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...my mate told me that I needed a boy to help me in the workshop, but so far I can't see any advantages....
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All so amusing, and reminding me of a lost time when you could have, when we were all much younger, for example's sake, a model aircraft club. All the members swapped info, ideas, and build techniques on how to get the most out of any model they own, or have built, or are hoping to build.
In the village there was The Model Shop. For many years, in the window, was the most magnificent model plane. An unattainable plane. The shopkeeper had to clean the window often, because our noses were pressed to the glass so regularly.
Then one day it vanished....
Later that week, a kid turned up at the club, and announced he had all the models that Airfix made, and now also owned the Plane from the Window. We were all very interested and excited and couldn't wait to see what this new kid was offering. All we got was a promise of some pictures, but no plane to admire in the clubhouse, no chance to see it fly, no, we were told it wouldn't be seen again.
Those in the Club who liked the new member were described as 'intelligent and rational',
and those who though him a bit of a pushy upstart who really should know his place as 'bitter, irrational and ignorant'....
Hmm.....I've been here years, and I still feel an outsider, and from day one I've been respectful to members who know way more than I ever will about coins.
Piling in in the way we have seen this week, and saying what has been said is like the dealings of a petulant child.
It crosses a line with me.
Just because Trump does it doesn't mean anyone else should.
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On 2/4/2025 at 8:42 PM, Circulation penny collecto said:
As for Mr Jelida though, he seems rather bitter ( he rather reminds me of Norris Cole on Coronation Street).
Well, as to the elephant in the room, I think 48 hours is long enough to have seen an apology for this undeserved slur.
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52 minutes ago, Rob said:
Unless the rating in ESC is demonstrably accurate, they should all be taken with a pinch of salt. Obviously things that are clearly common (C-C3) isn't the problem, but at the R7 end of the scale there are numerous discrepancies, e.g. Roman I 1825 shillings (R7, I think not), or 1723 C/SS shillings which are given R5 both of which are clearly complete bs.
Absolutely.
So this rather means that someone who realises this through experience wouldn't ascribe a rarity number at all......!!
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The 'braggadocio bit' isn't, for me, the problem.
(Would anyone claim not to have a swagger when owning such a fine collection?)
I don't think the ability to spend cash and tell everyone about it gives anyone, except Michael Freeman, and Michael Gouby, the right to assign Freeman numbers or rarity symbols.
Only immense academic effort is rewarded by the assignment of such rights and privileges,not spending cash....
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2 hours ago, Circulation penny collecto said:
As for Mr Jelida though, he seems rather bitter ( he rather reminds me of Norris Cole on Coronation Street). He needs to take a deep breath and try to understand that it is MY website and is for MY record-keeping and i will do it how it pleases me. It is not content for an erudite textbook to be published, nor am i trying to sell him anything. I simply put up the link to share the content if anyone was interested. And if some of the numbers are slightly dated from hundreds of coins then i will live with it............
Hmmm...you state the the 1954 penny will hopefully not be sold or seen again....have a good long think about that statement and how it sounds....
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I wonder if this is the drill body I ordered off Ebay?
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On 11/30/2024 at 4:46 PM, Rob said:
Tantalising. Was it or wasn't it? There's a disturbance in the field in the correct position.
I just noticed this - hmm....is it the same "disturbance in the field" that told Darth that Obi-wan was dead?
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On 1/6/2025 at 8:57 AM, secret santa said:
That is a _very_ cleaned up version of an actual conversation between Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine when they were married....
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1 hour ago, mrbadexample said:
You should drink those quickly, they're all out of date.
Oh thank you so much for that idea- I will drive all my family and friends mad with this for the rest of time......!
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I got out my schoolboy collection, and filled lots of GB stamp gaps from the mountains of stuff I inherited.
There are more gaps to fill, so I'd love to see what anyone has that they aren't needing.
I have to keep in mind that the stamp grading system is just as rigorous as the coin one....I wondered why so many of my stamps are worthless, then thought about it....duh....
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I've spent the last year collating a huge pile of old stamps and albums that I inherited from three different people,
into one coherent set of stock books, to sell.
They have a better distribution of older stamps, since some of the old stamp albums were very old.
Does anyone on here have experience of selling stamp collections or advice on how/where to sell?
I put a couple of sets on Ebay and they went for not much money...
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22 hours ago, jelida said:
Bah humbug!
Just give me the prezzies and some beer.At least I can start commenting ‘evenings getting later’ from tomorrow. I try to be the first.
And I do like New Year.
But I gladly send my Best Wishes to you all.
Jerry
Time to wheel out my favourite, I feel:
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Ditto to you all.
My 2024 wasn't good, and this Forum helped a lot!
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That makes me feel better- they wouldn't let me watch it either......!!!
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Watched 'Quatermass and the Pit' the other day- fantastic!
Interesting dialogue exchange in the middle:
Professor Bernard Quatermass : Roney, if we found out the earth was doomed, say, by climatic changes, what would we do about it?
Dr.Matthew Roney : Nothing. Just go on squabbling as usual.
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15 hours ago, secret santa said:
I'm not sure; I've called it a pattern but I've not seen it in hand so it might be a proof but it's probably unique being struck with reverse Freeman K which has the non-heraldically coloured shield.
Wow!
Was it correctly identified as such when it was sold?
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14 hours ago, SilverAge3 said:
So fake!
That sounds like Donald...!
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Ah- but isn't that where the real fun is?
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On 11/20/2024 at 12:34 PM, VickySilver said:
I realize insiders know, but wonder if indeed as has been stated that one collector vacuumed up the majority or a large number of the "better" pieces....I can not compete in these leagues [anymore] but at one time knew a bit more. An older and now non-entity nowadays! LOL.
I sometimes wonder whether, if I won the lottery and bought a big pile of rarities at an auction, which lets face it, is rather easy to do, I would get half the pleasure that I get from finding a worn rarity at the bottom of an old tin of crap like has happened on occasion......
...and I can show off the found gem on here, instead of just hiding a pile of expensive bronze in a bank vault where no-one can see them.....
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Mathematics is hard. The athletics is on the telly.
Both singular, hence 'is', not 'are'.
When you abbreviate it, you shorten the word.
For some reason, maybe just because of the sound, the English keep the 's'...
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Ha!
One of the few things they have got right.....!
The other one i noticed was inTrader Joe's supermarkets where the sign in the till lane said "15 items or fewer".....
1954 penny
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Keep digging mate- I do admire your tenacity and inability to apologise or back down after social ineptitude.
I was wrong to use the toy aeroplane analogy.
I admit that now.
I should have run with the one about kid who turns up out of the blue with demands of a football team because he's the only kid in the street with a decent ball.
How's that?