The Real Hustle

Advantages: Interesting, Some good things to try out (not in a criminal way)
Disadvantages: Gives criminals ideas ?

...~~~ What's it About ? ~~~ The Real Hustle involves 3 con artists carrying out scams on unsuspecting members of the public. The type of scams vary from being card tricks on the street to selling property which doesn't belong to you. The skill involved also varies greatly. Some of the things which are done take years of practice and others just relying on people's trusting nature and their eye for a good deal. The shows is on BBC 3 and usually runs for around 30mins. The show has been expanding in recent years, heading to America and other countries. This is probably so they're less well known. All of the money which is earned is given back. ~~~ Who's in it ? ~~~ *Paul Wilson* - The star of the show. Paul is the one who peforms all the high skill cons and is extremely talented with cards and all that related stuff. He...

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Real Life Stories

Advantages: True stories, cheap, interesting to read
Disadvantages: Too many advertisements,

...Real is a magazine for women. It came out last year, so it is quite a new magazine on the market. It comes out every fortnight and costs only £1.50, which is not that bad a price at all. This magazine is now selling for £1 which is a real bargain, and definitely worth the money. The front page of the magazine is glossy and always has a different woman on the front. The front page also advertises some of the stories that are featuring in the magazine. I have issue 4 which is from the 26th of February to the 11th of march. I will now give you an idea from this magazine what it is like, to see if you would like it or not. There are 122 pages so there is plenty to read. First of all there is the contents page. Here you will find the following categories:- Regulars Travel Food Family Life Features Fashion Home and Shopping...

tabyorky 15.03.2002 (28.05.2002) · Read review
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ARE YOU A "REAL" WOMAN?

Advantages: Aimed at "Real" women, aimed at "professional" woman, markets to a wide age range
Disadvantages: Busy, fuss, crowded layouts. Too "serious".

...It?s a chilly, grey, dull day in dreary London today. As my husband popped out to pick up a paper I asked him to buy a magazine, with the criteria ?any one will do? that I don?t currently have. So he had quite a few to choose from! He came back with ?REAL?. When this was first published a few years ago, it was trying to compete with the high quality glossies and was printed as such. It?s published by H Bauer Publishing and was it?s first attempt at venturing into the upmarket women?s market. It hasn?t performed well in this market place and in the middle of August this year, Bauer Publishing sold the titled to Essential Publishing, amid rumours that the title would close. Whether Essential Publishing can ensure the magazine?s success where Bauer has failed remains to be seen. There are a couple of unique factors about ?REAL...

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Real Love

Advantages: Well acted and directed drama
Disadvantages: I can't think of any

...Lars and the Real Girl is set in N America/Canada seemingly in a Scandinavian influenced town judging by the characters names. Lars is a young man with an uninspiring office job, who lives in the garage at the bottom of the garden of his brother and expectant sister in law. Having had a difficult childhood, he is rather reclusive and lacking in basic social and communication skills, reminding me slightly of someone with Aspergers as he often doesn't know how to react in a social situation. His brother and sister in law despair of him, and are always trying to get him to come for dinner. One day he tells them that he has someone he would like to meet, and they are thrilled, especially when he reveals that this person is female. They don't mind that he met this woman off the internet or that she is in a wheelchair. However when they...

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The Longshaw Estate, Derbyshire

Advantages: Peaceful, tranquil, Free
Disadvantages: Steep Paths that get messy during bad weather

...The Peak District National Park is in my opinion one of the most picturesque places in the whole of England. Ok, I may be a little bit bias since it happens to be on my doorstep but there are so many different places to visit that you could go there every weekend of your life and never go to the same place twice. The Longshaw Estate is the sort of place that is perfect for the Peak District novice since it is very easily accesible yet it has all of the same beautiful scenery on offer as the more remote parts of the Park. Longshaw Lodge, built in 1827 is the central focal point of the vast Longshaw Estate that originally covered an area of 11,533 acres of land in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire. It is located just ten miles to the South West of Sheffield and lies very close to the South Yorkshire border...

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Estate of art

Advantages: Practical, stylish, good quality and it has that badge
Disadvantages: The dire service

.... That left the VW. The Passat was the favourite from the beginning - I sound like a football commentator - and in the end saw my Dad reaching for the cheque books - well the company anyway. For the last few years we had been tootling around in an Audi A4. It was the best car we had ever had - no problems or anything. Its quality, drive, style and of course that badge meant it was a cut above the rest in the street. But it had to go as the contract ran out. It seemed only real if we stayed in the VW group. So we now owned the VW Passat 1.6 Estate and we were all looking forward to owning it. My dad took delivery of it at the beginning of 2000 and has since ran without a murmur. My Dad has truely enjoyed driving it. He is constantly telling me how good the car is. He always says that the car handles better than any other estate...

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Aussie Real Volume Conditioner

Advantages: Smells fabulous
Disadvantages: Seemed to tangle hair uncomfortably; didn't volumise; expensive

...I bought Aussie Real Volume Conditioner for my sister when she asked me to pick her up some volumising conditioner. I tend to use cheap conditioner but I know that she likes posh brands of haircare product and Aussie have a good name. It was £3.49 for 300ml. Occasionally Boots have a 2 for £6 deal on Aussie products. Although it was for my sister, I spotted it in the shower and decided to try it for myself. This was because I had noticed she was wearing a lovely fragrance; but she explained it was the scent of the conditioner, not perfume! The bottle is a nice shape - it looks fairly classy and it's easy to squeeze, which is something you take for granted until you buy a product in a rigid, unyielding bottle that doesn't let you get to the product (as I have experienced occasionally with some other brands). The top has a circle that you...

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Now that's the real deal!

Advantages: Some fantastic auction moments.
Disadvantages: David Dickinson....

...Dickinson's Real Deal is hosted by David Dickinson who is an 'expert' in the antiques industry. Members of the public are invited to come to a particular auction room or place of public interest and they will bring their treasured possessions along with them. There are a few different experts on the panel, one of whom will look at the items on offer and then make an offer to purchase the product. The member of the public can then haggle to try and get more money, choose to take the offer or just decide to take the item to auction and see how they get on there instead. David Dickinson will be standing by and if he feels that people are getting short changed or if the independent valuer thinks that the item is worth more or less than David will step in and give the panellist and the member of the public his opinion on whether the cash...

katyeverett 31.07.2009 · Read review
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Real meat in a treat

Advantages: Soft enough to divide without being messy
Disadvantages: There aren't a lot in the pack

...a game which he quite enjoys! Anyway we both enrolled at a local training class and I was advised that I would need to take along an ample supply of 'treats' as they used reward based training in the class. The first problem was finding something tiny enough for little Ellery when he was just three months old and still hadn't got all of his teeth. The second issue was that I didn't want to make him fat - initially Ellery sorted out that issue for me, he was car sick and very kindly brought back all of the treats on the journey home but as he got older he grew out of it! Nature's Menu Reat Meat Treats In my quest to find some suitable reward for use in training I was scanning the dog treats in my local vets and I spotted a pack of Nature's Menue Real Meat Treats. I had come across the brand before as I have used their cat food...

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Lovely estate agents

Advantages: Sold my house at asking price
Disadvantages: I don't receive service like that everyday

...Moving house is said to be one of the three most stressful things you can do,(besides bereavement and divorce). The last thing you want or need from your estate agents then is bad service, incompetence or inability to do the job. Fortunately for me, I got none of these. The estate agents we chose to sell our flat a few months ago I could not praise highly enough. Why did we choose Connells? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With a little baby, we had been thinking of selling and moving for a while, so when we were in estate agents asking for house particulars, we were interested to see how they reacted to us and potential buyers, so we had an idea what they would be saying about our property behind our backs! I am sad to say that some estate agents really do live up to the dreadful reputation. I had comments such as "ooh, you don...

nancymac 31.08.2003 · Read review
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