things that have made you happy today

[DiegoSapiens]

[murky21]

just worked out im probably only a few months away from paying back my student loan can finally start putting money into savings rather than debt. will feel good man (i assume)

[nowaysj]

And when that savings is taken because a gambling bank is insolvent, it will feel bad.

[magma]

I'm amazed you ever find the motivation to leave the house.

[garethom]

And when that savings is taken because a gambling bank is insolvent, it will feel bad.

£50k of savings is protected by the government, so unless you've got over £50k in savings in one bank, then it wouldn't be an issue.

[nowaysj]

Haha, and if the government is the one taking it?

And M, who says I leave the house?

[garethom]

Haha, and if the government is the one taking it?

That wasn't the issue you brought up though...

[nowaysj]

It will be though. A bank's insolvency will have national implications, so the money will be confiscated. You'll get bonds though, or some other paper assurances.

[syrup]

[garethom]

It will be though. A bank's insolvency will have national implications, so the money will be confiscated. You'll get bonds though, or some other paper assurances.

Nope. Under £1000 and you get a letter you just have to take to the post office, and they'll give you money. Over £1000 and you get a cheque.

Actually covered up to £85,000 and £170,000 in joint accounts.

inb4 you tell me that the government are probably lying and waiting to steal all our jewels

[nowaysj]

You believe in the guarantees of your government, I get it. Enjoy. I don't have to suffer the consequences of that belief, I'm just chattin.

[garethom]

4.5 million people and £26,000,000,000 can't be wrong!

[nowaysj]

So true. 3 million, yes, could be wrong, 4.5, NO CHANCE.

[bennyfroobs]

Pretty cool story about a guy who invented a machine to allow women to make their own cheap sanitary pads in India.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26260978

The guy's wife and mother moved out and he had to leave his village over developing the machine. He refused the patent on the machine. Some of the shit, superstitions and social stigma he had to overcome is amazing.

He supplied his group of medical students with sanitary pads and collected them afterwards. He laid his haul out in the back yard to study, only for his mother to stumble across the grisly scene one afternoon. It was the final straw. She cried, put her sari on the ground, put her belongings into it, and left. "It was a problem for me," he says. "I had to cook my own food."

Worse was to come. The villagers became convinced he was possessed by evil spirits, and were about to chain him upside down to a tree to be "healed" by the local soothsayer. He only narrowly avoided this treatment by agreeing to leave the village. It was a terrible price to pay. "My wife gone, my mum gone, ostracised by my village" he says. "I was left all alone in life."

#base

[magma]

You believe in the guarantees of your government, I get it. Enjoy. I don't have to suffer the consequences of that belief, I'm just chattin.

Are the main consequences of that belief not feeling the need to talk overblown gas every day on anonymous Internet forums and reduced use of the word "Sheeple"?

[hubb]

snide

[magma]

Hearing my girl call people "trifling" is a thing of fucking beauty.

[rockonin]

Hearing my girl call people "trifling" is a thing of fucking beauty.

Why?

[magma]

It's just a great word that's underused in this country... she delivers it with a venom that makes me weak at the knees and stiff at the dick.

[Sonika]

just saw that dj xtc commented on my remix of functions on the low saying he loved it and he favorited it and shared it on his page

awesome

https://soundcloud.com/x-t-c-2