Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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You can judge a company, err, by the company it keeps.Stevo_666 said:
Do you have any reliable evidence that Costa has suddenly started avoiding tax? Because there is none in that link to the notoriously unbiased rt.com...pinno said:
What 'rant'?Pross said:
There you go, spoiling a rant with facts!Stevo_666 said:
To be fair to Costa, they are not involved in any Amazon style tactics that I am aware of. They are headquartered in that well known tax haven Dunstablepinno said:Costa and the likes of Amazon can afford to do that given their elaborate tax avoidance schemes.
and were part of the UK based Whitbread Group until a year or so ago when the Coca-Cola Company bought them.
...and of course, Coca-cola are deemed one of the worst tax avoiders.
https://www.rt.com/uk/437334-coca-cola-costa-coffee-takeover/
Similarly, you have to give me the evidence that they won't.
Time will tell.
Did Coca-Cola buy Costa because they had created an (unfair) financial position due to tax avoidance?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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You're asking me to to give evidence about something that may or may not happen in the future. This is real life, not 'Minority Report'.pinno said:
You can judge a company, err, by the company it keeps.Stevo_666 said:
Do you have any reliable evidence that Costa has suddenly started avoiding tax? Because there is none in that link to the notoriously unbiased rt.com...pinno said:
What 'rant'?Pross said:
There you go, spoiling a rant with facts!Stevo_666 said:
To be fair to Costa, they are not involved in any Amazon style tactics that I am aware of. They are headquartered in that well known tax haven Dunstablepinno said:Costa and the likes of Amazon can afford to do that given their elaborate tax avoidance schemes.
and were part of the UK based Whitbread Group until a year or so ago when the Coca-Cola Company bought them.
...and of course, Coca-cola are deemed one of the worst tax avoiders.
https://www.rt.com/uk/437334-coca-cola-costa-coffee-takeover/
Similarly, you have to give me the evidence that they won't.
Time will tell.
Did Coca-Cola buy Costa because they had created an (unfair) financial position due to tax avoidance?
I'm asking you to give some evidence of what has happened since Sept '18. Got any?
I imagine Coke bought them because they thought it made business sense."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Ahem "... things that cheer..."1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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I said that time will tell. RT 'notorious'? How about the NYT:Stevo_666 said:
You're asking me to to give evidence about something that may or may not happen in the future. This is real life, not 'Minority Report'.pinno said:
You can judge a company, err, by the company it keeps.Stevo_666 said:
Do you have any reliable evidence that Costa has suddenly started avoiding tax? Because there is none in that link to the notoriously unbiased rt.com...pinno said:
What 'rant'?Pross said:
There you go, spoiling a rant with facts!Stevo_666 said:
To be fair to Costa, they are not involved in any Amazon style tactics that I am aware of. They are headquartered in that well known tax haven Dunstablepinno said:Costa and the likes of Amazon can afford to do that given their elaborate tax avoidance schemes.
and were part of the UK based Whitbread Group until a year or so ago when the Coca-Cola Company bought them.
...and of course, Coca-cola are deemed one of the worst tax avoiders.
https://www.rt.com/uk/437334-coca-cola-costa-coffee-takeover/
Similarly, you have to give me the evidence that they won't.
Time will tell.
Did Coca-Cola buy Costa because they had created an (unfair) financial position due to tax avoidance?
I'm asking you to give some evidence of what has happened since Sept '18. Got any?
I imagine Coke bought them because they thought it made business sense.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/the-big-companies-that-avoid-taxes.html
IRS:
https://www.foreffectivegov.org/blog/irs-calls-coca-cola-pay-up
I can't work out how you think that Coca Cola is suddenly going to start being squeaky clean since buying Costa.
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"See that guy with the 200 toilet paper rolls?…"
I've got this image in my head of someone's house, every room filled floor to ceiling with toilet rolls. Still, I suppose you need a lot of them if you're such a huge a***hole.0 -
I am not a TV afficionado and tend to be in the “I don’t need a new one this one still works” mindset. I was therefore cheered up no end by the size and quality of TV you can buy for £350.0
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You're confused about two things now:pinno said:
I said that time will tell. RT 'notorious'? How about the NYT:Stevo_666 said:
You're asking me to to give evidence about something that may or may not happen in the future. This is real life, not 'Minority Report'.pinno said:
You can judge a company, err, by the company it keeps.Stevo_666 said:
Do you have any reliable evidence that Costa has suddenly started avoiding tax? Because there is none in that link to the notoriously unbiased rt.com...pinno said:
What 'rant'?Pross said:
There you go, spoiling a rant with facts!Stevo_666 said:
To be fair to Costa, they are not involved in any Amazon style tactics that I am aware of. They are headquartered in that well known tax haven Dunstablepinno said:Costa and the likes of Amazon can afford to do that given their elaborate tax avoidance schemes.
and were part of the UK based Whitbread Group until a year or so ago when the Coca-Cola Company bought them.
...and of course, Coca-cola are deemed one of the worst tax avoiders.
https://www.rt.com/uk/437334-coca-cola-costa-coffee-takeover/
Similarly, you have to give me the evidence that they won't.
Time will tell.
Did Coca-Cola buy Costa because they had created an (unfair) financial position due to tax avoidance?
I'm asking you to give some evidence of what has happened since Sept '18. Got any?
I imagine Coke bought them because they thought it made business sense.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/the-big-companies-that-avoid-taxes.html
IRS:
https://www.foreffectivegov.org/blog/irs-calls-coca-cola-pay-up
I can't work out how you think that Coca Cola is suddenly going to start being squeaky clean since buying Costa.
- First, past fact vs future speculation as mentiined above
- Second, US taxes (in your links above) vs UK taxes (Costa has no US presence and is majority UK domestic).
Also worth mentioning that the uninformed often concentrate on corporate tax as in this links, which is less than 10% of total tax revenues. They 'forget' the rest of the taxes levied because of the large amounts contributed by business."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Dunno if this has already appeared, but made me smileoblongomaculatus said:"See that guy with the 200 toilet paper rolls?…"
I've got this image in my head of someone's house, every room filled floor to ceiling with toilet rolls. Still, I suppose you need a lot of them if you're such a huge a***hole.
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orraloon said:
Dunno if this has already appeared, but made me smileoblongomaculatus said:"See that guy with the 200 toilet paper rolls?…"
I've got this image in my head of someone's house, every room filled floor to ceiling with toilet rolls. Still, I suppose you need a lot of them if you're such a huge a***hole.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Finding bog roll on sale in Waitrose today, a full 2 and a half hours after it opened and after the pensioners supermarket sweep hour (I noticed they were out of stock of spam)."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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Yes, there a subtle signs that some sense of normality could return over coming weeks.Stevo_666 said:Finding bog roll on sale in Waitrose today, a full 2 and a half hours after it opened and after the pensioners supermarket sweep hour (I noticed they were out of stock of spam).
Local shop still hammered and very busy but some dried goods gradually appearing on shelves unlike last week where whole aisles were as good as empty.0 -
Watching birds on a bird table eat and being more active around the garden in the sunny dry east wind.
Being outside in the garden in the sun.1 -
Some cheery-uppy sort of things:
Riding down a road near Hitchin yesterday, and noticing the sign which read "Carter's Lane, formerly known as Wibbly Wobbly Lane", and wondering why someone thought Carter's Lane was better.
Planning a ride and seeing a person caught on Google Streetview walking his dog. Not only had Goggle blurred his face, they'd blurred the dog's face too. Not the whole dog, just its face.
Putting scraps on the bedroom window ledge for the local Jackdaws. Observing that Jackdaws have blue eyes.
Hearing a Scottish person, in conversation with her friend, say "och".1 -
You can't call them birds and you shouldn't be perving on your neighbours like that!focuszing723 said:Watching birds on a bird table eat and being more active around the garden in the sunny dry east wind.
Being outside in the garden in the sun.0 -
Hearing the following conversation just now:
Small child: We're going to the park, aren't we?"
Her mother: Yes, we are!
Small child: We might see a big bad wolf!
Her mother: We might see a squirrel…1 -
I really thought your story was going to lead to the little girl lecturing the mother about not understanding the basics of self isolationoblongomaculatus said:Hearing the following conversation just now:
Small child: We're going to the park, aren't we?"
Her mother: Yes, we are!
Small child: We might see a big bad wolf!
Her mother: We might see a squirrel…0 -
Self isolation didn’t really work for the granny alone in the forest though. 😉The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
the waste removal people missed my mixed-recycling bin yesterday. I went on the council website, clicked a few buttons reporting this fact and thought nothing would happen, due to the current situation.
A couple of hours later, i hear some clattering sound outdoors, look out the window and the bin had been emptied.
Well done, local council!0 -
So Bompetta and I got a MIDI cable so we could connect her piano to the computer and play with MuseScore and suchlike.
Yesterday I spent literally hours trying to get the darned driver to install, faffing around following solutions found on the internet, some of which involved some fairly unlikely file editing, and none of which worked.
In desperation I "reached out", as we say these days, to Roland customer service.
Blow me if I didn't get a reply today from what was clearly a real human being, and once we'd established that it wasn't a UM-1 I had, it was a UM-ONE and the MKII version to boot (I know, how stupid was I?), it took him about 5 minutes to send me the right driver, for me to install in it, and Bompetta and me to spend a happy half hour turning random plinky plonky tunes on the piano into err, random plinky plonky sheet music.
Homeschool going well so far
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The people who spunked all their money needlessly on pasta and bog roll now facing pasta dishes for breakfast, dinner and tea.0
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... and hopefully a consequent lack of demand for bogrollballysmate said:The people who spunked all their money needlessly on pasta and bog roll now facing pasta dishes for breakfast, dinner and tea.
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I was cheered up by the fact Imodium was still available in my local shop yesterday which could be a real help given there were still no toilet rolls.You can fool some of the people all of the time. Concentrate on those people.0
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I still can't get pasta for love nor money anywhere nearby and no online delivery slots for 3 weeks minimum. Oh, can't get butter either.ballysmate said:The people who spunked all their money needlessly on pasta and bog roll now facing pasta dishes for breakfast, dinner and tea.
Rice is freely available everywhere though!0 -
Delivery slots have replaced goods as the impossible to acquire commodity. Shops are starting to fill up gradually.elbowloh said:
I still can't get pasta for love nor money anywhere nearby and no online delivery slots for 3 weeks minimum. Oh, can't get butter either.ballysmate said:The people who spunked all their money needlessly on pasta and bog roll now facing pasta dishes for breakfast, dinner and tea.
Rice is freely available everywhere though!0 -
Still no butter or pasta though!morstar said:
Delivery slots have replaced goods as the impossible to acquire commodity. Shops are starting to fill up gradually.elbowloh said:
I still can't get pasta for love nor money anywhere nearby and no online delivery slots for 3 weeks minimum. Oh, can't get butter either.ballysmate said:The people who spunked all their money needlessly on pasta and bog roll now facing pasta dishes for breakfast, dinner and tea.
Rice is freely available everywhere though!
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Off licenses being added to the list of essential shops. 😀😎🥃🍾The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0
