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[OwlHoot]

Yes, I felt slightly headachy the day after my jab...

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They always say that - If most doctors had their way, nobody would ever drink alcohol!...

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The snag is umbrella companies very much do have value-added - for HMR&C, if no one else!

Remember, HMR&C and related civil servants hate contractors and the self-employed with a passion. As far as they are concerned, we are loose cannons and, very likely, tax dodgers to boot!...

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Fancying 17 year old women hardly counts as being a paedo (unless you're in battulip crazy America, where you can buy a semi-automatic rifle in a supermarket but can't have sex legally until you are 18 ! )...

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Looks quite crude and creepy, but I reckon in 30 years (sooner or later anyway) you'll be able to sit in a cradle, like a joey in a kangaroo's pouch, and be carried smoothly at 40 MPH by one of them!

Talking about kangaroos, it might actually be more efficient to have a hopping robot, just...

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If you suddenly stop posting, we'll fear the worst! ...

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One ex-military bod is fine to work with, but in my experience more than one in the same team, especially if from the same regiment, and suddenly they go all tribal and become intolerant of and intolerable to everyone else!

With PhDs, any number are fine to work _with_, but none are at...

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Have a virtual "like" - When I clicked the like button on your post, it pops up an error window saying:





(I noticed you had edited the post, so could it be a bug whereby "Like" clicks on edited posts do that? )...

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I very much doubt these MPs are in favour of a return to the status quo ante, with contractors working through limited companies

They would almost certainly prefer every contractor and self-employed person to work and be taxed as employees of a few large skill-specific "holding co...

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Must sound sexist, but I've noticed that the sanctimonious attention seekers who raise these ridiculous vexatious criticisms are nearly always women

2021-04-14 White XR eco-warrior claims giving pupils too much dairy is 'RACIST' in row over plant-based food on school menus because 'many...

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And with poorly maintained electric cars there will probably be a load of ozone pollution to contend with

Roads like that will be twice as noisy in the rain, so what's the betting all of her viewings were on nice sunny days? ...

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Did a bit of digging, and it seems the practice of adding sugar to the must up front is called "chaptalization".

And adding sugar at the end is called "back sweetening". Apparently it is usually more trouble than it is worth, because if one isn't careful it restarts...

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Didn't the DoE once say he'd like to come back in the next life as a deadly virus and whittle the world's population down a bit?

Well come on Phil, with this Covid floating around, now's your chance! ...

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What's wrong with casseroles? ...

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Sure, I'm not worried about sugar added at the start of the process, if this is mostly converted to alcohol during fermentation.

But I do have a major problem if so much is deliberately added that there will be significant excess sugar left over in the final product or, worse still, adding...

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You're painting your daughter's bedroom black?! Well I guess on the plus side, it'll be quite calming, sort of like being back in the womb.

I would say it will also be nice and dark at night, and thus easy to nod off in. But most peoples' bedrooms these days are so full of glowing...

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Some people will drink any old gut rot to save a few pennies, one of my neighbours for example.

When she asks me to buy her a bottle of wine in the village shop, she specifically asks me to get the £5 bottle

My lower limit is around £8, although I'll use cheaper ones...

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And the rest - Don't some people these days self-identify as Mx, They, and God knows what else?

It would be safer to assume there's a fair chance that anyone claiming their title is Mx weighs at least fifteen stone in their boiler suit! ...

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I suppose that means Hampstead Heath will ring to the sound of giggling and groaning from behind every bush at all hours!

It's the dog walkers I sympathise with.

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I look at the price (a bit) and the ABV figure. A nine quid bottle at 14% (or 13.5% at a pinch) does me fine. Anything much more than that is sheer wine snobbery, and I can't taste the difference anyway.

My big worry is added sugar, because I really don't want to think I am drinking alcoholic...