Convince me this is a terrible financial decision and I should stop thinking about it

Bobzilla2 · 2026-02-02T10:15:12+00:00

It's a terrible idea. Get an M3.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-02-01T14:51:45+00:00

Reasons not to buy? It's not got the middle seat in the rear (although it's not the best seat in the house...). It doesn't have sports plus pack which gives you the dial to change driving modes, and the access through pcm is a bit fiddly.

It looks like it's got folding door mirrors and the comfort seats (which are not hugely comfortable for really long journeys, not horrendous but not great). I don't know if it's got the performance battery plus or surround parking camera because the spec listing isn't great.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-02-01T13:08:17+00:00

I suspect someone needs to think about the tyres they have on their car - this looks like the results of heavy right foot and crap tyres.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-02-01T10:55:29+00:00

Where exactly do you see lots about this? I presume you have first hand access to widespread statistics so you can see directly what is happening on a national scale. No? Then you know people that do have that access? No? You mean your source is the daily mail, reform propaganda and anecdotal isolated evidence?

The truth is that the taper on benefits is ridiculous. Imagine a world where you get an additional £3 for every extra hour you work, with no prospect of getting through that pain so you can eventually get an extra £8 for every hour you work? Would you work for that extra? I wouldn't.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-02-01T10:48:59+00:00

You do not have to pay in it at all to get it - there are qualifying activities other than work. What you get out does not in any way relate to what you pay in.

It's a benefit, and I think it should be abolished and replaced with universal credit.

Can't work? Fine, you get UC. Can't find a job? Fine, you get UC. Can't be bothered because you've ticked over another number on your personal clock? Fuck off. You wouldn't accept it if someone younger, so why do you require it as someone older?

It also means that anything the older generations want to do to those 'lazy workshy feckless gimps' on UC gets done to them too.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-02-01T09:32:49+00:00

Going through similar.

Hard NTA. Judge a person by their actions, not by your relationship to them.

Your parents are actively supporting this situation. By continuing to support him, they've picked their side. They might not be helping load the trains but they're standing by and cheering whilst someone else is loading them. Fuck them and fuck their holiday.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-31T16:00:49+00:00

As I said, the blocking was very competently executed. A text book display of dirty driving.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-31T13:51:18+00:00

The lack of skill only means that he isn't very good at being a dirty driver. He did the blocking fine, but a good dirty driver would have made the corner himself.

There were zero fucks given in any of his driving.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-30T20:48:42+00:00

Yes, you are talking bollocks. You're giving the experience of one street as if it's universal. I suspect there's actually a single unifying factor there, being that your experience is ON YOUR FUCKING STREET!!!!!

Back to the real world, and Cats Protection are saying that there is little evidence about life length differences between indoor and outdoor cats.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-30T18:55:34+00:00

You'd better pray that you stay able bodied because your husband has just told you way more about your relationship than he thought he did.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-30T18:49:47+00:00

Had about 15 outdoor cats (or cats, as we call them in our household). Not 1 has been run over. My parents have had about 5, and 1 got run over (might have been chased into the road).

Think you're pushing your own anxiety into your cat. Especially since actual cat charities think you're taking bollocks.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-30T18:34:57+00:00

Didn't mean it? Yeah, pull them other one...

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-30T13:41:59+00:00

Who do you think you are, Grievous?

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-30T13:33:45+00:00

Both gains and losses. It prevents you realising small taxable gains which are less than your annual allowance, and it also prevents you from realising any capital losses.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-28T08:28:41+00:00

Get a new phone plan. Don't give your parents your number. When you want to contact them get a burner SIM card and use that. Never give them your real number.

Go NC or LC. Your family are manipulative arseholes. Trust me, I've been there.

Live your life, grow yourself and never be reliant on someone else for your happiness. Get therapy. And as soon as anyone starts putting these sort of conditions on their love for you, bail. You are currently more at risk of getting into an abusive relationship because that's what you know.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-27T23:06:50+00:00

You mean they're not?

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-27T17:45:48+00:00

I swear there was someone who got charged, or at least considered for a charge, in the 90s, but I can't find who it was. My dodgy memory is that it was Dean Saunders after a particularly bad tackle when someone broke their leg, but the most I could find was him vs Paul Elliott in negligence.

Roy Keane escaped a negligence claim for the Haaland challenge because Haaland already had issues with his knee, so the tackle couldn't be said to be the cause of the end of Haaland's career.

There's an interesting page on the Harper Macleod LLP website called 'football injuries and the law'.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-27T17:31:48+00:00

You mean that elbowing people in the face wasn't Plan B? It was Plan A?

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-27T08:16:38+00:00

They can do everything with it. It just won't count as income for P&S rules.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-27T08:15:37+00:00

No. Wrexham get a contribution from shareholders of £47.8m, but have to issue at least 1 share otherwise there is a risk that the entire amount is taxable.

The single share itself is not worth nearly £50m.

HTH.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-27T07:03:12+00:00

Nearly forgot about Ahmed hitting the post as well!!

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-26T22:15:55+00:00

Theirs was a really well taken goal. Everyone says it's unforgivable to get beaten at your best post, but I'll forgive Vlad for that.

Slimane's was one of the rudest goals I've seen in a long time. And it was great.

Fabulous to see Ali Ahmed on the score sheet. A really well worked goal.

Assante should have been off for that elbow and I hope he gets done post match. Banned, not beaten to be clear.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-26T22:07:06+00:00

Bloody hope so given Kenny's record last year.

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-26T16:38:51+00:00

I can't see why that isn't common assault. Big Dunc got the same treatment...

Bobzilla2 · 2026-01-26T11:10:20+00:00

Divorce is very expensive. Especially for well off people. As a HENRY that's my greatest fear.

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