KentVillan

Old but still gets me every time

Does that still apply when the gift is paid from a company account?

ironically given the Substack thing. Also, wonder how Musk applies this argument to kiddie porn

What’s the deal with Jed? Is he 4th choice keeper now? Always seems like a top pro but just wondering what he gets out of being so far down the pecking order when there’s a useful player there at Championship level

I am not an accountant so better finding someone who can answer from a position of authority. However, I have to do a self assessment every year, so have been in a similar position (nowadays it’s more complicated and I get an accountant to do it). I think you will have to fill out a self assessment for FY2023/24 (as he paid you today). Deadline for submitting that online will be 31 Jan 2025 I believe. Because it’s such a simple transaction, and the rest of your affairs are straightforward, you should definitely be able to do this yourself on the HMRC self assessment website. Just tuck away the amount you think you will owe (you can use a tax calculator to calculate tax for 2023/24 on your current salary, and then on your current salary + £2000 and the difference is the additional income tax). Fill out that form and they’ll confirm the amount you owe, which will be due in 2025. A couple of caveats - if your tax is £1000 or more, they usually ask for an additional payment (called a “payment on account”) which is sort of a prediction of your tax bill for the following tax year. Hopefully this won’t affect you. Also, I do have a horrible feeling that once you’ve found yourself in the self assessment process, you may have to do it again in subsequent years. There is a lot of information online about this. If you’re worried you could always find a cheap accountant who specialises in one man bands and people with side gigs, would probably cost you £150 to do the self assessment, but at least saves you the headache of getting it wrong. Hope that’s useful but definitely double check all of this with someone who knows their stuff, because tax is confusing and easy to get wrong. Will HMRC hunt you down? Highly unlikely. (Edit: I originally put wrong date for self assessment - you'll need to do it in 2025 for tax year 2023/24. Also @Spoony is right that the tax-free allowance for side gig trading of goods + services is £1000, so legally you would need to declare this. @rjw63is probably also right that nobody will ever know, but you'll have on your conscience that you defrauded the British taxpayer out of a few hundred quid, and you won't be able to sleep at night for the following 10 years, also you'll have admitted it on VT, and the government has spies here. Also, none of this is advice.)

I like the team Newcastle have assembled and I like the manager. But you're deluded if you think people dislike Saudi govt ownership of a football club out of pure envy... maybe get out of your football bubble a bit and think about what it actually means, and who they are. Besides all the well documented human rights abuses, which you may or may not care about, they've just agreed to drive up the global oil price with their OPEC cartel in collaboration with Russia. You'll be enjoying better football on the pitch, while your day-to-day life gets noticeably shitter because of their actions. It's madness that we're letting despotic governments use our national football league to sportswash their image. All so you can watch some more talented footballers. It's no different from when Pablo Escobar bankrolled Atletico Nacional to the Copa Libertadores in 1989.

Overplayed, but it’s a great song

Feel like Twitter is really starting to fall apart as predicted now? It's so buggy now and just full of nonsense. Shame there's no real alternative for that format of information sharing

Knowing what we know now about how many innocent black Americans have been murdered by the police, I think a lot of those 90s hip hop tracks resonate This one is particularly poetic Not so much a fan of the crusty middle class socialism brand of political music, it’s all a bit Sean Penn / Angelina Jolie IMO, but always had a soft spot for Masters of War by Bob Dylan (edit: including the Eddie Vedder version just posted by @VILLAMARV)

There is something so innately naff about them though isn’t there. Of all the little wealth flexes people do, they are up there with flashing your watch in photos and leaving labels on clothing

Watch it again, Young was already chasing back and was our deepest defender, so I don’t think backing off any further was an option. He thinks about the shirt pull, but Barnes is on the edge of the box by the time he catches him and he doesn’t want to give away the pen. Only thing stopping that goal is more pace… someone like Walker probably deals with it, but most don’t. Just a really really good goal (and a great ball by Faes).

In fairness to him, the Barnes goal was absolute class. A lot of much younger, first choice PL right backs would have been done by that touch

Funny thing is, it's still very much the same Ollie Watkins. It's not like he's suddenly scoring worldies from outside the box. He's just being given the right service and used in the right way. The goal tonight was the sort of thing he's always been capable of.

Really think he's the perfect manager for us. He doesn't want the limelight and a squad full of egos. He wants players who have a point to prove and want to step up a level. This could be one of the most magical managerial appointments ever. Fair play to Sawiris. He interfered in the best way possible.

Boring to keep reminding people that he’s one of our star players, they’ll be back when the ball bounces off him and someone scores

Missed the game, can someone give me a little run down? @fruitvilla review was good, but what was the story arc? Did we deserve it?

My postman is called Eric Djemba-Djemba

I love both bands, but it is a bit weird the way people worship some fairly basic jangle indie songs they’ve made. Reni is probably the standout musician across the two, I think he would make a lot of bands sound incredible.

Marr has done more stuff, wider variety, kept evolving… I find him a more interesting guitarist and more focused on the song. Squire wins the shoot out with Love Spreads.

Even his "And it's LIIIVE" at the start sounded like late career Alan Partridge. I missed the Lungstaff line, but "Where there's a Willock" made my entire anus implode

Yeah, suppose it depends a bit on mood and genre. I mean I like listening to choral stuff which is very much not sung in a conversational way. But if I think why, say, Aretha Franklin is a better singer than Mariah Carey, it’s that Aretha sounds more like a big acoustic guitar and Mariah sounds more like a hair metal lead guitarist tapping out pentatonics. Same reason why Leonard Cohen or Lou Reed are better singers for me than a lot of more technically accomplished singers. All subjective obviously, and the best singers are unique in their own way.

Yeah but I think we would all be livid if that was a Villa goal and got disallowed

Didn’t see much wrong with that goal tbh, he would have scored regardless

Ffs, it’s like watching someone try to change the TV channel in an old people’s home