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It was a return of a faulty product, the shop emailed me the return label, so I don’t know how much it cost. I didn’t buy stamps or anything 🙄

I sent a package to Manchester last week via DHL. Dropped it off Thursday morning, and according to the tracking it went to Dublin, then East Midlands, and was delivered about 11am Friday morning. Probably not carbon neutral, and I’ve no idea how much it cost, but it shows it’s possible.

Best of luck claiming anything off them. I received an item 'special delivery', dumped outside my house, damaged. Response to a claim is basically TTFO. Use DHL.

The best thing about Viz are the little details like that. There was a Jack Black strip recently that I spotted Aunt Meg eating from a box of 'Lick me out dates'

You have a point, you just didn't make it very well in the opening post, leading to all that followed. There are two extreme positions 1 Climate change is made up bollocks to allow governments to put up taxes on the little man, we should carry on burning coal etc 2 Climate change is an existential crisis for humanity and we need to revert to a pre-industrial lifestyle. I prefer a third way - climate change is happening, probably at least made worse if not actually caused by human activity, and we should take reasonable steps to reduce our impact while accepting that life goes on. Nothing we do or don't do on the island is going to change things at all, so carry on with tractor runs, motor racing etc. Just try and promote fuel efficiency, carbon neutrality etc without making it prohibitively expensive for all.

Try this

December

The clue is in the title - Accident and Emergency. The problem is however that the public are constantly being bombarded to look out for signs of a stroke, sepsis, cancer, heart attack etc, which as we're told could start with a bit of pins and needles, a minor rash, any vague symptoms at all, or a feeling of a touch of indigestion. It's not as easy to get this right as you might imagine.

If I were the forum editor I would only lock topics when two or more virtually identical ones were started at about the same time. Canning a thread because the poster didn’t search to see if the subject is being vaguely covered already is nuts (thread theme pun intended)

My M&S card expired in October and they sent me another one with 5 years on it. We’ll all be using crypto by then so that’ll do me nicely.

I got one of these. I fully intended to fill it in - I believe the stats are important and help set policy and VAT share etc - but never got round to it. It is a lengthy document, and most of it seemed irrelevant, so if I can't be bothered, and I'm generally an obedient slave when it comes to these things, I suspect the hit rate is pretty low. Sorry TVOR for your persistent vomiting.

He'll be along with a third version in a minute which somehow proves that both previous arguments were correct, then send you a bill for it.

There’s no financial benefit to driving a newer car just to avoid an MOT. The routine service I had the other day could have paid for more than 10 MOTs, and that’s before you factor in depreciation. I’m not sure that the MOT test as it is in the UK is the best way of doing things. There should be some form of vehicle testing though - you can’t rely on most people to maintain their own car. Perhaps bring in a test of some sort, but allow exemption for those that get their car serviced, or maybe reduce vehicle duty for those that get a test - encouragement rather than compulsion.

Had another look at this site today. It is designed to draw in the gullible. Particularly the draws to win entries into a draw. So for 99p you have a 1 in 1000 chance of winning 300 entries into a draw for £50000. But at a glance it looks like 1 in 1000 chance of winning £50000 itself. I’m not saying there aren’t winners - it does seem incredible though how many @CrazyDave seems to know personally, perhaps he’s infected with Red Dwarf’s lucky virus or something - but inevitably there are many more losers dumping £10 or so every night that they can probably not afford, chasing losses because of a warped view of how many win.

I’ve already said I think vigils are pointless. However, it doesn’t have to be a local being attacked or killed to affect people here. Most of us have personal connections with people that live places other than the IOM.

I’d not come across this before, and don’t know any local winners. That’s not to say they don’t exist! I got the same top google result as @The Voice of Reason for QFT, 2nd place was Quantum Field Theory which is more my thing. It’s a lottery. What you need to do is calculate the expected value of your stake. For example, the £10000 for 99p lottery, they’re selling about 15000 tickets. So your 99p stake has an expected return of £10000 x (1/15000) which is 66p. It becomes a sensible bet if they sell less than 10000 tickets, in which case you can pile in with as many tickets as you can afford at the last minute. Unfortunately lots of other people will do that too, meaning that your favourable odds will shift to unfavourable, and on average you’ll lose (as with all random gambling where odds are set in favour of the house) So I agree with the OP - it’s a good business model, assuming you can persuade enough gullible people that they’re going to win. I doubt I’ll be playing, but I might have a look later on near draw time, and if there’s a 10k prize for a quid with only 5 tickets sold I’ll have a go.

Aren’t all vigils pointless?

He doesn’t say that. He says that the Hamas bogeyman is hiding under the bed and that the only solution is to blow up the bed; those babies were warned not to stay in that hospital, the idiots.

I don’t have the military intelligence that presumably Israel do to be able to answer that precisely but it would involve Stop airstrikes restore power and other essential supplies initiate talks special forces to kill the bad guys one on one to avoid collateral damage look at who is supplying/funding Hamas and tackle them install a moderate Palestinian government in Gaza Bombing them back to the stone age hasn’t worked for 75 years. Do something else.

Israel seem to me to have gone too far. Sure, a bunch of terrorists murdered many of their people. But to kill more than 10x more in a supposed targeted retaliation, including neonates, is just wrong. And anyone who defends it, for whatever reason, is also wrong. I don’t care that Hamas are hiding under the incubators - just stop! With alarming regularity, in the US, a young man goes mental and shoots up a school. Of course, the authorities want to get hold of him. What they don’t do is nuke the diner where he’s holding up. Poor analogy, maybe, but this is what Israel are doing. Hamas are deranged, murderous thugs and need to be eliminated, but if that means taking out babies in incubators then do something different.

Seemed to unite both sides in any debate against her.

He did the honourable thing and resigned when the vote didn't go his way. I'd have preferred he stayed on and saw it through. I don't think you can blame him for Brexit - that's the electorate.

Cameron was the most competent PM we had since Blair, probably. Didn't rate Brown much, and the churn at the top of the tory party since he quit over losing the Brexit vote has been shambolic. It's an unusual choice in a reshuffle, to bring in an outsider (who next, William Hague perhaps?) but fits with Sunak wanting to give off an air of competence and common sense - same as when he brought Hunt back into the fold. If I were a betting man I might have a flutter on Labour snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in the next general election - if Sunak gets back in as PM, you read it here first!

Sure, you can buy the ingredients for much cheaper than that, but you're paying the rent, wages of the staff, heating and lighting etc. etc. How much would you expect to pay for it in a restaurant?