The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread ΛΕ

[The_J]

I guess it shows how stupid I am. I couldn't get into university.

Intelligence and education are not the same thing. To get through the education system successfully, you need to have a specific skill set, no matter if you're smart or not. You can also fail at it, no matter if you're smart or not.
Some of these options are for sure more likely and prevlanet, but they're not the only ones.

Also: You're always asking questions. Only a stupid person believes what they're told without thinking themselves about it .

 

[Traitorfish]

They said that after the war, the aristocrats were taxed and so the aristocrats decided to blow up their property and possessions in order to avoid paying taxes.

That's... not a thing that happened?

 

[Ajidica]

I don't know much about post war history in Britain. The furthest I ever got in learning history in school was the Night of the Long Knives (I spent nearly three years learning about Weimar Germany and the rise of Nazi Germany, it made me want to give up on taking history any further).

I recommend reading up on it. Makes you realize how terrible Thatcher and her bankrupt "ideology" was.

That goes against what they told me. They said that after the war, the aristocrats were taxed and so the aristocrats decided to blow up their property and possessions in order to avoid paying taxes.

Taxation on landed estates began pre-WW1 and was continued afterwards as part of Lloyd Georges "Home for Heroes" slogan. Given that they are factually wrong that should be enough right there to discount their opinion.

 

[Birdjaguar]

IIRC the Rolling Stones moved out of GB in the 70s to avoid taxes and in the late 60s the Beatles wrote a song about the Taxman. That is the sum total of my knowledge of British taxation.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

IIRC the Rolling Stones moved out of GB in the 70s to avoid taxes and in the late 60s the Beatles wrote a song about the Taxman. That is the sum total of my knowledge of British taxation.

The descriptive line "if you ride the bus I'll tax your seat, if you try to walk I'll tax your feet" does seem like a motive for expatriation.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Which is why the first thing I said about them was "anyone who considers right after world war two to be when things started to go wrong has to be treated with suspicion." It takes neither a degree nor a genius to realize that world war two clearly indicates that things were going wrong well before that.

The reason they give is that World War II brought an end to Nazism, only to allow Communism to thrive.

Also: You're always asking questions. Only a stupid person believes what they're told without thinking themselves about it .

I was told asking questions is wrong. Asking questions shows a lack of imagination and wanting to ruin any enjoyment and mystery to life by wanting explanations.

To prove their point, they say things like, "Let's break the sound barrier" "Why?", "Let's go to the moon" "Why?"

That's... not a thing that happened?

I decided to look into it and found this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_in_20th-century_Britain

It seems to be a problem that existed before World War II.

IIRC the Rolling Stones moved out of GB in the 70s to avoid taxes and in the late 60s the Beatles wrote a song about the Taxman. That is the sum total of my knowledge of British taxation.

From what I was told, everyone who was rich left the country during the 70s because of taxes.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I was told asking questions is wrong. Asking questions shows a lack of imagination and wanting to ruin any enjoyment and mystery to life by wanting explanations.

Asking questions is one of the things that makes us human. That's not to say other species don't possess the trait of curiosity. But humans have far greater capacity to answer the questions and grow beyond what was previously known or believed.

 

[Morty]

What @Valka D'Ur said! If we didn't ask "Why?" we'd still be living in caves hitting each other on the head with clubs, rather sitting in front of computers hitting each other with words instead!

 

[Lexicus]

I decided to look into it and found this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_in_20th-century_Britain

It seems to be a problem that existed before World War II.

Kind of amazing how the profligacy of the aristocracy can be used by your Nazi friends as evidence of the evils of Communism.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It seems to be a problem that existed before World War II.

And yet your friends tell you that the trouble all started after world war two.

 

[shadowplay]

Anyone know of any legitimate phone unlocking services? I want to give my old cell phone to my mother, but it's locked.

 

[Synobun]

You're in Canada, carriers need to do it for free by law.

 

[shadowplay]

I know. The problem is I already closed my account, so they won't do it for me now, and I don't know how to do it myself.

Are there any prerequisites before I can get my device unlocked?
Your account must be in good standing with no past due balances and the device being unlocked cannot be on the national blacklist of wireless devices that have been reported as lost or stolen.

https://www.fido.ca/consumer/content/fido-device-unlock

 

[Lexicus]

I know. The problem is I already closed my account, so they won't do it for me now, and I don't know how to do it myself.



https://www.fido.ca/consumer/content/fido-device-unlock

Probably a dumb question but did you ask about reopening your account?

 

[Synobun]

I know. The problem is I already closed my account, so they won't do it for me now, and I don't know how to do it myself.

Then any cellphone repair shop will do it for <$100.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Change the sim card and sign up with someone else?

 

[Takhisis]

The descriptive line "if you ride the bus I'll tax your seat, if you try to walk I'll tax your feet" does seem like a motive for expatriation.

Margaret Thatcher did try to introduce a poll tax (probably the most regressive form of taxation) that was totally not called a poll tax and helped, to some extent, to bring her down.

But, anyway, the trick is to do what British politicians and ‘entrepreneurs’ do and agree to pay your taxes in some country that doesn't really collect taxes.

 

[shadowplay]

Then any cellphone repair shop will do it for <$100.

Really? I thought there were services that will unlock it for a few bucks.

 

[Synobun]

Really? I thought there were services that will unlock it for a few bucks.

A few bucks is below a hundred.

 

[Takhisis]

Once again, technically correct is the best type of correct.