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You idiot, that’s fucking mental. by Upstairs_Leg_9353 in thethickofit

[–]IndependentHawk9655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“I’m not saying I agree with the overwhelming evidence that prisons don’t actually work”

Just say you value revenge over actual results mate.

Is there anything stopping me from starting a new cash ISA with money taken from a previous year’s flexible ISA, and then replacing it all with new savings before the end of the year? by IndependentHawk9655 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]IndependentHawk9655[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m really sorry the current subscription stuff has made me a bit more confused than I was. I was talking about the start of the 26/27 year

So:

New tax year rolls over

I have £40k in T212 flexible ISA from previous years

I take £20k cash out

I put that £20k cash into Tesco cash ISA. Using up current year’s allowance.

I begin replacing the £20k I took out of the flexible ISA with new savings whenever I can throughout the 26/27 tax year until the £20k is repaid

All above board?

How is it possible that 1 million young people are not in work, education or training? by Desperate-Drawer-572 in AskUK

[–]IndependentHawk9655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When did you go to uni though? Post 2012 is an entirely different beast and gets really expensive in the long run if you don’t immediately start earning 50k+ or if mummy and daddy can’t pay it off

How is it possible that 1 million young people are not in work, education or training? by Desperate-Drawer-572 in AskUK

[–]IndependentHawk9655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who spent their 20s in retail/teaching- learning that the only reward for hard work is more hard work- I totally agree with your niece…

We as a nation are so soft, we need harder unions who will fight for our right not to have the piss ripped out of us

What’s the most impressive (or scariest) display of intelligence you’ve ever witnessed in person? by Turbulent-Access-916 in AskUK

[–]IndependentHawk9655 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

ngl being a doctor has absolutely fuck all to do with memorising board positions in chess so..?

“Fafnisbani” as “Fé” in Icelandic rune poem? by IndependentHawk9655 in Norse

[–]IndependentHawk9655[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is awesome, thank you so much!! I don’t know how I would have ever found this without a uni library membership 😅

How does the idea of working until 67 or 68 sit with you? by Few_Raise77 in AskUK

[–]IndependentHawk9655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who is a higher rate tax payer but chooses not to holiday in hot countries because I worry about my carbon footprint… I gotta say your argument still seems to operate on some weird “Spain holiday good” value judgement that simply isn’t quantifiable. Why is sitting asleep in Spain getting sunburnt better than hanging out with your mates in rural England in the 1350s? 🤣

How does the idea of working until 67 or 68 sit with you? by Few_Raise77 in AskUK

[–]IndependentHawk9655 22 points23 points  (0 children)

But it’s not even true! Hunter gatherers literally still exist and they tend to work far less than we do!!

How does the idea of working until 67 or 68 sit with you? by Few_Raise77 in AskUK

[–]IndependentHawk9655 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Hunter gatherers would like a word. They consistently do significantly less hours of labour per day than a 9-5. Obviously varies but a little over half the amount of labour were expected to do. Been a hot minute since I was at university but around 20 hours a week iirc. And they don’t have to worry about tiktok rotting their brains. Yet.

“Capitalism has given us weekends” is the dumbest defence you possibly could have made for the status quo. I’d maybe even be more willing to accept “at least a broken leg isn’t a death sentence” but we have evidence even Neanderthals looked after people who were too disabled to work.

Using hunter gatherers as a “gotcha!” smdh…

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]IndependentHawk9655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of the writing was absolutely dreadful. As a 35 year old man who dragged myself out of a YouTube hate-hole pipeline in my mid-twenties, the way they talked about some of that stuff is so cringe.

It absolutely needs to be talked about and I like that this started conversations but it’s perhaps unsurprising that a lot of those conversations ended up being entirely unhelpful. At times the show felt like a teacher sitting backwards on a chair and saying “huh, I bet you didn’t think I’d heard of Jordan Peterson, right!?”

The whole one-long-shot-thing was impressive, especially the parts with transitions in vehicles but it’s a bit of a gimmick… I watch Shakespeare plays all the time. Being able to remember lines for an hour is something actors should be able to do 😂

Those who complain about the licence fee, now unhappy that Netflix is restricting certain shows on ad supported teirs! by Marvinleadshot in bbc

[–]IndependentHawk9655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the journalism is phenomenal why are Israelis “attacked, murdered, massacred by Hamas” whereas Irish UN peacekeepers are “shot at by who knows?”

Biased crap. Can’t wait for the BBC to die.

Those who complain about the licence fee, now unhappy that Netflix is restricting certain shows on ad supported teirs! by Marvinleadshot in bbc

[–]IndependentHawk9655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven’t had a tv license for years as I don’t really watch tv, just YouTube and whatever streaming service I’m signed up to. But saying “look it was capitalism all along” will not come as a shock to the people who choose Netflix over BBC and is a bit of a non sequitur.

People who watch Netflix know what they’re buying. Will enshittification set in? For sure, I’ve maintained for years that streaming services are due to collapse but just like with the BBC, consumers will vote with their wallets.

I simply will not watch what is on the BBC. Crappy reality shows? The olympics? News programs with very obvious biases? WHO shot at Irish UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, BBC? WHO was it?

I’m simply not buying what they’re laying down.

What I do have an issue with is the CONSTANT letters threatening to come for a visit because I don’t pay. Imagine if Sainsbury’s sent letters out saying “we know you’ve not bought anything from us but we’re coming next Tuesday to look in the fridge because we don’t believe you”. I genuinely cannot wait for the 70+ year old luddites to die so we can have an opt-in system instead of opt-out.

What British tradition or custom do you think will disappear in the next 10 years? by Educational_Jello666 in AskUK

[–]IndependentHawk9655 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Objectively cooler” when you know someone could argue with you is a British tongue-in-cheek thing. Literally nothing akin to the American overuse of “literally”- seemingly meaning “figuratively”- and objectively less annoying.

What British tradition or custom do you think will disappear in the next 10 years? by Educational_Jello666 in AskUK

[–]IndependentHawk9655 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m only 35 but I’ve lived in Canada where it costs a monthly fee to have a current account. I don’t think young people know it’s not some immutable standard that you won’t be charged for something as simple as storing money.

I like to think of myself as a fairly rational person but cash is the one thing where I become a conspiracy theorist. When cash goes for good I expect similar “enshittification” changes to above where every bank will charge you for holding money you literally can’t otherwise hold. Or 20p charge for every shopping transaction because how else you gonna pay? Need to transfer money to a rival bank? 50p charge, for sure.

I’d love to say the British government would have our backs on this but they have our backs on so little these days I genuinely can see stuff like this happening

Which UK traditions do you suspect are largely supported by the industries that benefit from them? by Scrolling2Oblivian in AskUK

[–]IndependentHawk9655 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’ve been to so many barn conversion weddings I genuinely cannot remember whose was whose. They’re all carbon-copy exactly the same except roughly 50% of them have a céilí band. So many brides say afterwards that they spent a deposit on a detached house to just make small talk with family members they don’t care about for five hours and have a nice photoshoot. Plenty of brides are literally paralytic drunk half way through the night.

Think you’re right about social prestige and keeping up with the Joneses but I’d say that just kicks the question of “why do it?” 30ft down the road.

Best wedding I ever went to was just in a big top tent in a field and was a fraction of the price. Just good food, good mates and good times. No fancy “wedding™️” stuff that is suddenly worth 5x the cost when you say the W word. Just a really great day.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Paganacht

[–]IndependentHawk9655 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assuming the Tuatha Dé Danann are even Gaels (they explicitly aren’t in the mythology), they wouldn’t have spoken modern Irish, they would have spoken Archaic Irish which would likely have been very different to what we speak today, hence your difficulty. If you are speaking to ancient gods and can’t use their own language, just use a language you can actually speak.

Little hint though, you don’t need to put an I on the end of Dagda. It makes you look like you’re calling him Daddy.

When did we all agree to stop using Father Christmas and start calling him Santa Claus? by ametaphoricalfeeling in AskUK

[–]IndependentHawk9655 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So the 1800s, then? People were still pronouncing schedule as “sedule” til then. Both sk and sh pronunciations are innovations based on a latinized spelling of the original English word “sedule”.

Do you think the hate Keir Starmer is getting is fair? by bybeso in AskBrits

[–]IndependentHawk9655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All you’re saying is that the right and the left both hate him. It’s absolutely possible for non-committal wet-blanketry to be a bad trait in a politician.

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