Spade_Key

Buy a fucking portable aircon unit BEFORE summer hits. They’re £200-£300 on Amazon. I’ve got one in each bedroom. Can’t afford multiple? Cool one room down then shut the door and wheel it to the next. Christ, we’ve got electricity and people complain year after year about being hot. Do yourself a favour and just buy one lol. I’m not well off btw, I live in a 2.5 bed (third room is a box) mid terrace. I just decided one year to use a few quid from my savings to change my life. Best money I’ve ever spent and anyone who does eventually cave to me telling them to do so fully agrees (after years of saying “nah we only have the odd hot day a year if we are lucky”)

Your sons got a good point, I’m going to ask the bank not to charge me interest on my mortgage when I’m next away on holiday because I’m not using my house for a couple weeks. Perhaps my mate can ask his landlord the same thing regarding rent when he comes with me!

Pretty much Reddit and WhatsApp for me, 35 year old married with 2 young kids. Couldn’t give a fuck what my auntie Karen is up to on Facebook or how many suspicious people she’s sharing warnings about. Might pop on to marketplace to pick up a cheap slide for my kids this summer though, that’s about it.

Mate I'm not arguing against what you're saying about those taxes you are paying. My point is the way you've worded it, replying to a comment highlighting tax evasion, your comment came across excusing tax evasion because you don't have employee benefits. If you pay your taxes then you are not the problem. There are however, thousands of tradies like my electrician out there who do cash in hand jobs or freebies for each other which results in millions or even billions in lost tax which we tax payers are having the pick up the bill for (as I'm sure you're already aware). There are plenty of other tax evaders out there, I just have a personal gripe with tradesmen because the few I've used are so blatant about it to the point it's almost rubbing it in my face.

My man, I can read lol. That is not what I was inferring and nor was he. He clearly said he did all that. He was replying to a comment about tax evasion and gave an excuse of not getting employee benefits. I \*had\* an electrician do work for me for a few years. He was always pretty clear about taking cash. The last time he was over he was bragging about his new van and his new Audi and that "the Chinese in these parts don't bat an eyelid about paying ten grand cash" and that he wasn't registered for VAT. Tell me how a guy who's self employed and doesn't turn over £90,000 a year but can afford a brand new £60,000 van and £30,000 - £40,000 Audi? Goes on holiday several times a year and the list goes on. He's got a nice house in a nice area in south Cambridgeshire. You talk about multi national companies and I fully agree but there are thousands of tradesmen not paying their fair share (through cash jobs and "freebies" for each other such as you do my tiling and ill do your carpentry and we call it even, no transaction to pay tax on)" and that is a massive loss of tax too, which the \*tax payers\* have to pick up the bill for.

Just because someone doesnt get the benefits of being a full time employee dolesnt give them the right to avoid paying the correct tax. Plenty of people own their own business or are self employed who aren't tradies/cash in hand and therefor do pay the tax on their income. The benefit of owning your own business or being self employed is setting your own hourly rates and working hours etc, not burdening the country by not paying income tax.

Type 1 Diabetic here. I used to try and be good but they've made it hard to dispose of sharps and the sharps boxes. I now stick my needles back in their plastic and straight into the rubbish bin. I have large 7 litre sharps boxes and use those. When they're full I put them in my big black wheelie bin. It's not what I want to do but my doctors stopped accepting my sharps boxes during covid and I stacked up about 10 of them before deciding to just stick one in the black wheelie bin before collection every other week. If you want people to do the right thing, don't make it difficult.

We get paid weekly and on the first week of December we get an extra week's money as our Christmas bonus. Basically pays for Christmas!

The Insurance Emporium. I got my two cats on Life Time Gold cover when they were kittens.

My two cats have been with The Insurance Emporium since kittens. I think the cover I got was Life Time Gold or something like that where it doesn’t go up because of a claim or life long illness etc.

Not saying OP doesn't insurance their cat but I do wish everyone did because I have family who will take on several pets and not insure them and then reach out via a Go Fund Me page when they need help with the pet's medical bills. They don't even see it as an issue because they're asking you to help their pet and not them. Have some foresight and insure your pet if you don't have the funds to pay for expensive treatment. My cat had feline meningitis at 2.5 years old (or brain cancer, we were never told). Luckily I had insured her with "Gold cover" from a kitten and so she had £10,000 annual cover. The total cost of her treatment was £14,000 but luckily the insurance year renewed half way through the 4 months of treatment so we didn't have to pay a penny. Best £7 a month I've ever spent. She's now 8 and the insurance has gone up to a whopping £13 a month... best £13 a month I'll ever spend :)

Marble!!

4:45am I go down stairs and make coffee. 5am I sit on the loo and enjoy my coffee in peace and tranquility whilst I play Pokemon for half hour. I then shower, clean my teeth and I’m dressed for work before 6am. I clean out the cat litter, do the empty the dirty and recycle bins and then head off to work at 6:15 (hour drive and I start at 7:30 after eating my breakfast). This works for me, I don’t have the time to enjoy coffee and then ensure I poop so I do both at the same time and then it’s done for the day (unless I feel the need before gym of an evening). I could get up at 5:30 and do things a bit quicker but this is how I prefer it.

Buy a new sofa coz my kids have dropped too much food on this one!

I paid my parents 12% of my income before tax. Don’t ask me why it was 12% but it felt fair.

Are you saying everyone thinks I’m a mug??

Lipsil, I can't leave home without it :)

Skin fade, £20.00 for the past couple years (Cambridge).

Your edit is not correct. It's not a maths calculation its just a simple translation. You know Bonjour means Hello without maths. In the same way 17 means 5. ​ I've never even considered subtracting 12 from the number funnily enough lol and I'm a very logical person. This has actually weirded me out a little and now I'm worried I will start doing this. Like, my maths brain works something like 100 - 68 is 32 because 68+2 is 70 and then 70+ 30 is 100 so your speaking my language.. but no, I've never done this. I just know the translation. Sorry!

Oh that’s odd I don’t think I’ve noticed a difference where I am. Can you confirm if it’s powder or syrup?

any idea what brand? or what type?

MP

A lot of Americans are called names like CJ or JJ etc but are they aware of what a BJ is? We have a supplier who signs off as BJ and I'm not sure she would if she knew it was an abbreviation for "blow job" (oral sex).