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I was at an event today as a supplier & about 4 people asked if I am Vaccinated. 
Firstly is this a result of social pressure or somehting through clever conditioning;
or do these people know they have made a mistake on a weird subconscious level & want to justify it??

One woman works for the vaccination centre & started to get hoity toity  until I made somehting up. 
This woman is really nice and means well & I can only see it as she thinks she is doing her bit to help. 
As usual they backtrack immediately and say 'oh thats OK then, and dont ask any more questions'

I find it weird that so many random people I am coming acrosss are so involved in 'recruiting' I think there is somehting in it. 
Its a bit like a religious cult or something from my point of view. 
Its amazing though as its a hotel & the hotel manager said 'oh john is off with covid'
I said 'whats wrong with him them?'
'He has covid'
'but is he ill or anything'
'Yes he has covid'
'my point is is he dying or dead' 
confused look as if I have said something stupid on his face!
- I have to say this is the best sick card ever created - I bet tons of people are milking it!! 

I wore no mask all day and was not challenged once so that was good. 
I see wearing a lanyard as cop out personally, I would rather wear a mask than that - makes no odds. 

On the plus side I was talking to guys over lunch & they asked. 
I said I am on a clinical trial (which I actually am)
& i said they make more money from my trial than they would from cancelling it for the Vaccine  & he outrightly accepted it. 
People are more than aware of the pharma corruption & understand the law of attrition vs 'health' it seems.  

I need to start working on a better cover story as I am never getting a vaccination - ever. 
Basically im flabbergasted that even have to do this - unbelievable, but this is where i find myself isnt it.  
At least im not in a war zone with my family being raped & murdered!! We all need to consider that each day. 

I think they expect you to swallow the whole unit.
 
Or shove it up your arse.

I don't want to sound like the massive bleeding heart liberal that I blatantly am, but sometimes I feel the disdain for this jewelry can border on snobbery.
Like someone said above, these kinds of items have come into existence as a way for generally working-class, generally low income folks to save and preserve a bit of money with the care of their family in mind, or else as a way to supplement a pitiful state pension. 
In the Caucasus region, gold teeth are a way for poor people to create some kind of life insurance. They get pulled out and cashed in on death. It's a pretty good system for those without some of our privileges. But here we tend to look on gold teeth as an aesthetic abomination. You don't often see them nowadays outside of immigrant communities and maybe traveller folk.
Ironically, I saw a bloke on Dickinson's Real Deal not long ago selling his sovereign rings to pay for new dentures. It was kind of sad to watch. And not a great advert for how capitalism works for the poor in one of the world's largest economies.
 

charts dont lie look at silver when is was £30 an oz in 80;s after the mad inflatiion in 1979. Silver follows late after gold. Also I can recommend the book the silver bomb to understand it a bit more, espically why its the sleeping tiger,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Silver-Bomb-Paper-Wealth-Upon-ebook/dp/B00A9X9770/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+silver+bomb&qid=1640604049&sr=8-1
 

It should also be noted for newbies, it's considerably more difficult to store than gold because unlike gold it can tone over time (if exposed to air), not to mention milk spots. Well, that's another 5 topics in their own right but at least it should briefly be mentioned. Also, if the budget is low, I assume there is no budget for a proper safe, and silver isn't that easy to hide because of its volume. That being said, I started with both metals and would do the same again, specially when your total stack is only about 3 Sovereigns, you'd need to break up ca 30% of your total stack, if you needed to sell something. I think at least a bit of silver should be part of every stack. You can then tick it off, if you want and focus on gold.

Treat YouTube experts with extreme scepticism.  I have watched some content over the last few days and have been horrified.  

How sad that a topic which was created to enjoy the benefit of togetherness descends so quickly into bitter infighting. 
 

I don't want to sound like the massive bleeding heart liberal that I blatantly am, but sometimes I feel the disdain for this jewelry can border on snobbery.
Like someone said above, these kinds of items have come into existence as a way for generally working-class, generally low income folks to save and preserve a bit of money with the care of their family in mind, or else as a way to supplement a pitiful state pension. 
In the Caucasus region, gold teeth are a way for poor people to create some kind of life insurance. They get pulled out and cashed in on death. It's a pretty good system for those without some of our privileges. But here we tend to look on gold teeth as an aesthetic abomination. You don't often see them nowadays outside of immigrant communities and maybe traveller folk.
Ironically, I saw a bloke on Dickinson's Real Deal not long ago selling his sovereign rings to pay for new dentures. It was kind of sad to watch. And not a great advert for how capitalism works for the poor in one of the world's largest economies.
 

Regardless of your view point, there are members here that have created pages and pages of valuable content to the community, all done without passive aggressive behaviour. If you feel that way inclined, get premium membership, there are plenty of sub threads there where you can let off some steam.

The duty rate on silver imported into the UK is 0% I believe so there would only be VAT added.
Silver commodity code 71069110
https://www.hs-codes.com/?c=71069110-silver-bullion-and
Government Duty Rates
https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/headings/7106

Oh and BTW inflation at 5%... Bah Humbug... food prices have gone up much more, as well as goods and services that have crept up... petrol 149 a litre... the true figure is much higher and for me at this time the governments eyes are not truly fixed on it at the moment

Well in that case@magpie79... 
I'll remember 2021 as the year I started in my journey into PMs, that and the emptying of my bank account.  My goals for 2022 are fairly simple, to still be holding down a job to help pay for my new hobby 😎
All the very best to you and yours as well!
 

You're tipping your hairdresser double what it costs me to get my haircut.
😁

We talk of our coins and collections, sets and books, future hopes of attaining etc but have we paid our love of this hobby forward?, if so how?.
I have two grown up stepkids and a new stepgradson so I told my son his inheritance has been passed on to his son..lol.
This is what I think most of us have promised ourselves, if we don't have any catastrophic need for money then our collection will be handed down but what about others?, have we in any way paid our love of this hobby or investment forward?.
In my case I was talking to my hairdresser one day and asked her out of interest if she wanted her tip in cash or silver, she thought about it and how unusual it would be to take it in silver so selected that, each time I'd get a haircut I'd give her a silver 1 oz coin...she mentioned that her son loved it, she'd given them to him and he sat them on his shelf so I started to base my tips on her son, it has since progressed to a book on grading American coins as well as the silver coin, went into historical coins and for Christmas thus year he will be getting a 2022 Redbook and a couple of error quarters, being double dates to check on, he is now really into coins because of her and my actions...this hobby would die out as a hobby if we don't pass some of the love on, the people at meets and shows are getting ever older and we don't want it to go the way of stamps.
So have any of you gotten someone into this or fed their budding interest in some way to give the gift of a lifetime of collecting, be it change sifting or buying or just studying those coins out there in the either?.
Here's the place to let us know and maybe give some ideas for others here to start the pay it forward this hobby deserves and needs.

Nope. Gold is still the dentist’s preferred choice of material if the patient can afford it because it is very malleable, does not corrode and is very similar to the hardness of natural teeth. 🦷

The 2018 Year of the dog is one of my favourite coins!
The background (and the hole where the Chinese symbol is) is a real impression of a Labrador's nose.   The designer took this from their friends dog.
And that little dog looks as happy as Larry!

My first gold coin was a1982 half sovereign in a ring I got for my 21st birthday and started all this pm and coin collecting and metal detecting and roll sorting and antique collecting and jewelry trading....oh my God, a sovereign has set my entire adult life..I don't know whether to be happy or very very sad..lol.

Hello and welcome. Nice to see someone else from Glasgow-ish.

For me this is the key point. Channel 4 is a perfect example of how to do news journalism.  BBC News main output is no better than Sky. Newsnight on the other hand, which has a separate budget and editorial brief to the main news content is the only thing that comes close to C4 in terms of quality, depth and a news outlet's main duty of reporting important events that would otherwise go unnoticed.
 
The bias argument is easy to shoot down because whichever side you ask, you get a different answer. Brexit people say the BBC is pro remain. Remain people say it's pro Brexit. Labour folk say it's Tory biased. Tories say it's too Labour. What that demonstrates is ineptitude at handling their charter responsibility of balanced reporting. 
And don't get me started on Question Time.

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Heartbreaking stuff.

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Heartbreaking stuff.

Well, for one thing, it's got be one of the worst examples of...
 
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Why not?
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