Thoughts in your day

[snowdragon]

Thank you HB, and Heavenly Birthday love to your dad.

 

SS for your loss xx

[determindator]

From the TV news on the Budget a summary, the more you earn the better off you'll be. No change there then!

[andrew1]

From the TV news on the Budget a summary, the more you earn the better off you'll be. No change there then!

 

Not for those Limited Company contractors it's not! IR35 is going to knock a huge slice off their take home pay. I think the point about trying to harness the Contractors into a PAYE scheme is okay in principal when you think most people are paying PAYE and have no choice in the matter to pay their tax that way, but apart from Zero hour contracts, these individuals who are working through their own Ltd Co's have absolutely no benefits or security and can be fired from clients without notice or compensation so they do not have the protections but offer a vast amount of flexibility to companies that require outside assistance running their businesses.

 

Hammond hit the wrong people and whilst I accept there are abusers of the IR35 system, as there are in any area of our democracy, the majority offer a flexible workforce which for the UK is the envy of the world.

 

I ran a financial recruitment agency and had hundreds of 'temps' out working, some Ltd co, others on our Payroll and in the 80's Europe and the Labour Party and Unions did everything they could to introduce legislation to cripple the temp market here as they did not enjoy that flexible workforce themselves.

 

There were many rights and wrongs about the rights of workers or the lack of them, but having a flexible workforce that could be deployed at very short notice to tackle big issues in companies was a phenominal asset this Country had.

 

It's not so attractive now because that legislation dampened the appeal of being 'flexible' and companies have been poorer for it.

 

My thought for the day on that little subject of the budget!

 

Have a good one.

[determindator]

Complex subject A1 I could say employers and employees both have their grievances and again no change there then. I think the John Lewis ethos has a lot to teach us.

 

I will be investing in a dash cam as what i'm experiencing on the roads is frightening. Someone saw me driving down a hill so I had right of way, this person stayed in their position and as soon as I came to pass their exit from a building car park on my right, pulled across the road from my right into my driving path in such a way I had to pull towards a bush on my left and let them go. It was intimidating and bullish.

[determindator]

Interesting, driving competency in MOS today.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6349473/When-doddery-drive.html

[determindator]

I think there are people driving who have never passed a UK driving test or any driving test. Banned drivers driving. People driving on medication which they shouldn't be, those taking recreational drugs and those who's drinking habits cause them to be permanently drunk.

It's like Mad Max out there! Grrrrrrrrr

[labrat]

Got an offer from Flavorly in my private eye

 

Tried it

 

Beers fine - shame yodel threw the parcel over the gate and claimed they left it in the porch - we have no porch

[labrat]

Just spent 3 hours over two days fixing a 3d printer

 

Changed nozzles, replaced heat sensor, releveled the bed a million times

 

Just to find that it's actually the plastic at fault...

[ericsbrother]

at least it isnt the warranty chip

[labrat]

Made in China = no warranty

 

Besides already bypassed the chip in the Epson printer

[determindator]

Interesting history

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/corporation-london-city-medieval

[determindator]

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Remembering the fallen on this Memorial day

[determindator]

Dubai Police to use hovver bikes. The dream of hovver cars is nearer for me:-D

 

https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/dubai-police-start-training-on-actual-flying-hover-bikes

[determindator]

Just watched We are most amused and amazed ITV. Very uplifting I laughed a lot!

[labrat]

The day someone flies one upside down I'll be impressed

[tobyjugg2]

The day someone flies one upside down I'll be impressed

 

 

 

[labrat]

OK I'm happy now

[snowdragon]

wondering is my £2 coin is worth anything, has 1807 in middle, the 0 has a chain through it and has the words an act for the abolition of the slave trade on ot and on the edge says am I not a man and a brother

[ploddertom]

wondering is my £2 coin is worth anything, has 1807 in middle, the 0 has a chain through it and has the words an act for the abolition of the slave trade on ot and on the edge says am I not a man and a brother

 

You can check rarity etc of coins here https://www.changechecker.org/2018/09/06/how-rare-is-my-2-and-how-much-is-it-worth/

[snowdragon]

thanks plodderton, had a look but it does not really says much or if it is worth more then £2 lol

[snowdragon]

seems it may be rare as the writing round the edge is upside down, how do you even sell something like this? I do not use E-Bay

 

Sandy xx

[ploddertom]

There were some 8,500,000 of these minted so they are not rare as only scores 1 on the Scarcity Index. So not worth much more than £2 unfortunately. On the other hand some more nefarious folks have sold them at highly inflated prices in the past have a look https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=%C2%A32+coin&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR6.TRC1.A0.H0.X%C2%A32+coin+slavery.TRS0&_nkw=%C2%A32+coin+slavery&_sacat=0

[determindator]

Was there life on Mars?

[andrew1]

Was there life on Mars?

 

Interesting question. My take on this....

 

When I was about 10 or 12 years old (just a few years back!) I was walking along a High Street with my mum. We weren't rich, but we got by okay, I always had clothes and she fed us relatively well. We lived in a nice house.

 

Out of the blue, a homeless looking chap with bedraggled hair, filthy clothes and skin lept over the barrier onto the road and peeled off the tarmac a piece of a chocolate bar which a car must have run over which certainly looked to me like there was life on it from the road and popped it into his mouth to eat it.

 

That memory stays with me.

 

Was there life on Mars? He didn't care, but maybe this probe into the abyss of space will actually find there is/was/could be elsewhere. And as the Beach Boys sang " wouldn't it be nice?" (So long as we humans don't screw that up too!)