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Thailand has some of the strictest laws of this kind.

Typically you’re looking at serious jail time if found guilty.

I have to use an iPhone for work and I don’t understand a vast amount of the UI choices - and that’s before data fuckery.

My boiler won’t hold pressure; there’s no leaks that I’m aware of, but it also seems to operate quite comfortably at 0 bar (hot water, warm radiators). I get it serviced annually so I don’t really know what the problem is.

My best guess is ghosts keeping it alive at this point (my house is very old).

Only if their mothers were as well

It’s not a government body, so it can’t be official. The closest it gets is unofficial mouthpiece for the British Establishment™.

The BBC isn’t a government body and isn’t funded by taxes, it’s primarily funded by the license fee (and selling broadcasting rights overseas).

The internet has royally fucked the funding model - as everyone and their mum has equipment capable of receiving live broadcast tv, but unless it becomes an official government mouthpiece it’s unlikely to become something we pay for out of taxes.

I really enjoyed it, although I do wish it wasn’t so “draw the rest of the owl”.

We get a tax free allowance of £12,570 annually, and then it’s banded from there: Income from £12571 to £14876 is taxed at 19% Income from £14877 to £26562 is taxed at 20% From £26523 to £43662 is taxed at 21% From £43663 to £75000 it’s 42% £75001 to £125140 it’s 45% And anything north of that is 48%

This is calculated on income after any deductions from pay are made, like national insurance contributions, pension scheme payment, salary sacrifice schemes, student loan repayments and so on.

Fair enough - I didn’t realise it was for visa requirements until I read the rest of the comments; my bile got the better of me…

I’ve worked for Fraser Group (in a very different capacity) and you absolutely have dodged a bullet; they’re an absolute shit show and are responsible for a large amount of the enshittification of the UK’s high street.

The owners are shitbags and the rest of the hierarchy takes notes and shit downstream.

The ideal scenario is that we get good old Gay Space Communism™ but until then it’s probably going to be mutual aid and community organisation that keep the rest of us semi-functioning.

In the UK we don’t pay any vat on “essential” goods. And we have a raft of tax relief for lower earners.

Not that it helps much, but it’s better than a poke in the eye.

The used to be - I had a flat that used an old style fused breaker. Fun times trying to replace a fuse when it had blown…

I feel this way about most love recordings of podcasts (or anything for that matter, with the exception of standup comedy) - if I wanted live episodes I’d go see them live.

My phone service provider used to do daily roulette type giveaways.

I won a free return flight to basically anywhere in Europe.

I actually never did anything with it, because at the time I couldn’t afford to pay for someone else to go with me (I would have gone with my partner).

I regret not just flying on my own, but them’s the rubs - I was, and am, a bit of an idiot.

I also once won a game key by making a funny YouTube comment on a Unit Lost video once too - but I never used that either; it wasn’t a game I was interested in, I just liked to watch the vids for a bit of a laugh.

I don’t win much, but when I do I squander my wins.

Rinse aid? What are you, some kind of lord?

My lovely stainless steel pan is often left un-dishwashed (I don’t like running it when I’m not awake). It is frequently removed, washed the old fashioned way, and used.

Elderly women use this one trick to make friends!

Me too! But only on one arm.

Thanks, mild localised hypermobility.

The right answer is “yes”. Some cash in the moment is a nice thing to do, and will alleviate an immediate want or need potentially.

Donation to an organisation that will help the problem long term is a worthwhile thing to fund.

Why not give a man a fish to eat while you’re teaching them to fish for themselves, if you’re in a position to do so?