salt crystal? ==> about 1.2x1018 atoms, according to a web link that I found.  That's a lot of salt-recombining.....

 

What is different about Himalayan pink salt and 'ordinary' Sodium Chloride salt is that the former has very small quantities of trace elements which give it its pink colour.

Thank you Simon & Sheryl....let's wait for his reply.

"All the money I have now came from illegal activities back home."

Trolling is illegal in your country, and you make money from it??

22 minutes ago, sanemax said:

I'm "there" at the moment actually , its quite nice , we have computers and everything , no sign of the 72 virgins though

Wait for a  knock on the door.....

1 minute ago, Tug said:

Wow it’s come a long way since Sputnik!

I remember it well.

Or not.....?

Ok, ok, can we calm down on the squabbling, please?

13 minutes ago, zyphodb said:

I hope he has some understanding, reasonably well off relatives in the UK, or he could end up even worse off than here. The present government certainly won't help him in any way, shape or form.

    Anyone tried sleeping rough in an English winter? 

I haven't no, but young, homeless people die in UK town's & cities every year in the winter, from exposure.

Doo nang.

28 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Homelessness is more a mental health problem than a lack of money problem.

If you relocate them, they just drift into the same life in another part of the world.

Not at all.

If someone does fall on hard times, & becomes homeless it is very difficult to get accommodation.

What happens if someone like him, has no surviving relatives, or friends or any money to get back to their home?

Surely they can't stay in the IDC 'til they die?

4 minutes ago, giddyup said:

You mean there's no roof where he's living, and if it rains at least his head is dry?

Possibly, but I wouldn't know.

3 minutes ago, Essex Reject said:

Looking at those pics this is about as bad as it gets.

 

I use to wonder how on earth people could get into such a mess but can see now that some bad luck, bad decisions etc, and it can happen.

A neighbour of my parents - over 25 years ago, very wealthy, got into gambling. His boat went, then his business & then, the marital home.

8 hours ago, emptypockets said:

curries....in Thailand....5555 that's a first!!!

Live in Thailand do you....555?

1 hour ago, Dene16 said:

As i stated before 3 days (from UK), money arrives at transferwise within minutes, receiving an email to verify that it has arrived.

i should mention that lately i have had the odd occasion when it was 2 days

I Have received emails that it will arrive the next day (to Thailand) but are just computer generated and means nothing

I find it hard to believe what faraday is saying as i have probably used them about 100 times with the same results and others have verified this time scale on here before 

Just noted someone else has verified faraday's statement could be the bank in thailand that is the problem?

 

I transfer money every month for living expenses.

Most times I do the transfer at around 6am, & the money is always in my account the same day by 14:15.

I once had an issue of it being a day late, because of a special Buddha day. When I moaned at TW, they explained that the delay was here. The answered very quickly.

Do you transfer the money directly from your a/c or use your UK debit card, the latter can take longer?

1 minute ago, Dene16 said:

i have used transferwise for years and never received the money in under 3 days

I would ask TransferWise why it takes so long.

1 minute ago, PEE TEE said:

Do you wear a mask when you go into town

Yes, & have duct tape, some rope & a blindfold.