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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

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  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    What's a TLA (or am I missing something ?)
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    purch wrote: »
    What's a TLA (or am I missing something ?)

    TLA = Three Letter Acronym.
  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,467 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    There isn't any in the UK because it's an IHT avoidance. Theres plenty if you look further afield.

    Really, I'd have thought that useful land would have quite a high value everywhere, if for nothing else than for crops to produce bio-fuels. Where do you suggest looking for cheap productive land? I'm being serious.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Really, I'd have thought that useful land would have quite a high value everywhere, if for nothing else than for crops to produce bio-fuels. Where do you suggest looking for cheap productive land? I'm being serious.

    Poland
    Ukraine
    NZ
    France
    Australia (check rainfall contours: extraction rights are often theoretical rather than real). Australian soil usually isn't great quality but it is very cheap. You can buy 1000 acres within 3 hours drive of Sydney in an area of reasonably predictable rainfall for $250/acre.

    DYOR of course.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    Is that a FLA :eek:
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,919 Ambassador
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    "Nothing succeeds like a parrot with no teeth"

    So I got back to him and asked what exactly he meant.

    He reckons it means that when something goes well, everyone jumps on the bandwagon to claim credit.:undecided:
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  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    silvercar wrote: »
    "Nothing succeeds like a parrot with no teeth"

    So I got back to him and asked what exactly he meant.

    He reckons it means that when something goes well, everyone jumps on the bandwagon to claim credit.:undecided:

    That's like when David Cameron went to Notting Hill carnival the other year.
    There were so many bandwagons, he didn't know which one to jump on!
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • Wheezy_2
    Wheezy_2 Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    Doozergirl wrote: »
    Where is lostinrates? Has she gone away somewhere? I don't recall any announcement :indignant face:

    Yes, I was wondering about that too, she hasn't posted for several days now.
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    Ended up buying the new Kindle Basic for mom. It looks pretty good - I'll probably buy one for myself after Christmas when it is cheaper.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • Wheezy_2
    Wheezy_2 Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    tomterm8 wrote: »
    Ended up buying the new Kindle Basic for mom. It looks pretty good - I'll probably buy one for myself after Christmas when it is cheaper.

    Do you think prices will drop much further, tomterm?

    I read somewhere that Kindles are being sold at a loss, even at current prices, Amazon's strategy being build as much e-book marketshare as possible, with the profits coming from selling digital content afterwards.
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