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    The dark side is calling (contract to perm)

    I did contractor to permie as part of moving back to the UK with the view that it was an attractive offer and the permanent contract greased the wheels of renting a flat and generally getting things settled on arrival. It was meant to be means to an end though - once settled I'd dump their HR...
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    Multi focus Contact lenses - Anyone using them?

    I found them to be too much of a compromise - not particularly great distance vision and a bit of a struggle near to. In fact, I suspected the multi-focal thing was made-up and they're just a middling strength regular lens at twice the price. I went back to regular contact lenses that properly...
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    Private Medical Insurance

    In Switzerland you have 90 days after registering as a resident to buy health insurance. If you don't, the Kanton buys it for you and sends you the bill. They don't bother to shop around for the best deal so it's in your interests to buy it yourself. Some Kantons will allow residents to have...
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    Contracting in Belgium - A Short Guide to Tax and Social Security

    Useful refresher Useful refresher I had a vague recollection that there were 'issues' with contracting in Belgium and this was a useful refresher on how awful it can be. An agent has just been assuring me that 75% retention was easily achievable on account of how we contractors are so special...
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    Vauxhall Brexit after 2020?

    They did indeed. It was actually Rootes Group when they bought it and they eventually closed it all down, something the Remainers seem to be claiming couldn't possibly happen if we were in the EU. However, it did happen when we were in the EU. To be fair, one of the Rootes factories was...
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    Vauxhall Brexit after 2020?

    GM hasn't made a profit in Europe for 15 years so the sale has nothing to do with Brexit. Also, Peugeot shut down the Rootes Group factories whilst the UK was in the EU so membership didn't really help then.
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    Amazon Prime

    It could be just a temporary situation but I'm finding more worth watching on Prime than on Netflix at the moment. Getting next day delivery to an Amazon locker near work is a bonus that it does give me a dilemma regarding my lack of support for local book shops. Best of all, if you do not...
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    Rewarded for failure

    800k is a sign he might have been at least a little bit honest. Book deals are usually part of the pay-off for the corrupt acts they got up to in power so such a measly sum suggests he didn't get up to much. If he doesn't get a multi-million pound speaking tour either then he may have been our...
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    Exit poll indicates likely landslide for Remain

    Posted mine off today. Based on my exit poll, the UK will soon be joining my adopted home of Switzerland outside the evil empire.
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    Where to live for city jobs?

    The one quite major flaw is that there are no major newspapers on Fleet Street. Well, apart from the Beano.
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    Which banknote do you use when snorting powder from a woman's breasts?

    1000 CHF note, obviously. I don't see what the fuss is about, everything he did would be legal here. Well, the coke would be a bit iffy but the hookers would be okay. It's all consenting adults so that makes him better than a lot of his colleagues.
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    Dying for a Sh1t

    I thought this thread was going to be about: Teenage girl with toilet phobia dies from heart attack after going eight weeks without using loo - Telegraph What possessed the Telegraph to open that for comments I do not know.
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    I was Born in the Wrong Skin

    He was from Gary, Indiana which is about as far from the south as you can get without being in Canada. I also doubt he had too many worries about social acceptance when women were throwing themselves at him during his Jacksons and solo career, nor when he was accumulating so much money he made...
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    Minibonds

    The Wasp offer isn't a mini bond in the accepted sense because it will be listed. The listing and trading on Orb carries with it a higher level of regulation that doesn't apply to mini bonds. That's not to say it's safe, just that Orb offerings and mini bonds are two different things.
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    Felt a bit sea sick on the train yesterday

    The Rome to Palermo \ Siracusa train does the same across the Strait of Messina. They are relatively common.
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