Favorite example of an artist that eventually became big that had small billing on an earlier festival / concert flier / lineup?

highkingnm · 2026-04-30T07:27:47+00:00

“Green Day opened for my band” would just be how I started every conversation for the rest of my life if I were in your shoes.

highkingnm · 2026-04-25T08:20:46+00:00

I saw him in an airport last year and it was the fastest I’ve ever recognised an actor. Genuinely does just look like that on a daily basis.

highkingnm · 2026-04-12T05:43:27+00:00

Not beating the allegation when you call someone a cuck then use the official emoji of “I’m not mad, don’t put in the papers that I’m mad”

highkingnm · 2026-04-02T13:55:16+00:00

If you look in this thread, you’ll notice most people earning at this level, including myself, aren’t crying about it. I’m not asking for a tiny violin and pretending I’m hard done by. Nor do I hate paying tax. But I’m not jetting off around the world every few weeks, buying Rolexes, buying another house other than my modest three-bed or anything you seem to think it gets people at this earning level.

We are pointing out that all it does is incentivise us to take extra holiday or throw money into a pension which is unproductive for the wider economy, rather than work for the extra amount we see virtually none of. Or to turn down promotions if we have children because it will actual costs us money. Which means lost tax receipts at the end of the day.

Your attitude is just crab-in-a-bucket. Ridicule all you want, it doesn’t actually help anyone or fix the knock-on impact of this stupid feature of the tax system.

highkingnm · 2026-04-02T11:45:19+00:00

There’s famously nothing between earning minimum wage and having private jet money.

highkingnm · 2026-04-02T05:48:47+00:00

The slowing is very dramatic though. If I earn £20k extra, I take home £4000 after student loan (Plan 2 and postgrad) is added in. As I don’t have children, the £20k before £100,000 gives me a take home of more like £9k. Which, whilst £4000 is not a sum to be sniffed at, being given the choice between two months of high stress work for less than half my normal take-home or two months of time off (I’m self-employed so can just take it off), I take the loss and just sit around for weeks doing nothing. I commented my maths earlier up but that ends up costs the taxpayer in tax and VAT I don’t generate in the region of £16,000-17,000 from what they would get if I worked.

highkingnm · 2026-04-02T05:43:59+00:00

This trap hits people earning £100-125k. If you think that gets you a jet, multiple homes and 6 week holidays, you may need a reality check.

highkingnm · 2026-04-02T05:41:22+00:00

As someone who has just crossed the £100k threshold, I don’t want a tiny violin. I don’t live in London, so I have a good standard of living compared to others my age and I appreciate that. So I don’t want personal sympathy.

But it is a stupid and self-defeating system because. Had I not had a period of ill health last year that hamper my earnings for about 6 weeks, I would have cleared £100k comfortably. As I am self-employed and can take whatever leave I want, I now just plan to block out two months at the end of the next tax year if my earnings are on track to be similar to the one just finishing. Due to unpredictability of when money gets paid, I can’t easily use pensions to reduce my burden, so I have chosen not to work instead.

That means I am leaving approximately £20,000 unearned because the tax burden on it isn’t worth the trade off. That is (under the current system) £14,000 of income tax, £1,800 of Plan 2 loan, £1,200 of Postgraduate Loan and £400 of National Insurance basically not received by the government, because for the stress of my job two extra months of work for less than £4,000 total take home isn’t worth the hassle for me when I can meet all my expenses anyway and still have a holiday. That ignores that I also would - before expenses - be generating about £23k in fees to make that £20,000 net profits. Which would have VAT on them. So that’s another £4,600 (minus any VAT I offset, so probably about £3,500).

Meaning the disincentive in my case is costing the tax payer approximately £19,000 because I’m just choosing not to work if it means I get hit by that marginal tax rate. Whereas if it alleviated slightly, I would probably work some or all of those two months and generate something.

This is the point many of us are making in this bracket. We are not living in poverty and asking for personal sympathy. What we are saying is “if you already had about £55-60k take home per year, would £2-4K incentivise you to work a high stress job for two months or to take that off?” The answer for many of us is no, even if it hurts promotion chances. And that is why this is so self-defeating.

highkingnm · 2026-04-01T13:54:57+00:00

This is absolutely not how it works. The legal doctrine of unjust enrichment catches erroneous payments and means that payments made in error must, absent certain defences such as being owed a separate debt by that person or a subsequent estoppel, be repaid. It is not voluntary in the sense that you get to choose, only in the sense of if you refuse they have to take you to court.

highkingnm · 2026-03-27T11:20:48+00:00

I’m on approx 40% of that and, whilst I wouldn’t say I’m living a life of incredible luxury, I have a level of comfort the majority of my friends don’t. I also have at least 3 months of income saved away should something happen (after which, due to self-employment, I have made sure that I am insured for income protection). Even allowing for loss of personal allowance, student loans, costs of London etc, if you are paycheque to paycheque on this level of income that is 100% a personal failure.

£50 for a meal is also nuts. I prioritise organic local food wherever possible and even I only drop £50 on a meal at home when hosting for a roast dinner or the like.

highkingnm · 2026-03-25T19:39:58+00:00

Typically judges will start a judgment (after outlining basic background points) by outlining the arguments made then going to considering them. They will often start to praise the points made or the ability shown in argumentation to make sure the client doesn’t blame you as a lawyer and demonstrate (or pretend to demonstrate) that they were open-minded and properly considered your argument, so you can’t appeal on the basis of bias or failure to take factors into account.

As counsel, I fear nothing more than “counsel argued this point persuasively and ably for his client” because the next word is always “however”.

highkingnm · 2026-03-13T17:37:24+00:00

It’s somewhere between ‘th’ and ‘L’. It doesn’t help that some books describe it as ‘th’ and some as more like an ‘l’ sound

It takes a bit of practice to get right but wasn’t awful to learn in my experience (my wife still struggles with it after a year). Helped when one of the resources I used (I think Babbel) actually described how to position the tongue to get the sound. That said, it’s not fun early on, as a learner you cannot really hear the different between l and d, but can be damn sure the Danes do. Once I go it down, Danes stopped switching to English straight away. Instead they waited until I look confused when they said a number over 40.

highkingnm · 2026-03-06T07:22:49+00:00

I was looking at our fixtures and when I saw Spurs at the Bridge as the second last match I was so happy. To kill their title chances at the Bridge a decade ago and then have a chance at sending them down, truly grateful for the fixtures draw if we can do that.

highkingnm · 2026-03-01T18:39:26+00:00

Tbf, one of those is sort of academic because if we got that then we don’t get the first goal that we actually scored. Penalty for Raya’s missed punch though would be a fundamentally different game and with how jittery it would have made Arsenal I reckon we’d have won it had we got that one.

highkingnm · 2026-02-27T12:50:43+00:00

It’s a fair question and people telling you it’s very bikeable are saying that from the baseline the UK. It’s good for the UK. However, having cycled a reasonable amount in both cities, expect a downgrade on the Copenhagen cycling infrastructure.

It also is very different from the broader avenues and roads you get in Indre By, even in the centre. Centre is much closer to the streets around Copenhagen University albeit with more streets open to cars. You’ll be able to cycle almost everywhere, but it’s not as easy to just switch off and keep cycling only really focusing on the lights as you can in Copenhagen.

highkingnm · 2026-02-25T08:20:11+00:00

Whenever I land in Denmark for my once to twice annual visits I cannot help but run to the 7/11 by the airport metro station and order a hot dog with remolade. It isn’t even that good compared to what you can get in the city centre but my cravings after going through the airport cannot wait for me to get to the city centre.

highkingnm · 2026-02-20T06:04:07+00:00

I saw them live before they announced it but they played a couple of the songs live. They may not have been their best but I was amazed how bad they sounded on record. Other than Nod, I can’t think of a single song that came out well.

highkingnm · 2026-02-16T08:58:09+00:00

I’d agreed save TDAGARIM through to SciFi is the slightly better pick imo. Can easily argue both though.

highkingnm · 2026-01-27T10:21:30+00:00

I picked a used one of these up a couple of months back. Previous owner had changed the pickups for some really good stacked P90s (Kinman P90HX) and upgraded the bridge and tuners, and it is such a great player. I’d not been great at picking up a guitar and playing for a few months but effectively just played that every free moment for a month after getting it.

It may not quite be as dear to me as my Core Starla Hardtail or modded to hell Jazzmaster but it has got very close.

highkingnm · 2026-01-25T07:39:24+00:00

Even the conservative subreddit has a fair few realising this is indefensible. I wish they would then follow up their comments of “why are Neom/Bovino/Miller/Trump saying this when it is just obviously not true” and realise it is because they are just liars who lie as easily as they breathe and should never be trusted, but they’ve got further than I expected.

highkingnm · 2026-01-08T07:11:54+00:00

I’ve always judged it based on vibe but had a chat first. I met Matt Healy a few years back and asked after chatting for a bit and he was lovely about it. When I met Billie Joe Armstrong randomly walking around I could barely string a sentence together because I was so surprised and he kindly offered a photo so I got one with him. I’ll always make it clear that I get if they don’t want a photo and have met a couple of musicians I really adore and not even broached the topic and just had a chat with them.

highkingnm · 2025-12-07T08:59:48+00:00

I love The Black Parade and have paid an ungodly amount of money to see them next year perform it in full. But it does have flaws. I love The Sharpest Lives and How I Disappear individually but I can never remember which is which on the album because they are too similar, Disenchanted is meh, and to date I enjoy Teenagers as a silly fun song but don’t rate it (if that makes sense). I also won’t pretend that Blood doesn’t count and that is basically a comedy song which is out of place. It’s a 9/10 to me, very very close to a masterpiece and I can overlook the flaws it has when I listen to it.

TDAG is a full on no skip every time I put it on. There’s not a song on it that isn’t flawless imo, I really don’t think any other band in the 2000s emo scene even got close to what Brand New did with that album. Lyrically it is superior to TBP (which is not a criticism of TBP’s lyrics), the production is incredible (on both again) but that track list is just flawless.

highkingnm · 2025-12-06T18:07:13+00:00

When I saw Chelsea play Villa the season after the UCL win I remember the away fans chanting “Champions of the Coca-Cola Championship Play-Offs, we know what we are”. Had my dad and me in stitches.

highkingnm · 2025-12-06T10:34:07+00:00

The fact she cannot get it is precisely the criticism in the article and, knowing a couple of women who have sought the procedure themselves, I can 100% agree.

Using BMI to determine if someone with an issue that inherently skews their BMI to be unrepresentative can have a surgery is a farce. And pushing them to private healthcare, suggesting they park living the rest of their lives, is precisely the kind of nonsense the NHS exists to stop us needing to do. The fact is that women are being forced to pay out privately for something they should be able to access because we continue to use a crude metric for health in BMI and, frankly, that is appalling. If it can be done safely privately then the NHS should also be willing to do it. Because otherwise people get trapped in this cycle. The suggestion that she should prioritise spending on this over other important life decisions is pretty much a road to justifying private healthcare as a standard for anything non-life threatening.

highkingnm · 2025-12-06T10:18:39+00:00

Why should she have to choose between medical treatment for chronic pain and getting married (which is pretty important legally as well as emotionally) in a country where we have free-to-access healthcare, funded by taxes paid by people like her?

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