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[french frank]

And you wonder why people want the licence fee scrapped! These people are morons.

I wouldn't use the word 'morons' but 'pretty clueless' is too often the case. This morning their news story about Biden in Berlin gets the names mixed up in the caption to the photo of the four leaders: Biden and Scholz are the wrong way round (at the moment - it will be corrected when they see my latest email).

[oddoneout]

I wouldn't use the word 'morons' but 'pretty clueless' is too often the case. This morning their news story about Biden in Berlin gets the names mixed up in the caption to the photo of the four leaders: Biden and Scholz are the wrong way round (at the moment - it will be corrected when they see my latest email).

Doesn't the photo have an ID on it when it is retrieved/sent over from Reuters? Or was that wrong too?

[french frank]

Doesn't the photo have an ID on it when it is retrieved/sent over from Reuters? Or was that wrong too?

No idea. But it's been changed now!

[kernelbogey]

Shoes in particular seem no longer made to last,...

No, machine made now....

[vinteuil]

Shoes in particular seem no longer made to last...

Serial is surely not what Hazlitt described as "an Ultra-Crepidarian critic"



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[Serial_Apologist]

A new low just now on the Today programme as Amol Rajan when reviewing the papers mentions the column by his co host….Emma Barnett.

Product placement on the Beeb!


And you wonder why people want the licence fee scrapped! These people are morons.

Given their huge responsibility in relaying matters of enormous importance to a public that needs to be sufficinetly informed to take responsible positions on issues, any BBC presenter has in the very first instance to display some gravitas. I don't feel Amol Rajan does - to me he has poor communication skills, gabbles in monotone, and generally comes across as smug, and too much of a clever clogs

[french frank]

Bother! I forgot the flooring man had laid wet latex in the kitchen this morning, ready for the new floor tiles to be fixed on Monday.

[LMcD]

Given their huge responsibility in relaying matters of enormous importance to a public that needs to be sufficinetly informed to take responsible positions on issues, any BBC presenter has in the very first instance to display some gravitas. I don't feel Amol Rajan does - to me he has poor communication skills, gabbles in monotone, and generally comes across as smug, and too much of a clever clogs

I'm glad to discover that I'm not alone in having difficulty following what he says.

[Serial_Apologist]

Bother! I forgot the flooring man had laid wet latex in the kitchen this morning, ready for the new floor tiles to be fixed on Monday.

And there was I thinking it was wet autumn leaves as my heel turned into an ice skate while walking down the hill this morning.

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm glad to discover that I'm not alone in having difficulty following what he says.

His general superciliousness makes University Challenge even more of the programme of vain know-alls I've criticised it for than even the puffed up Paxman did.

[Dave2002]

Serial is surely not what Hazlitt described as "an Ultra-Crepidarian critic"



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ultra-crepidarean - fascinating!

[Dave2002]

Pretty useless Grauniad estimator for personal finances based on the Budget yesterday ....

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/30/budget-2024-calculator-better-or-worse-off

This didn't specify the size of the data - whether in pounds, or £1000 pound units. I had a go, and it assumed that I have a car - [I do] but then didn't take into account that some people have EVs.

At the end it suggested I'd be about £5 worse off - presumably per year, but maybe per month, or even per week.

Over all it is a pretty poor estimator, and also gave no explanations or insight into how the calculations were done.

Poor show - Grauniad! Probably a ploy by the firm offering the calculator to drive up custom, but why would anyone want to go to them anyway if that's the best they can do?!?

[oddoneout]

Pretty useless Grauniad estimator for personal finances based on the Budget yesterday ....

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/30/budget-2024-calculator-better-or-worse-off

This didn't specify the size of the data - whether in pounds, or £1000 pound units. I had a go, and it assumed that I have a car - [I do] but then didn't take into account that some people have EVs.

At the end it suggested I'd be about £5 worse off - presumably per year, but maybe per month, or even per week.

Over all it is a pretty poor estimator, and also gave no explanations or insight into how the calculations were done.

Poor show - Grauniad! Probably a ploy by the firm offering the calculator to drive up custom, but why would anyone want to go to them anyway if that's the best they can do?!?

I had a go at that and found I will be 22p worse off - but as you say whether pw, pm, pa isn't clear.
Wouldn't the EV issue be accounted for by the question about tax class? I got stuck on that one as I discovered that none of the documentation I had made any mention of tax class - perhaps as it's tax band rather than class now? Looking up the official bands didn't help, perhaps because the rates had already been updated post-budget, so none of the figures tallied with what I paid in August, so I guesstimated.

[french frank]

I think it must be per annum, I shall, allegedly, be £15.90 worse off which was entirely accounted for by my wine consumption. Nothing else changed. I'll assume I consume 2 x £6 bottles per week, i.e 104 bottles per year. Last year the tax on wine was 23%, so of my £6 bottle £1.38 was tax. If the tax goes up to 25.7% the tax will rise by 16p per bottle and my 104 bottles pa will each cost 16p more i.e. £16.64 pa, which given all the approximations is at least in the same ball park as £15.90. I think.

[teamsaint]

I think it must be per annum, I shall, allegedly, be £15.90 worse off which was entirely accounted for by my wine consumption. Nothing else changed. I'll assume I consume 2 x £6 bottles per week, i.e 104 bottles per year. Last year the tax on wine was 23%, so of my £6 bottle £1.38 was tax. If the tax goes up to 25.7% the tax will rise by 16p per bottle and my 104 bottles pa will each cost 16p more i.e. £16.64 pa, which given all the approximations is at least in the same ball park as £15.90. I think.

Corking calculations there FF.