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19 minutes ago, HeliX said:

Well not quite, in anything remotely sporty the exhaust is absotuley also designed to sound good, and to create the correct amount of backpressure for the engine, and to filter particulates.

But in the case of these chavs, it's usually that they want their car to sound like it's a good car, but they couldn't afford one with the right number of cylinders (which is 8, by the way) to achieve that.

Define "good". Surely nice and smooth and as quiet as possible is optimum. I don't particularly have a bee in my bonnet about it. I'm not tearing my hair out. I just think it marks them out as total tossers.

Strange turn in this thread when the only vaguely lucid posts in 3 pages are by freakin' Finlo.

ETA: At least 3 pages. Couldn't bear to delve back any further.

It amuses me. Why on earth do they do it? An exhaust system is there to muffle the noise of the engine. If it makes a din instead, it's like having a fridge that heats food up, a washing machine that soils clothing, a lamp that emits darkness, you get the idea. Do they believe it makes them look like they have big dicks? They're feckin' eejits.

6 hours ago, P.K. said:

Like the paranoid  vigilant.

Fixed for you.

1 hour ago, The Voice of Reason said:

OK if you’re only giving one option.

” Should the UK remain or leave the EU, based on the UK having its own domestic laws determined by a democratically elected UK Parliament, taking precedence over an unelected body in Strasbourg or Brussels?”

But there’s plenty of other things to consider.

Yes as the holder of a Manx  ( UK) passport holder it was great to go through and visit  the EU countries almost seamlessly. But not at the expense of surrendering sovereignty ( “ ever closer union”)

I love visiting Europe. It’s got a lot to offer. And Europeans seem to love visiting. the UK. I think we have a good relationship. We don’t need to morph into one big superstate. As I have said before “ Vive la difference” Let’s celebrate that.

That's all there is to it.

22 hours ago, Roger Mexico said:

But that's going to be a fairly unusual situation, at most there will only be one or two coaches.  There's not really the accommodation capacity on the Island to take many coaches and a lot of hotels will only want to take them in the 'shoulder' seasons.  So you shouldn't increase the size of a boat so as to take more coaches.

Haven't done a study, but I've often been on with a lot more than 2 coaches.

46 minutes ago, manxman1980 said:

The problem with the actual question is that is massively oversimplifies the issue and during the campaigns leading up to that vote there was no clarity about what leaving actually would look like. 

 

And to think that the UK was taken into the EEC/EU with no referendum at all. Even worse!

3 hours ago, P.K. said:

@The Voice of Reason

"In a recent survey by More in Common, a civil society organisation, voters were asked to describe the UK in a word. The top choices were “broken”, “mess”, “struggling”, “divided”, “expensive”, “poor” and “chaotic”."

Well, your totally stupid and completely unnecessary brexit certainly contributed to all of the above...

Ask everyone in Europe the same about their country. Probably say the same.

2 hours ago, Anthony Ingham said:

It is a shame so many on here knock things or knock people without understanding what they are posting about.

Welcome to the internet.

On 5/3/2024 at 12:05 AM, A fool and his money..... said:

It didn't cause the slightest misunderstanding, in fact I'd be surprised if many people even noticed it, I certainly didn't until you pointed it out.

I fully agree. As standards become more eroded, fewer people notice it happening. Before you know it, even the schools don't get it right, and nobody cares, thinks it's an issue or even notices. It's a microcosm of the pervasive malaise throughout society.

22 minutes ago, Harry Lamb said:

Unfortunately research shows that the retailers benefited from the tax cut, not the consumers https://www.personalcareinsights.com/news/tracking-tampon-tax-no-eu27-nations-have-leveraged-new-feminine-hygiene-full-vat-exemption.html so period poverty continues.

Retailers or manufacturers? Surely competition on price here should have an effect as it does on everything else. The quoted margins seem ridiculously high, anything up to 70% quoted internationally. Maybe further legislation is required to curb it. Making them free at point of use solves the immediate problem of individual poverty, but it still leaves the taxpayer footing the bill and being gouged.

15 minutes ago, code99 said:

"As of 1 January 2021, VAT is charged at the zero rate on supplies of WSPs (women's sanitary products).

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vat-on-womens-sanitary-products-notice-70118

"Sanitary products are free in England. These include leisure centres, libraries and community centres. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, people can get free period products in schools and colleges. Some universities and students unions will also provide free sanitary products."

"male razors and condoms are not subject to luxury tax".

Yes. The VAT on sanitary products is an EU thing. Abolished following Brexit.

In other news, some of the Aldi price matches are no longer, er, Aldi price matches, despite claiming to be.

4 hours ago, IOM said:

Why on earth would I make it up ? Try page 149 a post from @wtf - proved ! 

You actually went back and checked? Blimey.

Everybody wants kung fu fighting.

7 hours ago, Numbnuts said:

The first move he should push for is a regular Irish ferry service. What we have now is pitiful and we’ve lost so much visitors and revenue from cutting back on a service either from Belfast or Dublin. 

I think if that was the first move, it would also be the last. It would kill a plausible idea stone dead. You have to offer it where there is the biggest catchment, and that isn't Ireland.

"Financial genius wanted to tell us how to make a fortune for 8 grand a year."

Hope they don't get killed in the stampede.

8 hours ago, Declan said:

 it's part of the clubs ethos.

I thought we'd put that to bed.

11 hours ago, manxman1980 said:

Wow!  A Liverpool fan with some sense! 🤣

I wouldn't go that far.

"Financial genius wanted to tell us how to make a fortune for 8 grand a year."

Hope they don't get killed in the stampede.

10 hours ago, A fool and his money..... said:

Or a mistake. Let he who is without sin .......

It's a short statement going beyond the school walls to the outside world. You check it so that you get it right. It's not difficult. They exist to teach children to get it right, but they can't be bothered doing so themselves.

5 hours ago, A fool and his money..... said:

I'm not a big fan of some Americans at all, but I prefer them to spelling pedants any day.

Standards are important and worth upholding. If you can't get the mundane correct you have no chance with complexity. People can't be arsed to get it right. They settle for mediocrity, and that's why everything is going pear-shaped nowadays.

In general I like Americans I meet very much, and I have no problem with American English when used by Americans. Used by Ramsey Grammar School, because they either know no better or can't be bothered to amend their American English software, not so much. It's moronic.

Some grammar school that doesn't know its verbs from its nouns.

Practising your spelling is good practice, as we were always taught.

Unless they're all Americans there nowadays.

5 hours ago, John Wright said:

It’s having to pay it when you haven’t budgeted/provided for. I had a VAT bank account and transferred VAT received every week. Meant I always had the funds available.

My business, like a restaurant, had few VAT inputs.

Many businesses don’t provide and the quarterly bill comes as a surprise. Transferring funds or making proper provision as you go allows you to have a better idea of whether your business is a going concern.

Business folk tend to have a pretty accurate appreciation of where they stand, or they certainly should. If the quarterly VAT bill comes as a surprise, they really shouldn't be in business at all in their own best interests. If things are running properly, VAT is a rolling interest free loan to them of between 1 and 4 months (average 75 days) tax at all times that should assist cashflow rather than kill the business. That money can be put to work in the interim.

Any entity, large or small, should be continuously aware of it's approximate financial position for income, payables and taxes. If you have minimal VAT inputs, you (hopefully!) know what you have taken over a quarter so you can work it out in seconds in your head - a sixth of the sales/takings will be on the right side.

How many businesses today don't have accounting software anyway? Even the most inexpensive rudimentary packages can give a balance sheet in real time. It's elementary stuff.

2 hours ago, finlo said:

You're wasting your breath they can do no wrong.

So what is this insight you have into the idiocy of Tesco?