>>448636

I'm not, and even if I was, I have to pay tax on "unrealised" gains over my 20-whatever grand ISA limit, an amount he makes in literally seconds. I'm incalculably poorer than him, yet pay 45% more tax.

>>448638
The ISA limit is what you can pay in per tax year, not the overall amount you can hold in them. If you're getting to get into this sort of discussion it helps if you know the absolute basics.

>>448639

What part of my post made you think I had got this wrong? Tax is also paid yearly, you know.

>>448641

He is saying that you can contribute at most £20k a year and you pay no tax on any gains from that money (whether it is realised or unrealised). If you put £20k into your S&S ISA right now, it went to a million and you sold, you'd pay no tax.

>>448637

>They're not really "unrealised" if he's turning them into money.

Yes, they are not unrealised if he is realising them. However, they are unrealised and you are including them.

>>448655
>Yes, they are not unrealised if he is realising them. However, they are unrealised and you are including them.
Like I said, they're included because, as pointed out, he is, in fact, converting those gains into money. You can argue until the cows come home about whether that amounts to technically realising them, but the simple fact of the matter is that he has gains and is generating cash off the back of them.

OP here again. There were 11 mozzarella sticks in my supposed pack of 12 today. Aldi always seems to fuck me over now and then.

>>444870
The grape rule is silly because if the kid's taken out by a grape it's called "natural selection". However, refined sugar is basically complete dogshit-poison and you should do everything possible to avoid it and especially avoid giving it to kids.

Though I'd like to know how, besides pinching some, they're figuring out which homemade snacks have too much sugar. I think they're just pinching some though, aren't they?

>>445106
This makes me think you're the only man in the country buying these things.

>>445107
Gotta have something like mozzarella sticks or garlic bread with your pasta.

Today's pack of mozzarella sticks contained 13. Let the good times roll.

McDonald's missed a large fries off, so they re-did the entire order plus the fries they missed first time round. I am stuffed.

>>70168

Looks more like a "Broken Ireland" thing to me.

>>70168
These incidents are just as often false fleg operations as they are actual mongs. I just can't bring myself to care unless they actually catch the bastards who done it.

>>70168
Take a can of your own and fix it up.

>>70174
That's not a bad idea, really.

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Captain Sir Tom Moore

>>70169
Yeah, but we broke Ireland 100 years ago already.

>>70150

They could sleep in the box?

>>70151
By the way, the only way to get a PO box for that little is to pay by direct debit.

>>70151
How would they get a signal?

>>70142
>"YOU KNOW WHAT? I WOULD SORT MY LIFE OUT, GET OFF THE DRUGS AND A ROOF OVER MY HEAD BUT I'D RATHER BE A SMACKHEAD ON THE STREETS THAN BE A SLAVE TO SOME BOUGIE CAPITALIST PIG DOG."

I know this is /IQ/, but that's not what I said. I'm saying for some people there's genuinely more quality of life to living rough in a way they know than going through the pain of acclimatising to a normal life, and especially when "normal life" offers so few rewards to someone coming from that background.

>>70156
They'll be reet once they realise blanket blank is back on the telly.

>>25381
Prey?! Awesome.

>>25382
There's more than one game called Prey and I don't think they're connected at all. But I hope you get the Native American FPS from about 15 years ago, because that was amazing.

Today Epic is giving out the entire Tomb Raider reboot trilogy.
Not just the base games either, the definitive complete version of each.

>>25383

Nah, it was the modern one that became really boring once you figured out that the whole gimmick was just Charlie Brooker's What If Your Brain But Computer?: The Game.

>>25358
"Call of Juarez: Gunslinger" was super fun, but it joins "WH40K: Spcemarine" in the list of games which are really badly supported on modern hardware so it's a crapshoot if it'll work on your machine.

>>42517
>>42519
We're all rooting for you. Try not to push yourself to do everything at once, one step a day is often enough.

Just remember that women are a huge pain in the arse.

>>42520
Merry belated to you too, Pegginglad.

>>42516

>>42522
I'm still mystified as to which one is which.

>>42523
The dark-haired one is the streamer, I think, since she appears in the video if you click the OP link.

>>448570
I'm all for energy efficiency, obviously, I'd like to see their workings though. There are millions of examples of waste on the internet, I just don't believe turning off HD video is relevant or useful.

I mean compare that, to how much data is transferred/wasted every time Call of Duty ships some 90Gb update.

>>448570
If the info being communicated is really classified enough that you have to check you're not talking to a deepfake, I'm sure there are ways to check. Do a 360 turn on camera, wave your hands in front of your face, I dunno.

>>448572

I was going to say they're probably not talking about classified stuff over zoom, but then I remembered it's the government.

>>448574

The gubment don't run Zoom

>>448632

I know?

Fakkin quality

Scousers really are the worst

Literally the worst accent in the whole of the UK.

>>28069
No, they use liquid fuel.

>>28071
He means to plug his phone in.

There is absolutely no reason to not use your phone and cheap Bluetooth earbuds.

>>28070

This is pretty much the sort of thing I'm looking for. What kind of battery life does it have?

>>28073

I've given several already in the thread, but if you want to add the 7 gazillion remotely exploitable bugs in the Android bluetooth stack to the list....

Very definite sage for infosec autism.

>>28066>>28065
Thanks, I'll check those out.

>>28068
Agreed, I suppose I thought .gs was full of boomers like me who wouldn't care for using their phones. Which I can do, but like you said the bulkiness and battery life really aren't ideal. I liked MP3 players because they were tiny, lasted a long time and did a single thing very well. There was no real reason for that tech to change.

>>28070
I'll take a look - it's not really snobbishness that's motivating my choices, I'm just wary of getting a dud. The quality of Chinese tech has undoubtedly improved in the last decade anyway. So I might give it a bash and report back.

>>28074
Stop pretending to be me, ladchapm7.

>>23807
Very fair. It's not quite got the same ring to it as 'quick game of chess?'

>>23814

One of the big problems for the game of Go in the west is that it's basically ungoogleable.

>>23821

Been playing Kingdomino, which is quite fun if you want a quick game that lasts about 10/15 minutes.

What's a decent board game for young teenage children?

I'm buying someone one of the Quacks of Quedlinburg expansions as a present, which will be about £15 when most gaming sites have a minimum of £20 for free delivery, so I might as well look to buy an extra game now for my daughter's birthday in June rather than paying about a fiver for postage but I'm not sure what to go for.

>>70018

Jesus wept.

Vorderman's baubles.

>>70096
She so needs a boyfriend.

>>70097
I'm sure that could be arranged.

>>70097

She has a fuckbuddy half her age apparently.

>>70084

People play enough silly buggers with their children's names with or without urban legends.

I've remembered another one from working at Hull City Council. One of the workers told me that he'd gone to a job at one of the children's homes and came face to face with one of Jamie bugler's killers. Wonder if that one was bollocks too.

>>70099
Almost definitely yes. They are so hated by society that they live under assumed identities now. It is illegal to report on their new names or anything. One of them does keep getting arrested for shoplifting and things, but the other one seems to have reintegrated into society successfully. Whichever one your buddy met, I can't see how he would have known unless the guy told him, and if someone told me they killed Jamie Bulger, I would not necessarily believe them.

>>70104
I'm sure one of them got nicked for child porn a few years back.

>>70107

>https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/mar/07/jon-venables-alleged-child-porn-offences

Except they beat around the bush a fair bit in the article and say he became "mentally fragile".

>>70100
She doesn't look angry.

>>70101
How could you get angry at a baby like that?

>>70102
I think I'd get pretty miffed by a strange baby draining my boobs.

Does this mean that Milky Ways taste like tit-milk?

>>70105
Depends whether you get British or American milky ways.

I would say that a milky way is probably the chocolate bar that tastes most like breast milk.

>>7147
I'm still punishing myself by trying to finish the Keys to the Kingdom series. Currently in the middle of having stopped reading Sir Thursday about six months ago.

>>7148
He's read the first four Old Kingdom books this week so far, plus a fair chunk of the Nome trilogy. I picked up Mister Monday in a second-hand bookshop a few years back and now he's suddenly into Garth Nix again he's asking for all of the Keys to the Kingdom books.

He's not reading as much as he used to but he's just finished the Mistborn trilogy, which he's rated 7/10.

>>7349
It's a good intro to Mr Sanderson's writing style and 7/10 hits the nail on its head. Mr Sanderson is consistent and prolific if nothing else and has written other books in the same style or even the same universe. Maybe stay clear of the Wax & Wayne books, they depart from fantasy and instead move into something between noir and slapstick in a Mistborn Spaghetti Western trope style.

May I recommend Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy? I enjoyed both author's work immensly, yet Robin Hobb's style is more focussed on how characters interact, while Sanderson is more about how the world works. Maybe supply Assassins Apprentice and see.

Either way, good job on you and your lad, good stories deserve to be told.

Quick festive laddo update.

>>7147
>Laddo didn't wake up until about 3:15 this afternoon. Bought him a few Garth Nix books to keep him going and evidently he decided to read a couple of them last night/into the early hours of the morning.

He got Terciel and Elinor by Nix for Christmas. He didn't wake up until early afternoon today because he was up until the small hours reading the entire thing.

>>447970
Alright, lad, no need to kinkshame.

Every time I see this thread I think the OP image is am angry bird attacking the camera, feet first.

>>447969

What, Japanese people?

>>448568

YES EXACTLY

>>5995

Fair enough. There are many ways to skin a cat, and calisthenics will certainly get you on your way. You might also consider buying some basic home equipment to get a feel for many of the exercises... if that's even possible, anymore. A great way to progress to a pullup is to buy a doorframe IronGym bar or one of the equally serviceable knockoffs, and combine it with a resistance band tied around the middle to keep your feet in. A strong band can take away a good amount of your bodyweight, 20kg or so, making the exercise easier.

Most gym exercises are similarly scaleable, and while it is a bit shit to have to start out with the empty barbell, everyone starts somewhere. It's can also be quite surprising how strength from bodyweight exercises doesn't necessarily carry over as well as you'd think. It's funny how many 100kg+ bench pressers get gassed out doing a set of 20 pushups.

But yeah, there's no harm in committing to a good bodyweight exercise programme until you're feeling a somewhat fitter and the gyms clear out a bit in March-April. The best way to get good at gym stuff, though, is to go to the gym. Finding one you like that's convenient to attend is half the battle.

>>5998
>Finding one you like that's convenient to attend is half the battle.

I think this is the absolute key point when choosing a gym - it needs to be near your home, or in the old days, your work - ideally a place you pass-by every day. If it's difficult to get to, or in a weird place, you're just going to waste your money.

>>5995
>I see it as a bit of a waste to have a gym membership when I can get the same impact from home workouts

I would say fair enough, were it true in all practicality.

>>5982

So I started this year obese with all the gyms shut, am now in the best shape of my life- started calisthenics in March and then got into the gym when it reopened. My advice is that calisthenics can be really good, but you need to know exactly what you're doing for it to be worthwhile, so I would recommend a PT, that's what I did. Not cheap of course but very worth it to set your foundation in the first few months. If you're starting from fatmode it can be quite difficult to push yourself hard enough to make progress with calisthenics.

Also, it is not a substitute for lifting weights. Calisthenics are very useful and still a core part of my routine for some things but they cannot do for your body what big fuckoff heavy metal can.

>>6001
I probably missed the most useful thing I wanted to say whoops.

Get a TRX/suspension trainer and some resistance bands, these are the key to progression. For stuff like press-ups, pull-ups etc, it's about starting with support (eg a band under your feet, starting at a more forgiving angle than the floor for pressups) and gradually removing that support as you get stronger. For example I started with pressups at around a 80 degree angle against a wall or but of furniture and now do them on the floor.

>>5976
> Anyway.

I agree with you and am much of the same person. I'm gonna die from something, I'm pretty healthy in most other ways, and like you said, I fucking ENJOY nictoine. An early morning fag, with a strong coffee, the whores breakfast, is one of the best things in the world.

>>5975

Maybe my mouth or brain is broken, but I've never habitually smoked cigarettes, yet I smoke cigars relatively often but also infrequently, and I enjoy the taste very much.

>>5975
I had 2 more cigars and they weren't bad. I have 2 left and and I'm starting to regret this whole thing as the monster in my head comes out.

Still, I'm far too tight to ever start up again. I know how much I save now and how much better my life is with that £200-odd a month in my pocket. If I don't then Purps can find me and you can all come kick the shit out of me.

>>5976
Its great that you can hop in and out but I used to tell myself stuff like this and you know it's bollocks. Learn new coping mechanisms like wanking or drawing.

>>5978
You hear of people getting lung cancer having never smoked at all though - that must be fucking heartbreaking.

i quit years ago using nicotine gum, i just chewed it all day long for about a month until all the nicotine was out my system and the cravings were gone, it was pretty easy

>>14875

They seem to have leaned a bit too non-traditional for my liking, nachos seem like a red flag, but I will certainly have a go - if the setup is that you order, then park in a bay and wait for your order to be cooked on demand then they are onto something. If they're trying to McDonald's it they can get fucked.

>>14877
I don't trust chippies that sell non-tradtional and/or non-seafood stuff. I like the fancier chippies that sell shell fish, and a battered sausage is a staple; but the ones that do nachos or kebabs or pizzas or curry, never good.

>>14878
Right with you. The only encouraging thing on that menu is they charge 25p more for mushy peas than gravy/curry sauce; I'm expecting something good there.

The Empire in Outwood has had a drive through for years.

>>14881

And it's been shut for "refurbishment" for at least the last four.

>>28053
What about the parts? I've been planning to build my own PC out of fancy new pieces for several years now; my current one is 11 1/2 years old but it runs just fine. If this is a time when I can be confident I'll be at home to receive a fat new case and motherboard and other bits that won't fit through the letterbox, perhaps I might finally take the plunge.

>>28055
Everything I've heard about PC parts at the moment is that crypto and chip shortages have rendered a lot of things way more expensive than they should be.

>>28055>>28056
A lot of PC parts are cheap at the moment - I bought one of my kids an i5 processor for hardly any money compared to the RRP. But graphics cards are absolutely fucking mental. You'll pay 400 quid for a card that would have cost 100 pounds a year back - I don't know what to do about that other than wait. 3090 cards are over two grand now, which is just a mental amount of money to pay.

>>28057
That's wonderful; that's exactly what I wanted to hear. Thank you very much. Now I just need to wait till Monday for those parts to drop even further in price, and soon I'll be tearing around with my brand new 64GB RAM, 12-core CPU, and 3dfx Voodoo 2 graphics card.

>>28058
>Voodoo
Those fuckers are expensive nowadays m8

>>448491
Step to the rythm made out of brown paper. Brown paper wrapping is the best rapping.

>>448493
Yes, absolutely. Love you.

>>448497
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

>>448497
>>448498

Is this going to turn into a cyber threeway, because I've got quite the stonk on today and the missus is off visiting her mum and dad.

Not that she would want to fuck anyway, ungrateful cow. I got her a warmie shaped like a frog, and she's probably not even going to suck my knob to say thanks.

I can already tell I'm going to have a row tomorrow. But you lads will still love me. Right?

>>448508
Don't worry, we'll both be here waiting for you.