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Strange questions that sometimes need answering (or not asking in the first place really).

Double post, tell me off gently in this new world of advanced censorship...

Why does every episode of Midsummer Murders feature a old green volvo estate?
I have no dead bodies in the boot.
Tidied it out at the weekend.
 
On a separate note; why have Facebook’s birthday notifications become so ominous? I had this one this morning (it’s the top one):
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This is someone I went to secondary school with, for context… what’s with the sudden ominous turn, Facebook?
 
Yes, and there's no rhyme or reason to them.

Went out after the Liverpool game on Friday. Had a few pints, headache the next morning.

Saturday, go to a wedding. Drink much more. Wake up on Sunday completely fine.

Probably the biggest change is being made up leaving the club at 3am when it closed, whilst now its getting the bus home and getting in before midnight.
 
I had some whiskey (special reserve, two glasses containing three shots a glass plus a dash of water and coca cola) and it felt like my head had exploded.

I'm going to grow into the worlds most boring person come my thirties.
 
I can still drink most people I know under the table. I can still pull an allnighter with a bottle of rum.
Used to be that I could put down the bottle, switch off Skype, and meet you lot at Thorpe a couple of hours later.
These days I need at least two days off to recover afterwards.
 
Some lucky people have the "my liver can recover quite nicely over time thank you" gene.

Some of us are less lucky, and end up with a simple mid life choice of drink less or die soon.

Fun conversation with the doctor about the above, I had forced myself to give up drinking because I could no longer face the longer and longer sickness post drinking, and went for my annual health check up six months after virtually stopping drinking...roughly down to a couple of beers a week...(mainly in Crevettes if possible).

"Well done Rob, you would have had another five years at most, now you could go another couple of decades."
Booze is a depressant as well.
 
Someone once said to me.

You eat healthy, drink less, exercise more to add 3 years to ya life. In my family, the final 3 years are grim. Alzheimer's, heart disease etc. I'm alright just knowing I'm going to go at some point.
 
After my last experience overnight in hospital, I have absolutely no intention of dragging life out as long as possible, quality of life is everything.
I was the youngest in an elderly overnighter patient bed on a male side ward...
Most of the rest had zero quality of life and three months in hospital in constant suffering.
 
Here’s a weird one for this afternoon; would YouTube vloggers be considered self-employed under British employment law, with YouTube being a “client” who pays them for services, or are they employees of YouTube?

I was only wondering because me and my dad were discussing self-employment the other day, and my dad was saying that he knew a man who reclaimed the cost of a golf club membership as business expenses under the pretence of “entertaining clients”. With this in mind, I wondered if some of the top theme park vloggers, for example, might file the costs of their theme park trips as business expenses and reclaim them from HMRC?
 
Matt N said:
Here’s a weird one for this afternoon; would YouTube vloggers be considered self-employed under British employment law, with YouTube being a “client” who pays them for services, or are they employees of YouTube?

I was only wondering because me and my dad were discussing self-employment the other day, and my dad was saying that he knew a man who reclaimed the cost of a golf club membership as business expenses under the pretence of “entertaining clients”. With this in mind, I wondered if some of the top theme park vloggers, for example, might file the costs of their theme park trips as business expenses and reclaim them from HMRC?
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the majority of content creators benefiting from a share of advertising revenue from YouTube are not employees of YouTube.
 
I would say vloggers are self-employed, and as @AT86 mentioned they can claim tax deductions for legitimate business purposes.

I remember when Theme Park Worldwide were visiting parks during the pandemic despite restrictions on travel. They responded that they were using the legitimate business exemptions.

One thing I've wondered is when vloggers travel to other countries to film, do they get visas? I would say they probably should because their visit is for work purposes, not a holiday.
 
I could be wrong, i am sure production companies need to state what type of programme they are filming. Separate visas for factual and entertainment. The crew can't work on a drama if they have a visa to film a documentary. Top Gear once had an issue over this.
 
Alsty said:
One thing I've wondered is when vloggers travel to other countries to film, do they get visas? I would say they probably should because their visit is for work purposes, not a holiday.
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There is probably quite a lot of this sort of thing that vloggers and similar should be doing and likely don't.
 
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