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The government has committed to make it mandatory for banks to reimburse victims of bank transfer scams.

This is a huge win for our campaign. Currently, only banks signed up to a voluntary code must give victims their money back – but even then, the majority are doing a shoddy job.

This legislative change will force the banks to do more to protect their customers from fraud, or rightfully return the victim’s money when they fail to do so.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59351160 I sometimes think that those of us who do ordinary jobs with ordinary earnings and pay all our taxes must be complete mugs. But I prefer to be a mug rather than mix with the likes of Cameron et al.

It's another one of those Predict the Score posts. After the intenational break its back to the Premier League. Get your predictions in by 5pm.
Good luck

Good news hearing that he is back in prison and that the authorities can listen when concerns about someone’s behaviour are raised.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-59354638.amp

My mate said, "I like your car."

I said, "It's not very practical now we've got a baby."

He said, "How about I buy it off you."

I said, "Yeah go on then. Three grand?"

He said, "You've got yourself a deal."

I said, "Nice one... you're going to make a brilliant dad!"

Does anyone eat them? I love them but I find even when they aren't quite ripe that they can have some black areas in the flesh. Just wondering if it's safe to eat?

Just noticed 2 charging points at our local Tesco. One says charging point, the other (much bigger) says charging pod. Is there a difference? If so, what is it?

Things not looking good in places. Austria going into full lockdown and making vaccines mandatory.

Germany in state of emergency over lack of hospital beds and may go into full lockdown as well.

We haven't even gotten into winter yet!

I have seen many of the Romanian beggars over the past few days, a new thing they have is a written sign!!, but all these signs are in the same hand writing!!, why would anybody give these people a SINGLE penny?, it all goes back to the warlords in Romania!!

I have been made a moderator for some local groups - never done this before so any tips and advice from other mods. would be much appreciated.

My recycling bin full to the top was not collected this week. After phoning was informed it would be emptied with household waste.
Queried if it would go to landfill site but they assured me it would be recycled.
I usually clean all the items and would be very annoyed if it is just chucked into landfill.
What do you think?

My first two jabs were AstraZenica, first one on 1st April - I had my booster (3rd jab) on 17 November - it was a Pfizer.

So far after 24 hours there are no effects whatsoever - slight soreness where the jab went in but can barely feel it.

Do not even feel I have had a booster - perfectly normal.

I really hope this plays to the end, my heart was in my mouth....

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/nov/17/geordie-greig-ousted-as-editor-of-the-daily-mail I don't read it but I know some people here do and might be interested.

Muffins spelled backwards is what you do when you take them out of the oven

What a disgraceful act

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10205627/amp/Rock-group-frontwoman-Sophia-Urista-URINATES-fans-face-stage-shocked-audience.html?fr=operanews

Starting 19 January, 2022, we will unfortunately no longer accept Visa credit cards issued in the UK, due to the high fees Visa charges for processing credit card transactions. You can still use debit cards (including Visa debit cards) and non-Visa credit cards like Mastercard, Amex, and Eurocard to make purchases. Please update your default payment method now, or add one of these new, eligible payment methods if you do not have one.

She paid £40 for a 6 foot tree with moving decorations. Bargain or ?
https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/16/student-nurse-orders-six-foot-christmas-tree-gets-six-inch-twig-15608749/

I bought my Christmas Tree from the market and the man said if i gave it plenty of light and water, he would even and come and take it away for me come January!
What a great deal and what a very nice young man he was!!!

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Vets made this tiny bird with deformed feet its own set of mini snow shoes.

This little mockingbird doesn't have a name. It was recently rescued by the California Wildlife Center. The shoes helped to realign its feet, getting them back to the normal foot shape for a bird. After just one week, the bird’s feet were fixed and he was able to walk around on his own.

📷 California Wildlife Center

I get very annoyed when people mix up there, they're and their.........from now on I'm going to point it out, weather they like it or not.

Someone - not one person but perhaps only a few - constantly puts up these posts in the Anything loop.
Why not set up a separate loop for these, to declutter Anything a bit. After all, they're all similar, so would make more sense grouped together.

England's last qualifying match for the next World Cup. They go into the game needing a draw against San Marino, who are officially the worst team in the world. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1520684/eu-snooping-laws-uk-residents-private-messages-read-stark-warning-privacy

What are the 2 things you could be given that you would think are absolutely useless to you?

Mine are hair straighteners and perfume!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/14/austria-orders-lockdown-those-not-fully-vaccinated-against-covid

Do members agree

Was enjoying all the comments on perfume and found that discussion is now closed. Why
https://www.scooploop.com/user/Danni

It is reported she has strained her back but as she has been resting for a few weeks on medical advice how has she done it ?
Is there something we are not being told ?

I’m writing this from climate talks in Glasgow -- and I have tough news.

Right now, we’re on track for climate catastrophe, with well over two degrees Celsius of warming, and the deal being drafted here is still a long way from being the deal we need for climate safety.

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Sign the People’s Climate Deal on behalf of your country!
These climate talks are thick with jargon and you need real expertise to make sense of the text. But luckily, Avaaz’s millions of members have some pretty awesome skills -- and one happens to be a top international climate law expert.

He wrote to us out of the blue with the People’s Climate Deal and our team here love it -- and we think it could make a real difference in the last days of this summit, as countries seek to hammer out the details of an agreement -- if it’s signed by people everywhere.

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What’s your favourite ad?

And favourite perfume?

https://youtu.be/qeMqcApmS7g

Staying ex-directory and registered with the Telephone Preference Service mostly keeps away scam callers, except those using foreign 'phone banks beyond the ICO's reach, but I had a tiresome new variety of caller today.
She sounded English, rang my home landline number and used my correct title and surname, which is unheard of. (Spam callers mostly misaddress me by a first name that I don't use, which is an invaluable tell-tale.) And the call came from an unhidden London exchange number, also not at all usual.
The reverse lookup records a lot of previous reports about unsolicited calls from that number, as follows:
"💡 The overall rating for telephone number 020 3154 6770 is Negative. There have been 3,372 phone lookups and 107 comments relating to this number. On this page: 12 Users rated it as Dangerous, 6 Users rated it as Harassing and 2 Users rated it as Unknown.

The summary of detected keywords found in the reports is as follow: scam (12 times), lottery (9 times), bank (5 times), spam (1 time), credit card (1 time)"

Fortunately, I've never played a lottery in my life, so being told that the caller was "from the Lottery Department" didn't sound right. And she broke off the call when I asked where she'd got my name and number from, since I've never played any lottery.

So don't be fooled into believing that you've won the lottery if a civilised-sounding English stranger rings your home number and addresses you by your correct name. It's just yet another scam, although I didn't wait long enough to find out exactly what they wanted.

It has now been collected.

1,000 illegal immigrants arrived today, well 90% economic migrants let’s face it.
We have nigh on 25,000 illegals expected this year. Not only is it costing a fortune, especially in these Covid days, and not only do we not have enough housing ourselves, even some RNLI volunteers are starting to get annoyed. Some of these young men are told by the smugglers just call 999 and you will be looked after. Already recent two drownings. How many are sent back??? None at this stage as they will throw away their papers and passports. The French say we make it easy with our handouts. Well we e handed out enough to them that’s for sure and they seem to find our fishing boats ok!! This has been discussed before. Hotels and a weekly £39.63ish.

This is looking a bit worrying.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Incoming email from postmaster@netsrv.live
Subject: [5] messages to xxx@xxx.co.uk delayed for 24 hours

You have 5 pending incoming messages today on 11.11.2021
You have to resolve it now.

Plus a link to click on . . . OK, it's fairly obviously a scam, but one of my addresses is with Plusnet, which has had major email problems this week, and just for a fleeting moment I thought it was connected.

Tonight's match is a World cup qualifier. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-hospital-speaks-out-after-pm-pictured-without-a-face-mask-during-visit-12466377

I took in a parcel for a neighbour on Tuesday, the driver said he had emailed them to tell them who had it, since then I have knocked several times but got no answer, I have put a note through their door and managed to find one of them on FB and sent a message.
Still nobody had been for it or answered my message.
What can I do now ? - the parcel says 'next day delivery'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYfXHWldGU&ab_channel=FEDROYLHSHD

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month has now sadly passed.
In WW1, the orders were "Business as usual" until 11.00 a.m on the 11/11/1918.
These poor guys were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Henry Nicholas John Gunther (June 6, 1895 – November 11, 1918) was an American soldier and likely the last soldier of any of the belligerents to be killed during World War I. He was killed at 10:59 a.m., one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11:00 a.m.

Gunther had recently been demoted, and was seeking to regain his rank just before the war ended.

George Edwin Ellison (10 August 1878 – 11 November 1918) of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers was the last British soldier to be killed in action during the First World War. He died at 09:30 a.m (90 minutes before the Armistice came into effect), shot by a sniper while on a patrol in woodland on the outskirts of Mons, Belgium.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/john-cleese-pulls-cambridge-union-182848728.html

One claims she had less than 5 drinks. 2 glasses of wine is about my limit. Plus she claims it was the pills she was taking. Perhaps less alcohol with pills would have been a good idea.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/labour-snp-mps-criticised-drinking-204553251.html