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Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

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  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,276 Forumite
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    Fame at last, Martin has linked one of my posts in the weekly newsletter.

    Is it a brilliant treatise on the economics of the credit crunch?
    Is it an indepth analysis of how to maximise returns from credit card introductory offers?
    Perhaps it was my cunning plan for how a borrower could use the coop 5-year fix rate mortgage as effectively an interest only deal?

    Read the newsletter and you will see ;)

    PS Is PNs interweb broken again already?
    I think....
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Ok, confession time....

    I simply cannot read those emails. They are like a big mess of smudge words to me. I often wonder how people with other neurological problems or dyslexia (which is neurological too I guess) cope.....

    I tried and tried and tried. Now I relaise I am going to rot in a debt ridden hell and waste money forever more.
  • Spirit_2
    Spirit_2 Posts: 5,546 Forumite
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    michaels wrote: »
    Read the newsletter and you will see ;)
    I have looked at the email and can't see you = need more clues. please
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 50,025 Ambassador
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    michaels wrote: »
    Fame at last, Martin has linked one of my posts in the weekly newsletter.

    Is it a brilliant treatise on the economics of the credit crunch?
    Is it an indepth analysis of how to maximise returns from credit card introductory offers?
    Perhaps it was my cunning plan for how a borrower could use the coop 5-year fix rate mortgage as effectively an interest only deal?

    Read the newsletter and you will see ;)

    PS Is PNs interweb broken again already?

    Guessing at cashback credit cards, but I can't see it.
    I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.
  • CKhalvashi
    CKhalvashi Posts: 12,134 Forumite
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    silvercar wrote: »
    Can real people actually fit into it?

    Not sure if I am impressed that you can remember old number plates or concerned that you are quoting them on an open forum. I think I read somewhere of someone getting a parking fine after posting number plates online.

    The vehicles in question have been scrapped, and the red one has no MoT, so is not being used.

    CK
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  • BertieUK
    BertieUK Posts: 1,701 Forumite
    edited 16 January 2013 at 7:00PM
    silvercar wrote: »
    Can real people actually fit into it?

    Not sure if I am impressed that you can remember old number plates or concerned that you are quoting them on an open forum. I think I read somewhere of someone getting a parking fine after posting number plates online.

    It remind me of the 'Love Seat' that is on display within William Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon and is a real squeeze to imagine how two people can sit on it, well we can imagine.;)

    The only difference is this one has wheels.
  • zagubov
    zagubov Posts: 17,942 Forumite
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    Horrible accident today in a place near my old stamping grounds, where that helicopter hit a crane. Lucky there weren't more casualties.

    It's such a busy area and a major transport hub, there's usually stacks of traffic and buses and traintravellers plus people transferring to/from the underground.

    Frankly that's pretty much all that the area is known for so it could have been far more tragic.
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • BertieUK
    BertieUK Posts: 1,701 Forumite
    edited 16 January 2013 at 7:16PM
    zagubov wrote: »
    Horrible accident today in a place near my old stamping grounds, where that helicopter hit a crane. Lucky there weren't more casualties.

    It's such a busy area and a major transport hub, there's usually stacks of traffic and buses and traintravellers plus people transferring to/from the underground.

    Frankly that's pretty much all that the area is known for so it could have been far more tragic.

    As you say it was a miracle that more lives were not lost because this is one of London's main hubs full of traffic and people especially at 0800hrs

    The pilot Capt Pete Barnes (50) was very experienced ....

    He had amassed 12,000 flying hours in a varied career which included working on films such as Saving Private Ryan and for the Great North Air Ambulance.

    He had flown for Redhill firm Rotormotion for 15 years and colleagues described him as "highly skilled".

    He also ran Helivision Ltd, specialising in aerial filming

    Could he have been blinded just for a split moment by the early morning winter sun which at that time of morning is so powerful.

    "Our thoughts and condolences are with Peter's wife and children."
  • PasturesNew
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    michaels wrote: »
    PS Is PNs interweb broken again already?
    No, I'm not yet back in the swing of times/life after the Xmas break.... and I came here yesterday and thanked... but didn't have anything to say as the conversation wasn't about me :)

    Now, clearly, it is.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Ok, confession time....

    I simply cannot read those emails.
    ... confession: I've never even tried.

    My Inbox has about 55,000 unread emails in it. I think I'd have to be in a cave with no Internet ever again before I ever got that far down the list that I'd read one.

    As a rule, I doubt anything MSE has to say is relevant to me and my lifestyle. It's all about families and wealthier people than me saving money doing the posh things that wealthier people do :)
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