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Thu May 10

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TMFBoing replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 12:09

Re: SERPS

Hi Folks,

Discussing pensions, state and private, is not really what this board is intended for. The "Pensions - Motivation and Policy" board would be more suitable...

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Thu Apr 26

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TMFBoing replied to the Cars & Driving board. 09:32

Re: clean up car diesel spill

Hi Folks,

This question has been asked on several boards, so would you please answer on the DAK thread, to keep the replies in the same place and avoid people giving the same answers more than once...

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TMFBoing replied to the Legal Issues - Practical board. 09:29

Re: diesel spillage cleanup costs

Hi,

tried a x-post but couldn't get it to work

All you need to do is copy the URL (that's the whole address from the address box at the top of your browser), and paste it in and the boards software will automatically turn it [more]

Mon Apr 23

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TMFBoing replied to the Does Anybody Know? board. 13:32

Re: complane

Hi,

Assuming you're asking how to go about addressing a complaint to New Look about one of their stores, all I can suggest is that you use the contact details to be found at...

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Sat Apr 21

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TMFBoing replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 14:42

Re: Travel Money

Hi all,

We've actually removed a few more posts this morning, which really were still off-topic.

As the subject of exchanging currency seems to have been well covered, the discussion has probably gone as far is it practically [more]

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TMFBoing replied to the Does Anybody Know? board. 13:24

Re: Charities & Tax

Folks,

This board is for factual answers to factual questions, so would you please stick to answering the OP's question in terms of the facts and keep those political opinions for elsewhere.

Foolish [more]

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TMFBoing replied to the Religious & Philosophical Topics board. 12:19

Re: I've just made up Heaven!

Folks,

Please leave off the personal insults, accusations, and general incivility, which is once again creeping into discussions here - and it includes posts from people who have been warned and had posts deleted a number of times in the [more]

Tue Apr 17

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TMFBoing replied to the Oil & Gas - Companies board. 13:40

Re: She's upsetting the Spaniards...

Folks,

Just a reminder that this board is for discussing Oil & Gas companies from an investment perspective.

While the effects of this news on oil and gas production in general, and on the industry in the region, are clearly [more]

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TMFBoing replied to the Does Anybody Know? board. 11:24

Re: Flying - hand baggage plus

Folks, this thread is getting a bit snippy, so we've removed a few of the less-than-helpful contributions.

The OP appears to have he information he wanted, so please now consider the thread CLOSED.

Foolish [more]

Mon Apr 16

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TMFBoing replied to the Champion Shares PRO boards. 11:52

Sat Apr 14

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TMFBoing replied to the Photography board. 18:59

Re: Robert Doisneau

I still use film quite a bit - not now with a rangefinder camera but an SLR. Two things a rangefinder is better at, though, are black and white (the yellow filter is a giveaway) and street photography. I use the occasional roll of B&W but [more]

Wed Apr 11

NL

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TMFBoing replied to the Religious & Philosophical Topics board. 13:33

Re: Respecting rights

Folks,

There are some sensitive topics covered here, but they are valid philosophical issues and we must insist that they are discussed in line with our ethos of Civil Discussion for Mutual Benefit.

Things like sticking to [more]

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TMFBoing replied to the Legal Issues - Practical board. 11:59

Re: Being sued

Folks,

This board really is meant for dealing with actual practical issues. It is not meant for speculation, legal guesswork, or general debate.

So if you don't have anything to add that is of direct help to the original poster's [more]

Wed Apr 4

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TMFBoing replied to the Pensions - Practical Problems board. 11:33

Re: Would you buy one of these ?

Folks,

This board is intended for discussing practical and day-to-day aspects of managing your pensions, and not for proposals for new kinds of pension schemes.

This topic would be more suited to the "Pensions - Motivation and [more]

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TMFBoing replied to the Religious & Philosophical Topics board. 11:24

Re: My problem

Hi folks,

...this should be an ideal candidate for the Interfaith Dialogue board

Have to disagree, I'm afraid. The Interfaith Dialogue board was set up specifically for people of different faiths to discuss their faiths with [more]

Tue Apr 3

NL

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TMFBoing replied to the Religious & Philosophical Topics board. 17:04

Re: Untheism, atheism and antitheism

Folks,

This board is intended for discussing religious and philosophical topics, not for arguing about which groups of people, or which of our boards, is the most or the least intolerant.

The original link was of interest, and we [more]

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TMFBoing replied to the Test board. 15:55

Re: Board posting working?

How about now?

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TMFBoing posted to the Test board. 14:24

Board posting working?

Well, is it?

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TMFBoing replied to the Property - Markets and Trends board. 12:48

Re: Land Reform

Folks,

We have deleted a lot of posts from this thread, because they were off-topic and were getting increasingly uncivil.

This board is for discussing the property market from an investment perspective, not for arguing about [more]

Fri Mar 23

NL

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TMFBoing replied to the High Yield - HYP Practical board. 11:59

Re: Pyad HYP article

Folks,

While posting a link to Pyad's article is fine, as it is clearly of interest to this board, discussion of it and the strategy issues behind it belongs on the Strategy board.

So please carry on over there if you wish, and [more]

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Very First Post Re: Fair reward for running a family portfolio? (15/07/2008)
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