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Z the IVth posted:Does being in a syndicate bypass the publicity rules? I remember reading something about Lotto where your choice as a winner was to have them support you at the expense of having your name published for all and sundry, or keeping quiet and leaving you to your own devices. Always felt like a recipe for misery either way since you'd either get endless hassle or have to develop the financial nous to manage a few tens/hundreds of millions. I'd manage a few tens/hundreds of millions by simply buying all the stuff i wanted.
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can someone give me a breakdown of the current trending crisis; do I understand correctly that the Tories are trying to axe the special protocol carved out for NI to keep the hard border from going up? Are they trying to to trigger a secession?
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Oct 10, 2021 12:38
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The intended outcome for every Tory minister is whatever results in the least work for them personally If that involves secession, well, we tried really hard, guys
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Oct 10, 2021 12:44
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Oct 10, 2021 12:46
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Where do crises currently trend? 1) Contradictions heighten, 2) Linen coats, 3) ? 4) Communism.
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Oct 10, 2021 12:49
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:can someone give me a breakdown of the current trending crisis; do I understand correctly that the Tories are trying to axe the special protocol carved out for NI to keep the hard border from going up? They are mostly trying to stoke a conflict with the EU so that they have somebody to blame for, well *general hand gestures* Actual solutions are a distant third or fourth on the list of concerns
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Oct 10, 2021 12:50
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Communist Thoughts posted:When I first came to scotland with my BBC English voice, at work there was a guy who had the Scottish version of the incomprehensible old man from hot fuzz's accent. When I moved from Inverness to Sheffield I ended up waiting for the Supertram one day after being in HMV. And this auld yin with a proper Yorkshire accent started talking to me. gently caress he was incomprehensible. Felt like he was chatting an entirely different language. Turned out the nosy fart just wanted to know what I'd been buying; needless to say he wasn't familiar with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
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Oct 10, 2021 12:57
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Bobby Deluxe posted:One of my many problems is a delay in my auditory loop - it sometimes takes an extra second or so for my brain to translate the noises it just heard into information I can act on. But people always interpret that as needing to hear the exact same slurred mess of consonants, just louder. I had this and it turned out to be related to undiagnosed ADHD. YMMV. I did find after a Spanish only area in Spain and fully immersing myself in Spanish I had way, way less issues and after a year of having to call people in another language my call anxiety when I came home just loving vanished. After 2 years and no socialising it's kinda back some but I know the root of it now so it's way easier to handle.
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Oct 10, 2021 13:20
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Taper relief So if I'm reading that right. Basically you sell your house, use the money to fund either private care or move in with the kids and as long as you did a bank transfer of £xk to them 7 years before you pop it, then you dodge the tax? Is that what the poshos are doing? Like simply transferring the name on all of their assets and moving their cash into bank accounts in their kids names a few years before they die?
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Oct 10, 2021 13:41
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Guavanaut posted:I remember an Indian linguist saying that English spoken by Hindi first language speakers has features in common with Wenglish/Saesneg Gymreigm, because both speakers tend to place emphasis on the last part of the word and pronounce vowels as vowels rather than as a slurred mess, so someone from both Llanelli and Lucknow would pronounce 'pronounce' with a clear 'ro' 'no' and emphasis on the 'unce' when speaking English, whereas other Indo-Aryan language first speakers and other dialects of Anglic langages don't do that to nearly the same degree. This does explain why a lot of people trying to do a Welsh accent end up sounding Indian.
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Just Another Lurker posted:I did the National Lottery for +15 years and got £45 total. I'm tempted to do this. Not that I play the Lottery regularly, but the interest on my savings account is a fraction of a percent so I don't feel bad about not putting more money into it.
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Oct 10, 2021 13:55
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Z the IVth posted:Does being in a syndicate bypass the publicity rules? I remember reading something about Lotto where your choice as a winner was to have them support you at the expense of having your name published for all and sundry, or keeping quiet and leaving you to your own devices. Always felt like a recipe for misery either way since you'd either get endless hassle or have to develop the financial nous to manage a few tens/hundreds of millions. Over in Ireland, basically when you win you can choose to go public with it or not. Once you go public, the genie is out of the bottle and you can't go back. If you don't go public, the newspapers aren't allowed rat you out*. The Lotto do talk about providing some financial advice to new winners to avoid the problem that someone immediately blows all their money on hookers and blow. There was a documentary about the Lotto and it spoke to some past winners and what their lives were like but I never saw it. Was meant to be very good. * = One Euromillions winner who was publicised was a Limerick Woman called Dolores Riordan. The papers justified naming her by saying that she was in a pub when the draw happened and it was the people in the pubs story that they were publishing. The real story was she was publicised because her family were (alegedly) linked to gangs in the Limerick area and she was (alegedly) going to funnel money to them.
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kingturnip posted:The intended outcome for every Tory minister is whatever results in the least work for them personally There's also the passing fact that secession is ultimately beneficial to the Tories. Northern Ireland will never vote for them, so reducing the MP count makes their seats in England more important. I don't think that the modern batch are too worried about Scotland, either, now the oil money is less. Remove both Scotland and Ireland from the equation and you're pretty much looking at permanent unbroken Tory majority government.
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forkboy84 posted:needless to say he wasn't familiar with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum What a donkey-headed adversary of humanity.
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Kin posted:So if I'm reading that right. Basically you sell your house, use the money to fund either private care or move in with the kids and as long as you did a bank transfer of £xk to them 7 years before you pop it, then you dodge the tax? Pretty much yeah, although rich boomers, being Tories, frequently have an "I earned my money, gently caress you if you think I'm helping you get your hands on it, GET A REAL JOB" attitude even towards their own children.
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Oct 10, 2021 14:15
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Kin posted:So if I'm reading that right. Basically you sell your house, use the money to fund either private care or move in with the kids and as long as you did a bank transfer of £xk to them 7 years before you pop it, then you dodge the tax? That's what middle-class people do. The *rich* rich transfer all of their stuff to trusts and offshore companies which their kids (or their kids' offshore companies) own shares in. This is how the current Duke of Westminster actually ended up richer than his dad when the latter popped his clogs, because the trust the estate (which includes almost all of Westminster and a bunch of land around the world which they got through sheer hard work of course, plus a shitload of hotels because Monopoly is real) actually claimed tax credits from multiple jurisdictions that year (unrelated to the death).
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Oct 10, 2021 14:42
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Folks, if you are considering gifting money or having dealings with inheritance tax, please check out the rules with HMRC, they are a rather more complex than you'll pick up on here. When it comes to gifts, there are annual limits on tax free gifts and they're not that big, and also whether something is a wedding/civil partnership gift or not. https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax/gifts
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The Question IRL posted:Over in Ireland, basically when you win you can choose to go public with it or not. A few syndicates in Cork won, but not mad big money for each of them. I heard though one of them were all in the one company, and the company itself got a ton of begging letters afterwards.
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Oct 10, 2021 14:45
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A family 'syndicate' in a town near me won the Euromillions (IIRC £50m or something like that) a few years ago. Too bad that the daughter had been dumped by her boyfriend literally the night before else he might have been able to marry wealth. I bet she was feeling 'karma'!
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Oct 10, 2021 14:48
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Lady Demelza posted:I'm tempted to do this. Not that I play the Lottery regularly, but the interest on my savings account is a fraction of a percent so I don't feel bad about not putting more money into it. It's an option to check out whether you try it or not. I was feeling risk averse so i went for it and barring governmental collapse it should be so (looks sideways at Boris..... hhmmmm).
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Kin posted:So if I'm reading that right. Basically you sell your house, use the money to fund either private care or move in with the kids and as long as you did a bank transfer of £xk to them 7 years before you pop it, then you dodge the tax? Nah nah, *anyone* can do it. Don’t make this a class thing because it normalises the idea of the poor being bad with money  My nan is solidly working class, she was a dinner lady and grandad was a council gardener. She transferred everything they saved and the house over to the family in a living will 15 years ago, and was paying 1p a year rent to my mum for her own house. 3 years ago social services sat in her house “what a lovely home you have dear” discussing what nursing home she wanted to go in to, while she pretended to be old and confused. They signed all the paperwork to put her in a very posh retirement home then hit her with “and we’ll expect you to pay a percentage based on assets” and she sat there literally cackling in joy while she told them “that wasn’t my house love, I only got a state pension” Because they had signed everything they can’t move her.
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learnincurve posted:Nah nah, *anyone* can do it. Don’t make this a class thing because it normalises the idea of the poor being bad with money Yeah my parents had a similar experience with my gran when she lost her marbles with dementia and had to be put in a care home. I want to be mad with them because it is just tax evasion plain and simple but it does feels like one of those things absolutely designed from the ground up to be abused. That said, if you own your house at all and are in a position to do this kind of sleight of hand, you're far from the bottom of the pile. Maybe that's the point.
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it's very age/era dependent, my nan is 94 and my grandparents got a mortgage on a dirt cheap house purely based on my grandad working for the council, which was normal at the time. It was the one asset she had and when it got sold the money was devided between all the great-grandchildren and bypassed everyone else.
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/uk_domain_names/status/1446913244375961604 its always funny when tory MPs are like "white privilege? you should talk to my constituents, they're having an AWFUL time!"
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Oct 10, 2021 16:04
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Fines have no effect on the rich and therefore any law punished by a fine isn't a real law, A Good Letter.
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Bah I've been on base at RAF Lakenheath several times and never once even been waterboarded (better facilities/BX than Mildenhall or Croughton, too, though not a patch on Kaiserslautern I'm told)
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Dabir posted:Fines have no effect on the rich and therefore any law punished by a fine isn't a real law, A Good Letter. Bring back lopping off body parts as a punishment. It will work until the rich get chromed-up.
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I like that big lotto winners here at least get a Coutts account and an advisor. In my teens I worked behind a lotto kyosk and processed a few millionaire wins (managed to throw the first winning ticket in the bin by reflex in front of the winner, was stressful). One time I was presented a winning ticket by twin sisters, the only appropriate word I can think of for them now would be 'extremely vulnerable'. They asked me if they'd be able to quit their factory jobs with 4 mil between them. I said 'uh yeah probably' and ran it through the system. A year later they came through again and I asked them how things were. Their family had nicked the lot. I really wish I'd had the nous or the procedure to refer them to better help at the time  (or to tell them that the shop boy was best placed to be their agent and manager)
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Chubby Henparty posted:I like that big lotto winners here at least get a Coutts account and an advisor. In my teens I worked behind a lotto kyosk and processed a few millionaire wins (managed to throw the first winning ticket in the bin by reflex in front of the winner, was stressful). Incidentally, you would not believe the way the bankers at Coutts would talk about the lottery winners who went with the account offer there. (For those not in the know, you normally need a half a mil deposit and 250k deposited per annum to get a Coutts account) Actually, no. You probably would. loving wankers.
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Chubby Henparty posted:A year later they came through again and I asked them how things were. Their family had nicked the lot. I really wish I'd had the nous or the procedure to refer them to better help at the time That sucks. Near to where I live, a woman in Strabane NI won £27 million from the lottery, she was jobless and lived in one of the worst housing estates in the entire country (Ballycolman estate, drug dealer central basically). She decided to still live there which was a big mistake, and ended up being conned out of a lot of it. She died a few weeks ago, just after saying she had only £5 million of it left. Edit: She won it 8 years ago, so lost £2.75 million a year. loving hell.
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happyhippy posted:That sucks. lol imagine people knowing you have £27m in the bank and not moving out of NI very loving quickly.
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Jesus. If £27m suddenly came my way I'd be in Monaco the next day.
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Absolutely wild to me that there are people in this world who instead of calling the official number like a normal human would take a winning lottery ticket worth upwards of a million quid to their local spar and hand it over to the guy at the till, as if he's going to pay out the lot in rolls of twenties. Surprised this doesn't happen more often tbh: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/05/suspected-thief-of-winning-scratchcard-stopped-at-rome-airport
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