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FCBurnley wrote:Yes and one that eventually can only end in tears

So, every business that has any sort of credit will end in tears? Thanks for your insight.

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simple really Herts Claret. As the pound has collapsed v euro, we decided to go to Cornwall this summer rather than fly abroad. We could afford Europe (but not twixes or £2k watches), but it didn't make financial sense. I'd imagine I'm not the only one. Brexit hammered the final nail in TC's coffin...

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You have figures to back this up I take it? Everything that we know says there has been an impact. Given that there hasn't been a fall off in the economy that means the money is either being saved or going on other things so perhaps it's just spending replaced by something else but there's no point...

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FCBurnley wrote:When you think about it. Companies like TC who take full payments months in advance are simply operating a legal form of a Ponzi scheme

That's right.

Except that it's not.

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As I said on a previous post, you can't blame it all on Brexit but its a significant factor. You want to pretend it isn't, then knock yourself out. Just add it to the huge list of things that are 100% nothing whatsoever to do with Brexit in yours and other posters eyes. Neither "sod all" nor, as fa...

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Imagine if socialism wasn't a thing. I wonder what all those people would have to do to get back home. Imagine if socialism had such a vague meaning that you could trot it out to point to anything you think is good as an example of it, hoping that everything you lump under the same vague category g...

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We've done the same for many years and we always pay on credit card for a bit of protection. Earlier this year we were looking at booking a DIY holiday to Tunisia for October half term that utilized a TC flight coming home (the only Manchester choice) but there had been a lot of media speculation e...

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Seems what3words is being attacked for just being a good idea. I've used it with work colleagues when meeting at locations with various enterances. It's great. I think it'll get bought out by a tech giant like Google, Facebook or Amazon. I love the tech blogger attacking the words for cultural inse...

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Quickenthetempo wrote:Has the full business gone under or has the likes of Thomas Cook sport been kept as a separate business?

They will have a lot of bookings for football fans, especially the European game tours.

Gone. Liverpool have put out a statement about it.

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With around 2000 betting shops set for closure nationwide, and now the loss of Thomas Cook branches, there will be a few more column inches and TV documentaries focusing on Britain's "disappearing" High Streets. If we lost all the betting shops and their online presences we wouldn't have lost anyth...

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Amazing how a failed business model manages to get 150,000.00 people to book a holiday with them? I am sure that the cost of hiring planes and repatriating all of these people currently on a Thomas Cook holiday will not leave much change out of £200m. Just getting bookings isn't a business model. Y...

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Quickenthetempo wrote:It will cost over the 200m needed to save it to fly everyone back.

Are you suggesting ATOL should cash in their funds and invest?

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Correct. I was booking a £6500 holiday to mexico 3 years ago and when i went in store it was £100 dearer as the lass said she could not apply the online discount. these companies are the maker of their own downfall I think the fact we can all get the knowledge which was the exclusive preserve of th...

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If it be your will wrote:The website is still selling holidays

Making them available, yes. I'd be surprised if they were selling many.

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Sad but their business model is dieing. Some people go to a travel agent still but not many. More people (most?) prefer to sort out their own arrangements which avoids all the cost of staff, stores, tour guides, meeters and greeters etc. An uncontrolled collapse like this, however, is horrible for n...

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ZizkovClaret wrote:Imagine Hendrix and Sarah Brightman in one person.

I can only imagine it's Hendrix's crocheting skills and Brightman's leg spin she combines.

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It's brave of Ronson to come out and talk about this, especially with the added burden of having some new product to flog at the minute.

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Sorry I got the year wrong, but not bad off the top of my head. https://beacon-dodsworth.co.uk/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-postcodes-but-were-afraid-to-ask/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I am right laugh on a night out. Thanks. Interesting but I don't think it ever had postcode...

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Quickenthetempo wrote:Just under 30k raised now.

Brilliant effort people.

£50k across the justgiving and the crowdfunder platforms. Plus I'm sure others direct and various 'in kind' offers I've seen... well done him...

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Awayfromburnley wrote:Technically it was the case when the 1874 postal reforms were put into place.

As areas grew it become impossible to use the radius method and the 1970s postcode system completely replaced that old method of concentric measurement.

Source?

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enduroclaret wrote: Which I believe means I'm about 16 miles from the main post office in Warrington.....that's what the numbers after the initial two letters approximately indicate.....isn't it?

No. Or the postcodes would be concentric rings.

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Hibsclaret wrote:Who’s comparing now?

You talk about comparing and now you are comparing so stop comparing please....

Are you comparing his comparing to your comparing?

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Will try to find it...but this link is what eventually led me to it when looking into further https://conversation.which.co.uk/money/scam-watch-visa-fraud-department-fake-calls/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Which is interesting, and people should be aware of it, but unrelated. Wan...

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Cleveleys_claret wrote:...can be £600 just to make the call and have it answered

Have you got a source for this?

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fidelcastro wrote:Were you more of a ken Dodd man?

No.

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Watford's owners have made a good fist of running their club. However, they immediately decided that Dyche wasn't the kind of manager they wanted. They have a European model. The transfer players to and from Udinese at will. The manager isn't a manager, he's a head coach. They have, as I say, made a...

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fidelcastro wrote:I like Jason Manford...

It was about here that you lost me...

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OK it was an exageration but..... if you read the full report on https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-6712011/amp/Want-foil-scammers-say-internet-cut-Dont-press-1.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; People are getting hit with £36 bills 10 minute ...

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https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-6712011/amp/Want-foil-scammers-say-internet-cut-Dont-press-1.html Another scam is the "to stop receiving these texts reply with "STOP" and be charged £4.50 to stop the parasites sending unsolicited crap. One of these is Allayc...

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Bosscat wrote:The other one is the automated call telling you to press "1" to speak to someone.... if you do when you get your bill you find a £75 charge (£15 a minute) ....

Have you an example of this reported anywhere?

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You can be ringing India - they front these calls with UK numbers. I have a policy now, I don't call back numbers I don't recognise. If they are genuine and want to get in touch, they'll leave a message. You might get put through to India but, as regards the OP's concern about cost, you can't be ch...

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There's absolutely no way an 073... number is Indian. That's not how the assigned number range system works.

Perhaps an Indian outfit is spoofing the number you see on screen. But you can't be ringing India on 07368...

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It's also worth noting that the best rail system in the world is in Japan, which is entirely privately run. That may or may not be the case. It's very expensive and has cut the size of the network dramatically. Even if it is, the cultural differences which underpin it make a simple read across of o...

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pushpinpussy wrote:My wife has just been told by her boss at Parcelforce that she can't have any maternity leave until proof that the baby has been delivered! Surely that's not illegal. Any budding lawyers on here.

Given you've got "illegal" and "legal" mixed up, are you sure there's not some confusion?

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Clayton

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In all my years watching Burnley, I've never seen a more Belgian player turn out for us.

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There are two competitions that, even at the outskirts of believability, we might win. Getting out of them as quickly as possible to concentrate on the one we can't win is bizarre. Whether that says something about Burnley or football in general could be debated for ever. But that something's gone w...

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Bordeauxclaret wrote:Strange statement from the police.

“A Met Police statement said that a man in his 30s was approached outside the Lexington pub in Pentonville Road at around 02:00 BST and assaulted by four male suspects.”

Have they not read this thread?

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Top Claret wrote:...playing in the greatest competion in the world of football...

Hook, line & sinker.

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Spijed wrote:And if we beat Liverpool with a fantastic performance all will be forgiven

For you. Nothing to forgive for me. Nobody made me go for 20 years. Nobody's stopping me now. A win against Liverpool or otherwise won't make any difference.

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That thought process is a good part of the reason that, for the first time in twenty years, I'm not a ST holder and am unlikely to attend even a handful of matches this season. Perhaps you can perpetually find people who believe that it's a "cup final" every time we play Watford or Bournemouth. But ...

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FactualFrank wrote:We're not very good in these cups are we.

Incredible run.

Only someone avoiding the obvious conclusion would avoid the obvious conclusion.

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THEWELLERNUT70 wrote:
Yet it was ok for Dale to take over the club having never met the criteria of the EFL Fit & Proper Persons test. Talk about hypocrisy!

Because there were lots of other better buyers about?

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1HappyClaret wrote:We will see what Administrator says in the morning as he said deal had to be done today. I assume Bolton’s match on Saturday will now not go ahead.

I'd love to know he's justifying going on.

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ClaretTony wrote:14 days to complete the deal

Until the next 14 days. EFL keeps crying wolf.

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Chester Perry wrote:A great piece from FourFourTwo on the debacle - long though

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/wh ... ppen-again" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I found that piece long on saying lots while saying nothing.

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aggi wrote:Most polls show a shift from leave to remain. Obviously that may not be reflected in voting but it is indicative of sentiment.

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Slightly different question. My partner thinks it was wrong that we voted to leave. They now think we should since that's how we voted.

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thelaughingclaret wrote:...the funicular situation of the club...

That would be Amazulu FC of Durban

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FFS - is this still going on? It's easier to get out of the EU than the EFL.

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Jay Aston of Bucks Fizz to stand as a Brexit candidate at a GE... I swear most of these things are worked back from the punch line... Boris, "I want to make a joke about kippers, Ukippers, kippers.. get it? Make up some crap about EU regs" Boris, "I want to finish a speech with 'Where there's a will...

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