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Roy got a reaction from Essendie in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
I suspected there would be a valid reason rather than a simple error, and I'm glad you appreciate that this pedant takes a 'lighthearted exception' to it.
Darn, the bloody logo is there to taunt remind me at the end of every one of your posts!Â
Well, this is why society is as it is today. Britain is a nation built on standards after all.
Who else can you blame if not the parents and the education system?
Speaking of 'education'Â
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Roy got a reaction from Gordy in Free Beer - Win a Pint
https://www.chards.co.uk/2015-canadian-1oz-silver-red-tailed-hawk-coin/5342
have you thought hard about this?Â
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Roy got a reaction from dikefalos in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
Because it's the one with the most errors?
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, joking of course, I'd recently received the Chards email and it was fresh in my mind.
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Roy got a reaction from Arganto in A trip to Australia, a rock laden with gold and a memory from my childhood
Priceless
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Roy reacted to LawrenceChard in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
This just gets better, and betterer, and betterest!đ
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Roy got a reaction from AuricGoldfinger in Where would you put 500 a month for the next 10 years?
As an old man...I think you should put your energy here.
Maybe you will inherit property, maybe you won't? Your parents might outlive you!
You need a place to live, so make it your own. If things get tough in retirement, you have an asset to fall back on. You could rent out your garage, your driveway, a spare room maybe? International students, airb&b etc.
I can't imagine entering retirement without a property I own, sorry đ
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Roy got a reaction from dicker in Free Beer - Win a Pint
https://www.chards.co.uk/1984-la-olympic-silver-dollar-philadelphia-mint/10064
dear oh dearÂ
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Roy got a reaction from dicker in Free Beer - Win a Pint
https://www.chards.co.uk/2012-silver-maple-one-ounce-bullion-coin/746
i'll be pissed soon..
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Roy got a reaction from HerefordBullyun in Free Beer - Win a Pint
https://www.chards.co.uk/2015-canadian-1oz-silver-red-tailed-hawk-coin/5342
have you thought hard about this?Â
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Roy reacted to SilverJacks in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
Either top half will do mate.
I've earned half a KitKat and a pint out of this thread đ
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Roy reacted to Arganto in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
Do you want the top half or the other top half?Â
Also the fact that he's looking right at me adds a little something.Â
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Roy reacted to Arganto in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
Someone gets half a KitKat if they can stick Lawrences (sic) head on this here whipping fellow...
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Roy reacted to Arganto in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
Shouldn't that be "Betterer"?
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Roy got a reaction from SilverJacks in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
I suspected there would be a valid reason rather than a simple error, and I'm glad you appreciate that this pedant takes a 'lighthearted exception' to it.
Darn, the bloody logo is there to taunt remind me at the end of every one of your posts!Â
Well, this is why society is as it is today. Britain is a nation built on standards after all.
Who else can you blame if not the parents and the education system?
Speaking of 'education'Â
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Roy got a reaction from Arganto in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
Actually, whilst you're in my debt, perhaps you can answer something that's been bothering me for some time (and engage in a bit of banter too!)
It's your company name. As owner/director/C.E.O. etc., shouldn't it be CHARD'S?
Even if it was a family owned company, it would still be CHARD'S, although CHARDS' would be acceptable too.
CHARDS looks awkward, wouldn't you agree? CHARD is the eponym.
May I refer you to Sainsbury's, McDonald's and Woolworth's?
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Roy got a reaction from Arganto in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
Because it's the one with the most errors?
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, joking of course, I'd recently received the Chards email and it was fresh in my mind.
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Roy got a reaction from Arganto in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
The Canadian grizzly bear that Chards list is specified as being 1000g (1 KG).
1 kilo for ÂŁ37.59. Nice.
If I click add to basket and buy now, will you honour the sale @LawrenceChard?
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Roy reacted to LawrenceChard in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
All good points!
The company name is actually Chard (1964) Limited. There were a few simpler names we could have used, but they were either in existence, or deemed to be or sound similar.
To keep it visually simple, we debated Chard or Chards, but there is a Chard letting agent in London called Chard.
The domain name Chard.(anything) had gone, but chards.co.uk was available. đ
As you may have noticed, I am slighly pedantic about grammar, punctuation, spelling, and a few other things, so it's not that we don't care about the apostrophe, but it would have been a problem for the domain name. It seems OK for businesses to omit apostrophes for many reasons, and I both understand and agree with a flexible approach on this, So Chards it was, and I don't like ALL CAPITALS, but signwriters do because it avoids descenders.
There also seems to be a common usage thing that people often add an "s" to the end of shop and business names.
So call us Chard, or call us Chards, as long as you call us, and not BbP. (Call Me - Blondie)
I often got called Lawrence Shard, even when I had spelt it out for people, and I had one school teacher who asked me if it was Chard or Shard, and of course I told him Chard, and he then spent the next 7 years calling me Shard!
It possibly doesn't help that locally there is a river crossing called Shard Bridge.
Some day I might get a building named after me, although it might be quicker and easier if I change my surname to Shard.
Woolworth's went into liquidation, and the other two got their names before the internet and domain names.
Interestingly, I was told about 20+ years ago, that many legal documents and correspondence had already deprecated apostrophes and some other punctuation, possibly because typists and legal secretaries were pathetic at it, and it has probably got worse.
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Roy got a reaction from watchesandwhisky in Where would you put 500 a month for the next 10 years?
Plenty of time, use it wisely đ
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Roy got a reaction from LawrenceChard in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
Actually, whilst you're in my debt, perhaps you can answer something that's been bothering me for some time (and engage in a bit of banter too!)
It's your company name. As owner/director/C.E.O. etc., shouldn't it be CHARD'S?
Even if it was a family owned company, it would still be CHARD'S, although CHARDS' would be acceptable too.
CHARDS looks awkward, wouldn't you agree? CHARD is the eponym.
May I refer you to Sainsbury's, McDonald's and Woolworth's?
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Roy reacted to LawrenceChard in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
I laughed instantly when I saw yout first line, and I am still laughing at it.
I will quote you to our Marketing Team, but I won't tell them you were joking..
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Roy got a reaction from LawrenceChard in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
Because it's the one with the most errors?
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, joking of course, I'd recently received the Chards email and it was fresh in my mind.
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Roy reacted to LawrenceChard in Spot the Boob (Error) - From a Leading Coin and Bullion Dealer
Thanks for taking up the challenge, and finding the errors.
@ChardsCoinandBullionDealer owes you both a pint*.
It's something we started in 1998 on our first website, although we called it "Spot the Deliberate Error" which is an oxymoron of course.
You can collect it anytime if you visit our showroom, bump into us at a coin fair, or anywhere else (Tignes later this month?).
* Beer đ
P.S. How do you know which dealer /website I meant?
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Roy got a reaction from FlorinCollector in Where would you put 500 a month for the next 10 years?
As an old man...I think you should put your energy here.
Maybe you will inherit property, maybe you won't? Your parents might outlive you!
You need a place to live, so make it your own. If things get tough in retirement, you have an asset to fall back on. You could rent out your garage, your driveway, a spare room maybe? International students, airb&b etc.
I can't imagine entering retirement without a property I own, sorry đ