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    UKIP manifesto,.....

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    pd,

    Well, your quote doesn't look like it.

    I use another forum where I have over 50,000 posts.

    David

     

    'Thank you for the advice David, however, with my post count of 4000+ versus your 200+ I believe I may have just a tad more experience of using this forum than you do. :-) '

    UKIP manifesto,.....

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    powerdesal,

    You can copy and paste parts of posts, you know. I do it.

    David

     

    'I would dispute the effect of the EU on the lack of European wars in the last 60+ years, I would say it was due to the existence of NATO and a realisation that the MAD doctrine was a sobering point.'


     

     

    Right, guys, without heated debate, let's have the reasons for UK leaving.

    in The Complete France Post Bag

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    Thibault,

    Er, wot's that supposed to mean?

     

    <BLOCKQUOTE><table width="85%"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/forums/completefrance/cs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>dwmcn wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"><P>Thibault,</P>
    <P>So, the US Cival War never happened?</P>
    <P>David</P>
    <P>'As the various States came into being, they benefited from having a common language and roughly the same approach to laws etc. so they were able to fit into a federal framework without too much difficulty.' <BR><BR></P>
    <P> </P></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

     

     

    Prepaid holiday cash cards: any experiences?

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    Anybody,

    Just one more interesting thing, well I find it interesting, before I move on. Within the last few days I received a few unsolicited emails wanting me to sign up to other travel cards that I had never heard of. I won't mention their names because that woud just provide them with more publicity. I could get free- of-charge cards that changed pounds into euros in exchange (ha ha) for information about my bank accounts. (Like getting millions of pounds from a Nigerian millionaire in exchange for bank info.) I assume it was because of what I said here. When I scroll on another forum I use, I get ads for holidays in France because I mentioned that we holiday in France quite often. Now we all know that websites/blogs/forums are not as secure as they think they are and there are always people sniffing around for bits of info that other posters give out that can then be taken to google to find out more about them, that will lead to being able to email them hoping they will email in return, thus providing their email address to try to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge. (Yes, it can happen.) So beware of unsolicited email. I usually report them to my provider as spam.    

    David

    Prepaid holiday cash cards: any experiences?

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    Betty,

    I forgot to say that my wife had a Travelex card, but like the campsite card we had you had to make sure you had money left on it when using it, unless you had put millions of pounds on it. We now just use our debit cards, even though it might cost a bit more to do so, because we know how much we have in our bank accounts. Of course if you are buying one for someone with no cards of their own, that is a different matter, but it could still run out of money.

    David

    Prepaid holiday cash cards: any experiences?

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    Betty,

    On my first trip to England from the US  in 1970 to work on an archaeological site, and not being that au fait with foreign travel, I bought a lot of ?American Express travellers' checks. Some 'went missing' and I got a refund. I now wish that I had just got a lot of pounds from my bank in the US rather thann have a lot of travellers' checks to get rid of afterwards.  

    We stayed on a campsite in France last year that wouldn't let you use cash and made you 'buy' a card with credit on it for a certain amount of euros. I think they didn't trust some of the people working on the site with cash. It was a pain in the neck because a few beers used up the euros on the card and we had to get more put on it and at the end of the holiday we had to hand in the card and get euros refunded. However, we liked the site and would return.

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