I haven't used my card in an ATM machine for 6 months

[caja-dglh]

Please let us know how impressed Mrs NS is with your initiative and handiwork.

looks a lot better. That is bang-for-your-buck in action.

[ursus arctos]

I was going to invite NS over for a tour of a truly disastrous kitchen that somehow still "works", but now I'm wondering what the deal is for grouting visas.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Please let us know how impressed Mrs NS is with your initiative and handiwork.

looks a lot better. That is bang-for-your-buck in action.

Oh, she was pleased when she first saw it, though I await the always tense follow-up inspection.

[WOM]

Everyone happy now?

Very nice work. I have a grouting tool that does a good job, but we had Russian guys put in a new bow window and his calking tool of choice was a wet finger. Can't argue with experience.

[treibeis]

The level of tetchy defensiveness on display is quite amusing though.

I think the only person displaying tetchy defensiveness was me.

And I wasn't just amusing, I was thighbone-breaking hilarious.

[hobbes]

It's more the usual people with cleaners droning on and on about how it's fine, tbh, after someone a few years back made a tiny joke about it.

As I remember the original thread all those years ago on OldTF it was a bunch of people vociferously arguing that having a cleaner was approximately the same as being a member of the reich while pro-cleaner people gloated about how clean their gaffs were and how they were providing jobs, while you probably popped in every now and then to say "what's a cleaner?" /wink thing

[DCI Harry Batt]

Sounds about right, hobbes.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Contactless payment limit upped to 100 quid in the budget.

Remember when the budget was a thing? They used to move the kids TV programmes out of the way for it.

[caja-dglh]

With furlough extended to September, this UK UBI experiment is becoming very interesting.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Contactless payment limit upped to 100 quid in the budget.

How is that a budget or a government thing?

[Nocturnal Submission]

Contactless payment limit upped to 100 quid in the budget.

Remember when the budget was a thing? They used to move the kids TV programmes out of the way for it.

I used to memorise all the excise duty increases and then pass on the details to my dad when he came home from work.

He'd reply "bloody typical" or "bloody useless politicians" and then sit down to eat his dinner.

[caja-dglh]

How is that a budget or a government thing?

It is a bloody EU thing. Bloody Europe and its one size (45 quid) fits all rules. BREXIT WIN.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Remember (OK, before our time) when Hugh Dalton felt obliged to resign as Chancellor in 1947 for accidentally revealing one sentence of his Budget speech to a reporter some minutes before delivering the speech to Parliament? All used to be top secret up to that point. Now it's a miracle if there's any material content left that hasn't already been trailed by way of leaks to pet journalists.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

How is that a budget or a government thing?

It's financial policy governed by Treasury and has a place in law, and that place is the Finance Act, and the budget is effectively the announcement of what is going to be in the Finance Act (except for those parts which the Chancellor can enact immediately, like putting tobacco duty up at 6pm etc).

It would be a similar if they announced they were getting rid of 2p coins or something.

[DCI Harry Batt]

It's financial policy governed by Treasury and has a place in law, and that place is the Finance Act, and the budget is effectively the announcement of what is going to be in the Finance Act (except for those parts which the Chancellor can enact immediately, like putting tobacco duty up at 6pm etc).

It would be a similar if they announced they were getting rid of 2p coins or something.

Well blow me. Thanks.

[Toby Gymshorts]

If I remember correctly, when we did this (is it acceptable to employ a cleaner?) on OTF Gold it turned into some kind of all-out flame war. Not quite as bad as the Clissold Park Cous-Cous war, but nearly so.

Having a cleaner is perfectly fine, however hyphenating "couscous" is an offence which should see you hurled bodily into the nearest river.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

I used to memorise all the excise duty increases and then pass on the details to my dad when he came home from work.

He'd reply "bloody typical" or "bloody useless politicians" and then sit down to eat his dinner.

...and then the next day, if he bought any tabloid paper he'd see a caricature of the Chancellor of the day on the front page - if it was a "giveaway" budget the Chancellor would have a red nose and a drink in one hand, a fag or cigar in the other, with money spilling out of his pockets. If it was a "tight" budget he'd have one hand out taking money from a family, while with the other hand wagging his finger at smokers and drinkers.

[pebblethefish]

Having a cleaner is perfectly fine, however hyphenating "couscous" is an offence which should see you hurled bodily into the nearest river.

Eating couscous makes you middle class. FACT.

I have no opinion on the hy-phen, however.

[ursus arctos]

It so happens that we had couscous for dinner last night, so that is good to know

Does the classification vary at all by variety?

Is Moroccan small grain inherently more or less posh than Israeli large grain?

[San Bernardhinault]

The fact that you're aware of the difference is definitely more posh.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

So increasing the contactless payment thing to a hundred quid doubles your exposure to loss or theft. Or mugging. Ta, mate. I guess the threat of having someone instantly nick around five hundred quid off you doesn't register when you've married a billionaire, but it would fuck me off.

[pebblethefish]

It so happens that we had couscous for dinner last night, so that is good to know

Does the classification vary at all by variety?

Is Moroccan small grain inherently more or less posh than Israeli large grain?

You get much more middle-classier if you have a moral dilemma over having the latter because of Palestine, but eventually opt for it because "well, we can't make that much difference, dear"

[Fussbudget]

Eating couscous makes you middle class. FACT.

Hilariously Anglocentric. It's like if I was saying eating curry makes you middle class.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Hilariously Anglocentric. It's like if I was saying eating curry makes you middle class.

Deffo part of what made me middle class, as a kid, the curry thing.

[Nocturnal Submission]

So increasing the contactless payment thing to a hundred quid doubles your exposure to loss or theft. Or mugging. Ta, mate. I guess the threat of having someone instantly nick around five hundred quid off you doesn't register when you've married a billionaire, but it would fuck me off.

Seriously. Wow. What a thing to get annoyed about.

I suggest that you either don't get a contactless card or immediately cut up the one you currently own in order to avoid any of the pitfalls that you're worried about.