That’s what I have on the image above. £20K is quite a commitment, is he managing his own portfolio or did he sign up for a managed service?
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Doing it himself...its more like 30k though...keeps saying it'll pick up and he will make a fortune,while still chucking more money at it. I heard his last installment on it was 8k because the value had dropped so much. I don't really understand it but he doesn't look happy!
Wow! I invested £600 and keep telling my wife Rodney we’ll be millionaires by next year.
A few in the football team I played for were encouraged to invest in a sure thing by another teammate, needless to say it all went tits up and some of them lost thousands, he wasn't all that popular after that.
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Self sufficiency in all sorts of ways. Beer, veg, meat, bread, wine, eggs, vodka, pickles, leccy, kombucha, chillies, charcuterie etc
I've become addicted to stable diffusion txt2img and img2img
It's fantastic once you have deciphered all the rediculous complex terms and steps the techies have loaded it with. Some of the AI images I have made are just incredible, not only in the mad scope of my mind, but how damn REAL they look.
Fancy flying as an astraunaut with Enos the chimp in the passenger seat in the new spaceX rocket? Or how about that perfect moment Donald trump disappears up an elephants arse when it rears at seeing Mickey mouse?
It will do it all if you can figure out the text prompts and load the right settings
It's fantastic once you have deciphered all the rediculous complex terms and steps the techies have loaded it with. Some of the AI images I have made are just incredible, not only in the mad scope of my mind, but how damn REAL they look.
Fancy flying as an astraunaut with Enos the chimp in the passenger seat in the new spaceX rocket? Or how about that perfect moment Donald trump disappears up an elephants arse when it rears at seeing Mickey mouse?
It will do it all if you can figure out the text prompts and load the right settings
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I have an original (if such a thing exists) of the Mona Lisa printed on a chain printer from a 4381 ibm mainframe in the 1980s.
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Make sure you hang her in your bedroom (after Napoleon Bonaparte), or your bathroom (like King François I ) and we do.
Our own photo print too, as we were staying 200metres from the Louvre in the Opera district and had what turned out to be a relaxed private viewing, as we went straight there at opening time. A planned military exercise.
Later the hall was rammed with coach parties when we passed through on our way out.
Couldn't get near it then.
A friend on our street who spent his life doing investment stuff gave me a tip over far too many pints one night....
Then asked me months later if I had invested...I had forgotten and don't really dabble in such stuff.
It was a Dutch energy firm..he made "a lot"...
Then asked me months later if I had invested...I had forgotten and don't really dabble in such stuff.
It was a Dutch energy firm..he made "a lot"...
Stock exchange? That sounds like fun. How best to stick a proverbial in the water?
I can see the appeal of it. The best ISAs are currently offering around 4%-5% a year, my investments gained 1.57% just yesterday. I have to caveat this though - a few days ago my portfolio lost 5% in one day.
Hi Matt. You need an account on a trading platform, some money you’re prepared to burn, and a little patience in the beginning to watch and learn.
There are lots of trading platforms with their own pros and cons. I’m using eToro because it’s free to use and trades are free, it also has some good tools and you have access to a good range of stocks and other instruments. Crucially perhaps it offers a virtual profile where you have $100,000 to practice and it has a bunch of educational articles and videos.
The learning bit is learning about the various characteristics and technical indicators that can help you in not making a bad decision including Candlestick patterns, Support & Resistance, EMA Cross, MACD, RSI, and Fibonacci retracement. I found this site really good for learning about technical analysis:
https://zerodha.com/varsity/module/technical-analysis/
Also learning about the features on the trading platform that can help automate things such as automatic investments and closures to take advantage of lows and minimise losses - especially in the middle of the night!
H will shortly be off to Cecil G for a new suite and some lairy braces...
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These investment platform community chats are all about shelling. Do your own research
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Just had opening weekend of the duck shooting season. It's a big deal here, very much a bonding session where blokes sit in a tin shed by a pond sorting the world's problems (in between taking down some agricultural pests). Nice morning yesterday...
Then when they stopped coming in the guns were cleared and some home brew came out...
Got sunburnt and we had a dozen or so birds to clean for the pot. Poor tally compared to normal but it's not about the numbers...
Then when they stopped coming in the guns were cleared and some home brew came out...
Got sunburnt and we had a dozen or so birds to clean for the pot. Poor tally compared to normal but it's not about the numbers...
sifty
Landlord.
This morning dawned foggy, which meant we had to sharpen our reflexes, no warning when they came in...
And when the sun burnt the fog off we stalked some waterways...
And when the sun burnt the fog off we stalked some waterways...
Pests or reared for the job as discussed in the article below -
https://www.davidbeardsmoreshooting.com/post/duck-shooting-season-uk-what-when-and-why
sifty
Landlord.
Oh wow. Nothing like that. That's grim.
Genuinely wild birds that are controlled via recreational hunting during a short season, outside their breeding period. Introduced mallards mainly, but the native paradise duck (a shelduck) is also a target species.They are a grazing bird and numbers have skyrocketed as pastures were created for farming. We can also shoot small numbers of grey ducks, black swans and pukeko (a native swamp hen) if we want. Generally only do so if the landowner requests it.
Most farmers build ponds and create wetland areas for shooting, which is great for all sorts of wildlife. We saw herons, a bittern, swallows, fantails, hawks and kingfishers...
It is pretty challenging, can only shoot birds on the wing, usually call them in with duck callers and decoys after seeing them flying past. They are pretty fast, and there are lots of regulations on type of gun, bag limits etc allowed.
Wild ducks are lean and gamey, we generally pluck, clean and roast them whole, although sometimes just breast them. They are not fatty enough for asian style recipes. Paradise ducks are almost goose sized and we tend to just take the breasts for salami or sausages.
Canada geese have become established and are in such numbers there is no limit on how to take them. Any gun allowed and no season. It's at the stage now that government conservation departments use helicopters to shoot them from during the moult. Worst case is duck/geese numbers get so high ponds become infected with botulism and poison is used. Nobody wants that as it's bloody horrible, so hunting is encouraged...
Genuinely wild birds that are controlled via recreational hunting during a short season, outside their breeding period. Introduced mallards mainly, but the native paradise duck (a shelduck) is also a target species.They are a grazing bird and numbers have skyrocketed as pastures were created for farming. We can also shoot small numbers of grey ducks, black swans and pukeko (a native swamp hen) if we want. Generally only do so if the landowner requests it.
Most farmers build ponds and create wetland areas for shooting, which is great for all sorts of wildlife. We saw herons, a bittern, swallows, fantails, hawks and kingfishers...
It is pretty challenging, can only shoot birds on the wing, usually call them in with duck callers and decoys after seeing them flying past. They are pretty fast, and there are lots of regulations on type of gun, bag limits etc allowed.
Wild ducks are lean and gamey, we generally pluck, clean and roast them whole, although sometimes just breast them. They are not fatty enough for asian style recipes. Paradise ducks are almost goose sized and we tend to just take the breasts for salami or sausages.
Canada geese have become established and are in such numbers there is no limit on how to take them. Any gun allowed and no season. It's at the stage now that government conservation departments use helicopters to shoot them from during the moult. Worst case is duck/geese numbers get so high ponds become infected with botulism and poison is used. Nobody wants that as it's bloody horrible, so hunting is encouraged...
sifty
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The paradise duck is an attractive bird. This is the drake, the female has a white head and chestnut body...
Gave them to our shooting buddy who is a surgeon to breast. Thought he'd be best with a sharp knife...
And other mate's daughters helped pluck the mallards. It's their grandparents farm...
After the ducks we did some pest control, took some pigeons from the farm sheds and several possums. These look cute but decimate native bush and raid native birds nests of eggs. Farmer was happy with our efforts...
https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/animal-pests/possums/
Gave them to our shooting buddy who is a surgeon to breast. Thought he'd be best with a sharp knife...
And other mate's daughters helped pluck the mallards. It's their grandparents farm...
After the ducks we did some pest control, took some pigeons from the farm sheds and several possums. These look cute but decimate native bush and raid native birds nests of eggs. Farmer was happy with our efforts...
https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/animal-pests/possums/
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