Recent content by ultrawomble

Hmmm, May's played a blinder. She's a Remainer at heart and has played the long game. On Friday after the Euro elections she'll and we'll know roughly how the Union stands as regards its appetite for Brexit 3 years down the line. If Remain do well, she goes for a GE knowing that Corbyn will...

I used a USB wifi dongle on a Humax HDR-FoxT2 for a while with no problems. You could also try powerline adapters and run a short ethernet cable from them.

Slapping VAT on air fares would be a start.

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/commentanalysis/ethicaleconomics/taxhavensinthesky.aspx http://www.iaopa.eu/contentServlet/fuelrefund.htm

Might not be a bad thing for the exchequer. How much fuel duty is levied on airlines in the EU? How much VAT is levied on air fares in the EU?

It may even have literary origins: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-less-lovely-side-of-snowflake

Has the currency question been posed yet?

Actually, the price of the paper and coffee contribute to the £5 value, so yes I have bought an item for less than a pound and have walked out with a free paper and coffee. Quids in is the phrase I believe 😎

The crazy thing about Waitrose is that with a Waitrose loyalty card I can get a copy of the Guardian (£2) and latte (£2.15) free for spending less than £1 Mon-Fri.

As a tax-payer, I get one like that every year from HMRC.

The previous iteration of the Pentax SP waterproofs can be had very cheaply now: I got a pair for less than a ton last summer: http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&toolid=10001&campid=5338728743&icep_item=332116690984

Indeed, they voted Yes or No as to whether the UK should stay in the EC.

A bigger irony is that many of those over-65s will have voted 'in' in 1975.

64% of 18-24s turned out 90% of over-65s turned out

Even though upto 50% of them will go to (a so called) university, Brexit tells us that the youth of today are too INSERT ADJECTIVE OF CHOICE to care about their futures.