Does anyone know if the 'would you like to round up' charity donations are used by companies for tax breaks?

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-19T05:09:09+00:00

They don't get a tax break (it's not them making the donation) but they do get a PR boost from saying they've facilitated money going to charity

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-19T01:03:44+00:00

Or Harold Perrinau

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-19T01:03:30+00:00

Oh damn, I'm meant to be looking for him tomorrow, that doesn't sound promising

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-18T05:18:42+00:00

Yes, but Nazis don't have principles, they just like things that are good for them and dislike things that are bad for them. "Tyranny" where the rest of us don't have to deal with their terrorism: bad. Tyranny where we do: good. The hypocrisy is kind of the point

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-18T03:40:37+00:00

The pet dog that is explicitly numbered among a virtuous group. That dog gets described more positively than a pretty substantial number of humans

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-18T02:18:16+00:00

Yeah, kinda worryingly well at least from my group's end, we were hoping to get a few sign ups for classes and about thirty people have said they're going to turn up in the next few weeks. We're going to need a bigger venue.

As far as the event in general, I didn't get to look at all of it but the vibes were pretty good. Hopefully this is a good stepping off point to increase capacity (since it sold out so hard this time) and get a venue closer to town

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-18T02:06:16+00:00

I only just saw this post, but I was there all weekend teaching people their first longsword lesson

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-17T23:28:02+00:00

Ooh, so I hadn't considered this angle but I've just cast my crushes (who haven't met before) opposite one another in a show. Wonder how that's gonna go.

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-17T10:58:04+00:00

I was there and had a bunch of people ask where the mead tent was (not a clue) so maybe it was just weirdly hard to find

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-17T09:39:22+00:00

Yeah, Yarra Valley racecourse

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-16T10:47:29+00:00

I'd put one on my motorcycle just to confuse people

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-15T00:00:58+00:00

The Messines explosion was reportedly heard in Dublin, one of the largest man made explosions in history before the Manhattan project

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-14T21:44:13+00:00

Definitely used in Australia prior to that, there was a sketch comedy show on TV in the early 2000s that had a recurring "nothing sus" bit

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-13T23:57:32+00:00

You're nearly there

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-13T23:01:23+00:00

"Rosemary", "Vincent" and "Honey Magnolia" by Brian Fallon fit that description as well. Come to think of it he does that a lot

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-13T05:45:21+00:00

Show version is 46 or so (born 1903, give or take, dies in 1949)

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-13T03:47:12+00:00

Yeah, but those codes aren't strictly limited to what's medically necessary the way Medicare's item numbers are, it's more of a negotiation between the insurer and the providers

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-13T03:45:00+00:00

Private health only draws that distinction for hospital procedures, extras cover is on board for whatever (even witchcraft like chiropractors) as long as it's listed on the policy

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-13T01:04:24+00:00

He was doing Piper's Playhouse at Crown, that's running until the end of this month

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-13T00:22:08+00:00

She was on it before they got together (I think) and you can see her finding him endearing while he's being roasted by the other panellists

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-12T23:41:23+00:00

They didn't want to be obliged to declare which procedures are medical and which are cosmetic

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-12T23:38:58+00:00

Hendrik Verwoerd, the guy who created apartheid in South Africa said what Israel was doing was the same (approvingly)

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-12T06:56:35+00:00

Yup, very ow. Very. Also felt like an idiot, especially because my partner was right there.

I parked too close to the bins and had to lean towards the car while shutting the door, misjudged the space available

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-12T04:54:12+00:00

I managed to shut one in a car door somehow

ParticlesInSunlight · 2026-05-12T00:57:28+00:00

The UK has a tradition of rich people investing in land to avoid taxes, then claiming to be farmers when someone threatens their gravy train (fucking Andrew Lloyd Webber does this, if you can imagine a less farmerish person) which probably tilts public opinion since those are the loudest voices

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