Meenzer

Imagine actually typing the words "my mother Sticky Vicky passed away today"

I'll have been past that building hundreds if not thousands of times and never realised that's what it was.

Tbh that's also quite feasible, especially with one of the main passport offices etc. being around here - there's plenty of options. Probably feels like less of a life sentence when you're not going down that route in your early 20s too

Much appreciated, thank you!

Teaching it is, then!

Actually, speaking of what a doss accounting appears to be, what's the training situation like for old farts looking for a new career direction? I'm weighing up my options for the fairly likely event of my job ceasing to exist in the not too distant future, and given that I've been translating IFRS and local GAAP financial reports for 20+ years and seem to be able to point out when the people preparing them have made obvious errors, I suppose it'd be a logical avenue to explore. Being officially mid-40s now, though, I'm concerned about old dogs/new tricks syndrome. Mind, that'd be the case for almost anything I do...

My main takeaway from that graph is that we need to be having more pandemics. Lower immigration to keep the gammons happy, plus the gammons are disproportionately more likely to die. Everyone's a winner

I suppose there's a causation vs. correlation thing insofar as those productive people under FoM were also working in an economy that could trade far more easily with the countries they came from. Today's migrants are entering a more restricted economy in the first place.

Anything we can do, the Germans can do besser:

In that case:

He mostly buys more books.

I have inherited many traits from the Swedish side of my family - binge drinking, stoicism in the face of adversity, an inexplicable love of salt liquorice - but my firm belief in döstädning is perhaps foremost among them. No Marie Kondo shit, just keeping on top of things so that your relatives don't have to deal with it all at some point. Not that I know who'll be dealing with it in my case, in the absence of any descendants, but still.

Shades of

I have bought a DUSTBUSTER as a TREAT to myself

Is there a series of GIFs for people who know perfectly well how negatives work but who enjoy seeing nerds getting their knickers in a twist over it? Asking for a friend called Meenzer

"A portion of the proceeds will go to charity" is Ladbaby levels of transparency

GET TO THOSE COMBS!

Besides, it's an international week so it's not like you're missing anything.

Often £650k if the bequeathers* are married, too, since the spouse who dies first can pass on their inheritance tax allowance to the living partner. I'm aware that the insane house price inflation in this country over the last 15 years means a lot of people with quite ordinary houses, especially in the south-east, will now find their estates exceeding this amount when they die - but it's not like you're taxed on the full amount, just the excess above the threshold, so ffs, really. *bequestors? bequest-givers?

A laugh and a "quip". Aye. Definitely not fuming at all.

That's how standers look every time they wipe.

Or think sausage.