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Post by askew on Apr 19, 2024 9:15:36 GMT
Not sure if employer or HMRC incompetence. Left my last job in May, and started new in December. I supplied my P45, but they thought I was working two jobs. I ended up on a BR tax code. It’s recently been updated, and only now do they think I finished working for the last company - and from 6th April 2024 I’ve got a K tax code?!
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Post by dangerousdave on Apr 19, 2024 12:41:25 GMT
I have had that issue with every job I have ever had. Every single time I have to call through and have it fixed. And then call back and ask for an explanation of the corrected tax code and in a few cases have that changed too.
And using the website is a joke, because it cannot comprehend the idea that something is wrong.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Apr 19, 2024 13:59:24 GMT
Just had a Toffee Crisp for the first time in years.
What an absolute shambles.
Wtf have they done them? There’s about 10 rice crispies in the entire bar. It’s just soft mush. How can that have been the most expensive ingredient that needed reducing?
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hicksy
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Post by hicksy on Apr 20, 2024 5:10:18 GMT
Taylor Swift's new 4 version edition release on Vinyl (each vinyl has a different bonus track)... £44 a vinyl in HMV = £180ish to collect the full set... MENTAL commercialism! Same deal for cd 4 editions.
I'm glad Billie Eilish (though I'm not a fan) called out this BS approach and the environmental impact too.
I've little interest in her dull recent music thankfully but I fear for all the Swifty sheep running towards the next cliff!
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 20, 2024 13:14:07 GMT
AH... the Pokemon Strategy!
Olivia Rodrigo did the same thing, but if you just waited a little while she released the extended version on Spotify etc... so I assume the same thing will happen here.
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Post by Lizard on Apr 20, 2024 13:27:01 GMT
It's nothing new, artists have released multiple versions of vinyl singles, CD singles albums for yonks. More egregious given the price of vinyl today, though.
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Post by dfunked on Apr 20, 2024 14:17:01 GMT
£44 for a single Taylor Swift album on vinyl is mental enough already. What kind of nutter is paying that much?
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Post by Dougs on Apr 20, 2024 14:41:16 GMT
Swifties. My wider team at work is stacked with them, including my boss. It's like another language. I guess that's what I sound like to non- football fans I suppose.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 20, 2024 15:15:52 GMT
Probably won't do my street cred any good, but she's actually not bad.
I'd always written her off as country and then just pop, but my daughter has gotten pretty into her lately, so I've been hearing a fair few of her songs around the house. (not the older country ones, thankfully).
To my surprise I didn't hate them, and they had a bit more depth than I was expecting. Or maybe I've just been brainwashed.
That said, I was kinda annoyed by the BBC article today about how she was somehow new and unique in being able to capture 'modern dating despair'. As if song writers haven't been writing about love and heartbreak for decades (or probably centuries) and as if modern dating despair is somehow deeply different from previous dating despair.
Heck, even if we just look at contemporary artists, they're basically all writing about love, relationships and heartbreak.
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Post by peacemaker on Apr 20, 2024 15:22:41 GMT
Probably won't do my street cred any good, but she's actually not bad. I'd always written her off as country and then just pop, but my daughter has gotten pretty into her lately, so I've been hearing a fair few of her songs around the house. (not the older country ones, thankfully). To my surprise I didn't hate them, and they had a bit more depth than I was expecting. Or maybe I've just been brainwashed. That said, I was kinda annoyed by the BBC article today about how she was somehow new and unique in being able to capture 'modern dating despair'. As if song writers haven't been writing about love and heartbreak for decades (or probably centuries) and as if modern dating despair is somehow deeply different from previous dating despair. Heck, even if we just look at contemporary artists, they're basically all writing about love, relationships and heartbreak. I agree. I know Taylor pretty well through my daughter. Some of her albums are pretty great even though it’s not my thing. Folklore especially is a great album. |
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Post by Dougs on Apr 20, 2024 15:40:09 GMT
I quite like a bit of country on occasion so they're mostly what Ive heard. Indeed, not bad at all.
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Post by cubby on Apr 20, 2024 16:01:04 GMT
She got me with her Evermore album. Collabs with The National, Haim and Bon Iver basically ensured that I had to check it out and, shit, she got me good.
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Post by Lizard on Apr 20, 2024 16:12:43 GMT
1989 and Midnights are both great.
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Post by peacemaker on Apr 20, 2024 16:41:01 GMT
Folklore
Red
Midnights
My personal three favourites but there isn’t really a bad album.
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Post by hicksy on Apr 20, 2024 17:19:11 GMT
Reading this thread does illustrate her strongest strength. She manages to appeal to a wide variety of music taste and crosses and appeals to different age and gender groups. Credit to her for that.
Red and 1989 are her albums I personally like best.
I’m less into her new low-if indie albums of late and did not enjoy her electronic pop phase prior to that.
The new album… it’s a miss on quite a few levels for me. £7 at best 🤣
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 21, 2024 12:44:42 GMT
Seems like I actually boosted my street cred!
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 21, 2024 13:30:19 GMT
Oh yes, these kind of cunts:
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Post by Dougs on Apr 21, 2024 13:46:53 GMT
I especially hate that on the tube. I am a bit of a backpack wanker when I'm in London but try to be aware of those around me, hence being enraged by those who aren't.
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hicksy
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Post by hicksy on Apr 21, 2024 13:49:35 GMT
Where’s a massive fanny pack when you need one?
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 21, 2024 15:13:41 GMT
I take my backpack off when I'm in the tube and try to keep it in mind, when going about but I've definitely come across people like that.
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Post by dmukgr on Apr 21, 2024 15:51:18 GMT
Been hit in the face loads of times by those cunts when I’m sat down on a train or plane. Cunts.
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Post by mikeck on Apr 21, 2024 16:49:02 GMT
It's the fucking adults carrying massive backpacks around at farms, adventure parks etc that are fucking oblivious and are constantly twatting kids with them without realising that annoy me the most.My daughter has been hit in the face so many times by these aimless fucks, surprised I've not fucking strangled someone by now.
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Post by dfunked on Apr 24, 2024 11:55:38 GMT
*ticks contact me by email box when opening a support ticket*
Oh, I guess that means he wants to be bombarded with fucking phone calls, even after he's updated the ticket to say it can be closed...
Cunts!
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 27, 2024 16:19:49 GMT
I don't know if this is an issue in other sports, but why oh why do rugby commentators insist upon spoiling the results of games that're being played concurrently?
If I'm watching Harlequins vs. Northampton, that's the game about which I want to know. I don't need to be told how Leicester vs. Bristol is going - hell, I don't *want* to know, as I'm planning to watch that match later!
This is especially annoying given that Premiership Rugby puts all its matches online, in full, after the fact. Multiple cameras, commentary, the whole nine yards, and no subscription service needed. Why disincentivise the viewing of those videos by blurting out the results during whichever game (singular) happened to be shown live on TV?
Gah!
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Post by Blue_Mike on May 2, 2024 22:24:28 GMT
Internet jukeboxes in pubs is an idea that should have been aborted as early as possible.
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Post by dangerousdave on May 3, 2024 10:01:44 GMT
I am one of those terrible people who will spend money on those things to play songs that aren’t remotely acceptable for a pub atmosphere. If I am in a pub for metal heads and the jukebox seriously allows me to pick Enya at 8 o’clock on a Friday night, you’re absolutely right I’m queueing it up.
It’s some how even more satisfying if they have to skip those tracks half way through because the pub atmosphere has shifted from cheery drunkenness to widespread confusion and anger.
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 3, 2024 11:11:28 GMT
Its a bit cringey, but during a heavy session a few years ago we put the Jurassic Park theme on via the internet jukebox, and our table stood with hands on heart like it was the national anthem.
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Post by dangerousdave on May 3, 2024 12:05:49 GMT
I used to sing that theme tune with my Squad in Battlefield games whenever we had managed to find a helicopter or plane. All strategy went out of the window.
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Post by Danno on May 4, 2024 9:51:08 GMT
WASPS why don't they just fuckoff
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2024 9:57:24 GMT
WASPS why don't they just fuckoff Because they play a useful part in predating on aphids and other stuff that eats the green stuff we need. Agree they are cunty though. Not been stung since childhood but have a massive fear because that one got in the collar of my polo shirt and stabbed me with its arse about 5 times around my throat. I do wonder how it would factor on an adult pain index. |
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