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2 hours ago, Chrisplym said:

I presume that it will only be these 01 numbers that be worth anything?

Just received some brand new £5 notes at the cash point and these are CA 22s.

I did receive a £20 note at the post office and this is an EH 01.

I think I'll have to visit a cash machine.

I've always found St George sovereigns boring to be fair.

10 hours ago, ZRPMs said:

Then becoming more aware of the different varieties, bullion, Proof, Matt Proof. Then the rarity of certain ones and getting drawn to the more numismatic valued coins. There is just loads of ways to collect them. You've entered the rabbit hole now.

Next step is overdates and over letters, closely followed by denticle count. 😁

Wow.

I'd order some if they'd let you pay online. No way I'm sending cash through the post.

I've always struggled to get hold of £50 notes, rarer than hen's teeth.

£20000 on US pre-1933 gold.

£20000 on Sovereigns

£20000 on Guineas

£20000 on Hammered gold.

£20000 on pre-1920 silver British coins.

That'd do me just fine.

23 hours ago, Bratnia said:

And the global metal exchange hub of London, would move into Europe, and pretty much !*@k up the UK, and potentially even cause a global financial crisis as 5000 tonnes of gold was demanded to be moved out of the UK into Europe at a time when there is 124 times more paper gold than physical gold.

This is the same party that had Gordon Brown as Chancellor of the Exchequer though.

On 09/05/2024 at 21:59, DisplayName said:

It's currently about $27.25, so that's about 6.81 Wongers and rising. 7 Wongers before June is definitely possible, depending on the ever capricious moods of papa gold.

Measuring gold in Wongers now?

Kilowongers or a wongerweight? 😁

7 minutes ago, Gruff said:

So you were sat in the sun drinking beers all day whilst I was working 6 or 7 days a week to keep this country afloat!

Not quite as fun as that! Only for a month and then it was back to work social distanced.

8 minutes ago, Happypanda88 said:

The Con party and Labour are two cheeks of the same ar$e.

Whoever wins, nothing changes 'cause the same ar$e is in control.

A good analogy. The PM is the hole in the middle... Unless of course they're a p**** or c*nt instead. 😁

That pretty much sums up my thoughts on politicians. Next week I'll give you my thoughts on bankers...

1 minute ago, Paul said:

What has Trump tweeted to cause this spike?

Or

has Dianne Abbott been announced as Labours Chancellor of the Exchequer if elected ?? 

Oh please be true! 😄

Suddenly the budget got WAY more interesting.

6 minutes ago, Bratnia said:

72% agree with you, however there's still another 48% who don't

I remember 2016 all too well.

Apparently 48% is a bigger number than 52%. 😄

36 minutes ago, Gruff said:

It's how they are classing excess deaths as excess deaths and not merely just deaths. Last year there were over 60,000 excess deaths in the UK (That used to be defined as deaths over and above the 5 year average trend line) 
That's definition has been changed and so then last year we only had 6,000 excess deaths or thereabouts. 

This is blatant manipulation of the data to make it seem that there are not so many people dying from turbo cancers, blood clots, heart attacks/disease etc... from the jibbyjabs. 

I've said it many times, data analysis is a load of twaddle. You can make it show anything you want, you just have to manipulate the data points, the scales used etc.

A total waste of time and resources... Well paid though.

Just now, Dalriada83 said:

Look on the bright side - we may be saved yet - the Labour front bench could all be exposed as a bunch of incompetent, virtue signalling power hungry phsyco's that . . . oh, yes, I forgot we already know that.

I miss Diane Abbott, she didn't hide it as well.

Just now, Gruff said:

... to get us back in Europe. None of the parties wanted to leave Europe...

This is it. Theresa May hamstrung us at the initial negotiations. Wasn't Starmer the guy who was pressing hard for a second referendum?

I really can't see no difference between any of the politicians.

7 minutes ago, Darr3nG said:

Yeah, I spotted that too...

Can I breathe again now? People shouldn't do that in the lift. 😄

45 minutes ago, Bratnia said:

Easy with hindsight to highlight what alternative could have been used instead to far greater benefit/effect, pretty much impossible at the time to have such foresight.

I thought it was stupid at the time, even with gold in the doldrums.

1 hour ago, ZRPMs said:

Or am I just a bigot.  

About the only thing I remember about Brown's premiership.

1 hour ago, dicker said:

Brown would have loved to join the Euro.  Ideology over pragmatism

I read somewhere that Blair wanted all in on the Euro but Brown stopped him several times. I can't remember where I read that, so not sure on the credibility of the source.

2 minutes ago, HerefordBullyun said:

If you want photos they are 4 ozs of brits...

DM me if interested.

When moon for gold

I'm still traumatised by Lawrence Chard in his budgie smugglers. I'm not sure I could cope with Pope Gregory in his birthday suit. 😄

11 minutes ago, HerefordBullyun said:

If USA has more gold than china then I am pope Gregory the ninth skiing naked on the river near the Vatican...

Well that paints a picture...