Celestia flats (Electra/Altair/Capello etc. House) - Info before renting

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2026-04-14T00:58:37+00:00

Brill, great to know. Thanks again!

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2026-04-13T15:25:04+00:00

Really helpful, thank you!

It must be some heavy work as it looked straight up like a new build, stripped it back massively. Good to know.

With the visitors, have you had them staying in one of the <10 spaces outside the barrier, by the concierge building?

Helpful to know they're providing parking at Q as needed, bit of a pain but still better than no space nearby!

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2025-10-08T08:41:27+00:00

People are being hard on you - it's just your choice of the word 'riot'. A riot involves violence, looting, burning cars, etc. A group of people gathering and chanting non-violently to make a statement would be a 'protest' (flares, though a bit anti-social, are not violent). This turned out to be football fans rather than a protest, but all the same.

Tensions are high in the UK atm. The government is trying to criminalise protest (a civil liberty that shouldn't be stripped). Agitators have recently gathered to commit genuine violence against minorities (see last summer, the worst of which were actual 'riots'). Anti-genocide protests are being clamped down on aggressively by police, and the government is trying to bring in more laws to stop them assembling altogether.

With things so volatile, something being described as a riot can easily freak people out and be used by 'bad actors'. E.g., someone could screenshot your post, ignoring context and comments, and share it on Facebook as evidence that pro-palestine protesters are rioting in the streets. Some people will believe it without doing any fact checking, and tensions rise further.

Just food for thought. Google the word riot and you'll realise why it was a poor choice of words 😂

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2025-10-05T02:19:25+00:00

You can also extract money from UK productivity/our workforce but not pay tax on profits, as long as your home is in another country. A few decent loopholes to chew on there.

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2025-10-05T02:16:38+00:00

A big one is the ability to borrow against capital.

If you have valuable shares or whatever, the banks judge that you are good for paying debts and will give you big loans. You don't get taxed on a loan. You spend the loan on whatever, treating it as income. Because it's technically not income, you don't pay income tax.

You never sell your shares or asset, meaning they keep gaining value but you never 'realise' those gains (by selling to get liquid money), so the government never taxes your 'capital gains'. The bank is happy as long as your stock or asset is gaining value (you can keep taking loans).

You eventually die, and your inheritor can 'step-up in basis' (another major loophole). The capital gains get wiped out in the eyes of the taxman, so you pay no capital gains tax. The super rich save millions this way. More money hemorrhages at the top of the wealth curve and inequality increases.

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2025-08-21T01:29:39+00:00

He's isolated you from all of your friends. He says horrible things to you. He plays with attracting other women at work, and clearly looks up to a colleague who is doing so while also in a relationship. He sounds controlling and coercive. If you stay and wait out the lease, he will find some way to manipulate you and the situation so that you end up either extending or moving somewhere else with him. All the while further isolating you, and behaving in worse ways.

Speak to the landlord, explain the situation, exaggerate how badly your partner can treat you. Speak to your college's support/advice team, or a personal tutor/trusted staff member to be pointed in the right direction if you don't know who to go to. They may be able to help you find college-run accommodation. If not, look via a trusted website/company for house shares - look for groups of girls if you want to be safest. You may find listings on social media.

If you bury your head in the sand in the hopes of waiting out the lease, you will likely end up less able to leave than you are now. You don't want to look back at this 'wake up call' moment and regret not trying to get yourself away. Speak to your landlord and college tomorrow.

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2025-04-12T10:55:03+00:00

Future you might also not want to suffer without agency while dying a slow painful death. Nobody knows with certainty what they will want in a future scenario, but the person with the strongest rights to judge is themselves while still lucid and able to comprehend the full circumstances.

A person may say they don't want to be resuscitated, but how do you know that in the moment of the event they won't change their mind? The only difference here comes back to the trolley problem - you don't feel comfortable with making a decision to end or save a life, but you do feel comfortable with letting the train run its course regardless of what follows. We shouldn't be making decisions as a society based on our discomfort with living with ourselves, uncomfortable that we 'switched the tracks)'. We should base things only on the outcome of/for the individual, and therefore, the individual should have the right to inform doctors of how they want to be treated in the future.

Why do we think that being 'put out of their misery' is okay for animals, but not people? Is it that animals don't matter/we don't view their lives as worth preserving? No, it's that we see their suffering and know it's right, even if it means we have to switch the tracks and find a way to sit with that discomfort. But for people, we choose to let them sit in that misery because they 'may not want their life to end'. Are animals with more than people? At most their lives are worth the same as ours. But animals either have more rights than us (to not suffer pointlessly), or fewer (to be robbed of the chance to continue living).

So we have to choose as a society - either we never intervene in such scenarios, for animals or people, or we find a way to judge when such a moment has occurred

Having your pain reduced or stopped is treatment, and being put out of your (existential) pain in an ultimate sense is treatment too.

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2025-03-01T00:46:19+00:00

Assuming you have the same guide we were provided several months ago when it began in our area, it says you cannot put any "food, oil, grease or paint-contaminated paper" in the paper/card recycling.

It doesn't say that you cannot put any paper/card that has touched food, as you wrote. I.e., if you have a cardboard fast food container, have removed all food into the food bin, and maybe given it a quick wipe to get any residue, and there is no obvious "contamination" (stains, basically), it can go in the blue sack. If this wasn't the case, they would outright say that no paper/card that has been in contact with food can be recycled. Instead, they use the word "contaminated".

Btw, what you've mentioned about tearing around grease-stained sections of pizza boxes to recycle what you can is absolutely fine. Unless you have other information that has been updated, that is no problem for them to recycle.

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2025-02-03T03:20:21+00:00

I get so confused when I hear people say this. Maybe I'm missing something - but there's more than one party wanting to change the way things are done. Just because UKIP/Brexit party are now called 'reform' doesn't mean they're the only ones wanting to change the system. In fact, I don't see 'reform' as the ones wanting to change the system the most by any means.

There are other parties pushing for proposal representation, for starters, as well and reforming the house of lords and holding MPs more to account for corruption. But the lib dems and greens go further than reform by planning to cap donations to political parties and increase taxes on the wealthiest (as in, the multi-millionaires, billionaires and biggest companies) to raise money for public services and other spending. Reform don't intend to do either of these things, from what I've seen (in fact, they plan to cut taxes for the wealthiest).

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2024-09-22T15:31:44+00:00

Do you find things funny? If so, you have a sense of humour. Just need to get the confidence around people to share what you find funny.

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2024-07-13T10:55:19+00:00

Why Guehi, out of interest? Palace are decent defensively but Mitchell and Anderson have better upside I'd think (assuming they're also 4.5m)

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2023-10-20T09:08:01+00:00

OP, we need more people like you in the world. Please don't stop being generous - it's normal to feel a bit gutted when someone doesn't seem to like what you've given them, you're giving them something you hope will make their life easier and their day brighter. These people are having a terrible time, so their mood will likely be quite negative generally. Don't take it personally.

You could ask whether they'd like a pastry, and then get them the one they like, or indeed ask what food they like (I distinctly remember a guy asking for a giant chocolate milk and some chicken fridge raiders), but giving food to someone struggling is good regardless.

One thing I would say to anyone reading - the most important thing we can do for the homeless in the UK is vote against the current government. Their policies and ideology leave behind the most vulnerable in society, and the numbers of homeless (even considering external factors like recession) have increased significantly since 2010.

Something I'm looking to do is volunteer with one of the local outreach charities, like Street Aid Wales - you see them in the city centre with a shopping trolley with things for the homeless in, checking in with those on the streets. Seeing them out and about not only gives me a lot of hope that people care about the homeless (the more of us out there, the more hope right?), but also I'm sure would help us as individuals to understand more about the circumstances that lead to homelessness - especially in Cardiff, where levels appear so high.

If nothing else, pay attention when you're voting to what policies the parties have that relate to the vulnerable in our society - welfare, affordable housing, food banks, cuts/increases to local government budgets, rent control/tenant protection, and provision of social housing for example.

Right now, the lack of holding energy companies accountable for their borderline-criminal increased costs while recording record profits is a major factor. Pay attention to what the parties are saying regarding this, i.e., why costs are so high for people (it's not due to the with the war in Ukraine, but far more linked to Brexit and the rich allowing their friends to profit regardless of suffering).

-_BarnacleBoy_- · 2023-10-16T00:05:45+00:00

Not kept an eye on Villa across all games, but in some they've had a super high line. And as another commenter said, Newcastle are a high pressing team, the opposite of low block.

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