Did it in 2010/11 - went to some fantastic places (Bhutan, North Korea etc)  The only down side was after four months of travelling I was starting to fill too much of my time with drinking. It's easily done as if you're always on the move then getting pissed every night is an easy option. I then met...

Well £1500 selling 2 a week is £1500/8 = £187.50 average a programme so yes that's about right

According to the HMRC online tool because none of these were bought to make a profit and none have been sold individually for more than £6000 there's no income tax or CGT to pay

They all fit in to a 25 square foot room - it's quality not quantity and most weeks I'll only sell a couple of programmes

I make about £1,500 a month selling football programmes on eBay. Been doing it for four years and got enough to keep selling at that level for another 10 years or so (which is when my state pension gets added to my work pension) Because it's all personal possessions and nothing over £6,000 it's tax ...

"Good to see his flag out there in Frankfurt today, right in the corner"

"RIP Gary, not just a West Ham legend but England as well, last saw him in 2009 in Bangladesh, put that flag up on the pearly gates Bonzo.."

Another example more recently - player got a 10 year ban for just one booking (Kynan Isaac) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63302914 The betting companies will supply the identities and locations of the people placing the bets - if they identify a connection to the player and he refuses to coop...

11056 I have some vague memory of joining WHO after being on an email loop run from Fortunes Always Hiding Late 1990s I guess?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs5nDpuB_vo 10 seconds in for the dogs in question

Went in 1989 but I doubt anything from that trip would be of any use. Took three days to get there by bus but I guess you won't be doing that So yes my only tip is to fly rather than going by bus

"Or in the AI generated bollocks speak of the official press release... ""Stage Front and the Spanish National Team have unveiled the first match of their partnership. In a joint press conference at Ciudad del F??tbol, both entities announced a spectacular soccer showdown between global football pow...

"Steve, my wife is also from the Philippines and came here on a spouse visa in 2011 - jumped through all the hurdles to eventually get citizenship and has now worked night shifts in a care home for the past five years. During Covid she never missed a shift and saw many residents die. One of her resp...

"I took my Dad's cat to the vet to be put to sleep - she was blind, could hardly walk and stopped eating I never expected it to be so upsetting and also that the vet was visibly moved - he must have done it hundreds of times but I guess it never gets easier for them"

"https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jun/15/everton-fans-urge-farhad-moshiri-to-remove-bill-kenwright-as-chairman Well, they got what they wanted in the end.."

"Just found the actual line ups from the Sunday Mirror Farnborough line up was Power, Stemp, Baker, Broome, Bye, Wigmore, Doherty, Holmes, Coney, Read, Fleming with Rogers and Horton on the bench So looks like he's full of it"

Manchester United went 25 games unbeaten in the Champions League 2007-2009 They did lose to Zenit in the Super Cup in the middle of that run so you could argue both ways as to who holds the record

"Cozenza in the Anglo Italian Cup in 1992 - it stopped raining before kick off but by then I was drenched, didn't get properly dried out for days"

"Total taxes raised from tobacco and the tobacco industry adds up to less than 2% of total Government revenue So neither here nor there in the greater scheme of things especially as the tapering downwards of future revenue will be gradual and decades away from now But as noted up thread - all the ki...

"Nagorno-Karabakh is beautiful, I went there in 2004 for a few days. Stayed in Shusha up in the hills, almost a ghost town as the Azeris all left after the first war. To get our visas we had to go to the Foreign Ministry in Stepanakert where we were seen by the ""Foreign Minister"" himself which was...

"I sold one of these just last week on eBay for £123. The programme I sold was in good condition but it comes up fairly frequently and it's one of the easier West Ham in USA games from that era so £100-£150 is about what I expected Of course its significance to Peter Grotier and his family would ...

If you're there for a week then spend three days going to the Iguazu Falls To be honest if I had three days in Buenos Aires I'd use all three of those days to visit Iguazu. Buenos Aires is a fantastic city but it's just another city after all However the flea markets are very good, don't obsess abou...

"Stephen Nolan looks possible News report this week quoted ""Mr Nolan is currently on holiday. On her first show, stand-in Holly Hamilton told listeners on Tuesday she was taking the helm for ""the next few weeks""."" Nolan has also transferred ownership this week of his main company (valued at seve...

"From The Guardian today, one young reader has written in for some advice... Bonus points if you can understand what the fuck she/they are saying without resorting to google at least seven times ""I am 16, and identify as an ace lesbian (NMLNM, or non-men loving non-men). I have questioned my sexual...