Carroll.
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Try looking at splitting your journey, sometimes works out a lot cheaper. I booked my trains to go Manchester early, they're going for ridiculous ammounts now.

Anyone able to give some advice on using a card abroad? I'm going Germany on the 1st of June for 2 months, so need like £1000 but taking it all in cash seems like just a bad idea. Main card on Barclays, 3% fee for using it abroad, is that decent or are there better options?
Carroll.
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https://www.caxtonfx.com/

Actually found this but trying to find the catch? The only thing I found is the FX-withdrawall fee of 2.5 percent, am I right in thinking this is only, say I get a Euro filled card, it will only charge this when I try to buy something in UK/non euro currency?

Seems way to sweet a deal..
Franck
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Did my second French test today, most of it went well but I got caught off guard by how much grammar it was on it. Will be really mad if I don't pass it because of that.
BR.
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Did my second French test today, most of it went well but I got caught off guard by how much grammar it was on it. Will be really mad if I don't pass it because of that.


What sort of grammar? How advanced are you now? I'm sure you've passed and at least you got to do it in the end haha.

Speaking of French, the 3 hour French written exam I did this morning marks the end of my time at university and education as a whole a pretty crazy feeling when it arrives....
Franck
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What sort of grammar? How advanced are you now? I'm sure you've passed and at least you got to do it in the end haha.

Verb conjugation, I had 15 questions on passé composé, futur simple and some other category I can't even remember. I'd be delighted if I got even 3 of them right. Wasn't expecting any grammar questions at all, instead I ended up with 50 grammar questions, twice as many as for the reading comprehension which is what I am good at.

And I think I'm somewhere between a very strong A2 speaker and a weak B1 on the CEFR scale. Far from fluent but pretty good for ~6 weeks of studying.

Speaking of French, the 3 hour French written exam I did this morning marks the end of my time at university and education as a whole a pretty crazy feeling when it arrives....

Congrats!
K3V0
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Try looking at splitting your journey, sometimes works out a lot cheaper. I booked my trains to go Manchester early, they're going for ridiculous ammounts now.

Anyone able to give some advice on using a card abroad? I'm going Germany on the 1st of June for 2 months, so need like £1000 but taking it all in cash seems like just a bad idea. Main card on Barclays, 3% fee for using it abroad, is that decent or are there better options?


I worked for a bank in Australia and the fee can vary between 2.5% and 4% depending on Visa/Mastercard. 3% isn't bad... It's better to be a little bit in fees because you're using atms to take your money out, rather than lose all that cash and be fucked. Also if you're going for 2 months try get another card for that account or have another accounts incase you lose your atm card or an atm takes it.
Slashman X
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Lol, bank fees
ianbaker
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Try looking at splitting your journey, sometimes works out a lot cheaper. I booked my trains to go Manchester early, they're going for ridiculous ammounts now.

Anyone able to give some advice on using a card abroad? I'm going Germany on the 1st of June for 2 months, so need like £1000 but taking it all in cash seems like just a bad idea. Main card on Barclays, 3% fee for using it abroad, is that decent or are there better options?

Get on here and there will be a bit about travelling abroad with money. From what I remember you can get a prepaid debit card for Euros and you just use that.
Eric Portapotty
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Tonsillitis is just the worst.
Carroll.
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Yeah got that cartonfx card, will use my debit card if it does get lost.
ianbaker
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Tonsillitis is just the worst.

Worse than AIDS?
Sam
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Having a bad night and have absolutely no idea why. Yet I feel so down. Fucking hate it.
Franck
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Having a bad night and have absolutely no idea why. Yet I feel so down. Fucking hate it.

I know the feeling.

If you can't sleep I suggest doing something that'll keep you from thinking too much, like playing video games or going for a jog, or listening to a podcast.
King Luis
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Got a shoot next Saturday in London for Adidas and just working out a few new places to shoot that are abit different, any suggestions? Got things planned down Piccadilly, The Mews, Regents Park & Westminster atm. Needs to be somewhere thats good for cyclists but not completely heaving Pretty much got all the spots i need sorted but any where else we should try out?
Carroll.
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I know the feeling.

If you can't sleep I suggest doing something that'll keep you from thinking too much, like playing video games or going for a jog, or listening to a podcast.


Or masturbating.
Slashman X
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King Luis
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Don't do all four at once though, you'll end up on some sort of register
Tommo.
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Don't do all four at once though, you'll end up on some sort of register


Do you know from experience?
King Luis
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Do you know from experience?


Fucking nightmare mate
Slashman X
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Voted today, feel like a productive member of society for a change. Hope to fuck the referendum passes, the "No" side are doing my head in
ianbaker
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Voted today, feel like a productive member of society for a change. Hope to fuck the referendum passes, the "No" side are doing my head in

Voting on gay marriage? If it passes then you and Kevo can live happily ever after as a family!
Slashman X
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That's the plan
Eric Portapotty
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Not with Kevo's frankly atrocious FIFA video production skills, no.
The Platypus
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Not with Kevo's frankly atrocious FIFA video production skills, no.


Hahaha
Dan
13 years ago
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Not with Kevo's frankly atrocious FIFA video production skills, no.

You'd never see him anyway, he's always in the hospital!!
Shedender
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You'd never see him anyway, he's always in the hospital!!

Poor Kev, he can't seem to get a break . . . oh wait!
Sam
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I know the feeling.

If you can't sleep I suggest doing something that'll keep you from thinking too much, like playing video games or going for a jog, or listening to a podcast.


I'm having another one of those nights, I do try and play video games but end up being too tired to play and do shit, hence I get more annoyed. I try reading too or listen to music but end up feeling too tired. Too tired to do stuff but not enough to fall asleep, really annoying,

I keep thinking of so much shit, cannot sleep or get it out of my head. I feel like I need to talk to someone about it, I dunno.
Franck
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I'm having another one of those nights, I do try and play video games but end up being too tired to play and do shit, hence I get more annoyed. I try reading too or listen to music but end up feeling too tired. Too tired to do stuff but not enough to fall asleep, really annoying,

I keep thinking of so much shit, cannot sleep or get it out of my head. I feel like I need to talk to someone about it, I dunno.

I googled and found out that The Samaritans have a 24/7 phone line in the UK if you feel you need to talk to someone.

If you keep getting nights like this you should get in touch with your doctor.
VP.
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Get in from work load up the PC and when it gets to the desktop the fans go into overdrive and everything is very very slow to the point of not even loading. I've started a disk check now which usually takes an hour or so. Was absolutely fine last night and it's never done this before, anyone had a similar problem?
Ninja
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Try looking at splitting your journey, sometimes works out a lot cheaper. I booked my trains to go Manchester early, they're going for ridiculous ammounts now.

Anyone able to give some advice on using a card abroad? I'm going Germany on the 1st of June for 2 months, so need like £1000 but taking it all in cash seems like just a bad idea. Main card on Barclays, 3% fee for using it abroad, is that decent or are there better options?


Have a look at one of these buddy

http://www.postoffice.co.uk/travel-money/card#Fees%20and%20limits

Fairly certain you can put Euros on it at the post offices standard exchange rate, which is normally decent, and once its on there in euros theres there's no fees I don't think.

The one thing I would say is Gemany is weird as shit when it comes to cards and your normal debit card (which I assume is some form of Visa/Mastercard thing) won't work pretty much anywhere thats not an ATM.

It might be an idea to set up an account in Germany of some sort so you can get a Maestro/EC card that you can actually use in
shops.

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