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9 minutes ago, Richard82 said:

😂😂 they aren't reporting that now though are they? Acting like ot didn't happen. Believe what you want even if the fact slap you in the face.

I've never thought CNN was an organisation with integrity. They don't really have a consistent set of principles.

Does that justify St. Putin's invasion? And you have problems with American military bases which they use to invade murderous regimes? It is a question of side for you after all, because you don't really have a consistent set of principles either. 

Again, Putin can get out of Ukraine now if he withdraws his troops. Better still, he can resign as Russian president to get out of whatever mess he has created. But I guess he would not dare it as ex-dictators without power don't tend to do very well afterwards.

It's such a waste of time. I placed you in my ignore list. Wear it like a badge.

Now another question arises.

Apparently there are people collecting banknotes with funny serial numbers. Those could go for a lot on the collectibles market.

What if you bought, say, a £50 note with serial number AA01 123456 for £1500, and reward it to your employee and declare to HMRC as £50?

I think it's perfectly valid you may have accidently come across such bank note and unknowingly paid it to your workers, who later realised he could profit on the serial number. It's also possible that you deliberately used collectible bank notes to trick the tax authorities.

And extending that hypothesis, you could reward employee with a sovereign with £400 declared value, which is about the market rate "to the best of your knowledge" but a 1917 London, which then could be flipped for £20,000.

My guess is whether your intention was to pay your workers a bonus in ways alternative to a bank transfer, or to make a covert payment of a large sum. In this case, it might be down to whether you have told the recipient that they could later sell the note/sovereign. It could also be whether you have made recent purchases of collectible items (which then implies the intention of using them for payment)

Any legal experts?

All of a sudden "western media" had become reliable sources of truth from USA-backed propagandist machines. It's that kind of flexibility that always amazes.

15 minutes ago, Stuntman said:

This appears to be a separate coin, not the Pistrucci Great Engravers coin.

Let's hope

Just now, GoldDiggerDave said:

cockney rhyming slang pun intended. 
 

Can you do Cockney outside of NBS?

2 minutes ago, Paul said:

Tangents - In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Leibniz defined it as the line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve.

The Plantagenets were a medieval dynasty that ruled England from the mid-12th century to the end of the 15th century. The dynasty began with King Henry II and ended with the death of King Richard III in 1485. The name "Plantagenet" is derived from the nickname of Geoffrey of Anjou, the father of Henry II, who wore a sprig of broom (planta genista in Latin) in his hat.

Key figures of the Plantagenet dynasty include:

• Henry II (1154–1189): The first Plantagenet king, he was known for his strong and sometimes controversial rule, including conflicts with Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Richard the Lionheart (1189–1199): Known for his role in the Third Crusade, Richard spent much of his reign away from England. His famous nickname reflects his reputation as a brave and skilled military leader.
• John (1199–1216): Often remembered for his conflict with the barons, which led to the sealing of the Magna Carta in 1215, a foundational document in the development of constitutional rights.
• Henry III (1216–1272): The son of John, Henry III's reign was marked by political struggles and conflicts with the barons. His reign saw the establishment of the English Parliament.
• Edward I (1272–1307): Known as "Longshanks," Edward I was a strong and effective king who conquered Wales and attempted to conquer Scotland. He is also remembered for his legal reforms.
• Edward II (1307–1327): Edward II faced political turmoil, including conflicts with the nobility. His reign ended with his forced abdication and subsequent death.
• Edward III (1327–1377): Under Edward III, England experienced success in the early stages of the Hundred Years' War against France. His reign is often considered a period of military and economic revival.
• Richard II (1377–1399): Richard II's reign was marked by political and social unrest, including conflicts with powerful nobles. He was eventually deposed.

The Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars fought between the rival houses of Lancaster and York, occurred toward the end of the Plantagenet dynasty and led to the rise of the Tudor dynasty with the victory of Henry Tudor (Henry VII) at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. This marked the end of the Plantagenet dynasty and the beginning of the Tudor era.

Is that written by GPT?

1 hour ago, Sc391 said:

The US version is up on the US Mint website.  Mintage 10,000, household limit 1.  Presale starting early Feb and lasting 30 days or until sellout.  It’s a one ounce and I would guess it will be $2900-$3000.

I like it but it’s a bit rich for me, just don’t see the appeal.

I think it's like that. Royal Mint has countless special editions all with limited mintage, whereas in US you have very few special designs and they release tens of thousands of each. Not sure which is the better way of doing it...

1 hour ago, dicker said:

Intrigued 

4 minutes ago, Richard82 said:

Putin tried to sort out his problems peacefully many times before war but was ignored. All he wanted was no more natural expansion and to stay out of Ukraine. 

Saint Putin!

I am asking to annex your territory. I'll do it peacefully and politely, and if you refuse I'll invade and kill you. 

All Putin wanted is peace!

Lol that's the funniest joke of 2024. He can stay out of Ukraine now if he withdraws his troops.

But hey, I'm getting quite bored with this kind of debate. You have fundamental disagreement with our values and ways of life, I don't think I can change your mind or something. Enjoy snow in Moscow. 

Just now, James32 said:

Not as mad as the fekin members.....up and down up and down 

Mad? I'm furious!

2 minutes ago, JohnA1 said:

It's an ecosystem.

You change one thing (with good intentions) and 20 others fall apart. Hard to tell in advance what the repercussions will be in a tightly-coupled mature system

Might work if you completely ignore them. But then the moralists will come ask you why and vote you out

1 minute ago, Richard82 said:

The US is no better than China. How many military bases do they have all over the place? Surrounding every country they pensive as a treat to their dominance.

The US is the biggest war machine the world's ever know. The US has just made over a 100 billion disappear through Ukraine. 

Is China better than America?

Would you prefer someone to keep us a bit away from a WWII style major war with multiple contester, or the sort of world safety and happiness 1933-1945?

Would you rather we made no support of Ukraine and see their people wiped out by the Russians?

3 minutes ago, JohnA1 said:

The Current Occupier

Is that forename "The" and last name "Occupier", with "Current" a middle name, or is "The" a new honorific we are coerced into using now?

1 minute ago, JohnA1 said:

...giving them another chance to poison the next husband...

There's a reason things are done in a particular way in each culture

Like genital mutilation, wife beating, lynching, chopping bits off, ish... Doesn't hurt if you are not part of the culture, and may well leave them alone. But then the more moral of us wouldn't be happy. We get criticised for taking actions, we also get criticised for not taking action. Bit like the banks aren't we...

9 minutes ago, Richard82 said:

No sides, just facts. Would you take destruction and debts or infrastructure and wealth.

 

I prefer not forcefully disappear and lobotomised for criticising the Supreme leader online.

3 minutes ago, Richard82 said:

Just change China for USA and its the same thing.

Where has the US and it's partners left a country thriving? Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam etc?

Whataboutism at its best. The typical propagandist tactic saying all the bad things USA had done (yes, they may well have), then conveniently forget to give China a mention. When China is being criticised conveniently bring up the Americans.  Propagandists typically omit certain aspects of the full picture to highlight their desired "fact". 

Always easier to manipulate minds by keeping info out than feeding it in.

5 minutes ago, Richard82 said:

They was a very successful country before we came.

Fact 1: India was not a country per se. It was a collection of princely states loosely ruled under a foreign ruler.

Fact 2: Before British came they were ruled by the Muslims (Mughal Empire). The last native ruler was quite a long time ago. Any (anti-west) Indian nationalist will tell you the same.

34 minutes ago, Richard82 said:

The west will resort to war to stop it from happening. If Africa can come together over the next few years the the west is done.

China is building the belt and road project and is spending huge amounts  buying all the natural resources but is also investing in the country's with infrastructure. 

The west just destroy these countries.

In 20 years the west will be the poor one's and will be moving over there.

The Belt and Road thing is a backdoor for rich CCP officials to launder money, because it bypassed the strict FX restrictions.

It also ensnared the recipients in debts they can't repay and China can seize their infrastructure.

China had invaded Korea, India, Vietnam, supported the murderous Khmer Rouge

China still systematically supresses civil liberties of its own citizens. China still persecutes Christians, Muslims, and other religious groups. China still culturally erases the Uyghurs, Mongols, etc, etc.

If China is anything of a role model to you, you have serious problems.

31 minutes ago, Richard82 said:

The west will resort to war to stop it from happening. If Africa can come together over the next few years the the west is done.

China is building the belt and road project and is spending huge amounts  buying all the natural resources but is also investing in the country's with infrastructure. 

The west just destroy these countries.

In 20 years the west will be the poor one's and will be moving over there.

So bad are the west, so good China, blah blah blah, you make no mistake which side you're on eh?

8 minutes ago, Richard82 said:

look what we left them.

A country

4 minutes ago, Bigmarc said:

Not in England we won't, too far gone, we are now known worldwide for the land of queuing.

And love for baked beans

1 hour ago, silversky said:

In the above shtf example, gold is only useful for your children.  It's for long after "the disaster", when new governance and monetary accounting starts to establish again.  It time travels wealth.  Land is important, but land is riskier under certain circumstances.  It's easier to confiscate because it's not exactly mobile.  Gold on the other hand can easily be hidden in amounts that denominate serious future wealth, with the intention of one day recovering it for your children.  We keep finding little stashes from different eras where that game has been played.  Just imagine how many anonymous stories have gone untold, of familial gold recovered by children, and quietly used to buy land or influence.  Gold is the ultimate insurance policy.

Gold's other purpose is to keep the accounting of all fiat honest.  By holding in Gold, one is no longer dragged backwards through fiat devaluation, but the same can be said of many limited quantity resources such as land.  You don't get rich in gold, society just gets poorer around you.

Gold bounced off the big $2000 mark, £1582 double bottom from the 12th.  Is the dip over?  Or is a real £100 dip to come?  I'm pretty neutral on it at the moment.

Land is risky when the revolting peasants have their way. But no one is safe at a societal meltdown, whatever your take on the "Deep State". Beware of TSF members who chant French Revolution 2.0 because they may well be the ones coveting your land, your gold, and your head. 

6 hours ago, Dankanugget said:

Are folk selling or still acquiring 1ioz kruggerand coins ?does the CGT affect buyers at all?

CGT-free coins are always preferable, but remember CGT is only changed on your profit, and so buying non-exempt coins like the Krugs isn't necessarily a bad idea.

VAT, on the other hand, is charged on your cost. You'll lose money if your profit doesn't outweigh VAT. This is why I personally don't see physical silver a good investment unless they change VAT rules on silver. Buying silver ETF seems a better idea to me. If you prefer physical ownership then go for gold.

21 minutes ago, ZRPMs said:

 

 

Then there's

8. Those that have been to sea

9. Those that stayed out of the sea

Sorry, what were we talking about. That's it  Golds at £1587.20

Buy the dip?

2 hours ago, Chronos said:

4. Those who don't want to see

5. Women

6. Miscellaneous

7. Russian propagandist bots