Be Excellent To Each Other

What now?

Yes, we did.

I'm really sorry, I feel an arse for not putting two and two together.

Not as gutted as I was Saturday morning, when I missed a Pm to find beexers were in a pub 2 mins from my hotel.

That's one of the easiest farts though to be fair.

There's only me and one other person in the office today. Slightly awkward as I've already run out of small talk.

Flick things at them.

They're behind me.. actually, they're probably looking at my screen as I type this.

Living on the edge me! (Please don't post pictures of bare bottoms... that could take some explaining)

How odd.

My payslip informs me that I have changed tax code and paid 600 quid less tax this month than usual.

*shrugs*

Sounds like tax value of benefits from your previous employer finally dropping out the system. However, your new benefits won't be on there yet, so don't get too excited for the long term.

I'm tax code 810L. Is this a good thing?

s'normal MaliA, as far as I'm aware.

319L is my tax code.

I moved from 408L to 783L.

A while back I was on 19T or similar.

It's all a bit silly.

It is like I recognise the words but not the meaning. I know mine is lower because of a company car.

Multiply the number by 10 and that's the amount you're entitled to earn without tax. L means you're entitled to the Basic Personal Allowance I believe. And I think T has something to do with self-employed folk, or people with slightly more complicated tax-paying malarky. Like assessing yourself or something.

T is temporary, otherwise known as 'month one', I believe.

Ah that makes more sense.

810L is the bog standard tax code, it means you are allowed to earn £8100 before paying any tax.
Depending on your liabilities and allowances the number before the L can be vastly different, but if you times it by 10 you'll get the amount you can earn tax free.

If you have a T code, then it means your allowances are under review and it should change to an L code at some point, however if you have a 0T code it means you don't have any allowances, and will pay tax on everything.

That's as I understand it anyway! I am not an accountant, but my dad is/was.

£8,105 isn't it?

quite possibly. I do my maths the same way as the tax man does... I guess a random number that looks possible.

The lazy bastards can't add a '0' to each code?

You just summed up the tax office.

Probably the same reason that council tax is paid in 10 monthly instalments, because calculators don't exist in local Government and dividing by 12 is too hard.

That's just because some councils are cunts (Actually, it's to match income with expenditure profiles, but still). Lewisham accept that there are 12 months in a year. Thames Water is the worst, with their 8 month year. I once wrote to them asking why they didn't follow the Gregorian calendar.

Tax codes is a computer system thing, easier to run on 3 digits, and they always round up in their calculations. Still a bit odd though.

my challenge for today is to get company branded hard had and overalls.

North Korean family meeting Kim Jong Un:

Staying up here permanently has moved to 95% probability now. MrsA should be getting her contract through this week (she's been looking at houses already) and next month i might be finding out some news regarding my position.

MrsA's cousin gave her father his world champion's cycling jersey. I'm very, very envious.

Dammit, MaliA, you need to move nearer to London.

Or visit more often.

Any small talk is too much small talk. Talk about something!

Yes, I know the working day is over.




I get paid about £600 a year...


Who is that?

Jayne.

Shit, that's depressing.

It seems his character in Chuck wasn't that much of a stretch for him...

He's really obsessed with abortion.

He also seems to make Charlie Sheen look sane.

Then again that's Twitter for you.

I think I'm down next month.

Get a room.

This is, of course, off the back of that wingnut republican saying basically that most rapes aren't actually rape (citing unwilling girls being raped by boyfriends etc), and even if they are 'legitimate rape' the body knows it's been raped and will reject the embedding of the fertilised egg

Oh, and on that first point, a superb comment on twitter that StuAA retweeted:

Also from twitter.

Reminded of the well-known 1960s cartoon Rapefink: 'No bad man, my uterus is like SHIELD of STEEL'

Actually, while any sane person does, and should condemn what Todd Akin said and believes, this story should be killed quickly (hopefully by the republicans) as for as long as this debate focuses on rape, it gives the impression that banning abortion generally is acceptable and not to be debated further.

Edited: to make sense.

But.... that's true.

Fucking hell with the typos today.

Thank christ for that, I thought you'd gone all Limbaugh on us.

A plan for the future there.

A byte walks into a bar, looking a bit glum.
Barman: 'what's up with you?'
Byte: 'Parity error'
Barman: 'Ah, thought you looked a bit off'

Excellent.

I'm sure I'd find that hilarous if I wasn't a working class graphic designer.

If you weren't, dear boy. If you weren't working class.