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Post by MrTiddles on Aug 24, 2022 13:06:36 GMT
Total Briecall What are we doing?  |
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Post by Sheep2 on Aug 24, 2022 13:14:53 GMT
Yes, Baby's joke was crassly offensive, and not one I would have made. I had hoped my response was disapproving without being sanctimonious. I think I may have misjudged the tone. Boba Feta Raclette the Right One In The Fifth Emmental I thought you made it worse.... Baby's joke was reasonably funny if not that tasteful. You successfully drained any trace of humour. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Aug 24, 2022 13:20:25 GMT
Pension
Just received my annual statement from my previous job(for a second time!) Woohoo
Down 15% in the year.
With 10% inflation I make that effectively a 25% fall in the year.
I never wanted to retire anyway.
It is invested 50% in a managed ethical fund and 50% in an ethical tracker
(No cancer sticks, ammo or big oil)
It's obviously been a bad year for ethics.
I knew I should have invested everything in Phillip Morris, Exxon & Raytheon
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Post by Tuffers on Aug 24, 2022 13:26:11 GMT
Track the investment returns on THIS.
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Post by Shenguin on Aug 24, 2022 13:36:47 GMT
I'm not sure that's FCA regulated.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Aug 24, 2022 13:37:06 GMT
PensionJust received my annual statement from my previous job(for a second time!) Woohoo Down 15% in the year. With 10% inflation I make that effectively a 25% fall in the year. I never wanted to retire anyway. It is invested 50% in a managed ethical fund and 50% in an ethical tracker (No cancer sticks, ammo or big oil) It's obviously been a bad year for ethics. I knew I should have invested everything in Phillip Morris, Exxon & Raytheon My fund fell by about 13% between December 2021 and May 2022. It is creeping back up now. The important thing is to keep buying those cheap units, in some respects this is the best thing you could do with your money along with overpaying your mortgage. I nearly worked for Raytheon too, but got offered more money elsewhere. |
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Post by lazybones on Aug 24, 2022 13:52:34 GMT
What if your ethics underpin a pro-smoking and pro-oil outlook?
hullo
I feel terrible today. I feel like I'm being squeezed by an invisible anaconda ...
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Post by crankcaller on Aug 24, 2022 14:03:08 GMT
That anaconda don't want none Hun.
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Post by amipal on Aug 24, 2022 14:13:28 GMT
Hello all.
I’m on childcare duties today. So this morning, the boy and I went for a drive to Cuckmere Haven. He rode his bike all the way down to the coast, and after a brief stop on the beach for refreshments, all the way back to the car park.
Me? I didn’t have a bike, so ran along behind him. Christ he’s quick. And I’m a hot mess.
Had some lunch when we got home, then spent quite a bit of time building Lego dinosaurs.
He’s now playing Untitled Goose Game.
TVblog: the series finale of Only Murders in the Building (second series). It was good. 4*
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Post by Chumbles on Aug 24, 2022 14:24:28 GMT
It's astonishing how little money you end up with - I got conned by an ex-friend who sold me a policy and helpfully transferred all my various pension pots into the new one without telling me that not only was the company - Gan Portfolio - getting 33% of my contributions BEFORE profits and AFTER tax... but that of all those pension pots, 10% went to Gan and 40% went straight into my tax advisor friend's back pocket. So of the 10%, say £1,000, I was putting away for a well-earned retirement, the Govt was taking £500, and Gan $166 leaving my date raped pot with $334.
I was gullible enough to trust someone I'd known and liked for 10 years. No wonder he was smoking cigars while I smoked roll-ups! The cunt.
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Post by lazybones on Aug 24, 2022 14:28:35 GMT
Hello all. I’m on childcare duties today. So this morning, the boy and I went for a drive to Cuckmere Haven. He rode his bike all the way down to the coast, and after a brief stop on the beach for refreshments, all the way back to the car park. Me? I didn’t have a bike, so ran along behind him. Christ he’s quick. And I’m a hot mess. Had some lunch when we got home, then spent quite a bit of time building Lego dinosaurs. He’s now playing Untitled Goose Game. TVblog: the series finale of Only Murders in the Building (second series). It was good. 4* PC Liberal Cuckmere Haven. Do people even talk about things being PC any more? Or has it been replaced by 'woke'? What about Cultural Marxism? I'd ask this in The Guardian, but it's now banned in my house. They say 'Facts are sacred'. So why are their articles all Culturally Marxist lefty BS? |
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Post by Sheep2 on Aug 24, 2022 14:36:57 GMT
Do people even talk about things being PC any more? Nah mate it's all handhelds and tablets these days. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Aug 24, 2022 14:39:19 GMT
I am choring and liking; do I like too much? Soon-ish I will be eating; I will be trying kvarg in a couple of days... It's amazing to see that after all these years quark (to Hel with the Swedish spelling), one of the cheapest German food staples, is finally available in the UK and consumers are willing to pay through the nose for it. They (people who do such things, you know, them) could have imported European products and stocked British supermarkets with any sweet and savoury variety under the sun* decades ago. Instead they waited for the subsidiary of a multinational food conglomerate** to sell the stuff at a premium price. Smh Here's the obligatory Kanepedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(dairy_product)*refrigerate quark and do not leave under the sun **I was once on an archaeological excursion of Switzerland when I looked out of the car window and realised that we were driving past the Nestlé headquarters in Vevey. They are kinda hard to miss |
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Post by lazybones on Aug 24, 2022 14:42:39 GMT
You used to be able to buy Quark back in ... 1998? I'm pretty sure you could buy it in Tesco's. I did buy some once and tried to make a mushroom stroganoff with it, but it curdled.
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Post by crankcaller on Aug 24, 2022 14:44:13 GMT
lazybones are you off to carnival this weekend? Oh, while I remember! Fuck your English long weekend bank holidays. Glad I got that off my chest. x
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Post by scubar on Aug 24, 2022 14:44:33 GMT
Apparently Vol 3 of The Sandman is coming to Audible soon.
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Post by scubar on Aug 24, 2022 14:44:57 GMT
lazybones are you off to carnival this weekend? Oh, while I remember! Fuck your English long weekend bank holidays. Glad I got that off my chest. x Haven’t you already had yours? |
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Post by tenthenemy on Aug 24, 2022 14:48:46 GMT
And yes, in Germany there's a Käseverordnung (cheese regulation) whilst in the UK not even the turds in various British bodies of water are regulated.
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Post by Tuffers on Aug 24, 2022 14:51:20 GMT
darkquark - Last online Nov 21st 2017.
RIP in peace.
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Post by scubar on Aug 24, 2022 14:52:59 GMT
darkquark - Last online Nov 21st 2017. RIP in peace. *pieces FTFY |
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Post by tenthenemy on Aug 24, 2022 14:57:37 GMT
You used to be able to buy Quark back in ... 1998? I'm pretty sure you could buy it in Tesco's. I did buy some once and tried to make a mushroom stroganoff with it, but it curdled. Yeah, I've seen supermarkets selling their own brand of what I would call Magerquark (i.e. the one with the lowest fat content), but your anecdote shows that British consumers had no idea how to use it. It would have been better (as now demonstrated by Nestlé) to produce or import the flavoured versions that one can eat/spread on toast straight from the tub instead of treating it as a mere cooking ingredient (it's very good for a lot of things, making stroganoff isn't one of them). |
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Post by lazybones on Aug 24, 2022 14:58:47 GMT
lazybones are you off to carnival this weekend? Oh, while I remember! Fuck your English long weekend bank holidays. Glad I got that off my chest. x hallo It looks as if we might be at the carnival - to some extent. We live kind of in the middle of it. If you don't leave for the weekend then you can't really get out. I was hoping for another week in Amshterdam but it's not looking likely. |
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Post by lazybones on Aug 24, 2022 15:01:11 GMT
You used to be able to buy Quark back in ... 1998? I'm pretty sure you could buy it in Tesco's. I did buy some once and tried to make a mushroom stroganoff with it, but it curdled. Yeah, I've seen supermarkets selling their own brand of what I would call Magerquark (i.e. the one with the lowest fat content), but your anecdote shows that British consumers had no idea how to use it. It would have been better (as now demonstrated by Nestlé) to produce or import the flavoured versions that one can eat/spread on toast straight from the tub instead of treating it as a mere cooking ingredient (it's very good for a lot of things, making stroganoff isn't one of them). I think the packaging said it was an ideal substitute for yoghurt or cream. They stitched me up like a kipper. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Aug 24, 2022 15:02:38 GMT
darkquark - Last online Nov 21st 2017. RIP in peace. I even made him a profile picture at the time, but I think he got shy when I said "I trust you are fat free?"  |
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Post by tenthenemy on Aug 24, 2022 15:08:15 GMT
Maybe he took offence to the suggestion he was vanilla.
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