Posts by Simon

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Are You Concerned About Inflation?

by Simon in

i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.

that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?

they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.

Simon

So inflation is really kicking in now and the money printing presses are still going "whirrrrr" at full speed.

The official figures shows a jump of 6.2% in Oct, the highest for 30 years. The real rates, without the manipulation where they don't count food, heating, housing, transport or, well, it's probably only including flat-screen TVs now 'cause they always get cheaper ... it's easily 15%

The bottom line is that our money is losing its purchasing power at an alarming and increasing rate and wages are not going up in sync. There are going to be some very hurt people when they finally wake up to it, probably too late. If you are at or near retirement, they just stole half of what you had. If you are saving for retirement, better hope you can outperform Warren Buffet over a 20-30 year stretch. God knows how young people are supposed to buy a house with the prices going up like they are (the only saving grace is that the artificially low interest rates means the debt will be devalued).

On top of it all, any money you do have is going to be taxed more as well, just to rub salt into the wounds.

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What do you do before making a very hard decision?

by Iamallcool in

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friends

any takers?.

Simon

Define "hard"? Difficult to decide, or hard consequences to undo?

Usually think of all the pros and cons, weight them, try to put a number to things so you are not letting less significant issues cloud the decision.

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Anyone have this happen?

by mickbobcat in

my wife and i went to a restaurant we go to a few times a year.

we waited for a bit but not horrible to get our drinks and food.

the place was busy but not people waiting in line for a mile to get in busy.

Simon

I'm always amazed when servers mess up when it comes to settling the bill, leaving you sat at the table waiting way too long, especially if the service has been good apart from that. It's the last bit of the experience before you pay and tip.

We went to Earls recently and you could pay for your meal via the unique table QR code and online app, it was WAY better (but still had a personal touch as the server came over and thanked us after we had). The future is probably going to be ordering via those as well, and someone will just bring the food to your table (eventually a robot, because of staffing issues).

I've only ever walked out after we'd waited an hour and 45 minutes, with young hungry children, and the "you're order is just being finished" we'd been told for the last 45 minutes changed to "they will be starting your order real soon"

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Who did CHRIST claim he was?

by Revealed in

his heavenly father freely made his identity known!.

Simon

You have inspired me!

Fuck off spammer

These bible-spewing types are all the same - their "reasoning" is that they simply need to repeat random bible verses enough time, as though they have some deep meaning.

It's simply gibberish - the religious equivalent of shouting "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" and thinking something will happen.

The number of gibberish posts you make suggest some kind of mental illness, more than the usual "I believe in the invisible man in the sky" level of stupid.

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Who did CHRIST claim he was?

by Revealed in

his heavenly father freely made his identity known!.

Simon

If you're just going to vomit scriptures, you can fuck off

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Fawlty Towers (1975) & (1979) - still laugh-out-loud funny after all these years

by LoveUniHateExams in

so, i went and bought series one and series two on second hand dvd for one pound each.. i first saw series one of fawlty towers when i was about 11, then i saw series two a year later.. it's a little dated now, but that doesn't really matter because it's still making people laugh.

that's all comedy is.. there is one episode - the kipper and the corpse - which i think is a bit rough around the edges, it's not as polished as some of the other episodes.

but it still has some great lines in it, e.g.. the two old ladies: you're in a good mood today, mr fawlty.. basil: yes, well one of the guests has just died.

Simon

Nothing wrong with a bit of Farty Owls

As long as there are no Flowery Twats

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Screen time or Green time..

by zachias in

"girls who spent less than an hour on screens and boys who spent less than 90 minutes on screens were not negatively impacted by it.

but at higher amounts of screen time, their life satisfaction dropped significantly—they were less happy with their lives, and it got worse the more time they spent.

if screen time went above 105 minutes per day for boys or 75 minutes per day for girls, their mental health also got worse.".

Simon

Wait till everyone is plugged into Zuckerbot's "Meta"

I pity future generation.

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Fawlty Towers (1975) & (1979) - still laugh-out-loud funny after all these years

by LoveUniHateExams in

so, i went and bought series one and series two on second hand dvd for one pound each.. i first saw series one of fawlty towers when i was about 11, then i saw series two a year later.. it's a little dated now, but that doesn't really matter because it's still making people laugh.

that's all comedy is.. there is one episode - the kipper and the corpse - which i think is a bit rough around the edges, it's not as polished as some of the other episodes.

but it still has some great lines in it, e.g.. the two old ladies: you're in a good mood today, mr fawlty.. basil: yes, well one of the guests has just died.

Simon

We watched the set a year or two ago, it was really good. Such great characters.

I never realized how big a gap there was between the two series.

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US Government Insurrection Attempt

by Simon in

so now we know the russian dossier was a fraud, the whole "russian collusion" was a hoax, and we know it was funded by the clintons and promoted by the dem's media allies.. given that this was the basis for an actual attempt to remove the elected president of the united states, this was an attempted insurrection.. clinton is guilty and should face charges.. given that they did this, does anyone still believe that they wouldn't commit some lesser, election fraud, crimes?.

if so, you still haven't learned anything.

"fool me once" and all that ....

Simon

Weaponizing the impeachment process by the Democrats to me remains one of the most shameful things I have seen in my country's history of politics because it poisons our standards of democracy and fair play by abusing a sacred constitutional privilege.

The Clintons have been an absolute cancer to America. The host needs some political radiation treatment.

Also, all the people who cheered this on fell for THE biggest conspiracy theory of the decade. A complete invention. Clearly bogus. But the suckers fell for it hard.

Will they learn? Nope - they're already being too suckered again.

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US Government Insurrection Attempt

by Simon in

so now we know the russian dossier was a fraud, the whole "russian collusion" was a hoax, and we know it was funded by the clintons and promoted by the dem's media allies.. given that this was the basis for an actual attempt to remove the elected president of the united states, this was an attempted insurrection.. clinton is guilty and should face charges.. given that they did this, does anyone still believe that they wouldn't commit some lesser, election fraud, crimes?.

if so, you still haven't learned anything.

"fool me once" and all that ....

Simon

So now we know the Russian dossier was a fraud, the whole "Russian Collusion" was a hoax, and we know it was funded by the Clintons and promoted by the dem's media allies.

Given that this was the basis for an actual attempt to remove the elected president of the United States, this was an attempted insurrection.

Clinton is guilty and should face charges.

Given that they did this, does anyone still believe that they wouldn't commit some lesser, election fraud, crimes?

If so, you still haven't learned anything. "Fool me once" and all that ...