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    Profiting from scammers | Friday Fun Part 6

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    Not just Americans, I've read some awful stories of how elderly people over here have fallen for something that you and I might see as obviously a scam. All sorts of stuff in place to try to help prevent it, while trying to strike a balance. Having to read through a load of "are you sure this...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I've read a couple of books (one was "The Alchemist" and another was just "Alchemist"), both quite different to each other, both enjoyable, I suspect there are a few of that title. I also don't like horror - I've read a few because sometimes I'll buy a pile of books (or get them for free) and...
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    I started my garage "business" at 22 with no experience working inside a garage or being a mechanic.

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    You could be right. Please don't take my random ramblings as any kind of discouragement.
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    I started my garage "business" at 22 with no experience working inside a garage or being a mechanic.

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    In a way it doesn't matter, because you'll be gone by then, or at least working a golden handshake period and it won't be your problem. I just wonder where they get the value. I should add I have zero experience of what you're doing on the business side of things - I've started a bit of a...
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    I started my garage "business" at 22 with no experience working inside a garage or being a mechanic.

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    It's depressing how many of these smaller places have shut down - mainly through the owners getting older and retiring and having no-one to pass it on to. On the farm where my shed is, there's a guy doing similar sorts of work to the OP, but I can think of a lot more that have gone than have...
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    I started my garage "business" at 22 with no experience working inside a garage or being a mechanic.

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    All else aside, I am jealous of your shed. In particular the way you have resisted filling it up - I have a fairly large shed for my cars and bits and pieces, and currently (because I bought another project and stripped it down to a shell, so it takes the space of 3 cars now) there is virtually...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    That's a very wide-ranging question, what kind of genre do you prefer? I read a lot, but you might not like my stuff. Typical authors I enjoy include Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy, Peter Robinson, Stuart McBride, James Patterson (ETA Mark Billingham, David Baldacci...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I like that, it reminds me a little bit of a feature on a British panel show that's recently finished. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duqfYfxTXUI
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    Making A Dream Into Reality

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    Have you been through some of the gold threads that are on here covering those points? Interesting reading in all of them, and maybe a quicker way than waiting for people to write it all out again. Welcome, by the way, in case the above was a bit grumpy.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    In the UK there are rules about special offer prices - the item has to have been on sale for the full price for a certain amount of time in order to be able to advertise it as the original price and the new one as a discount. But it's a bit sketchy - for example if you have more than one store...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Scammers (in particular, but I expect others could) seem to be able to fake caller ID in any case, so I can get a call that appears to be from a UK number but isn't, or vice versa. Used mostly to look like a bank phone number in order to talk the vulnerable into parting with money.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I imagine it depends on the item, and what they can do with it if no-one at all buys it. If it's perishable, getting less than cost is better than getting nothing at all when it starts rotting, and it might even cost them to properly dispose of it. If it's an electrical item that's been...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Here in the UK we've (well, the birds) had an Avian flu outbreak, so that's led to some difficulties as hens have to be kept indoors. I haven't researched the issue, which is probably why I don't understand why limiting movement causes a supply difficulty for cheap eggs. I saw a notice that said...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    We've had a lot of stuff with statues in the last few years - people being pressurised to remove statues because the person was involved in something unpleasant, even though it was hundreds of years ago. One mob dragged a statue down and threw it in the local river because the guy made a lot of...
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    Where is the best place to learn coding online and what are the opportunities?

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    It's worth making sure that the course / instructions you follow are up to date with current practice. I'm active on a couple of forum sites for one particular programming language and hardly a week goes by without someone coming along asking for advice with new code they've written using old...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    Yes, but don't forget that it seems worse because it's been unseasonably warm until last week. It's at this time of year that I think it would be nice to be somewhere warmer, but in the summer I remember thinking how nice it might be to have some air conditioning.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Mine too - the old one was free, now they charge. I guess they have to maintain the machine and that costs. But it will only take card / phone payments, and I usually have loads of bits of loose change that I'd rather use. I mean, I'd rather it went back to free, but if I've got to pay, at least...
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    How creative are you? Take this test and find out...

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    Your score is 85.56, higher than 87.12% of the people who have completed this task 1. Train 2. Kitten 3. Lawnmower 4. Beer 5. Television 6. Beach 7. Reactor 8. Castle 9. Flag 10. Lamp Took me longer than expected to think of ten words - every time I put something down, I was...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    My main two classics are Vauxhalls from 1976, so around 46 years old at the moment. I have an Audi coupe restoration project from 1986. Right now I'm restoring another 1976 Vauxhall. They're both pretty unusual models, they built around 200 of each back then, unfortunately that doesn't give them...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Ah, much newer (and more expensive) than my stuff. I've thought of moving to newer stuff, usually when I've spent a day surrounded by other people's supercars, but I don't think I've got the stomach for it at the moment.

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