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  1. Was at this as a neutral yesterday. Alloa deserved the win, very disciplined performace. Andy Graham was immense, not sure what he has to do to earn a Scotland cap/MBE. Not many weak links in the side and goalie pulled off a few important saves.

     

    Love watching the pars get beat as well which was a bonus. You can tell the pars have been beaten when they aren't bombarding their Twitter with goal gifs and emojis at 12::01 on a Sunday morning.

  2. 10 hours ago, Swarley said:
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    He's not dead. HE'S NOT. He shacked up with Charlotte at Willard's Rest. Yes he is. You're crying.....

     

    Spoiler

    Would be amazing. Leaves a massive loophole in the series though : No mention of him in original RDR but then  re-appears back from the dead in the sequel RDR3 !

    I think we could forgive that.

    But I imagine him and Hamish will be having a great time in heaven wild west hunting elk and giant jack-rabbits.

     

  3. Bought this when i was on paternity leave late October. Just completed the main story ! Beautiful game that you really have to take your time with and digest. 

    The Guarma bit was a bit rushed and wasnt necessary imo but it did break the main story in half i suppose which was needed for a game so lengthy and deep.

    The writing was top notch and fringe characters like Hosea, Charles and Sadie really helped develop the story naturally. Leaving Colter and arriving in Horseshoe Overlook and Valentine for the first time at the start of the game was a wonderful piece of in-game cinema.

    Obviously being a prequel it leaves a few plotholes with the original RDR but what a joy it has been investing many many hours over the two games.

    On to the epilogue now and to catch the remaining legendary fish and animals....

  4. I was at a Cowdenbeath home game the season before last as a neutral. Think they were playing Annan or Berwick. Anyway, 10/15 minutes in to the second half i was coming back from the toilet and for some reason it dawned on me there had been no tannoy announcements at all. No pre match line ups, no HT scores. Nada. Asked a steward at the bottom of the stairs why this was and he told me that the guy who done the tannoy announcements at the stock car racing had taken the microphone home the previous weekend and fucked off on holiday for a week forgetting to hand it back in. I gave the steward a wee friendly chuckle thinking he was having a wee joke.

    He wasn't having a wee joke.

  5. 5 hours ago, coprolite said:

    right.

    You need to notify HMRC that you have a self employment.  You need to keep a record of your fee income and expenses you incur in earning it. deduct expenses from income and you pay tax on the profit.

    If you travel you can claim a reasonable proportion of your motoring costs. I would suggest keeping mileage records (it sounds like you might have) and apportioning business and non business costs. Eg you do 20,000 miles  a year and 4,000 of these for business, you have 20% business use so claim £60 of £300 insurance etc. For petrol use (miles  ÷ your cars reported fuel consumption mpg )× average price of fuel £/g.

    claim all your materials stationary etc. as expenses. If you subscribe to any services for business purposes claim those (eg if you bought ms office for powerpoint- but not if you have sky and sometimes watch business related programs). if you get an itemised bill and pay for calls you can claim for phone use, but not if you use inclusive minutes on a personal phone.

     If you use your home as an office for significant periods and incur costs you might not otherwise, you might be able to claim a bit of expense for "use of home as office" a pound or two a week is probably ok. Any more and you would need good reasons, records and calculations.

    If you use any kit in your business you can claim 18% of the cost or value as capital allowances.  This is 8% for cars (unless emissions are below.  these percentages reduce for personal use ( in the car example above, you would be claiming 20% of the 8%, 1.6%. This is on a reducing balance, so in year 2 you claim 18 % of 82% etc. introduce pre existing assets at market value.

    there is also an annual investment allowance up to £100k where you can expense the whole cost of equipment (not cars) that is entirely for business. if it's not entirely for business get professional advice (or don't bother unless it's worth at least a few hundred- the advice will cost more than the tax saving)

     

    see, tax isn't dull

    Cheers for all that mate, will take it all in to consideration. It's only a few K we're talking about so shouldn't take long to work out. I can filter earnings via my online banking and I have a record of all my journeys which constitute to around a quarter of my car's overall yearly mileage. Apart from that I spend around £10 a month on stationary/equipment costs. I sometimes pay for parking but don't have proof of this.

    Thanks again.

    4 hours ago, Boghead ranter said:

    All that to deliver pizzas.

    I wish it was that simple !

  6. 1 hour ago, coprolite said:

    No.

    You can't claim a mileage allowance off Hmrc. 45p is what an employer can pay you to cover the cost without it being counted as earnings.

    If your employer taxed you on this then they are numbnuts and you need to have a word.

    If you want to claim against your self employment you can have actual fuel costs, maybe a portion of repairs and insurance and capital allowances (restricted for personal use).

     

    That's £100 please

    My full time job is PAYE at a fixed location so that's not an issue. It's my part-time job i do where i receive fees that i'm concerned about. I receive a set fee for the work i do - no mileage or expenses are paid - and this goes in to my bank each month. 

    I am not registered self-employed.

  7. 8 hours ago, Myko said:

    Anyone here proficient with Tax/NI and also claiming mileage back that can PM me ?

    I do part-time work on the side which I need to declare and need some advice with number-crunching.

    Cheers

    Okay - a more basic approach would be the following question :

    Can a business mileage claim be more than the actual tax bill ? 

    e.g. if i were due HMRC £1000, and i was able to claim £1125 in mileage (45p/mile for 2500 miles), would the mileage off-set the tax bill and would i get a £125 rebate ?

  8. Went over when i was 20 and 23 and had a great time. Now touching 30 i don't think it'd have the same buzz. Only abiding memory is taking a few hits from a bong, and feeling nothing until we got major giggles whilst sitting in the front row of a live sex show about an hour later.

    The Amsterdam Dungeons is far better than Edinburgh Dungeons after a few smokes - recommended although it's a bit out the way.

  9. 10 hours ago, HenryHill said:

    Folk putting their qualifications after their name in emails and letters. f**k off

    Henry Hill. Scotvec Football Module Cert.

    This really bugs me too. One or two in our office have it on a nameplate on their door as well.

    Similarly - colleagues who put the exclamation mark on their emails to gain extra attention, or folk who actually put "Urgent" or "Please Read" in the subject box as if they've lost all awareness of how an email works.

    Or colleagues who feel the need to advertise that they are "working from home" fourteen times a day.

    I hate offices, think i'll go back on the tools.

     

  10. On 19/01/2018 at 08:23, Boghead ranter said:

    Just found a box of 24 bottles of MGD, in my cupboard under the stairs, that I forgot I had.  And it's still in date.

    Rotten. 

    If i had been traversing across the Gobi desert for 3 months and i spotted a pub that only served Miller, i'd genuinely think twice about entering.

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