#incorrect tsb

[the-tsbs-freakshow]

[mama-ships]

Moon: "Most private thing I'm willing to admit: I'm not good at estimating how much pasta is enough for one person

Sun: "there's a tool for that"

Solar : "im sorry, dose that scale progress from a child to a HORSE?"

Lunar: "im so hungry, I could eat a horse"

Jack: "im so hungry I could eat a small child"

Earth: "im surprised how fast this post went from measuring pasta to cannibalism"

[glitchy-across-aus]

Incorrect Quotes Timee!

can you tell how bored I am?

Tsb: If Mango and I were drowning, who would you save?

Trick: You two can't swim?

Mango: It's a hypothetical question! Who would you save?

Trick: my time and effort.

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Cora: So what's for dinner?

Hexsy, staring at the food she just burnt: Regret.

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Tsb: I just found out that humans are capable of fitting a light bulb into their mouth with ease but can’t take it out without shattering it, and now I have to physically restrain myself from putting a light bulb in my mouth

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Tyler: Can you be serious for five minutes? 

Tsb: My record is four, but I think I can do it.

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Mango: I’m so jetlagged I can’t even regrender my chorf. 

*Everyone stares at Mango* 

Mango: I don’t even know what I was trying to say.

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Smgc: I’m going to get so much done today. 

Trick: I’ll hold you to that. 

*8 hours later* 

Trick: So how much did you get done? 

Smgc: One thing. 

Trick: Well, that’s one more than usual.

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Hexsy: Go big or go home! 

Tyler: Please, for once in your life just go home. I'm begging you. Go. Home. 

Hexsy: I'm going big!

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Tsb: "Go hang a salami" backwards is "I'm a lasagna hog". 

Mango: How did either of those sentences occur naturally for you to discover this?

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Smgc: You bought a burger?

Tsb: Yes.

Smgc: From the same truck that hit Mango?!

Tsb, with a mouthful of burger: Well, me starving ain't gonna help them.

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Smgc: How did none of you hear what I just said?

Mango: I've been zoned out for the past two and a half hours.

Trick: I got distracted about halfway through.

Tyler: Ignoring you was a conscious decision.

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Cora: Oh just so you know, it's very muggy outside

Smgc:

Smgc: Cora, I swear, if I step outside and all of our mugs are on the front lawn...

Cora: *Sips coffee from bowl*

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Hexsy and Tyler playing a game, Hexsy beats her yet again

Tyler: I don’t care if you physically die by my hands. I will find every painful way to absolutely destroy you and make it so that you’ll be begging to the God that has forsaken you.

Hexsy: I wish people saw that you match my freak in competitiveness.

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Hexsy: What if people had food names and food had people's names?

Cora: Hey, spaghetti, we're having Tsb for dinner.

Trick: What is wrong with you people?

Tsb: Shut up, chocolate.

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Ok, I think that's enough for one. I will definitely be making a part two tho. anyways, come claim your oc's you silly's/aff

@its-a-me-mango/ @tiredsmashbros / @nxva-blogz/ @mikchi8/ @knightedmares

Tyler belongs to me (unfortunately)

[llamaisllama777]

Here are some TSBS incorrect quotes I got a while back from an incorrect quote generator.

Enjoy.

I think most of these are Monty x Earth, I really like that ship.😊

[alexandraisyes]

A joke for the peeps on TSBS server, me and @turbotasthick did a little trolling because I decided that while she was fusing the canon designs of the twins, I was gonna fuse (wrote fuck the first time, and it’s not incorrect but I digress) her designs of the twins (which I will show under the cut she doesn’t have a tumble - edit she now does - but has given me the go-ahead to put her art on my blog when I deem it necessary).

♻️Please Reblog To Support The Artist♻️

Except of course I decided to be silly and steal her style. All the way down to the hand writing. She gave me the go ahead that it did look like her style and so I cutely stole her identity. Mayhem ensued. I’m still stealing her identity at time of writing, for those in tsbs server if you go and look under my tag you’ll see her name. And vice versa for her tag (turbotasthic). But I digress. We do a bit of trolling round these parts.

[xpoisoned-stardustx]

YES THATS SO PERFECT

I know you posted this a while ago but it’s still an amazing idea

But they still have the same villains to deal with and same friends n what not

I’m also gonna get some generated quotes for this

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Moon: I just got the best idea in my entire life

*later somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean*

FuntimeFoxy: that’s the worst idea you ever had in your entire life

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Moon: *is on fire and screaming in agony*

Funtime Foxy: OH MY GOODNESS, ARE YOU OKAY, HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?! oh god this is just like-

Moon: Nah, I’m kidding, fire does nothing to me

FuntimeFoxy: …you son of a-

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Moon: Y’know, maybe things aren’t so bad. I’m here. I got the nice ocean breeze. Just alone with my tho-

Funtime Foxy: oh, hey Moon!

Moon: GODDAMNIT CAN I GET A BREAK FROM YOU FOR ONE SECOND-

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FuntimeFoxy: There’s no “I” in team, but there is an “I” in pizza.

Moon: So, you’re not going to share?-

Funtime foxy: I’m not going to share.

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Moon: Life is like Funtime Foxy. It’s short.

FuntimeFoxy: I’m not short you’re just ABNORMMALLY TALL.

Moon: Sounds Like a skill issue ngl

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Funtime Foxy: so, my brother-

Moon: kill him.

Funtime Foxy: 1. If he dies then I die too and 2. I wouldn’t do that anyway, he’s my brother!

Moon: I stand by my statement

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they would be SUCH a good duo even tho technically they haven’t met (memories wiped and blah blah blah)

CRAP I AKREADY REBLOGGED THIS IM SO SORRY-

I want more content with Moon and Funtime Foxy. I want them to have a queer-PLATONIC relationship. I want them to be the bestest friends that live together and deal with dumb shit and they would be perfect.

THESE TWO ARE A GOOD DUO PLEASE I WANT MORE! IM BEGGING!

See have some generated quotes to convince y’all.

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FFoxy: "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" - Charles Darwin

Moon: What the fuck? Begets isn't a word. Quit trying to make up words.

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Moon: There's something I have to ask about you-know-who.

FFoxy: Voldemort?

Moon: No.

FFoxy: Is it Voldemort?

Moon: It's not Voldemort.

FFoxy: You haven’t mentioned wizards once this conversation, so I’m gonna have to assume it’s Voldemort.

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FFoxy, about Moon: I could fix them, but honestly whatever the hell is wrong with them is way funnier.

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FFoxy: *standing on a balcony and sneezes*

Moon: *standing on the roof* Bless you.

FFoxy: God?!

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That’s It Folks!

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[lazychickensoup]

Omg yes I was, it was rlly embarrassing....

I bet your fav genre of book is science fiction

-tsb

actually incorrect on this one, i really love murder mystery mix with romance

or whatever genre natasha prestons books are (i stg i love them so much and she’s wattpad writer i have all the books she has on hard copy and awake is my favorite book, start with the cabin tho it’s amazing and very great plot twist.)

i’m gonna guess yours is like distopian novels?

[dewthegay4403]

DUDE YESSFF

SILLY YAP SESSION! ALL LOVE! NO HATE! GRAAHHH😼😼

lowkey the fandom always forgets that Nexus is a deteriorating husk of “Moon”. Moon literally was driven to insanity BECSUSE they cared so much about their family. Everyone always puts Moons GOOD actions onto Old Moon, but then brushes away every single little mistake known to mankind onto Nexus. Nexus shouldn’t be viewed as the villain. She should be viewed as a mentally ill character, because that is what she is. She turned to what only can be put as drvgs and a life groping for power because she knew the family would NOT accept her back because of her mental health.

Now I’m not saying the celestial family are the villains in play, but I am also? Eclipses recording showed Moon in a very disturbing state which should have been focused on more than the fact that Moon was going to make plans to kill Ruin or BloodMoon (two known villains/Anti-heros in tsbs. More on that in a second.) Earth wants to be seen as a therapist, and we can see that in the episode “Confronting MOON! In VRChat” Earth gets upset when Moon says she ISN’T a therapist. She says “I will NEVER forgive you for the words you just said to me.” The fandom agrees with Earth, “Moon has no right!” “She was just trying to help!” & xyz were thrown across the fandom, but genuinely most of these were incorrect. If Earth wishes to be viewed as a therapist, she does Infact have to learn to put aside her problems with her patient to actually help them, which she didn’t do. This of course simply reinforces Moons statement that Earth is not in fact a therapist and has a lot more to learn before she can become one. Of course this comes back to show Earth probably couldn’t have helped Moon even if she wanted to. She would’ve had too many difficulties and problems to set aside from Moon before she could’ve listened, learned, and helped. Now, to address something bigger. The whole Moon trying to kill Earth thing. Let’s jump into that.

“Moon KILLS EVERYONE!! In VRChat”

Moon enters the room at 3:55 and it’s quite obvious they’re going to kill someone. They say it’s not their fault if Earth accidentally dies. Skip to 4:30, Moon and Ruin talk about god knows what, their family and Moons insanity til 14:00. That’s about 10 minutes of talking which will provide importance in a second. At 14:00 Moon brings up they’re going to use star power and states they will not hesitate to kill everyone and everything in the room, including earth who is tied up. He actually shoots at 15:30, a minute and a half later. In this minute and a half, Ruin could have been untying Earth to let her go but for whatever reason chose not to. Same thing goes for the him talking to Moon for 10+ minutes instead of letting Earth go.

Now that has been covered, allow me to point out the differences between “Moon tried to kill Earth” and “Moon tried to kill BloodMoon and Earth was in the way”. Moon did not pointedly try to kill Earth. They tried to kill BloodMoon. This is VERY DIFFERENT from them trying to kill Earth. If you say Moon tried to kill Earth, you’re wrong. They tried to kill BloodMoon.

Twisting back to Nexus’ mental health and everyone’s view on it. I’m going to discuss the fandoms view of her mental health next.

Everyone always says “Nexus had no reason to go insane!” “Suns the real one who deserves to go insane!” “Nexus doesn’t deserve to go insane!” “Nexus doesn’t have enough trauma to go insane!” & xyz. Now, here’s where these statements are wrong. Somebody can’t deserve to go insane. They simply do. Insanity is not something that is willing, it’s something that is built up.

Think of it as a beaver dam. The water at first flows smoothly and openly. We’ll acknowledge this as somebody’s thoughts, emotions, and views of certain things. Then, here come the beavers. The event. It doesn’t have to be a big event. It can be little ones that slowly place up a wall. The dam that closes off everything else. Oftentimes the person will bottle everything up. Making the water stop flowing. Over time, the river will rise above the dam, and cracks will begin. This can go on for months, years even. Eventually, the dam will break. Snap. All those emotions and thoughts, and reason will get washed away in the thick of things and the river will swell, flooding the banks which will cause problems. Untreated, this can be incredibly bad for the person and cause them to deteriorate into a husk of the person they once were. This is what happened with Nexus.

I believe the start of the build up of the dam for Nexus would begin at his talk with Old Moon. Where he was told to kill himself for his family’s wellbeing. Reminder that this is fresh after Solars death, so the pressure is still on his shoulders. The build up continues through his breakdown and then we reach his hallucination. This is the point where I think Moons’ dam began to crack, twigs spring out and water slowly begins to flow only to be closed up too soon. We can watch as Moons dam slowly gets flimsy and then breaks from that episode to the Earth and Sun confrontation.

Onto the last part of my yap session. (Ur a real one if u read this far down.) Moons imprisoning which was a BIG SLIP UP.

Honestly, imprisoning Moon in a small cage was the worst thing they could’ve done. Leaving him alone for days, weeks even, with his hallucinations, only popping in every few days just to flat out torment them (Monty.) and continuously compare them to their “superior self” (Sun). Moon even stated that they were “Screaming at nothing and thrashing about” for days on end and Sun paid no mind to it. Which is genuinely surprising because Sun was in this exact position, but instead of paying aid to Moon, he orders the computer to shock him unconscious and walks out not another word nor glance.

God these robots man, THESE ROBOTS GRRR. They’re all flawed so perfectly to antagonize each other but the fandom is so closed minded they can’t sort out that each character has REASON for beings one way or another🙏

in conclusion I miss Nexus and her goofy self and Moon and their stupid braindead self☹️☹️

I miss new Moon

Honestly, I don't care about Nexus but thinking about what happened to New Moon specifically hurts me a little. I just still can’t believe that a character who we knew for a year could just go POOF so randomly and sudden

And the worst part is that everyone in the show acts as if he never existed at all. As if only Nexus existed and everything good he did in his life was actually old Moon

It's weird. I kept hoping for a happy ending for him. I even thought he would eventually just leave with Solar to some random dimension after realizing his mistakes. But unfortunately it seems that the only way for a major character to go off screen is for them to die

Anyway I'm already changing some lore stuff when redesigning characters so have the biggest change so far: my Nexus is alive and "domesticated" (I love domesticated villain trope a lot). He lives in Sun and Moon's basement and only goes outside to get some snacks because he is still very salty about everything that happened. Nice

[stevens-stuff]

Weekly Quiz - 30/4/21

Weekly Quiz – 30/4/21

The Weekly Quiz Click on the right answer and it will appear in GREEN. If your choice pops up in RED the answer is incorrect. Count the number of GREEN answers and submit your total. Good luck! Question One In which country was Adolf Hitler born? Austria Germany Poland Italy Question Two Which company is represented by this emblem? HSBC TSB Tesco HP Question Three The PFA is a union for…

[dailynewswebsite]

Is high-street banking coming to an end?

TSB Financial institution, a serious UK operator owned by Spanish banking group Banco de Sabadell, is closing one-third of its branches. Which means that 164 out of 475 websites will shut, with a lack of 960 jobs – along with the 82 branches that had been already earmarked for closure final November (65 of which at the moment are closed).

To many trade insiders, this may come as no shock. There was a basic shift in the direction of digital banking because the world monetary disaster of 2007-2009. This has spawned new digital-only challengers reminiscent of Monzo, Revolut and Marcus.

The development has gathered additional traction throughout the COVID-19 pandemic as folks have turn out to be extra accustomed to banking on-line. Over the summer time we’ve additionally seen the Cooperative Financial institution and NatWest reducing jobs and branches, whereas JP Morgan introduced it was launching a UK digital financial institution in 2021.

On the identical time, TSB has needed to climate issues of its personal making. Initially often known as the Trustee Financial savings Financial institution, it was shaped from the gradual amalgamation of many native trustee financial savings banks within the 1970s and 1980s. The banks disappeared after the group was purchased by Lloyds Financial institution in 1995, surviving solely within the group identify Lloyds TSB.

The federal government ended up taking a major stake in Lloyds after its 2009 merger with beleaguered HBOS, which led to such extreme issues that then CEO, António Horta-Osório, was identified with stress-induced insomnia and signed off work in 2011. The European Commission then determined that the federal government rescue amounted to state help, forcing Lloyds to rebrand 632 branches as TSB and float them on the inventory market in 2014.

New daybreak fades

TSB was acquired by Banco de Sabadell the next 12 months, and it was hoped that this might herald a brand new period for the financial institution. However sadly catastrophe struck in April 2018 with main IT points that lasted a number of weeks.

An estimated 1.9 million prospects had been affected by incorrect transactions, disappearing mortgages, being locked out of accounts or given entry to different prospects’ accounts, and a non-responsive banking app. The problems apparently stemmed from difficulties shifting buyer data to a brand new platform designed by Banco de Sabadell. This long-planned migration was meant to extend effectivity and enhance the digital experiences of shoppers, but it surely shortly grew to become obvious that the financial institution had severely underestimated the complexity and dangers concerned.

The financial institution was hit by reputation-damning impartial studies, together with one it commissioned itself from regulation agency Slaughter and Might, which pointed to administration failures and mentioned that the TSB board lacked “frequent sense”. CEO Paul Pester was compelled to apologise publicly and subsequently stepped down (his alternative, Debbie Crosbie, has a background in digital banking).

The IT catastrophe price the financial institution roughly £330 million and 1000’s of shoppers, and was adopted by additional glitches in subsequent months. Like all UK banks, TSB can also be having to deal with tighter revenue margins because of ultra-low rates of interest, and an rising variety of defaults on its mortgage portfolio a results of the pandemic. The financial institution has needed to improve its provisions for mortgage losses, with extra defaults anticipated over the ultimate quarter of the 12 months. After which there’s digital banking.

The longer term

TSB stays a vital lender within the UK, but very domestically centered. Its buyer base of 5 million is approach behind the likes of HSBC (40 million) Lloyds (30 million), Barclays (24 million) and NatWest (12.5 million). It additionally has a decrease share of the present account market than it arguably ought to for a buyer base of its measurement.

TSB appears to be like capable of climate the storm introduced on by COVID-19 and to stay a key lender within the UK. However competitors for shopper deposits and to offer customers’ important present and financial savings accounts has intensified lately, partly due to the digital “challenger banks” and new rivals on different fronts, reminiscent of peer-to-peer lending platforms Zopa and Funding Circle.

Your new financial institution supervisor. WAYHOME Studio

In fact, all conventional banks face these challenges. They nonetheless dominate most areas of shopper banking, and revel in rather more buyer loyalty than the challengers, however they’re coming beneath extra strain on a regular basis. That is very true with youthful prospects, with surveys reminiscent of this one by Crealogix exhibiting one in 4 under-37s selecting digital-only banks – and that was almost two years in the past. The plain query is whether or not conventional banks could turn out to be out of date to a point.

The development in the direction of digital banking is more likely to have far-reaching implications for buyer expertise, workers ranges and monetary laws. The wave of department closures will save banks cash however it’s more likely to encourage extra prospects to judge their choices. Some who had been beforehand loyal could now resolve to change to a digital-only supplier.

It won’t assist the standard banks that many have poor buyer satisfaction scores in comparison with the digital challengers. In some circumstances this may partly nonetheless be linked to the worldwide monetary disaster, whereas TSB prospects won’t have forgotten the IT fiasco of 2018.

To remain aggressive, these banks are beneath strain to shortly evolve their choices within the face of digital rivals whose providers are usually dependable, versatile and responsive. The longer term is brilliant and digital, however solely for many who can sustain.

Timothy King doesn’t work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or obtain funding from any firm or group that may profit from this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their educational appointment.

from Growth News https://growthnews.in/is-high-street-banking-coming-to-an-end/ via https://growthnews.in

[steveramsdale]

The ‘At Least Two Cups of Coffee Blog’ Blog

The ‘At Least Two Cups of Coffee Blog’ Blog

If you are reading this blog, then, by some miracle of chance, I survived to write and post it. This is entirely implausible but, apparently, true.

A crazy week in a crazy country full of life, history, noise, mess, poverty, beauty and spices.

Get comfortable, make sure you’ve been for that comfort break and steel yourself. This could be a long one. I set out to do something so I’d have blog material and there may be too much. I came to India! It is early on Monday morning now and I realised that if I left this until Saturday morning, there would be no time even if nothing else happens.

We have been excited for a while about coming. We planned with, and are here with our friend and colleague Wendy and her two wonderful children. We flew to Amritsar, a direct, two-hour flight, early on Saturday morning. Another friend, Dave, was also on the flight. The flight was, fortunately, uneventful.

As we approached and descended towards Amritsar airport, I noticed that the cars were driving on the correct (left) side of the road. “That’s good,” I thought. I soon had to reassess that observation. As we landed, one man started a very half-hearted clap but was not joined and stopped after, perhaps, five claps. It was a better landing than that.

The customs/immigration process was really easy. We had organised e-visas so there was little delay. Part of the process was having fingerprint scans. I could not get the fingers of my right hand into a position that the machine could read. The man at the desk decided not to worry about this, saying that we could “do it next time”. This is incorrect in many ways (well, at least two).

But, after a short wait for the suitcases, we were in India. It was very pleasantly warm. Although the car park had many white cars, not a-one was a Chevrolet.

The taxi driver arranged by the people at the hotel, was waiting for us with a sign saying “Tashkent”. As the plane, and everyone on it, had come from Tashkent, this could have been a little imprecise. We went to check if he was our driver and he had a screenshot of the text exchange between Wendy and the hotel. He, very sensibly, had the steering wheel, as God or Darwin (the jury’s out) intended, on the right-hand side of the car. Our suitcase was put on to a roof rack but was not secured in any way. I was sure I would see it fly off the roof at some point. I did not. It did not. The airport is not too far from the city and I soon had to change my “oh, they drive on the left” idea to “oh, they are supposed to drive on the left but many don’t.” This view also evolved over the next few days.

I have, in previous blogs, mentioned the lack of varied bird life in Tashkent, the one sighting of a hawk in the city and the eagles seen in the mountains and fro trains though the desert. Here, I had seen at least ten kites (I think) before we were 15 minutes in to the journey. On Sunday, we saw at least fifty circling and flying down to a river. There are also parrot-like birds and nightjars (I think). Anyway, there is interesting wildlife on hand, including Simon, Alvin and Theodor watching us from a tree.

So far (it’s Monday morning remember), we have used a lot of tuk-tuks. This is a really crazy way to travel. It is also a very cheap way to travel. I had, of course, heard about the roads in India but you do have to see it. I thought Tashkent roads we fairly anarchic but I will have to reassess that idea. Even on straight bits of road, there are bikes and motorbikes coming the wrong way. There are pedestrians doing whatever they need to do and vehicles of all sorts weaving in and out. And then there are junctions. This is governed purely by random chance. Drivers go in whichever direction they need to whenever they decide the odds slightly favour success. We have not yet seen even the smallest of accidents – just near-misses and cars with bumps and dents. There are untold numbers of scooters, mopeds and motorbikes. Very few have only a rider. The most popular so far was carrying five people. We were behind one where a girl of around five or six years of age was sitting with her hands in her pockets, not holding on and casually sorting out her hair, as necessary. She turned to smile at us. I have calculated that the ratio of helmets to people who travel on motorbikes is about 1:10,000. We passed one biker who took off his helmet as he was riding along and placed it in front of him on the tank.

On Saturday, after settling in, we went to the Golden Temple. This is a remarkable and wonderful place. It is clearly sacred to the Sikhs of India and the world. Everyone has to remove their shoes before entering and most kneel and put their foreheads to the marble floor to honour the temple and the sacred book it houses. The temple itself is in the middle of a man-made lake and is reached via a walkway. Many people were either getting into the water or, at least, reaching down and putting water on to their heads or even drinking some. The precinct around the pool is very large. People take selfies in front of the temple and the many signs saying that photography is forbidden in this sacred place. Of course I have a photograph of one such sign. Here, for the first of many occasions, people started to ask to take pictures with us. We stood still, at one point, to observe the whole scene and were immediately swamped by such requests. How do you describe those pictures when you post post them? Time forbids more detail about this experience.

We were all hungry by the time we left the temple and went to the first café/restaurant we found. We, of course, had fabulous curry costing almost nothing. I will not repeat this idea throughout the blog, so you should assume that this does happen repeatedly. Indian food I have had in the UK is (was) probably my favourite as a category, but it is at another level here.

On Sunday, we visited a fort which is now a developing visitor attraction. It was used by an 18th/19th Century warrior/leader of the Punjab and Sikh Kingdom, Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Later, the colonial British used it as barracks and, more recently, the Indian army has used it. Now it is a theme park. The children enjoyed the 7D(!) cinema presentation, camel and segway rides.

In the afternoon, we set off for the nearby border with Pakistan. This involved a taxi ride of about an hour on a variety of road surfaces. We were not sure what to expect but had been told it was worth a visit. Each day, at about 4:30pm, there is a ceremony of lowering the flag(s) and changing the guard. Car and coach parking is extensive and a few thousand people were there/arriving/arrived. Plenty of retail and food opportunities exist also. We were directed to the special line for foreign visitors and were allowed through without our passport, showing our TSB visa cards and clearly foreign faces as proof/ID. After a security check we walked to a part-stadium, part-amphitheatre. A short piece of road leads down to a large gate which marks the border. I don’t really know what I had expected but this was not it. The other surprise, which should not have been a surprise, was that exactly the same scenario was being enacted on the other side – the Pakistan side. The Border Security Force put on a really good show. I’m sure you know that there are real tensions between these two countries. This ritual, however, shows clear cooperation and seems more theatrical than military. There was an M.C. whipping up the crowd. There were men walking around selling chocolate, drinks, crisps and Cornettos. There was (very) loud music. A large group of women and girls were invited to either run towards to border waving flags or to dance enthusiastically. When the actual event started, it was bizarre and fascinating. Different groups, pairs or individual soldiers marched down the road to the gates, which were now open. Apart from two scary looking soldiers in typical army uniform and carrying guns, who marched in a ‘normal’ style, all of the other marched with very exaggerated steps, some almost kicking themselves in the head. At the border, they ‘confronted’ their Pakistani counterparts, raising arms and sticking out their chests. The scary guys stood in front of two similarly scary opposite numbers. A couple of the ‘marchers’ shook hands across the line. Most of the uniforms are very ceremonial with hats that have large plumes.

This whole ‘show’ has clearly been planned and coordinated between the two side. If there are two ‘this’ side, there are two ‘that’ side. The respective flags were lowered together. Eventually, the gates were closed

Shortly before the actual ‘ceremony’, three people arrived with airport-style luggage trollies and actually crossed the border.

This was a bizarre and unmissable event. On the way back to the car, a man stopped me and asked to take a picture of his child with me – he had a baby of about one-year-old. He handed the child to me, whereupon the child began to cry. The father now has a picture of a foreigner holding his distraught child and a talking point for years to come.

On Monday, the dreaded travellers’ tummy hit me. We explored a little in the morning but I had to take to my bed and stay near the toilet. We returned to the Golden Temple in the evening as we had been told it was even more spectacular when lit up at night. It was quite cold and raining by now and I could not face walking around without shoes on, so I stayed in the Shoes House and watch the world go by, feeling sorry for myself and being smiled at by beautiful people. I went back to the hotel by myself and could see the temple from outside the complex. It was beautiful. I haggled my tuk-tuk fare to 150 rupees but when I got back, I only had 136 to my name. This was accepted without apparent annoyance. We’d had an argument with one driver (who was certainly under the influence) who demanded 300 rupees. He would not take what we offered and I eventually left in on the ground and walked away.

Overnight, Mairi joined the sick club. By the morning, I was not feeling as bad, but we had an eight-hour train journey to Delhi to survive. We had booked a ‘first class’ sleeper compartment and so we were able to sleep and rest. The toilets were not so bad. For part of the journey, a young man with a sword was standing outside one of them.

The train was not unlike the Soviet over-night train in Uzbekistan – except there was no samovar. We passed the time and saw some sights, especially as we drew close to Delhi. There are untold numbers of people living out their lives in make-shift huts by the side of the railway lines.

Delhi is much bigger, noisier and more chaotic than Amritsar. I walked in the area outside the hotel early on Wednesday morning and went in to an early-opening café. I had reasonable coffee and a cinnamon roll. I had a 100 rupee note and 2000 note. The bill, coincidently, was 136 rupees. The young man a duty was able, a little unwillingly, to change the large note. With Mairi sleeping off the bug, the rest of our party visited the largest mosque in India. We also visited Connaught Place. This is the up-market part of the city and very clearly part of the British legacy. It also has many familiar brands – the obvious ones such as Starbucks and Pizza Hut. Mairi was feeling a little better in the evening, so we went to Pizza Hut for something familiar and comforting.

Thursday was the big day – The Taj Mahal. We had pre-booked a tour with a driver, guide and all tickets and so on arranged. It was about a three-hour drive mostly on a quiet, three-lane motorway. I slept quite a bit, but when awake thought that it could almost be the M1 through Derbyshire and Yorkshire – except for the part where some kind of monkey ran across the road.

As this is going on and on….I’ll be brief. The Taj Mahal is as beautiful as you might expect, as people say. It was amazing to be there and see a structure most people have seen so many times in pictures. “I typed this at the Taj Mahal” – that’s pasted from my phone notes, as a little gift to you. Part of our tour took us to a ‘no obligation to buy’ marble goods workshop and shop. We saw how the inlays are made and were shown various goods. The pressure part of the ‘no obligation’ was a little uncomfortable. We also saw the Red Fort of Agra, another spectacular construction, this one also used by occupying British forces. This was a long day, but worth it. The final part of the drive back was much longer through the Delhi rush-hour.

We spent Friday on another tour. We paid a really low price to have a driver take us to different sights and to a lovely restaurant. We declined the shopping experience he wanted us to have! There are huge, ancient buildings in Delhi, built by powerful men to show their power and wealth to succeeding generations – and you wonder how things would be different if that wealth had been shared then instead of hoarded and spent on futile vanity projects. Humayun has an amazing tomb, though. The poverty is also still obvious.

I have just scrolled up and seen how long this is, so I’m going to stop soon. This has been a great trip. We have had great company and seen amazing things. Not everything is included – sickness tales, for example. It is early on Saturday morning and we leave today.

Next week? Back to normal? We’ll see.

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Crying shame of funeral cheats let off the hook

Coronavirus lets funeral cheats off the hook as radical market reform fails to materialise

By Financial Mail on Sunday Reporter

Published: 17:18 EDT, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 17:18 EDT, 15 August 2020

Coronavirus has wreaked misery across the country. Loved ones have been lost, damaging recession has returned, jobs have been culled and we all face an uncertain future. 

Yet the executives of the companies that dominate the lucrative £2billion-a-year funerals market have a lot to thank the pandemic for. 

The virus has spared them from the radical market reform that seemed inevitable 18 months ago when the Competition and Markets Authority said it was launching an investigation into the industry. 

Shameful: No industry is more deserving of a root and branch overhaul – it’s been let off the hook.

Last week, the authority said Covid-19 had forced it to abandon most of its radical – and consumer friendly – plans for change which could have seen the introduction of price caps on funerals. 

A crying shame. As we said early last year – and we say again today – no industry is more deserving of a root and branch overhaul. It’s been let off the hook. 

No wonder shares in Dignity, a dominant force in the market with 800 funeral parlours, jumped salmon-like in response. 

Although the CMA said it would press ahead with proposals requiring all funeral directors to be more transparent about their charges, the fact remains that the industry has got off lightly. Rigorous regulation remains a pipe dream rather than something that is going to happen in the near future. 

No wonder consumer champion James Daley of Fairer Finance is ‘astounded’ that the sector remains unregulated.

Where’s there’s a will there’s a way. But the CMA has been unwilling to protect grieving families from the avarice of huge chunks of the funeral industry. 

Shameful.

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Defective park will detect cameras developed by ASELSAN

İsmail Demir, President of the Presidential Defense Industry, stated that the city security management system and license plate recognition system additional package contract was signed between the presidency and ASELSAN.

Demir, in his post on his Twitter account, It stated that approximately 44 thousand cameras and 9 thousand license plate recognition systems have been delivered so far within the scope of the project, in which installations are continuing in all provinces and districts in order to contribute to the fight against terrorism, security and security within the framework of the need of the General Directorate of Security.

Drivers violating rules are detected through mobile tracking systems.

ERROR PARK SMART CAMERAS WILL BE DETECTED

Demir stated that 1523 fixed cameras, 514 motion cameras, 11 laser PTZ cameras, 139 license plate recognition systems and 200 mobile license plate recognition systems will be produced by ASELSAN within the scope of the additional package contract.

“With this package, products will turn into smart products. Skills for the detection of incorrect parking vehicles will be gained. Cameras that perform sabotage detection, directional line crossing, directional motion detection, suspicious object detection, person and traffic analysis and target tracking will be used in the field. “

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Starting in China as well as all over the world Turkey is also a new type under the influence coronavirus (Kovid-19) government, the economic impact of the outbreak to minimize regulatory institutions, banks and financial institutions have announced significant support packages.

The financial sector, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's National Union speech on March 30. We continue its strong support to the National Solidarity Campaign launched'm saying to us, we Yet Turkey.

https: bizbizeyeteriz.gov.tr ​​website and the supports made according to the information compiled from the statements of the institutions are as follows;

Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT), the campaign to support 100 million pounds was the highest institution through participation.

Ziraat Finance Group has provided a total of 62 million 300 thousand liras in the amount of a net minimum wage on behalf of each employee.

Halkbank also donated a total of 56 million lira at a net minimum wage level for each employee of the Halkbank Finance Group.

VakıfBank also contributed 50 million TL to the campaign.

Türk Eximbank supported the campaign with 2 million 500 thousand liras.

ING Turkey, National Solidarity Campaign to 5 million pounds, needy families affected by the epidemic Kovid-19 to be transferred to the children of Community Volunteers Foundation (TOG) were found in 1.5 million pounds in donations.

Türk Ekonomi Bankası (TEB) provided 5 million liras of support.

With the contributions of Fibabanka, Fiba Emeklilik, Fiba Faktoring and Fina Enerji, 5 million TL was donated to the National Solidarity Campaign.

Alternative Bank, along with its subsidiaries, contributed 5 million lira to the campaign.

Burgan Bank provided 2 million TL support to the campaign.

Aktif Investment Bank also donated 1 million 526 thousand liras to the campaign.

Participation financial institutions also provided significant cash support to the National Solidarity Campaign. Kuveyt Türk Finance Group provided 20 million liras of support to the campaign.

Vakıf Participation donated a total of 5 million lira, on behalf of each employee, with a net minimum wage.

Albaraka Türk offered 5 million liras and Emlak Participation 1 million liras.

The Savings Deposits Insurance Fund (SDIF) provided a total of 20 million lira support through the companies and subsidiaries it manages.

Turkey Insurance Association (TSB), National Solidarity Campaign to 7 million 295 thousand pounds were found in the support.

Borsa İstanbul Group also supported the campaign with 5 million lira in order to stand by the country and the nation in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic.

The Credit Guarantee Fund (KGF) donated 1 million lira, while the Financial Institutions Union (FKB) also contributed 500 thousand lira.

Papara Electronic Money and Payments Services Inc. supported the campaign with 1 million 100 thousand liras.

Tacirler Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ also supported 1 million liras.

Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) President Mehmet Ali Akben and members of the board donated one to three salaries to the National Solidarity Campaign.

Capital Markets Board (CMB) Chairman Ali Fuat Taşkesenlioğlu and board members also donated their salaries. SDIF President Muhiddin Gülal and board members donated their monthly salaries to the campaign.

In order to support the fight against the coronavirus outbreak, İşbank Group has allocated 10 million lira to be used to meet the needs of hospitals within the General Directorate of Public Hospitals of the Ministry of Health.

Akbank has created a fund of 10 million lira to support the needs of health institutions and employees who are struggling with the new type of coronavirus (Kovid-19) outbreak.

Yapı Kredi allocated 10 million lira to be used to support the needs of the Ministry of Health State Hospitals in the fight against the new type of coronavirus (Kovid-19) outbreak.

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Turkey Finans Participation Bank, Turkey carried out a selfless struggle against the epidemic, health workers and 8 million pounds of priority needs in order to eliminate earmarks of having all your needs.

Financial institutions' support for the National Solidarity Campaign exceeded 400 million liras

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Leo: Name two things better than self-isolation and refusal to face reality.

Tharren: You can't.

Dom: Yeah I can't think of anything.

Chakra: Me either...

Wulf: Cheers! I'll drink to that man.