Peckris 2

150 will get you something that is literally half decent. Go up to between 200 and 250 & you should be able to pick up one of the older Lumix TZ cameras, which give pretty good results for a small sensor camera. On the other hand, if you've a decent smartphone from the past few years, you will already have a more than half decent camera.

Well, I'd better replace it, then. ..... uh, we're right out of parrots. I see. I see, I get the picture. I've got a slug.

The 6th scientist made no comment...

Nah. It was only kipping. Lovely plumage!

Factually incorrect. VAT is not a tariff. It's what all purchasers of goods in this country have to pay, and the only time people think of it separately is when it's not shown as part of the 'price to pay'. Otherwise the price shown on the ticket or website includes VAT and few people think about it as a separate component. Your customer was obviously an exception. VAT is just one of the many taxes like income tax, National Insurance, fuel duty, duty on drink and cigarettes, etc. Part of the cost of living. As I said however, excise duty ("still to pay before you can collect your goods") is a different matter.

If that was a dupondius from earlier in the Empire, they're rarer and worth quite a bit more.

That's where you're making a big mistake. A tariff is indeed a tax imposed on goods coming from another country. However, VAT is "merely" a tax, not a tariff, as it is imposed on ALL goods on sale in the UK (except those exempt, like childrens clothing and food staples among others) IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER THOSE GOODS WERE IMPORTED OR MADE IN BRITAIN. There is no distinction, nor any disadvantage to any other country over our home grown goods. However, there can be an import duty (excise tax) which is entirely separate from VAT. If I buy dietary supplements from the States, I have to pay an extra duty on them when they arrive here. Nothing to do with VAT. That's the tax you should be complaining about, and I'd join you.

I wouldn't say that VAT is a tariff, as there are only three rates: no VAT (childrens clothes and food staples for example), normal (20%) for most things, and low (can't remember what this is for). It's the same as your ?Purchase Tax ?Sales Tax. VAT applies to goods on sale here irrespective of where they come from, so it's even less like a tariff and doesn't hurt exporters to the UK.

Let's be honest, this conversation is verging on the very silly. Can we get back to laughs please, without "leavening" it with snarky comments? (Aimed at the Farage remark).

Not quite sure of the Farage reference? That seems very inoffensively amusing, and here is another from the same occasion:

Good value for £8, rather nice condition. Sounds like a follis from the size.

https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-New-Musical-Express/1969/NME-1969-11-29-one page.pdf Works for me...

In principle, yes, a very good idea. Two snags, one temporary, one permanent: 1. Trump has declared his aim to stop free trade, and the UK is no exception to his malarkey. 2. Unlike Europe, the USA is not exactly on our doorstep, so the trade in perishables (and therefore the hit to our farmers) - while by no means impossible, would be much more difficult. Add to that the "just in time" aspect of manufacturing - e.g. motors - and you begin to see that even the USA, despite our frienddhip, is only a second best to Europe.

"Ended by the seller as there was an error in the listing". You don't say!

to me, the coin on the RIGHT is the normal one compared to the one on the left.

Could also be very different light and photography - and the frosty is in a slab.

The answer is "yes" and "no". If you have the time and patience, trawl through and look; if not, steer clear. It didn't happen often to me - I found a bulk lot with an EF 1865 penny in, but from the bidding it was obvious others had also seen it. I got it, but it wasn't a bargain in the end.

Yes, but there is at least one very good reason for that. It's not based on your nearest transmitter so before I registered I would have to sit through London local TV news (iPlayer didn't know where I was). Since I registered I now get the SW local news automatically after the national news. If you check "Keep me signed in" you rarely if ever have to sign in again after the first time.

I don't understand that - I was taken straight to iPlayer.

It caused huge confusion with the "Paul is dead" myth - did he disappear on 11th of September or 9th November?

Thanks for the link Blakey - an enjoyable documentary

It appears to be an antoninianus (a silver washed coin which was a debased version of the denarius, and used in the later Roman Empire; worth less than a denarius). Emperor is almost certainly Carinus (reigned 283-285 AD) and the obverse legend therefore reads M AUR CARINVS NOB C AUG. The reverse is harder to determine but may be PIETAS AVG C (not sure...). I've no reason to think it's not real.

AUnc, or GEF at the very least. Beautiful coin. (There is the usual reverse weakness probably caused by the boldness of the portrait).

Agreed. Nothing wrong with that. My gripe is with the term AUnc being used (even with a lowish number that reflects the true grade) when a coin has had enough wear that it cannot be used in the same sentence as "Uncirculated" (except perhaps with "not"!) Photobucket... so no, it's exactly the same size!

Just as bad is the insistence some have of referring to a team in the singular, as in "England is struggling here, and is lucky to be going in at half time only one goal down". And the increasing disappearance of the word "of" after "couple", compensated for by its unnecessary appearance after "outside". Not to mention the growing habit of referring to a date as (e.g.) "February 3". Still, let's be thankful that we still use the logical DD/MM/YY format. God forbid we should ever descend to the utterly illogical MM/DD/YY.