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  • thriftmonster
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    Have rechecked and yes it's over 41. Don't know why 45 stuck in my mind. Apologies for that

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  • badmemory
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    It used to be 45 I'm sure but I'm talking over 20 years I think!

  • Cherryfudge
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    Snap! It's amazing how many non-essentials I get sone while waiting for the 'oomph' to do the important stuff!

    Good to hear your dental forms melted away to nothingness. 😊

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  • rtandon27
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    @thriftmonster & @badmemory - haha - well maybe with retirement age going up, that magic number went down to 41 - or maybe we all read hitchhiker's where the answer to everything is 44! - either way - I need to look at those insruancinsruance docs as for some reason 44 is sticking in my head 🤣🤣🤣

    @Cherryfudge - my lack of oomph is usually related to how much negative emotion is tied to said task - and those two big ones for today have lots of negativity! You can imagine how much if dental forms came first!

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  • Cherryfudge
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    I think it was 42, wasn't it? A very early example of the importance of writing good prompts…

    Totally with you on the negative emotion. I was once completely bowled over to discover that a colleague did the worst job first in order to get it out of the way. Twenty years later, the moment sticks with me. It had just never occured to me to see things that way.

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  • redofromstart
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    edited 19 August at 6:43PM

    I read that's and immediately did 42 for HHGTG, had to think harder for SRP and 41 which is daft considering I used to be able to do the ready reckoner for that in my head.

    44 may be a pension thing, there are sometimes clauses in older pensions that relate to age and redundancy although a lot of these have been negotiated out now. USS for example used to have a huge pension cost above a certain age.

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  • rtandon27
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    OMG - @redofromstart & @Cherryfudge - if my OH hears I confuzzled 44 with 42 he will divorce me on the spot - 😆 - let's keep that slip up here on these forums shall we!?

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  • Cherryfudge
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    It's a while since it was written, @rtandon27 . Let's just call it inflation. 😄

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    Eeek. Poor thing.

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