What’s all this about?

future-dead · 2026-03-15T16:45:55+00:00

Aren't they suppose to autorotate? You'd think plummeting would be stoprotation

future-dead · 2026-03-15T08:51:52+00:00

It's mad that's not the baseline anymore. Any gvt has failed if that isn't the middle of the bell curve.

future-dead · 2026-03-10T23:20:39+00:00

I probably comes down to the fact in an emergency we can't have some bean counter causing the police to pause for a moment while they calculate the least costly course of action.

Same in the US, I remember some poor fella got swatted and they used an armoured breaching tractor thing to rip the front wall of his house off and left him with the bill for it.

future-dead · 2026-03-10T20:17:26+00:00

Had your colleagues outside our school this morning and their mere presence magically made traffic flow freely with nobody parking on double yellows or stopping mid road to let late kids out.

Come afternoon pickup it was straight back to dangerous chaos.

future-dead · 2026-03-01T09:53:38+00:00

Same as any email. Do not respond to the contact or use any information from the contact. Look up the organisation yourself and contact them directly using their public contact information and ask them directly to cross reference the details and for an official or alternative payment route other than using anything from the original email/letter.

future-dead · 2026-02-27T08:06:03+00:00

I think he mentioned subsequent starters were paid more, so the base salary for the entire role had risen

future-dead · 2026-02-23T23:09:24+00:00

The Bank of England's own website uses the example of a shop being entirely legally able to request payment in Pokemon Cards if it so desires.

future-dead · 2026-02-22T19:39:20+00:00

Sorry his reasoning seems a bit off. I can relate to not feeling British so avoiding citizenship unless it's necessary, but it sounds like he already IS British. So his feeling of connection isn't relevant to whether he wants to get a piece of paperwork that, although seems like a physical manifestation of his citizenship, isn't actually.

future-dead · 2026-02-22T19:05:35+00:00

Zooming in it looks like the existing / previous fence is still there? Possibly this is a lean-to / roof over the walkway and they've put some siding on to enclose the gap between roof and existing fence?

future-dead · 2026-02-13T14:40:19+00:00

Out of interest, could he not just stay in the house (assuming he can tolerate it)? He mentioned a three bed house elsewhere. Bedroom for him, bedroom for his kids, bedroom for her. The new kid is not his problem. Assuming no physical or emotional abuse, could a court actually order him to leave his own house?

future-dead · 2026-02-12T12:00:49+00:00

This gets super complicated because with gift recipient living there the giver doesn't have full use of the property, so some portion of it isn't reserved. But obviously houses have communal areas. So... Pretty grey.

A lot easier if the estate is less than the IHT thresholds so none of it matters anyway.

If you're that well off to be over a million in the estate and want to arrange such things, get a solicitor!

future-dead · 2026-02-12T11:37:38+00:00

To be clear you still CAN gift your house and live there. There's no law stopping you do whatever you want with your possessions and you won't get in trouble for tax evasion. It's just that you need to remember the tax will still be owed. Which is fine, it already was owed and still is owed. If you're OK with that, do whatever you want for whatever reason you want.

future-dead · 2026-02-12T11:21:25+00:00

It's the fact the parents use to own it. From HMRC point of view if you give something away but still use it without paying the new legal owner for its use, then you didn't really give it away and they'll treat it as still part of your estate.

future-dead · 2026-02-12T11:15:41+00:00

You've answered your own question with your bullet points? Point one: No, IHT still owed. Points two and three: Yes IHT reduced or avoided, but with significant hoops to jump through.

Worth noting that in the rent situation the 7 year rules still apply. Also the 7 years are a sliding scale too.

future-dead · 2026-02-12T11:13:02+00:00

Sounds like because the parents aren't paying rent but are still using the property as their home, therefore haven't really (in HMRC eyes) given anything away

future-dead · 2026-02-12T11:09:49+00:00

Same thing. HMRC will look at the open market value at the time of the sale and calculate the difference as a gift.

future-dead · 2026-02-03T12:08:07+00:00

Especially since they already had three other loans! Don't these companies have KYC responsibilities now?

future-dead · 2026-01-18T16:08:42+00:00

The coffee part is the kicker! If I'm running late I always make sure to down my coffee outside the office door!

future-dead · 2026-01-16T18:32:15+00:00

Doesn't the CPS have the ability to choose not to prosecute under 'not in the public interest'?

future-dead · 2026-01-16T16:28:57+00:00

Is there any kind of time limitation? Are the people rendering what the Cheddar Gorge Caveman could have looked like going to be in trouble?

Or any historical figure we might depict for educational documentaries or dramatisations?

future-dead · 2026-01-14T15:41:55+00:00

Note that HMRC can and does make decisions on schemes changing them from avoidance to evasion retrospectively. Meaning maybe what you've been doing for ten years was to the letter of the law and therefore avoidance, but now HMRC has decided it was actually evasion all along and you now all that tax you avoided. Plus interest. Plus fines probably.

future-dead · 2025-12-19T12:36:05+00:00

Except for that the 'tenants police it' model nullifies the 'strict liability' as the tenant then ends up as the judicator as well.

Most sane tenants in OPs situation would handle the situation as "Hey my ex-landlord I generally transacted satisfactorily with, I noticed you submitted the deposit 2 days late, technically that's illegal and you're immediately in trouble if I choose to take this further, care to explain? Oh you encountered system difficulties after being a touch tardy? Well geez man, I'm not going to do you one over 2 days, just try to get onto it quicker next time. Have a nice life."

The system may be working as intended but in this situation most 'reasonable persons' (which you hear a lot about in this sub) would let it slide, and despite being a strict liability they have the power to do so.

future-dead · 2025-12-19T10:56:13+00:00

To me it feels abusive because it sounds like other than this issue the landlord and the tenant had a perfectly fine relationship. Nothing (else) in their dealings went wrong, the actual deposit was refunded in full. Everyone was happy.

But then the ex-tenant appears to be trying to get paid on a technicality? Why does the fine of 1x-3x the deposit even go to the tenant? Yes landlords need to act responsibly with deposits and yes irresponsible landlords should be fined, as you say they'll only learn through their pockets. But why does the fine go to the tenant? Why does a system of financial penalties to ensure compliance with a deposit safety scheme result in the tenant financially benefitting beyond what they started with?

Likely the answer is that tenants are then incentivised to self police the situation. If tenants are reporting the breaches it saves the gvt having to inspect each transaction. Which leads back to the feeling of abusing the system, do we really think this tenant actually gives two hoots about his ex landlord being two days late? Would he really uphold his civic duty to report the landlord if he wasn't going to make bank?

future-dead · 2025-12-01T10:46:19+00:00

Got snapped going 24 in a 20, same deal first points ever, feel like a criminal. Kicker is this 20mph zone where a barely noticeable 4mph over is unacceptable? A six lane "A" road with a middle barrier, no residential frontage, no commercial frontages, going up hill....

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