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Guavanaut posted:Basic services, such as private banks for millionaires. I can understand why Elon Musk would be worried about banks no longer offering services to "pedo guy"s.
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So this two child thing, what if your second kid ends up being twins or more? Do you have a Sophie's Choice to make?
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Lol hadn't thought of that. What if you get triplets on the first go?
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I believe the official guidance in those cases is 'go gently caress yourself'
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quote:You can get extra Universal Credit for your third and subsequent children if they are born as part of a multiple birth, apart from one child in that birth. This means the exception applies to the additional children in that birth. Just a bizarre amount of paperwork to avoid "we will pay x amount per child, to look after the child."
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It should be like speeding, where of you say it was one continuous speeding offence rather than separate ones you only get once. Continuous babies Edit. Ok it is like that. Good. Makes sense
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What about Boris? If you keep having just two children with endless women they all get it?
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smellmycheese posted:Congratulations to posters Guavanaut and Betjamen!!!!! Yeah hooray inflation is down to only 7.9% so you're now getting poorer more slowly than before.
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smellmycheese posted:Congratulations to posters Guavanaut and Betjamen!!!!!
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Eh, 4% inflation is higher than the economist ideal of 2%, but given that inflation eats away at the value of assets now and your current purchasing power, there's an argument that higher interest rates give less power to Capital and big business, and as such it's better to sustain a higher rate than the chicago school think. Not attached to this opinion but I don't think all interest=bad.
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i would rather get exploded in a nuclear holocaust than know about inflation or whatever
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Eh, 4% inflation is higher than the economist ideal of 2%, but given that inflation eats away at the value of assets now and your current purchasing power, there's an argument that higher interest rates give less power to Capital and big business, and as such it's better to sustain a higher rate than the chicago school think. i think it helps that 2% is so little that you can boil the frog, but 4% is quite noticeable and labour relations will quickly deteriorate with strikes etc
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Do any of you remember what TV channel Batman.The Animated Series aired on in this country back in the '90s? Because I was trying to work out earlier today why I never watched it as a kid and so I'm just assuming it was on Sky One or some other satellite channel. Cartoon Network maybe?
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Yeah, it was on Cartoon Network.
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I always assumed it was a US only thing but that explains why I assumed that.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Eh, 4% inflation is higher than the economist ideal of 2%, but given that inflation eats away at the value of assets now and your current purchasing power, there's an argument that higher interest rates give less power to Capital and big business, and as such it's better to sustain a higher rate than the chicago school think. I mean I guess, but that doesn't help people magic the £500-£1000 out of their rear end per month to cover increases in mortgage payments or rent. We used to track with the US, Biden's already got them down to 3% with 5.25% interest, and we're still up at 7.9%. The UK is uniquely poorly governed, the Tories have no clue or no desire to fix things.
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They fix things, just not for us.
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forkboy84 posted:Do any of you remember what TV channel Batman.The Animated Series aired on in this country back in the '90s? Because I was trying to work out earlier today why I never watched it as a kid and so I'm just assuming it was on Sky One or some other satellite channel. Cartoon Network maybe? This blog post suggests ITV but only up until 1995.
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Tories and fixing things go hand in hand
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Jel Shaker posted:i think it helps that 2% is so little that you can boil the frog, but 4% is quite noticeable and labour relations will quickly deteriorate with strikes etc Also worth noting is that a basic pension might track at about 3% interest, so if normal inflation is 2% then it seems better, but if it's 4 or even 8% then, well, better hope that the state implements Quietus before we get old
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forkboy84 posted:Do any of you remember what TV channel Batman.The Animated Series aired on in this country back in the '90s? Because I was trying to work out earlier today why I never watched it as a kid and so I'm just assuming it was on Sky One or some other satellite channel. Cartoon Network maybe?
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It was on ITV on a show called What's Up Doc? (which as far as I'm aware was the home for a lot of Warner Brother's based content on Saturday morning.) I remember this as I didn't have ITV at home, but it was on my Uncle's home. And I recorded two episodes off the TV. It was the first Batman episodes broadcast in the UK. And it was the Cat and the Claw Parts 1 and 2. (Which is like the 10th episode in the production/US broadcast order, but it had Batman AND Catwoman in it, so it was a good episode to introduce British Audiences to the Batman series after Batman Returns was so fresh in people's minds.)
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Batman chat: When I was about 6 or 7, I was glued to the old Batman tv series with Adam West and Burt Ward as Robin. I told my parents I was going to build a bridge to America (eat your heart out Boris - my bridge-building ambitions were much bigger than yours) and go & marry Robin. Narrator: Reader - she didn't.
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This is rather special https://twitter.com/grantshapps/status/1681756923589283842 
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fuctifino posted:This is rather special I've been trying to think through the optics of this: why bother doing this, who is it supposed to influence? and can't answer my own question.
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It's just a very easy political stunt. They're hammering the message that labour is in cahoots with jso and xr, and eventually the papers will also just start talking about it as if that's just a fact. There are a significant number of British people who loathe protest or disruption of any kind, so this tactic is aimed at them.
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Marmaduke! posted:Also worth noting is that a basic pension might track at about 3% interest, so if normal inflation is 2% then it seems better, but if it's 4 or even 8% then, well, better hope that the state implements Quietus before we get old I thought the Tripple-Lock meant that pensions go up by the same as Average Earnings, Inflation or 3% - whichever is higher ? So when inflation was low, pensions went up in real terms, and now they keep track with inflation
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Grant Shapps is a profoundly stupid man. Surely someone looking after him must have thought this was a bad idea?
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The Perfect Element posted:It's just a very easy political stunt. They're hammering the message that labour is in cahoots with jso and xr, and eventually the papers will also just start talking about it as if that's just a fact. That and it will provoke Starmer to come out even more authoritarian towards Just Stop Oil and other protesters, and the ‘political consensus’ will continue to drift to the right.
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The Perfect Element posted:It's just a very easy political stunt. They're hammering the message that labour is in cahoots with jso and xr, and eventually the papers will also just start talking about it as if that's just a fact. those two 17 year old students who meekly whispered to keir that maybe he should stick to his green policy’s instantly turned into hardcore climate protesters by the media
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Noxville posted:That and it will provoke Starmer to come out even more authoritarian towards Just Stop Oil and other protesters, and the ‘political consensus’ will continue to drift to the right. In a just world, Labour would do the mirror image of the Matt Bors "might as well" Nazi. "Well you're going to call us far left climate extremists anyway" (unshaves head)
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Renfield posted:I thought the Tripple-Lock meant that pensions go up by the same as Average Earnings, Inflation or 3% - whichever is higher ? Sorry, I meant a workplace pension, should have made that clear! The triple lock is the other insane side of the coin.
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Big News https://twitter.com/theurigeller/status/1681764508723716103?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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NotJustANumber99 posted:i would rather get exploded in a nuclear holocaust than know about inflation or whatever "I'd rather perish in flames than understand the basics of finance" is exactly the sentiment I'd expect to see from someone who drives a Tesla, but please don't take the rest of us with you.
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fuctifino posted:This is rather special In an effort to remove all credibility, whenever a Labour MP gives a statement on TV or radio, they will now be dubbed over with a voice to make them sound like Kier Starmer.
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smellmycheese posted:Big News Big if true
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smellmycheese posted:Big News An unpleasant grifter. 
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He has a signed yogurt pot full of Donald Trump DNA.
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fuctifino posted:This is rather special Oh my GOD! KEIR STARMER PUT poo poo IN MY PANTS!!
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forkboy84 posted:Do any of you remember what TV channel Batman.The Animated Series aired on in this country back in the '90s? Because I was trying to work out earlier today why I never watched it as a kid and so I'm just assuming it was on Sky One or some other satellite channel. Cartoon Network maybe? In Ireland it was shown on RTE 'The Den' (their CBBC version).
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