[โ€“] 6 points 3 days ago

makes more sense when you think of 'magazine' as a thing that contains things - bullets, articles, goods (seen shops round my way called magazin romanesc), etc

the polish language kbin instance was called karab.in (think carbine as in rifle) so magazine makes sense in that context too

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 4 days ago

    not just public toilets either, i had an office job where they held monthly team meetings and every time it got to any other business someone would declare the women's to be a 'total disgrace' or similar description

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 4 days ago

    Sir Laurie said she did get legal advice when buying the property, but failed to seek further expert tax advice as recommended.

    i know this was all gone over at the time but fuck me. the excuse for dodging stamp duty was that her house was held in a trust fund for her kid who was 17 at the time

    five minutes or so on the gov.uk stamp duty website gets you:

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/stamp-duty-land-tax-buying-an-additional-residential-property

    higher rates apply to [...] any residential property that [...] is owned on behalf of children under the age of 18 (parents are treated as the owners even if the property is held through a trust and they are not the trustees)

    this counts as expert tax advice apparently

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  • [โ€“] 22 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    i like this comic so nothing against it in particular (lots of them do it), but it always seems a bit of a shame when a comic has nice art but uses a horrible clashing font for the speech bubbles

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    well yes but i thought it was reasonably clear that it was meant to be a mocking imitation and not my own opinion. i suppose i fucked it up

    (fyi @Ioughttamow@fedia.io i saw yours earlier and forgot to reply, sorry)

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