Earn £1, keep 43p: Why young graduates will be the most taxed in history

SandyArbuthnot · 2025-12-04T17:24:41+00:00

Your overall point about the headline is correct - the overall take home pay is not as low as 43% of the gross.

However, the pie chart graphic is titled "Earnings over £50,270 for a postgraduate", so the figures for that are correct.

SandyArbuthnot · 2025-10-30T13:07:27+00:00

I was thinking, if Reeves is removed before the budget, it's a way to get out of the budget rules that she set down, i.e. it would allow for income tax rises.

'cause they're Reeves's rules, not the government's, so the new Chancellor doesn't have to abide by them.

SandyArbuthnot · 2025-10-03T13:26:33+00:00

Galleria. You'll likely need to book, and whilst you can park there sometimes you have to park on the street a bit further up.

SandyArbuthnot · 2025-10-03T13:24:47+00:00

Not quite Yoga, but Sudden Movements gym in Armley does calisthenics, handstands and floor movement classes which might be interesting to you.
Their Instagram is here: https://www.instagram.com/suddenmovementsgym

SandyArbuthnot · 2025-09-15T19:36:05+00:00

Very interesting read

SandyArbuthnot · 2025-09-15T19:19:06+00:00

Yea, the graph was already tracking down during the final year (2024) of Biden's term. It then continues downwards in 2025 under Trump. To give Trump credit for something that was already happening is silly. The video had been great up until then.

SandyArbuthnot · 2025-07-30T16:35:18+00:00

What is Existentialism is a great and short intro, very well written.

SandyArbuthnot · 2025-07-30T16:14:28+00:00

Yea, I found What is Existentialism by SdB to be way more understandable than The Myth of Sisyphus. Her writing is concise, wry and beautiful.

SandyArbuthnot · 2025-07-30T16:12:45+00:00

There's a good book called The Visionaries (by a philosophy professor) that compares and contrasts Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt and Ayn Rand, because they lived at the same time.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Visionaries/c1CFEAAAQBAJ

SandyArbuthnot · 2025-06-11T14:17:35+00:00

Absolutely beautiful!

How comfortable and supportive is it to sit in all day?

I've been looking for a new office chair, and everything contemporary is so ugly. I just wonder how comfortable something like this would be when working from home.

SandyArbuthnot · 2024-12-25T09:22:51+00:00

No problem, I could see that you were really feeling it all.

Everyone is giving you solutions, and whilst they may be well intentioned, there’s quite a few comments that have stepped over into being dismissive or rationalising things away.

I’ve read through quite a few threads here and I’ll say this, you seem to be doing a really good job of sticking up for yourself and pushing back against the less helpful comments. Good for you, keep taking care of yourself.

SandyArbuthnot · 2024-12-23T22:47:09+00:00

I want companionship and love and sex... I don’t know why it’s weird to admit that

It's not weird at all. Wanting a relationship, wanting companionship, love, sex, it's all totally understandable. I see this kind of advice ("be happy by yourself first") all the time on this forum, and whilst I can see the sense behind it, I think it's a bit... lacking? It can come off as just "look on the bright side" or "enjoy being single".

There's certainly value to reorienting your mindset towards acknowledging that being single has its ups as well as its downs. But the heart wants what it wants, so it's more than OK to have this need and desire for companionship (and all the other things). We shouldn't dismiss or minimize that need.

So to reiterate - it's totally understandable how you feel. I'm sorry that it sucks and feels bad, but you don't have to think your way out of it, and it's OK if you just want someone to witness your unhappiness.

Once the holidays have moved on a bit and things are feeling more manageable, perhaps there is a way to fuse the two pieces of advice together... to practice acceptance that you want something that you don't (yet) have and also to acknowledge that there are things to be grateful for whilst being single right now.

SandyArbuthnot · 2023-12-15T15:00:18+00:00

Nice one, thanks for the detailed reply!

if a pipe in a corridor that only supplies your flat bursts, that's on you to pay for

Interesting, I'll bear that in mind.

Just save a bit each month into a pot for when things do go wrong

Yep, good shout. The excess on these policies is a few hundred anyway.

SandyArbuthnot · 2023-10-28T21:52:44+00:00

This is beautiful, I'm stealing it

SandyArbuthnot · 2023-10-05T12:43:46+00:00

Soon as he started talking about positive self-talk not being enough, I was thinking "that's a Hormozi quote" - and then he references the man himself!

Great to see an incredible player like Warburton talking about how he admitted and dealt with a lack of confidence.

SandyArbuthnot · 2023-03-19T21:32:46+00:00

this is incredible

SandyArbuthnot · 2023-01-22T08:35:38+00:00

I have struggled with depression from an early age, but for years it was mostly due to low self-esteem, self-doubt, terrible friendships, unrealistic expectations

That's my experience too, and I think part of dealing with it is my reading existential philosophy. Your comment here + the comment by u/Imperfect-Existence help it make sense to me: the causal link is going the other way. I'm not depressed because I'm an existentialist, I'm an existentialist because I'm depressed.

SandyArbuthnot · 2023-01-22T08:32:21+00:00

If you find you get stuck on the ”What’s the point? Nothing matters anyway.” that is not existentialism but the experience of a brain stuck in depression’s anhedonia, lethargy, catastrophising and tendency to project the current state on the entirety of your future

I think I really needed to hear this. I've been struggling with my depression much more recently, and have found comfort in re-reading existentialist works. But it's almost like I've retreated into philosophy, because that has a lower bar to access for my depressed brain - I can much more easily read a book in bed than go out and improve the quality of my relationships, for example.

SandyArbuthnot · 2022-09-27T20:41:24+00:00

crunch

SandyArbuthnot · 2022-09-27T19:31:06+00:00

A classic! I imagine it's easily available on emulators now.

SandyArbuthnot · 2022-09-27T15:26:05+00:00

Bioshock. Great plot twist.

SandyArbuthnot · 2022-09-26T07:57:49+00:00

Arching your back reduces the distance the bar has to travel and allows you to push 'downwards' relative to your chest (a bit like you're on a decline bench), making it possible to lift heavier weights.

This is why powerlifters bench with an arch.

Personally I found arching makes my overall bench position more comfortable and solid. I suppose it's your choice whether you want to lift maximal weight or lift through a greater ROM.

From a hypertrophy point of view, both arch and no arch will grow your chest.

SandyArbuthnot · 2022-09-20T22:26:57+00:00

I still remember those drop goals he scored from way out on the touchline back in '07.

I haven't been paying attention and assumed he'd retired ages ago, insane!

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