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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Apr 27, 2020 14:22:24 GMT
I spent £800 less than I earned last month. At least the lockdown is making my bank balance healthy. That's quite impressive, although I'd have to question what on earth you're spending £800 pcm on by going to the office every day versus not going - surely not just petrol and lunch? My main saving is petrol and I am nowhere near £800 pcm up. Anything saved this end is going to pay off the dog vet bill which I still owe over two grand on  Well the train is £300 per month and the buses around £60. I tend to spend around £6 on food and drink each work day (£135 per month) and every Friday was curry night (£112 per month). I also would have at least one night out with my friends clocking in at around £80 or so. Then all the ad hoc taxis rides and the other general bullshit. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 27, 2020 14:22:56 GMT
Shenguin You are savedPotentially there is solid food (well vegan sausage rolls anyway) you can eat in this world once Greggs reopens. No longer will you have to suck nutrition purely from the dregs of oatmeal stout. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 27, 2020 14:24:38 GMT
£28 on a curry night? I take it that does not include food.
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Post by Shenguin on Apr 27, 2020 14:30:10 GMT
That's quite impressive, although I'd have to question what on earth you're spending £800 pcm on by going to the office every day versus not going - surely not just petrol and lunch? My main saving is petrol and I am nowhere near £800 pcm up. Anything saved this end is going to pay off the dog vet bill which I still owe over two grand on Well the train is £300 per month and the buses around £60. I tend to spend around £6 on food and drink each work day (£135 per month) and every Friday was curry night (£112 per month). I also would have at least one night out with my friends clocking in at around £80 or so. Then all the ad hoc taxis rides and the other general bullshit. £1 on a Tesco Value cheese sandwich, and £5 on a Tesco Value small bottle of vodka? |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Apr 27, 2020 14:31:58 GMT
£28 on a curry night? I take it that does not include food. £25 per curry with 4.5 weeks per month. I eat most of it too. Mrs Fark is allowed a spoonful of rice. |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Apr 27, 2020 14:44:26 GMT
Also this is takeaway stuff delivered to the door.
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Post by sandybahookie on Apr 27, 2020 14:48:30 GMT
Passing a big milestone in my GGB (in-exile) posting career today. The big 250.
Just my luck there is a lockdown and I cant get to the pub to celebrate.
Please all have 6 or 7 drinks tonight to help me mark the occasion.
Slainte
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Post by Chumbles on Apr 27, 2020 14:49:23 GMT
I've just designed my fantasy coat of arms...  A rich, fulfilling experience |
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Post by amipal on Apr 27, 2020 14:57:05 GMT
Passing a big milestone in my GGB (in-exile) posting career today. The big 250. Just my luck there is a lockdown and I cant get to the pub to celebrate. Please all have 6 or 7 drinks tonight to help me mark the occasion. Slainte I think we're already all drinking that amount... |
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Post by Shenguin on Apr 27, 2020 15:39:19 GMT
Obviously he meant 6 or 7 extra.
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Post by Destry on Apr 27, 2020 15:41:09 GMT
Obviously he meant 6 or 7 extra. I should hope so. I'm not cutting down for anybody. |
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Post by Chumbles on Apr 27, 2020 15:53:39 GMT
I haven't enough time to do all that I want to do, but hell, I'm enjoying doing what I can ... got to get on and do stuff
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Post by mlu035rsc on Apr 27, 2020 16:12:38 GMT
Morning all! Video Jims! Disco Elysium on the Geforce Now. It transcends banana. The highest echelon of banana. Top excellence banana. Also some Animal Crossing, and Pokemones, where I got trounced by the water gym leader. Bad business. TV - Westworld, which continues to have absolutely nothing to do with cowboys anymore. Its still rather good, but going downhill. Spending - I'm saving hundreds on train tickets, flat whites and rod hull, which is a real boon. Plus I start my new job in absentia next month. Five figure salary, one of the big movers and shakers, at the Big Movers and Shakers plus size clothing Swaffham branch. Daky - I am desperate to play Disco Elysium, but my PC won't run it to the point where I am contemplating buying a new laptop (not just for that but, you know, waiting for the PS4 release is killing me). What is Geforce Now? Speak to me. |
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Post by mlu035rsc on Apr 27, 2020 16:21:44 GMT
Regarding filthy Shenguin's filthy question, this time last year when I was looking for a new job, I genuinely didn't know how much I earn. Used to make me chuckle hearing the recruiter's brain stall as they tried to process the information and come up with something appropriate to say after them asking what my current salary is. In the end I had to check a few times so it's now memorized (until it changes again if I ever get a pay rise or change job). When I left uni and started my first job in late '99 I was on 16k gross per annum. Money isn't everything, although it would be significanctly less stressful if I didn't have to worry about paying the mortgage and bills ever again. Primary life goal now is pay the mortgage off as quickly as possible so I never have to rent in a shared house / move back in with parents ever again.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Apr 27, 2020 18:20:44 GMT
My first part time job was £1.55 an hour. My first salary was about £11.5k. Of course in those days the Beano cost 2p, a pint of milk was free, and they paid you to put petrol in your car.
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Post by crankcaller on Apr 27, 2020 18:45:50 GMT
Geforce-now let's you stream some games from steam to your pc or tablet. Doesn't need high end box as rendering done server side. Free and paying levels
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Apr 27, 2020 18:48:27 GMT
My first full time job paid £10,800 a year and I was a Customer Service Representative at Aviva. I could access the Yorkshire Cricket's team account and see how much people like Matthew Hoggard were paid.
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Apr 27, 2020 18:49:18 GMT
My first part time job was £1.55 an hour. My first salary was about £11.5k. Of course in those days the Beano cost 2p, a pint of milk was free, and they paid you to put petrol in your car. I'll do you one better, My first security job I was on married mans income at £1.25 an hour, which then went up to £1.75 an hour. bearing in mind the hours were a minimum of 12 hours and up to 23 hours each shift (day/night) over an Xmas period. the wife was not happy - (or ex-wife as I call her now, at least she had fun with my bank balance)! |
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Post by Faceless on Apr 27, 2020 19:08:16 GMT
My first job paid some money. I have subsequently had other jobs that paid more money.
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Apr 27, 2020 19:19:49 GMT
Morning all! Video Jims! Disco Elysium on the Geforce Now. It transcends banana. The highest echelon of banana. Top excellence banana. Also some Animal Crossing, and Pokemones, where I got trounced by the water gym leader. Bad business. TV - Westworld, which continues to have absolutely nothing to do with cowboys anymore. Its still rather good, but going downhill. Spending - I'm saving hundreds on train tickets, flat whites and rod hull, which is a real boon. Plus I start my new job in absentia next month. Five figure salary, one of the big movers and shakers, at the Big Movers and Shakers plus size clothing Swaffham branch. Daky - I am desperate to play Disco Elysium, but my PC won't run it to the point where I am contemplating buying a new laptop (not just for that but, you know, waiting for the PS4 release is killing me). What is Geforce Now? Speak to me. I’m not sure if you can get on the paid version of it now, but basically it lets you play games you own on Steam over a video stream. For games like Disco Elysium where lag really doesn’t matter, it works spectacularly well. I’ve been using it to play various PC type games with the founders subscription which I think was about 7 pounds a month. They also have free to play games like destiny 2 on it so you could test it on your internet connection with the free tier of it. Only concern is that NVIDIA don’t have agreements with most of the devs, and some have been asking to have their games removed, but not too many yet. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Apr 27, 2020 19:19:50 GMT
Morning! I've just read all that. Ancient language chat! I did the equivalent of A Level Latin (special subject as well) but I haven't had much use for it. Then some Old Persian, a good amount of Hittite, a tiny bit of Hurrian and a smattering of Hieroglyphic Luwian which has the best and most bonkers writing system ever. Example:  I put a little arrow at the beginning of the inscription which starts with "I" as in "I, Claudius". As you can see, the hieroglyph for "I" is a little manneken pointing at himself.* The reading direction is right to left for the first line, then changes to left to right in the second line, back to right to left for the third and so on. But what's more, in every line the reading direction of the words goes up-down-up-down-up-down... Bonkers and charming. This writing system was invented when other, much more straightforward scripts had been around for a long time and was not only used for monumental inscriptions but also for letters! Pref. Mam. has Greek (but not Latin), Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic and the languages that are written in the Old South Arabian script, so we nicely complement each other. We share our two main ancient languages, Akkadian and Sumerian, and we both have a low opinion of Ugaritic (but not of the fine people who spoke it). *Edit: touching your nose like that is obviously completely unacceptable these days. |
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Post by scubar on Apr 27, 2020 19:25:18 GMT
Shogun Total War 2 is free to keep on Steam until Friday. All DLC heavily discounted too.
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Post by Destry on Apr 27, 2020 19:33:52 GMT
Tent Hen: "I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an' no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter."
Destry: "Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to Tent Hen for stating what needed to be said. I am particularly glad that these lovely children are here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed the courage little seen in this day and age. "
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Apr 27, 2020 19:51:34 GMT
Really? No wants to know how much Matthew Hoggard was paid?
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Apr 27, 2020 19:59:59 GMT
Tent Hen: "I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an' no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter." Destry: "Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to Tent Hen for stating what needed to be said. I am particularly glad that these lovely children are here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed the courage little seen in this day and age. " Translation: "In this place my mother birthed me and both my mother and father spent time educating me into the fine points of the human condition, and by Jove I am going to honour them both by residing in this fine accommodation until the good Lord calls me to him, and no sneaky backstabbing cattlerustling throat slitter is going to take this fine life I have moulded from me by foul and dastardly means, which includes using my finely crafted skinning and tanning tools for nefarious purpose -so there"! Who says speech is dead! |
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