BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

There's hypocrisy, rank hypocrisy, then there's this...

 

[Mr Celine]

In an ideal world they would all be above average.

You are Michael Gove AICMFP.

 

[briantrumpet]

In an ideal world they would all be above average.

In a different kind of ideal world, an education minister would know what the world 'average' means.

 

[C R]

Education Dept (DfE). I still remember a Labour education minister in a radio interview bemoaning the fact that so many people were below the average reading age for their age. Well, blow me down, ya dont say!

Half the people are always below average. That. Is. A. Disgrace.

 

[briantrumpet]

Half the people are always below average. That. Is. A. Disgrace.

Well, it depends on how wide your bands are for 'average'.

 

[C R]

Well, it depends on how wide your bands are for 'average'.

Fat point theorem. Given a straight line and a point, how many lines parallel to the first one can you draw going through the point?

It depends on how fat the point is.

 

[Dorset Boy]

It depends what average you are comparing to - is it a European wide average level that is being compared to for example, in which case over half of UK kids could be below average.
But you'd all rather act like superior sanctimonious know it alls.................

 

[briantrumpet]

Well, this is a bit rubbish... Lyon actually has more than one mayor, and despite the city itself electing a Green, the 'metropole' mayoralty has switched back to the right, and they've peremptorily stopped work on improving the rive droite bit that separates residents from the Rhône with *eight* lanes of traffic.

And the work is already underway

https://actu.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpe...rselli-suspend-deja-les-travaux_64064129.html

Sorry, report in French, but basically it's a clusterfuck.

 

[briantrumpet]

The whole thing is a massive con: more expensive bigger cars, longer loans, and you get sucked into the quasi-perma loan that you never pay off because you trade the car in to get the next new one on a new loan. It's a house of cards, ready to tumble down.

Quite happy to stick to my 23-y-o Almera that cost me £700 to buy.

 

[First Aspect]

The whole thing is a massive con: more expensive bigger cars, longer loans, and you get sucked into the quasi-perma loan that you never pay off because you trade the car in to get the next new one on a new loan. It's a house of cards, ready to tumble down.

Quite happy to stick to my 23-y-o Almera that cost me £700 to buy.

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It is actually still possible to buy the cars people have traded in, you know. They seem to be about half the price.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

The whole thing is a massive con: more expensive bigger cars, longer loans, and you get sucked into the quasi-perma loan that you never pay off because you trade the car in to get the next new one on a new loan. It's a house of cards, ready to tumble down.

Quite happy to stick to my 23-y-o Almera that cost me £700 to buy.

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I always work on my Dad's advice, the only thing you should buy on credit is a house. Everything else you pay cash, and if you don't have the cash then you can't afford it!

 

[briantrumpet]

I always work on my Dad's advice, the only thing you should buy on credit is a house. Everything else you pay cash, and if you don't have the cash then you can't afford it!

@Pblakeney is of the same mould, I suspect (maybe my long-lost twin brother born in a different place and to a different mother, which is probably why I lost him).

I think it's been one of the biggest cons out. When I started driving, only posh people had swanky new cars, and everyone else drove bangers, or really basic cars – my gran could easily have afforded a better car, but Austin 1100s and then 1300s were fine.

 

[Beebo]

I always work on my Dad's advice, the only thing you should buy on credit is a house. Everything else you pay cash, and if you don't have the cash then you can't afford it!

I have followed that rule. Anyone who pays £700 pcm for a car is financially illiterate.
I have never bought a new car and I’ve been driving over 30 years.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

@Pblakeney is of the same mould, I suspect (maybe my long-lost twin brother born in a different place and to a different mother, which is probably why I lost him).

I think it's been one of the biggest cons out. When I started driving, only posh people had swanky new cars, and everyone else drove bangers, or really basic cars – my gran could easily have afforded a better car, but Austin 1100s and then 1300s were fine.

I am amazed by the number of brand new £30-40k+ cars I see on the road. The majority must surely be on finance. Each to their own, but never understood it personally.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

I have followed that rule. Anyone who pays £700 pcm for a car is financially illiterate.
I have never bought a new car and I’ve been driving over 30 years.

Yep, the idea of paying monthly for a car what many would pay on rent is something I can't get my head around. More so those on PCP who constantly change cars at the end of the contract and never pay the final payment to own it. Seems like a lot of wasted money.