mediaphage posted:

lmao how often do you see a riding change by 48 percent

xtothez posted:

"Vimes' LED headlights" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, sadly

The thing that immediately stood out to me here is that the guy is paying bare minimum into a pension and wants to pay less. The first advice people with this level of income get is to increase pension contributions where possible, as it's <=50p per £1 in your pocket now versus >= 80p towards retirement. With large enough contributions he could even be claiming child benefit for those two kids to offset the lower take-home figure, while paying substantially less of his gross income to tax.

However spunking between £1k and £2k on a car lease is obviously more important.

Guavanaut posted:

It's probably because his solution to the crisis facing him and everyone on less than him is "I should pay less taxes."

Guavanaut posted:

He could be on £250k a year and come out with something like "I'm worse off than 10 years ago, we should have free childcare, free meals for kids, and vastly increased child benefits, I'd happily pay double in tax for that because I'd still be better off at the end of the month" and I'd think yeah that's fine, or he could be on £15k a year and say "taxes should be lower so I get more" and I'd still think them an idiot.

I don't think he should be eaten by wolves or anything, but I don't think he was baited into anything, he's still in a trickle down economics bubble, which is probably in large part because of how insulated he was up until now.

smellmycheese posted:

It's all yet another example of how remarkably cheaply UK politicians can be bought. Chuck 10 million in the corruption fund and recieve 400 million and more in contracts. Who wouldnt?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

She thinks she's a centrist and she thinks she's representative of most of the UK* "everyone just wants to be in the middle" - she thinks private schools are centrist and the other thing she blames Labour for is the thing where if you are a couple & one earns more than £50k - her husband - and the other earns less (she's on about £14k - part time) you don't get child benefit but if they were both on £32k (giving same gross total) they would get child benefit and this is Labour's fault despite the fact that the tories have been in power 14 years - so it obviously suited them to keep the system - and didn't change it until this year which happens to be election year.

*heck - maybe she's right about that and maybe this group of people - mid 40s with a kid at private school - will ignore everything else & vote tory on this, their red line? I know she's pretty clueless about almost anything politics - my other colleague & I both have left wing views & we are sometimes gobsmacked at how ignorant on any number of political issues the centrist one is (she doesn't do politics).

NotJustANumber99 posted:

I guess they're might be some other services that are providing education that would get swept up in a change to charge posho school fees vat.

His Divine Shadow posted:

I re-learned cursive using 100 year old textbooks, also to write it right handed (I am left handed, now ambidextrous). I think cursive is kinda cool and I see why it was in use, so quick to write with. I now have a quasi-cursive handwriting with my right hand, texting with my left.

e: lol what a snipe, I would give you a cat, but you get my current project instead:

Apraxin posted:

MP discovers the concept of 'crime'

smellmycheese posted:

lol no. Those kind of horse racing events are basically a football derby with the cunts dressed up in suits for the day and their girlfriends along. They are awful.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

No way

Edit: 183 is the number of days in half a year to the nearest whole number.

keep punching joe posted:

My cynical take is that the Greens have been polling too well in Scotland and the SNP see them as a threat in the General Election (whenever that is). Not winning seats but splitting the vote enough that they will damage SNP chances. There was also the possibility of the Greens pulling out first, so at least by this move Yousaf can appear like it was his idea and not forced upon him.

This has the added benefit of pleasing the loons who might vote Alba, and maybe stymie some of those voters slipping away too.

And riding the tiger of right wing maniacs always works, and is a good idea for sensible briefcase technocrats.

Also gg pissing off the one bloc in Holyrood that is not psychotically hostile to the SNP, well played lads.

keep punching joe posted:

I knew this and I'm the dumbest mf ever. How come a big brain FT journalist doesnt know it?

Bobby Deluxe posted:

I have a dot in mine and I keep getting emails from some guy in the US, it's a known bug/feature gmail won't admit is misfiring because it has huge security implications.

What's supposed to happen is if you have name@gmail.com, you're supposed to be able to enter name-suffix@gmail or name.suffix@gmail (or even namesuffix@gmail.com) on webforms, and it'll still route to your inbox. It's so you can enter eg. name.facebook@gmail and then if you start getting spam you know who leaked your email address.

Except if your registered address is name.surname@gmail then this system mistakenly kicks in (I suspect because of AI 'smart' filtering) and sometimes you will get mail from someone who has namesurname@gmail as their registered address.

At first I thought the other guy's address was just being mistranscribed on forms, and then I got a few replies from one of his family friends and the 'to' field is definitely namesurname@gmail. Keeps happening. His email address is basically mine without the dot.

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Second call asking if there's a link to the emergency fund? Couldn't find it in the OP, is it still maugrim I PM?

josh04 posted: