Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Tax treatment of paid blogger

I added my bit for young Payne, who is up to 6 figures now.

Where I struggle to blog is lack of focus. I have nothing of particular interest/focus to blog about .. because I am not settled. When you're not settled, you can't settle to anything.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

there is waitrose deliver as well (basically waitrose deliver bring food from your local waitrose, ocado buy waitrose products and deliver them from a warehouse but also do their own branded stuff - their meat is usually minging), but doubt they deliver to you either if your nearest one is a 100 mile round trip away!

Oh, I thought W and O were the same thing.

I do HATE the use of the word "local", because not everybody has a "local" and people with one make assumptions that everybody has one. This goes for most people re most companies.

My "local" Waitrose is 50 miles away.

So, O don't deliver here, W don't deliver here.

I've only ever been in a Waitrose once, about 5 years ago, when I wandered in for one product right as they were shutting their doors. It was a tiny store and they didn't have the one thing I was looking for.... never went back for it.

PasturesNew

You know you're doomed when searches for a little safe place to put your head down start returning prices of £1000-6000/month ... because it's holiday time and because there's the Olympics .. and because people can.

CKhalvashi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

hang on a minute, i thought you weren't russian? now you are russian?

my mum is half italian by adoption, and i have therefore been officially supporting italy all along. ciao!

I'm not Russian, I never have been Russian and I never will be Russian :eek:

Don't like Ukraine, don't like Russia and don't feel English, so Russia it was

lemonjelly

I'm bored.

Spent most of the weekend pottering around in the garden.

Watched the football - agree with Nikkster, don't really know why ashley young stayed on the pitch. Thought our centre backs were immense in the tournament, & extremely proud that one of them was Jolean Lescott.

Thinking about buying tickets to go & see David O'Doherty, and also Arthur Smith on their tours later in the year.

Did any non-football fans watch Julius Ceasar in the Shakespeare uncovered season on BBC4 on sunday night? If you didn't, I assume it is on iplayer. I'd strongly recommend that you hunt it down. Very worthwhile!

chewmylegoff

lemonjelly wrote: »

Watched the football - agree with Nikkster, don't really know why ashley young stayed on the pitch. Thought our centre backs were immense in the tournament, & extremely proud that one of them was Jolean Lescott.

the reason that ashley young was on the pitch was that you are only allowed three subs, and (i) wellbeck was completely ineffective and carroll probably should have started - easy to say in restrospect; (ii) milner was utterly ineffective and was the worst player on the pitch except possibly for ballotelli; and (iii) parker was too tired to move.

our centre backs were really good, but they were also very lucky that ballotelli was the worst player on the pitch.

chewmylegoff

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Tax treatment of paid blogger

I added my bit for young Payne, who is up to 6 figures now.

no tax implication for the payne blog, as no income is received by the individual who writes the blog. money is donated directly to charity, the person donating receives nothing in return for the donation therefore there is no argument that anyone is trading. (no different to running the marathon and getting someone to sponsor you).

being paid by an 'employer' to write a blog is different as you are providing a service in return for remuneration.

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

Did any non-football fans watch Julius Ceasar in the Shakespeare uncovered season on BBC4 on sunday night? If you didn't, I assume it is on iplayer. I'd strongly recommend that you hunt it down. Very worthwhile!

No, but I'm off to see it in person tonight No sign of £5 tickets, so have stretched to £12. Should have chosen something else though if I could have watched it for free from the comfort of home!

PasturesNew

I'm currently wondering if I can speak in a furren accent for 2-3 months and book into a homestay type of place intended for furren studentz

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm currently wondering if I can speak in a furren accent for 2-3 months and book into a homestay type of place intended for furren studentz

Furren passport?

Furren driving license?

Furren plated car?

It's a no go Pastures :eek: