LifeBandit666

No my point is, as a British person that uses the kettle A LOT we went out and bought one that heats up a single cup at a time, which is quicker than boiling a whole kettle.

I fill it up like a kettle and it has a little chamber underneath that it fills and heats, then the boiling water comes out of a spout into the cup.

After owning this type of kettle for over a decade I don't think I can go back to a conventional kettle.

Meh my British kettle heats a cup of water to boiling in 30 seconds.

Faster than a microwave

Don't let this make you all laxidasical about voting. "They'll lose anyway so fuck it" and all that.

Vote the fuckers out

Well he did call him a liar to his face, that was challenge enough to me.

He even explained why it was a lie.

ӣ2000 worse off in taxes"

That's all he said wasn't it?

Unelected, jug-eared, toffy-nosed midget

Edit: From the BBC-

The chief Treasury civil servant wrote to Labour two days ago saying that the Conservatives’ assessment of their tax plans "should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service".

The letter from James Bowler, the Treasury permanent secretary, risks undermining Rishi Sunak’s claim in last night’s debate that Labour’s plans include £38bn of uncosted spending, which he says would mean £2,000 of tax rises per working household.

In a letter to Darren Jones, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Bowler writes: "As you will expect, civil servants were not involved in the production or presentation of the Conservative Party’s document 'Labour’s Tax Rises' or in the calculation of the total figure used ... the £38bn figure used in the Conservative Party’s publication includes costs beyond those provided by the Civil Service".

"I agree that any costings derived from other sources or produced by other organisations should not be presented as having been produced by the Civil Service," he adds.

Thing is the sugar tax seems to have done fuck all in changing the prices so sugar free options are cheaper. Whenever I look in the supermarket, Fanta and Fanta zero for example are the same price, which is just far more expensive than it used to be.

So tell me how the sugar tax has made it healthier? I'm just gonna buy the full fat one if it costs the same.

It was the early days of the internet and I liked Metal music.

To get me some legal Metal I had to catch a train to the nearest city for like a half hour trip, then walk around to the tiny metal shop and hope they had the CD I wanted.

And I did that. I bought a CD a week from the local store and went on monthly trips to the City.

But I also got them off torrents. Sure it may take a week to download a track but that meant just leaving my PC on.

So I built up a collection. I copied the CDs I bought. I made track lists of the best songs and made my own compilation CDs and took them to work at Deep Pan Pizza, and we would put them on while throwing pizzas at the customers.

I ended up with a DJ case of copied CDs which is still on my loft. They weren't all downloaded, but copying media is Piracy, and I made CDs for my friends. Fartknocker Volumes 1 and 2 are still talked about by my old friends because they were full of Bangers.

Now I have a Spotify Family account and every few months they add a quid onto the price. The other day I put on The Global News podcast by the BBC and it had adverts in it! I pay my licence fee for the BBC, they don't do advertising. Pisses me off.

So now I use Audiobookshelf for my podcasts. Currently I'm curating a music collection I've pulled from my old iPod in my car. Not sure it's feasible to replace Spotify but I can try

Congratulations!

That Baby will want some Peppa Pig (mine are over a decade old now so yes I'm out of date) in the future so your stack will come in useful again!

My Babies want Anime now

Be more than they do now

Ok so I receive a letter with a fake stamp which I did not purchase, and I'm gonna be fined for it? How the fuck does that work?

Tell you what, I'll buy a fuck load of them for 4p each and send a bunch of mail to people I don't like to bankrupt them with fines.

Oh and the "Buy your stamps from the Post Office and you can claim they breached contract" but means I have to keep receipts for all my stamp purchases in case someone I've sent mail to gets fined?

Ah, email, where none of this matters.

Par for the course with Endo. Took my wife a good decade to get diagnosed. Then they did surgery and that made it worse, then another Dr actually did some research and found that surgery for deep rooted Endo makes it worse. But late now like.

Horrible disease that nobody gives a fuck about because it only effects women.

I just added Jellyseerr to this setup last night and it's amazing.

I say "There's no such thing as stupid questions, just stupid people"

Bet the people on the "Think Tank" aren't on minimum wage. Fucking think tanks can fuck off.

I still use the term Gammon when I'm road raging

They do, you're right. But I remember not so long ago there was a "scandal" that he was receiving money from people dying without a will in the Manchester area. That wasn't the scandalous part of it, that's just the way it is, and the money is supposed to be used for his charity. Instead it was being used to renovate his private properties that he rents for his own personal income, meaning that while he wasn't profiting directly from the deaths, he was in fact using that money to increase the value of his properties that he can then charge more in rent for, therefore profiting from it.

https://todayswillsandprobate.co.uk/the-guardian-kings-estate-allegedly-profits-from-unclaimed-inheritances/#:~:text=The%20Guardian%20has%20uncovered%20a,the%20north%2Dwest%20of%20England.

When it came out in the news, The Palace immediately made a massive charitable donation.

Just saying, while we have people pop up in every thread where people attack The Crown, there is definitely some shady shit that they do and cover up.

Another one that comes to mind was a Arab businessman giving the King a large donation with a suitcase full of cash. https://news.sky.com/story/prince-charles-accepted-carrier-bag-full-of-cash-as-a-charity-donation-from-qatar-ex-pm-claims-sunday-times-12640561

The Royals aren't the transparent and charitable people they make themselves out to be. Sure they work with charities, and even enrich them, but they also profit.

Also I haven't read those links I've posted, just done a quick Google and posted them before someone says "sauce"

I'm a lefty, so when I hear companies say "We're making a loss against our projected growth this year" (usually during pay negotiations) I think "So you made up some shit and it didn't work out, and now you're saying you're making a loss when in fact you still made a profit, just less of a profit than you imagined at the beginning of the year which is bullshit"

If Aberdeen had kept growing the way it was then the average person would have £45 000 more disposable income. Like come on it's the same bullshit arguement. It didn't keep growing the same way, and now we're trying to say it should have done? But it didn't because of insert opinions here that suit an arguement you wanted to make about austerity and other things

I don't like anything from think tanks because it's just a load of overpaid twats talking a load of old shitz then trying to convince me that they're worth their pay.

I don't like the Conservative think tanks and I don't like the lefty ones either. It's all part of the brainwashing.

Ah 10p Lee has resigned before he was sacked. Fucking cockroach.

Thanks for this, I was logged in on a lemmy.world account just to find this comment and sort Feddit out

I have an idea:

Why not try closing the intentional tax loopholes that allow massive companies to offshore profits before they're taxed on them?

The answer is because it's the same loopholes that the MPs use to offshore our taxes that they've siphoned into their own pockets.