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PSA: if you are a UK employee earning near minimum wage, check your pay in April I wrote the below during a slow day at work. TL;DR I would not want to be graduating this year.

I need to change the cat litter and take the bins out. Adulthood is just going from one thing that I don't want to do to another.

Go here 10-15mins of admin for potentially £100+ of rebate. You can backdate your claim to 16-Mar-20 i.e. when lockdown began and claim £6/week (£4/week for the first 3 weeks of lockdown as it started during tax year 2019/20). Scroll to "check if you can claim" Answer "yes" for claiming relief...

This is intended as a general discussion about tax. I'm an accountant by profession, but I'm British, so I encourage my overseas counterparts to participate as I'm not an expert on e.g. US tax. That said, I'm also an economist, and I want to kick things off by addressing the popular idea that...

Keep politics out of this. About me: Associate at an investment bank 10+ years in finance, ex-auditor FCCA, Economics BSc The global economy had been waiting years for a catalyst to implode (risk is/was mispriced and every asset class was grossly overvalued), but the one that showed up is a...

Oh wait, you work part time, have credit card debt, rent to pay, and student loans...? Nevermind. Pensions are underfunded, actuaries live in a fantasy world of 7%+ assumed annualised returns, fund managers have been forced out along the risk curve in search of yield, and equity markets are...

Serious? Sort of serious. Let's talk. It's fine to laugh about online dating, because there are so many things that are absurd about the experience. What is stupid, however, is the associated social stigma. Times are changing, but for many people the subject remains something to be ridiculed...

I found out that Stealth Rock is illegal on Skamory pre-bank, so I'm retiring this team. It has an approx win rate of 80% on Pokemon Showdown. Charizard @ Charizardite X Ability: Blaze EVs: 248 HP / 84 SDef / 176 Spd Jolly Nature - Flare Blitz - Dragon Claw - Will-O-Wisp - Roost Charizard is...

This is actually my third attempt (in seven years) at a thread discussing the application of Game Theory to Pokemon battling. Despite good intentions, my first thread was compromised by a very basic understanding of key concepts, and I had trouble articulating my thoughts second time around. I...

1. Beg for a quad perfect spitback from somebody. 2. Find anything in the same egg group of the opposite gender with 31 in at least one of the missing IVs (this is easy with friend safari or wild baby Pokemon). 3. Attach destiny knot to the spitback and a power item corresponding to the missing...

Why you should want one: Mega Lucario + Adaptability + Bullet Punch. So how did I get here? 1. Used synchronizer to find a female adamant Riolu on Route 22 (x/31/31/x/31/x). 2. Evolved, attached everstone, and bred with a 31/31/31/x/x/31 male Drilbur spitback holding destiny knot. 3. Hatched...

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I'm so old school that my Exeggutor snarfed up some life. I'm so old school that OMG IAN GARVEY WTF. I'm so old school that I motion "eh forum" to be renamed "Karp Park". How old school are you?

I want to play. You want to play. If you don't want to play, you're not a cool qat. So post your username and let's PLAY. If you have my Facebook, why aren't we playing yet? *Not sure if I'm posting in the right place. Maybe we can set up a Smogon tournament or something... I'm...

I'M AT WORK AND THIS TOOK OVER AN HOUR TO TYPE LOL ITT: observations and first world problems from my experiences of life in the real world after graduating from Smogon University. ----- Adults are big kids The people that I work with on a day to day basis represent a cross section...

"Instead of working today, I ________" I was working at a client's offices but my mind wandered (I'm moving out!). Fortunately, I had the privacy of my own room; unfortunately, I had no internet access. Behold my achievement:

10 posts may not be much to some people, but it could take me a month, so this will have to do. --- An extraordinary thing happened to me on Tuesday. When I asked her to dinner, the object of my affections told me that she was already seeing somebody else. The peculiarity is that I felt no...

POST ANECDOTES --- Today, I was waiting with a colleague (let's call him George) at the elevator after work. We are on the 10th floor in a 12 storey building so when everyone finishes at 5:30pm, the elevator is often full by the time it gets to us. I managed to squeeze in, but George had to...

I start my new accounting career tomorrow. I will be working full time, while studying towards my ACCA qualification. This is my timetable for the forseeable future: I will have evening classes twice a week. Now you.

Introduction When I posted the original thread, there were a couple of limitations. These were: 1) my own understanding 2) nothing concrete was established I have since improved my knowledge and this time around, I aim to detail a way of thinking that will be applicable to (and usable on the...