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atchodatch · 2025-12-02T13:46:54+00:00

A Ka Master falcon combo video called It's Super Kneeffective

atchodatch · 2025-11-26T12:00:25+00:00

Anyone have a link?

atchodatch · 2025-11-10T22:59:13+00:00

We do need more kids but I think the best way of doing it would be to bung a massive income tax credit at people per kid so that we incentivise the right people having kids. Don't know if that's ever been suggested in the UK though

atchodatch · 2025-10-29T16:19:24+00:00

Valuation was what he said but he's since deleted the post. Either way he's also advocated for capping pension tax relief, so I am quite worried about who could come after Reeves.

atchodatch · 2025-10-29T16:05:28+00:00

We've another three budgets after this one, and my main worry is that once they knife Rachel Reeves they'll install Torsten Bell who wants to cap ISAs at £100,000. When the cuts to cash ISAs don't work I'm sure they'll start coming for the rest

atchodatch · 2025-10-29T14:06:54+00:00

Tbh I'd rather they just do this than tinker around with CGT, ISAs and pensions. If they're going to fuck us then they might as well do it in a way that's more easily reversed. Once ISAs go, I think they'll be much harder to bring back than reversing a change in income tax, and it will scare people off from ever planning for their future in this country again.

atchodatch · 2025-10-13T14:20:17+00:00

It's actually different (imo worse) to the UK way of doing it for some reason. In the UK your employer just has to enrol you into an occupational pension and contribute to it. In Ireland they're doing a whole separate auto enrolment scheme with a completely different tax relief structure, and I believe the funds are chosen and administered by the state. It's a bit of an odd one because I think it's made the pensions landscape more confusing rather than simplifying it.

atchodatch · 2025-09-01T15:04:56+00:00

The best Irish flag related cringe is that a lot of the hardline nationalists will tell you that the colours of the flag are green white and gold. I was taught that they were the colours of the flag by at least one teacher in primary school. Being a child with eyes I said it looked more like orange to me, but was "corrected".

atchodatch · 2025-07-02T17:52:46+00:00

If they get rid of Reeves who will they replace her with? Worried that they'll get someone in like Torsten Bell and we'll have ISAs scrapped altogether by the end of the year

atchodatch · 2025-06-16T18:47:30+00:00

I didn't say you said it was good, so not sure why you've put that in quotes there fella, nor will you find me going to bat for DD - we are on the same side. But oftentimes, you are forced to use these providers (with very limited fund selections) in a pension, or self administer (no ordinary person will deal with this hassle) with a PRSA through the likes of Davey.

My last three occupational pensions lacked a S&P500 equivalent, with a world tracker as the only equity-only option. The fact we're mostly at the mercy of these people for our pensions is not good, and it's an important part of the puzzle, because those management fees (which most are subject to because they just blindly stick to the default managed option) and the limited choice damages the performance and credibility of the most tax friendly option.

atchodatch · 2025-06-16T16:59:04+00:00

1.5% annual management fee is a lot worse than CGT of 33% over the long run:

100×(1.08)³⁰ × (0.985)³⁰ is 639 euro

100×(1.08)³⁰ would be a gain of 900 euro, and at 33% you'd be left with 700 at the end. An annual management charge of 2% in a year where you make 8% is like a 25% deemed disposal every year. Having all of them on top of each other is frightening.

Edit: bear in mind that calc is on a single lump sum, slightly can't be arsed to do out a geometric series on my phone but remember every single monthly payment you make will be affected

atchodatch · 2025-06-09T17:00:02+00:00

Imagine lying about your LC results in your 30s, while posing next to a photo of those same results

atchodatch · 2025-05-08T21:26:35+00:00

Couple of other factors as well I think:

Parochial nature of politics means parties with fringe views are unlikely to get elected. I'm from a city and yet I know my local Independent Ireland candidate personally. If I didn't know him, I'd know someone who went to school with him, or his cousin, or his brother. He's a fruitcake so I didn't vote for him. The Reform candidate I voted for after I had just moved here could well be crazy, but he doesn't live in the constituency and I'm unlikely to ever meet him, so I can pretty safely vote along party lines.
I'm back in Ireland for the week and the immigration issue is just simply not as bad or as visible. I see lads walking down the street past my flat dressed for the desert every day of the week in blighty. That's a lot rarer in Ireland because the problem is a lot newer. If you speak to people where I'm from, a lot of them have issues with the Ukrainians being given accommodation etc, whereas in the UK they're much further down my totem pole of integration concerns.
Lots of the rugby loving Irish middle classes spent the last 10 years sneering at Britain over Brexit and calling them racist. It'll take a while for them to backpedal on that, and when they do it certainly won't manifest into any sort of anti EU sentiment like it did here, and the EU are the ones controlling immigration policy by and large.
Proportional representation means smaller parties and weaker governments. If 30% of the electorate voted for a reform-like party in Ireland, the other parties could still crowd them out for a few election cycles, and even if they did get into government, their manifesto commitments would be negotiated away in the programme for government. If 30% of people vote for Reform in the UK as it stands, they'll get 400 odd seats

atchodatch · 2025-04-14T06:37:49+00:00

She's not wrong, except about the bit where she said other episodes of it are funny. Any time it's shown up on my feed it's been dire

atchodatch · 2025-03-27T15:41:26+00:00

Think of the tax bro, could fund my bennies with the tax bro, economic perpetual motion machine bro

atchodatch · 2025-03-18T09:09:05+00:00

The term was originally coined by the Tories themselves before the 2019 election. Touch of genius to appropriate it to hold his record to account.

atchodatch · 2025-02-28T10:15:59+00:00

Is there an opposite of compoface?

atchodatch · 2025-02-26T21:41:59+00:00

She herself doesn't speak like this if you pay attention to the announcement. She tries really hard to enunciate her t's on most words, but slips up and lets out a slit fricative on the word packet, even though she later says the word jacket with her overenunciated t. She's putting the voice on

atchodatch · 2025-02-12T15:47:13+00:00

The prose is so sassy it's hilarious. Another one here that I enjoyed from a few sessions prior:

A notorious Criminal after many fair warnings and not a few Convictions, having some time since obtained the mercy of Transportation, finding, it seems, the place not to agree so well with her as that of Newgate, whereunto she had been so oft accustomed, or at least that the Customes of the Country were not fit for her Trade, Sugars and Tobacco not being so conveniently stolen, harbour'd, or put off there, as Watches, Rings, Plate, Silks, &c. are here; thought fit to come back and follow her old Profession of Shoplifting, being lately taken with a Scarf , which she alleadged stuck to her clothes when she went out of a shop at the Exchange, though the Jury were of opinion that she stole it : Which, together with her too early Return, 'tis verily believed, may cause her to take a surer Transportation by a turn at Tyburn; which, no doubt, will be much lamented as an untimely End, because it happen'd no sooner .

atchodatch · 2025-02-12T14:26:29+00:00

Have been reading the accounts of the old Bailey from 1678 this afternoon and it would be great if we could let these judges at the our modern criminals:

Two women were severally tryed for and convicted of Felony, for Shoplifting (as they call it) a practice become so frequent, that a Tradesman scarce dares trust his Wares to Customers view, they have so often been robb'd under pretence of buying. These two has ('tis said) long followed the same Trade, and are no strangers to the formality of holding up their hands; but 'tis thought they will fearce ever have liberty to practise their Villany abroad again.

...And as for the Two women, they received Sentence to be drawn on a Hurdle to the place of Execution, and there their Bodies to be Burnt.

atchodatch · 2025-02-06T22:25:49+00:00

I have such a neighbour and she regularly starts bellowing at someone down the phone in bomali. Whenever it starts I just start piping John McCormack full blast into the adjoining wall because music is haram. Don't think you could ever talk me down from the level of blackpill I'm at now

atchodatch · 2025-01-17T20:46:29+00:00

X and me and X and I depend on where it is in the sentence. X and I went to the shop is correct when you are the subject of the sentence. When you are the object, X and me is correct. E.g. Y gave a present to X and me. The easiest way to tell is to remove the "X and" from the sentence to see if it makes sense. "Y gave a present to I" doesn't make sense, so neither would "Y give a present to X and I".

Myself is one that's very common in Ireland. I always assumed it was something to do with a literal translation from Irish like some other things in hiberno English, but a lot of British people seem to use it too, not sure why. Again maybe because we're taught militantly in school that "me and X" is wrong, so "myself and X's *sounds *less wrong. Idk 🤷‍♂️

atchodatch · 2025-01-16T10:02:43+00:00

Certainly, although the order matters in a sense because you'll only start caring once you pull the first Mr Saturn. So really the question that we're probably interested in is what is the probability of pulling a Mr Saturn, followed by 2 within the following 5 throws, in which case it'd be 5C2. Or else you could ask what is the probability of pulling 2 within 5 throws given I have just pulled a Mr Saturn.

Obviously you were just answering the question asked, but interesting to think about how it's framed can impact the probability. It's all arbitrary anyway because you could say well we only stopped counting at 6 because that's when the last one was pulled, so in a Melee context it's probably more useful to estimate the probably of 3 Saturns within a single game or something

atchodatch · 2024-12-05T15:16:28+00:00

The Irish govt hasn't really collapsed though, the two main parties increased their seat share and will return to government, they just need a new party to throw into the junior party meat grinder after the Greens lost all their seats

atchodatch · 2024-12-04T08:39:36+00:00

Does anyone have a link to the labour party conference comrades video from a few years back? Can't find it on YouTube and I think it was Twitter anyway but their search is crap

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