• (disco) in reply to Gurth
    Gurth:
    Rounded up or down?

    To avoid having more than £50,000 in any one bank (I believe multiple accounts with the same bank are only guaranteed up to £50k total) the number of accounts would have to be rounded up.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS

    No, you keep the remainder as cash under your bed and pay it into a new account as soon as it hits £50k

  • (disco) in reply to Gaska
    Gaska:
    And in modern age, you can be sure that any money exceeding €100,000 on your bank account is as good as gone

    That would be incredibly poor financial management anyways. That kind of money should be invested in something. If you feel better with something tangible, put it in real estate.

  • (disco) in reply to Gurth
    Gurth:
    Rounded up or down?

    Rounded up works for me...

  • (disco) in reply to EatenByAGrue
    EatenByAGrue:
    That would be incredibly poor financial management anyways. That kind of money should be invested in something.
    Investing always comes with risk, and invested money have poor liquidity.
  • (disco)
    kupfernigk:
    You are guaranteed 90% of your investments with any one financial group up to £85000.

    Citation needed for your inaccurate information. In the meantime..

    http://www.fscs.org.uk/what-we-cover/eligibility-rules/compensation-limits/

    Your £85,000* figure relates to deposits, not investments. For firm read licence for which multiple 'banks' can reside under a single 'licence' (which was accurate in your description.)

    Deposits: £85,000 per person per firm (for claims against firms declared in default from 31 December 2010).
    100% of £85,000.
    

    Investments however retain the £50,000 limit:

    Investments: £50,000 per person per firm (for claims against firms declared in default from 1 January 2010).
    100% of the first £50,000.
    

    * The somewhat weird £85,000 limit was based on the €100,000 limit in the EU when the limits were changed.

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    I apologise for the inaccurate post. Sorry.

  • (disco) in reply to dkf

    (post withdrawn by author, will be automatically deleted in 24 hours unless flagged)

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk
    kupfernigk:
    I apologise for the inaccurate post. Sorry.

    Well, this must surely be a first, eh?

  • (disco) in reply to StephenCleary
    StephenCleary:
    While it's true that you just need a DBA for *most* businesses
    Surely there are many businesses that don't require a database administrator, at least while starting up?
  • (disco) in reply to Scarlet_Manuka

    No one stops them trying to assign P, AP, SA, PM, BA and DBA to the same poor soul at the same time. (Usually users are testers so at least you don't need to bear all the roles. :weary:

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk
    kupfernigk:
    I was referring to Master of Business Administration, but the mentioning MBA and coffee shops in the same paragraphs suggests to me you maybe thinking of Mac Book Airs.

    Not when the Business School is one of the better (for the money) places to have lunch round here.

  • (disco) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Or maybe not. We're talking an _MBA_ after all.

    In Czech we have a backronym for MBA, “mladý, blbý, arogantní”, which translates back as “young, stupid, arogant”.

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk
    kupfernigk:
    Mac Book Airs....is there some legal requirement for them in coffee shops?
    I thought the only legal requirement to go into a coffee shop these days is that you have to be 18 years old.
  • (disco) in reply to Bulb
    Bulb:
    mladý

    Neckbeards?

  • (disco) in reply to Bulb
    Bulb:
    blbý

    Let me tell you about these things that could revolutionise your language. They're called vowels...

    A Czech guy once taught me a whole sentence that had no vowels. I don't remember how it went (although I remember I couldn't say it properly), but apparently it translated as 'stick your finger through your throat'.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    stick your finger through your throat
    Sounds like that's what you'd have to do to say it properly :laughing:
  • (disco)
    kupfernigk:
    Joke so feeble the whoosh was the tiniest ripple in a still pool.

    Wut? I wasn't joking…

  • (disco) in reply to tar
    tar:
    Well, this must surely be a first, eh?

    No, I always apologise for mistakes if they are drawn to my attention. The trick of course is not to post while half asleep. I had had a letter from the bank that day reminding me of the rules, and I simply didn't check my recollection.

  • (disco) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Wut? I wasn't joking…

    No, that was my feeble joke about MBAs and coffee shops. Clearly I'm not contextualising enough.

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk
    kupfernigk:
    No, that was my feeble joke about MBAs and coffee shops. Clearly I'm not contextualising enough.

    Ah. Well, the MBAs clearly have no idea how to run a coffee shop in a university. Or a piss up in a brewery. But at least it's OK quality-wise (when they don't run out of popular stock! :wtf:) and cheap too.

  • (disco) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Ah. Well, the MBAs clearly have no idea how to run a coffee shop in a university. Or a piss up in a brewery.

    Preparation for the real world, then.

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk

    Precisely.

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa
    Jaloopa:
    Neckbeards?

    ?

    MBA types are always shaven and dressed in fitting suit with a tie (and “mladý” is simply “young”, no connotations).

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    vowels

    ‘ý’ is a vowel (in Czech, ‘i’ and ‘y’ are read the same). As for ‘l’, it's a semi-vowel. It does not need not stinking vowels around it.

  • (disco) in reply to Bulb
    Bulb:
    and “mladý” is simply “young”, no connotations

    It looks similar to what fedora wearing, white knight nerds are stereotyped as saying

    http://i.imgur.com/X8cuI9n.jpg

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk
    kupfernigk:
    No, I always apologise for mistakes if they are drawn to my attention.

    I kind of meant in general, on this site. A lot of people would stand by their incorrect post and accuse everyone of misreading it or misintepreting it, or shoulder aliens, and so on and so forth...

  • (disco) in reply to tar
    tar:
    A lot of people would stand by their incorrect post and accuse everyone of misreading it or misintepreting it
    You misspelt Blakeyrat :stuck_out_tongue:
  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    You misspelt Blakeyrat :stuck_out_tongue:

    You must be New Here™.

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