Posts by Simon

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How is the 'Cost of Living Crisis' affecting you?

by nicolaou in

here in the uk we've recently had the price cap on household energy bills raised by around £800 and there'll be another similar raise this autumn.. food prices are up, petrol is around £1.82 per litre - that's $10.37 per gallon for our american friends - and inflation is currently running at 9%.

business are being hit as ordinary folk prioritise their spending.

young folks are effectively priced out of the housing market and wage rises are not keeping pace.. mrs nic' and i are fortunate in that we're both in secure employment and with the kids moved out and mortgage paid off our outgoings are thankfully low.

Simon

Personally, we're OK - everyone in the house is working, mostly remotely from home, so costs are down. We renewed our mortgage a couple of years ago at 1.7% and should be able to pay it off before it renews again. We also switched to fixed-price energy plans and now it's summer we won't use much gas for heating. That's the insidious part of all this - a lot of the costs now are carbon taxes and then sales-taxes on top of that (so your bill still goes up even if you use less and the prices don't rise). This is to supposedly dissuade use, but that isn't an option when it's -30 degrees ... and some people will be making the choice of whether they keep warm or they eat.

We try to support local restaurants and stores as much as we can. But the fabric of society is definitely being impacted by this. You can feel it.

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How is the 'Cost of Living Crisis' affecting you?

by nicolaou in

here in the uk we've recently had the price cap on household energy bills raised by around £800 and there'll be another similar raise this autumn.. food prices are up, petrol is around £1.82 per litre - that's $10.37 per gallon for our american friends - and inflation is currently running at 9%.

business are being hit as ordinary folk prioritise their spending.

young folks are effectively priced out of the housing market and wage rises are not keeping pace.. mrs nic' and i are fortunate in that we're both in secure employment and with the kids moved out and mortgage paid off our outgoings are thankfully low.

Simon

Why would you say price control is the worst response?

Probably because of many democratic-controlled cities response to property prices where they impose rent price control, effectively ensuring that private landlords squeeze the pips out of renters and the housing stock declines in quality as no one can afford to invest in upgrades.

Politicians love to give other people's money away in exchange for votes, and these cities become cess-pits as a result.

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How is the 'Cost of Living Crisis' affecting you?

by nicolaou in

here in the uk we've recently had the price cap on household energy bills raised by around £800 and there'll be another similar raise this autumn.. food prices are up, petrol is around £1.82 per litre - that's $10.37 per gallon for our american friends - and inflation is currently running at 9%.

business are being hit as ordinary folk prioritise their spending.

young folks are effectively priced out of the housing market and wage rises are not keeping pace.. mrs nic' and i are fortunate in that we're both in secure employment and with the kids moved out and mortgage paid off our outgoings are thankfully low.

Simon

Yeah, prices are up everywhere here by significant amounts.

Housing is now utterly unaffordable to many, not just young people starting out.

Food is expensive, with either prices going up, sizes getting smaller, or both.

Fuel costs are high most places. Alberta removed the provincial tax so it's relatively low here compared to other parts of the country but if you drive for work it's still going to bite. Fuel costs feed into everything else and so everything you need will cost more.

The rise in input costs haven't yet fed through the system so there will be more rises to come and of course our glorious overlords have managed to cripple food production where 40% (?) of the worlds wheat is produced ... which impacts more food types than you first imagine.

There's a good chance that some people will actually starve to death at some point. Many others will be crippled financially and long-term will have reduced lifespans as a result.

Is this it? The great reset? Building back better?

It looks like utterly fucktarded shit to me typical of incompetent and clueless grifters. This is what people think is worth it to avoid "mean tweets"?

The elites are gobbling up ever more share of the worlds wealth from all this and politicians have their faces in the trough to enable it all.

When everything is all over there should be some people strung up from lamp-posts for what they have done.

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Interview with an apostate: Judgerussellford

by Judgerussellford in

great grandma studies out of the children book.

are your parents / family jws?.

my grandma, her son and some cousins and aunts/uncles on that side yes.

Simon

I think it works better if you post your own as a separate topic

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Interview with an apostate: Judgerussellford

by Judgerussellford in

great grandma studies out of the children book.

are your parents / family jws?.

my grandma, her son and some cousins and aunts/uncles on that side yes.

Simon

Thanks for sharing - I love reading these!

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Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

by Simon in

so the marvel multiverse ... it's a bit of a mess.. there is another multi-verse move though that's worth checking out.

michelle yeoh is brilliant and kind of half plays herself (you'll understand when you see it) and so is key huy quan who is the now grown-up actor who played the little chinese kid in the indiana jones movies.. it's funny, it's moving, i've seen it twice and, well, i still can't really describe what it's about or fully understand it.. the description used while it was in production was that it's "the story of a woman struggling to do her taxes".

which is technically accurate, i guess.

Simon

So the Marvel Multiverse ... it's a bit of a mess.

There is another multi-verse move though that's worth checking out. Michelle Yeoh is brilliant and kind of half plays herself (you'll understand when you see it) and so is Key Huy Quan who is the now grown-up actor who played the little Chinese kid in the Indiana Jones movies.

It's funny, it's moving, I've seen it twice and, well, I still can't really describe what it's about or fully understand it.

The description used while it was in production was that it's "the story of a woman struggling to do her taxes". Which is technically accurate, I guess. Then other things happen.

There are a couple of funny fight scenes. Offensive, but laugh-out-loud "holy cow, what the hell am I watching?!" funny. One is like "no, NO, they are not going to ... oh god, OH GOD they did, they went there!" ... then you think it can't get any worse and it immediately does. Thank god for strategic pixelation.

It has bits that feel like the Matrix and some other movies mixed in but it really is unique. It really is an experience, let's put it that way.

Anyone else seen it? What did you think?

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Interview with an Apostate: Template

by Simon in

here's the template of questions to use ready to copy / paste and complete.

feel free to add suggestions for additional questions and to nominate people you'd like to read about (but not no one is obliged to do one).

also, add your own story too!.

Simon

Wow, time goes past - it's 8+ years since I came up with this ...

I thought it may be interesting to "resurrect" (JW term, boom tich) for any new people who haven't seem them.

The idea is that it helps people know a bit more about other members, and it helps people who are considering leaving see that we are human and just like them.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

I'm very grateful for this forum ,cause now we have at least 3 videos that he deleted

Make sue you don't confuse something being removed from a listing with being removed. If the video is still on his YouTube channel then he can ultimately remove it completely.

To have a secure copy for reference, you need to download it from YouTube so your copy is out of his control.

It's OK, I heard from good authority that there is no such thing as copyright ...

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

He's said in a few of his videos and his book that he was like a wannabe elder when he was a kid, like the class policeman - even the other JW kids didn't like him because he'd tell on them to the elders.

So basically, he was annoying little cunt even as a kid and liked to use whatever power he ever had in a retaliatory manner.

Then he grew up and didn't change.

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Thanks for this site!

by Foolednomore in

jw
friends

thanks for this site and six screens of watchtower.

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Simon

Ha ha, I appreciate the sentiment though :)

I'm glad you find the site useful, but it's only what it is because of the community of contributors.