Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Snapped his chain as well.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I doubt you give the Telegraph a similar pass.
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These aren't the droids you are looking for.
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Ah yes, you are referring to the things on twitter. You finally understand.
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Hell yes. Can I pay 14% income tax please?
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Yes, just earn less
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Not giving a pass, just pointing out that if all you see of someone's work is the bits specifically designed to get a reaction you are going to have a skewed view. All I see of the Telegraph is the opinion pieces that Stevo posts, which are also just written to get a reaction, albeit from a different audience. Their tweets give very little away - probably the wrong demographic.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
No.
I think they have recalculated the rate as though there was no tax free allowance to make the figures comparable over the different countries.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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That doesn't cheer me up.
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Seems to show that we take home more after tax than most of our major European competitors and some supposedly rich countries like Norway. Some people won't like that.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
But I've read full clickbait articles not just the tweets.
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Many of the links that I post make a valid point; you just don't happen to like or agree with them. The style may be provocative but it doesn't change the point being made. Hey ho.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Sounds like there’s scope for us to pay more tax then and have a fairer society like those countries.
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I can usually only see the headline and the first few words. If it helps I find opinion columns much the same across the political spectrum: they're all high on volume and low on content.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
The salary quoted seems ahead of the averages I have seen...
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It's all adjusted for purchasing power and effective tax rates.
BTW, I think this chart is simultaneously interesting and terrible.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Dropped my phone on the train tracks between the train and the platform last night.
For once the train staff were great. Said they couldn’t do anything till the service had stopped last night and to pick it up the next morning.
Sure enough, was there. All well organised.
Phew - I am surgically attatched to this thing
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Also the reaction to the award winning data and data representation specialist’s views is *chefs kiss*
Good work.
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Similarly Coldplay have awards coming out their behind.
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All we see is a silly tweet. It isn't fair to say rescaling the y axis is misleading, any more than the x axis.
What is laughable is the contention that only one is important.
I'm sure there's a Simpsons meme that would apply to that level of insight.
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No. The Y-Aix is totally irrelevant. Let's take a look at the Alpe d'Huez profile.
Same data. It is irrelevant how it is perceived, obviously.
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 -
I was never really someone for hero worship, RC. They always let you down.
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Yup, but if he is arguing that re-scaling y can't be misleading, and x is the thing you need to consider, he needs to have a long hard look at himself. Apart from anything else he's forgotten about z. I like I good 3D graph.
I know more than nothing incidentally. 7 years as a spectroscopist does involve a fair bit of data processing and re-scaling. We've all homed in on some noise or an artifact and imagined incorrectly that it's significant. The source data doesn't really matter. And if in this regard you try to distinguish between physical and social science in some way, I'll call you a humanities graduate, and no one likes that.
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There's scope for us to be worse off as well.
If the graph showed people in UK having less after tax earnings, would you be saying those countries should pay more tax to bring their after tax earnings down to our level?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I'm happy to quote the stuff if it's paywalled. Hard to tell which are and which aren't so you can always ask. But I usually try to put the point in my own words in the post, which is more than some people do on here.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Only if you can't read.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
It was the FT, the tweet would say something like:
- "Amazing how Europe is growing"
- the Y-axis would be between 1860-1860.1 metres
- the X-axis would be in a log scale over the last one hundred million years
There would be a follow up tweet that would say something like, "Look how Britain is falling behind" with comparative data from a newly laid patio somewhere in Surrey.
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should start at zero.
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