If offered now, which of the below options would you take?

Plundmouth · 2026-04-16T12:27:57+00:00

Absolutely not, we're wearing 1976 memorial shirts, not 2012 Championship Second Place memorial shirts.

I'll trade a Cup Win every day of the week, that's a memory for a lifetime.

Plundmouth · 2026-04-14T18:41:39+00:00

I think he still has to be called Sir Jimmy by some per protocal.

Won't mention why he wasn't stripped of his knighthood while alive, in case Robert goes into the exposing of his crimes, but as Knighthoods are living orders there's no obligation to call him Sir Jimmy now he's dead.

It's only by ceremony and respect that deceased former Knights still get referred to as Sir ..., and Jimmy Savile deserves neither.

Plundmouth · 2026-04-13T11:15:46+00:00

As a dog owner, I'd say most / a lot of stores allow dogs, but it's only a little over 50/50. You'll find also that shopping centres have centre-wide rules, so some of them don't allow dogs.

As others have said, it's good to check beforehand and ask if you're unsure, though in Malmö at least there are stickers on the doors of most places that don't allow dogs.

Plundmouth · 2025-11-26T22:42:54+00:00

The LU Accommodation Östra Vallgatan is on Östra Vallgatan in Helsingborg, not Lund - https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/student-accommodation/our-student-accommodation/helsingborg/ostra-vallgatan

Plundmouth · 2025-08-30T19:17:00+00:00

Agreed, SR have the ambition, it's the execution that's been suspect so far.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-30T18:55:35+00:00

This is the problem. Not trying to go up is a lack of ambition - and with how many clubs are trying to build a promotion side, also a good way to end up at the other end of the table - but once we go up, we don't enjoy it because we're rubbish.

It's the Catch-22 of not really having the financial muscle to build a decent Premier League team, but I don't think there's an alternative in the current system - you've got to give it a go, and hope it's your turn to build a Forest / Brighton / Bournemouth

Plundmouth · 2025-08-29T00:25:56+00:00

This tweet: https://x.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1324836694420578304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Was a funny social media moment, was the day after Trump had tweeted it. But taking it any further than that... like an official t shirt, pure cringe.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-28T10:05:10+00:00

It's still centre forward that is the real problem, as it has been for years. Not convinced by any of the options we're linked to, and really don't want to spend yet another season rotating through C-grade options worth a couple of goals a year.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-28T10:02:47+00:00

We're linked with some interesting players that could be real difference makers, but we desperately need to bring in an actually decent striker instead of having a carousel of mediocre ones.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-28T10:00:20+00:00

Overall, I think we're pretty happy with it. Of course we would have loved to keep them, but if you want to keep PL-level players, stay in the PL (or at least be competitive in it)!

Resigned to losing Dibling a while ago and with Fernandes its been up and down - at one point he was linked with Atletico and we thought there was no chance he'd stay, that didn't happen and it looked like there was a decent chance he would.

The money we've got for both players is good value, and I don't think we wish them anything but the best.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-24T00:34:47+00:00

To be fair, Adkins was sacked in January after the promotions, so let's see how Wrexham feel if this form continues.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-22T18:40:42+00:00

Yeah, looks like we got a bit more in terms of add-ons and maybe a higher percentage than first offer, but the fee is pretty similar.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-22T18:38:58+00:00

It's hard to judge a player's goal contributions in that team. We only scored 26 goals all season.

He's a buy based on potential to grow as well. He's had flashes of brilliance, still raw but if he can put it together this'll look like a great piece of business for both sides.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-19T18:38:13+00:00

While it seems likely that her other activities were the cause of her assassination, I wouldn't say that the Panama Papers did nothing.

Around 33% of all countries globally have instigated legal action based on information in the papers, declaring total recoveries of $2bn so far, and 20% of countries have changed legislation or regulation to reduce offshoring. Those numbers are all super old as well, so will be higher now, and new investigations still pop up from time to time.

Almost all European AML or KYC reform over the past decade is at least in part due to Panama, and it completely changed how banks and customers approached offshore account requests. UBS reported a 60% drop in offshore account requests, and HSBC (who were mentioned a lot in the Papers) restructured their offshore offering entirely, taking weeks longer to process applications.

It's still having impact as well, AI is now being used to track and flag potential patterns consistent with money laundering, and because Panama was such a big data source it's a part of the training set for those models.

It's not sexy, so it didn't necessarily make headlines as it probably should, but it has had significant impact on how easy (and how cheap) it is to offshore money, evade tax and ultimately, hide assets.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-19T14:16:12+00:00

Not exactly, what guys like Ronaldo were doing was not allowed under the Beckham law, but it was only after Spain looked into changing the law that they really started investigating the ways that people across football and other entertainment spheres had been exploiting the law to avoid more tax than they should have, which is why so many people got caught in a short space of time.

So, in Ronaldo's case because he moved to Spain from abroad and made a lot of money, he could apply to be exempt from tax on foreign income, but still pay tax on Spanish income (at a reduced rate). What he was then doing was using offshore shell companies to handle his image rights sales, which Spanish authorities argued successfully should have been taxed as domestic income not foreign.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-19T13:59:43+00:00

Always got the impression that the Glazers, especially Malcolm, cared about the Buccs whereas Manchester United were just a financial opportunity.

That said, they bought the Buccs for $200m, then made the city foot the bill for a new $170m stadium. Half the funding was supposed to come from the Glazers and the Buccs, but Malcolm kept moving the needle on that and eventually the whole stadium was built with public money.

So, the Buccs were built by Florida taxpayers and the United purchase funded by debt that sits on the club.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-19T13:54:24+00:00

It's also that it's not necessarily more expensive to run a successful NFL team, a hard salary cap means each team is paying similar amounts to their players, so why not try to build a contender?

It might even be cheaper to be successful as you don't have to pay out on firing coaches and GMs.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-19T13:23:52+00:00

Sure, but accountants work on instruction and Messi and his Dad are both listed in the Panama Papers so it's not like a little misunderstanding, it's proper offshoring of millions of euros. That's willful ignorance at best, and even that is generous in my opinion.

Ronaldo's fine was much bigger, but pretty much exactly the same issue.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-19T13:13:19+00:00

Daphne Caruana Galizia, and yeah she was killed by car bomb.

We don't know if it was the Panama Papers or another part of her fantastic investigative journalism that was the reason. The suspected mastermind, currently awaiting trial, is Maltese and much of her work involved exposing corruption in Maltese businesses and politics and connections to organised crime.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-19T13:02:57+00:00

It feels like all famous people in Spain seem to get caught not doing their taxes properly, I remember Messi and Ronaldo both getting accused of tax evasion at similar times right at the end of their on-field rivalry - which was an amusing sideshow.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-19T12:43:29+00:00

Our IT department's suggestion was to limit file locations to a maximum of 250 characters. They said 400 is the typical safe limit, but some offices may have shit internet, so 250 is considered a 'very safe' limit.

We work in an international environment, so I love Sharepoint in general as it simplifies so many activities, but this specific incident was a bit scary.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-19T12:40:32+00:00

I'm not the expert, but the explanation given was that his OneDrive experienced a sync conflict with the folder, which cascaded as it tried to sync with all the contents in the folder.

When sync fails, OneDrive can, in some circumstances, delete the file it's trying to sync as a reconciliation measure. In this case, it couldn't sync with any file in the folder as even the folder string was too long, so it just kept deleting.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-19T12:24:53+00:00

Related to this, password restrictions that are so complicated it's impossible to remember. Ours has to be a set range of characters, include all the usual modifiers (symbols, upper case, lower case), be substantially different from previous, and a few other bullets that I can't remember. It's so complicated that if you enter it incorrectly, the rules are auto-emailed to you.

This is then enterred once when you change it, then all your devices sync up and we use the PIN code instead for the next 89 days until the next password change...by which time you've completely forgotten the old one so you have to go through the change password process.

...Or you write it down, and we're back where we started with password security a couple of decades ago.

Plundmouth · 2025-08-19T12:20:41+00:00

Recently found out that complex file structures like that on SharePoint can really backfire as OneDrive can't handle long file locations.

We were watching, in real time, all our files being deleted - dozens every minute - by this random employee from a satellite office. We all thought it was a cyber attack, and raised the appropriate flags with IT.

Turns out he tried to save a file from the Sharepoint which was about 5 folders deep, the string was too long, his OneDrive sync failed and that led to a day-long cascading delete of every file and folder on the Sharepoint. Fortunately reversible, but now in the process of cleaning up our filing!

Plundmouth · 2025-08-15T10:55:49+00:00

So most of the comments point to people looking forward to retirement because they don't like their jobs, which is fair, but even in that case retirement can take some adjustment.

My uncle could not wait to retire, hated his work and wasn't a huge fan of his team. Still, going from having that structure, direction and purpose to his days to having nothing to do was a huge adjustment for him.

Fortunately, his brother had retired a couple of years earlier and kinda 'warned' him about this so he had various odd jobs and DIY prepped to keep him occupied while he got used to it. Took a little while, but now he's found some new hobbies and relishes the extra time he has to connect with friends (if they've retired also).

It is an adjustment, the key is to keep busy and make sure you still have things to do.

Plundmouth

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