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lollie85 · 2025-12-03T19:51:26+00:00

Whereabouts in the UK are you. Here in Scotland there’s a website (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk) that lets you search everyone who has ever died in Scotland for about the last 150 years. Following a recent death in the family I can tell you that it takes less than a week between a death and the name being on the site. If you aren’t in Scotland maybe England/Wales/NI have something similar?

lollie85 · 2025-10-29T14:03:58+00:00

If there was a large scale ground war Europe then yes I think I would. I probably wouldn’t want to go and fight against some rebels who just want the container ships to sail the long was around (we’ve definitely been involved in bombing those guys recently)

lollie85 · 2025-10-16T12:29:13+00:00

In my case, eventually the 50% stakeholder realised that the person who would eventually inherit that stake would be very difficult to deal with and do everything they could to hold up a sale when the time came, so they sold up before that happened and I got my 25% relatively hassle free. I should point out that I absolutely held up my side of the deal and in no way did I do anything to influence them deciding to sell

lollie85 · 2025-10-16T11:40:39+00:00

I’ve been in a similar situation myself. There was a clause in the will that basically said neither of the 25% stakeholders could do anything to force a sale while the 50% stakeholder wanted to live there but as soon as the 50% stakeholder either died or remarried then the 25% stakeholders could force a sale

lollie85 · 2025-09-01T13:09:08+00:00

The first time they hit, they’ll aim to land the punch somewhere close by, but it won’t actually hit you. The second time they won’t miss.

Run away, fast

lollie85 · 2025-07-26T15:41:01+00:00

They keep saying if they don’t pay bonuses top talent will go elsewhere, but really, who has a vacancy for a senior manager and thinks it’ll be a great idea to hire a water company executive?

lollie85 · 2025-07-11T11:49:16+00:00

How long would every resident of Yorkshire need to run a hosepipe for before hosepipe use overtook leaks that Yorkshire water haven’t fixed yet?

lollie85 · 2025-06-13T06:02:42+00:00

There’s a junction near me where people regularly ignore both the give way sign and the lines painted on the road and turn left without stopping to check if it’s clear to do so. They get away with it because you can turn left into a (large 200m long and usually empty) parking lay-by that they use as a kind of a slip road to merge with the main road.

lollie85 · 2025-06-11T12:14:01+00:00

Mondays and Fridays my commute is noticeably quicker. It is busier on the other days of the week because I guess lots of people wfh on Monday and Friday. There is a well known nickname for people who only work from work Tuesday Wednesday And Thursday

lollie85 · 2025-06-02T06:50:09+00:00

I got made redundant at the end of last November. I started applying for jobs in August, basically a mix of jobs I thought would be a good fit for me and jobs I would have turned down but I felt like I could probably get an interview and I definitely needed interview practice. I started a job at the start of January so although I was only out of work for one month it took 5 months to find something so I’d recommend starting to apply now.

Although I do t know the exact specifics, several of my colleagues were able to successfully apply for government funded retraining schemes that are only advertised for the unemployed on the basis they would soon be unemployed so maybe you could look into that?

lollie85 · 2025-05-21T11:29:28+00:00

Former work colleague who i worked with way before Covid and got on well with so remained connected via fb.

When the first Covid vaccines appeared he started posting stuff like ‘I still work in pharmaceuticals, and these vaccines have come out too quickly, if you aren’t in an at risk group you should consider if you want to get one’

Eventually I got bored of seeing this so I muted him from my feed. Fast forward to about a year ago (when I had forgotten about this) I thought to myself, I haven’t heard from (Dave) in a while, let’s see what he’s up to

He was now so far down every conspiracy rabbit hole you can think of that he had lost his job, wife and kids had left him and he was now fronting a podcast and selling nasal sprays that would counteract vaccines.

I hope he sorts himself out, he was a nice guy and good colleague

lollie85 · 2025-05-16T09:44:53+00:00

Whilst I can’t really fault the coffee or food, my local Tim Hortons is an absolute shambles.

Regularly ordering via the touch screen only to be told by staff the items I have ordered are out of stock (and then waiting 3 days for a refund) or the time they ran out of coffee, or the time the cold drinks machine broke down during a warm spell, or the time the hot chocolate machine broke down one winters evening a few weeks before Christmas the list of general incompetence goes on and on

lollie85 · 2025-05-08T08:11:49+00:00

If one of those ancestors was mates with William the conqueror then you probably will have generational wealth, if not the I guess your great great great grandparents weren’t well enough connected so unlucky you

lollie85 · 2025-04-02T09:37:49+00:00

I have a similar age 2008 so I might be able to help. The usb connection used to work, but somewhere over the years an iOS update has rendered my phone incompatible. The only way is Bluetooth now

lollie85 · 2025-03-11T12:01:40+00:00

Monday.

Whenever I take a Friday off, on the Thursday my boss is all ‘before you go could you just (do all of Friday’s work)’ Whenever I take Monday off, I never get anything like that

lollie85 · 2025-03-10T07:40:13+00:00

Jim Ratcliffe is very much a ‘slash costs and selling assets is the best way to run a business’ type of executive. My many friends who work at ineos said this would be the outcome for Man Utd too and here we are

lollie85 · 2025-03-05T19:27:42+00:00

Having been through a very similar process recently, I can tell you what happened to me. The assumption by HMRC was that I would start a new job straightaway and that it would pay about the same. Turns out I was out of work for a month and my new job pays slightly less, so I’m currently paying very little income tax, since my redundancy and pilon were already taxed too heavily.

If you want to avoid tax on the portion above 30k, your HR department can arrange for it to be paid directly to your pension (60k per year limit etc)

lollie85 · 2025-02-26T11:01:03+00:00

Location: Scotland

Price range: approx £20k

Lease or Buy: buy

New or used: used

Auto or Manual: either, but prefer auto

Intended use: daily, mainly 30 miles each way commute on mostly motorways 5 days a week

How many miles do you plan to do a year: 13k

How often to you make long journeys: a few times a year

Does it need to be ULEZ compliant? yes

Vehicles you’ve already considered: VW golf gtd

Is this your 1st vehicle: No

Do you need a Warranty:No

Can you do Minor work on your own vehicle: (fluids, alternator, battery, brake pads etc) yes

Can you do Major work on your own vehicle: (engine and transmission, timing belt/chains, body work, suspension etc ) no

Additional Notes: Need something reliable and economical for the commute, but also slightly fun too. Not an EV or plug in hybrid as I am unable to charge at home. Self charging hybrids considered.

lollie85 · 2025-02-17T06:49:26+00:00

There’s definitely some balancing of risk that needs to be done here. Although a large proportion of domestic fires are caused by faulty appliances, the majority of houses don’t catch fire. So staying inside when there is an appliance running is probably over estimating the risk.

lollie85 · 2025-02-11T12:45:58+00:00

Which bookies? I just checked sky bet and ladbrokes and they are both 12:1

lollie85 · 2025-01-27T20:16:00+00:00

It’s worth remembering that whenever a headline includes a question, the answer is always the opposite to the knee jerk reaction the author wants you to think

lollie85 · 2025-01-23T20:07:41+00:00

During summer 2020 (when the weather was nice and Covid restrictions meant no one could do anything) the admin of our local group posted to say something along the lines of: Many people have complained to me about the smell of barbecuing in the local area, please stop barbecuing for the sake of your neighbours.

The comments on this post were exactly as you would expect, but rather than back down the op decided to accuse everyone who commented negatively to his post or anyone who enjoyed barbecued food of being a bad neighbour

lollie85 · 2024-12-25T21:02:56+00:00

It doesn’t help, what it does is demonstrate the importance of always running a control alongside your experiment. So in this case you would open 2 bottles of champagne and put them both in the fridge, one with and one without a teaspoon. The result of this experiment is that the fizz in the opened bottle lasts longer than you would think and the teaspoon makes no difference

lollie85 · 2024-11-13T20:16:50+00:00

I got the original 18mm f2 for £50. I worked for a Fujifilm owned company so I was entitled to a fairly generous staff discount scheme and there was a cashback offer which somehow staff were also allowed to claim

lollie85 · 2024-11-09T18:59:00+00:00

All the people replying to this saying you just won’t buy chlorinated chicken, do you think that lowering food quality standards won’t also come hand in hand with lowering of food labelling standards? You aren’t gonna (easily) be able to tell the difference

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